On April 2nd, 2019 with 22 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google said today that it would require its extended, non-employee workforce in the United States receive...
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On April 2nd, 2019 with 107 comments
The spectre of superintelligent machines doing us harm is not just science fiction, technologists say -- so how can we ensure AI remains 'friendly' to its...
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On April 2nd, 2019 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost a thousand Google staff, academic researchers, and other tech industry figures have...
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On April 2nd, 2019 with 25 comments
Twelve years after its inception, Readdle is finally venturing beyond Apple's ecosystem with the launch today of its Spark email app for Android. This comes on...
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On April 2nd, 2019 with 157 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have devised a simple attack that might cause a Tesla to automatically steer into oncoming...
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On April 1st, 2019 with 112 comments
An anonymous reader shared a report: It took quite some time for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7, but it finally did it in December 2018, at least according...
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On April 1st, 2019 with 129 comments
Cutting_Crew writes: After the last remaining Blockbuster Video store closed in Australia on March 31st, there is only one remaining left on earth. That...
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On April 1st, 2019 with 73 comments
Cloudflare has announced that it's adding a VPN service to its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver app. The 1.1.1.1 service, which first came to mobile back in November,...
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On April 1st, 2019 with 52 comments
The service that began by checking prose for glaring mistakes increasingly wants to help its nearly 20 million daily users do more than simply avoid errors....
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On April 1st, 2019 with 152 comments
"From now on our communities will merge to became one single point of contact for OS/2 users and people investigating the truth about our planet earth,"...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 189 comments
"On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts,"...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 92 comments
Fox Business News reports:
- "Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Boeing provided incomplete or misleading information about its best-selling 737...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 85 comments
georgecarlyle76 brought our attention to Amazon's claim of an algorithm that "solves the 'second-screen problem' in real-time."
"Ever hear (no pun intended)...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 448 comments
"Apparently we're all fighting about how to pronounce 'GIF' again on Twitter," writes technology columnist Mike Melanson:
I personally find the argument of web...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 274 comments
"Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content," according to the BBC, calling for new laws...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 108 comments
schwit1 quotes CNBC:
In the first test of its kind, the Pentagon on Monday carried out a "salvo" intercept of an unarmed missile soaring over the Pacific,...
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On March 29th, 2019 with 26 comments
Speaking of the state of Android apps' security, Google today published its annual Android Security & Privacy Year in Review, a comprehensive report that...
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On March 29th, 2019 with 57 comments
We're now very close to the next semi-annual update for Windows 10, but Microsoft has just announced today that the version 1809 released last Fall is now the...
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On March 29th, 2019 with 88 comments
Facebook recently explored building bird-size drones loaded with data to help improve people's internet connections. From a report: The Menlo Park,...
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On March 29th, 2019 with 41 comments
Security researchers have found a new kind of government malware that was hiding in plain sight within apps on Android's Play Store. And they appear to have...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 45 comments
Google executives are conducting a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China. "A small group of top managers at the internet...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 35 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: What better way to replace New York City's thousands of aging pay phones than with 9.5-foot-tall kiosks outfitted with...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 52 comments
Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos explained how Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is able to consistently make decisions that only make sense with the benefit of...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 82 comments
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is suing social media giant Facebook for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act. From a report: HUD says...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 26 comments
Gilles Dubuc, writing for the Wikimedia Foundation: We're excited to announce that we've become a member of the W3C, the main international standards...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 131 comments
The U.K. government warned on Thursday Huawei's telecommunications equipment raises "significant" security issues, posing a possible setback to the Chinese...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 52 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Last week, a press release went out to tech and music reporters claiming that little-known startup Endel...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 484 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Speed limiting technology looks set to become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from 2022, after new rules were...
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On March 27th, 2019 with 247 comments
hcs_$reboot shares a report from CNBC: Boeing previewed its software fix, cockpit alerts and additional pilot training for its 737 Max planes on Wednesday,...
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On March 27th, 2019 with 399 comments
Facebook will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism...
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