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Wednesday June 26, 2019. 11:43 PM
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) Verizon yesterday received the government's permission to lock handsets to its network for 60 days after each device's activation, despite open-access rules that apply to one of Verizon's key spectrum licenses. The Federal...
Too much data slurped in October, months after snoops vowed not to do that Analysis The NSA illegally gathered a trove of American citizens' phone and text message records just four months after it promised it had taken steps to literally not do that again.…
President Donald Trump's plan to increase tariffs on goods produced in China would affect a wide range of consumer goods. One gadget that could see a price increase because of a trade war is the video game consoles, and the three biggest companies behind consoles have come...
The clock's ticking to fix a Gatekeeper bug that would let hackers slip malware onto your computer undetected.
Alana Paterson documents the young female hockey players defying gender expectations.
F1 2019 has arrived a few months earlier than F1 games in years past. I think there are enough meaningful improvements to warrant a purchase. [credit: Codemasters ] Coming up with something new to say about the annual update to a franchised sports game is probably almost ...
Enlarge / The RoboBee XWing without its power and electronics. (credit: Noah T. Jafferis and E. Farrell Helbling, Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory) Just over six years ago, when researchers at Harvard announced that they had made tiny flying robots, they immediately began ...
Speaking of Google, the company is sending out warnings to Microsoft SwiftKey users that the keyboard will no longer be able to access the data in Google Accounts, including Gmail content, starting on July 15th. From a report: In an email, Google is telling SwiftKey users...
Long-running shows with 20-episode-plus seasons are not a specialty of streaming services.
My informal poll suggests that most people make at least two of these mistakes, possibly three.
Enlarge / This could all be 25% more expensive if the Trump administration's latest Chinese tariff threats go through. With the long-running trade war between the United States and China continuing to escalate, the Trump administration is now threatening to institute a 25% ...
There's an app for that: Android users can now create their own bio-based musical compositions. Nearly seven years ago, MIT scientists mapped the molecular structure of proteins in spider silk threads onto musical theory to produce the 'sound' of silk in hopes of...
SEV code cracked to leak secret keys Updated Microchip slinger AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix the encryption in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV), used to defend the memory of Linux KVM virtual machines running on its Epyc processors.…
Security through obscurity is out, security through tomfoolery is in. From a report: That's the basic philosophy sold by Track THIS, 'a new kind of incognito' browsing project, which opens up 100 tabs crafted to fit a specific character -- a hypebeast, a filthy rich person,...
Enlarge / Inland Empire Energy Center outside of Riverside, California. (credit: Oohlongjohnson) Late last week, General Electric told a California regulator that it would close down a 10-year-old Southern California natural gas plant because it's no longer economically...
YouTube said it will let users override automated recommendations after criticism over how the online video service suggests and filters toxic clips. From a report: 'Although we try our best to suggest videos you'll enjoy, we don't always get it right, so we are giving you...
Facebook said it has agreed to give the names of French users who are suspected of using hate speech on its platform to the local courts when requested. The deal is believed to be the first of its kind in the world. From a report: The decision by the world's biggest social...
Enlarge / Artist's rendering of a NOAA weather satellite. (credit: NOAA/NASA) Meteorologists and other experts are urging the Federal Communications Commission to drop a spectrum-sharing plan that they say could interfere with transmissions of weather-satellite imagery. The ...
Ex-chief exec enters witness box, points finger at beancounters Autonomy Trial Mike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy, today told a court, “I was not involved in the vast majority of transactions,” that HP claims added up to a $5bn fraud it uncovered after buying the company ...
While U.S. broadcasters are still mired in 1080p, foreign markets are already looking at 8K video—and that’s exactly what the new generation of DisplayPort technology, DisplayPort 2.0, is designed to address.In late 2020, the first products incorporating the new DP 2.0...
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