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Friday July 21, 2017. 12:50 AM
Enlarge (credit: Candy Lab) A judge on Thursday declared as unconstitutional a local Wisconsin ordinance mandating that the makers of augmented reality games get special use permits if their mobile apps were to be played in county parks. The law—the nation's first of its...
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(credit: Michael Rosenstein) Last August, after being alerted by GitHub's security team that the certificate authority WoSign had errantly issued a certificate for a GitHub domain to someone other than GitHub, Google began an investigation in collaboration with the Mozilla...
Enlarge / Sam Clovis, then newly appointed national co-chairman of the Trump campaign, speaks during a news conference with Donald Trump. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images) Yesterday, the Trump administration formally named its candidate for the Department of Agriculture's...
Demonstration of how the robot grows, reaching a maximum speed of 10 meters per second (22 miles per hour). (video link) A group of mechanical engineers at Stanford has created a transparent robot that looks and behaves like a worm, elongating its body in order to move....
Enlarge / A phased-array antenna used for radio astronomy. (credit: NRAO) In my younger days—about the time that Erik the Red was making a name for himself—I was really into electronics. Countless never-quite-working-as-expected circuits should have taught me the...
Enlarge / Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.). (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The evidence for repealing net neutrality rules isn't good enough, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai yesterday. Pai claims that the rules...
(credit: Newspaper Club / flickr) An appeals court will soon decide whether the US government can unmask anonymous users of Glassdoor—and the entire proceeding is set to happen in secret. The 9th Circuit case was flagged yesterday by Public Citizen attorney Paul Levy,...
Enlarge Sony appears to be using copyright law in an attempt to remove all traces of a leaked PlayStation 4 Software Development Kit (PS4 SDK) from the Web. That effort also seems to have extended in recent days to the forced removal of the mere discussion of the leak and...
Enlarge (credit: The Boring Company) Elon Musk has been talking about The Boring Company, his tunnel-digging endeavor, for months now. Today, he tweeted, “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC...
Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart) On Wednesday, a blogger in Southern California wrote the most epic response to a pasta-related legal demand letter that we have ever seen. The blogger in question, Vincent 'Vino' Malone, is the proprietor of AllOfGarden.com, a website that...
Enlarge / Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, has decided to merge the State Department's Office for the Coordination of Cyber Issues into the department's economic bureau, as State's chief cyber-diplomat departs. (credit: Inga Kjer/Photothek via Getty Images) On the...
Enlarge / Blue Origin's concept art for a New Glenn rocket launch ascending to orbit. (credit: Blue Origin) Over the last several months Blue Origin has begun to reveal details about plans to develop a large orbital rocket called New Glenn. The 82-meter-tall booster will ...
Enlarge / One of the affected Atom processors. (credit: Intel) Systems using Intel's Clover Trail Atom processors and running Windows 10 won't ever receive the Creators Update, or any major Windows 10 updates in future. But in an exception to its normal Windows 10 support...
Enlarge (credit: Today is a good day) Quantum key distribution is supposed to provide a high degree of certainty in the security of secret keys. That certainty is based on the laws of physics, and all attacks against quantum keys have exploited implementation weaknesses,...
Enlarge / John Oliver takes on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in net neutrality segment. (credit: HBO Last Week Tonight) The US Federal Communications Commission says it has no written analysis of DDoS attacks that hit the commission's net neutrality comment system in May. In...
Enlarge / Appropriately enough, I don't see the Blizzard Launcher on this familiar Windows XP desktop image... If you're using an operating system that's over a decade old to play Blizzard games, we have some bad news for you. Starting in October, Blizzard says it will...
Enlarge (credit: portal gda) Department of Justice officials announced Thursday in Washington, DC that they had shut down notorious online Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay in conjunction with law enforcement across several countries.Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein said...
Enlarge / Intel-powered Tag Heuer smartwatch. Intel was once moving full-steam ahead into wearables, but that effort has apparently come to an end. Reports at the end of last year claimed the company was looking to step back from wearables, but Intel denied those rumors. ...
Enlarge Specs at a glance: Blue Ella Driver Type Planar magnetic Impedance 50 ohms Passive, 10 ohms Active Frequency response 20Hz-20kHz Amplifier Output power: 250mW THD+N: < 1% (94 dB SPL, from 20 Hz to 20 kHz) Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz SNR: >101 dB Noise:...
Enlarge (credit: Chesnot/Getty Images) Google's dispute with France's privacy watchdog over a call to apply 'right to be forgotten' rules globally to some Web links will be weighed by Europe's top court—three years after it told the ad giant to comply with an order to...
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