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'Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition' Is Just What Xbox One Needed
Forbes - 25 Aug 2015 00:02
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is more than just a prettier skin on a nearly-ten-year-old video game. The Xbox One version brings some new tweaks to the third-person cover shooter, including refined mechanics and smooth...
Watch Sony's First Aerosense Drone Take Flight
TechCrunch - 25 Aug 2015 06:16
Sony has given the world the first peak of its upcoming drone project. Cool though it is — the craft takes off vertically in this YouTube video — consumers shouldn’t get too excited as these drones are for enterp...
Ashley Madison CEO allegedly wanted to hack competitor after executive discovered security hole
The Verge - 25 Aug 2015 04:20
An internal email conversation from 2012 between Ashley Madison's CTO Raja Bhatia and Noel Biderman, the CEO of the site's parent company Avid Life Media, reveals that the duo might have hacked one of their competitors, ...
Russia Cancels Short-Lived Wikipedia Ban
NBC News - 25 Aug 2015 16:29
Russia on Tuesday canceled a ban on the Russian-language Wikipedia, which barely lasted a few hours and caused a storm among Russian online users.
Yamaha Introduces New Line Of Silent Guitars That Boast Faithful Acoustic Sound
Tech Times - 25 Aug 2015 20:28
Yamaha has introduced a new line of silent guitars designed to faithfully recreate the sound and feel of an acoustic guitar while still being silent when not plugged in -- perfect for practicing in silence.
eSports gets its first major UK bookmaker
Engadget - 25 Aug 2015 15:52
Ignore it all you like, but eSports is booming. There are now million-dollar payouts, doping scandals and even official ways to put money down on your favourite squad. While gambling on eSports is still a relatively new ...
Ashley Madison puts $377,000 bounty on hackers' heads
CNET - 25 Aug 2015 05:45Donald Trump's face makes eerie appearance in tub of butter
Mashable - 25 Aug 2015 01:25
Forget the mysterious woman-shaped figure on Mars and a journalist's face burned into a piece of toast, Donald Trump's mug has been found in a fresh tub of butter "Only because I'm pretty tired of this man already, now h...
Security researcher who hacked moving Jeep leaves Twitter
Reuters - 25 Aug 2015 01:19
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For Medical Tech Startups, FDA Approval Is Crucial
ReadWrite - 25 Aug 2015 16:00
Guest author Vizma Carver is the founder of ClearRoadmap and an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience dealing with healthcare, life science, and environmental issues. Hardware and software innovation has...
You can now grow a human brain in a petri dish, or at least scientists can
Digital Trends - 25 Aug 2015 14:54
Last week, a press release from OSU announced that a team of researchers successfully grew a 99 percent complete human brain the size of a pencil eraser, about as mature of an organ as you would find in a 5-week-old fetu...
Billionaires Wanted to Fund Private Mars Colony
SPACE.com - 25 Aug 2015 12:22
The biggest challenges facing the private Mars One colonization project are financial rather than technical, so a big donation from a deep-pocketed person concerned about his or her legacy could make a huge difference, g...
Russia bans all of Wikipedia over an article about hashish
Engadget - 25 Aug 2015 03:35
Russia's government apparently thinks that by censoring the Internet, its citizens will forget that drugs exist. After briefly banning Reddit recently over a single thread about psychedelic mushrooms, Russia's Roscomnadz...
Google Map Maker returns to the US, UK and over 40 other countries
Engadget - 25 Aug 2015 23:50
Google's Map Maker tool returned a few weeks ago after being shut down following an issue with digital vandalism. While it went live in six countries earlier this month, the US and UK weren't among the selected locales f...
Amazon launches booze (and more) delivery service in Seattle
Slash Gear - 25 Aug 2015 23:38
Amazon has brought its Prime Now service home, announcing its launch in Seattle, Redmond, Kirkland, and Bellevue. With Prime Now, the retailer's Prime subscribers can get one-hour delivery for a variety of goods that wou...
What it's like for a parent to raise a superhero kid
Gizmodo - 25 Aug 2015 23:37
We know the origin story for most of all our superheroes: parents die, a kid gets bit by a spider, other people get sent to Earth, some are just rich ass sociopaths. And we've seen superheroes before they get their power...
Go get your $900 flamethrower now before the government bans them
BGR - 25 Aug 2015 23:35
Last month, we brought you exciting news that a company called XMatter has started selling flamethrowers on the consumer market for surprisingly affordable prices. What made this even more amazing was the fact that sell...
Drones used to track wildlife
Phys.org - 25 Aug 2015 15:45
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney have developed a world-first radio-tracking drone to locate radio-tagged wildlife.
Mozilla to fire suspected employee posting hate speech on Reddit
Engadget - 25 Aug 2015 15:20
Mozilla is showing an even stronger commitment to a diverse workplace, thanks to a new pledge by its CEO to fire an "employee" who feels otherwise. In a project meeting, Chris Baird called out a Reddit user by the name o...
Uber tests picking up passengers along specific routes
Engadget - 25 Aug 2015 04:20
Uber has a new feature that could save customers some precious, precious dollars. TechCrunch has discovered that the company is testing out what it calls "Smart Routes" for UberPool, wherein cars pick up passengers along...
ASUS full IFA product lineup details teased
Slash Gear - 25 Aug 2015 23:51
ASUS teases a collection of devices they'll likely unveil in full at IFA 2015 starting on the 4th of September. One video shows off a set of devices - at least three, by the looks of it - each with classic ASUS industria...
The Flu Vaccine That Lasts a Lifetime is Coming
Gizmodo - 25 Aug 2015 23:40
The flu vaccine: A tedious annual chore, but necessary unless you want to spend a week bed-ridden and barfy. Still, wouldn't it be great if one jab could protect you for life? A lifetime flu vaccine isn't impossible, and...