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An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane
Gizmodo - 21 Mar 2016 04:07
Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing's 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage , and now an innocent iPhone h...
What states are talking the most about guns on Instagram?
Digital Trends - 21 Mar 2016 00:29
Instagram has become an incredible tool for social listening, and thanks to new research for Net Quote, we have quite the picture of what the conversation around guns looks like across the United States. The post What st...
Samsung Galaxy S7 Falls 1000 Feet From The Sky And Doesn't Die: Check This Out [Video]
Tech Times - 21 Mar 2016 16:03
Unlock River is an unusual team of testers that pushes premium devices to unreasonable limits. In a recent YouTube video, the team dropped a Samsung Galaxy S7 on concrete from a height of 1,000 feet and the results are s...
Man banned from Amazon for returning 37 items
USA Today - 21 Mar 2016 15:43People Addicted To Smartphones More Impatient And Impulsive: Study
Tech Times - 21 Mar 2016 15:02
Heavy smartphone and mobile device usage is linked to mental process, traits and behavior, research from the Temple University has revealed. The researchers have found that consistent usage of these devices goes hand in ...
Is artificial intelligence ready to rule the world?
Phys.org - 21 Mar 2016 15:00
This week humankind was delivered a body blow by an artificial intelligence (AI) called AlphaGo that beat Go's world champion, Lee Sedol, so is it now time for humans to let the machines rule the world?
Following its crackdown on VPNs, Netflix is now targeting pirate websites
Digital Trends - 21 Mar 2016 14:09
Netflix has begun issuing takedown requests to pirate websites offering up downloaded links to Netflix content like House of Cards and Narcos, which is in stark contrast to the attitude the company had toward piracy even...
Face-tracking software lets you make anyone say anything in real time
Mashable - 21 Mar 2016 05:26
You know how they say, "Show me pictures or video, or it didn't happen"? Well, the days when you could trust what you see on video in real time are officially coming to an end thanks to a new kind of face tracking. See a...
Blind woman may see thanks to gene therapy and light
Engadget - 21 Mar 2016 03:35
Optogenetics, or mixing gene therapy with light treatments, is finally getting a proper field test: doctors have given a blind Texas woman the first optogenetics-based therapy in hopes of restoring some of the vision los...
Apple and US government head to court over iPhone hack order
Phys.org - 21 Mar 2016 23:33
The heavyweight legal fight between the federal government and Apple Inc. heads to the courtroom after weeks of public sparring over whether the tech giant should be forced to hack into a dead San Bernardino attacker's i...
How a Hacker Protects His Kids Against Other Hackers
Time - 21 Mar 2016 23:31
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Neglected again, Apple's dusty MacBooks are outdated, underpowered and overpriced
Digital Trends - 21 Mar 2016 23:29
Apple's latest event was a snoozer, but Mac fans should pay close attention. The company's continued silence on updates for the MacBook Air and Pro says plenty about its attitude towards old-school computing. The post Ne...
Facebook explains that it is totally not doing racial profiling
Ars Technica - 21 Mar 2016 23:20
It just wants to assign you an "ethnic affinity" based on what you do and like.
'Drunk' Policeman Who Went Viral Was Actually Having a Stroke
Gizmodo - 21 Mar 2016 22:40
Salim PK, a police officer in Delhi, India, was captured on video while allegedly drunk on a metro train. Video of him staggering and falling over went viral. But doctors have confirmed what he insisted all along: He was...
Amazing new video tweaking program lets users edit a person's lip movements in real time
Digital Trends - 21 Mar 2016 22:23
A new system called Face2Face lets you dub the face of the speaker in any captured video to make it look like the person is saying whatever you want. The technology is in its early stages, but it already produces convinc...
What is Apple Renew and how does it benefit me? Trade-in and recycle options explored
Pocket-lint - 21 Mar 2016 22:14
Apple is going extra green. And no, that's not a new iPhone colour variant. It's all to do with recycling, with Apple Renew - the company's trade-in and recycling incentive programme - announced proper at the company's i...
NASA's Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star
PTTU - 21 Mar 2016 22:14
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This Stunning Pro-Black Google Doodle Was Created By A 15-Year-Old
The Huffington Post - 21 Mar 2016 21:49
The Google Doodle for Monday is refreshingly pro-black. It features a young black woman surrounded by colorful, affirming symbols of blackness, including a braid that spells out the word "Google." A high school sophomore...
Better safe than sorry: Babies make quick judgments about adults' anger
Science Daily - 21 Mar 2016 21:39
Babies form generalizations about adults' anger and try to appease those they think might be anger-prone, new research indicates. It suggests that babies are capable of coming up with appeasement gestures in situations i...
How FBI vs. Apple could cripple corporate and government security
The Loop - 21 Mar 2016 21:23
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Portable Projectors: You can Take it with You
The Huffington Post - 21 Mar 2016 21:16
Portable projectors aren't new, but the technology is changing. New contenders from ZTE and JmGO have taken the world of big screen projection to another level by combining several new features into small pieces of hardw...
Apple Announces New Software Framework App Called 'CareKit'
Mac Rumors - 21 Mar 2016 19:32
During today's "Let Us Loop You In" media event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, the company unveiled a new software framework called "CareKit" that will allow developers to build apps to "empower people to take on ...