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RIP Nostalrius, Biggest World Of Warcraft Private Server
Tech Times - 13 Apr 2016 03:56
Legacy server Nostalrius has been shut down because of a cease and desist order from Blizzard on the grounds of copyright infringement. Registered players showed their support for the server before its closure on April 1...
Dr. Prabhat Jha receives CIHR Trailblazer Award
EurekAlert! - 13 Apr 2016 06:00
(St. Michael's Hospital) The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Population and Public Health has awarded Dr. Prabhat Jha its inaugural Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions.
Tabata Touch Table by HUMElab
The Gadget Flow - 13 Apr 2016 15:00
Introducing the Tabata Touch Table by HUMElab, the product proving that anything can be so much more with added technology. Looking like a sleek and modern yet ordinary coffee table, the Tabata actually features a massiv...
Hackers may have cracked San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone for FBI - CNET
CNET - 13 Apr 2016 05:38100 Years Ago an Exoplanet was Unknowingly Discovered
SPACE.com - 13 Apr 2016 18:18
Long before the first confirmed planetary finds in the 1990s, an observer in 1917 caught evidence of planetary debris around a new star, new research into an astronomical glass plate reveals.
Solar eclipse looks like an eye in space
USA Today - 13 Apr 2016 17:01
A wild NASA montage photo shows what last month's total solar eclipse "looked like" both from Earth and from space.
How to launch a rocket into space... and then land it on a ship at sea
Phys.org - 13 Apr 2016 16:20
On Friday 8 April 2016, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched a mission to deliver a spacecraft called Dragon with its payload of supplies and experiments into a trajectory towards the International Space Station (ISS). Most...
Amazon Kindle Oasis vs Kindle Voyage vs Kindle Paperwhite: What's the difference?
Pocket-lint - 13 Apr 2016 15:05
Amazon announced the first Kindle in 2007 and since then we have seen seven generations go by. The eighth has now been announced in the form of the Kindle Oasis and it joins the current line up of the Kindle, Kindle Pape...
Bridenstine introduces American Space Renaissance Act
Space News - 13 Apr 2016 15:01
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A sweeping space policy bill introduced April 12 seeks to update a wide range of civil, commercial and national security space issues to keep the United States competitive. Rep. James Bridensti...
Facebook gets silly with animated profile videos from Vine, Boomerang, and more
Digital Trends - 13 Apr 2016 03:44
Facebook has launched a new Snapchat-style tool that allows users to customize their profiles using animated videos. The "Profile Expression Kit" integrates with video apps including Vine, Boomerang, and more. The post F...
Here's how bots work on Facebook Messenger
Mashable - 13 Apr 2016 03:12Flyboard Air is the hoverboard we've all been waiting for
Digital Trends - 13 Apr 2016 19:32
Flyboarding has grown from a novelty into a full-fledged competitive sport. Now, Zapata Racing is prepared to revolutionize the field again - this time with the Flyboard Air, a fly board that does away with the water pro...
New Kindle Oasis with leather charging cover
The Loop - 13 Apr 2016 19:00
Amazon says it's the thinnest and lightest Kindle ever. They also say it has the longest Kindle battery life--the included leather charging cover boosts battery to last months.∞ Read this on The Loop
Snapchat now lets emoji follow you around inside a video
The Verge - 13 Apr 2016 18:00
Stationary, one-size-fits-all emoji are so yesterday. Android Snapchat users can now attach emoji to specific objects in their videos that will move, rotate, and scale automatically as the object moves throughout the sna...
Why is Kindle Oasis so expensive?
Slash Gear - 13 Apr 2016 17:35
First the size wows you, then the price floors you. That Amazon's new Kindle Oasis is its skinniest, most unusually-designed yet didn't come as a complete surprise thanks to earlier leaks, but its eye-watering cost in th...
Obama Is Threatening to Veto the GOP's Latest Assault on Net Neutrality
Motherboard - 13 Apr 2016 16:55
Federal open internet protections are under attack.
Black and White JPEGs: The New Cool Camera Feature?
The Phoblographer - 13 Apr 2016 16:37
Modern cameras are seemingly pushing really good black and white JPEG renderings that will impress most people.
European privacy watchdogs unhappy with draft EU-US data transfer deal
TechCrunch - 13 Apr 2016 15:04
If you were under the impression that a new data transfer agreement had been locked down between Europe and the US — to restore legal confidence in commercial data flows across the Atlantic — think again.
Facebook Surround 360 - High Quality 3D-360 Video Capture System
The Gadget Flow - 13 Apr 2016 15:00
With Surround 360, Facebook wishes to contribute to the 3D-360 camera landscape by creating a system that would enable more VR content producers and artists to start producing 3D-360 video. This is a 17 lens 3D VR camera...
New 'hot Jupiter' discovered by Kepler's K2 mission
Phys.org - 13 Apr 2016 15:00
(Phys.org)--Despite losing its two reaction wheels, NASA's Kepler spacecraft hasn't stopped amazing the scientific community by detecting new alien worlds. The repurposed Kepler mission, called K2, has recently discovere...
40 of the first Facebook chat bots you can start chatting with right now
BGR - 13 Apr 2016 14:49
Well, we've officially come full circle. The future of technology is being driven by next-generation AOL chat rooms powered by Slack, and next-generation chat bots championed by Facebook. They say "everything old is new ...
New scrolling method promises accelerated skim reading and data recall
Phys.org - 13 Apr 2016 14:36
The explosion of digital content and data that we take in from screens each day through documents, email chains, web pages and social media flows is enormous and consequently, the rapid comprehension of complex informati...