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Where to buy the Wileyfox Spark
Android Central - 29 Jun 2016 13:17
Wileyfox's latest Cyanogen-powered budget phone sells for less than £90, and it's available to pre-order now. British firm Wileyfox made a splash recently with the announcement of three new phones in its "Spark" range, ...
Prep For Your Next Beach Trip With This $45 Sport-Brella
Gizmodo - 29 Jun 2016 16:16
Bar none, Sport-Brella is the ultimate beach umbrella, and Amazon's discounting the red model for just $45 today.
Scientists suggest a PC to solve complex problems tens of times faster than with massive supercomputers
Phys.org - 29 Jun 2016 11:44
A group of physicists from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, has used a personal computer for calculations of complex quantum mechanics equations usually solved using sup...
Visitors to the U.S. May Be Asked for Social Media Information
The New York Times - 29 Jun 2016 03:13
Visitors entering the country under the Visa Waiver Program would be exempt from the request, which the government said would help in terrorism screening.
A Great White Shark Got Caught Napping on Camera for the First Time Ever
Gizmodo - 29 Jun 2016 03:00
Do you know what a sleeping great white shark looks like? It's never been seen before. Until now. A robotic submersible captured the first-ever footage of a great white taking a nap, and you can see it innocently catch s...
AMD RX 480 Review
Slash Gear - 29 Jun 2016 17:10
Today we're having a peek at the AMD RX 480, a graphics card that's right ready to roll users in on the VR market without breaking the bank. This card roll out with Polaris and AMD LiquidVR ready to go, pushed with Direc...
Further Zika studies increase the chances of a vaccine
Engadget - 29 Jun 2016 03:28
The hopes for a Zika vaccine are seemingly getting stronger by the day. To start, Harvard researchers have successfully tested two vaccine candidates in mice -- reportedly the first instance of such a treatment working i...
My Photography Pilgrimage to the Iconic DC-3 Wreck in Iceland
PetaPixel - 29 Jun 2016 17:27Oticon Opn is a hearing aid with IoT capability
Coolest Gadgets - 29 Jun 2016 16:00Scientists Invent 3D-Printed Micro Camera That Can Be Injected In The Body To Minimize Invasiveness
Tech Times - 29 Jun 2016 12:27
Researchers from the University of Stuttgart have used 3D-printing technology to develop a nano triple-lens camera, which can be injected into the human body via a syringe. The camera is smaller than a grain of salt.
99-million-year-old wings found frozen in amber - CNET
CNET - 29 Jun 2016 06:45Twitter launches Dashboard app for small business accounts
Engadget - 29 Jun 2016 04:03
To help business owners connect with their fans and soothe angry patrons, Twitter is launching yet another stand-alone app with a specific audience in mind. Twitter Dashboard is the social network's attempt to streamline...
Google's new pervasive ad tracking is thankfully opt-in
Slash Gear - 29 Jun 2016 02:40
Google isn't exactly popular for its privacy practices, despite official protestations that it is, in fact, pro-privacy. So when the company initiates changes to its ad tracking that includes more of your Internet life, ...
Apple sued by man who claims he invented iPhone in 1992
Cult of Mac - 29 Jun 2016 15:52
The iPhone went on sale nine years ago today, and to mark the momentous occasion a Florida man is suing Apple for a whopping $10 billion and 1.5 percent of all future Apple earnings — because he claims to have come up ...
The Beauty of Black Hole Collisions
Scientific American - 29 Jun 2016 15:00
LIGO researcher Nergis Mavalvala talks about measuring spacetime shifts from the gravitational superpowers at the center of galaxies --
China Replaces Top Internet Regulator and Censor With Deputy
ABC News - 29 Jun 2016 14:04
China replaced its internet regulator Lu Wei, the hard-liner responsible for leading the government's efforts to tighten control over domestic cyberspace and export the ruling Communist Party's philosophy of web control
This New Technology Could Deliver Drugs And Nanoparticles To Brain Injuries
Tech Times - 29 Jun 2016 13:27
A new technology based on peptides may help doctors deliver drugs to injured brains areas without invasive means. The procedure could assist patients of traumatic brain injuries such as mild concussions.
Terrorism Database Used by Governments and Banks Leaked Online
Motherboard - 29 Jun 2016 13:15
A security researcher managed to get hold of Thomson Reuters' World-Check database, which flags terrorism and organised crime suspects.
IBM's Watson may provide a shortcut to treating cancer - CNET
CNET - 29 Jun 2016 12:15The large-scale stability of chromosomes
EurekAlert! - 29 Jun 2016 06:00
(International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA)) A new study led by the SISSA of Trieste and published in PLOS Computational Biology adds detail to the theoretical models used in chromatin simulations and demonstrates ...
Traffic tickets got you down? This robo-lawyer has already saved users $4 million
PC World - 29 Jun 2016 03:36
Robots are no strangers to the legal profession thanks to tools like LawGeex, but one has emerged recently that appears to be a Robin Hood of the modern world. DoNotPay is the brainchild of 19-year-old Stanford Universit...
Amazon Will Sell You a Super Cheap Phone (At the Cost of Your Soul)
Gizmodo - 29 Jun 2016 17:20
Amazon is offering pretty sweet new deal by which you can literally sell your eyeballs to the spirit of mobile advertising that lives under the sea--in exchange for a slightly cheaper phone.