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'Roblox' Toys Recreate The Online Fun Enjoyed By 44 Million Players
Forbes - 31 Jan 2017 15:55
Jazwares targets 44 million Roblox players with new toy line.
Trump's next immigration order could be bad news for the tech sector
BGR - 31 Jan 2017 06:02
President Donald Trump's Muslim ban is wreaking havoc at airports across the country, but the administration still won't take any action to fix it in spite of all the negative feedback it's received over the weekend. Jud...
Twelve South Debuts 'MagicBridge' to Combine Apple Magic Keyboard With Magic Trackpad 2
Mac Rumors - 31 Jan 2017 18:28
Twelve South today launched the "MagicBridge," an accessory that combines Apple's Magic Keyboard with a Magic Trackpad 2 into one connected control surface, letting users "type and swipe more efficiently," according to t...
How Lego Built a Social Network for Kids That's Not Creepy
Wired - 31 Jan 2017 07:01
Lego Life wants to be the internet's first troll-free zone. The post How Lego Built a Social Network for Kids That's Not Creepy appeared first on WIRED.
The biggest upgrade you can make to your gaming PC is a curved monitor
The Verge - 31 Jan 2017 16:28
Curved screens are, in most circumstances, a gimmick in search of a purpose. Samsung's Galaxy Round and LG's G Flex showed that it didn't matter which axis you used to make a curve, curved phones just weren't enticing to...
Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi has just announced he's quitting the show
Digital Trends - 31 Jan 2017 03:58
Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi surprised fans of the show on Monday night when he announced in a live interview that the next season will be his last. The Scottish performer has played the Time Lord since 2014. The post ...
Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the Letter 'G'
Motherboard - 31 Jan 2017 16:35
Vitaly Popov wants to keep control of his domain that looks nearly identical to Google.com.
Tech companies to meet on legal challenge to Trump immigration order
Reuters - 31 Jan 2017 07:15
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Remembering Columbia - 'In Their Own Words' | Video
SPACE.com - 31 Jan 2017 17:00
The last crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia talk about their dreams of being astronauts and the spectacle of flying above the Earth in this retrospective.
Honda could bring back one of its most emblematic sports cars in 2018
Digital Trends - 31 Jan 2017 23:40
Honda could celebrate its 70th birthday by introducing a successor to the well-regarded S2000 roadster. The model will be introduced in late 2018 with a 320-horsepower four-cylinder engine, according to industry rumors. ...
Panasonic Lumix LX10 / LX15 review: The best high-end compact camera money can buy?
Pocket-lint - 31 Jan 2017 17:15
It was only a handful of years back that Panasonic ruled the high-end yet pocketable compact camera market with its Lumix LX7. In the years since Sony has been the manufacturer to forge an enviable position at the top wi...
Fitbit's CEO confirms expansion into the smartwatch scene
Pocket-lint - 31 Jan 2017 17:12
Fitbit is on a bit of a charge at the moment. At the end of 2016, the company acquired Kickstarter record setting smartwatch company Pebble while in May last year, it acquired Coin, a company with its fingers in mobile p...
The FDA Is Cracking Down On Rogue Genetic Engineers
Gizmodo - 31 Jan 2017 17:00
David Ishee's plan was simple, if not exactly free of complication. From the shed that functions as his laboratory in rural Mississippi, he hoped to use genetic engineering to rid dogs of the types of terrible disorders ...
Hard disks from Toshiba and HGST make it through 2016 without a drive failure
Digital Trends - 31 Jan 2017 23:59
Cloud storage provider Backblaze released its drive reliability numbers for the last quarter of 2016, illustrating that two hard drive manufacturers just might produce the most reliable drives on the market. The post Har...
Day trader is betting his last $250,000 that Apple shares will crash today
BGR - 31 Jan 2017 20:44
One of the oldest adages about investing is that you can't time the market. Sure, you can do your best to try, but if you're hoping to accumulate a vast amount of wealth a'la Warren Buffet, you might want to try investin...
Genuine Moments Photography Competition Winners Announced
Photography Blog - 31 Jan 2017 19:00Ocado is developing robot hands that won't bruise bananas
TechCrunch - 31 Jan 2017 17:10
The UK’s online supermarket, Ocado Ltd, has plans to test a new robotic arm for picking and packing groceries in some of its warehouses the company announced today. A grasping robot arm dexterous enough not to bruise b...
Lack of cyber security poses threat to modern cars
Phys.org - 31 Jan 2017 15:20
Cars are becoming increasingly smarter and are connected with each other and their surroundings to an increasing extent via their on-board systems. From April 2018, it will be mandatory for all new cars manufactured in t...
Twitter admits 'didn't move fast enough' on abuse, changes coming
Engadget - 31 Jan 2017 04:42
After years of hearing users cry out about the abuse on its platform and reacting in ways that may have made its problems even worse, Twitter says it's listening. VP of engineering Ed Ho tweeted tonight that "We heard yo...
Half the Web Is Now Encrypted. That Makes Everyone Safer
Wired - 31 Jan 2017 03:54
Computer security news is usually pretty dismal. But today the web got safer in a very important way. The post Half the Web Is Now Encrypted. That Makes Everyone Safer appeared first on WIRED.
Difference Engine: The woes of Windows 10
The Economist - 31 Jan 2017 19:06
Print section UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Difference Engine Location: LOS ANGELES DESPITE its having been available for 18 months, three out of four PC owners have not bothered to upgrade their com...
Chrome's next release will make DRM mandatory
PC World - 31 Jan 2017 18:44
An interesting problem has come to light for Google Chrome users, revolving around the browser's built-in DRM scheme for accessing content on services such as Netflix. With Chrome 57, the next major Chrome release, Googl...