Technology News
Polish Banks Hacked using Malware Planted on their own Government Site
The Hacker News - 7 Feb 2017 06:03
In what considered to be the largest system hack in the country's history and a massive attack on the financial sector, several banks in Poland have been infected with malware. What's surprising? The source of the malwar...
Study questions how Mars could have supported different water sources
Fox News - 7 Feb 2017 08:03
The early Martian atmosphere likely didn't contain enough carbon dioxide to keep the planet warm enough for liquid water, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists.
Google Is Selling Its Satellite Business Terra Bella To Satellite Startup Planet
Forbes - 7 Feb 2017 07:54
Google has agreed to sell Terra Bella, its satellite unit, to satellite startup Planet for an undisclosed amount.
FBI axes FOIA requests by email, so dust off your fax machine
TechCrunch - 7 Feb 2017 04:39
As tech-savvy government efforts like 18F and the USDS take technological strides forward, other parts of the government are abandoning modern technology altogether. Starting next month, the FBI will no longer accept Fre...
Someone designed a smart vehicle that acts as your personal assistant
Mashable - 7 Feb 2017 23:56The Westcott Omega 360 is the World's First 15-in-1 Reflector
PetaPixel - 7 Feb 2017 22:37DARPA and the Navy Are Working on a Giant Drone Catcher
Motherboard - 7 Feb 2017 17:00
Catch and release.
Apple Working On AR Glasses, Announcement Expected Mid 2017
Tech Times - 7 Feb 2017 17:00
Apple may be launching its AR headsets in 2017 per analysts. The company is reportedly working on an AR smartglass which could be announced alongside the iPhone 8 this year.
Powerful change: Team profiles of today's solar consumer
Phys.org - 7 Feb 2017 16:59
People with higher incomes and better education no longer dominate demand for the domestic solar market in Queensland with a new QUT study revealing the highest uptake in solar PV systems comes from families on medium to...
YouTube Launches Live Mobile Streaming for Creators With 10K+ Subscribers
Mac Rumors - 7 Feb 2017 16:49
YouTube today announced that its new mobile live streaming feature is officially launching to all content creators with 10,000 or more subscribers on their channel, while promising that the rest of YouTube viewers "will ...
3DRudder's latest software update turns it into a foot-powered mouse
TechCrunch - 7 Feb 2017 16:47
The 3DRudder began its peculiar life as a foot-powered mouse, designed by an architectural student looking for an alternate input for created designed in CAD programs. By the time it hit the market a while back, it had t...
Twitter says it's actually, really, definitely cracking down on abuse this time
BGR - 7 Feb 2017 16:43
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a social network that has been notoriously lax in its policing of intense targeted harassment promises that it's going to change its ways and improve the overall quality of life f...
Microsoft AI's next leap forward: Helping you play video games - CNET
CNET - 7 Feb 2017 16:42
The software giant wants app makers to use its artificial intelligence. The hope is the more they build it into apps we all use, the smarter it'll become.
Apple's Campus 2 repeatedly delayed by emphasis on perfecting small details, profile says
AppleInsider - 7 Feb 2017 16:36
A Tuesday profile of Apple's upcoming Campus 2 headquarters -- said to be lining up for a spring opening -- suggests that much of the reason for the project's delay was Apple managers' insistence on refining small, norma...
This Giant Black Hole Set a Record for Longest-Ever Lunch
Gizmodo - 7 Feb 2017 16:33
A typical lunch outing with friends lasts about an hour-and-a-half. If it's bottomless brunch, maybe tack on a few more hours. But supermassive black holes don't care for our human constructions of time--it turns out the...
Printed 'lab on a chip' costs a penny and catches disease early
New Scientist - 7 Feb 2017 16:31
The cheap diagnostic kit is made using a regular inkjet printer and could catch signs of malaria, tuberculosis and cancer earlier in the developing world
Never-before-seen topological solitons experimentally realized in liquid crystals
Phys.org - 7 Feb 2017 16:30
(Phys.org)--Physicists have discovered that dozens of 3-D knotted structures called "topological solitons," which have remained experimentally elusive for hundreds of years, can be created and frozen for long periods of ...
Bacterial survival strategy: Splitting into virulent and non-virulent subtypes
Science Daily - 7 Feb 2017 16:27
Scientists have discovered a long-term epigenetic memory switch that controls different modes of bacterial virulence, a bacterial survival strategy for outsmarting the human immune response. The study sheds new light on ...
Logitech now offers the easiest way to get Amazon's Alexa in your car
TechCrunch - 7 Feb 2017 16:25
Some car makers are experimenting with putting Alexa in their vehicles, making it possible for drivers to access Amazon’s voice assistance while driving, but Logitech has a new feature that makes it possible to get in-...
Twitter rolls out changes to silence abuse on its service
TechCrunch - 7 Feb 2017 16:25
Twitter hinted last week that it would soon more thoroughly address the issues of safety and abuse on its network, and today it has announced a series of changes to its service as a result. The company says that it will ...
How six young women invented a life-changing device in less than a day
Mashable - 7 Feb 2017 16:19Turning Protests Into Action With Technology
The Huffington Post - 7 Feb 2017 16:16
Tweet by tweet, post upon post, and petition after petition, Americans are voicing their views of government with the most powerful amplifier ever known: the Internet. Although we have lived with this tool for decades, t...