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'World's Blackest Black' Outdone By Even Blacker Black
The Huffington Post - 30 Mar 2017 21:23
Behold the two artworks above. The one on the left appears like a standard sculpture, a three-dimensional rendering of a mustachioed man’s face. The sculpture on the right, however, appears more like a flat, black blob...
Marchand Watch Company Debonair Collection
The Gadget Flow - 30 Mar 2017 15:00
Introducing the Marchand Watch Company Debonair Collection. This series of timepieces takes inspiration from the motor racing world and combines modern materials with a retro design. Adamir Marchand, a Swiss watch and cl...
Elon Musk: SpaceX May Aim for Completely Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket
SPACE.com - 30 Mar 2017 17:16Oldest spacewoman sets spacewalking record
USA Today - 30 Mar 2017 16:33
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson floated out on the eighth spacewalk of her career Thursday morning, 250 miles up at the International Space Station. That's the most spacewalks ever performed by a woman. (March 30) �...
Congress passes law allowing ISPs to sell customer browsing history
CBSNews - 30 Mar 2017 07:13
What you do and where you go on the internet is about to become even less private. Errol Barnett reports on legislation passed by the House and Senate and expected to be signed into law.
3D printing fights crime
Springwise - 30 Mar 2017 07:10
In Hong Kong, police are adopting 3D printing to help inform witness statements and and courtroom proceedings. The post 3D printing fights crime appeared first on Springwise.
Payment Card Industry Security Compliance: What You Need to Know
Dark Reading - 30 Mar 2017 19:35
A quick refresher on all the different PCI SSC security standards that are relevant for organizations that accept electronic payments.
How ISPs can sell your Web history--and how to stop them
The Loop - 30 Mar 2017 17:55
You can't buy individual web history but it will be able to be bought in the future in aggregate. This is article explains and has some good advice how to minimize the affect on you.∞ Read this on The Loop
Adobe's experimental app copies one photo's style to another
Engadget - 30 Mar 2017 17:04
Photo retouching and style matching (not to be confused with Prisma-like Instagram filters) is challenging work that requires a trained eye and hours of labor. At least, it was, until AI took that job, too. Researchers f...
How to embed Keynote presentations in blogs and websites with the new iWork update for Mac and iOS
9 to 5 Mac - 30 Mar 2017 15:17Android Wear 2.0 Bug Causing Update Delays
Forbes - 30 Mar 2017 13:13
Existing smartwatches in line for the Wear 2.0 update are playing a waiting game
Police report explains little about Uber's autonomous wreck
Engadget - 30 Mar 2017 07:03
After one of its self-driving Volvos in Tempe, Arizona was struck by another car, Uber temporarily shut down all autonomous testing in the state and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. No major injuries resulted and both sites ...
Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
EurekAlert! - 30 Mar 2017 06:00
(Royal Astronomical Society) Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The researchers believe that standard models of the universe fail ...
SpaceX recycled Falcon 9 rocket will be launched tomorrow
Slash Gear - 30 Mar 2017 02:52
Tomorrow, March 30th, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. Such a launch, in and of itself, wouldn’t be unusual for the company. What makes this particular launch interesting is what it r...
Speeding star gives new clues to breakup of multi-star system
Phys.org - 30 Mar 2017 18:09
A remarkable new discovery using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flying breed. "Until these observations, only a few--but older--e...
The Latest: Spacewalking astronauts lose piece of shielding
ABC News - 30 Mar 2017 17:03
Spacewalking astronauts have lost an important piece of shielding needed for the International Space Station
This Is What Makes Quantum Computers Powerful Problem Solvers
Singularity Hub - 30 Mar 2017 17:00
In a previous article, I introduced the recent open-sourcing of quantum computing software by DWave. DWave is the maker of a quantum computer being used and studied by a number of groups, including NASA and Google, and t...
This is Lou -- an electric skateboard that lets you travel at 20 miles per hour
Digital Trends - 30 Mar 2017 16:53
Hoverboard-maker SoFlow is expanding its emobility product catalog with the award-winning Lou skateboard. With speeds up to 20 miles per hour, it's the company's lightest and fastest electric skateboard. The post This is...
Millions of websites affected by unpatched flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 web server
PC World - 30 Mar 2017 16:47
A proof-of-concept exploit has been published for an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, a version of the web server that's no longer supported but still widely used. The exploit allow...
Gruesome Wasp Named After Shape-Shifting 'Star Trek' Character
Live Science - 30 Mar 2017 16:41Self-driving talent is fleeing Google and Uber to catch the autonomous-driving gold rush
Re/code - 30 Mar 2017 16:34
With every defection, Uber and Google are feeding the fire of their own competition. As competition in the self-driving industry -- nascent as it may be -- gets steeper, top talent from existing and established players a...
I Found Peace of Mind Online After a Traumatic Brain Injury
Motherboard - 30 Mar 2017 15:56
A terrifying car accident left me feeling powerless, until I found answers on the internet.