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Mashable - 21 Jun 2017 04:35Watch the new Game of Thrones season 7 trailer here
Slash Gear - 21 Jun 2017 22:11
We’re now less than a month out from the premiere of Game of Thrones season 7. HBO delivered the second trailer for the incoming season today, and it gives us a taste of what Westeros is like now that winter has arrive...
IKEA partners with Apple to bring virtual furniture to the home
ReadWrite - 21 Jun 2017 08:04
IKEA will be one of the launch partners for Apple's augmented reality framework, bundled into the iOS 11 release. The new AR app will show customers virtual furniture in their own home. Customers take a series of photos ...
IBM supercomputers will power global weather forecasts
Engadget - 21 Jun 2017 06:01
IBM's supercomputers might soon power the weather-predicting systems of tomorrow. Through its subsidiary The Weather Company, the computing titan has partnered with the University Corporation for Academic Research (UCAR)...
Iridium open to reused Falcon 9s if it means SpaceX can speed up schedule
Space News - 21 Jun 2017 03:57
Mobile satellite services provider Iridium is willing to use pre-flown Falcon 9 first stage boosters for the second half of its fleet replacement if SpaceX can show that reuse will shorten Iridium's wait for launches. Sp...
Todoist's Slack competitor is for people who hate constant notifications
The Verge - 21 Jun 2017 23:37
A new team communication app called Twist has a way for people to get more done at work: fewer notifications. Created by Doist, the team behind productivity app Todoist, Twist's biggest differentiator is that it's based ...
Hubble captures massive dead disk galaxy that challenges theories of galaxy evolution
Phys.org - 21 Jun 2017 22:32
By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery--the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped ga...
Gear VR may soon identify you based on your head and face shape
Slash Gear - 21 Jun 2017 22:31
Imagine putting on a virtual reality headset, only for it to personally recognize you, no interaction necessary. Such functionality may be making its way to Samsung’s Gear VR headset, at least according to a patent tha...
Physicists Think They Know How to Stop Your Rolly Suitcase From Tipping Over
Gizmodo - 21 Jun 2017 22:27
Imagine: You're at an airport with your fancy new bag rolling behind you. You have spent a little too much time deciding which plane snack will both taste good and doesn't have too many calories, and now must sprint to c...
This Snack Machine Conspiracy Is the Greatest Operation in CIA History
Gizmodo - 21 Jun 2017 22:05
There's more than one moment in the 2006 thriller The Good Shepherd, when any rational movie watcher thinks, "Shit, does Matt Damon know what he's doing, setting up the CIA as the most powerful spy agency in the world?" ...
'Rosetta Stone' to decode immune recognition
Science Daily - 21 Jun 2017 19:28
Medical researchers have developed an algorithm that predicts T cell recognition of antigens and sets the stage to more effectively harness the immune system.
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PetaPixel - 21 Jun 2017 19:09Facebook open sources its IT management tool for distributing Adobe's Creative Cloud tools to employees
TechCrunch - 21 Jun 2017 19:00RE2 tapped by U.S. Air Force to build robot pilots to fly traditional aircraft
TechCrunch - 21 Jun 2017 17:10
Autonomous flight systems and aircraft are already in testing by the U.S. Air Force and other defense agencies, and now RE2 Robotics has been picked by the USAF to build a retrofit robot pilot that can easily take the co...
Intel and the IOC ink 7-year Olympics tech deal for VR, drones and more
TechCrunch - 21 Jun 2017 17:03
Intel has been targeting the sports industry as part of its bigger push into emerging technologies (and finding customers for the resulting new services), and today the company announced its latest play in that area. Int...
Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. states during election: U.S. official
Reuters - 21 Jun 2017 16:56
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The Problem With Sega's Plan to Bring Retro Games to Smartphones
Time - 21 Jun 2017 16:53
But there's one big problem with the whole idea
Just how popular is August's total solar eclipse going to be?
USA Today - 21 Jun 2017 16:49
The 2017 total solar eclipse is expected to attract millions of people to its path across the U.S. Video provided by Newsy
Google gets closer to building its own city in San Jose
Engadget - 21 Jun 2017 16:43
Google has been making major development moves in downtown San Jose and yesterday the City Council agreed to negotiate a sale of 16 parcels of land owned by the city. The deal has been strongly supported by San Jose's ma...
Clear view on stem cell development
Science Daily - 21 Jun 2017 16:31
Today, tracking the development of individual cells and spotting the associated factors under the microscope is nothing unusual. However, impairments like shadows or changes in the background complicate the interpretatio...
Intel steps up security efforts in Israel with Team8, Illusive and a new cyber center
TechCrunch - 21 Jun 2017 15:55
Israel is one of the world’s centers for cybersecurity technology, and today Intel is announcing a trio of developments in the region to help it take better advantage of that. The company is embarking on two new collab...
Stephen Hawking: Earth is in peril, it's time to get out of Dodge
USA Today - 21 Jun 2017 15:51
"Columbus did it in 1492 when he discovered the New World," Hawking said. "But now there is no new world. No Utopia around the corner."