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Ashley Madison parent in $11.2 million settlement over data breach
Reuters - 15 Jul 2017 00:05
(Reuters) - The owner of the Ashley Madison adultery website said on Friday it will pay $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a July ...
Facebook is putting ads everywhere in hopes of finding the next News Feed
Re/code - 15 Jul 2017 13:00
Instagram? Messenger? WhatsApp? Stories? Facebook has a cash cow. It's called News Feed, and for the past five years, it has been the company's core money maker and source of revenue growth. But there is a problem loomin...
Everything you need to know about the graphics card shortage
Digital Trends - 15 Jul 2017 03:59
There's a graphics card shortage taking place in the desktop market, and we dig deep into Amazon to see who is selling what, and for how much. The cards hit most include the GTX 1070, GTX 1060, and AMD's Radeon RX 500 Se...
Apple no longer accepting VPN-based ad blockers to App Store, report says
AppleInsider - 15 Jul 2017 02:44
Apple is reportedly limiting App Store distribution of VPN/root certificate-based ad blockers capable of blocking adds in other third-party apps, and will instead support only first-party content blockers offered through...
New NASA video shows Pluto as you've never seen it before
BGR - 15 Jul 2017 02:31
It might not be a planet anymore, but Pluto is still a pretty interesting place. It's a rocky world covered in a thick layer of water ice and frozen nitrogen, and it's close enough that we can study it with relative ease...
Dark Web drug marketplace AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement
The Verge - 15 Jul 2017 01:40
AlphaBay, a Dark Web marketplace for illegal drugs and other underground goods, has been down since early last week. Now, it appears the cause of the shutdown was an international effort from law enforcement that nabbed ...
Solar eclipse map: Where to see the total eclipse
USA Today - 15 Jul 2017 17:01
The USA's best total solar eclipse ever is coming on August 21, starting on the West Coast in Oregon and exiting on the East Coast in South Carolina.
New in our buyer's guide: The OnePlus 5 and two Surface devices
Engadget - 15 Jul 2017 17:00
This month's buyer's guide additions fill almost every product category: We've got a smartphone, VR headset, games console, notebook and a 2-in-1. Those last two both come from Microsoft in the form of the Surface Laptop...
What Drives Bitcoin Enthusiasts?
Motherboard - 15 Jul 2017 16:00
This week on Radio Motherboard, we try and get to the bottom of what cryptocurrency enthusiasts believe.
How I Built a Film-Digitizing Lightbox
PetaPixel - 15 Jul 2017 15:45Watch YouTube on a screen bigger than reality with Samsung Gear VR
Digital Trends - 15 Jul 2017 15:15
Samsung's Gear VR is an impressive virtual reality viewer, but viewing 360 videos and pictures on it isn't as easy as it could be. Here's how to watch YouTube on a Gear VR, as well as Facebook, Vimeo, and more. The post ...
Chinese Scientists Just Set the Record for the Farthest Quantum Teleportation
SPACE.com - 15 Jul 2017 14:45Space Photos of the Week: A Giant Molecular Cloud and All Its Star Bab
Wired - 15 Jul 2017 14:00
An enormous barred spiral galaxy, a close-up of Jupiter's great red spot, and more this week in space.
Allowed in by Trump, Afghan girls robotics team lands in DC
ABC News - 15 Jul 2017 06:17
An all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan have arrived in Washington following a last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump
Video shows woman destroying $200,000 of sculptures while taking a selfie
BGR - 15 Jul 2017 05:23
What lengths would you go to snap the perfect selfie? Would you be willing to bend your neck at an awkward angle? Of course you would. What about posing in a public place, with onlookers rolling their eyes? Sure, why not...
Google will nudge SMS two-factor users to try its way instead
Engadget - 15 Jul 2017 05:12
Google rolled out a new look and feel for two-factor authentication earlier this year, and soon it will encourage people still using the text message-based system to try it out. Google Prompt pops up a notification on au...
Roborace showed off its electric, self-driving race car in the middle of Times Square
Mashable - 15 Jul 2017 02:35Planets Like Earth May Have Had Muddy Origins
SpaceRef - 15 Jul 2017 01:58
Scientists have long held the belief that planets - including Earth - were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view....
Seminal sci-fi magazine 'Galaxy' is now free online
Engadget - 15 Jul 2017 01:47
The next time you watch a big blockbuster sci-fi film like Alien: Covenant, you can thank the original pulp magazines. The written form of the popular genre got its start in comic book-sized magazines like Amazing Storie...
Apple leases vital iPhone 8 production equipment to suppliers
Slash Gear - 15 Jul 2017 01:27
Apple recently bought ‘tens of millions’ of dollars worth of production equipment for the iPhone 8, according to tipsters, and it is leasing that equipment to its suppliers in an effort to make sure vital components ...
This 32-year-old state senator is trying to get patent trolls out of Massachusetts
TechCrunch - 15 Jul 2017 01:07
When the internet security company Cloudflare decided to engage in all-out war with what it calls a “dangerous new breed of patent troll,” it found a receptive audience with Eric Lesser, who became the youngest state...
Microsoft's Path Guide is an unconventional approach to indoor navigation
TechCrunch - 15 Jul 2017 00:48
Indoor mapping is one of those problems that seems to only have solutions that involve a great deal of money and infrastructure: beacons, lasers, emitters, scanners… who wants to install those in malls across the world...