Technology News
Mercedes Imagines the Future, Waymo Hears the World, Apple Backs Off Self-Driving, and More This Week in the Future of Cars
Wired - 25 Aug 2017 14:00
All the news you need to know and may have missed.
Chinese national arrested by FBI in connection to hacking charge
CBSNews - 25 Aug 2017 05:43
Yu Pingan captured Monday in California stemming from charges he conspired with others to hack records of U.S. government employees
Big dishes band together
ESA - 25 Aug 2017 14:35
Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Plan...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Capital Factory Tech Incubator in Austin
Mac Rumors - 25 Aug 2017 18:02
Apple CEO Tim Cook has arrived in Austin, Texas, the latest destination on his mini trip around the United States this week. Photo: Capital Factory Cook started his day by visiting the Capital Factory tech accelerator an...
Astronauts Caught a Terrifying Glimpse of Hurricane Harvey Barreling Toward Texas
Gizmodo - 25 Aug 2017 16:14
As Hurricane Harvey barrels toward southwest Texas, astronauts on the International Space Station caught a glimpse of the monster cyclone from a safe viewing distance of 250 miles above the Earth. Honestly, you don't wan...
New ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 for Live Cell Imaging
Medical Design Technology - 25 Aug 2017 15:25
News The new optical design of ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 together with advanced automatic calibration routines ... Contributed Author: ZEISS
The Puzzle of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
PTTU - 25 Aug 2017 12:00
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): Our solar system is located in a spiral galaxy composed of billions of stars, the Milky Way. With the naked eye, we can see some 3000 stars in a dark night. However, if Earth would...
East Coast Defender breathes new life into an iconic Land Rover
Digital Trends - 25 Aug 2017 17:11
East Coast Defender unleashed another extensively customer Land Rover Defender, named "Project Kingsman." It sports a Chevrolet V8 engine, leather interior, and Kenwood infotainment system. The post East Coast Defender b...
Asus ROG Zephyrus review: great at gaming, but not much else
The Verge - 25 Aug 2017 16:26
What if your gaming laptop just looked like a laptop? That was the promise of Nvidia's Max-Q tech that the company announced earlier this year -- a new specification that could put the company's most powerful GPUs into l...
South Korean court to rule in Samsung heir bribery case
ABC News - 25 Aug 2017 07:17
A court will rule Friday in a bribery case against the billionaire heir to the Samsung empire that fed public anger leading to the ouster of Park Geun-hye as South Korea's president
UNC-Chapel Hill reaches milestone in development of Kinase Chemogenomic Set
EurekAlert! - 25 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Structural Genomics Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (SGC-UNC), in partnership with the DiscoverX Corporation, has reached the milestone half...
Best fantasy football apps for Android
Android Central - 25 Aug 2017 19:00
Football season is back, baby! The kickoff to the 2017 NFL season is rapidly approaching, and from office leagues to public leagues, we're sure there's a lot of you looking to get in on the fantasy action. We've gathered...
Apple says it's pulling popular apps in Iran due to U.S. regulations
9 to 5 Mac - 25 Aug 2017 04:38
As Apple has been removing popular apps in Iran from the App Store, the company has been sharing a message with developers saying that U.S. sanctions are the cause of the issue. more…
NASA orbiter captures snowy dunes on Mars - CNET
CNET - 25 Aug 2017 01:19
Dry ice lies across a series of dunes like a dusting of powdered sugar in this image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The iPhone 8 Will Be Expensive and Won't Slow Down Samsung
The Mac Observer - 25 Aug 2017 00:09
It looks like the iPhone 8 is going to be fairly expensive. What are the implications?
You'll be able to permanently mute websites in Google Chrome soon
The Verge - 25 Aug 2017 19:15
Google Chrome will soon allow users to permanently mute websites, a feature that will bring joy to millions who suffer through autoplaying videos on (annoying) websites every day. Spotted by Android Police, the feature i...
MoviePass Is Off to a Strong Start and Theaters May Not Be Able to Stop It
Life Hacker - 25 Aug 2017 17:30
MoviePass's new $10 a month price point seems to be too good to pass up. They've rapidly increased their subscriber base and, despite upsetting the country's largest theater operator, it doesn't look like anyone can do a...
This ancient tablet might rewrite this history of math as we know it
BGR - 25 Aug 2017 17:02
Thankfully, very few of us have to bother with trigonometry on a daily basis, but regardless of how much you may have dreaded studying it (or any math, for that matter) in school, it's still fundamental to our modern und...
This Inspiring Teenager Wants to Save Lives With His Flying Robots
Singularity Hub - 25 Aug 2017 17:00
It's not every day you meet a high school student who's been building functional robots since age 10. Then again, Mihir Garimella is definitely not your average teenager. When I sat down to interview him recently at Sing...
Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'Backdoors'
Wired - 25 Aug 2017 17:00
Malicious machine learning can hide nasty surprises.
∞ Apple Park drone video
The Loop - 25 Aug 2017 16:56
[VIDEO] Getting pretty close. Will the September event be held here? Video embedded in the main Loop post.
Apple stockpiling 'massive' supply of camera lens modules ahead of 'iPhone 8'
AppleInsider - 25 Aug 2017 16:56
Since July, Apple has reportedly been working to secure a "massive" quantity of camera lens modules for this fall's new iPhones -- something that could be aided by one of its suppliers launching a new factory by the end ...