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The most prominent logo on LG's best phone is Bang & Olufsen's
The Verge - 31 Aug 2017 13:45
Today, LG unveiled what easily qualifies as its nicest, most refined, and most promising smartphone of all time. The LG V30 ticks almost all the design, spec, and feature boxes while deftly avoiding the gimmicks that hav...
Apple is about to dramatically change the way you use an iPhone
Re/code - 31 Aug 2017 00:53
The trusty home button is going away. Here's what's supposedly replacing it. When Apple unveils its new iPhone next month, it is expected to be missing a familiar part that's essential to using it: The home button. One o...
International Firms Struggle to Adapt as China's Cybersecurity Law Takes Shape
Dark Reading - 31 Aug 2017 16:30
After the release of new guidelines on critical information infrastructure, international companies are still searching for clarity on how to comply with the country's new cyber regime.
Technics turns out a turntable designed to be an audiophile's dream
Digital Trends - 31 Aug 2017 22:36
The new Technics SP-10R turntable will be the company's 'most premium' analog, direct-drive table ever, offering extremely precise rotation and what the company claims is the lowest signal to noise ratio ever. The post T...
Razer BASILISK mouse just popped a clutch
Slash Gear - 31 Aug 2017 17:00
The Razer Basilisk was just announced by Razer at PAX, bringing a new sort of device to the mix with hardware customizability. This device was made specifically for first person shooter games and has an “industry-best�...
Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets
Phys.org - 31 Aug 2017 16:39
An international team of astronomers used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that ...
How to enable Linux machines to resolve Windows hostnames
TechRepublic - 31 Aug 2017 16:50
Are your Linux machines able to communicate with your Windows machines via hostname? If not, here's how to configure them so they can.
Display Your Instax Photos with CAIUL Clear Acrylic Photo Magnet Frame
The Phoblographer - 31 Aug 2017 21:00
The concept behind CAIUL Clear Acrylic Photo Magnet Frame is actually really simple. You put your print in between two acrylic blocks which are held together securely by tiny but strong magnets on each side. With this, y...
Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III Sample Images
Photography Blog - 31 Aug 2017 10:03
Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III compact system camera. The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III is a new entry-level mirrorless camera that features a 16 megapixel ...
Measuring depths, scaling heights
MIT - 31 Aug 2017 23:10
When not climbing mountains, nuclear science and engineering PhD candidate Leigh Ann Kesler tracks erosion inside fusion reactor containment chambers.
PSLV launch of navigation satellite fails
Space News - 31 Aug 2017 17:08
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) failed to place a navigation satellite into its planned orbit Aug. 31 when the rocket's payload fairing failed to deploy. SpaceNews.com
This Is the R2-D2 Robot Toy I've Dreamed About Since I Was a Kid
Gizmodo - 31 Aug 2017 17:01
Like millions of other kids around the world, after seeing the original trilogy, R2-D2 instantly became my favorite Star Wars character. He seemed like the perfect sidekick, but the real Artoo was from a galaxy far, far ...
This giant ransomware campaign just sent millions of malware-spreading emails
ZDNet - 31 Aug 2017 13:43
As many as 23 million emails containing Locky ransomware were sent in 24 hours, say researchers.
Manmade sonar is literally driving whales insane
BGR - 31 Aug 2017 04:02
Well, humanity, we've done it again. We already pushed our planet to a point where storms are getting stronger and more frequent, trees are migrating, and our own food supplies are going to start becoming less nutritious...
Scientists finally solve centuries-long mystery of star that disappeared 14 days after its discovery
BGR - 31 Aug 2017 02:36
Mapping the cosmos as we see it from Earth is a never-ending job, but one of the nice things about stars is that they tend to hang around for quite a while. That's why when, in 1437, Korean astronomers first spotted a ne...
Hackers exploit Instagram bug to access phone numbers, email addresses of high profile accounts
AppleInsider - 31 Aug 2017 02:16
Instagram on Wednesday said one or more hackers accessed email address and phone number information associated with certain high profile accounts using a previously unknown API "bug," but notes the flaw has since been pa...
Ransomware Is Going More Corporate, Less Consumer
Dark Reading - 31 Aug 2017 02:16
Cybercriminals on average charge $544 for ransom per device, signaling a new sweet spot for payouts.
Pro-Russian bots are helping the white nationalist cause
USA Today - 31 Aug 2017 02:03
After Charlottesville, researchers say they're joining forces online. Video provided by Newsy
Finish Him! MegaBots' Giant Robot Duel Is Finally Going Down in Japan
Singularity Hub - 31 Aug 2017 17:00
It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately went v...
What Yahoo and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong learned from Patch's struggles
Re/code - 31 Aug 2017 17:00
Patch was a big, risky bet that taught Armstrong "discipline," the Verizon media boss says. Tim Armstrong runs a "house of brands" at Oath -- the Verizon subsidiary that contains AOL, Yahoo and all of the organizations t...
Smartwatches surge in sales with Apple leading the way - CNET
CNET - 31 Aug 2017 16:53
According to the latest wearables report from IDC, advanced wearables like watches are finally coming into their own as mass market devices.
The first quantum-cryptographic satellite network will be Chinese
The Economist - 31 Aug 2017 16:51
IN THE never-ending arms race between encryptors and eavesdroppers, many of those on the side that is trying to keep messages secret are betting on quantum mechanics, a description of how subatomic particles behave, to c...