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Google parent turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico
ABC News - 21 Oct 2017 04:57
Google says its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria.
Senators want to know if Apple fought back on China's VPN ban
Engadget - 21 Oct 2017 02:54
Apple CEO Tim Cook wasn't pleased about pulling VPN software from the company's App Store in China, but this July, it happened anyway. As a result, many users who once counted on such software to dodge the country's Grea...
So Where Exactly Will We Charge All These Electric Cars?
NBC News - 21 Oct 2017 22:12
Will the U.S. have to spend tens of billions of dollars on new infrastructure to charge the pending swarms of electric battery vehicles?
Adobe's Project 'Deep Fill' is an incredible, AI-powered Content Aware Fill
DP Review - 21 Oct 2017 16:00
The coolest technology to come out of Adobe MAX is, sadly, not the technology we already have access to. Like Adobe's Project Cloak we showed you earlier today, it's the incredible 'Sneaks' sneak peeks that really wow th...
New video catches Apple's iPhone X ahead of Nov. 3 release date
AppleInsider - 21 Oct 2017 23:43
A video uploaded on Saturday appears to show yet another iPhone X "in the wild," despite even preorders having to wait until next Friday.
Billboard Charts will weigh streaming services more heavily in 2017
Digital Trends - 21 Oct 2017 22:52
Billboard Charts has announced a change in the way it handles its streaming services. Starting in 2018, will begin to weigh streaming services more heavily in an attempt to keep track with the changing industry. The post...
Air Force adds more than $40 million to SpaceX engine contract
Space News - 21 Oct 2017 22:26
The U.S. Air Force has provided SpaceX with an additional $40.7 million to support continued development of the company's Raptor engine. SpaceNews.com
NASA is extending Dawn's mission over Ceres for a second time
The Verge - 21 Oct 2017 21:27
In June 2016, the Dawn spacecraft reached the end of its primary mission over Ceres. Since then, the spacecraft has remained in orbit around the dwarf planet, where it has continued to monitor and study its surface. This...
We now know when China's 'Heavenly Palace' will crash to Earth. But where?
Digital Trends - 21 Oct 2017 20:15
China's "Heavenly Palace" space station has accelerated its out-of-control descent and is expected to break apart and crash somewhere on Earth in early 2018. The post We now know when China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’ will...
Elon Musk's Boring Company gets permission to dig a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland
Mashable - 21 Oct 2017 19:23GitHub's scandalized ex-CEO returns with Chatterbug
TechCrunch - 21 Oct 2017 18:47
Translation earbuds might eliminate some utilitarian reasons to know a language, but if you want to understand jokes, read poetry, or fall in love in a foreign tongue, you’ll have to actually learn it. Unfortunately, p...
Adobe Scene Stitch is Like Content-Aware Fill with an Imagination
PetaPixel - 21 Oct 2017 18:41Tech Writer Robert Scoble Accused of Sexual Harassment, Assault by Multiple Women
Gizmodo - 21 Oct 2017 18:34
Over the course of the past few weeks, the media world has been experiencing a bit of a wake-up call about rampant sexual harassment throughout the industry after an anonymously sourced list of allegations circulated on ...
U.S. warns public about attacks on energy, industrial firms
Reuters - 21 Oct 2017 16:33
(Reuters) - The U.S government issued a rare public warning about hacking campaigns targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest evidence that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power industry and oth...
Why Media Discovery in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update isn't worth your time
TechRepublic - 21 Oct 2017 16:06
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update offers a lot of new, easy-to-use features and life simplifiers. Unfortunately, the Media Discovery feature falls a bit short.
New Magniber Ransomware Targets South Korea, Asia Pacific
Threatpost - 21 Oct 2017 16:00
Researchers identified a new ransomware family called Magniber that uniquely only targets users in South Korea and the Asia Pacific regions.
Space Science Needs a Private-Funding Boost
Scientific American - 21 Oct 2017 16:00
Cost-effective commercial capabilities could spark new waves of discovery --
Captains of Finance Dismiss Bitcoin at Their Peril
Wired - 21 Oct 2017 14:00
The technological revolution has been slow to arrive in finance, but it is surely coming.
NASA Satellites Captured Rapid Intensification of 4 Recent Hurricanes
SPACE.com - 21 Oct 2017 14:00A Viral Game About Paperclips Teaches You to Be a World-Killing AI
Wired - 21 Oct 2017 13:00
_Paperclips_ is a simple clicker game that manages to turn you into an artificial intelligence run amok.