Technology News
Snapchat overhaul will completely redesign app: it'll be easier to use
Slash Gear - 8 Nov 2017 05:02
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has announced its third fiscal quarter results, revealing details about its app as it existed throughout the past quarter — both goods and bad things. On the upside, Snap says that Sn...
Quantum tunnelling in water opens the way to improved biosensing
Phys.org - 8 Nov 2017 02:00
Researchers at the University of Sydney have applied quantum techniques to understanding the electrolysis of water, which is the application of an electric current to H2O to produce the constituent elements hydrogen and ...
So How is Street Photography with the New Apple iPhone X?
The Phoblographer - 8 Nov 2017 01:00
The iPhone X (10) is now out in the wild and reviewers everywhere are getting their hands on Apple's latest and greatest hardware. One of the iPhone X's top features is the improvements to the camera as well as updates t...
Ethereum user accidentally exploits major vulnerability, locks wallets
ZDNet - 8 Nov 2017 12:14
Wallets are frozen while Parity works on a solution.
SpinX robot is basically a Roomba for your toilet
Slash Gear - 8 Nov 2017 04:16
Hate cleaning the toilet but not willing to hire a maid? Enter SpinX, a robotic toilet scrubber that does the nasty work for you. No, it’s not a literal standing, scrubbing robot, but rather an attachment that stays af...
Stephen Hawking: Earth could be 'ball of fire' in 600 years - CNET
CNET - 8 Nov 2017 03:29
The renowed physicist tells a Beijing gathering that overcrowding and increased energy consumption could doom Earth.
Facebook's testing a new method to prevent revenge porn that requires uploading your nudes
TechCrunch - 8 Nov 2017 02:23
Facebook is testing a new method to combat revenge porn in Australia, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation reports. The strategy entails uploading your nude photos or videos to Messenger in order to help Facebook tag i...
Astronomers just spotted a planet so huge they aren't even sure it's really a planet
BGR - 8 Nov 2017 01:29
Even if you have only cursory knowledge of the planets in our Solar System, you know that Earth is on the smaller end of the spectrum in terms of mass. Mercury and Mars are even smaller, but Saturn and the mighty Jupiter...
New ground network gives forecasters quicker access to satellite weather data
Space News - 8 Nov 2017 17:51
The Common Ground Station 2.0 already is retrieving satellite data from a new ground station at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in addition to the ground station in Svalbard, Norway, that NASA and NOAA relied on in the firs...
Apple augmented reality headset is finally getting serious
Slash Gear - 8 Nov 2017 17:20
A lot of companies think that AR and VR are the technologies of the future, and now Apple has been prompted to ramp up the development on an AR headset of its own. Though we may not see the headset for another couple of ...
AT&T says timing of Time Warner deal completion now uncertain
Reuters - 8 Nov 2017 17:19
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it was uncertain when its deal to buy Time Warner Inc would be completed as the network carrier continues antitrust discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk meets Erdogan in Turkey
ABC News - 8 Nov 2017 17:11
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office says the Turkish leader has met with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in Ankara
Super Mario Odyssey Review: Mario's greatest adventure yet
Slash Gear - 8 Nov 2017 17:09
It isn't often that a game like Super Mario Odyssey comes along. I mean this both literally and figuratively. Even since Nintendo started the 3D Mario series with 1996's Super Mario 64, we've received precisely three oth...
HBO launches Soderbergh's choose-the-order storytelling app and show Mosaic
TechCrunch - 8 Nov 2017 17:01
What if a mystery TV series let you decide to follow one character’s story to the end, or jump between characters as the action unfolds? That’s the idea behind Mosaic, a 3-year, $20 million project by the acclaimed d...
Steven Soderbergh's New App, Mosaic, Will Change How You Watch TV
Wired - 8 Nov 2017 17:00
His latest project is a monumental effort designed to keep you glued to your phone.
Ethereum bug locks $280 million of cryptocurrency in owners' accounts
Digital Trends - 8 Nov 2017 16:59
Almost $300 million worth of cryptocurrency have been locked up in Ethereum multi-signature wallets after a bug was accidentally triggered by a self-confessed newbie to the cryptocurrency scene. The post Ethereum bug loc...
This Chrome Extension Keeps the Tweets in Your Timeline to 140 Characters
Life Hacker - 8 Nov 2017 16:45
I liked Twitter better when everyone got 140 characters. That's the whole point of Twitter: brevity, concision, a strong editorial hand on the tiller. So I was not at all pleased to see the company's announcement that al...
German officials celebrate doubled Twitter character limit
ABC News - 8 Nov 2017 16:41
German bureaucrats _ notorious for their ability to create lengthy tongue twisters consisting of one single word _ are celebrating the doubling of Twitter's character limit
The FCC is helping cable companies evade consumer protection rules
Engadget - 8 Nov 2017 16:41
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol): is it an information service or a telecommunications service? This is the question that sits at the heart of an ongoing dispute between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and...
Dick Gordon, Astronaut Who Walked in Space and Flew to Moon, Dies at 88
SPACE.com - 8 Nov 2017 16:38The challenge of authenticating real humans in a digital world
Phys.org - 8 Nov 2017 16:10
Proving identity is a routine part of modern daily life. Many people must show a driver's license to buy alcohol at a store, flash an ID card to security guards at work, enter passwords and passcodes to retrieve email an...
Facebook Isn't Recording Your Conversations, But It May as Well Be
Life Hacker - 8 Nov 2017 16:00
Last week, the podcast Reply All investigated the persistent rumor that Facebook records users' conversations and uses them to target ads. Facebook denied it, and co-host Alex Goldman was convinced. But for the second ha...