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Twitter removes verified checkmarks from several white supremacists' profiles
TechCrunch - 16 Nov 2017 06:05
A few hours after announcing a review of its verification program, Twitter began revoking the verified status of some accounts. White supremacists Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler are among the users who no longer have ...
Racing game Dirt Rally powerslides onto macOS, coming soon to Mac App Store
AppleInsider - 16 Nov 2017 16:28
Feral Interactive has shipped its port of the Codemasters off-road racing game 'Dirt Rally' to macOS, bringing the simulation of driving at high speed through forests to the Mac two years after the game was originally re...
Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models
TechCrunch - 16 Nov 2017 10:01
Algorithmia started out as an online marketplace for — can you guess it? — algorithms. Many of these algorithms that developers offered on the service focused on machine learning (think face detection, sentiment anal...
WATCH: Scientists discover Earth-size planet that 'could potentially sustain life'
ABC News - 16 Nov 2017 02:29
The new world was named Ross 128 b and is only 11 light-years away.
What to expect from Tesla's big electric truck reveal
TechCrunch - 16 Nov 2017 02:04
Tesla is set to take the lid off its electric truck tomorrow for the first time, after months of teasing the big rig. CEO Elon Musk is still doing some teasing of his own, posting a short video clip of the truck all drap...
Is this the world's best travel jacket? Its Kickstarter fans seem to think so.
Mashable - 16 Nov 2017 18:21The Galaxy S9 will copy the iPhone in several ways, but it's mostly good news
BGR - 16 Nov 2017 17:08
It's only mid-November, but we already have plenty of Galaxy S9 rumors to enjoy, which seems to reinforce earlier reports saying Samsung wants to bring the phone to market earlier than expected. Questionable design schem...
Internal Kaspersky Investigation Says NSA Worker's Computer Was Infested with Malware
Motherboard - 16 Nov 2017 17:08
The Russian cybersecurity firm released a new report that pushes back against accusations that it helped leak sensitive NSA materials and suggests that a backdoor found on worker's machine could have allowed others to ta...
The blockchain does not eliminate the need for trust
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 17:00
A common idea about the blockchain, the technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is that it can "create trust", or allow two parties to make a transaction "without relying on trust".
High-performance OLED microdisplays for next-generation smart glasses
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 16:30
A consistent trend across the tech sector is the one-upmanship of increasingly high screen resolution and larger display size. Yet, the fact that the former increases faster than the latter means that manufacturers must ...
Researcher sketches a path toward quantum computing
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 16:28
As new devices move quantum computing closer to practical use, the journal Nature recently asked Princeton computer scientist Margaret Martonosi and two colleagues to assess the state of software needed to exploit this p...
Lamborghini Donates Huracan Popemobile to be auctioned for charity
Slash Gear - 16 Nov 2017 16:26
His Holiness Pope Francis has a new Lamborghini to be proud of. Lamborghini donated a one of a kind Huracan RWD car to be auctioned to charity as a donation to the Pope. The car will be auctioned off by RM Sotheby’s on...
Facebook, Google, Twitter and media outlets fight hoaxes with 'trust indicators'
USA Today - 16 Nov 2017 16:18Drink & Buddy Hygienic Multi-Beverage Bottle
The Gadget Flow - 16 Nov 2017 16:00
Make it easy to hydrate man's best friend with the Drink & Buddy Hygienic Multi-Beverage Bottle. This innovative bottle is actually double-ended. Simply fill with 24 ounces of water and hit the road. You can drink from t...
We've found an exo-planet with an extraordinarily eccentric orbit
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 16:00
The discovery of a planet with a highly elliptical orbit around an ancient star could help us understand more about how planetary systems form and evolve over time.
Beautiful Physics: The Search for New Particles at LHCb
Scientific American - 16 Nov 2017 16:00
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has seen hints of new particles that may point the way toward a higher theory of physics --
Beautiful Physics: The Search for New Particles at LHCb
Scientific American - 16 Nov 2017 16:00
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has seen hints of new particles that may point the way toward a higher theory of physics --
Porpoises found to shift forehead tissue to fine-tune sonar signals
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 15:50
(Phys.org)--A team of researchers in China has solved the mystery of how porpoises are able to locate tiny prey using sonar with wavelengths that seem too large to be of much use in such applications. In their paper publ...
Manufacturers Identify New Ways to Succeed in Narrowband IoT
ReadWrite - 16 Nov 2017 15:38
Rise in demand for low power consuming applications has compelled the leading market players operating in the narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) market to come up with different strategies to mark their presence. Rec...
Bitcoin does not dominate the cryptocurrency market: study
Phys.org - 16 Nov 2017 15:23
The first complete study of the entire cryptocurrency market between 2013 and 2017 has concluded that no cryptocurrency has shown a strong selective advantage over the other and that all cryptocurrencies face an uncertai...
6 of the largest enterprise Mac deployments
TechRepublic - 16 Nov 2017 14:00
Macs continue to spread in the enterprise due in large part to employee demand. Here are the companies deploying the largest numbers of these devices.
Critical Flaw Exposes Cisco Collaboration Products to Hacking
SecurityWeek - 16 Nov 2017 11:14
A dozen Cisco collaboration products using the company's Voice Operating System (VOS) are exposed to remote hacker attacks due to a critical vulnerability, users were warned on Wednesday.