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Facebook Is Releasing a New Tool to Delete Your Data. Here's How to Do It
Time - 28 Mar 2018 16:03
But it won't allow you to delete data from third-party apps like the ones Cambridge Analytica used.
Investigation finds FBI did not exhaust all options before taking Apple to trial in San Bernardino case
AppleInsider - 28 Mar 2018 02:59
An investigation into the FBI's aggressive attempt to force Apple to assist in the unlocking of an iPhone tied to 2016's San Bernardino shooting suggests a lack of communication, red tape and perhaps political motives we...
Huawei P20 Pro Sample Images
Photography Blog - 28 Mar 2018 14:30
Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the new Huawei P20 Pro smartphone.
The ThinkGeek Away Team is headed to PAX East 2018
Think Geek - 28 Mar 2018 19:54
We're ready to take on PAX East! Find us at Booth 15090. Photo by: Chris Christo. PAX East, here we come! Come one, come all to our circus of value! Timmy and the ThinkGeek away team are headed to...
Better legal streaming options are the best way to end piracy
Android Central - 28 Mar 2018 16:00
The best way to stop piracy is innovation, not censorship I watch a disgusting amount of Netflix these days — well, 'watch' might be the wrong word to use. Often, Netflix is just playing in the background while I do ot...
What Tesla knows about the fatal Model X crash
TechCrunch - 28 Mar 2018 05:01
Tesla has shed some more light on the fatal crash and fire involving a Model X car last week. In a blog post tonight, Tesla said it’s not yet clear what happened in the time leading up to the accident. Tesla also said ...
US expels Russian diplomats, Russian diplomats Twitter troll US - CNET
CNET - 28 Mar 2018 04:14
Several Russian embassies use Twitter to sass countries that expelled its diplomats following the poisoning of a former spy in Britain.
Google could owe Oracle $8.8 billion over Java code in Android
Slash Gear - 28 Mar 2018 03:40
It's been nearly a decade and yet there is still no end in sight. No, it's not the Samsung vs. Apple patent circus, which seems to have mostly died down. This one is between Google and Oracle and the final results could ...
2019 Acura RDX has a whole new way to do infotainment - Roadshow
CNET - 28 Mar 2018 23:24
A new type of touchpad hopes it can bridge the gap between touchscreens and traditional switchgear.
Watch a Computer Learn to Play 'Doom' Inside a Dream
Motherboard - 28 Mar 2018 17:36
Researchers got deep learning models to train inside their own hallucinated ideas of the world.
Meyer-Optik-Görlitz Launches Nocturnus III 50 f0.95 Lens
Photography Blog - 28 Mar 2018 17:00
The third edition of the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz Nocturnus 50 mm f0.95 comes in a new design and now features mounts for Sony-E, Fuji-X and Leica-M. Within the next 14 days, the lens is offered in a pre-order sale, where it...
NVIDIA - Bringing Super Computing Power to New Forms of Computing Devices
TechPinions - 28 Mar 2018 16:51
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbout five years ago, I was talking with an Intel executive who said that one of the companies he had his eye on was nVidia. At the time Intel was creating their own integrated GPU's, but he though...
Why it's so hard to #DeleteFacebook--constant psychological boosts keep you hooked
Phys.org - 28 Mar 2018 16:50
Here we go again: another Facebook controversy, yet again violating our sense of privacy by letting others harvest our personal information. This flareup is a big one to be sure, leading some people to consider leaving F...
NASA set to launch rocket carrying Penn State led experiment
Phys.org - 28 Mar 2018 16:24
NASA will launch a suborbital sounding rocket--research rockets that fly a parabolic path, spending only about five minutes in space--carrying a Penn State led experiment to test a newly-developed X-ray spectrograph and ...
Kaspersky Lab Open-Sources its Threat-Hunting Tool
Dark Reading - 28 Mar 2018 16:23
'KLara' was built to speed up and automate the process of identifying malware samples.
Tesla: Crash was worsened by missing freeway barrier shield
Phys.org - 28 Mar 2018 16:17
A missing or damaged safety shield on the end of a California freeway barrier worsened the impact of a crash involving a Tesla SUV that killed a man last week, the electric car maker said on its website.
Towards greater MRI sensitivity by harnessing quantum hyperpolarization
Phys.org - 28 Mar 2018 16:11
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a technique which could increase the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for patient diagnosis.
Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix to face UK government - CNET
CNET - 28 Mar 2018 16:04
The company's suspended CEO will appear before a UK parliamentary committee in April.
Lawsuits against Apple iPhone throttling seek class action - CNET
CNET - 28 Mar 2018 15:59
Dozens of iPhone customers, claiming Apple slowed down iPhones to make them buy new ones, aim to combine the suits into one legal action to rule them all.
NASA's Expedition 55 astronauts are about to take their first spacewalk
BGR - 28 Mar 2018 15:49
It's only been a few days since a trio of new International Space Station travelers arrived at the orbiting spacecraft that will be their home for the next several months, but they're already getting ready to leave it, a...
Facebook now lets you scrub your data -- for real this time - CNET
CNET - 28 Mar 2018 15:39
Still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook will let you delete anything from your profile or timeline and end Facebook's use of that data.
'Fog harp' increases collection capacity for clean water
EurekAlert! - 28 Mar 2018 06:00
(Virginia Tech) The study demonstrates how a vertical array of parallel wires may change the forecast for fog harvesters. In a design the researchers have dubbed the 'fog harp,' these vertical wires shed tiny water dropl...