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How to delete your Uber account
Digital Trends - 14 Jun 2018 21:00
If you thought that deleting the Uber app would also delete your account, think again. You'll have to deactivate your account, then wait 30 days. Check out our simple guide to deleting your Uber account once and for all....
How to Format a Drive with GUID for macOS High Sierra, Mojave Installation
The Mac Observer - 14 Jun 2018 20:11
Formatting a drive so you can install and boot macOS requires the GUID partition map. Unfortunately, Disk Utility in macOS High Sierra doesn’t make that option easy to find.
Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub
Ars Technica - 14 Jun 2018 05:10
17 images posted by a single account over 10 months may have generated $90,000.
Europe's New Copyright Rules Are Like YouTube's Content ID System--for the Entire Internet
Motherboard - 14 Jun 2018 17:16
The European Union wants to take the upload filters that make no one happy and apply them to all content on the internet.
Musical.ly drops its stand-alone live streaming app
Engadget - 14 Jun 2018 03:56
Musical.ly may be blowing up as a social video service, but it's scaling back the amount of apps it offers. The company has informed TechCrunch that it's dropping its stand-alone livestreaming client, Live.ly, and rollin...
NASA's unmanned drone had its first solo flight in public airspace
Engadget - 14 Jun 2018 02:51
NASA's remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft flew in public airspace for the first time without a chase aircraft. Typically, one follows the large drone when it flies in parts of the sky zoned for use by commercial and privat...
Cops Are Predictably Pissed About Apple's Plan to Turn Off USB Data Access on iPhones
Gizmodo - 14 Jun 2018 02:25
Tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to prevent anyone who wants to gain access to a encrypted iOS device via techniques like Cellebrite's GrayKey phone-hacking box by introducing an option to lock USB data access an ...
Engineering Implantable, Laboratory-Grown Organs To Cure Disease
Forbes - 14 Jun 2018 02:07
Physicians and scientists are developing organs and tissues for virtually every part of the human body as they attempt to engineer more than 30 different replacement tissues and organs and to develop healing cell therapi...
Nuclear Power Won't Survive Without A Government Handout
FiveThirtyEight - 14 Jun 2018 17:18
Once upon a time, if you were an American who didn't like nuclear energy, you had to stage sit-ins and marches and chain yourself to various inanimate objects in hopes of closing the nation's nuclear power plants. Today ...
A bug's life was cut short when it met its doom, twice, 100 million years ago
BGR - 14 Jun 2018 16:54
To humans, ticks are vile little creatures that do little but annoy and at times cause pain. You've probably never felt sorry for one of the little buggers under any circumstances, but this 100-year-old tick discovered i...
One black hole or two? Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei
Phys.org - 14 Jun 2018 16:53
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), believe clouds of dust, rather than twin black holes, can explain the features found in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The team publish their results today ...
Meltdown-Like 'LazyFP' Vulnerability Impacts Intel CPUs
SecurityWeek - 14 Jun 2018 16:48
Intel and software vendors have started informing users about a new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information from the targeted...
Samsung has another boring new device it'll launch alongside the boring new Galaxy Note 9
BGR - 14 Jun 2018 16:29
The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are two of the best smartphones on the planet right now, but no one really cares. Why? Because they can pretty much be summed up as slightly better versions of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, w...
Driverless Cars Boosted By A Motherload Of Crowdsourced Training Videos
Forbes - 14 Jun 2018 16:17
Nexar, an Israel-based AI-dashcam company, has just announced a major tie-up with University of California, Berkeley to release the world's largest dataset of annotated visual driving scenes that could help train self-dr...
Straight out of sci-fi: See the Boeing GoFly Prize winners - CNET
CNET - 14 Jun 2018 16:15
The future of the personal flying machine is dawning.
Apple iPhone change will make it harder for cops to crack locked phones
USA Today - 14 Jun 2018 16:14Boeing GoFly winners unveil exotic personal flying machines - CNET
CNET - 14 Jun 2018 16:12
We're way, way beyond jetpacks now.
Chang'e-4 relay satellite enters halo orbit around Earth-Moon L2, microsatellite in lunar orbit
Space News - 14 Jun 2018 16:09
The relay satellite which will facilitate China's Chang'e-4 lunar far side landing mission late in 2018 has entered its intended halo orbit around Earth-Moon Lagrange point 2. SpaceNews.com
Kaspersky freezes ties with Europol over calls for EU ban
Phys.org - 14 Jun 2018 16:03
Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab said it has decided to put a halt to its work with several European anti-cybercrime initiatives, following a move in the European Parliament to ban its antivirus software.
Massachusetts Sues Purdue Pharma, 16 Company Officials for Allegedly Lying About OxyContin
Gizmodo - 14 Jun 2018 05:25
The state of Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, the company that developed the semisynthetic opioid OxyContin in 1995 and aggressively marketed it while downplaying the risk of addiction. It's pa...
Elon Musk's Boring Company approved to build high-speed transit between downtown Chicago and O'Hare Airport
The Verge - 14 Jun 2018 05:16
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the selection of Elon Musk's Boring Company to build and operate a multi-billion dollar rapid transit link between O'Hare International Airport and the city's downtown. The company pl...
Jeff Bezos to announce his philanthropy plans this summer - CNET
CNET - 14 Jun 2018 05:07
Bezos, the world's richest person, isn't a big name in philanthropy, at least not yet.