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App developers are going through your email, here is how to stop them
Android Central - 3 Jul 2018 04:44The DOJ, FBI, SEC, and FTC Are All Now Investigating Facebook's Role in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Gizmodo - 3 Jul 2018 03:40
The federal investigation into Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal--in which prior versions of Facebook's advertising API allowed the shady election data firm to partner with an app to harvest data on at ...
Top government lawyer blames judge, CNN, and AT&T's army of lawyers for court loss
BGR - 3 Jul 2018 02:32
The Department of Justice was handed a rare defeat in court when it tried to contest the AT&T Time Warner merger. The judge approved the deal without any conditions and scathingly told the government not to seek a stay o...
Class-action lawsuit accuses Comcast of failing to prevent fraud
BGR - 3 Jul 2018 02:00
Comcast has grown its wireless reseller Xfinity Mobile at speed by leveraging its existing cable and internet customer base, but a class-action lawsuit spotted by DSL Reports alleges that the company may have been so kee...
Volcanoes Have Been Erupting In One Of The Most Pristine Spots On Earth
Forbes - 3 Jul 2018 01:22
Right now nature is also throwing a bit of a tantrum on the western Galapagos isles.
NASA's Opportunity rover has been sitting silently in the dark Martian dust storm for three weeks
BGR - 3 Jul 2018 00:33
When you get caught in a storm here on Earth you just find shelter for a little while and let it pass, but things are a whole lot different on Mars. It's now been three weeks since the massive dust storm on Mars has swal...
Ring Alarm review: Professional monitoring without signing your life away
Android Central - 3 Jul 2018 18:00
No long-term contracts or costly installation required. After shipping later than expected, is the Ring Alarm still worth your time? There are a bunch of alarm systems available that you can buy and install yourself thes...
NameThatLens is a cross-platform tool for adding EXIF info to vintage manual lenses
DP Review - 3 Jul 2018 17:44
Erwan Hesry/Unsplash Do you ever shoot with older lenses that aren't capable of transmitting metadata to the camera when you shoot? If so, you might want to try out NameThatLens, a cross-platform program that simplifies ...
NuSTAR mission proves superstar Eta Carinae shoots cosmic rays
Phys.org - 3 Jul 2018 17:22
A new study using data from NASA's NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high energies--some of which may r...
How much all-seeing AI surveillance is too much?
ABC News - 3 Jul 2018 17:14
How much all-seeing AI surveillance is too much?
Have We Reached the Limit of Human Longevity? New Study Says No
Singularity Hub - 3 Jul 2018 17:00
In 1997, when Jeannne Loise Calment died at the age of 122, she was the longest-living human on record. But she won't always be. According to a new study published last week in Science, humans are nowhere near our maximu...
Best cases for the BlackBerry KEY2
Android Central - 3 Jul 2018 17:00
Keep your KEY2 in pristine condition with a case. The BlackBerry KEY2 is a surprisingly refined follow up to the KEYone, which brought back the physical keyboard in a big way. Because the KEY2 is an unconventional design...
Disney is creating robots that can do acrobatic flips in the air
Mashable - 3 Jul 2018 17:00Whoops! Sony uploads entire film to YouTube instead of trailer - CNET
CNET - 3 Jul 2018 16:50
Khali the Killer appears to get a premature -- and free -- online release.
That 'Fortnite' cheating app is probably hiding malware
Engadget - 3 Jul 2018 04:49
Malware writers and scammers love to exploit demand for popular games to ensnare unwitting victims, and that's truer than ever for a near-ubiquitous game like Fortnite. Rainway has discovered malicious Windows adware hid...
Google might not be scanning your emails but third-parties are
Slash Gear - 3 Jul 2018 04:46
Email is one of the oldest and most sacred Internet services still in use. Despite attempts to kill it, it remains the backbone of communication over the Internet and, as such, is a treasure trove of personal data. Exact...
Trump moves to block China Mobile's U.S. entry on national security grounds
Reuters - 3 Jul 2018 04:20
(Reuters) - The U.S. government moved on Monday to block China Mobile Ltd from offering services to the U.S. telecommunications market, recommending its application be rejected because the government-owned firm posed nat...
Databricks Aims To Simplify Building Machine Learning Models Through MLflow
Forbes - 3 Jul 2018 03:37
Similar to the way DevOps tools made cloud infrastructure more accessible and manageable, toolkits such as MLflow are attempting to accelerate machine learning
Not everyone is impressed by Tesla's new Model 3 production record
BGR - 3 Jul 2018 03:31
Not everyone thought it was possible, but Tesla towards the end of June finally manged to manufacture 5,000 Model 3 units per week. The path towards hitting that threshold, though, was anything but easy. Initially, Tesla...
Third-party Gmail apps reportedly let employees read people's emails - CNET
CNET - 3 Jul 2018 03:03
The apps defended the practice, but said they've since stopped.
Dell Is Ready to Go Public Again. But Has it Really Changed?
Wired - 3 Jul 2018 02:37
Dell bulked up on hardware and software for corporations by buying EMC, but it faces new challenges from cloud computing and other technologies.
Facebook is shutting down a teen app it bought eight months ago
The Verge - 3 Jul 2018 02:06
Facebook is shutting down Moves, Hello, and tbh, a trio of apps it launched or acquired over the last four years that haven't developed large audiences. Facebook says it's shutting down all three due to "low usage" and t...