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Google braced for giant Android fine from EU
BBC - 18 Jul 2018 03:36
The European Commission has claimed Android unfairly extended Google's dominance of search.
EU slaps Google with $5 billion fine, says Android violated antitrust laws
Slash Gear - 18 Jul 2018 19:16Why Did People Panic When the Moon Changed Color?
SPACE.com - 18 Jul 2018 19:10X-ray data may be first evidence of a star devouring a planet
MIT - 18 Jul 2018 18:59
New data may explain star's mysterious dimming.
T-Mobile extends its barely-useable free roaming data to more countries
BGR - 18 Jul 2018 07:34
T-Mobile announced today that it's extending Simple Global, its free roaming service, to nearly every country in the world. The feature, which is available to everyone on T-Mobile's One plan and some customers on older p...
2018 MacBook Pro with Core i9 reportedly gets too hot
Slash Gear - 18 Jul 2018 07:26
With great power comes great responsibility or, in the case of computers, great heat. The fact that computers generate heat is nothing new and is solved by one of two methods to cool things down: heat dissipation or thro...
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter's Moon Io
Universe Today - 18 Jul 2018 07:23
Using data from the Juno spacecraft, a team of scientists found a heat source on Io that could be a previously-undiscovered volcano. The post NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter’s Moon Io ap...
Surprise! There's a quadrillion tons of diamonds lying beneath your feet
BGR - 18 Jul 2018 06:02
Finding a diamond on the ground would make anyone's day. Depending on its quality, you might be able to sell it for a nice little payday. Now imagine finding a quadrillion tons of diamonds, only you'll never be able to a...
23 injured after Hawaii lava-viewing boat encounters lava
BGR - 18 Jul 2018 04:23
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting since May, but despite the awe-inspiring magnitude of the lava flows, injuries have been remarkably few thanks to the work of Hawaii's authorities. The biggest danger has been t...
Samsung will reportedly launch foldable-screen phone in early 2019
Engadget - 18 Jul 2018 19:20
Samsung has been teasing the prospect of a foldable-screen smartphone for years, and even hoped to launch one this year. Now, however, it looks like that pipe dream might become a reality... if a little later than expect...
Let's remember that nobody asked Google to make Android free
BGR - 18 Jul 2018 19:08
The European Union just hit Google with a record-breaking $5 billion fine for abusing its position in the mobile business. The EU didn't like the fact that Google "forces" Android device makers to install Google Search a...
Full transcript: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode
Re/code - 18 Jul 2018 19:01
Zuckerberg talks about everything from China to Infowars to whether he should be fired over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sa...
Rolls-Royce may use bug-like robots to assist airplane engine repair
Engadget - 18 Jul 2018 18:59
Rolls-Royce showed off a handful of small robots this week that could aid in the inspection and repair of airplane engines sometime in the future. Though still under development, the tiny robots could lead to faster, les...
Elon Musk, Google DeepMind pledge no deadly AI autonomous weapons - CNET
CNET - 18 Jul 2018 18:51
The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge declares that no machine should decide on its own whether to take a human life.
Cuba is rolling out mobile internet nationwide
Engadget - 18 Jul 2018 18:42
The Cuban government has launched a program that will see mobile internet rolled out nationwide by the end of the year. Communist-run Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the Western Hemisphere due to a lack o...
Rant: Shooting Pretty Women from Behind on the Streets is Not Street Photography
The Phoblographer - 18 Jul 2018 08:00
I once was told by a man who was as enamoured with street photography as I am that he admired a photo of a long woman in a park looking away at something. "I wonder what she's looking at." he said. "She's sort of really ...
Study finds high health burdens of very high risk drinking
EurekAlert! - 18 Jul 2018 08:00
(Wiley) In an Addiction Biology study, the estimated prevalence of very high risk drinking level (VHRDL, defined as drinking >100 g of ethanol per day) in 13 European Union countries was 0.74-0.85 percent, with a risk of...
'World's largest' sports streamer makes US debut September 10th
Engadget - 18 Jul 2018 07:25
DAZN has become one of the better-known live sports streaming services (it bills itself as the "world's largest"), but you wouldn't know it if you lived in the US. It's only been available in Canada, Japan and a handful ...
New Samsung ad attacks iPhone X download speed, ignores performance benchmarks
AppleInsider - 18 Jul 2018 07:13
Samsung's latest ad attacking the iPhone compares the download speeds of iPhone X to that of the Galaxy S9 while at the same time poking fun at Apple Store employees.
Code of conduct claims new Texas Instruments CEO after just six weeks
The Register - 18 Jul 2018 06:58
Chairman Rich Templeton will return to CEO role Former Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton will return to the role after a six-week break, because his replacement has been dumped for breaching the company's code of cond...
Kindly Care scores $5.4 million to vet and place caregivers, then help families pay them correctly
TechCrunch - 18 Jul 2018 06:39
There are roughly 45 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States, according to the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau. It’s tough on these family caregivers, many of whom are working women who are also raising their o...
Facebook to right-wing publishers: We promise we're not throttling you
BGR - 18 Jul 2018 06:32
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier today, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa demanded an answer from Facebook Vice President for Global Policy Management Monika Bickert. Why, he wanted to know, is Gateway Pundit lo...