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Chrome 70 Now Enables Picture-in-Picture by Default on macOS
Mac Rumors - 19 Oct 2018 18:53
Google Chrome now enables picture-in-picture as a default setting on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers as of Chrome 70. If you are up-to-date and watching a compatible video in the Chrome web browser, you can minimize it...
Chandra and ALMA measure speed of sloshing gas in galaxy cluster
Phys.org - 19 Oct 2018 16:40
Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific spiral pattern can often be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the sloshing gas induced by a merg...
Nikon D3500 Sample Images
Photography Blog - 19 Oct 2018 18:30
Ahead of our full review, here is a gallery of full-size sample JPEG and Raw images and videos taken with the new Nikon D3500 DSLR camera. The Nikon D3500 is a new 24-megapixel DX-format entry-level DSLR camera that's...
This Neural Network Trained on the Bible Tries to Play God
Motherboard - 19 Oct 2018 20:51
A developer made neural network trained on the Bible -- can you distinguish what's "divine" and what's "benign"?
Samsung Galaxy Book 2 hands-on review
Digital Trends - 19 Oct 2018 04:00
The 2-in-1 form factor is clearly a big deciding factor for anyone looking to buy a new device, which is why Samsung is again getting in the action this year with the new Galaxy Book 2. The post Samsung Galaxy Book 2 han...
Oppo's two latest Android phones were cheating on processor benchmarks
Android Central - 19 Oct 2018 18:44
The Find X and F7 are the latest Android phones to juke the stats. The Oppo Find X and F7, two of Oppo's latest Android phones, have recently been outed for cheating on processor benchmarks with the popular 3DMark benchm...
Exclusive: CrowdStrike hires Goldman Sachs to lead IPO - sources
Reuters - 20 Oct 2018 00:03
Cybersecurity software maker CrowdStrike Inc has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs Group to prepare for an initial public offering that could come in the first half of next year, people familiar with the matter said on...
OnePlus 6T launch event moved up a day to not conflict with Apple's event
BGR - 20 Oct 2018 00:03
Just last week, OnePlus announced that it would unveil the highly-anticipated OnePlus 6T on Tuesday, October 30th - just over five months after the launch of the OnePlus 6. Unfortunately for OnePlus, Apple decided that O...
Dena Haritos Tsamitis Secures $5 Million NSF Award for CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Program
Medical Design Technology - 19 Oct 2018 23:09
News At a time when demand for cybersecurity expertise has never been higher, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has just been awarded a $5 million renewal of its National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps... Contributed...
Humans are Slowly Killing the World's Biggest Organism Pando
The Mac Observer - 19 Oct 2018 21:59
Pando is the world’s biggest organism. It’s a forest made up of genetically identical aspen trees numbering 47,000. Scientists think it’s anywhere between 80,000 and 1 million years old. And humans are slowly killi...
Money-laundering watchdog to set first cryptocurrency rules by June
Reuters - 19 Oct 2018 20:20
The global watchdog for money laundering will set up its first rules on oversight of cryptocurrencies by June, a major step towards creating international standards for an asset currently subject to patchy regulations.
These Researchers Want to Send Smells Over the Internet
Motherboard - 19 Oct 2018 19:51
With electrodes up the nose, they made people smell things that weren't there.
Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields
Phys.org - 19 Oct 2018 19:15
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now scientists at the U.S. Depar...
Canon EOS R teardown: Roger Cicala takes a look inside Canon's first full-frame mirrorless
DP Review - 19 Oct 2018 16:23
Lensrentals.com, 2018 It's been less than two weeks since the Canon EOS R started shipping and already Roger Cicala, founder of Lens Rentals, has taken one apart in incredible detail to see what's inside. Per his usual r...
UMass Amherst computer scientist receives computer networking industry award
EurekAlert! - 19 Oct 2018 08:00
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Professor Ramesh Sitaraman of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) is one of a large team of scientists and engineers who ...
Apple pitched a standardized version of iMessage to wireless carriers, but they didn't bite
AppleInsider - 19 Oct 2018 07:35
In an editorial bemoaning the lack of interoperability between Apple's iMessage and common SMS texting systems, former head of iOS development Scott Forstall reveals the company tried to push wireless carriers toward its...
Surface Laptop 2 teardown offers no hope for self-repairs
Slash Gear - 19 Oct 2018 07:01
It's not uncommon to come across devices that score low on iFixit's repairability index. These often include tightly enclosed smartphones and especially Apple's products. There are, however, a few that have earned the di...
Finally, a use for AI and good old-fashioned simulations: Hunting down E.T. in outer space
The Register - 19 Oct 2018 06:30
Targeted ads, coming to a galaxy nowhere near you Google Cloud has teamed up with NASA's Frontier Development Lab to search for extraterrestrial life using simulations and machine-learning technology....
Virtual reality experience forces people to lose their jobs and homes, boosts empathy
BGR - 19 Oct 2018 04:58
Reading a news story about an increase in the homeless population might make you feel sad for a moment but if we're all being honest you're probably going to totally forget about it a minute or so later. We've all become...
Twitter shuts down spambots spreading pro-Saudi hashtags related to Khashoggi disappearance
Mashable - 19 Oct 2018 03:30Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy, EU establish $114 million clean energy fund - CNET
CNET - 19 Oct 2018 02:59
The pilot fund aims to help European companies develop clean energy technologies and bring them to market.
Special sale on Alexa and Google ready smart plugs slashes price to $10 each
BGR - 19 Oct 2018 23:31
Wi-Fi smart plugs from big-name brands typically cost about $25 or $30, and that's really not such a bad price for something that adds connectivity and smart functionality to all your old dumb devices. Of course, why on ...