Technology News
Apple Announces 'Apple Arcade' Cross-Platform Subscription Games Service With Access to Over 100 Titles
Mac Rumors - 25 Mar 2019 19:49
Apple today announced Apple Arcade, a new subscription-based games service for mobile, desktop, and the living room, featuring hundreds of titles from top video game publishing houses including Disney, Sega, Lego, Cartoo...
Hundreds Turn Out to Picket Against Uber Amid 25-Hour Driver Strike
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2019 22:29
In an outpouring of long-simmering tensions between rideshare companies and drivers whose wages have been on the decline, hundreds affiliated or acting in solidarity with grassroots group Drivers United turned out on Mon...
FEMA Exposes PII for Millions of Hurricane, Wildfire Survivors
Threatpost - 25 Mar 2019 16:00
The contractor with whom it shared the data has a vulnerable, unpatched network.
Astronomers find fossils of early universe stuffed in Milky Way's bulge
Fox News - 25 Mar 2019 14:57
Astronomers peered into the dusky bulge of the Milky Way and found some of the oldest known stars in the universe.
Alibaba acquires Israeli VR startup Infinity Augmented Reality
TechCrunch - 25 Mar 2019 06:36
Infinity Augmented Reality, an Israeli virtual reality startup, has been acquired by Alibaba, the companies announced this weekend. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Alibaba and InfinityAR have had a strategic partner...
Are preventive drugs overused at the end of life in older adults with cancer?
EurekAlert! - 25 Mar 2019 06:00
(Wiley) A new study reveals that preventive medications -- such as those to lower blood pressure or cholesterol, or to protect bone health, among others -- are commonly prescribed during the last year of life of older ad...
Lyft Drivers Protest Falling Wages as Execs Drum Up Investor Money for $25 Billion IPO
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2019 22:00
Inside the luxury Omni Hotel in downtown San Francisco on Monday morning, Lyft executives and investors wheeled and dealed about the company's upcoming IPO as the firm's valuation hit a whopping an estimated $25 billion ...
Creepy Airport Face Scans Like China's Aren't Just Coming to America--They're Already Here
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2019 21:15
On Sunday, tech analyst Matthew Brennan tweeted an unsettling video of a facial recognition kiosk at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The kiosk seemed to give Brennan minutely personalized flight information as h...
Apple rethinks the credit card and unveils the Apple Card
BGR - 25 Mar 2019 19:29
As far as Apple events go, today's "Show Time" event is particularly intriguing, if not downright exciting. While events like WWDC are predictable in the sense that we know we're going to see updates to iOS and watchOS, ...
Full Q&A: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis on Recode Decode
Re/code - 25 Mar 2019 12:20
Hamilton and Davis spoke with Recode's Kara Swisher at South By Southwest earlier this month. On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis joine...
WVU researcher awarded NSF CAREER grant to develop new techniques to secure cyberspace
EurekAlert! - 25 Mar 2019 06:00
(West Virginia University) Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundat...
Income inequalities in Indigenous groups linked to mental health issues
EurekAlert! - 25 Mar 2019 06:00
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Indigenous peoples in Canada have high rates of psychological distress, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, and these mental health issues are linked to income inequalities, fou...
Understanding gene interactions holds key to personalized medicine, scientists say
EurekAlert! - 25 Mar 2019 06:00
(University of Toronto) Scientists outline a new framework for studying gene function -- not in isolation, gene by gene, but as a network, to understand how multiple genes and genetic background influence trait inheritan...
Scientists pulverize smartphones to discover what's inside - CNET
CNET - 25 Mar 2019 02:36
Milkshake and break.
Google Maps lets some users create public events
Engadget - 25 Mar 2019 02:35
You might soon have an easy way to let Google Maps users know when you're hosting a big get-together. Android Police has discovered that Google is quietly giving at least some Android users the option to create public ev...
NASA, ESA will study how artificial gravity can keep astronauts healthy
Engadget - 25 Mar 2019 01:53
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have to exercise and alter their diet to endure extended stays in microgravity, but NASA and the ESA hope to find a better way. They're about to start a study that will e...
Rocket Lab Scrubs Launch of Experimental DARPA Military Satellite
SPACE.com - 25 Mar 2019 01:49
The small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab called off the planned flight of an experimental satellite for the U.S. military Sunday (March 24) due to a video transmitter issue.
A milestone in the history of particle physics: Why does matter exist?
Digital Trends - 25 Mar 2019 00:03
If matter and antimatter were both produced in equal amounts by the Big Bang, why is there so much matter around us and so little antimatter? A new experiment from CERN may hold the answer to this decades-long puzzle. Th...
The largest delta plain in Earth's history
Science Daily - 25 Mar 2019 23:33
The largest delta plain in Earth's history formed along the northern coast of the supercontinent Pangea in the late Triassic. Its size out-scales modern counterparts by an order of magnitude, and approximates 1 percent o...
New computational tool harnesses big data, deep learning to reveal dark matter of the transcriptome
Science Daily - 25 Mar 2019 23:33
A research team has developed an innovative computational tool offering researchers an efficient method for detecting the different ways RNA is pieced together (spliced) when copied from DNA. Because variations in how RN...
Investing in Uber's IPO means investing in Uber's rivals
Re/code - 25 Mar 2019 23:29
What is Uber? It's an amalgamation of a bunch of Ubers of other countries. In a startup's final weeks as a private company, there is a strong incentive to play it safe: no major executive departures, no last-minute strat...
All the Cannabinoids in Marijuana That Aren't THC
Discover - 25 Mar 2019 23:15
Medical marijuana is legal in 33 states as of November 2018. Yet the federal government still insists marijuana has no legal use and is easy to abuse. In the meantime, medical marijuana dispensaries have an increasing ar...