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Apple Music 'Up Next' Expands to Have 'International Local Focus'
The Mac Observer - 19 Mar 2021 20:26
Apple Music has introduced an “international local focus" to the artist spotlight program Up Next, reported Billboard (Apple News+ link). Artists will be featured in the playlist of the same name in the Music app, and ...
NASA tested its new moon rocket in Mississippi, and it only caught on fire a little bit
Live Science - 19 Mar 2021 00:43
NASA conducted its second major test of its powerful new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, and it was mostly a success.
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Engadget - 19 Mar 2021 14:00Think 2FA SMS texts make your logins safe? Look how easy they are to hack
BGR - 19 Mar 2021 01:52
Two-factor authentication was back in the news on Thursday, with Facebook announcing its support of physical security keys for 2FA on mobile devices via a company blog post. The post from Facebook offered a good reminder...
Want to Make Energy and Save Water? Slap Panels on Canals
Wired - 19 Mar 2021 13:00
Covering waterways would, in a sense, make solar panels water-cooled, boosting their efficiency.
Stroke risk higher than expected among COVID-19 patients
EurekAlert! - 19 Mar 2021 06:00
(American Heart Association) Analysis of data from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 through November 2020 found that, overall, COVID-19 pat...
Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (Who Gets Arrested)
Twisted Sifter - 19 Mar 2021 04:50
Mark Rober glitterbombs his way up the phone scammer chain of command
Barnes & Noble's new Nook tablet will be revealed soon
Engadget - 19 Mar 2021 03:52Windows 10X delayed but still won't have win32 support
Slash Gear - 19 Mar 2021 03:14
Microsoft is gearing up for the first major Windows 10 update this year but it’s not exactly the biggest Windows release expected this year. That said, it almost seems like Microsoft has suddenly gone silent about its ...
NASA officially joins Biden administration's National Climate Task Force
Slash Gear - 19 Mar 2021 02:21
On Thursday, NASA announced that it has joined the National Climate Task Force, which is the Biden administration’s agenda for addressing climate change. NASA points out that it has spent decades studying Earth in addi...
Hackers used 7 zero-days, compromised websites to infiltrate iOS
AppleInsider - 19 Mar 2021 02:01
In what is being called a highly sophisticated attack, a group of hackers leveraged a total of 11 zero-day vulnerabilities and a host of compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running iOS, Windows and Andro...
Tornado-like 'beast' winds with speeds of 900 mph spotted on Jupiter - CNET
CNET - 19 Mar 2021 01:11
The gas giant planet was already known to be home to powerful storms. But they're even wilder than previously thought.
WallStreetsBets Is Sending Gorilla Conservation to the Moon
Gizmodo - 19 Mar 2021 00:27
The WallStreetBets subreddit has helped drive $383,000 in donations to a gorilla conservation organization this week. The preceding sentence would have been barely intelligible even just last December, and yet here we ar...
$35 yard sale bowl sells for over $700,000
Live Science - 19 Mar 2021 18:54
A $35 bowl sold at a yard sale was estimated to be worth up to $500,000. It sold for over $700,000.
Gazelle's New Ebike Is One of the Best Rides I've Ever Tried
Wired - 19 Mar 2021 15:00
The company's step-through electric bike has wide tires, a Bosch motor, and a variable shifter to take you anywhere without hassle.
'Among Us' is adding a new Airship map on March 31 - and it's free
USA Today - 19 Mar 2021 14:25
Airship, a new, free map for "Among Us," will drop into the hit multiplayer game on March 31, game developers Innersloth announced.
Microsoft dropping Windows XP support
CBSNews - 19 Mar 2021 14:17
Microsoft is dropping support for its popular XP operating system, leaving millions of consumers still using the system vulnerable to hacker attacks. Jericka Duncan reports.
Column: AT&T's new arbitration clause isn't doing you any favors
L.A. Times - 19 Mar 2021 14:00Facebook's New Wearable Gestures Toward Computing's Future
Wired - 19 Mar 2021 14:00
This week, we discuss Facebook's wrist-worn concept, and what it says about the company's plan for new human-computer interactions.
Novel deep learning framework for symbolic regression
Phys.org - 19 Mar 2021 13:49
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computer scientists have developed a new framework and an accompanying visualization tool that leverages deep reinforcement learning for symbolic regression problems, outperf...
LG's rollable Android phone just got a step closer to launch
Android Central - 19 Mar 2021 13:41
The phone could debut sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. What you need to know LG's Rollable phone has been spotted on the Bluetooth SIG certification website. The listing suggests the LG hasn't given up on its ...
Fraudsters jump on Clubhouse hype to push malicious Android app
ZDNet - 19 Mar 2021 13:41
The BlackRock Trojan is lurking in the malicious, fake Android version of Clubhouse.