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YouTuber Who Trained a Pug to Do 'Nazi Salute' Has Been Fined
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 15:50
Last month, Scottish YouTube comedian Mark Meechan was found guilty of a hate crime after posting a video of his girlfriend's pug Buddha raising its paw to the words "Sieg Heil." Though Meechan argued that the motivation...
Scientists grow human brain tissue in mice
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 15:37
Brain "organoids" made from stem cells are a promising way to study the brain, but the longest they've survived in a petri dish is just five weeks. Researchers from the Salk Institute recently implanted a bean-sized brai...
Nintendo Switch dbrand skins are finally here
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 05:29
While Nintendo has tried its best to make its Switch as colorful or as drab as it can be, depending on your preference, gamers are just the types who love to customize and personalize their gear as much as they can. Sadl...
Police tried to unlock phone with dead man's finger at funeral home
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 03:58
How far will law enforcers go to unlock a smartphone? Given how critical these mobile devices have become these days, it seems they’re willing to go through sometimes morbid lengths to access what could be, but not yet...
Huawei AI to get some emotional intelligence
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 03:10
AI assistants may be called “personal” but they definitely aren’t personable. Never mind their obviously fake personalities, these intelligent chatbots are really intelligent in only the factual sense. Huawei, howe...
US military hopes to launch rockets in 'days, not years'
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 00:31
Even in the era of private spaceflight companies, the process of getting a rocket into space is glacially slow: it can take months or years to schedule and prepare for a mission. That was fine when launching any rocket w...
T-Mobile Deadpool 2 promo includes $4 tickets, early screening
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 23:56
T-Mobile has teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox to launch a special Deadpool 2 promotion for its subscribers. Under this promotion, T-Mobile customers will have the chance to get Deadpool 2 tickets for $4 each, as well...
Canada's Defense Department Is Funding a Quantum Radar System
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 23:53
Cutting-edge physics has driven military innovation for over a century, from Marie Curie's x-ray machines of World War I to the quest for the atomic bomb during World War II. But these days, government defense department...
Facebook details its fight to stop terrorist content
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 23:52
Last June, Facebook described how it uses AI to help find and take down terrorist content on its platform and in November, the company said that its AI tools had allowed it to remove nearly all ISIS- and Al Qaeda-related...
Byton teases its second "experience-driven" vehicle
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 23:31
Byton wowed us at CES back in January with its first autonomous EV concept car, a smart SUV built for passenger comfort. At the Beijing Motor Show, the company teased its second vehicle concept, an electric sedan slated ...
Engineering Firm That Panned Tesla Model 3's Build Quality Lauds Its Electronics And Handling
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 23:30
Two months ago, Autoline posted a video in which engineering and manufacturing expert Sandy Munro--CEO of Munro & Associates, a Detroit-area consulting firm that dismantles and analyzes how cars are made--compared the Te...
Old Match.com Profiles Reappear Online Because 'Delete' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 23:29
Dating site Match.com went live in 1995--it's ancient in terms of the world wide web. That's a whole lot of time for users to forget they ever had a profile or what embarrassing content might be on it. Thanks to a glitch...
Google's smart screen will probably come from Nest
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 23:10
Now that Nest is closer to Google than ever before, it’s only right that Google’s next product be Nest-branded. Clues collected this week point toward Google’s rumored smart screen (with Google Assistant onboard) c...
The 10 Best Deals of April 23, 2018
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 23:05
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Twitch's custom extensions can now ask for Bits
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 23:00
You didn't think Twitch would offer streamer extensions without finding a way to generate money from them, did you? Sure enough, the customization feature now accepts Bits (the microtransactions you normally use to tip s...
2019 Toyota Avalon: 5 things you should know
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 22:49
Toyota is betting big on the 2019 Avalon, debuting controversial new styling, lashings of cabin tech, a frugal hybrid, and safety features you might otherwise expect to pay a considerable premium for. It’s a big improv...
Despite bigger ambitions, Google is still an ad business
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 22:40
As we already know, Google's parent company Alphabet makes the bulk of its money from ads. We also learned in quarters past that revenue from its non-Google projects, which it calls "Other Bets," have been growing at a s...
World's First Total Penis and Scrotum Transplant Allows Patient to 'Feel Whole Again'
Gizmodo - 23 Apr 2018 22:37
A surgical team from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed a total penis and scrotum transplant, the first operation of its kind anywhere in the world.
NASA spots strange "sorta" circles and holes in Arctic sea ice
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 22:31
NASA has published an image showing “sorta circular” spots in the Arctic sea ice, but it doesn’t know what they are or what caused them. The landscape features were captured during an annual mission called Operatio...
Atlanta spends more than $2 million to recover from ransomware attack
Engadget - 23 Apr 2018 22:20
Last month, Atlanta's city government was hit with a ransomware attack that caused courthouse documents and services like payment processing to become inaccessible. The ransom demand was approximately $51,000 but accordi...
Despite the rumors, the next Xbox may not make a huge mistake
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 22:12
Though the Xbox One X is essentially a brand new console, it’s never too early to begin thinking about the next generation. These mid-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft have left many wondering what the next g...
OnePlus 6 coming in multiple flavors
Slash Gear - 23 Apr 2018 22:10
OnePlus 6 will have “the speed you need” if along with a wild assortment of release materials. If what we’ve gathered is true, we’ve got one long-shot of an awesome piece of hardware that could have been just ano...