Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of Feb 8 - 15th, 2017
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness." - Mark Kennedy
-
-
1 +17y+ ago
Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source
Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. The editors described the arguments for a ban as “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 9th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments
-
2 +17y+ ago
These "Smart Glasses" Adjust To Your Vision Automatically
By age 45, most of us will need glasses at least for reading. That’s because our eyes’ ability to accommodate—to change focus to see objects at different distances—degrades with age. In young eyes, the eyeball’s crystalline lens changes shape easily, allowing this accommodation. But as we get older, this lens stiffens. Objects in close range suddenly look blurry. Hence the “readers” most middle-aged adults begin wearing on a chain or tucking in a handbag, or the bifocals worn by those who already had vision problems.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 11th 2017 by aj0690 with 2 comments
-
3 +17y+ ago
Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
Working with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), NASA is pioneering the development of tiny spacecraft, each made from a single silicon chip, that could slash interstellar exploration times. Speaking at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco last December, NASA’s Dong-Il Moon detailed this new technology, which is aimed at ensuring such spacecraft survive the potentially powerful radiation they’ll encounter on their journey.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 13th 2017 by ppp
-
4 +17y+ ago
Russia bans porn site Brazzers
The Russian government has blocked porn site Brazzers over claims it is damaging to the “human psyche”. Roskomnadzor, the country’s media watchdog, blacklisted the site, preventing access from Russian servers. It follows a ruling by a district court in the Samara region that Brazzers has a “negative impact” and “violated citizens’ rights”, reports the TJ Journal.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 9th 2017 by hxxp with 3 comments
-
5 +17y+ ago
China to take fingerprints of all tourists entering country
China is to start fingerprinting foreigners who arrive in the country. The Ministry of Public Security announced that it would begin screening foreign passport holders who arrive Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in the Guangdon Province later this week. It will be rolled it out across the rest of the country by the end of the year.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 10th 2017 by jedlicka with 2 comments
-
6 +17y+ ago
Drone taxis? Dubai plans roll out of self-flying pods
Middle East city eyes Chinese-made drones to fly people across its skies.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 13th 2017 by jedlicka
-
7 +17y+ ago
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class
The world's top AI researchers met to consider the threats posed by their research. The global economy could be the first casualty.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 11th 2017 by drunkenninja with 1 comments
-
8 +17y+ ago
2017 Tesla Model S P100D First Test: A New Record - 0-60 MPH in 2.28 Seconds!
The 2017 Tesla Model S P100D is the quickest car Motor Trend has ever tested! Get the exclusive story only at Motor Trend.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 8th 2017 by sjvn
-
9 +17y+ ago
Privacy is Power
The desk I’m typing this on is a little wobbly. I adjusted the legs yesterday to be a little shorter after noticing the reason my wrists were hurting was because they were bent upward at an uncomfortable angle. My office at home is now clean and empty, after pending several hours the day before throwing away empty boxes of electronics that I for some reason found value in keeping. I also finally fixed our “broken” bathroom door, which for the last three months wouldn’t shut...
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 8th 2017 by aj0690
-
10 +17y+ ago
Beware the latest tax-season spear-phishing scam
This year’s variation on the CEO scam goes after W-2 forms and then adds a wire fraud on top
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 8th 2017 by sjvn
-
11 +17y+ ago
Apple CEO Tim Cook calls for "massive campaign" against fake news
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants the tech industry to take action against "fake news" stories that are polluting the web. "There has to be a massive campaign. We have to think through every demographic," Cook said in a rare interview. Speaking with The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cook also said "all of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news."
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 14th 2017 by distant with 1 comments
- 7y+ ago
-
13 +17y+ ago
US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter country
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has informed Congress that the DHS is considering requiring refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority nations to hand over their social media credentials from Facebook and other sites as part of a security check. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" he told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday. "If they don't want to cooperate, then you don't come in."
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 9th 2017 by grandsalami
-
14 +17y+ ago
Most Government Workers Could Be Replaced By Robots, New Study Finds
A study by a British think tank, Reform, says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless, they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year. The study, published this week, says that robots are “more efficient” at collecting data, processing paperwork, and doing the routine tasks that now fall to low-level government employees. Even nurses and doctors, who are government employees in the UK, could be relieved of some duties by mechanical assistants.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 9th 2017 by kong88
-
15 +17y+ ago
Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers
Online tracking gets more accurate and harder to evade.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 14th 2017 by Appaloosa with 1 comments
-
16 +17y+ ago
With Qualcomm's new 802.11ax chips, the future of Wi-Fi is here
Your home Wi-Fi performance will soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for broadcasters (routers and access points) and the QCA6290 SoC for receivers (Wi-Fi devices). They belong to the first end-to-end commercial Wi-Fi portfolio to support the all-new 802.11ax standard.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 13th 2017 by manix
-
17 +17y+ ago
The golden years: Why we’ll all love self-driving cars when we’re older
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, most of the talk from automakers was about autonomous cars. That’s not surprising, given the CES audience and the rapid development of self-driving technology. Depending on the automaker, the promises of completely self-driving cars ranged from imminent to cautious, but all agreed that completely or mostly autonomous cars would hit our roadways in the next 10 years.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 13th 2017 by spacepopper
-
18 +17y+ ago
Why Self-Driving Cars *Can’t Even* With Construction Zones—And What They’ll Do Instead
Fortunately, the people hard at work on this problem are willing to cut corners.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 11th 2017 by hiihii
-
19 +17y+ ago
Spread it on Reddit
How a fake story about Angela Merkel led to a far-right cluster on Reddit. Germany holds elections in late 2017. Analysts have already reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel is being targeted with fake news and online attacks, espceially from hyperpartisan and conspiracy sites. In this report, the DFRLab tracks one fake story about Merkel posted on Reddit, revealing a cluster of sites supporting populist and far-right politicians in Europe.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 11th 2017 by hxxp with 1 Related Links:
1. Wikipedia on The Atlantic Council, "Neutral Point of View" Dispute Added by AdelleChattre on February 11th 2017.
-
20 +17y+ ago
Long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water. This new chemistry allows for a non-toxic, non-corrosive battery with an exceptionally long lifetime and offers the potential to significantly decrease the costs of production.
Continue to source Share Discuss
Submitted on February 13th 2017 by Dominik80 with 1 Related Links:
1. HARVARD CREATES A RENEWABLE BATTERY THAT CAN LAST FOR 10 YEARS Added by Dominik80 on February 13th 2017.
-
-
Here are this week's top five Technology & Web tribes:
/t/technology 111 posts, 35 comments, 461 votes.
/t/technews 110 posts, 63 comments, 443 votes.
/t/security 27 posts, 11 comments, 102 votes.
/t/internet 18 posts, 7 comments, 92 votes.
/t/innovation 18 posts, 6 comments, 19 votes.
Note: Tribes can only be featured once every four weeks. Validate your tribe to be included on this list!
-
Other useful links:
You can follow us at @Snapzu_Tech on Twitter to get more great posts live as they happen. We're also active on Wordpress, Blogger/Blogspot, and Medium, so be sure to connect with us!
Run a blog? Get more audience, engagement, content, and/or revenue with your own embeddable community from Snapzu that will allow your blog to thrive like never before! Check out our Blog Enhancement Suite for more details.
For more lists like this, across all our categories, check out the /t/bestofsnapzu tribe!
See you next week!
Editor's Note: All links featured above are curated from a list of the highest voted posts submitted by members of our communities. If you would like to participate with others like yourself, be sure to request an invite!
Join the Discussion