Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues.

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Submitted on March 2nd 2017 by estherschindler with 4 comments

WikiLeaks has published a huge trove of what appear to be CIA spying secrets. The files are the most comprehensive release of US spying files ever made public, according to Julian Assange. In all, there are 8,761 documents that account for "the entire hacking capacity of the CIA", Mr Assange claimed in a release, and the trove is just the first of a series of "Vault 7" leaks. Already, the files include far more pages than the Snowden files that exposed the vast hacking power of the NSA and other agencies.

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by spacepopper with 1 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. Edward Snowden: WikiLeaks document dump on CIA hacking capability 'looks authentic' Added by canuck on March 7th 2017.

The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by kxh

If you need a house in a hurry, this is for you.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by Maternitus with 3 comments

Tepco, the utility company tasked with overseeing cleanup and waste processing for the former Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit another snag this week. Last month, we reported on new findings about Reactor #2 that showed it was far more radioactive inside than previously measured. At the time, we noted that Tepco was working on a new robot that could handle up to 73 sieverts of radiation, but the measured level of 530 sieverts vastly exceeded that tolerance.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by grandtheftsoul with 2 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. One Job the Robots Can Have: Cleaning Nuclear Waste Added by iChelle17 on March 5th 2017.

Google has a long history of introducing, then forgetting about, and finally officially killing off its products. Most recently, that included Google Spaces, a service that most of us never knew existed to begin with. Let’s take a tour of some of our favorite services Google’s killed off over the years.

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Submitted on March 5th 2017 by everlost

Parents are startled by the way artificial intelligence gadgets — Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft’s Cortana — impact their children’s behavior

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Submitted on March 3rd 2017 by rookshook

Farmers like fixing their own equipment, but rules imposed by big corporations are making it impossible. Now this small showdown could have a big impact

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by aj0690

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. debuted on the stock market Thursday and immediately saw substantial gains on its first two days. But the excitement has already worn off, with shares tumbling more than 12 percent on day three.

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by Apolatia with 1 Related Links:

1. Snap Tumbles for First Time Since IPO After Analysts Say Sell Added by Pfennig88 on March 6th 2017.

I’m a die-hard Apple user, but after years of watching the Mac slowly die, I’ve switched back to Windows. Here’s the story of why I moved back to Windows, and what I’ve found so far.

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Submitted on March 5th 2017 by belangermira

A little under five years ago, I got angry about a piece of fake information, and I decided to do something about it.

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Submitted on March 8th 2017 by Appaloosa

Hollywood got it wrong. The highly intelligent machines that will be unleashed in the near future won’t be coming for our lives. They’ll be coming for our jobs. Being rendered obsolete by technology has been a concern among the flesh-and-blood set for hundreds of years — cars put many in the horse industry out of work, for example — but the speed and types of recent advances are about to give the issue an exceptional urgency.

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Submitted on March 5th 2017 by TentativePrince

Norway's electric car market is growing rapidly. While only 2% of car sales in 2002 were EVs, that number has risen to 22% in 2015 and is continuing to grow. That jump makes Norway's goal of selling purely electric vehicles by 2025 seem a little less ambitious. Because of this growth, Norway has created a program to ramp up the number of charging stations around the country. This should make driving an electric car a more viable option while also solving some of the range anxiety that could be making potential customers reluctant to make the switch to full electric.

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by weekendhobo with 2 comments

The new battery uses a sodium- or lithium-coated glass electrolyte that has three times the storage capacity of a lithium ion battery.

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by drunkenninja

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years. Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on using DNA as a data storage medium.However, in the latest experiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA, and the results are marvelous.

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by geoleo

The data deal will be available across the entire range of the carmaker's vehicles.

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Submitted on March 2nd 2017 by aj0690

Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers?

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Submitted on March 3rd 2017 by TNY

Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website. The case, United States v. Jay Michaud, is one of nearly 200 cases nationwide that have raised new questions about the appropriate limitations on the government’s ability to hack criminal suspects. Michaud marks just the second time that prosecutors have asked that case be dismissed.

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by hxxp

Technology is outpacing the language's ability to evolve. Case in point: these analogies that bear only the slightest resemblance to the gizmos that spawned them.

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Submitted on March 2nd 2017 by sjvn

Richard Branson's newest effort, Virgin Orbit, aims to launch small satellites from a jet flying at 35,000 feet.

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Submitted on March 2nd 2017 by sjvn