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7 years ago
+19 20 1Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse
We can no longer leave online security to the market.
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7 years ago
+19 19 0Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
With record companies licensing more than 45 million tracks to hundreds of digital services around the world, consumers have fewer reasons than ever to pirate music. Nevertheless, a new report by IFPI reveals that 38% of global music consumers still ...
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7 years ago
+18 18 0Why Bob Odenkirk Makes ‘Better Call Saul’ The Best Show On TV
“Better Call Saul” inches closer to its sequel series “Breaking Bad” each season—not just in terms of converging storylines, but also in overall tone. The jovial and light-hearted nature of early seasons has given way to darkness. The silly antics ha ...
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7 years ago
+31 31 0 x 1Weak passwords to be banned in California
Electronics firms must use unique codes or force users to generate their own passwords for gadgets
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7 years ago
+26 26 0 x 1Secret Amazon brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
Arabella. Lark & Roe. Mae. NuPro. Small Parts. You might not know it from their names, but these brands all belong to Amazon.
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7 years ago
+13 13 0U.S. to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels
New voluntary guidelines from NHTSA will allow cars specifically designed for Level 4 autonomous driving on the road
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7 years ago
+36 36 0 x 1French police officer caught selling confidential police data on the dark web
Police officer also advertised a system to track the location of buyers' gang rivals or spouses based on the telephone numbers.
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7 years ago
+28 28 0Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349
Facebook’s first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
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7 years ago
+18 18 0Oldest bones ever found in Poland dating back 115,000 years belonged to Neanderthal child whose fingers were ‘chewed by a giant bird’
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest hominid remains ever found in Poland. “The bones discovered by our team at Jaskinia Ciemna [a cave in the southern Małopolska region] are the oldest hominid remains from the area of Poland,” Professor Paweł V ...
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7 years ago
+23 23 0Pulled over while connected: Siri can quietly video record the police
Just say, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." One of the latest apps to hit the iOS 12 mobile highway is Shortcuts. With it, users can plot out a series of actions and trigger them by signaling the voice-assistant. One savvy user cre ...
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7 years ago
+18 18 0Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
A few day after making the latest version of Windows 10 available to users, Microsoft has suspended the update, citing multiple reports of user data loss.
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7 years ago
+14 14 0Nobel-winning physicist who coined term 'God particle' dies after being forced to sell medal to pay medical bills
An experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on subatomic particles has died aged 96. Leon Lederman coined the phrase "God particle", a shorthand description of the then-theoretical Higgs boson, in the title o ...
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7 years ago
+15 15 0A Penthouse Made for Instagram
Spotless walls, a “millennial pink” sofa, a spa-style bathtub that’s waiting to be filled with flowers — and every inch of its 2,400 square feet is free from the clutter of everyday life.
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7 years ago
+23 23 0Children's violent video game play associated with increased physical aggressive behavior
Violent video game play by adolescents is associated with increases in physical aggression over time, according to a new meta-analysis.
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7 years ago
+30 30 0 x 1Why One Tech Security Expert Is Increasingly Worried About Google
I worry Google is trading away my trust for a short-term benefit.
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7 years ago
+9 9 0B.C. tables bill to clear the way for lawsuit against opioid makers
The British Columbia government has tabled legislation aimed at fast-tracking a lawsuit against dozens of players in the opioid industry that it says knowingly spread misinformation and downplayed the addictive properties of the drugs, contributing t ...
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7 years ago
+10 10 0Umbilical cord blood may help treat hearing loss in kids, study suggests
In their clinical trial, Linda Baumgartner her husband, Dr. James Baumgartner showed that the use of umbilical cord blood is safe and feasible in children who have sensorineural hearing loss.
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7 years ago
+15 15 0Deep space could seriously damage astronaut GI tracts
Traveling to and exploring space is an obviously dangerous venture. Astronauts launch with the full knowledge that they may not return, and future missions that stretch farther out into the solar system will be even riskier. Deep-space travel could e ...
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7 years ago
+16 16 0Democrat/Republican divide is worst it’s ever been
Party polarization is even worse than most people think, according to a new Michigan State University study. And neither party can shoulder the blame, as it doesn’t matter which party is in charge, said Zachary Neal, associate professor of psychology ...
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7 years ago
+20 20 0Ben Johnson’s 1988 Olympic drug test contains altered lab codes and hand-scrawled revisions. And almost no one has seen it until now
The Canadian sprinter lost his gold medal 30 years ago this week after a positive test at the lab in Seoul. The Star dug up the results which are filled with bizarre notations. “If I had seen this in Seoul, I would have kept my medal.” “If I had seen ...




















