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5 years ago+10 10 0BitTorrent Live returns as a Snapchat-like social media app
BitTorrent is relaunching BitTorrent Live -- a Snapchat-like service it introduced in 2011 and shut down in 2017 -- as a social media platform.
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5 years ago+39 39 0 x 1The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208 Million. It’s Collected $6,790.
America’s telecommunications regulators have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected.
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5 years ago+14 14 0Budget airline Wow Air collapses and cancels all flights, stranding passengers
Icelandic airline Wow Air has ceased operations and says stranded passengers should seek "rescue fares."
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5 years ago+42 42 0 x 1IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit
IBM has let go more than 20,000 U.S. workers over age 40 in the past six years, lawsuit claims.
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5 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt
Bluetooth Low Energy data packets can now be sent by millimeter-size IoT motes
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5 years ago+28 28 0 x 1‘Godfathers of AI’ honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun laid the foundations for modern AI
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5 years ago+11 11 0Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks
No Clippy pranks this year.
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5 years ago+44 44 0 x 1Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
The home-rental start-up says it’s cracking down on hosts who record guests. Is it doing enough?
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5 years ago+23 23 0Apple Unveils $9.99 News Subscription Service Dubbed Apple News+
Apple unveiled a news subscription service called Apple News+ at its services event in Cupertino, Calif. Monday.
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1MoviePass Co-Founder Is Using Facial Recognition to Get You ‘Free’ Movie Tickets — With a Catch
PreShow will give customers "free" tickets if they sit through 20 minutes of ads — while their phone watches them back.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Apple announces Apple Card credit card
At Apple’s “show time” services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lowering interest rates, and offering better rewards.
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5 years ago+25 25 0Telegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option — killing chat history
Telegram has added a feature that lets a user delete messages in one-to-one and/or group private chats, after the fact, and not only from their own inbox.
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5 years ago+27 27 0Hackers dropped a secret backdoor in Asus’ update software
Hackers targeted and compromised “hundreds of thousands” of Asus computer owners by pushing a backdoored update software tool from the company’s own servers.
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5 years ago+21 21 0Fight against robocalls continues as AT&T, Comcast complete test of verified call
The fight against robocalls can even bring telecom rivals together.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1A Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users' Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads
A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users' batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.
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5 years ago+39 39 0 x 1Microsoft just booted up the first “DNA drive” for storing data
Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density.
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5 years ago+8 8 0AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall during a live interview
Can we fix this now?
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5 years ago+25 25 0 x 1The Most Powerful iMac Pro Now Costs $15,927
An iMac Pro with 256 GB of RAM pretty much just exists for bragging rights.
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5 years ago+23 23 0 x 1MoviePass brings back its unlimited movie plan, with a limited time price of $9.95
MoviePass is bringing back a version of the plan that made it so popular in the first place — a subscription where you pay a monthly fee and get an unlimited number of 2D movie tickets.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Russia Criminalizes The Spread Of Online News Which 'Disrespects' The Government
President Vladimir Putin signed the new law, which allows punishment of individuals with fines and jail time for the spread of "fake news."