President Trump on Monday  designated Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission and an outspoken opponent of new net neutrality rules, to be the agency’s new chairman.

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Submitted on January 23rd 2017 by jcscher with 8 comments

And it only costs $40 to build.

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Submitted on January 22nd 2017 by Appaloosa

Swiss-based PGP end-to-end encrypted email provider, ProtonMail, now has an onion address, allowing users to access its service via a direct connection to the..

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Submitted on January 19th 2017 by kxh

If you hate pop-up ads and interstitials (those full page ads that pop up before a web page) while browsing the web on your cell phone, you’re in luck, because Google will be showing you less of them. Thanks to new regulations, any mobile web page that uses interstitials or pop-up ads will see their Google ranking tumble. Originally announced back in August 2016, Google confirmed that the new algorithm update has officially gone live as of January 10.

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Submitted on January 19th 2017 by jasont with 1 comments

Here’s a sentence you don’t get to read everyday: Kristen Stewart has surprised the artificial intelligence community by publishing a paper on machine learning.

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Submitted on January 20th 2017 by jerinoos with 1 Related Links:

1. Mentioned paper (pdf) : Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim Added by Maternitus on January 20th 2017.

Borrowers are unable to return or borrow books, or use computer facilities, in any of the city’s 16 branches

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Submitted on January 23rd 2017 by gladsdotter

After years of disconnection, Cuba's government has introduced WiFi hotspots across the country, providing outdoor hubs that offer a portal to other worlds.

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Submitted on January 22nd 2017 by cloudcrafter

When the feds demanded the encryption key for Lavabit, the company shut down rather than comply. Now it’s set to relaunch.

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Submitted on January 23rd 2017 by kxh

Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

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Submitted on January 23rd 2017 by gladsdotter

“The meatball that changed the world.” That was the enthusiastic prediction early last year from Uma Valeti, a cardiologist and now CEO of Memphis Meats, as he admired the freshly cooked meatball arranged gourmet-style on a plate. As a meatball, it definitely had a lot going for it. It was made by specialty chef Dave Anderson, using an Italian recipe. As it cooked in the frying pan, (click here to watch the video) it sizzled and smelled the way a meatball should. And the taste-tester gave it a thumbs-up.

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Submitted on January 20th 2017 by wildcat

During the run-up to the election and up until the inauguration, Donald Trump made repeated promises to release his tax returns. However, like all presidents before him, after he was sworn in, he quickly began breaking promises and releasing his tax return was at the top of the list. This broken promise has spurred an epic response by WikiLeaks who is now promising to release them.Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-trump-tax-return-president/#50dzXPU7AxJYZX88.99

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Submitted on January 24th 2017 by sasky

Donald Trump, who became the United States’ 45th president, has a new car. Nicknamed “the beast,” the 2017 Cadillac will replace around 12 vehicles that have been in service since 2009 at a cost of around $1.5 million. It is expected to include high-tech communications equipment and adjustable suspension, but in many ways, it will retain the tried-and-tested designs of previous models.

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Submitted on January 21st 2017 by everlost

Tesla's driver-assistance features, known collectively as Autopilot, have been vindicated. The US Department of Transportation has closed its investigation into a May 7 collision with a tractor-trailer that killed a driver using Autopilot. The agency found no indication of a safety problem with it. In fact, the evidence provided by Tesla included crucial data that's been missing from the safety debate surrounding automated cars: crash rates.

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Submitted on January 24th 2017 by geoleo

A new report authored by a group of independent US scientists advising the US Dept. of Defense (DoD) on artificial intelligence (AI) claims that perceived existential threats to humanity posed by the technology, such as drones seen by the public as killer robots, are at best “uninformed”. Still, the scientists acknowledge that AI will be integral to most future DoD systems and platforms, but AI that could act like a human “is at most a small part of AI’s relevance to the DoD mission”.

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Submitted on January 21st 2017 by melaniee with 1 comments

It's been six months since Mozilla, the non-profit organization in charge of maintaining Firefox, announced it was putting the future of its brand in users' hands. Kinda, at least. The plan was to solicit entrants for a new wordmark or logo, before handing them off to in-house professionals to finish off the job. After some pretty out-there submissions -- including one that would have seen a revival of Mozilla's once-famous dinosaur -- the winning design is markedly plain.

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Submitted on January 19th 2017 by weekendhobo with 1 comments

The bills are aimed at destroying Apple and other manufacturers' monopoly on repairing your electronics.

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Submitted on January 25th 2017 by 66bnats

EEG authentication is touted as a potential biometric alternative to passwords, but a test involving shots of whisky suggests it won’t work if you’re tipsy

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Submitted on January 22nd 2017 by sjvn

Microsoft is reducing the data it collects from your Windows 10 PCs, but what does that really mean? Good question. Microsoft isn’t saying.

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Submitted on January 19th 2017 by sjvn

Seemingly defying the Trump administration’s new social media policy, the Badlands National Park went rogue on Tuesday and tweeted several scientific facts related to climate change — but the tweets were deleted after a just a few hours as the White House apparently reeled in the wayward park.

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Submitted on January 24th 2017 by manix with 1 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. National park under fire for climate change tweets Added by TNY on January 24th 2017.

A thirty-strong group of security researchers have co-signed an open letter calling for the Guardian to retract a story it published last week that had claimed mobile messaging app WhatsApp contains a “backdoor”. “Unfortunately, your story was the equivalent of putting “VACCINES KILL PEOPLE” in a blaring headline over a poorly contextualized piece,” writes academic Zeynep Tufekci, who organized the open letter.

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Submitted on January 21st 2017 by dianep with 1 comments