Paint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release in 1985.

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Law enforcement in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County likely didn’t think they were dealing with a dark Web criminal pro when Theodore Price’s name first popped on their radar. According to federal court documents, detectives from the Northampton Township Police Department north of Philadelphia began tracking the unemployed 30-year-old earlier this month after fielding a complaint from Price’s girlfriend’s parents about stolen laptops. But what started out as an alleged deadbeat boyfriend boosting valuables quickly accelerated into a wilder situation — and one with considerable more money involved.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by zobo

Developed by AMP Robotics, Clarke makes use of artificial intelligence to recognize and sort various food and beverage containers.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by Chubros

In 2005, British student Alex Tew had a million-dollar idea. He launched www.MillionDollarHomepage.com, a website that presented initial visitors with nothing but a 1000×1000 canvas of blank pixels. At the cost of $1/pixel, visitors could permanently claim 10×10 blocks of pixels and populate them however they’d like. Pixel blocks could also be embedded with URLs and tooltip text of the buyer’s choosing.

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Submitted on July 23rd 2017 by gottlieb with 1 comments

Governments around the world are enlisting "cyber troops" who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to steer public opinion, spread misinformation and undermine critics, according to a new report from the University of Oxford. Adding to growing evidence of government-sponsored efforts to use online tools to influence politics, researchers found 29 countries using social media to shape opinion domestically or with foreign audiences. The tactics are deployed by authoritarian regimes, but also democratically-elected governments, the authors said.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by Borska with 1 comments

a new snake-like robot developed by researchers in the US exists beyond the realm of comic books – and its ability to twist and grow in any direction like a possessed, sentient vine could one day be able to save endangered lives for real.

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Submitted on July 20th 2017 by kxh

We're always hearing how robots are going to take our jobs , but there might be a way of preventing that grim future from happening: by becoming workplace cyborgs first.

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Submitted on July 25th 2017 by distant with 3 comments

India's transport minister said tech that takes away jobs won't be allowed.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by rookshook with 1 comments

Where industry leads, government follows with gusto

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Submitted on July 25th 2017 by archmagician with 2 comments

When transfers go really, really wrong, allegedly

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Submitted on July 21st 2017 by archmagician

The mystery of a Mac malware called “FruitFly.”

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by Nelson

As most of you probably noticed, last week saw a massive, online protest against FCC boss Ajit Pai's plan to completely ignore consumer welfare and gut popular net neutrality protections. Giant ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon responded to the protest in the way they've always done: by comically insisting that the press somehow got it wrong, and these companies actually really love net neutrality -- despite a decade of documented anti-competitive behavior, and the fact they've spent millions upon millions of dollars trying to kill any meaningful neutrality protections.

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Submitted on July 20th 2017 by messi

After years of near-silence, Apple is slowly starting to make a bit of noise about its work on artificial intelligence. Last December the iPhone maker shared its first public research paper on the topic; this June it announced new tools to speed up machine learning on the iPhone; and today it started blogging. Sort of.

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Submitted on July 20th 2017 by geoleo

The dystopian urban future imagined in the Judge Dredd comics warns against letting technology rule our transport systems.

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Submitted on July 22nd 2017 by archmagician

Shortly after reaching home from a long day's work, Mr Ma Bin, 30, a software engineer in Beijing, walks into his flat's living room and, in Alibaba's "Open Sesame" style in One Thousand And One Nights, says to a remote controller on the sofa: "Let's talk." Immediately, his Internet-connected TV hears his command, switches itself on automatically in utter obedience and begins beaming Mr Ma's favourite TV show.

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Submitted on July 25th 2017 by TNY

A California woman was arrested after a fatal crash killed her 14-year-old sister Friday posted a recording of the wreck and its gruesome aftermath on Instagram. Obdulia Sanchez, 18, was singing and listening to music as she drove with her sister and another 14-year-old girl in the backseat when the vehicle suddenly veered off the roadway. The video then captures the sound of screams as Sanchez tried correcting the turn.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by tukka with 1 comments

American leadership in technology innovation and economic competitiveness is at risk if U.S. policymakers don’t take crucial steps to protect the country’s digital future. The country that gave the world the internet and the very concept of the disruptive startup could find its role in the global innovation economy slipping from reigning incumbent to a disrupted has-been.

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Submitted on July 23rd 2017 by bkool with 1 comments

As the Indian government discusses the regulatory framework for digital currencies such as bitcoin, a disagreement over which regulatory body should be in charge erupts. While the Reserve Bank of India suggests that bitcoin is a commodity, the Securities and Exchange Board of India disagrees.

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by hedman

Fairphone, the European mobile phone maker and social enterprise that has made it its mission is to build and sell fairer smartphone hardware, has announced it is ending support for its first handset, the Fairphone 1 (spotted earlier by The Register).

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Submitted on July 24th 2017 by zyery

The best defense against malicious AI is AI.

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Submitted on July 21st 2017 by archmagician