In a statement released today, Yahoo said a hack of its network in late 2014 breached information related to at least 500 million user accounts

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Submitted on September 22nd 2016 by ckshenn with 2 comments

YouTube wants its own users to begin moderating comments and videos, and will pay them in points and early access to new features.

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Submitted on September 22nd 2016 by TNY with 1 comments

Photographs fade, books rot, and even hard drives eventually fester. When you take the long view, preserving humanity's collective culture isn't a marathon, it's a relay — with successive generations passing on information from one slowly-failing storage medium to the next. However, this could change. Scientists from the University of Southampton in the UK have created a new data format that encodes information in tiny nanostructures in glass. A standard-sized disc can store around 360 terabytes of data...

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by larylin with 1 comments

A complete list of the websites available to people in North Korea was published online on Tuesday. A security engineer stumbled upon the usually-hidden sites with URLs ending in .kp.

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Submitted on September 22nd 2016 by TNY

Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense.

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by aj0690 with 1 comments

Chris Ziegler, a deputy editor at The Verge, took a job at Apple in July, but the publication didn't dismiss him until September.

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Submitted on September 23rd 2016 by canuck

On August 11 a bid of US$0.46/W was put forward to build 500MW of solar power in China (a roughly calculated levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) at $0.019/kWh). This past week we saw a bid of $0.023/kWh to build 1.2GW of solar power in Abu Dhabi. This price of $0.023/kWh is almost 25% lower than the $0.0299/kWh was bid in late April for a series of projects also in Abu Dhabi. These extremely aggressive price falls are partially driven by unique situations – a Chinese solar panel production glut and historically low costs of money. But also because of technology as Frank Wouters, the former director of Masdar Clean Energy...

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by drunkenninja with 2 comments

What are variable fonts, and why are some of the biggest tech companies on the planet throwing their weight behind them?

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Submitted on September 27th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

No matter how much you love Apple gear, you’re going to have trouble loving AirPods.

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by sjvn with 5 comments

The scientists can remotely read emotions by scanning heart and breathing rates, but what does it mean for privacy?

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Submitted on September 22nd 2016 by gladsdotter

"This is our generation's transition from horse-and-buggy to the Model T."

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Submitted on September 21st 2016 by wyrwolf

In a major milestone, the Indian Space Organisation (ISRO) today successfully launched a total of eight satellites into two orbits. This is the first time ISRO has launched payload satellites in two orbits, a rare feat for any space agency.

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by sauce

This week, French transit company Alstom unveiled the world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, which will begin making trips in Germany at the end of the 2017. The news was first reported by German newspaper Die Welt. The super-quiet Coradia iLint passenger train is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, which emit only steam and condensed water. A hydrogen fuel tank stored on the roof of the train powers the fuel cells to produce electrical energy.

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Submitted on September 25th 2016 by geoleo

Facebook wants you to get out to vote. On Friday, Facebook users in the U.S. who are 18 and up will receive a reminder to register to vote at the top of their News Feed. The voter registration drive, Facebook's first to roll out nationwide, is tapping the power of social media to influence millions of people and their friends, especially young people who are less likely to turn out. The reminder will be sent out over the next four days, Facebook said.

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Submitted on September 24th 2016 by geoleo

As the debate over just how much the cable industry has to fear from cord cutting rages on, there’s one common misunderstanding that never seems to disappear. “Cord-Cutting Isn’t a Bargain Anymore,” read one recent headline, claiming consumers who dropped a cable TV subscription wouldn’t save much money. Similar analysis can be found in “Cord-Cutting Is Gonna Suck in 2016,” or “The Myth of TV Cord-Cutting.” What these recent stories—and many more—get wrong is the economics of cutting the cable.

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Submitted on September 25th 2016 by yuriburi

Apple, the tech company, is negotiating with McLaren, the car manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. Yes, you've read that correctly.

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Submitted on September 21st 2016 by Splitfish

Doesn't leave house all weekend... No Seriously!

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Submitted on September 27th 2016 by 8mm with 1 comments

TV viewers of the World Cup of Hockey games have been seeing a virtual overlay on the boards that allows a single brand at a time to take over all of the boards in the Air Canada Centre.

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Submitted on September 24th 2016 by canuck

Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work -- after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and weight loss ebooks to her name. She published over a dozen ebooks on Amazon this year -- five ebooks alone this month. And Moore would even work with other authors -- like Nina Kelly, Andrew Walker, and Julia Jackson -- who have all published about a dozen ebooks each this year as well.

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Submitted on September 27th 2016 by Apolatia

Confirming earlier leaks, Roku this morning unveiled a refreshed and rebranded line of streaming media players, with the intent of plugging every hole in the market.

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Submitted on September 26th 2016 by jcscher