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Google Reportedly Moving Engineers Off Laptop and Tablet Projects

Google and parent company Alphabet are reportedly moving dozens of engineers off the laptop and tablet team and are moving them elsewhere in the company.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 14, 2019

IBM Used Creative Commons Photos from Flickr to Train AI Facial Recognition

Photographers are surprised to learn that IBM stretched the Creative Commons license of photos they posted to Flickr to train their artificial intelligence facial-recognition systems.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 13, 2019

“BreedReady” Database Leak Targets 1.8 Million Women in China

The “BreedReady” database was discovered by a security researcher. This unsecured database included the private information of 1.8 million women in China.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 11, 2019

Teen Becomes First Hacker To Earn $1 Million via Bug Bounties

One teenager earned $1 million through bug bounties alone. This is a great example of how someone can turn a hobby into a profitable career.

By Simon Batt – Mar 11, 2019

PC and Tablet Shipments Expected to Continue Slow Decline

IDC contends that both the PC and tablet market are decline in the personal computing device shipments, but believe detachable computers will show increase.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 8, 2019

Apple Document Says They Will Now Repair iPhones that Have 3rd-Party Batteries

An internal Apple document shows that support is going to extend to iPhones with third-party batteries. Even if you replace your battery on your own, it will not invalidate your warranty

By Laura Tucker – Mar 6, 2019

USB 4 Will Implement Speeds of Thunderbolt 3

USB-IF announced that later this year they will be introducing USB 4. It will pick up the same specifications of Thunderbolt 3, meaning speed of 40 Gbps.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 5, 2019

Streaming Music the Main Way We Listen to Music at 75% of 2018 Revenue

In 2018 the streaming music business continued to grow, to the point that just within the U.S., it was responsible for 75% of industry revenue.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 1, 2019

Sikur Phone Manufacturer Creating Mobile-Banking Platform and App Store

Sikur is putting together the security they’re already known for and mobile banking to offer it to mobile carriers. They also plan to introduce an app store.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 27, 2019

Newer Android Devices to Allow FIDO2 to Log in to Apps without Passwords

If you own an Android device, you can finally join the biometric revolution and log into apps and websites with the use of a fingerprint, thanks to FIDO2 capability.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 26, 2019

LG G8 ThinQ Will Use Hand ID, Biometric ID Using Palm Vein Verification

With the unveiling of LG’s new phone, the G8 ThinQ, the company showed off it’s new biometric technology, Hand ID, an advanced palm vein authentication.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 25, 2019

Facebook Deals with Another Privacy Scandal, this Time with Its Closed Groups

Some Facebook users are lulled into a sense of security when they join or start a closed group, but there are people who view the content: marketers.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 20, 2019

Google Making It More Difficult for Sites to Block Incognito Mode in Chrome

Some sites detect Google Chrome Incognito mode and disable it so that you aren’t really browsing privately, but Google is working on blocking that effort.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 19, 2019

Twitter Keeping Your DMs Even After You Think They’re Deleted

Twitter has been accused of holding on to direct messages (DMs) well past the time of when you delete your account, making them still available.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 18, 2019

Asteroid Developing Biosensory Engine to Work with AR Projects

Asteroid is looking to expand on biosensory controls with eye movement and thought and are marketing dev kits aimed at increasing awareness for the technology.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 14, 2019

Apple to Launch Paid News Service But Wants Half the Revenue

Apple is reportedly launching a paid news service next month, but this late in the game this is still a major problem, as publishers don’t want to split the fee with each other.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 13, 2019

New “SpeakUp” Malware Targets Linux Servers with Miners

A recent strand of malware called SpeakUp is using backdoor attacks to get a miner onto servers running Linux. Here is what you need to know about it.

By Simon Batt – Feb 11, 2019

Some iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen without Your Knowledge

Some iPhone apps, including Expedia and Air Canada, are using Glassbox, a customer experience analytics firm to record users’ screens and collect data on their users.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 8, 2019

Your iPhones Are Vulnerable Without iCloud, And Thieves Know It

Every iPhone is controlled by iCloud, and if that is disabled, you have no protections, and that’s something thieves and hackers are beginning to figure out, as they can force you to disable iCloud.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 7, 2019

Inbox Users Rejoice: Leak Shows Best Features Could Show Up in Gmail App

Inbox fans can now rejoice, as it appears the Gmail app may be incorporating some Inbox features after Google shuts Inbox down in March

By Laura Tucker – Feb 6, 2019

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The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty spinning platters, and still drew customers because the alternative was a room full of punched cards

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In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

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Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a Raytheon factory outside Boston, where women threaded copper wire through tiny magnetic cores to encode each bit as either a one or a zero, a process the engineers nicknamed LOL memory for Little Old Lady.

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Black and white image of a vintage military aircraft parked outdoors.

When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976, American engineers tearing it down expected to find titanium and microchips, and instead they found vacuum tubes, rivets popped by hand, and a stainless steel airframe so heavy it could only fly fast in a straight line.

Jun 4, 2026

When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had fallen out of the trees, and 1,746 of their neighbours were lying where they had stood the night before, with no fire, no flood, and no wound to explain it.

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In 1959, a Soviet research team in Novosibirsk began breeding silver foxes for nothing but tameness, and within forty generations the animals had floppy ears, curled tails, piebald coats, and a bark, traits no one had selected for but which appeared on their own once fear was removed.

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