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…Did you know that all Intel modern CPU chips have one of hell of a backdoor built into them all?
It's called the Intel Management Engine.…
And AMD has something similar.…
…Local administrators, dazzled by “digital learning initiatives” and shiny tech toys, have sold out vulnerable children to Silicon Valley. Educators and parents who expose and oppose this alarmingly intrusive regime are mocked and marginalized. And Beltway politicians, who are holding Senate hearings this week on Big Tech’s consumer privacy breaches, remain clueless or complicit in the wholesale hijacking of school-age kids’ personally identifiable information for endless data mining and future profit.…
M.A., woman who sued http://Backpage.com , dances as Pres. Trump signs bill combatting online sex trafficking. "It's about damn time.…
[B]eing suspended from Twitter is like suddenly becoming deathly allergic to cocaine - sure that awesome dopamine rush is gone but after a few weeks you realize you have your life back.
…For those who don't know, 5G wireless is about 50 times faster than the average home broadband network today. And because it's wireless, providers won't have to dig trenches and lay cable to sign up customers.
That means there will be more competition for internet access than there is today, and at speeds that make today's broadband look like dial-up.…
…When you're down in the dumps, this is the dump to be down in.…
The owners of a cat made famous online because of its permanent scowl have been awarded $710,000 (£500,000) in a case by a California federal court. Grumpy Cat Limited sued the owners of US coffee company Grenade for exceeding an agreement over the cat's image.…
With new ways to flirt, date and find love come new lingo to describe the adventures — or misadventures — of online dating.…
Meetcute - The unexpected, funny, adorable or otherwise charming backstory of how a couple met for the first time.
A pair of STRIPPERS made out of mannequin parts, windscreen wipers and a couple of old CCTV cameras are "performing" at the world's biggest technology event.… robo-strippers pulse and gyrate around poles just like their flesh-and-blood counterparts…
…Since he was three years old, Ryan’s parents have been capturing videos of him opening toys, playing with them and “reviewing” them for videos posted on their YouTube channel, “Ryan ToysReview.” … Ryan has become a multi-millionaire, according to Forbes magazine’s just-out list of highest paid YouTube entrepreneurs. He was ranked number eight, having brought in $11 million in revenue between June 1, 2016, and June 1, 2017, before management fees and taxes, of course.…
Looking to open a second headquarters somewhere, the online retailer sets cities and states scrambling to fulfill its contradictory set of demands.…
…applying the criteria to America’s 100 largest cities… list included only one city: Denver…
…A Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator backed startup called Blockstack, just barely out of stealth mode, has been designing an alternative browser for what could be fairly described as another internet, one powered by the bitcoin blockchain.…
Last week YouTuber TechRax uploaded a video in which he outlined a “secret hack” to get a headphone jack in the iPhone 7. In the video, he uses a drill to forcibly insert a hole into his smartphone which, as you’d imagine, doesn’t actually work. Unfortunately, that joke has flown over the heads of many, and TechRax has therefore been unwittingly responsible for a number of people actually drilling holes into their iPhone 7 handsets.…
Notorious runaway robot that has escaped lab twice has been arrested by police at political rally…
Police even tried to handcuff the device after a member of public called authorities to complain about the electronic device…
During a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, FBI Director James Comey stood by his advice to put tape over computer webcams, calling it a “sensible” privacy precaution, on par with locking your doors at night.…
…one of the nation's leading Virtual Reality companies THE VOID has rejected… explicit content on their immersive hyper-reality experiences," which will open to the public in "VOID Experience Centers" around the world.…
…Paywalls were supposed to help rescue newspapers from the crisis of sinking print circulation as readers shifted to getting their news online.
But with a few exceptions, they have failed to deliver much relief, prompting some news organizations to rethink their digital strategies.…
Goodbye
Nothing lasts forever. All good things come to an end.
And so this will be my final ONT.…
…Our smartphone batteries are bad because they barely last a day.
But it's partially our fault because we've been charging them wrong this whole time.…
…Funai, the last remaining manufacturer of the VCR, will cease production of the players by the end of the month…
A Russian robot with artificial intelligence and programmed to learn may be destroyed following its second attempt at escaping its creators.… other robots of the same series have not attempted to escape like Promobot IR77, leading them to question what it is about this particular robot that so desperately wants to escape.…
Europe’s growing army of robot workers could be classed as “electronic persons” and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.…
A robot escaped from a testing area in Perm, a city not far from the Urals, and made it on to a busy junction, baffling passersby, but also disturbing traffic. …“The robot was learning automatic movement algorithms on the testing ground… Our engineer drove onto the testing ground and forgot to close the gates. So the robot escaped and went on his little adventure.…”
Facebook could be tapping into not just users personal information, interests, and online habits but also your private conversations… Facebook admits that it “uses your microphone to identify the things you’re listening to or watching, based on the music and TV matches we’re able to identify.” …some experts believe …Once the microphone feature is enabled, Facebook can listen in to your private conversation, even when one is not actively engaging with the app.…
…Without appropriate password protection, many people are unwittingly providing a live feed of their daily lives even within the walls of their own homes.…
Gummies… Dylan’s Candy Bar… candy store chain has installed the Magic Candy Factory, a 3D printer that creates custom gummy candies. … uses fused deposition modeling, which means the sweet gummy goop is heated and then extruded from a nozzle into the desired shape. …made from fruit and vegetable extracts (not gelatin), and the whole process takes 10 minutes, with only about three to five minutes devoted to printing. It will cost $20 per print.…
Charlie Dahu could not believe his 7-year-old daughter, Rosabella, was able to use a note with no parent signature and misspelled words to leave school on Monday…
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Sony has come up with intelligent contact lenses capable of recording and playing video – all with the blink of an eye.…
…Microsoft is back at it again… making a robot that guesses what's in pictures. I have taken the liberty of putting some of the more frequent faces on the Kube through the new Microsoft robot and screenshotting the results. It was rather humorous…
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