New apps of the week Image by Rob Schultz/Macworld This week’s roundup includes a new app from the FBI, an update from Flipboard, and several cool new […] Read the original post by Joel Mathis
Month: February 2017
Conway: Flynn resigned because he’d become ‘a lightning rod’
President Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned after less than a month in office, the White House said late Monday, due to his […] Read the original post by Fairfield Citizen-News
Toshiba: $6.3B in losses tied to South Carolina, Georgia nuclear projects
Workers maneuver a 30,000-pound panel into place at one of the two new reactors being built at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville. File […] Read the original post by Post and Courier
Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding
Opinion: Dropping funding for the crucial Election Administration Commission is a particularly bad way to save money. The post Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t […] Read the original post by Dan S. Wallach and Justin Talbot-Zorn
5.8-inch iPhone 8 To Feature Glass Reinforced Stainless Steel Chassis
A new report from DigiTimes claims that Apple will be using an aluminium-alloy chassis for the 4.7-inch iPhone, with the 5.8-inch premium iPhone 8 Plus model featuring […] Read the original post by Rajesh Pandey
The Best Way to Quash Fake News? Choke Off Its Ad Money
Ad tech companies have a unique window on the way traffic flows on the web. They could use that view to choke off ad dollars […] Read the original post by Davey Alba
The Expanse Isn’t Just Awesome TV—It’s Transforming TV
Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham aren’t just watching their books get adapted for the Syfy series—they’re inside the writers’ room, helping. The post The Expanse […] Read the original post by Charlie Jane Anders
AI’s Factions Get Feisty. But Really, They’re All on the Same Team
Artificial intelligence is not one thing—it’s not really a thing at all. It’s many technologies that span several schools of thought. Call them tribes. The […] Read the original post by Cade Metz
Fall in love with these dating simulators — or not.
Find that perfect virtual someone. Dating simulators aren’t everyone’s cup tea, but there are a ton of people who play them. With Valentine’s Day finally upon […] Read the original post by Luke Filipowicz
How to work around the ‘Unable to get metadata’ error in Photos
Paul Sedovic finally has enough storage on his laptop’s hard drive by way of a new computer to keep all his images on the internal […] Read the original post by Glenn Fleishman
Twitter quickly rolls back change to prevent abuse over worries it encourages abuse
Twitter rolled back a new fix aimed to prevent abuse a few hours after it met with protests, reflecting that the company is still scrambling […] Read the original post by John Ribeiro
Apple Patents a New MicroLED Based Display Capable of Recognizing Fingerprints Without Traditional Sensors
Apple has been granted a patent which consists of a microLED based display that can detect fingerprints without needing any of the conventional sensors. The […] Read the original post by Chethan Rao
Apparently, You Don’t Need the Headphone Jack as Much as You Thought
A few weeks ago, Apple seemingly came out of nowhere to announce a record quarter for iPhones. The company sold 78.2 million iPhones, more than […] Read the original post by George Tinari
Pokémon Go Will Get Player-vs-Player Battles and Co-operative Trading Features
In an interview with Vice, founder and CEO of Niantic, John Hanke, the company that developed Pokémon Go, has revealed that the game will be getting co-operative trading […] Read the original post by Rajesh Pandey
Humans Killed the Aral Sea. Now, It’s Come Back to Life
How one of the largest environmental disasters in Europe got turned around. The post Humans Killed the Aral Sea. Now, It’s Come Back to Life […] Read the original post by Charley Locke