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Dogs reach a quorum by sneezing, though some votes count more than others.

Study suggests how specialized visual recognition might develop.

Facebook’s Yarn, an alternative JavaScript package manager to NPM, has reached a 1.0 release, which features a workspaces capability to ensure the latest code is being used on engineering projects.With workspaces, users transition their code base into a “mono-repository” to ensure that the most recent code gets used. Workspaces aggregate dependencies from package.json files and install them all at once. Also featured in Yarn 1.0 is auto-merging of lock files, whereby Yarn automatically resolves merge conflicts in lock files when working with multiple contributors pulling the same code.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Kid-porn suspect to remain jailed pending 5th Amendment appeal to Supreme Court.

Security tool slated for Creators Update promises to rat on misbehaving apps, bad staff Microsoft says its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will include new capabilities in the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection security suite.…

Irma still seems likely to come ashore somewhere between the Everglades and Miami.

With experienced local company, Dandelion moves forward.

To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…

“Don't worry, this doesnrsquo;t affect combat. Just every other aspect of your whole life.”

No, it's not because they have Trump-pee-tapes Analysis When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of illegal operations carried out by American spy agencies, many wondered whether the US Congress was either unaware or had simply turned a blind eye toward them.…

The open-ended research will explore consumer tech, health, and security applications.

143m in US, unknown number in UK, Canada – gulp! Vid Credit reporting and checking agency Equifax has admitted to a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population.…

Breach affecting 44 percent of US population is one of the biggest yet.

What do phones and toothbrushes have in common? Both are personal items that you canrsquo;t live without, that you wouldnrsquo;t loan out.

This is a topic that came up recently recently during a seminar I give, “How to Evaluate and Improve Mobile UX.” Itrsquo;s difficult to deny how important mobile usability is as the research and statistics support how the mobile platform is now more prevalent than desktops.
Some companies are even going with either a mobile-first or mobile-only strategy.We all know how critically important the mobile platform has become in our lives by just asking these questions.Who leaves their home without their mobile phone? And if you do, do you go back and get it? That tells you how important it is, not only to you, but those trying to reach you. Next, would you loan your phone to someone else? This tells you how personal wersquo;ve become with our mobile devices.
Itrsquo;s almost like a toothbrush, you just donrsquo;t loan it out! As many corporations roll out their mobile strategy, whether itrsquo;s converting their website to a mobile-friendly site, app or platform, developing a whole new app to capture a mobile segment, or service a mobile specific audience, many companies donrsquo;t realize how important mobile usability is to the equation for success.

This article discusses seven key points in designing mobile apps to optimize usability and increase the chance for success.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft and Facebooknbsp;have announced a joint project to make it easier for data analysts to exchange trained models between different machine learning frameworks.The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format is meant to provide a common way to represent the data used by neural networks. Most frameworks have their own specific model format that will only work with models from other frameworks by way of a conversion tool.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wireless docking stations haven't really caught on, but VR headsets may be another story.

Explorers, astronomers, and underworld figures donate give names to features.

Tourists' passport details and credit card numbers exposed Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online as a result of a misconfigured database.…

Class actions already piling up against identity theft brokers Less than 24 hours after credit monitors Equifax revealed it had lost the personal data of more than 130 million Americans, two class action suits have been filed.…

So stopping antivirus software from spotting malware is now a feature? A design flaw within the Windows kernel that could stop antivirus software from recognizing malware isn't going to be fixed, Microsoft has said.…

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