Apple calls report of reduced iPhone X Face ID specs “completely false”
Apple says Face ID will still only have a one-in-a-million chance of failing.
View ArticleItaly joins a small community of countries pledging to phase out coal
Canada, France, and the UK have pledged to end coal generation.
View ArticleGoogle launches the Android 8.1 Developer Preview
The major new API will "hardware accelerate" machine learning on Android.
View ArticleHuman water use is draining the world’s saline lakes
Rising temperatures might not be helping, but overuse is the real problem.
View ArticleReport: Tesla fires hundreds more workers in its SolarCity unit
Tesla says the latest firings are part of its annual review process.
View ArticleNSA bloke used backdoored MS Office key-gen, exposed secret exploits – Kaspersky
Ooh, IT just got real Analysis The NSA staffer who took home top-secret US government spyware installed a backdoored key generator for a pirated copy of Microsoft Office on his PC – exposing the...
View ArticleWhat’s next for WebAssembly portable code
If its roadmap holds, WebAssembly, the binary format to speed the performance of web applications on both computers and mobile devices, will improve its language support via garbage collection,...
View ArticleFYI: iOS apps can turn on your camera any time without warning
Researcher pushes Apple to add temporary permissions, indicator lights A top iOS security researcher has uncovered yet another privacy loophole in Apple's mobile firmware.…
View ArticleFappening celeb nudes hacking outrage: Third scumbag now charged
Phisher faces up to five years of hard time if plea deal accepted More than three years after miscreants splashed hundreds of stolen intimate photographs of celebrities online, a third man has been...
View ArticleEU law bods closer to baking new ‘cookie law’ after battle
Narrow vote goes against the 'it'll stifle innovation' crowd MEPs have today voted in favour of moving on with legislation that aims to give users more rights over websites that wish to track them.…
View ArticleVerizon creates new $10 monthly charge to remove video throttling
$10 add-on charge removes limit that restricts mobile videos to 720p.
View ArticleBig hard disks may be breaking the bathtub curve
1,240 10+TB hard disks installed, and not a single one has gone bad.
View ArticleThe legendary McLaren F1 designer is going to build new cars
Lightweight, low volume, and Murray's design and engineering credentials.
View ArticleWhat’s new in Google’s Android Studio 3.0
Google’s Android Studio 3.0 IDE adds support for the Kotlin language as a mechanism for building Android applications, as well as better Java 8 support and enhancements to its build system and...
View ArticleApache PredictionIO: Easier machine learning with Spark
The Apache Foundation has added a new machine learning project to its roster, Apache PredictionIO, an open-sourced version of a project originally devised by a subsidiary of Salesforce.What...
View ArticleTwitter drops hammer and sickle on RT, Sputnik ad buys over election shenanigans
No more sponsored Tweets, but Russia-funded media sites can still post "organic" Tweets.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia invests $1 billion in Richard Branson’s space plane and rocket
Company says Saudi funding commitments are consistent with "Virgin brand values."
View ArticleWho needs a CPU? Phase change memory acts as an analog computer
Phase change memory works in a way that makes it amenable to doing math.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Break down barriers to create a single source of...
When companies fail to meet customer expectations — which happens all too often — insufficient access to customer data is usually to blame.Only 13 percent of 680 executives who responded to a recent...
View ArticleAjit Pai submits plan to allow more media consolidation
Rules that preserve media diversity in local markets will be eliminated.
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