On June 27th, 2018 with 8 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Ticketmaster has admitted that it has suffered a security breach, which the BBC understands has affected up to...
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On June 27th, 2018 with 49 comments
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ZDNet: Google couldn't exist without Linux and open-source software. While you may not think of Google as a Linux...
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On June 27th, 2018 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Facebook's Instagram is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company,...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 119 comments
The German website Heise reports that Nvidia's new non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) last for five years and are more far reaching than product-specific...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 25 comments
Uber has been granted a short-term license to operate in London following a court hearing. BBC reports: Transport for London (TfL) refused to renew the...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 28 comments
Back in January, Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads because too many companies in this space were "not currently operating in good faith." Now the social media...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 162 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Mumbai has the become the largest Indian city to ban single-use plastics, with residents caught using...
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On June 26th, 2018 with 262 comments
On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 61, the newest version of its web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. The release builds on Firefox...
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On June 25th, 2018 with 108 comments
Troy Hunt, web security expert and creator of the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), wrote a blog post announcing his partnerships with Firefox and 1Password....
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On June 25th, 2018 with 57 comments
Google Earth's new Measure tool is rolling out to Android and Chrome devices that will let you measure the distance and area of things on the map. An iOS...
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On June 25th, 2018 with 63 comments
As if seeing a popular movie with MoviePass -- where you can't reserve tickets in advance -- wasn't stressful enough, it's about to get more expensive, too....
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On June 24th, 2018 with 155 comments
AmiMoJo writes: In a confirmed report India's energy minister suggested that the country is considering issuing a tender for 100 gigawatts of solar energy,...
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On June 24th, 2018 with 66 comments
Roland Kelts, writing for The Times Literary Supplement: At fifty-one, Hideo Furukawa is among the generation of Japanese writers I'll call "A. M.," for "After...
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On June 24th, 2018 with 344 comments
Another high-profile endorsement for Firefox -- this time from the lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times. (Alternate link here).
The web has...
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On June 23rd, 2018 with 135 comments
"Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid," writes TechCrunch's editorial manager. "A new generation wants to change the economics."
An anonymous...
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On June 23rd, 2018 with 107 comments
DevNull127 writes: A grateful reporter whose father-in-law liberated a concentration camp after D-Day reports on a high-tech team that "accomplished in 13...
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On June 23rd, 2018 with 158 comments
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
When leading Linux company Red Hat announces that -- from here on out -- all new Red Hat-initiated open-source projects that...
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On June 22nd, 2018 with 131 comments
Canonical introduced Ubuntu Hardware/Software Survey in Ubuntu 18.04 and has since been collecting data (it is optional, and users' consent is taken; Ubuntu...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 123 comments
Algeria has begun instituting nationwide internet blackouts to prevent students from leaking high school diploma exams online. Gizmodo reports: The country...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 30 comments
Fake Fortnite Android apps are spreading around the internet, even though the game has not been officially released for the platform. From a report: Videos on...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 317 comments
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is used in the production of a wide variety of food and drink products. But with at least five CO2 producers across northern Europe...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 426 comments
New submitter zippo01 shares a report: Online shopping will soon become more expensive after the U.S. Supreme court ruled Thursday that states can require...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 168 comments
Dan Kopf, writing for Quartz: Historically, startups have been the engine of US economy. By creating new jobs and surfacing new ideas, startups play an...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 303 comments
Intel has announced that CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from the company effective immediately. From a report: CFO Robert Swan is now Intel's interim chief...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When studying populations of a flounder-like North Sea fish called plaice in the early 1900's, a man...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 53 comments
On Wednesday, Instagram launched a new long-form video portal called IGTV, "marking one of the biggest shifts in the app's history," reports NBC News. The new...
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On June 20th, 2018 with 78 comments
Facebook announced today in a blog post that group administrators can start charging $4.99 to $29.99 a month for exclusive membership in certain groups....
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On June 20th, 2018 with 219 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For a long time, China has been a dumping ground for the world's problematic plastics. In the 1990s, Chinese markets saw...
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On June 20th, 2018 with 61 comments
The Oxford English Dictionary is asking the public to help it mine the regional differences of English around the world to expand its record of the language,...
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On June 20th, 2018 with 85 comments
Joshua Rapp Learn, reporting for National Geographic: Critically endangered eels hyped up on cocaine could have trouble making a 3,700-mile trip to mate and...
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