Welcome to the week. We saw Amazon's brief and disgusting teaser for its delivery drones, China becomes the biggest producer of solar energy in the world, Windows Cloud (unrelated) and how Elon Musk scratches his Minecraft itch.
Lees meerPlanet Earth II was probably the BBC's best piece of TV programming last year. The documentary series captured and, more importantly, explained the natural world with nuanced narration and breathtaking cinematography. Now, the show is comin…
Lees meerApple Maps has been updated with comprehensive transit data for the New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area, enabling iPhone users in the city and select suburbs to navigate using public transportation, including RTA buses and streetcars. Jefferson…
Lees meerSecurity-centric distro also has some fixes in new version 2.10 The privacy-paranoid Linux distribution Tails has decided it's time to send 32-bit distributions the way of the 8086, from the planned June release of version 3.0.…
Lees meerThe last browser to support NPAPI plugins – Firefox 52 ESR - should appear in March Oracle's warned developers who still expect browsers to run code developed for Java plug-ins to get busy finding an alternative.…
Lees meerThe much-anticipated launch of BeatsX could be occurring soon, according to some behind-the-scenes movement happening on Apple.com where the earphones are now listed as "Available Today" in two stores in Manhattan: West 14th Street and the Upper Eas…
Lees meerApple remained the fourth largest smartphone vendor in China in 2016, beaten out by Oppo, Huawei, and Vivo in first, second, and third places, respectively, according to new data from research firm IDC. As a whole, IDC said it was a good year for th…
Lees meerAustralia’s Environmental Protection Authority issued a warning to steer clear of all 36 beaches in Melbourne, Australia’s second biggest city, due to a “poor” water quality rating, which turns out, is code for poop. This is not the first time this …
Lees meerThat headline will never happen, so one darkmart just started a bug bounty program A popular dark net marketplace hawking drugs and stolen credit cards has opened a security bug bounty offering to pay hackers for reporting vulnerabilities.…
Lees meerRemember when quadcopter drones juggled balls and formed up into a Star Trek logo? That seems downright quaint compared to what we just saw at Lady Gaga's elaborately produced Super Bowl halftime show. During her first number, 300 Intel dro…
Lees meerSnapchat has secured the rights to stream six exclusive mini episodes of hugely popular BBC nature documentary series Planet Earth II (via The Verge). The short run of mobile episodes is due to start on February 17th, one day before the full seri…
Lees meerThings may have gotten political this year, but that didn't mean the ads were humorless. The post The Best Super Bowl Commercials, From Avocados to Zelda appeared first on WIRED.
Lees meerApple, Google and Microsoft joined a list of nearly 100 technology companies in signing an amicus brief on Sunday opposing President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, saying the temporary ban "inflicts significant h…
Lees meerApple has fired the latest salvo in its continuing battle with Australia's banks over the future of mobile payments, accusing the industry of continually trying to obstruct the expansion of Apple Pay into the country (via Bloomberg). In a submiss…
Lees meerEarlier today, we reported that Jawbone was exiting the consumer hardware market in favor of selling health products and services directly to businesses. Furthermore, 9to5Toys shared an Apple Watch deal today that pushed the price of a Series 1 mod…
Lees meerOn Friday, police in a small Oregon town apprehended an outlaw hog after chasing him for months. Known to law enforcement as “Piggy Smalls,” the Forest Grove police department said that the potbellied fellow had “allegedly been harassing residents” …
Lees meerSaurik has released Cydia 1.1.28 and enabled tweak purchases for users jailbroken on iOS 10.2.Here's a look at the changes in Cydia 1.1.28:● Cydia Now Users APT 1.14~bThis is a major update to the core package management logic used by Cydia. This li…
Lees meerData from GPS systems helps to predict how satellites and radios fare when the sun flares National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released 16 years' worth of GPS solar weather data gathered by the Los Alamos National Laboratory for all c…
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