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Remains of the Day: Facebook Now Supports USB Security Keys

Facebook now supports security keys, an additional two-factor authentication method. Such keys plug into a USB port and work like a literal key, only allowing access to the account when the key is inserted. That and more in today’s news.Read more...

Why Apple should buy Disney

From an investor standpoint, one of the main reasons for why Apple's stock price trades at a discount to the market is that...

Apple Extends Developer Promo for App Store Search Ads

Apple is extending the App Store Search Ads offer for developers until March 30, 2017. Originally, the introductory offer launched back in October was set to expire on December 31, 2016. Developers who sign up get free $100 in credits that go toward…

FaceApp Uses Neural Net to Add Smiles, Make You Old or Young, Change Gender

OK, folks, I honestly don’t know how I feel about this, but it’s definitely interesting. A company called Wireless Lab has a new app called FaceApp. It uses the power of a neural net to modify photographs. They can add a smile to a portrait where th…

Domesday Clock moves to 150 seconds before midnight. Thanks, Trump

Closest setting to doom since the heady days of 1953 The Domesday Clock, maintained for the past 70 years by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to two and a half minutes from midnight following the election of Donald Trump.…

Hitachi ponies up $3.5m for laptop battery rip-off

Joins Sony, LG and NEC, but Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo and Toshiba still fighting Hitachi has agreed to pay $3.45m for its part in a massive price fixing conspiracy over lithium-ion batteries.…

NVIDIA updates older Shield TVs for HDR streaming

Remember when we told you the old NVIDIA Shield TV would be getting the new units smarts via firmware update? It's rolling out now as part of an over-the-air patch, TechCrunch has noticed. That means 4K HDR streaming from Netflix and Amazon…

HBO Go updated with support for Apple’s Single Sign-on feature and TV app

Apple’s Single Sign-On feature and accompanying TV app were launched towards the end of last year and have been slowly adding support for new providers and apps since then. Today, HBO updated its HBO Go app for iOS with support for both Single Sign…

This Is Quite Possibly the Ugliest Bug Ever Found Trapped in Amber

Say hello to Aethiocarenus burmanicus, an ancient insect so strange—and so god awfully ugly—its discoverers had to create an entirely new scientific classification to catalogue it.Read more...

America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Just Got Approved

It’s been a rough week for environmentalists in America, but buried amidst a torrent of reports detailing the Trump administration’s war on climate science, one uplifting energy story has garnered comparably little attention: the United States may …

How to take a screenshot without the shadow effect on Mac

Google Maps On Android Now Warns You of Difficult Parking In Metro Areas

If you’re tired of driving downtown then spending half an hour to find parking, Google Maps’ new feature might be able to help you better prepare.Read more...

How to enable Apple’s Siri for third party apps in iOS 10

Siri in iOS now supports third party apps, meaning Siri can interact with apps like PayPal, Skype, Uber, and others...

IBM's SoftLayer is having a meltdown, and customers aren't happy

It's been a mess ever since BlueMix took over, says user An extended outage with IBM's Bluemix SoftLayer portal has customers fuming, and they say there is no way for them to tell Big Blue about it.…

Time to face the music, Violin Memory: Upstart's asset auction is over

Who won? Well, we're waiting – and waiting and waiting and ... Violin Memory's assets were scheduled to be put up for auction on Monday in New York. So far, no successful bids have been announced, although a buyer could be revealed by the end of the…

IBM's SoftLayer is having a meltdown, and customers aren't happy

It's been a mess ever since BlueMix took over, says user An extended outage with IBM's Bluemix SoftLayer portal has customers fuming, and they say there is no way for them to tell Big Blue about it.…

Time to face the music, Violin Memory: Upstart's asset auction is over

Who won? Well, we're waiting – and waiting and waiting and ... Violin Memory's assets were scheduled to be put up for auction on Monday in New York. So far, no successful bids have been announced, although a buyer could be revealed by the end of the…

A Petition Didn’t Make Trump Give Up His Tax Returns—But It Made Him Listen

Whitehouse.gov's petitions may not translate directly into policy, but they're an important step along the path to change—if Trump keeps them live. The post A Petition Didn't Make Trump Give Up His Tax Returns—But It Made Him Listen appeared first o…

Acer penalized $115k for leaving credit card info unprotected

It wasn't nearly as bad as Yahoo leaking 500 million users' data, but Acer had its own hacking scare last year. Back in June, the Taiwanese computer manufacturer admitted that somebody stole credit card information for nearly 35,000 individ…

Powerful Images From Female Photographers at the Women’s March

"[It] was inspiring and an honor to document: as a photographer, as a woman, and as a citizen," says photographer Maggie Shannon. The post Powerful Images From Female Photographers at the Women's March appeared first on WIRED.