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Facebook Messenger test delen van tijdelijk zichtbare foto- en videocollages

Facebook is bezig om in zijn Messenger-dienst een nieuwe feature te bouwen, waarmee het mogelijk wordt om een reeks foto's en video's in een collage te stoppen en vervolgens te bewerken. Gedeelde collages zijn slechts een dag te zien, waarna ze verd…

Facebook gives select Pages the power to tag their products

Someday, you might see products tagged in Facebook images and videos the same way people are today. Facebook has begun testing an experimental feature that allows businesses running Pages to tag their products, according to Business Insider…

Apple Ordered To Pay $302 Million in Damages to VirnetX For Patent Infringement

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $302 million in damages to VirnetX for using its patented internet security technology in FaceTime without its permission. Continue reading →

Apple Loses Retrial, Ordered to Pay VirnetX $302.4 Million

Apple has been found guilty of infringing VirnetX patents and has been ordered by a federal jury to pay $302.4 million in damages, reports Reuters. Back in 2010, VirnetX sued Apple for infringing four patents relating secure networks (VPNs) and secu…

Future watch: new Ethernet standard to bring 2.5 and 5 Gbit/sec speeds to existing cabling

The group responsible for the Ethernet specifications have unveiled a new pair of standards, bringing faster speeds to existing Cat-5e and Cat-6 cable runs, eliminating networking bottlenecks, and potentially saving organizations wi…

This week on AI: 'Touch bar' MacBook Pro in late Oct., all-glass casing on 2017 iPhones & more

For a rare moment, the Mac actually grabbed some the spotlight this week -- though it had to share the stage with yet more rumors about 2017 iPhones, and an assortment of minor Apple announcements.

Tim Cook Tells Utah Tech Audience: Encryption 'Makes the Public Safe'

Apple CEO Tim Cook drew cheers from a Salt Lake City audience on Friday as he reiterated the company's unwavering commitment to encryption and privacy protections for its customers, according to local media reports. The comments were made during…

Apple Ordered to Pay $302 Million in Damages to VirnetX in Patent Retrial

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented internet security technology in its FaceTime platform without permission. According to a Reuters report filed late on Friday, the verdict wa…

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Hits Mac and Linux

Good news for Mac gamers: Feral Interactive announced the release of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II for Mac and Linux. This real-time strategy powerhouse is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe (obviously), where you are a Force Commander of the B…

Apple loses FaceTime patent retrial, ordered to pay $302.4 million

In the continuing saga of Apple vs. VirnetX, Reuters reports that a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas has ruled in favor of VirnetX, ordering Apple to pay $302.4 million in damages. This particular case has been going on since 2…

Firefox to doctor Pepper so it can run Chrome's PDF, Flash plugins

Mozilla decides to crib some of Google's browser interfaces Mozilla is investigating hooking up Google Chrome's builtin plugins to Firefox.…

How to steal the mind of an AI: Machine-learning models vulnerable to reverse engineering

Think SQL injections on steroids Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, among other technology companies, have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence and related disciplines like machine learning because they see the technology en…

Apple ordered to pay $302.4M in damages to VirnetX in patent retrial

A federal jury on Friday found Apple's FaceTime product in infringement of patents owned by non-practicing entity VirnetX, a decision that will cost Apple more than $302 million in damages.

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

Newsweek Cuban connection story enrages miscreants It has been an odd day for Newsweek – its main site was taken offline after it published a story claiming a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against d…

Yahoo open-sources machine learning porn filter

Yahoo is the latest tech company to open source its computer vision code. The beleaguered outfit's application for it? Filtering porn. Yahoo hopes that its convolutional neural net (CNN) will empower others to better guard innocent eyes, bu…

David Wondrich: ‘How Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey Lost Its Way’

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"Let Frustration Be the Catalyst for Whimsy"

When the world is bringing you down, don’t get mad. Get silly. Learn to find the fun in everything.Read more...

Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen

Rights warriors gives their two cents on Tencent's nonsense Pic  Chinese internet giant Tencent is the newly minted holder of a US design patent on the concept of placing rectangles on a display screen.…

Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook

Next move in EFF's plans to regain the right to tinker Assistant Professor Matthew Green has asked US courts for protection so that he can write a textbook explaining cryptography without getting sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.…