Hubble’s deep field images have provided the farthest glimpses we’ve ever had of galaxies in spaces. Combining those images with a new telescope view has revealed that there are even more galaxies there than we knew—including a mysterious, new typ…
Lees meerYouTube’s latest initiative, “YouTube Heroes,” is gamifying viewer participation in content moderation, angering several content creators who believe incentivizing crowdsourced moderation isn’t a great approach.Read more...
Lees meerThe Guinness Book of World Records doesn’t officially recognize this enormous inflatable city of fun as the world’s largest bounce house, but when was the last time you were at a birthday party and saw one of these as big as a McMansion?Read more...
Lees meerBefore Walt Disney’s Epcot was a theme park, it was supposed to be an actual city . With actual humans inside of it around the clock. After Walt died in 1966, the plans for Florida slowly changed. But in a newly uncovered proposal for the park’s co…
Lees meerBy the time ITT Technical Institute (ITT) closed its doors earlier this month, the for-profit college had been selling tenuous diplomas at exorbitant prices for more than 20 years. The company had been taking millions in federal grant money, burying…
Lees meerSome Mac users are reporting wi-fi difficulties after updating to macOS Sierra 10.12. The most common wireless networking problems seem to be either randomly dropping wi-fi connections after updating to macOS Sierra, or an unusually slow or delayed …
Lees meerRimini Street will have to foot $46m legal bill Oracle has been awarded $46.2m in its copyright battle with Rimini Street.…
Lees meerEmail addresses, phone numbers, hashed passwords, DoBs, security Q&As swiped Hackers strongly believed to be state-sponsored swiped account records for 500 million Yahoo! webmail users. And who knew there were that many people using its email?…
Lees meerYahoo heeft bekendgemaakt dat hackers in 2014 de gegevens van ongeveer 500 miljoen gebruikersaccounts hebben gestolen. Daarbij denkt het internetbedrijf dat de inbrekers zijn gestuurd door de overheid van een niet nader genoemd land.
Lees meerThe Library of Congress has completed a three-year project to digitize 163,000 documents relating to the cultural history of Afghanistan, and this week officials handed over these hard drives to the Afghan Minister of Information and Cultur…
Lees meerAfter a summer of test runs, the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition will officially launch on November 1st. When it goes live, the service will require a $5 yearly membership per user or a district-wide license, but the Early Acce…
Lees meerThe original Apple Watch wasn’t amazing, but it did what it set out to do. You could answer phone calls on your watch, see notifications from your phone, and even track your heart rate. And with the most recent software upgrade, the watch has speed …
Lees meerWe’ve all fibbed a little when it comes to our resumes or during a job interview. But apparently ‘knowing how to expertly back a truck full of metal pipes onto a floating barge’ isn’t something you’re going to want to just try and fake on your first…
Lees meerDe geruchten over een webversie van Apple Maps gaan al een tijdje. Vorig jaar begon Apple met het werven van programmeurs om Apple Maps naadloos op het web te laten werken. Nu is het eerste resultaat voor iedereen zichtbaar. Bekijk bijvoorbeeld de S…
Lees meerJohn Martellaro has had his drop-dead gorgeous black, 128 GB iPhone 7 for five days now. He takes a look at Apple’s official list of features, then delves into his initial reactions and technical observations about this remarkable iPhone. It’s hard…
Lees meerSoftware Assurance licensing tags along Microsoft Ignite Software giant Microsoft is set to officially launch its next-generation server platform next week, but the firm faces growing competition from Linux as corporate customers shift more toward …
Lees meerFans of the Maps app on Windows 10 will have something to look forward to with its latest update. Now, you can see what the roads are like either to home or work (or whatever locations you've labeled as such) and even take a gander at realt…
Lees meerThe fact that a passenger airliner can disappear without a trace is still pretty difficult to comprehend. Two companies are looking to bring a new satellite tracking solution to market that they say will prevent mysterious disappearances li…
Lees meerSony has a long history of dumping tons of money into spectacularly over-the-top commercials for its Bravia line of TVs. This time around it packed an abandoned casino in Romania full of glitter-filled balloons that were then popped to create a sh…
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