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Rod Rosenstein is having a strange week. The deputy attorney general is under pressure from all sides as the Russia investigation has escalated into direct scrutiny of the president himself. Donald Trump seemed to lash out at Rosenstein himself on Twitter on Friday, once again de … | Continue reading
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a titan of 20th century European politics who guided his country through reunification following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but whose legacy was tainted by a financial scandal, has died, his Christian Democratic Party confirmed Friday. … | Continue reading
Your next keyboard could have a fingerprint scanner built right into it.Microsoft has put up product pages for two new Surface accessories - the Modern Keyboard and the Modern Mouse. For the new Modern Keyboard, the company has built a fingerprint reader right into the keyboard, … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.So you’ve got yourself a Switch, and already tested out half of the new Nintendo games on the shelf. Now what?Time to up the ante.Docked or handheld, on a couch or in the backsea … | Continue reading
The CRTC, Canada’s wireless regulator, has ruled that every cellphone sold in the country must be unlocked, and carriers can no longer charge their customers to unlock their current devices, according to the CBC. The rules will take effect on December 1st, allowing customers to m … | Continue reading
Yves Guillemot is riding high this week. Ubisoft held a big event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) where it showed off a lot of big titles. Those games included a new version of Assassin’s Creed after a one-year hiatus, a disturbing Far Cry 5 that focuses on extremism in … | Continue reading
Nearly two months after the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus’ launch, users might finally be getting access to one of the phones’ main selling points: a new virtual assistant called Bixby. Today Samsung announced an assistant preview in which some S8 and S8 Plus owners can test Bixby’s voic … | Continue reading
This week, Verizon released a new, dumb flip phone. Called the LG Exalt LTE, it only connects to Verizon’s 4G LTE network — that means no 3G network option for phone calls. This is a first for the company across all its devices, not just flip phones. I’m not entirely sure who the … | Continue reading
The South Korea government plans to auction 216 bitcoins that it confiscated during a 2016 criminal investigation, according to local reports.Source | Continue reading
The key reason offered by Saudi Arabia and seven other nations for their sudden sundering of ties with Qatar is the country’s enabling of terrorism. They do have a point: Qatar has hosted leaders of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, and has long provided a platform … | Continue reading
E3 felt different this year, and not in a subtle way. For the first time, the Entertainment Software Association sold 15,000 tickets to a video game trade show that had previously been accessible only to industry insiders and the press. And E3 transformed to meet them, building p … | Continue reading
This week: The mobile-first index might not be so mobile after all, Bing Ads has a couple of new features, and buying links is a waste of money. Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing. Mobile-First Index Likely Not Coming Until 2018 If you’re worried that Google’s mo … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: What if an application could automatically repel attackers by rotating its access credentials every day, thereby making every stolen password useless in a short amount of time? That’s the idea behind CredHub, a new feature introduced for Pivotal Cloud Foundry today. Th … | Continue reading
Social media marketing and content marketing go together like peas and carrots. Guest blogger, Krysta Williams, digs into how they work together. | Continue reading
This is the Sony Xperia XA Android update tracker page, covering all major news for the US unlocked and international variants of the device. | Continue reading
There’s a weird annual tradition in French politics. French presidents, ministers and hopeful candidates all go to the Agricultural Show in the Porte de Versailles convention center. Somehow, old ideas die hard, and it’s important to show that you still care about people in the … | Continue reading
Amazon revealed it was entering the grocery market in a big way today, with news that it plans to acquire Whole Foods Market for a whopping $13.7 billion. But where does the deal sit on the grand scheme of Amazon acquisitions? Well, the Whole Foods deal will represent Amazon’s bi … | Continue reading
E3 2017 is a quiet year for virtual reality. With all the major headsets released, and the next generation little more than prototypes, developers seem resigned to the fact that they’re working in a niche market. Microsoft never followed through on its promise that Scorpio (now t … | Continue reading
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Uppercut Games last grace mobile with the interesting climbing adventure game Submerged [$1.99] last year, but they were first known on mobile for doing the Epoch [$0.99] and Epoch 2 [$0.99], cover-based shooters featuring robots. Lots and lots and lots of robots. The games were … | Continue reading
Nobody needs to reinvent the wheel, but reinventing the colonoscope is definitely worth somebody’s time. Mark Rentschler, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of those people. He and his team have been working on the wormy robot, above, as a replac … | Continue reading
Rejoice, for E3 is over for another year, and we can all take a breath. The world’s biggest video games trade show brings such a flurry of news that it’s hard to stop and take it in before you’re whisked onto the next keynote, the next conference, or the next big reveal.It’s only … | Continue reading
Do a Google Image search for Bitcoin. What you’ll see is a lack of imagination. Uniform stamped precious metal coins? That’s the opposite of what bitcoin is.You can’t flip a bitcoin. It has no heads or tails. You can’t bite into it to see if it’s real. But it’s real enough to be … | Continue reading
At the beginning of this school year, my colleagues and I decided to avoid giving the sophomores in our English classes any grades for six weeks. Research shows that providing students with a number or letter in addition to quality comments prevents them from authentically reflec … | Continue reading
“Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk?”That’s what Lorde asked in the first line of Pure Heroine, the 2013 album that earned the New Zealand teen Ella Yelich-O’Connor global superstardom and the admiration of David Bowie. The question signaled not only Lorde’s appeali … | Continue reading
SELECT for Cities has announced the first phase winners from its call for tenders to design and develop a city-wide Internet-of-Everything (IoE) platform for smart city innovation. SELECT for Cities... | Continue reading
North Korean hackers are allegedly behind the widespread ransomware attack that hit the UK's National Health Service, affecting computers and hospitals and doctors' offices last month, according to the BBC. The hackers belong to a group known as Lazarus, who is believed to have t … | Continue reading
The Microsoft Surface line has grown a lot in the five years since its debut. It now encompasses the Surface Pro tablet, Surface Book convertible, Surface Studio all-in-one, Surface Hub digital "whiteboard," and the brand-new Surface Laptop.SEE ALSO: Microsoft's hardware boss exp … | Continue reading
Amazon just bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion — which is a huge deal! This is one of the biggest deals of the year and is a big move for Amazon into grocery, a spot where it’s traditionally been extremely bad. It also means that Amazon is going to be a huge competitor with ot … | Continue reading
In 2003, a South Korean company called Maria Biotech announced its newest success: it had created mouse embryos with human cells in them. The idea is that the mice could be born with human cells in all their tissues, and this would make them more accurate animal models for resear … | Continue reading
It should go without saying that having a website for your business is imperative. Just last year a survey by Clutch had found that almost 46% of small businesses don’t have a website. Granted, some companies feel as though that a site won’t help their business at all (and in som … | Continue reading
After being imprisoned for 17 months in North Korea, 22-year-old Otto Warmbier was returned to his home in Ohio this week.On Thursday, doctors at Cincinnati Medical Center spoke publicly about his condition. It is, technically, “stable”—though that could sound misleadingly positi … | Continue reading
A group of researchers from NASA and various US universities have come up with plans to explore two of the least visited planets in our Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. That’s because compared to the other worlds in our cosmic neighborhood, these ice giants have been sorely negl … | Continue reading
If you aren’t familiar with Swift 3 and you’re interested in app creation, it’s time to get on board. Swift 3 is the latest version of Apple’s proprietary programming language that allows creators to build cool new apps for Apple desktops, iPhones, iPads and Apple watches everywh … | Continue reading
The New Face of Russian ResistanceMasha Gessen | The New York Review of Books“There is a feverish tone to Russian blog posts in the aftermath of Monday’s protests, a sense of hope struggling to defy fear. Without a doubt, Monday’s protests—often in open defiance of Russian author … | Continue reading
The future of retail will be a combination of both online e-commerce and a brick-and-mortar retail presence – as recent moves from both Walmart and Amazon have shown, including today’s back-to-back announcements from the two rivals, which sees Amazon buying a chain of popular gr … | Continue reading
Twitter introduced a new design this week which replaced rectangular buttons and avatars with a new, bubblier look. Naturally, people complained, especially about the desktop version. While I personally don’t mind Twitter’s new look – circles are superior to squares – there’s no … | Continue reading
Road trips are fun. You're just singing in the car with your friends, Carpool Karaoke-style, and then you hear that awful noise: a blaring horn.Former NASA engineer and current YouTuber Mark Rober has apparently been in our shoes and decided to take matters into his own hands. We … | Continue reading
A new blockchain consortium is taking shape in China.Source | Continue reading
Lorde has confirmed what is possibly the biggest rumor of the week, if you’re talking about pop stars from New Zealand: she was the official kingpin of the now-defunct Onion Rings Worldwide, a poorly maintained Instagram account dedicated to onion ring reviews. On The Tonight Sho … | Continue reading
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This week’s posts captured the lunacy and sorrow of life. In the former, writer Mac McClelland talks about her hilariously awful expedition with extreme birders (yes, there is such a thing) for Audubon magazine. In the latter, journalists the world over joined together to honor M … | Continue reading
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. ― John Donne In Pre-Suasion... | Continue reading
Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency with record breaking performance until last week has started down a downhill slope. The cryptocurrency’s price has fallen from the record $3000 to less than $2500 as the cryptocurrency exchanges continue to struggle with technical issues. Also, … | Continue reading
Americans benefit when the best versions of the right and left are vying against one another. Today, Donald Trump leads the worst iteration of the right I have seen in my lifetime, creating a deep fissure in the conservative movement that may never heal. And a deeply flawed itera … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of big, open-world titles are the perfect application for VR — the medium needs games tha … | Continue reading