This unverified report about Trump’s Russian ties is Twitter gold

Normally, Twitter loses its mind over something President-elect Donald Trump has tweeted. This evening, it’s losing its mind over an unverified, leaked report that supposedly details the ways in which Russia has been alternately teaming up with Trump and working to collect compro … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Bucks' Antetokounmpo sick but playing; Spurs' Aldridge out

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is playing Tuesday night against San Antonio despite an illness, but Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge is out with a stomach virus. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

Gen. Kelly Discusses Muslim Registry and Refugees

Retired Marine General John Kelly spoke, on Tuesday, about the idea of registering Muslims and about refugee screening during his senate nomination hearing to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Photo: European Press Photo Association. | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 7 years ago

Everything Trump’s Homeland Security nominee said about tech in his confirmation hearing

In a Senate hearing described as a “lovefest” by one attendee, General John F. Kelly testified about his nomination to become the fifth secretary of the Department of Homeland security. The relatively concise and often openly warm hearing got underway as Missouri Senator Claire M … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Cloudflare posts redacted National Security Letter it received in 2013

Content distribution network and web security startup Cloudflare today published a redacted version of a National Security Letter (NSL) the FBI served on it in 2013, seeking information on an account holder. A few weeks ago the FBI told Cloudflare that it had chosen to lift the g … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Gen. Kelly Discusses Proposed Mexican Border Wall

Retired Marine General John Kelly spoke, on Tuesday, about border control and drug interdiction policy during his senate nomination hearing to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Photo: Getty. | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 7 years ago

2017 will see intelligent highways, a global bank, and more

GUEST: It’s hard to believe this is my 10th annual predictions piece for VentureBeat. VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall asked me write my first prediction piece in 2007 for the year 2008. The tech landscape has changed a lot since then. In 2008, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion fo … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Withings does the hybrid smartwatch right with the Steel HR

Smartwatches aren’t for everyone. That much has been clear since day one, a fact seemingly confirmed by a recent stagnation in the space. Too many are designed to be once-size-fits-all, but ultimately are just too bulky and flashy with too many battery life compromises for most w … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Rondo: Bulls coaches say they're 'saving me from myself'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bulls point guard Rajon Rondo said he was told by a member of the Chicago coaching staff that coach Fred Hoiberg was "saving me from myself" by benching the four-time All-Star for the past five games. | Continue reading


@nba.com | 7 years ago

For Honor closed beta due later this month

For Honor will be receiving a closed beta from 26th through 29th January, Ubisoft has announced.You can sign up for the closed beta here, which will be available across all platforms (PS4, Xbox One and PC) and various regions.Players are asked to pick one of three factions (Knigh … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

You can catch Obama’s farewell speech in VR tonight (if you don’t mind tears in your headset)

President Obama will take to the airwaves tonight at 9pm ET to deliver his farewell address before ceding the nation’s most powerful office to President-elect Trump. Chances are, you’re not going to be in attendance. Luckily, we live in the future — a future where a virtual reali … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Susan Cain's Reading List for People who Draw Energy from Discussing Ideas

In the reader's guide section for Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain summarizes the thesis of the book. She says: At least one third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to part … | Continue reading


@conversationagent.com | 7 years ago

Microsoft wants to build the city of tomorrow, starting with cars

Forget what you know about autonomous cars for a moment. In the future, that’s only one small piece of the puzzle. The real money is on data-driven cars, a vast array of connected vehicles that feed rich data to a central server in hopes of improving more than just traffic flows. … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Le Nouvel An amazigh, Yennayer, ne sera pas inscrit dans l’immédiat dans la nomenclature des fêtes légales. L’appel à la reconnaissance de la date du 12 janvier...

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@staraffaires.com | 7 years ago

LeEco Le S3 and Le Pro3 phones are now on sale at Target’s website

LeEco is expanding the reach of its recent smartphones, the Le S3 and Le Pro3, in the US once again, as both are on sale at Target's website. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Yahoo may be dead, but Lycos still survives. Somehow.

For all intents and purposes, Yahoo as we know it is dead. The main part of the company has been devoured by Verizon in a deal worth $4.8 billion. What remains of it has rebranded as the (perplexingly-named) Altaba, which let’s face it, sounds like a brand of weight loss milkshak … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

I drove BMW’s prototype self-driving 5 series, and then it drove me

BMW had a story to tell at CES this year, a story of what our lives might look like when there’s more continuity between what we do at home and what we do in our cars, thanks to new features coming to market including connectivity and self-driving capabilities. I became a part of … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Is the 'Zcrash' Over? Zcash's Price is Finding a Floor at $50

Zcash prices have been relatively calm over the last several weeks, experiencing modest volatility by cryptocurrency standards.Source | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Twitter shutting down app used to manage business accounts on February 3

In June, Twitter launched Dashboard, a dedicated app brands can use to manage their various accounts, but seven months later it’s all about to change. On Tuesday, the company announced that it will be shuttering Dashboard on February 3 and while there was no specific reason given … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Karkówka z szałwią, miodem, kolendrą i polentą na rosole.

Dzień dobry, Nowy Rok przywitał nas skrzypiącym mrozem (i to na tyle, że w moim drugim domu rozsadziło piec), nie zostaje nic innego jak... | Continue reading


@klaudynahebda.pl | 7 years ago

This 20-cent whirligig toy can replace a $1,000 medical centrifuge

Centrifuges are found in medical labs worldwide. But a good one could run you a couple grand and, of course, requires electricity — neither of which are things you’re likely to find in a rural clinic in an impoverished country. Stanford researchers have created an alternative tha … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Le nombre de migrants clandestins algériens en Allemagne a atteint 1100 personneshttps://s.staraffaires.com/hQ/

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@staraffaires.com | 7 years ago

AT&T is raising the price of grandfathered unlimited plans again

AT&T’s grandfathered unlimited plans are vestiges of an earlier era, when unfettered access to mobile data was a perk offered to those willing to buy into the smartphone before it became ubiquitous. Now, those plans are getting costlier — again. AT&T has just announced a $5 incre … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Fw: 2017 IASA Conference Reminder - Call for Presentations Open Until 10 February 2017

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@jiscmail.ac.uk | 7 years ago

Sea of Thieves devs explain how its design encourages cooperation

Sea of Thieves developer Rare has released a new development diary in which senior designers Shelley and Andrew Preston explain their decisions behind the game's unique co-op structure.Sea of Thieves forces players to assume different roles as they collaborate to find treasure. U … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Night into daytime: behind the scenes with The Verge at CES 2017

The Consumer Electronics Show can be broken down in numbers a billion different ways. 177,000 attendees. 2.47 million square feet of exhibitions. One extremely dubious electric car startup. For The Verge? 240+ posts. Three Twitter Live shows. Seven nights and six days in the dese … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

CIA Chief Told Russia It Was 'Playing With Fire'

U.S. intelligence chiefs James Clapper and John Brennan discussed the role of Vladimir Putin in Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election in a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 7 years ago

Interview with Honor VP Zack Zhang at CES 2017

We caught up with Honor Vice President Zack Zhang at CES 2017 to talk about their plans for 2017, the amazing Honor 6X and Magic, and a lot more! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

VR funding and innovation look strong for 2017

GUEST: This year, CES saw countless VR demos, new headsets and accessories (maybe the most significant being wireless capability add-ons for tethered headsets), and AR consumer headsets and phones by ODG and ASUS. Many of these technologies will not be available until later in 20 … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Illumina wants to sequence your whole genome for $100

The first sequencing of the whole human genome in 2003 cost roughly $2.7 billion but DNA sequencing giant Illumina has now unveiled a new machine that the company says is “expected one day” to order up your whole genome for less than $100.Illumina’s CEO Frank deSouza showed off t … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Trump’s attorney general pick claims ignorance on tech issues

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s nominee for the position of U.S. attorney general, is being grilled by the Senate today about voting rights, immigration, civil rights, prosecutorial ethics and his own voting record. But when asked about issues related to technology — including … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit

Overview For the past few years, I’ve been outsourcing tasks from my daily life whenever possible. I tend to be more limited in time than money, so if paying $30 can save me an hour, I consider that a good deal. I recently started experimenting with the keto diet, which focuses o … | Continue reading


@mtlynch.io | 7 years ago

Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One

Seven new games were added to the increasingly vast Xbox One backwards compatibility library.Both Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 made the list, making all contemporary Battlefields playable on Microsoft's latest console. It's worth noting that Battlefield 3 is only … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

AutoNation CEO on Trump's Impact on Automakers

AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson discusses how President-elect Donald Trump could shake up the vehicle industry and explains why he believes Trump will be a "transformational figure for the economy," in a conversation with WSJ’s Mike Spector at the North American International Auto Sh … | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 7 years ago

It's time to accept reality Android users. The headphone jack's going away.

If you haven't gotten over Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, then make it your New Year's resolution to do so because Android phones are almost certainly going to follow suit and gut the port.Word on the street is HTC's next flagship phone, expected to be unvei … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Indeed: U.S. game developer job postings have dropped 65% since 2014

The number of jobs posted for game developers has declined 65 percent since 2014, according to an analysis by the job search site Indeed. The global game industry has grown to $91 billion across multiple platforms, but the number of jobs in the U.S. could be on the decline, at le … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Tesla hires Apple’s creator of Swift as new VP of Autopilot Software

Tesla has a new vice president heading up Autopilot efforts – Chris Lattner, whose departure from Apple was reported only earlier today. Lattner worked at Apple for 11 years, where his chief contribution was creating Swift, Apple’s most recent programming language, which is relat … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Tesla's new Autopilot chief is a longtime Apple veteran

Tesla has hired Chris Lattner as vice president of autopilot software, bringing him over from Apple where he was in charge of the Developer Tools Department. At Tesla, Lattner will lead the Autopilot engineering team and “accelerate the future of autonomous driving,” according to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

MediaTek’s Finbarr Moynihan talks smartphones and more at CES 2017

During CES 2017, we got a chance to chat with MediaTek's general manager of sales Finbarr Moynihan about his company's growth in 2016 and more. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’

What does artificial intelligence have in common with the price of eggs? At the store, you may find one carton drawing your eye with promises of being “all natural.” This is meaningless, of course: no one has defined what “natural” is, so anyone can put it on there. The same prob … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

This headband could control your dreams

The iBand+ measures electrical brain activity as you sleep and adds audiovisual stimuli to help induce lucid dreaming. Read more...More about Sleeping, Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Dreams, Real Time Video, and Real Time | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

LG G6 rumored to have an unusual, QHD+ screen

After the not-very-successful, modular G5, LG is changing its strategy. The company's new flagship, the LG G6, will not be modular at all; according to new reports, it will feature a new, waterproof design with a large screen and very small bezels. Chinese outlet Etnews claims th … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Majority of Americans want Trump to delete his Twitter account, poll finds

Twitter binges are Donald Trump's lifeline — often the thing that gives him comfort after someone says something remotely critical about him.But apparently most Americans are not fans of the late night and early morning ramblings, according to a recent poll by Quinnipiac Universi … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Déclarations fracassantes sur les œuvres sociales de l’éducation | actu33: Information et Actualité

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@staraffaires.com | 7 years ago

Julian Assange Just Read Out a Bitcoin Block Hash to Prove He Was Alive

In an attempt to disprove theories about his own death, controversial media mogul Julian Assange turned to the bitcoin blockchain today.Source | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

After 14 years, Sonos CEO John MacFarlane steps down from the company he helped found

After nearly a decade and a half as the chief executive officer of the hardware company he cofounded, John MacFarlane has announced his resignation as the head of Sonos. The move had reportedly been planned for some time, with the executive citing a number of personal reasons. Th … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Éducation: Les 900 milliards attribués aux oeuvres sociales sèment la discorde entre les syndicats autonomes. Est-ce le début de la....Fin!

Éducation: Les 900 milliards attribués aux oeuvres sociales sèment la discorde entre les syndicats autonomes. Est-ce le début de la.... Fin! - ALGÉRIE-ACTU.com - Actu33 - staraffaires : Affaires et social | Continue reading


@staraffaires.com | 7 years ago

Watch President Obama’s farewell speech live tonight in VR

Tonight at 9PM ET, President Barack Obama will give his farewell address, before handing the reins over to President-elect Trump later this month. If you don’t happen to be in Chicago to watch it, the next best thing may be a 360-degree live stream of the event, hosted by VRScout … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago