FBI arrests WannaCry hero for alleged role in Kronos banking malware

 A malware researcher hailed as a hero earlier this year has been arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in distributing the banking malware known as Kronos. Marcus Hutchins, also known as @malwaretechblog, was detained and then arrested by the bureau at the airport as he was l … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Senate Finally Gives Trump His Administration

And just like that, Donald Trump finally has the semblance of a presidential administration.In the span of a few minutes on Thursday afternoon, the Senate confirmed dozens of the president’s stalled nominees to key posts in several departments. The departments of Justice, Homelan … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Etsy lives to fight another day as new leadership shaves costs and delivers an earnings beat

 Etsy went ahead and DIYed its Q2 2017 earnings report this afternoon and fortunately things turned out fairly well for the company. Etsy announced revenue of $101.69 million with earnings per share of 10 cents. The finance gods prognosticated revenue of $101.14 million and a los … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

AI is stalking you on social media for market research

Businesses are turning to AI for everything, it seems, including marketing strategies. Marketing runs on data, and people don’t have the kind of relationship with information that computers have. Why spend months researching dozens of customers when machine-learning can research … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Zombie Chronicles shuffles new players to a 2-year-old game

Activision Blizzard said that Zombies Chronicles drove monthly active user growth for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, a two-year old game. The boost in the second quarter ended June 30 showed the value of live operations, or launching new content that boosts existing games. The comp … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M and the stock is skyrocketing

 Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub is acquiring food delivery service Eat24 from the company in a big partnership for $287.5 million; second, the company reported its second-quarter earn … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Mueller Plunges Across Trump's Red Line

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reports, in the latest sign his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is moving quickly.A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment to the newspaper, and Pres … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

FCC fills vacant seats as Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendan Carr are confirmed by Senate

 You might not think it from the amount of controversy the agency has generated recently, but the FCC has been operating on a skeleton crew of three Commissioners since the beginning of the year. That will soon no longer be the case, however, as the Senate has just confirmed Jess … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

GoPro actually had a good quarter and the stock is spiking 15%

 GoPro is flying high and mighty after releasing its 2017 second-quarter earnings. The camera company took in $297 million in revenue equaling a non-GAAP loss of 9 cents per share. This was way above Wall Street’s expectations, as the general consensus was that GoPro would report … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Senate confirms new FCC commissioners after seven months shorthanded

The FCC is back to operating at full strength, with the Senate filling in two commissioner spots today that had sat open since January. The spots went to Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendon Carr.Rosenworcel, a Democrat, already served one term on the commission and was expected to be … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Tap House in Baltimore by GriD Architects

Nestled between Frederick Law Olmstead’s Patterson Park and Baltimore’s historic waterfront, Tap House emerges as a typical, unassuming, ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 7 years ago

AT&T accidentally confirmed Samsung’s Galaxy S8 Active

The fact that Samsung is working on a rugged, Active-branded variant of its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone isn’t exactly a surprise. The device was rumored as early as April, and pictures and specifications for the upcoming smartphone have already throughly been leaked. Still, if … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google reportedly offered $30 billion to acquire Snapchat

 Nerdy Google has failed at social time and time again, so it considered buying teen sensation Snapchat. The search giant held informal talks with Snap and floated an offer of $30 billion in 2016 before Snap’s last funding round, and just before its IPO this year, according to Bu … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp shows off his CGI chops in his latest short Kapture

Earlier this summer, director Neill Blomkamp announced a new creative workshop called Oats Studios, and the filmmaker has just released its latest project. Kapture is a documentary-style CG short about a pair of weapons designers who test out their their latest creations, serving … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Ex Machina director Alex Garland’s next film will hit theaters on February 23rd

Paramount has set a release date for Ex Machina writer-director Alex Garland’s next film, Annihilation: February 23rd, 2018. Based on a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman as a biologist who joins an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X af … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

What iOS 11 might look like on the iPhone 8's edge-to-edge screen

This year's new redesigned iPhone is all but confirmed thanks to months worth of leaks and Apple's own slip-up with the HomePod firmware that keeps revealing more and more.So we're pretty sure what the hardware will look like, but what how will iOS 11 look on an iPhone with an ed … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Microsoft Dumps Mobile References, Declares AI Top Priority in 2017

Microsoft has effectively announced a pivot away from mobile and towards AI and deep learning in its latest 10-K filing. But is this a rebrand or a serious attempt to tackle the nascent AI market? The post Microsoft Dumps Mobile References, Declares AI Top Priority in 2017 appear … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

Indian Securities Regulator Reveals Plans to Study Blockchain

India's securities markets watchdog has announced that it will explore blockchain for potential applications to its regulatory oversight processes. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Schema Markup For Email – Create Clickable Subject Lines in Gmail

You probably already know about using schema.org markup in your web pages. But did you know that you can use it in your emails as well? | Continue reading


@ignitevisibility.com | 7 years ago

It Was Only a Matter of Time Before Vietnam Came Up With Pho Craft Beer

Beer in Hanoi The driver drew the taxi to a standstill, pointing through the right-side window to say, “There it is.” I nodded. We had successfully hauled ourselves from Hanoi’s Old Quarter to Quang An Flower Market, on the edge of Hanoi’s West Lake neighborhood. The market was a … | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 7 years ago

Facebook now uses Caffe2 deep learning for the site’s 4.5 billion daily translations

Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations that occur each day on the backend of the social network. Translations carried out with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were able to scale with the use of Ca … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola on the future of his shared universe, and the film reboot

In 1993, writer-artist Mike Mignola introduced comic book readers to Hellboy, a demon discovered and raised by American soldiers after World War II that ended up fighting against forces attempting to take over the Earth. It was an almost immediate hit, and Mignola went on to expa … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Pure Pitch Rally seeks to match Kansas City startups with execs … and $20,000

Kansas City already has the right lineup for its own tech rally, Karen Fenaroli said. “We have the investors, we have the startup talent,” Fenaroli, founder of Fenaroli & Associates and organizer of Pure Pitch Rally, said. A pitch competition next month attempts to connect the tw … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Accidental Queens builds on A Normal Lost Phone’s 100,000 sales success with a successor

The indie studio Accidental Queens has announced that it’s releasing Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story later this summer on Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s a narrative-driven puzzle game that’s similar to the studio’s first release, A Normal Lost Phone. The studio is partnering onc … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

WordPress 4.8.1 Update Breaking Websites

Not every WordPress update goes as expected. WordPress websites can have a variety of problems, especially when there are incompatible themes or plugins. Some errors include the site being stuck on scheduled maintenance screens, white screens of death, or a website looking comple … | Continue reading


@telapost.com | 7 years ago

Chinese chatbots are revolting against the Communist Party

In the 21st century, chatbots drive social change and help people improve their sex lives. But they're not without a downside—including full-on political rebellion. SEE ALSO: Microsoft's chatbot Zo has some interesting opinions about WindowsIn China, two chatbots have been remove … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Bunkherr House by Philipp Architekten in Hesse, Germany

The biggest challenge of the Bunkherr house came up at the outset of the collaboration between the client and the architects. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 7 years ago

Even Trump Is Surprised By Australia's Cynical Migrant Policy

One can learn a lot from the transcripts of President Trump's phone calls with Enrique Peña Nieto and Malcolm Turnbull, which were leaked and published in The Washington Post on Thursday. For one thing, it's evident that Trump did not prepare much for these discussions. But in ne … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Cadillac’s Super Cruise ‘autopilot’ is ready for the expressway

 “Wait for the green light and let go,” the Cadillac engineer instructed. That’s it. The car was driving itself. I, the person behind the steering wheel, was no longer the driver. Cadillac’s Super Cruise system was driving. The 2018 Cadillac CT6 sped along US-23 under the directi … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Review: The Moto Z2 Force is modular, shatterproof, and a little boring

Motorola’s Z Force was one of our favorite phones last year, to the extent we picked it as the best phone for power users. Its snappy performance, long battery life, unbreakable screen, and modular flexibility made it a unique offering in an increasingly homogenous smartphone mar … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Spam Alive and Well in Bing Local in August 2017

Today I spent a little bit of time poking around in Bing’s local results. I rarely visit Bing although I do drop by from time to time to stay on top of how they are ranking what and to check in on their local results. Looking at | Continue reading


@telapost.com | 7 years ago

Game Boy Color mod solves the decades-old backlighting problem

Using a Game Boy Color, a Game Boy Advance SP screen, and a custom kit purchased online, YouTuber This Does Not Compute successfully created a version of the Game Boy Color with a backlit screen.With a little bit of soldering and some adjustments to the Game Boy Color's plastic s … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Why the education sector needs an AI reboot

AI is not part of the daily conversation in schools right now. I know, because I sometimes work with students at a collegiate level, mentoring and training them and helping to create a better cross-pollination between the academic world and the future prospect of a real job. From … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Facebook's dumbest feature is coming to desktop now, too

People may not be using Facebook Stories, but that isn't stopping the social network from expanding the feature to its next platform.Facebook is now testing a version of Stories for desktop, with a wider launch coming "soon," according to a company spokesperson. SEE ALSO: Mark Zu … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

From barter to blockchain: A history of money

 The Big Bang brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago. Life first appeared on our planet 3.8 billion years ago. Earth witnessed a hominid species, Home erectus, walking upright for the first time 1.9 million years ago. And, 7,000 years ago, money was invented. … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

WannaCry researcher arrested by FBI for his role in Kronos malware campaign

A noted security researcher has been arrested by the FBI, as first reported by Motherboard. Marcus Hutchins (better known as MalwareTech) appears to have been stopped by the FBI yesterday afternoon as he prepared to board a flight from Las Vegas back to his home in London. Hutchi … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google and Mystery Science teamed up to give schools free eclipse glasses

A highly-anticipated total solar eclipse is set to cut a path across a large portion of the United States on August 21, but not everyone has the proper gear to see it safely. But some organizations want to change that.The company Mystery Science and Google just announced a partne … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Micro satellite launcher Vector flies first rocket from Spaceport Camden

 Micro satellite launch startup Vector, which is founded by a team of alumni from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Boeing and other aerospace leaders, competed its first suborbital launch and flight of a full-scale test version of its Vector-R launch rocket. The launch is also a first fo … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Netflix will lampoon the true crime resurgence it helped fuel

Netflix’s latest original series, American Vandal, is about a high school senior named Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tatro), who’s in a bit of a pickle. “This is just not the way I thought things were going to go. I was going to graduate high school, get my degree in engineering,” he says … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

High schooler makes 3D-printed, machine learning-powered eye disease diagnosis system

 If you’re one of those people that worries that you haven’t accomplished much in your life, you probably shouldn’t read this profile of Kavya Kopparapu, a teenager who has probably done more in her time at high school than I’ve done since I graduated. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

The Secret Service wants to use a drone to protect Trump

The president plans to spend a couple weeks at his New Jersey golf course this August, and the Secret Service plans to monitor the place with a drone. The drone (singular) would be tethered, and would buzz 300-400 feet above the ground, conducting video surveillance, according to … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Facebook is slowly but surely making its workforce more diverse

Facebook’s latest diversity report, out today, comes with a genuine surprise: improvement in nearly every category. While most tech companies struggle to make their workplaces more diverse and less dominated by white and male employees, Facebook has managed to hire more women and … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Think Tank Attacks IRS Subpoena in Coinbase Tax Dispute

Opposition to the IRS effort to obtain user information from cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase is growing. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Bits Digit (BITSD) 50% profit-sharing Token sale started hurry up

BITS DIGIT Token is offering 50% profit-sharing in Bits Digit malty functional platform. The first Exchange platform to provide 100% insurance on investors’ money with maximum safety features enabled. On call immediate fund transfer No limit on fund transfer for verified accounts … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Yoga Studio and Boutique Hotel Set into in Tropical Landscape of Nosara, Costa Rica

Studio Saxe has completed a boutique hotel and yoga studio set into in tropical landscape of Nosara, Costa Rica. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 7 years ago

FBI arrests security expert who stopped WannaCry ransomware attack

MalwareTech, the security researcher who stopped the spread of WannaCry ransomware, has been detained following a trip to DEF CON in Las Vegas. A friend, who spoke to Motherboard under condition of anonymity, said, I’ve spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no re … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

How a Backhoe Operator Found 3,000-Year-Old Footprints in Arizona

Not long after Dan Arnit made the biggest archaeological find of his career, he had to go build a parking lot.The news of his discovery—3,000-year-old footprints made by a family walking through ancient fields—had made it up the chain at the Pima County government in Arizona, whi … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

The Marble of Michelangelo's Dreams

High in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, sits Monte Altissimo, a 5,213-foot (1,589-meter-high) mountain, climbed in 1517 by the Italian artist Michelangelo—in pursuit of fine marble for his sculptures. There, according to Reuters, he “found the marble of his dreams. It was, the Renaiss … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago