The Digital Service Act of 2019 would help state and local governments hire the talent they need to fix the often outdated tools and websites Americans use every day.
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Friday, 15 March 2019
NASA's Supersize Space Launch System Might Be Doomed
The space agency's ill-fated SLS was meant to be the biggest rocket in the world. Now the 'rocket to nowhere' may have lost its last reason for being.
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Facebook Is Not a Monopoly, but It Should Be Broken Up
Elizabeth Warren proposes to force Facebook to divest Instagram and WhatsApp. Her reasoning is flawed, but her prescription is correct.
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With Tech on the Defensive, SXSW Takes an Introspective Turn
Elizabeth Warren took a shot at Big Tech. And people who are already concerned with the industry’s size, privacy issues, and ethical conundrums want solutions.
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For Pi Day, Calculate Pi Yourself Using Two Colliding Balls
On this day of numerical glory, get to know pi in an unusual way: using the elastic collision of two different masses and a wall.
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Boeing's Grounded 737s Won't Cause Massive Flight Delays
The aviation industry is used to disruptions, and knows how to keep customers—especially fancy ones—moving.
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Boeing Plans to Fix the 737 MAX Jet With a Software Update
But a plan that seemed straightforward has been complicated by the Ethiopian Airlines crash.
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When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack.
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Colleges Need Influencers, but Do Influencers Need College?
About a third of Gen Z wants to grow up to be YouTubers. Which doesn't really require a college education.
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Tesla Model Y announced: release set for 2020, price starts at $47,000
Roomier than a Model 3, less bulky than a Model X
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Looks like Google’s thinking about a folding screen of its own
A recent patent application filed by Google suggests the search giant is experimenting with foldable display technology, similar to the panels seen on the Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold. The filing, spotted by Patently Mobile, describes a method for constructing an OLED panel that can be bent repeatedly and used in a “modern computing device.”
What’s interesting here is that Google doesn’t produce any displays of its own, and isn’t the kind of company that manufacturers its own handsets. Like Apple with its iPhones, Google reportedly outsources manufacturing of the Pixel 3 to Foxconn, and both HTC and LG shared manufacturing duties on the Pixel 2 phones. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a product based on this patent to see...
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New facial recognition bill would require consent before companies could share data
A new bill introduced in the Senate today would prohibit commercial companies using facial recognition technology from collecting or sharing people’s data without their explicit consent.
The bipartisan Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act is sponsored by Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) and is the first of its kind when it comes to facial recognition (FR) technologies and the privacy concerns surrounding them. Under the bill, users would need to be notified whenever their FR data is used or collected. According to the lawmakers, it also would require third-party testing before the tech could be introduced into the market to ensure it is unbiased and doesn’t harm consumers.
“Consumers are increasingly concerned...
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Turtle Beach is buying PC gaming accessory brand Roccat for $19.2 million
Turtle Beach is known for gaming headsets, but it’ll soon be adding an entirely new roster of PC gaming peripherals to its catalog: it’s purchasing Roccat, a fine purveyor of mice, keyboards, mouse pads, and headsets, for $19.2 million in cash, stock, and earn-out payments, according to the press release.
These days, Turtle Beach is known more for value rather than quality, so Roccat will probably be a valuable, higher-end brand that the company can take advantage of. We wouldn’t expect to see the respected Roccat name disappear anytime soon.
But now might be a good time to pour one out for the idea of a successful indie peripheral brand to go it on their own. Turtle Beach and Roccat joining forces is just the latest example in a larger...
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After the porn ban, Tumblr users have ditched the platform as promised
Since Tumblr announced its porn ban in December, many users reacted by explaining that they mainly used the site for browsing not-safe-for-work content, and they threatened to leave the platform if the ban were enforced. It now appears that many users have made good on that threat: Tumblr’s traffic has dropped nearly 30 percent since December.
Tumblr’s global traffic in December clocked in at 521 million, but it had dropped to 370 million by February, web analytics firm SimilarWeb tells The Verge. Statista reports a similar trend in the number of unique visitors. By January 2019, only over 437 million visited Tumblr, compared to a high of 642 million visitors in July 2018.
The ban removed explicit posts from public view, including any...
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Facebook owes us an explanation
Yesterday, somewhere in the sixth hour of Facebook’s record outage, I sat dumbfounded alongside my fellow editors at The Verge. We wondered how it was possible that the largest and most influential technology company in the world could have a day-long service disruption and basically say nothing about it except for a curt and cryptic tweet. Facebook eventually said that the outage was the result of a “server configuration change” — an impenetrable combination of words that translates to “we played ourselves.” The company wasn’t being attacked, so why not just come clean early?
The Verge, The New York Times, and others tried to get more information out of Facebook when following up for comment. After Facebook issued its statement today,...
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NASA lab brews up alien atmospheres here on Earth
Earth's pleasant, life-giving atmosphere is turning out to be somewhat of an oddity. With almost 4,000 planets so far discovered orbiting stars beyond our solar system, scientists are finding that atmospheres come in a wide range of recipes. To get a better understanding of that cosmic chemistry, a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has recreated one of these alien atmospheres in the lab.
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Pictorial: 2019 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance is a multi-faceted diamond, with many ancillary events combining to offer something for everyone, regardless of which genre of automobiles an individual might be interested in. Now in its 24th year, the concours has evolved to become one of the most prestigious and well-known such concours events in the world. Most importantly, it never fails to surprise, with a range of innovative classes introduced each year to ensure the exhibits are always fresh and fascinating.
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Tesla reveals Model Y crossover SUV
Tesla finally launched its crossover SUV today, with CEO Elon Musk taking to the stage at an event in LA to show off the company's fifth all-electric car. The shiny new Tesla Model Y shares plenty of DNA with the company's Model 3 sedan, albeit with a little less range, a little more bulk and a slightly higher price tag.
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Can tropical tectonic activity trigger ice ages?
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major driver of shifts in the Earth's climate, as we know all too well in our currently warming world. But it also works the other way – in the past too little CO2 has been associated with triggering ice ages. Now a team of scientists has found a surprising new mechanism that could lead to ice ages: Tropical tectonic activity.
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Researchers home in on the brain’s taste-sensing "sweet spot"
While the locations other senses such as sight and hearing are processed in the brain have long been known, the subjective nature of taste has made pinning down exactly where this sense is processed more difficult. Now researchers have finally homed in on the brain's "sweet spot," revealing the center responsible for processing different types of tastes.
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MIT's new robotic gripper works like a Venus fly trap
From green blobs to hydrogel fish to boa constrictors, scientists have taken inspiration from some interesting sources in pursuit of robotic arms that can lift heavy items, but do so with a delicate touch. The latest solution from MIT resembles a venus flytrap in the way its snatches up objects many times its own weight, with its creators hopeful it can open up some exciting possibilities for robotic assistants that can handle all kinds of objects.
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Jetpack Aviation's David Mayman on his upcoming Speeder flying motorcycle
If somebody tells you they're building a flying motorcycle, it's probably appropriate to reply "yeah, right." But if that somebody is jetpack guru David Mayman, it's worth your while listening, because Mayman has some seriously impressive achievements under his belt.
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Green tea found to prevent obesity in mice
For thousands of years thirsty folks have turned to green tea for its purported health benefits (and they are many), but today's scientific tools are enabling researchers are really able to dig into its affects on the human body. The latest intriguing observations come from nutritionists at Ohio State University (OHU), who set out to study how the steamy beverage might limit obesity in mice and returned some pretty positive results.
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Lockheed Martin completes full-size cislunar habitat prototype
Lockheed Martin has completed work on its prototype cislunar habitat that will be used in designing and testing NASA's Gateway manned deep-space outpost. Built as part of the space agency's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) Phase II study contract, the earthbound habitat is studying key technologies, interfaces, and general livability needed for extended missions far from home.
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Unusual strobing light and sound treatment reverses Alzheimer's in mice
Could an hour's exposure every day to a specifically calibrated flickering light and droning sound help clear your brain of the toxic proteins that cause Alzheimer's disease? An intriguing new MIT study raises this possibility after successful mouse experiments showed marked neurological improvements through simple visual and auditory stimulation.
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Another use for your unwanted eggshells – energy storage
They've been used as a rubber additive, a carbon-capture medium and a bioplastic ingredient. Now, discarded eggshells may have yet another use. Scientists have determined that they could be utilized in an eco-friendly and inexpensive form of energy storage.
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Review: Infinity Seat is barely there, but it's big on comfort
It was back in 2013 that California chiropractor and triathlete Vincent Marcel took to Kickstarter, to finance production of his bizarre-looking but supposedly very comfortable Infinity Seat bicycle saddle. Well, it's become a commercially-available product since then, and guess what? It works!
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Wing-integrated battery pack nearly doubles drone's flight time
We've already heard how batteries that are built into the structure of items – such as cars or satellites – could help extend run times without increasing bulk. Now, the flight time of a drone has been almost doubled, thanks to such "structural batteries."
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Kiwano rolls out updated self-balancing monowheel electric scooter
When launched in 2017, the KO1 monowheel scooter – a kind of cross between a Segway and a Solowheel – offered a range of 20 miles and a top speed of 20 mph. The KO1+ has a very similar look to the original, but is quite a different animal.
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In pictures: Up close with the magnificent McLaren 720S Spider convertible
At today's Melbourne launch of what we'd describe as the most beautiful car in the McLaren stable, we had a chance to get up close and personal with the new 720S Spider convertible. And what a stunner it is.
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Future frigate: A look at tomorrow's eyes of the fleet
The frigate is perhaps the most common large warship, but almost three decades after the end of the Cold War, the US Navy hasn't a single frigate left in its fleet for the first time since 1943 and is looking for a new one. Meanwhile, many other navies, both large and small, are replacing theirs with frigates more suitable to the 21st century. So what will the frigates of the future look like and how will they impact future conflicts?
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Magnetic nano-probe explores individual cells from the inside
There's a good chance that in the future, microscopic robots could be swimming and crawling their way through our bodies to deliver drugs or fight infections. While some of these have been capable of manipulating individual cells, researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new way to get nanobots inside cells, and precisely control them once they're in there.
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The target of NASA's asteroid sampling mission seems to be spinning faster and faster
As NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe starts to really close in on its target, scientists here on Earth have made a surprising discovery about the asteroid Bennu. Newly published research describes how the asteroid is rotating as you might expect, but these rotations appear to be speeding up over time, a new clue for scientists working to understand the composition and behavior of the asteroid and others like it.
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Astronomers spot new bumper crop of supermassive black holes in the early universe
To look through space is to look through time, and a five-year survey has pushed that to its limits, peering back some 13 billion years to a time just after the Big Bang. Astronomers on the international project have turned up 100 supermassive black holes from a time when they were thought to be rare, suggesting we might need to rewrite our understanding of their evolution.
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Virtual Frame Technique captures incredibly high-speed video with any camera
High-speed cameras offer more than simply breath-taking slow motion captures of fast-moving events. Scientists and engineers often turn to these advanced imaging technologies to better understand rocket launches, lightning and viper strikes, and now researchers in Switzerland are now proffering such folks a brand new tool they say will work with any kind of camera.
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Prototype watch uses your body to prevent hacking of wearables and implants
We're used to the security risks posed by someone hacking into our computers, tablets, and smartphones, but what about pacemakers and other implanted medical devices? To help prevent possible murder-by-hacker, engineers at Purdue University have come up with a watch-like device that turns the human body into its own network as a way to keep personal technology private.
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Genetic variant may explain why birth control is not effective in all women
No form of contraception is 100 percent effective, and a fascinating new study has provided a possible explanation for why that is the case for one of the most widely used forms of birth control. The research has for the first time linked a specific genetic variant with the efficacy of hormone-based birth control treatments, suggesting this type of contraception may be less effective in women found with this particular gene.
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