Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Buzz Aldrin gets visit from NASA after polar evacuation and other top stories.

  • Buzz Aldrin gets visit from NASA after polar evacuation

    Buzz Aldrin gets visit from NASA after polar evacuation
    In this Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, photo provided by Christina Korp, right, Buzz Aldrin lies in a hospital bed in Christchurch, New Zealand. Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was evacuated from the South Pole to New Zealand where he …more.
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  • The LG UltraFine 4K is a great MacBook monitor

    The LG UltraFine 4K is a great MacBook monitor
    No Apple product was more overdue an update than the Thunderbolt Display. First sold in 2011, its unlaminated, un-Retina screen was beautiful in its day, but Apple gave it so little attention that it even chose to throw an adapter in the box rather than update its charging cable with the 2012 MagSafe 2 connector. And, with Apple moving to Retina displays across most of the Mac line, the Thunderbolt Display was left to languish on shelves at a ludicrously high price. But the stage was set this y..
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  • FCC slams AT&T and Verizon over zero-rating offers

    FCC slams AT&T and Verizon over zero-rating offers
    Photo by FCC The Federal Communications Commission is not cool with AT&T's offer that lets customers stream the carrier's DirecTV service without it counting against their data plans. The commission has also launched an investigation into a similar offer from Verizon.In a letter sent to AT&T on Thursday, the agency said it's reached a preliminary conclusion that the carrier is violating net neutrality rules, whic..
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  • Google Chrome now defaults to HTML5 for most sites

    Google Chrome now defaults to HTML5 for most sites
    HTML5 by default has been a long time coming for the browser. Two versions ago, Google began blocking Flash that was running "behind the scenes." The continued change over to HTML5 should lead to faster load times, better security and improved overall performance. The update to version 55 also includes CSS automatic hyphenation that will help with the look of text blocks and line wrapping.For Android users, the new version brings wider availability of a downloads feature that enables offline vi..
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  • Amazon's new Snowmobile collects data instead of blasting through powder

    Amazon's new Snowmobile collects data instead of blasting through powder
    The Snowmobile is an expansion of Amazon's Snowball service. Amazon ships an 80 terabyte Snowball storage unit to customers. Once they uploaded their data, the customer would ship the Snowball back to Amazon so the data could be directly transferred to a server. Amazon designed the Snowball to deal with high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns at come with moving large amounts of data over the internet.For some customers, the Snowball simply didn't provide enough space. T..
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  • Check if you were hit by the massive 'Avalanche' cybercrime ring

    Check if you were hit by the massive 'Avalanche' cybercrime ring
    Lutz Gaebel, press officer at the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, right, speaks at a press conference in Lueneburg, Germany, Thursday Dec. 1, 2016. Police announced the discovery and neutralization of a massive online fraud network. Also Europol says five key suspects have been arrested in connection with a massive operation aimed at knocking out a cybercrime group accused of inflicting hundreds of millions of euros in losses worldwide.The European Union police agency said the sweep was "u..
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  • Snapchat will make Los Angeles a stronger tech hub

    Snapchat will make Los Angeles a stronger tech hub
    If you were to write a history of Silicon Valley, you could do it by looking at a series of major diaspora. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Oracle and PayPal attract top talent for years; when they reach maturity or a major liquidity event, their talent disperses and germinates into the next generation of companies. The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, and the tendency of these companies to start up and grow nearby their progenitors has contributed to the virtuous cycle that maintains the..
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  • European Mars mission funding approved even after test lander's crash

    European Mars mission funding approved even after test lander's crash
    LUCERNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - European space agency (ESA) member states have approved another 450 million euros ($479 million) in funding for the ExoMars mission to the Red Planet, even after a test lander that was part of the program crashed in October, ESA said on Friday. The European-Russian ExoMars program sent a gas-sniffing orbiter and the test lander to Mars this year to search for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet and to lay the groundwork for a rove..
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  • Alexa is about to get a lot smarter thanks to hundreds of new commands

    Alexa is about to get a lot smarter thanks to hundreds of new commands
    Alexa will soon have a better idea of what you’re asking and won’t need to ask you as many clarifying questions to provide a response. That’s because Amazon is making a concerted push to expand the conversational and response skills available for its Alexa voice assistant, according to Venture Beat. Alexa originally could manage 15 command categories called “intents,” which are used with voice inquiries. Common intents include stop, cancel, help, yes, and no. Alexa skills programming also inclu..
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  • The Good, The Bad And The Cringeworthy Of The 2016 Game Awards

    The Good, The Bad And The Cringeworthy Of The 2016 Game Awards
    The 2016 Game Awards have come and gone, and it's time to give the ceremony its postmortem. What worked? What didn't work? And is this the video game award show we need, or the one we deserve? Let's go over the good, the bad and the cringeworthy of last night's show. The Schick Hydrobot says a lot about this year's Game Awards. (Credit: Schick/Erik Kain) The Good Because we should be positive as often as we can, let's start with the good... 1. Geoff Keighley Long-time video game commentator a..
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