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• TechShop Announces Chapter 7 Bankruptcy; Closes All Locations

  15-11-2017 23:50 via rss.slashdot.org
  ewhac writes: To the shock and dismay of many, TechShop today announced the immediate closure of all of its U.S. locations and is entering Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. Their homepage has been replaced with a PDF relating TechShop's history, and detailing the circumstances leading to shutting down the company. First launched ten years ago, TechShop was one of the first "shared maker spaces," a members-only machine and work shop where tinkerers, makers, inventors, and innovators were able to
  
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• DICE Faces The Music In 'Star Wars Battlefront II' AMA

  15-11-2017 23:45
  If you're looking for a concrete explanation of the game's microtransaction mechanics, prepare to be disappointed.
  
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• How To Play SteamVR Games With Windows Mixed Realty Headsets

  15-11-2017 23:40
  You can now use a Windows Mixed Reality headset to access thousands of VR titles on Valve's SteamVR platform. Here's how.
  
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• BitFenix Enso Chassis Launches With 'Alchemy 3.0' RGB Lighting

  15-11-2017 23:35
  The new Enso chassis launched alongside BitFenix's Alchemy 3.0 standalone RGB LED strips.
  
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• Bungie Talks Mercury In 'Curse Of Osiris' Livestream

  15-11-2017 23:30
  Heroic strikes are making a return, and the studio introduced Raid Lairs, which will further challenge your six-player fireteam.
  
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• Google Docs Outage Outrages Twitter, Google Responds

  15-11-2017 23:20
  Google Docs was out of commission for a significant number of users, and Twitter was not happy.
  
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• FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules

  15-11-2017 23:10 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission under its Republican chairman plans to vote in December to kill the net neutrality rules passed during the Obama era, said two people briefed on the plans. Chairman Ajit Pai in April proposed gutting the rules that he blamed for depressing investment in broadband, and said he intended to "finish the job" this year. The chairman has decided to put his proposal to a vote at the FCC next month, said the p
  
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• Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work

  15-11-2017 22:30 via rss.slashdot.org
  Reader cdreimer writes: According to a report in The Wall Street Journal (possibly paywalled), two-thirds of Americans have reported being bullied in the workplace in the last year (up from half in 1989) and boorish behavior by bosses and coworkers are causing companies in lost productivity. The report reads: One of the first things visitors notice when they enter the Irvine, Calif., offices of Bryan Cave LLP is the granite plaque etched with the law firm's 10-point code of civility. The gray sl
  
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• Hoverboards Recalled For Fire and Explosion Risks -- Again

  15-11-2017 21:50 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled hoverboards from several companies over concerns the devices could catch fire or explode. The series of recalls affects roughly 16,000 hoverboards from brands including iHoverspeed, Sonic Smart Wheels, Tech Drift, iLive, Go Wheels, Drone Nerds, LayZ Board and Smart Balance Wheel. All the brands of self-balancing scooters share a common problem: lithium-ion batteries that could potentially overheat and cause a fi
  
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• Futuremark Adding DX12 Test To VRMark November 22

  15-11-2017 21:30
  Futuremark revealed a new VRMark benchmark test that evaluates how well your PC handles Direct X 12 VR experiences.
  
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• FBI, DHS Issue Warning On North Korea-Linked Malware

  15-11-2017 21:20
  The FBI and the DHS issued a joint warning on the Volgmer Trojan malware, which is believed to be linked to North Korea.
  
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• Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again

  15-11-2017 21:10 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon is giving Whole Foods shoppers an early gift for the holidays. The grocer announced Wednesday it's slashing prices again, this time on several "holiday staples," including sweet potatoes, canned pumpkin and turkey. If you're an Amazon Prime member, you'll pay even less for turkey: Whole Foods slashed turkey prices to $1.99 per pound (compared to $2.49 for non-Prime members), or $2.99 per pound for an organic turkey ($3.49 for non-Prime members).Read mo
  
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• US Scientists Try 1st Gene Editing in the Body

  15-11-2017 20:30 via rss.slashdot.org
  Marilynn Marchione, reporting for Associated Press: Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to cure a disease. The experiment was done Monday in California on 44-year-old Brian Madeux. Through an IV, he received billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a precise spot. "It's kind of humbling" to be the first to test this, said Madeux, who has a metabolic disease called Hunter
  
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• Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method'

  15-11-2017 19:50 via rss.slashdot.org
  From a new wide-ranging interview of Elon Musk: An unfortunate fact of human nature is that when people make up their mind about something, they tend not to change it -- even when confronted with facts to the contrary. "It's very unscientific," Musk says. "There's this thing called physics, which is this scientific method that's really quite effective for figuring out the truth." The scientific method is a phrase Musk uses often when asked how he came up with an idea, solved a problem or chose t
  
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• US Government Details Procedure in Revealing Security Vulnerabilities

  15-11-2017 19:35
  The U.S. government has detailed the guidelines it follows on revealing security flaws to companies.
  
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• Technology Invading Nearly All US Jobs, Even Lower Skilled, Study Finds

  15-11-2017 19:10 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Forget robots. The real transformation taking place in nearly every workplace is the invasion of digital tools. The use of digital tools has increased, often dramatically, in 517 of 545 occupations since 2002, with a striking uptick in many lower-skilled occupations, according to a study released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. The report underscores the growing need for workers of all types to gain digital skills and
  
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• Nvidia Releases Game Ready Driver For 'Injustice 2'

  15-11-2017 18:45
  The driver also adds support for "Star Wars Battlefront II" and brings framerate improvements to "Destiny 2."
  
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• An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence

  15-11-2017 18:30 via rss.slashdot.org
  mirandakatz writes: This summer, Backchannel reported that Anthony Levandowski, the controversial engineer at the heart of the Uber/Waymo lawsuit, had filed paperwork for a new religion called the Way of the Future. Today, investigative reporter Mark Harris has all the details on what that AI-based religion actually likes -- and Levandowski granted him his first interview about the new religion and his only public interview since Waymo filed its suit in February. As Levandowski tells him, we can
  
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• TensorFlow Lite Brings Low-Latency Inference To Mobile Devices

  15-11-2017 18:00
  Google announced TensorFlow Lite, a lighter-weight version of the TensorFlow software framework and a successor to TensorFlow Mobile that's more efficient on mobile and embedded devices.
  
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• What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?

  15-11-2017 17:40 via rss.slashdot.org
  Benjamin Breen, an assistant professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, looks at art history to figure out what people cooked in the 1600s, and wonders whether it is possible to ascertain the taste of food. From a blog post: What can we learn about how people ate in the seventeenth century? And even if we can piece together historical recipes, can we ever really know what their food tasted like? This might seem like a relatively unimportant question. For one thing, the senses of other people are alw
  
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• Forbes '30 Under 30' Conference Website Exposed Attendees' Personal Information

  15-11-2017 17:03 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: Every year, Forbes' 30 Under 30 list recognizes people blessed with both youth and exceptional talent in their field -- including celebrities, startup founders, doctors, and artists. These are smart, savvy professionals -- and when some of them include information security pros, they're bound to go poking around for vulnerabilities. That's what Yan Zhu, a privacy engineer who made the 2015 list, was doing when she found a gaping privacy hole in th
  
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• Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely?

  15-11-2017 16:20 via rss.slashdot.org
  Paul Baker, writing for The Conversation: Brits can get rather sniffy about the English language -- after all, they originated it. But a Google search of the word "Americanisms" turns up claims that they are swamping, killing and absorbing British English. If the British are not careful, so the argument goes, the homeland will soon be the 51st State as workers tell customers to "have a nice day" while "colour" will be spelt without a "u" and "pavements" will become "sidewalks." My research exami
  
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• 'Black Friday Is Dying'

  15-11-2017 15:40 via rss.slashdot.org
  A reader shares a report: For years, Black Friday signaled the beginning of Christmas shopping. The day after Thanksgiving was a frantic day of driving to the store at the crack of dawn to fight off other shoppers for great deals. For people who truly hated the ritual, I have some good news for you: Black Friday is going away. That's according to data from GPShopper, which tracks consumer behavior. It turns out, customers are really not into Black Friday. A full 81% of us feel stress surrounding
  
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• FSP’s CMT510 Features Tempered Glass Galore

  15-11-2017 15:30
  FSP announced the latest addition to its CMT series of cases, the CMT 510. If you prefer your cases to be packed full of RGB-lit fans and feature tempered glass panels galore, this might be just the chassis you are looking for.
  
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• Xilinx Pairs AMD's EPYC With Four FPGAs At Supercomputing 2017

  15-11-2017 15:15
  Xilinx displays an AMD EPYC-powered server with four FPGAs at Supercomputing 2017.
  
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• Xilinix Pairs AMD's EPYC With Four FPGAs At Supercomputing 2017

  15-11-2017 15:15
  Xilinx displays an AMD EPYC-powered server with four FPGAs at Supercomputing 2017.
  
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• Overclocking Returns To Origin PC EON, ND, NS Laptops With Intel Core i7-8700K

  15-11-2017 15:00
  Origin PC announced that its EON, ND, and NS gaming laptops will now be equipped with new Intel 8th generation (Coffee Lake) Core i7 processors. In addition, these new versions sport a returning feature in the form of CPU overclocking.
  
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• Nintendo Is Making An Animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, Says Report

  15-11-2017 15:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  According to The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo has made a deal with Illumination Entertainment -- the animation studio that makes the Despicable Me movies -- to make an animated Super Mario Bros. movie. The film is currently in "early development," but the report comes as a surprise given how protective Nintendo is of their intellectual properties. Gizmodo reports: According to the report, the companies have been in negotiations for a year and the fact Universal (which finances and distributes I
  
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• 10 Modern, Mainstream GPUs And Ryzen: Can They Play Crysis?

  15-11-2017 15:00
  
  Crysis was magnificent in its day, offering irreproachable gameplay to hardcore enthusiasts. And of course, it challenged the most powerful hardware available 10 years ago.
  
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• Boeing 757 Testing Shows Airplanes Vulnerable To Hacking, DHS Says

  15-11-2017 14:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  schwit1 shares a report from Aviation Today: A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a DHS official said Wednesday at the 2017 CyberSat Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia. "We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration. [Which] means I didn't have anybody touching the airplane, I didn't
  
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• UC Browser Mobile App Disappears From Google Play Store

  15-11-2017 10:50 via rss.slashdot.org
  UC Browser, a popular mobile web browser owned by China's Alibaba Group, has mysteriously disappeared from the Google Play Store. The app was pulled from the Google Play Store on November 12, according to data from app analytics firm App Annie. Several users began inquiring about the app's whereabouts earlier this week on Reddit. It was not immediately clear why UC Browser had been pulled from Android's marquee app store. According to Twitter user Mike Ross, who claims to be a developer at Aliba
  
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• Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox

  15-11-2017 08:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  Mozilla today launched Firefox Quantum, which the company is calling "the biggest update since Firefox 1.0 in 2004." It brings massive performance improvements and a visual redesign. It also sets Google as the default search engine again if you live in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan. TechCrunch reports: In 2014, Mozilla struck a deal with Yahoo to make it the default search engine provider for users in the U.S., with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and others as options. While it was a small ch
  
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• Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe

  15-11-2017 04:30 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Republican attorney general of Missouri has launched an investigation into Google's business practices. Josh Hawley wants to know how Google handles user data. And he plans to look into whether Google is using its dominance in the search business to harm companies in other markets where Google competes. It's another sign of growing pressure Google is facing from the political right. Grassroots conservatives increasingly see Google as fal
  
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• All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux

  15-11-2017 02:25 via rss.slashdot.org
  Freshly Exhumed shares a report from ZDnet: Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened: All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers are running Linux. The last two non-Linux systems, a pair of Chinese IBM POWER computers running AIX, dropped off the November 2017 TOP500 Supercomputer list. When the first TOP500 supercomputer list was compiled in June 1993, Linux was barely more than a t
  
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• Yelp Ordered To Identify User Accused of Defaming a Tax Preparer

  15-11-2017 01:45 via rss.slashdot.org
  mi writes: California State Appeals Court ruled this week that Yelp can't shield the identify of an anonymous reviewer who posted allegedly defamatory statements about a tax preparer. "The three-judge appeals panel in Santa Ana agreed with Yelp that it could protect the First Amendment rights of its anonymous reviewer but it still had to turn over the information," reports Bloomberg. "The panel reasoned that the accountant had made a showing that the review was defamatory in that it went beyond
  
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• Apple Is Back To Being the World's Top Wearable Maker

  15-11-2017 01:05 via rss.slashdot.org
  Apple is once again the biggest selling producer of wearables after its third-generation Apple Watch, released in September, helped it pip China's Xiaomi to the post. TechCrunch reports: The new device, Apple's first that connects to the internet without being tethered to a smartphone, took the U.S. mobile giant to 3.9 million shipments in the recent Q3 2017, according to new data from Canalys. The firm estimates that the gen-three version accounted for just 800,000 shipments, due to supply issu
  
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• FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication

  15-11-2017 00:20 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source): For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill -- a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine. The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding proble
  
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