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Apple's Bad Business Practices -- The Answer to Bad Company Practices
Apple is a company known for being able to be the first company to reach a market cap value of $1 trillion dollars in history. One would assume then t...
Written by: The 1st Amender
The US and China have been arguing about fair trade and intellectual property for the past few years, with nobody wanting to budge on either side. To ...
Written by: Green
Men Are Better in Tech than Women
As it turns out. Men in tech are better than women. This is in response to an article that was posted by CNET stating with a horrifically offensive ti...
Written by: The Most Offensive Guy
Python Removes Offensive Terms Master and Slave from Programming Language
I am honestly amazed I live in this time. As a programmer myself, this really hits me in the jimmies. I just don't understand what the freaking po...
Written by: The 1st Amender
First page now has H2 titles which is good- What is FirstAmender? can be H1 and the columns with images and titles can be defined as H3. For SEO...
Written by: Pandorumx5
How to Hire the Best Mobile App Development Company to Fit Your Needs
Mobile applications are an indispensable component of most successful companies today. Advances in technology, as well as Internet connectivity, have ...
Written by: Masimiliano
Malicious Chrome extension is next to impossible to manually remove
Proving once again that Google Chrome extensions are the Achilles heel of what's arguably the Internet's most secure browser, a researcher has...
Written by: nherting
How bitcoins became worth $10,000
On Tuesday evening, the value of one bitcoin shot above $10,000. It has been a remarkable run for a currency that was only worth about $12 five years ...
Written by: nherting
Elon Musk wins bet, finishing massive battery installation in 100 days
Tesla has completed construction of a massive 100 megawatt, 129 MWh battery installation in South Australia. The new facility boasts the largest megaw...
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Conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign
The articles began appearing in late August, mostly in conservative publications such as Town Hall, Breitbart, and the Daily Caller&nbs...
Written by: nherting
New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros
While artificial intelligence software has made huge strides recently, in many cases, it has only been automating things that humans already do well. ...
Written by: nherting
IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge
IBM and Sony have developed a new magnetic tape system capable of storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch, for a max theoretical capacity of 330 ...
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Feds Arrest Man Credited With Helping To Stop Ransomware Attack
Marcus Hutchins' Twitter account suddenly went quiet a day ago when the FBI took him into custody in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The 23-year-old Briti...
Written by: nherting
Welcome First of all, welcome to Gentoo! You are about to enter the world of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing ...
Written by: R. Stallman
Judge: Waymo may be in “a world of trouble” if it can’t prove actual harm by Uber
SAN FRANCISCO—At a court hearing on Wednesday, US District Judge William Alsup questioned whether Waymo can really show the harm ...
Written by: nherting
Next Windows 10 update won’t include the most exciting promised feature
Arguably the most interesting forthcoming Windows 10 features that Microsoft showed off at its Build developer conference this year were "Ti...
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Russia has a plan to compete with SpaceX, but it has a flaw
For a long time, with its low production costs and efficient fleet of rockets, Russia has been the leading player in the global market for satellite l...
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Low-latency satellite broadband gets approval to serve US residents
A company seeking to offer low-latency broadband from satellites yesterday received a key approval from the Federal Communications Commissio...
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Uber engineer Levandowski, accused of massive theft from Google, has been fired
The Uber engineer at the center of the company's litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired. Levandowski's termination was ...
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WCry ransomware worm’s Bitcoin take tops $70k as its spread continues
WCry, the National Security Agency exploit-powered ransomware worm that began spreading worldwide on Friday, had reportedly affected hundred...
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“Genericide” legal assault to nullify the Google trademark fails
What do a teleprompter, thermos, hoover, aspirin, and videotape have in common? They were once trademarked but lost their legally protected status bec...
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15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa
Where there's a media platform popular with consumers, advertisers are never far behind. Case in point, Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa...
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SpaceX may finally be reaching a nirvana of high flight rates
Due to accidents, production issues, and other factors, SpaceX has in recent years failed to achieve a "high volume" launch rate of a d...
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Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code
The "Google Docs" phishing attack that wormed its way through thousands of e-mail inboxes earlier this week exploited a threat tha...
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The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought
A remote hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips for seven years was more severe than many people imagined, because it allowed hackers to remotely g...
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Samsung joins the self-driving car gold rush
The tech industry has a bad case of four-wheel fever, and it looks like there's no cure in sight. Before too long, it will be impossible to buy a ...
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Yik Yak is finally relegated to the dustbin of Internet history
On Friday, the Yik Yak app officially closed up shop. The company’s founders, Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, wrote up a short blog post...
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Fitbit Flex 2 “exploded” on woman’s wrist, leaving second-degree burns
Samsung isn't the only company that has had deal with exploding products. A Wisconsin woman told ABC News that her new Fi...
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Acer Predator X27: 4K, HDR, and 144Hz G-Sync for the ultimate gaming monitor
Acer has unveiled what may just be the perfect gaming monitor—so long as you don't like ultrawides, at least. The Predator X27 is ...
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Report: Google will add an ad blocker to all versions of Chrome Web browser
The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad ...
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>10,000 Windows computers may be infected by advanced NSA backdoor
Security experts believe that tens of thousands of Windows computers may have been infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor. Th...
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Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want
If you're using Chrome, Firefox, or Opera to view websites, you should be aware of a weakness that can trick even savvy people into trusting malic...
Written by: nherting
The Xiaomi Mi 6 out-specs the Galaxy S8 for half the price
With the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 finally ready for market, it's time for a round of smartphone updates from the usual suspects. The chip debuted&n...
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New processors are now blocked from receiving updates on old Windows
We knew Microsoft was planning to block installation of Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on systems with Intel 7th Generation Core processors (more...
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Feds finally shut down botnet that menaced world for 7 years
Federal prosecutors say they've dealt a fatal blow to Kelihos, a network of more than 10,000 infected computers that was used to deliver spam, ste...
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Qualcomm loses legal battle with Blackberry, must pay $815M
BlackBerry has won $815 million in an arbitration battle against Qualcomm over royalty payments, the company said today. The award also will incl...
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Ajit Pai can’t convince websites that killing net neutrality is a good idea
The plan to eliminate net neutrality rules and replace them with voluntary commitments is not winning over lobbyists for major Internet companies...
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Do you want to play a game? Ransomware asks for high score instead of money
At this point, Ars readers have heard countless tales of computer users being forced to pay significant sums to unlock files encry...
Written by: nherting
How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? I counted 7
A couple of years ago, when I was investigating the UK's safest ISP, a high-ranking employee at Virgin Media told me there was no NSA or...
Written by: nherting
X-rays let you see the smallest feature buried in your CPU
The semiconductor industry is beyond remarkable when it comes to the complexity and precision of processes. A modern integrated circuit is n...
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We may have just witnessed the dawn of truly commercial spaceflight
Elon Musk had himself a day Thursday. For the first time in history, his company launched a fully reusable first stage of an orbital ro...
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Next-generation DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018
You may have just upgraded your computer to use DDR4 recently or you may still be using DDR3, but in either case, nothing stays new forever. JEDEC, th...
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Microsoft sued for millions over Windows 10 upgrades
Unhappy Windows 10 users in Illinois are taking Microsoft to court, claiming that problems caused by the Windows 10 upgrade show that it was negl...
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Intel is keeping Moore’s Law alive by making bigger improvements less often
Intel took half a day this week to talk about processor manufacturing technology. The company still believes in Moore's Law and says the principle...
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ISPs are selling your web history
The US Senate yesterday voted to eliminate privacy rules that would have forced ISPs to get your consent before selling Web browsing history...
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Intel will release 8th-gen Coffee Lake chips this year—still at 14nm
Intel's eighth-generation Core CPUs, codenamed Coffee Lake, will launch in the second half of 2017—far earlier than the 2018 launch period s...
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Battle Between Malwarebytes and IOBit Advanced Systemcare
Malwarebytes and Advanced Systemcare have been regarded in-large by users of the tech industry as trustworthy programs for keeping computers clean. To...
Written by: The 1st Amender
Virtual machine escape fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own hacking contest
Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: they compromised Microsoft's...
Written by: nherting
ISPs say your Web browsing and app usage history isn’t “sensitive”
ISPs that want the federal government to eliminate broadband privacy rules say that your Web browsing and app usage data should not be classified...
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Microsoft’s unprecedented patch delay and silence
Last month, Microsoft took the unprecedented step of canceling Patch Tuesday, the company's monthly release of security fixes for its large s...
Written by: nherting