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Konami reportedly blacklisting ex-employees across Japanese video game industry
According to a Wednesday report in the Nikkei Asian Review newspaper, Konami is apparently blacklisting former employees in the Japanese vid...
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How do you make yourself a better person?
It's a tough world when you see that there is a lot of bannings of content and silence going on. Creation of sub-communities to help promote...
Written by: The 1st Amender
Right to speak freely about engineering is subject of 1st Amendment lawsuit
An Oregon engineer who has been trying for years to convince state officials to elongate yellow traffic light times has a new cause: the First Amendme...
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To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to gut net neutrality rules and deregulate the Internet service market may hinge on the def...
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Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected
On May 24, Chris Vickery, a cyber risk analyst with the security firm UpGuard, discovered a publicly accessible data cache on Amazon Web Services...
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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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Killer antibiotic now 25,000× more potent—and resistant to drug resistance
With clever chemical tweaks, an old antibiotic can dole out any of three lethal blows to some of the deadliest bacteria—and give evolution one n...
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Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years
Gale Crater, the site being explored by the Curiosity rover, was chosen as a landing site because its structure and composition suggested that it migh...
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Want to get a game on Steam? $100 is all you need
Valve announced today that anyone will be able to publish games on Steam through its previously announced Steam Direct program for "a $...
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Reflecting on One Very Very Strange Year at Uber
I did not write this blog post. This blog post is something by feminist aligned Susan J. Fowler. I have reposted her content to commemorate...
Written by: The 1st Amender
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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Watching two waves of hot lava in the Solar System’s largest volcano
Volcanic activity appears to be a common feature in our Solar System; we have evidence of it on three planets and two moons and hints of it elsewhere....
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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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Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead
Remember Itanium? Intel's first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing ...
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Astronomers find water in the atmosphere of a warm, Neptune-sized planet
Scientists are announcing a rare look into the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet more than 400 light years away. The planet is roughly Neptune-si...
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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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So You're Overweight - What Can You Do About It
In an age growing in proportion in both waists and egos we have come across a major issue: Fat Acceptance No this is not going to be a hate-ridd...
Written by: The 1st Amender
The Non-Aggression Principle is Worthless when Those in Power Can Define Aggression
One of the cornerstones of modern libertarianism is the Non-Aggression Principle. According to NAP.com, the non-aggression principle can be defined as...
Written by: Tylenol with MDMA
Measles outbreak rages after anti-vaccine groups target vulnerable community
Minnesota is experiencing its largest measles outbreak since the 1990s following a targeted and intense effort by anti-vaccine gro...
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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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Gorilla Mindset is the Doctor Pepper Ten of Self Help Books
You know that self-help bullshit that lines the walls of bookstores tha...
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Study Shows Women Need More Sleep Than Men for THIS Reason!
This article is not written by me. It is written by Katherine Crofton and the original article can be found here. With that being said it is reposted ...
Written by: The 1st Amender
A Social Welfare Program the Right will Vigorously support: Gun Stamps
Since we have a Republican majority going on right now, it’s goin...
Written by: Tylenol with MDMA
A podcast series produced by NPR. This first paragraph is going to be the only spoiler free section of this review. Shittown starts off with a call by...
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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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Friendly fire may have killed Army Rangers during ISIS raid in Afghanistan
The Defense Department on Friday released the names of two Army Rangers who died during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan on Thursday. ...
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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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President Trump signs NASA advisory bill, says it’s “about jobs”
Prior to Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump had made only a few passing references to space during the first two months of his administratio...
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Net neutrality rules took away your Internet freedom, FCC chair claims
Did you feel a sudden loss of Internet freedom in February 2015? That's when the Federal Communications Commission imposed net neutrality rul...
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Most groundwater is ancient but contains surprising human fingerprint
Water is typically considered a renewable resource, as the global cycle of evaporation and precipitation constantly redistributes it. But not all sour...
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Russian man gets longest-ever US hacking sentence, 27 years in prison
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison today. He was convicted of causing more than $169 million in dam...
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US nabs a hacker in the Maldives, but Russia sees it as “kidnapping”
The recent arrest of a Russian hacker by the US Department of Homeland Security is stirring up diplomatic difficulties. The suspect, 30-year-o...
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Don’t look now, but the PC is the world’s biggest gaming platform
If you follow the business side of the game industry at all, you're probably sick of hearing how mobile gaming is a fast-growing business juggerna...
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Ubisoft’s first attempts at VR show impressive maturity
Earlier this year, Ubisoft announced that it was interested in bringing "a number of its games" to VR platforms like the Valve-powered HTC V...
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Dawn of War 3: The most promising take on Warhammer 40K yet
What's impressive about Dawn of War III is how beautifully it manages to communicate the weight, scale, and ferocity of the Warhammer 40...
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Warhammer is a refuge from both progress and decline. It’s a safe space where you can always enjoy a militarist’s historical highlight ree...
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Valve will require phone number for Dota 2 ranked matches
Dota 2 maker Valve is taking serious action to cut down on the prevalence of smurfing—using a secondary account in order to play again...
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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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FCC helps AT&T and Verizon charge more
The Federal Communications Commission today voted to eliminate price caps in much of the business broadband market by imposing a new standar...
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I Tried To Pirate Spore And Bricked My Laptop
In 2008, I brought my laptop over to my friend Amanda’s house to pirate Spore. Her boyfriend Nate, who worked at the local GameStop, told m...
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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...
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South Indian frog oozes molecule that inexplicably decimates flu viruses
From the slimy backs of a South Indian frog comes a new way to blast influenza viruses. A compound in the frog’s mucus—long known to ha...
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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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ATM skimming fraudsters plead guilty
Joel Abel Garcia, a 35-year-old from the Bronx, New York, became the third member of an alleged ring of automated teller machine "skimmers" ...
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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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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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