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  • New York Is Moving to Kick Charter Out of the State

    Photo: Jeff Roberson (AP) In 2016, Charter, the U.S.’s second largest cable provider bought out Time Warner Cable and rebranded the company as Spectrum. However, in order for the deal to get approved, the company promised New York State officials that it would increase broadband speeds to 100 Mbps by the end of 2018 while…

  • The ‘Scutoid’ Is Geometry’s Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body

    Image: Pedro Gómez-Gálvez et al. (Nature Communications) Using microscopy and computer imaging, the team confirmed that cells found in fruit fly salivary glands and cells in zebrafish were indeed scutoid-shaped. As noted in their paper published Friday in Nature Communications, the researchers believe these scutoid-shaped cells exist in any curved sheet of epithelial cells—even in humans.…

  • Canadian Malls Secretly Tracked Shoppers’ Age, Gender Using Facial Recognition Technology

  • Ajit Pai Gives Congress New, Less Convincing Reason for Evading ‘DDoS’ Questions

    Photo: AP The FCC’s chronic refusal to answer a few simple questions about an alleged security incident that supposedly wrecked its comment system has reached its final form. Despite being pressed for a straightforward response by a half-dozen lawmakers over the past year, the agency’s Republican chairman, like a malingering chicken, always finds a way…

  • Supermassive Black Hole Stretches Starlight, Proving Einstein Right Again

    Artist’s impression of starlight’s wavelength stretched by a black holeIllustration: ESO/M. Kornmesser Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is magnificent. For a hundred years, it has consistently predicted all sorts of wacky phenomena scientists have later observed throughout space. One international team is now announcing that a 26-year-long observation campaign has once again confirmed the…

  • Amazon Accidentally Makes Rock-Solid Case for Not Giving Its Face Recognition Tech to Police

    Photo: AP Days after the ACLU released a damning report on Amazon’s face recognition product Rekognition, Amazon’s general manager of AI, Dr. Matt Wood, countered its findings in a blog post. The ACLU used Rekognition to scan the faces of all 535 members of Congress, finding the software mistook 28 of them for suspected criminals.…

  • Magic Leap Gives Us a Peek at Its Interface, and It’s Not So Bad

    Image: Magic Leap You’ll apparently be able to create a Mii-style avatar, and friendships are highlighted in several of the screengrabs, as well as fairly average-looking media galleries. Image: Magic Leap Another level to the interface is the option for persistent apps in your environment. Presuming that the device is worn regularly around the office…

  • LinkedIn Just Gave You a New Reason to Make Fun of LinkedIn

    Image: LinkedIn LinkedIn, a social network for people who enjoy soul-crushing banality, knows you get more than a few emails from randos wanting to add you to their “professional network.” Sick of reading messages from these random acquaintances looking to discuss synergy-based solutions and B2B services? Well, now you can listen to them instead, thanks…

  • Samsung has released a new video criticizing the iPhone X

    Samsung continued its campaign Ingenius, releasing three commercials criticizing X and iPhone consultants at Apple retail stores. In the first video ridiculed cutout display of the “unibrow”. Consultant pytaetsja to convince the user that the “eyebrow” not so interfere, and it is possible to get used to, despite the fact that it covers part of…

  • Yandex leaked private videos on YouTube

    The network continues to inflame the scandal with the search engine Yandex, which very carefully follows its motto “everything”. At this time, users found that using Yandex you can reach the videos on YouTube with a limited display. In search results of Yandex and Yandex.Video links to videos access “the link”, which, in theory, should…