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It would be great to look into the future, even if only for a few months. With current capabilities, we can see the future only through the projections. Colleagues from Business Insider 35 technology forecasts to 2018. They will allow us to understand where technology is going, and what areas of development are the most…

Photo: Getty California’s two net neutrality bills are poised to become one, offering the state’s 40 million residents comprehensive protection against internet service provider trying to shakedown businesses and subscribers in the wake of the FCC repeal. Lawmakers hope to pass a watertight law by combing two bills that prevent ISPs such as AT&T and…

Photo: AP The Australian government is ending its plans for a national biometric database meant to help police departments track suspects and other persons of interest, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission announced Friday. Surveillance and security company NEC was awarded the contract in 2016, but after a third-party audit found the project had nearly doubled its…

Image: AP Meet DeepCube, an artificially intelligent system that’s as good at playing the Rubik’s Cube as the best human master solvers. Incredibly, the system learned to dominate the classic 3D puzzle in just 44 hours and without any human intervention. “A generally intelligent agent must be able to teach itself how to solve problems…

Photo: AP On Friday, 20 groups of Amazon shareholders sent CEO Jeff Bezos a letter pressuring him to stop selling the company’s face recognition software to law enforcement, CNN reports. Called Rekognition, the software came under greater scrutiny last month when the ACLU published revealing internal documents related to its use by police. Numerous civil…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) A bug in macOS’ Quick Look feature has seemingly been known to forensic experts for the better part of a decade, but security researcher Wojciech Regula shed new light on how the vulnerability actually works in a report published earlier this month. The issue apparently has to do with how Apple’s…

Tesla staff work on a Model S vehicle at the company production facility in Fremont, California in 2015.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Electric car giant Tesla is pulling out all the stops trying to hit make-or-break production targets of 5,000 Model 3 four-door sedans a week, going so far as to set up a third line…

A Gamestop store in better times: 2009.Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images) Video game chain GameStop, which like many other retailers has fallen on some pretty harsh times in the age of digital distribution platforms and online sales, is considering a buyout from a private equity firm. According to Reuters, people familiar with the matter told…

Google has announced the launch of Russia’s premium features YouTube streaming service YouTube Music subscription, YouTube Premium. YouTube Music is a music streaming service with ads, it will soon be available to users in Russia on Android and iOS. Also provides a subscription YouTube Music Premium. It provides background monitoring, download content and no ads…