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The UK Government’s Digital Economy Bill has moved a step closer to becoming law after its second reading in Parliament. With unanimous support, the current two-year maximum custodial sentence for online piracy is almost certain to increase to a decade… Continue reading 10 Years in Prison For Online Pirates a Step Closer in the UK
Ford Motor Chief Executive Mark Fields is looking for more deals to advance the automaker’s expansion into ride services and autonomous vehicles, but will not rush to match big spending by auto industry rivals, he told Reuters. Investors comparing the … Continue reading Ford Charts Cautious Path Toward Self Driving, Shared Vehicles
Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Update last month. But the trickling of the company’s latest major update users could take as much as three months, the company has said. Many users have been complaining about not seeing an update pop-up on th… Continue reading Windows 10 Anniversary Update Rollout May Not Be Done Until Early November
An anonymous reader writes: The European Commission has promised free Wi-Fi in every town, village, and city in the European Union, in the next four years. A new grant, with a total budget of 120 million euro, will allow public authorities to purchase … Continue reading New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All
The reports were true. Uber on Wednesday announced it a select group of Pittsburgh users will get a surprise the next time they book a cab: the option to ride in a self-driving car. TechCrunch reports: The announcement comes a year-and-a-half after Ube… Continue reading Uber Starts Self Driving Car Pickups In Pittsburgh
An anonymous reader writes: UK surveillance agency GCHQ is exploring the use of a national ‘firewall’ in its fight against cybercrime, according to the organisation’s head of cybersecurity. Alongside BT, Talk Talk and Virgin Media, GCHQ will work to fi… Continue reading GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall
Ben Sullivan, writing for Motherboard: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first batch of data from its Gaia star mapping project — a mission that is currently on track to chart one billion stars in the Milky Way. The space telescope laun… Continue reading Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map
As Samsung figures out how to tackle the big Note7 fiasco, it has found a temporary solution for existing users of the phone. It plans to roll out an over-the-air (OTA) update on September 20 which would limit the battery charging cap for the Note7 to … Continue reading Samsung To Push Software Upgrade Which Will Cap Galaxy Note 7 Battery Charging at 60 Percent
Jordan Pearson, reporting for Motherboard:Thanks to the modern gaming industry, we can now spend our evenings wandering around photorealistic game worlds, like the post-apocalyptic Boston of Fallout 4 or Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos, instead of doin… Continue reading Video Games Are So Realistic That They Can Teach AI What the World Looks Like
Facebook will learn from a mistake it made by deleting a historic Vietnam war photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, said Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer. The photograph was removed from several accounts on Friday, includ… Continue reading Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg On ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo: ‘We Don’t Always Get it Right’