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Madison Margolin, reporting for Motherboard: A glitch in Google Maps has turned the small fishing town of Sokcho, South Korea, into a Pokemon Go tourist haven. The globally popular mobile game hasn’t launched yet in South Korea, but that hasn’t stopped… Continue reading A Google Maps Glitch Turned This Korean Fishing Town Into a ‘Pokemon Go’ Haven
The United States Army’s Special Operations Command is ditching its Android phones for the “faster” iPhone, according to a report. The source cited in the story says that Android phones were freezing unexpectedly, which was one of the reasons they deci… Continue reading Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report
A Brazilian judge has ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to Facebook’s WhatsApp indefinitely, starting on Tuesday, the third such incident against the popular phone messaging app in eight months. Reuters report: The decision by Judge Danie… Continue reading Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App
The attorneys general of New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland are suing Volkswagen for violating state environmental regulations with its diesel emissions cheating scandal. The states say that the car company has violated their air quality laws, combi… Continue reading Volkswagen Sued For Violating State Environmental Statutes With Dieselgate
Reader MojoKid writes: NVIDIA just launched their answer to AMD’s Radeon RX 480 mainstream card today, dubbed the GeForce GTX 1060. The GP106 GPU at the heart of the GeForce GTX 1060 has roughly half of the resources of NVIDIA’s current flagship GeForc… Continue reading NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD’s Radeon RX 480
An anonymous reader writes: Google has ratchet up its investment in European goodwill, aiming to spend about $450 million from 2015 to 2017 as EU regulators narrow their gaze on the search giant, according to a report by the New York Times. The company… Continue reading Google Is Spending Half a Billion Dollars To Curry Europe’s Favor
According to a report, farmers are demanding the right to fix their tractors. The report reminds us that owners of tractors aren’t allowed to fix them, thanks to a set of laws designed to protect software intellectual property. The world’s largest trac… Continue reading Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors
Stephanie Condon, writing for ZDNet: Government requests for user data from Google hit an all-time high in the second half of 2015, the internet company revealed on Monday. Through July to December 2015, governments from around the globe made 40,677 re… Continue reading Google: Government Requests For User Data Hit All-Time High In Second Half Of 2015
An article on Motherboard today investigates the reasons why people didn’t go “oh-my-god, that was awesome” looking at the CGI-based scenes in the recent movies such as Independence Day: Resurgence, Batman v Superman and X-Men: Apocalypse. Though the a… Continue reading Pixels Are Driving Out Reality
An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: Microsoft today launched Stream, a new business video service that aims to give businesses that want to share video internally the same kind of tools and flexibility that YouTube offers to consumers — bu… Continue reading Microsoft Stream Is a New Video Service For Businesses