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The space laboratory that China launched earlier this week has an atomic clock in it which is more accurate than the best timepiece operated by America’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to Chinese engineers. The atomic called,… Continue reading China’s Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years
Microsoft is closing Skype’s office in the UK, according to the Financial Times. The move is likely to affect jobs of nearly 400 people at the London HQ. Commenting on the report, Microsoft said it will “unify some engineering positions,” but that it “… Continue reading Microsoft Will Close Its Skype Office in London, Nearly 400 Jobs To Be Impacted
Not long ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained why the company felt a need to remove the headphone jack from the new iPhones — the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. He said, “that jack takes up a lot of space in the phone, a lot of space. And there’s a lot of m… Continue reading Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill
Mozilla is investigating whether the fully patched version of Firefox is affected by the same cross-platform, malicious code-execution vulnerability patched on Friday in the Tor browser. Dan Goodin, reporting for ArsTechnica: The vulnerability allows a… Continue reading Mozilla Checks If Firefox Is Affected By Same Malware Vulnerability As Tor
The idea behind the internet was to make a massive, decentralized system that wasn’t under control of anyone, but that is increasingly changing, according to Matthew Prince, CEO of web security company CloudFlare. His statements come at a time when Goo… Continue reading Web Security CEO Warns About Control Of Internet Falling Into Few Hands
Apple’s iOS users may have downloaded more than 140 billion apps since the App Store was launched in 2008, but the reality is that a huge number of people just don’t try out so many apps anymore. We noted a few weeks ago how people were showing less in… Continue reading Half Of US Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month
Attention Linux enthusiasts. Your OS of your choice can finally work on laptops with Intel’s Kaby Lake chips. Dell is releasing three new models of slick XPS 13 Developer Edition that will be available with Ubuntu OS and 7th Generation Core processors … Continue reading Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell’s New XPS 13
A Verizon Wireless customer says she received a bill of $9,100 for hundreds of gigabytes of data usage which never consumed. The woman told the Cleveland Plain Dealer she was on Verizon’s 4GB shared data plan, and like any normal person, the bill of $8… Continue reading Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn’t Use
Three news organizations filed a lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI was able to break into the locked iPhone of one of the gunmen in the December terrorist attack in San Bernardino. From a USA Today report: The Justice Department spen… Continue reading AP, Vice, USA Today Sue FBI For Info On Phone Hack of San Bernardino Shooter
The suicide of a woman who battled for months to have a video of her having sex removed from the internet is fuelling debate in Italy on the “right to be forgotten” online. The 31-year-old, identified as Tiziana, was found hanged at her aunt’s home in … Continue reading Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women’s Suicide