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Apple plans to set up three of its own retail stores — the iconic Apple Store — in India, reports FactorDaily. The stores will be setup in Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai in the next 18 months. The report adds that Apple also plans to unveil a startup a… Continue reading Apple To Launch Startup Accelerator, Three Apple Stores In India, Says Report
An anonymous reader writes: Al-Qaeda’s official online propaganda magazine, Inspire, contains a montage of violent images — things like guns and blood — next to an image of Bill Gates. The terrorist group is urging its followers to murder successful … Continue reading Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To ‘Damage the US Economy’
An anonymous reader writes: (edited and condensed)Research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has found that the ‘maths gender gap’, the relative under performance of girls at maths, is much wider in societies with poor rates of gender equality…. Continue reading Girls From Progressive Societies Do Better At Math, Study Finds
Google on Monday released Spaces, an app that is designed to make it easier to share links, videos and other things from the Web in group conversations. The app, which has been in private beta for a few months, is available for Android, iOS, desktop an… Continue reading Google Releases Spaces Group-Sharing App On Android, iOS, and Desktop
Microsoft plans to double the number of promoted apps in Start menu. The change, which is scheduled to come with the upcoming Anniversary Update to Windows 10, will see the promoted apps count rise to 10. Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Some promote… Continue reading Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu
An anonymous reader writes: Belgian police have asked citizens to shun Facebook’s “Reactions” buttons to protect their privacy. In February, five new “Reaction” buttons were added next to the “Like” button to allow people to display responses such as s… Continue reading Facebook Monitoring Your Reactions To Serve You Ads, Warn Belgian Police
Google announced on Thursday that it is open sourcing its new language parsing model called SyntaxNet. It’s a piece of natural-language understanding software, Google says, that you can use automatically parse sentences, as part of its TensorFlow open … Continue reading Google Open-Sources SyntaxNet Natural-Language Understanding Library, Parsey McParseface Training Model
Lung cancer “breathalyzer,” developed by a team of MIT and Harvard University students, has won $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The breathalyzer connects to a smartphone and is able to detect lung cancer early from a single breath, reports MIT News… Continue reading Breathalyzer That Detects Lung Cancer Early From a Single Breath Wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
The United States produces more e-waste than any country in the world, reports PBS News Hour. But where does this e-waste go? The publication utilized the GPS coordinates in some of the e-waste to find out. Basel Action Network, a Seattle-based e-waste… Continue reading Where Does America’s E-Waste End Up? GPS Tracker Tells All
An anonymous reader cites a report on TorrentFreak: DVDFab has failed to cease its operations in the U.S. and should be sanctioned, AACS says. The decryption licensing outfit founded by Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft, Intel and others, informs a New Yo… Continue reading DVDFab Has Ignored Court’s Shut Down Order, AACS Says