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Amazon is reportedly designing AI chips to improve Alexa Amazon has begun designing its own AI chips, according to an exclusive report from The Information . The hardware is designed for anything powered by Alexa,… February 12, 2018 at 02:48PM http://ift.tt/2EX0jpq

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Bitcoin getting ready to hit $10,000 again – here’s what’s happening around the world The Bitcoin bloodbath of early February, the second and biggest such event of the year, seems to be forgotten. After plunging through $10,000 and dropping below… February 12, 2018 at 08:28AM http://ift.tt/2CeIj70

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Olympics officials confirm cyberattack during opening ceremony Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski Officials saw suspicious activity on Olympics systems during the 2018 winter games' opening ceremony, and now it's confirmed: it was a… February 12, 2018 at 08:18AM http://ift.tt/2EvdL6j

Hackers accessed more personal data from Equifax than previously disclosed - The Verge Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, credit rating agency Equifax announced that hackers had stolen personal information for 143 million US… February 12, 2018 at 08:16AM http://ift.tt/2EwbSGp

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The Arctic Permafrost Holds a Crazy Amount of Mercury--and That's Bad News - Scientific American A tundra landscape with polygon-shaped formations containing ponds along the Arctic coast in Alaska. Thawing and freezing of Arctic tundra causes these… February 9, 2018 at 06:47PM http://ift.tt/2nVMI9T

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Amazon beat out Samsung in holiday tablet sales last year by slashing prices, says report - The Verge Tablet sales for Q4 of last year are out, and they tell an interesting story about Amazon superseding Samsung during the quarter with tremendous growth due to… February 7, 2018 at 08:35AM http://ift.tt/2nNr47J

The Game of Thrones showrunners are writing a new Star Wars film series - The Verge Lucasfilm had already announced that The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson will be creating his own new Star Wars trilogy . Now, the company has turned to… February 7, 2018 at 08:28AM http://ift.tt/2FSXPHW

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Google will let you book hotels and flights through search results - The Verge Google Google announced Tuesday it has changed the way people can search for hotels and flights using smartphones in a bid to make trip planning simpler on… February 6, 2018 at 02:27PM http://ift.tt/2nJ8wWV

EHang shows footage of its passenger drone in flight EHang EHang has been talking about its 184 passenger drone for ages, but there's been a curious absence of footage showing manned flights. Thankfully, it's… February 6, 2018 at 02:25PM http://ift.tt/2ELqD5U

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Alleged British hacker Lauri Love wins US extradition appeal AFP/Getty Images Lauri Love, a 32-year-old student accused of hacking US government websites in 2012 and 2013, has won a high court battle and will not be… February 5, 2018 at 08:36AM http://ift.tt/2sct5zs

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Top Apple insider claims all 2018 iPhones will use LTE modems from Intel Over the past few months, we’ve seen scattered reports suggesting that Apple has been angling to drop Qualcomm as a supplier of LTE modems for the iPhone. About… February 4, 2018 at 02:18PM http://ift.tt/2nGUfcp

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Forget self-driving cars — these self-driving slippers are the future we deserve - The Verge As marketing gimmicks go, I’ll take self-driving slippers over flamethrowers any day. Nissan recently developed a system for slippers to “park” themselves at… February 4, 2018 at 12:03AM http://ift.tt/2EG55HX

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is getting a comic adaptation in May - The Verge Image: Marvel Comics The latest Star Wars film is getting a comic book adaptation. Rogue One screenwriter Gary Whitta is adapting The Last Jedi for a six-issue… February 4, 2018 at 12:02AM http://ift.tt/2GIUr3G

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Cellphone radiation poses no real harm to humans, new research says - The Verge Photo by Cathy Keifer/Shutterstock Male rats showed a small increase in a kind of heart tumor after exposure to massive amounts of cellphone radiation, a new… February 3, 2018 at 11:59AM http://ift.tt/2nEduTV

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Tesla will sell solar panels and Powerwalls at Home Depot Tesla Just how much is the average consumer interested in solar power? Tesla is about to find out, as it is bringing photovoltaic panels and Powerwall batteries… February 2, 2018 at 11:07AM http://ift.tt/2EvuTGl

UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids UNICEF UNICEF has launched a new fund-raising project in the same vein as SETI@Home and Einstein@home , but with a cryptocurrency spin. In an effort to raise… February 2, 2018 at 11:02AM http://ift.tt/2GEYSfS

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A new type of solar cell is coming to market SOMETIMES it takes a while for the importance of a scientific discovery to become clear. When the first perovskite, a compound of calcium, titanium and oxygen,… February 1, 2018 at 07:31PM http://ift.tt/2BOx5pu

It Appears Yet Another Trump Staffer Is Ready to Sing for Mueller He’s listening. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images When we learned at the end of October that two former Trump campaign officials, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, had… February 1, 2018 at 07:28PM http://ift.tt/2DRFNW1

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