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Now We Know How the Zombie Ant Gets Its Bite

Scientists solve part of the mystery of how a murderous fungus orders an ant to bite onto a twig, sealing its fate.

2 hours ago

Wired

Now We Know How the Zombie Ant Gets Its Bite

Wired

Elon's Brain Computer, Big Tech's Big Day in Congress, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

3 hours ago

Wired

Elon's Brain Computer, Big Tech's Big Day in Congress, and More News

Wired

Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.

5 hours ago

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Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

Wired

33 Best Deals From Walmart and Other Amazon Prime Day Rivals

Prime Day is so popular that Amazon competitors like Walmart and Target counter it with their own sales. We've collected the best of the rest.

5 hours ago

Wired

33 Best Deals From Walmart and Other Amazon Prime Day Rivals

Wired

The #IceBae Meme Captures the Worst of 2019 So Far

It's come to this.

6 hours ago

Wired

The #IceBae Meme Captures the Worst of 2019 So Far

Wired

DoNotPay's New Service Automatically Cancels Your Free Trials

The service Free Trial Card gives you a crafty digital credit card number you can use to sign up for free trials around the web and never get charged.

6 hours ago

Wired

DoNotPay's New Service Automatically Cancels Your Free Trials

Techcrunch

FaceApp gets federal attention as Sen. Schumer raises alarm on data use

It's been hard to get away from FaceApp over the last few days, whether it's your friends posting weird selfies using the app's aging and other filters, or the brief furore over its apparent (but not actual) circumvention of permissions on iPhones. Now even the Senate is getting in on the fun: Sen. Chuck ...

15 minutes ago

Techcrunch

FaceApp gets federal attention as Sen. Schumer raises alarm on data use

Techcrunch

Altitude Angel launches an API for safer drone flights

Altitude Angel, a U.K. startup that provides safety, data and traffic management systems for drones, is launching a de-confliction service for drone flights — available via its developer API platform. “The dynamic system will continuously monitor the airspace around an aircraft for the "unexpected" ...

45 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Altitude Angel launches an API for safer drone flights

Techcrunch

Coinbase tells you if top holders are buying or selling a crypto asset

Coinbase is taking advantage of its significant user base to give you more information about trading behavior and price correlation. Given that there are now 15 cryptocurrencies on Coinbase that you can trade, the new features should provide some signals. In addition to price and variation information, ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

Coinbase tells you if top holders are buying or selling a crypto asset

Techcrunch

Netflix will roll out a lower-priced subscription plan in India

Netflix said on Wednesday that it will roll out a cheaper subscription plan in India, one of the last great growth markets for global companies, as the streaming giant scrambles to find ways to accelerate its slowing growth worldwide. The company added 2.7 million new subscribers in the quarter that ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

Netflix will roll out a lower-priced subscription plan in India

Techcrunch

Toyota locks in more than a supply of EV batteries in deal with China's CATL

Toyota needs more than a secure and steady supply of batteries if it hopes to meet its ambitious global sales goal for electric vehicles. If it hopes to compete, the Japanese automaker will need better quality lithium-ion batteries that don’t squeeze profit margins. The automaker is turning to ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Toyota locks in more than a supply of EV batteries in deal with China's CATL

Techcrunch

SpaceX's "Starhopper" bursts into flames during static fire test

SpaceX's test vehicle, a small-scale demonstration craft for some Starship components, caught fire after what appears to be a fuel leak or dump following an otherwise successful static fire test last night. It's not clear why the craft suddenly burst into flames, or whether it was seriously or even superficially ...

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

SpaceX's "Starhopper" bursts into flames during static fire test

Readwrite

B2B Customer Experience, 13 Actions Bringing Better Results

Technology is always making headway in the business world, entrepreneurs and many business veterans have been incorporating the innovational ways to transcend their rivals. They say if Content is the king, Customer experience is the queen. Customer experience purely depends on how you make ...

6 hours ago

Readwrite

B2B Customer Experience, 13 Actions Bringing Better Results

Readwrite

10 Things Teaching Us About Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

There are thousands of prospective businesses out there looking for financial assistance to kickstart as well as functional ones that want to expand on the one hand while there are a large number of investors who are looking for projects to fund. Crowdfunding platforms come into the game, to bring the ...

9 hours ago

Readwrite

10 Things Teaching Us About Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

Readwrite

Hacker Noon Rips Out Medium's Software, Replaces it With Their Own

No technology is truly free. When you grow using someone else's software, what's to stop them changing their software to capture your growth' Or rip the software off your site altogether' Or simply run pop-up ads on your content' As Medium pivots to a paywall model, top-rated independent publishers ...

9 hours ago

Readwrite

Hacker Noon Rips Out Medium's Software, Replaces it With Their Own

Readwrite

What Frequent Fliers Need to Know About Airport Facial Recognition

Frequent fliers will expose themselves to more facial recognition opportunities than almost any other demographic. Here's how they can remain vigilant. The post What Frequent Fliers Need to Know About Airport Facial Recognition appeared first on ReadWrite.

1 day ago

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What Frequent Fliers Need to Know About Airport Facial Recognition

Readwrite

Why Strong Vendor Relationships Give You a Competitive Advantage

Relationships are key to your success. In an increasingly competitive global business environment, collaboration is how the best businesses win. The post Why Strong Vendor Relationships Give You a Competitive Advantage appeared first on ReadWrite.

2 days ago

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Why Strong Vendor Relationships Give You a Competitive Advantage

Readwrite

Cybersecurity in the VA: A Pressing Problem That Demands Improvement

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) houses massive amounts of data on thousands of veterans all over the country. Furthermore, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is considered the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States. So when it comes to the topic of cybersecurity in the ...

2 days ago

Readwrite

Cybersecurity in the VA: A Pressing Problem That Demands Improvement

Fast Company

Netflix’s subscriber growth stalled?and it’s bad news for Disney, HBO, and everyone else

Much like the climatic scene in the trailer for Murder Mystery—”the most watched Adam Sandler Netflix original film to date,” as Netflix’s Q2 shareholder letter boasts—the global streaming service’s growth has crashed. Netflix had promised investors that ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Netflix’s subscriber growth stalled?and it’s bad news for Disney, HBO, and everyone else

Fast Company

Disney releases a fierce rebuke of Abigail Disney’s theme-park investigation

It’s Disney versus Disney. Two days after Abigail Disney publicly criticized working conditions at Disney’s famed theme parks, the entertainment giant is hitting back with a sharply worded criticism of its own, calling her investigation and subsequent findings “a gross and unfair ...

7 hours ago

Fast Company

Disney releases a fierce rebuke of Abigail Disney’s theme-park investigation

Fast Company

Netflix stock tumbles after earnings show decline in paid U.S. subscribers

Have we reached peak TV or just peak Netflix? The video-streaming giant reported its second-quarter earnings this afternoon, and the results are less than stellar. Net global subscribers grew by only 2.7 million, far below its guidance of 5 million. Even more shocking, Netflix saw a decline of 126,000 ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

Netflix stock tumbles after earnings show decline in paid U.S. subscribers

Fast Company

What’s the path forward for electric planes?

At the recent annual meeting of world airline leaders in Seoul, it was clear that something in the environment had changed. Whereas the airline industry has been expressing concern about sustainability for over a decade, today, it seems, sustainability has actually become one of the industry’s ...

9 hours ago

Fast Company

What’s the path forward for electric planes?

Fast Company

Imagine loving Tupac so much you get fired for it, like this 66-year-old man

What: Possibly the most fascinating firing in recent memory. Who: Now-former Iowa Department of Human Services director, and unofficial guy who rules, 66-year-old Jerry Foxhoven. Foxhoven Why we care: Almost 22 years ago, rapper and burgeoning movie star Tupac Shakur was gunned down at the ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

Imagine loving Tupac so much you get fired for it, like this 66-year-old man

Fast Company

Twitter data reveals the agony and the ecstasy of Amazon Prime Day

Amazon’s latest Prime Day event is now behind us, and the e-commerce giant would like you to know that it delivered all the appropriate superlatives. According to the company, Prime members purchased more than 175 million items during the online sales extravaganza, making this “once again ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

Twitter data reveals the agony and the ecstasy of Amazon Prime Day

Engadget

Oakland bans city use of facial recognition software

Oakland, Calif. is now the third US city to ban the use of facial recognition technology. The city passed an ordinance yesterday that prohibits the use of the technology on the grounds that it is often inaccurate, potentially invasive and lacks stand...

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Engadget

Oakland bans city use of facial recognition software

Engadget

Google pulls stalking apps from the Play Store

It's one thing to voluntarily share your phone activities with friends and family, but some app developers have been encouraging far more sinister uses. Google has pulled multiple people-tracking Android apps from the Play Store after Avast discovere...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Google pulls stalking apps from the Play Store

Engadget

Hulu will add NASA TV to its lineup of live channels

Just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, you'll have another way to tune into NASA TV's live stream. Hulu will carry the feed on its live TV service as of July 19th, and a selection of video-on-demand material will arrive on...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Hulu will add NASA TV to its lineup of live channels

Engadget

Netflix Q2 report points to price hikes for lower than expected growth

Netflix just released its financial results for the second quarter of 2019 (PDF), and a number that jumps out is that its service grew by 2.7 million subscribers. That's a problem for shareholders because in its last report, the company predicted it...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Netflix Q2 report points to price hikes for lower than expected growth

Engadget

Apple renews "Carpool Karaoke" for a third season

America's road trip with James Corden and his celebrity guests isn't over yet. Apple has renewed the CBS-produced Carpool Karaoke for a third season, reported Variety. The short-form singalong show was the tech giant's first original series on Apple...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Apple renews "Carpool Karaoke" for a third season

Engadget

AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created an artificial intelligence system that can solve a Rubik's Cube in an average of 1.2 seconds in about 20 moves. That's two seconds faster than the current human world record of 3.47 sec...

5 hours ago

Engadget

AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds

Venturebeat

NZXT's new prebuilt PCs are slick, with a friendly price

NZXT's BLD service is offering up new pre-built machines with extremely fair pricing and the company's signature style. They start at $900.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

NZXT's new prebuilt PCs are slick, with a friendly price

Venturebeat

Microsoft-AT&T partnership is a preemptive strike in 5G

The new Microsoft-AT&T partnership could position both companies very competitively for 5G, although there are a few risks involved.

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

Microsoft-AT&T partnership is a preemptive strike in 5G

Venturebeat

iOS and iPadOS 13 beta 4 signals death of 3D Touch, rise of Context Menu

Pressure-sensitive screens once were iPhone selling points, but their key benefit -- Context Menus -- ha been fine-tuned into good enough replacements.

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

iOS and iPadOS 13 beta 4 signals death of 3D Touch, rise of Context Menu

Venturebeat

Google's Parrotron is an AI tool for people with speech impediments

Google's Parrotron is an AI tool that makes disfluent speech from people with impediments more intelligible to both people and automatic speech recognizers.

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

Google's Parrotron is an AI tool for people with speech impediments

Venturebeat

Watch Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explain the meaning of democratizing AI

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott sat down with Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn's VP of artificial intelligence, to discuss democratizing AI and more at Transform 2019.

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

Watch Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explain the meaning of democratizing AI

Venturebeat

Microsoft wows Inspire crowd with language-translating HoloLens hologram

If you've been looking for an example of what's possible when AR and AI intersect, this new Microsoft demo will blow you away.

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

Microsoft wows Inspire crowd with language-translating HoloLens hologram

Ars Technica

Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they're targeted by nation-sponsored hackers

Hacking remains a tool of choice for influencing elections, company warns.

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Ars Technica

Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they're targeted by nation-sponsored hackers

Ars Technica

Zombifying fungus bypasses the brain to make ants its puppets, study finds

SEM images showed strange bead-like particles that could also play a role.

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

Zombifying fungus bypasses the brain to make ants its puppets, study finds

Ars Technica

WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency

"It is time for the world to take notice and redouble our efforts."

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency

Ars Technica

Painted-on salt provides glowing thermometer for tiny things

Fast and tiny temperature changes visible in the glow of a 2D salt.

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

Painted-on salt provides glowing thermometer for tiny things

Ars Technica

DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out?and it's horrific

Just three drug makers and six distributors were behind the flood.

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out?and it's horrific

Ars Technica

Turkey crosses 'red line,? gets booted from F-35 partnership

Erdo?an's welcome of Russian missiles puts nail in coffin of F-35 buy.

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

Turkey crosses 'red line,? gets booted from F-35 partnership