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Wired

Deepfakes Are Getting Better. But They're Still Easy to Spot

New research shows how to create seemingly realistic photos or video from a single image. But it won't be easy to deploy anytime soon.

21 minutes ago

Wired

Deepfakes Are Getting Better. But They're Still Easy to Spot

Wired

Space Photos of the Week: Bumper-Car Galactica

A look at the life, times, and collisions of large galaxies.

21 hours ago

Wired

Space Photos of the Week: Bumper-Car Galactica

Wired

Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps

Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news.

22 hours ago

Wired

Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps

Wired

We Need More Thrillers About the Videogame Industry

Jeffrey Deaver's new novel 'The Never Game' is one of a rare breed.

22 hours ago

Wired

We Need More Thrillers About the Videogame Industry

Wired

Best Camping Gear: 17 Cool Camping Gadgets & Supplies (2019)

Enjoy nature with our best camping gadgets and essentials, picked by WIRED's Gear team.

23 hours ago

Wired

Best Camping Gear: 17 Cool Camping Gadgets & Supplies (2019)

Wired

This Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms

Monster Match, a game funded by Mozilla, shows how dating app algorithms reinforce bias?and serve the company more than the user.

23 hours ago

Wired

This Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms

Techcrunch

Week-in-Review: Trump's order takes a hatchet to Huawei's heart

Last week, Trump signed an executive order that enabled the federal government to prohibit U.S. companies from buying telecom equipment from foreign companies at their discretion. This week, the full damage began to feel apparent to China’s fastest-growing smartphone powerhouse, Huawei. American ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Week-in-Review: Trump's order takes a hatchet to Huawei's heart

Techcrunch

Equity transcribed: How to avoid an IPO

This week, the Equity duo of Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm convened to get some quick hits in about Slack’s WORK, Luckin Coffee and Sam Altman’s departure from Y Combinator. They then dug a bit deeper into the money around food: DoorDash and Sun Basket both raised this week. And what is a discussion ...

14 hours ago

Techcrunch

Equity transcribed: How to avoid an IPO

Techcrunch

To realize its VR dreams, Facebook needs to kill what Oculus has built

Mark Zuckerberg has poured billions into his virtual reality dream, a new platform that Facebook owns. Facebook bought Oculus and has spent the last five years killing what it was and reinventing it as a Facebook-scale company. It has dumped most of the co-founders, brought in Zuck loyalists to take ...

16 hours ago

Techcrunch

To realize its VR dreams, Facebook needs to kill what Oculus has built

Techcrunch

This is one smart device that every urban home could use

Living in a dense urban environment brings many startup-fuelled conveniences, be it near instant delivery of food — or pretty much whatever else you fancy — to a whole range of wheels that can be hopped on (or into) to whisk you around at the tap of an app. But the biggest problem afflicting ...

18 hours ago

Techcrunch

This is one smart device that every urban home could use

Techcrunch

Growth, Kubernetes, rocket launches, gender in tech, and more Luckin Coffee

Housekeeping & Extra Crunch 20% event discount reminder Extra Crunch will not be publishing on Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. Publishing will resume as normal on Tuesday. Reminder: if you are an annual member of Extra Crunch, your membership includes a 20% discount on event ...

18 hours ago

Techcrunch

Growth, Kubernetes, rocket launches, gender in tech, and more Luckin Coffee

Techcrunch

Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?

When it comes to public universities, the old adage "you get what you pay for" clearly does not apply. Leading public research universities have a track record of turning out successful graduates.

19 hours ago

Techcrunch

Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?

Readwrite

The Key to Improving Global Cybersecurity is Data Science

Cybersecurity is of increasing importance to enterprise and public leaders. In their efforts to mitigate cybercrime, organizations are increasingly leveraging data to protect sensitive information. Now, the world's computer scientists are levering big data technology to stay ahead of hackers. But, the ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

The Key to Improving Global Cybersecurity is Data Science

Readwrite

It's Not Just Coffee: Technology Now Fueling Massive Growth in Seattle

Seattle has long been known for inciting the country's coffee culture, but now that we're all sufficiently caffeinated, these days it's the technology scene that's causing a buzz. Situated well north of the traditional tech enclave known as Silicon Valley, Seattle has come into its own as a magnet for ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

It's Not Just Coffee: Technology Now Fueling Massive Growth in Seattle

Readwrite

How IoT Affects The Future Of Web Developments

ATMs, Apple Watch, Fitbit, Self-driving cars and more are part of a list of devices using IoT is endless. The concept of IoT began years ago; we just didn’t use the term IoT. Kevin Ashton is credited with being the first to coin the phrase Internet of Things (IoT) in 1999. The Internet Of Things ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

How IoT Affects The Future Of Web Developments

Readwrite

Ghostek USB Type-C Cables

USB-C cables are now starting to gain momentum with more smartphone manufacturers accommodating them for their devices. These cords are replacing the spot where the headphone jack used to be on your smartphone now that wireless headphones and air buds are more widely used. Also, more people realize ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

Ghostek USB Type-C Cables

Readwrite

Secrets of Financial Applications: Traits of Fintech Apps

Technology for financial services came about as a response to the challenge of making finance more straightforward and more accessible. Now, people are demanding that their transactions be fast, easy and secure — globalization has required to work at a broader, more rapid speed. Multi-currency ...

2 days ago

Readwrite

Secrets of Financial Applications: Traits of Fintech Apps

Readwrite

Arrow & Microsoft: The New Product Lifecycle

Connected products are changing the business landscape and transforming entire industries. The ability to create integrated digital connections, from the edge all the way to the cloud is enabling new business models that capitalize on novel value-added services, and simultaneously open new modes for ...

2 days ago

Readwrite

Arrow & Microsoft: The New Product Lifecycle

Fast Company

7 things this tech company does to improve mental health in the workplace

There’s been a lot of crying in my career–tears of frustration, sadness, and also joy. As a newspaper editor, reporters would sometimes come into my office, close the door, and break down in sobs. Doing social media for an open-office tech startup, I had to leave the building and walk around ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

7 things this tech company does to improve mental health in the workplace

Fast Company

These black women gamers teamed up to take on the worst online trolls

This session of Overwatch was supposed to be a stress reliever, but tensions began to rise after Daja Williams and one of her teammates started to argue over who would play Lucio, one of the most popular supporting characters in the first-person-shooter game. “You’re a fucking fat ass nigger,” ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

These black women gamers teamed up to take on the worst online trolls

Fast Company

In this rhino internet of things, rhinos wear GPS trackers in their horns

In a sprawling wildlife preserve in Zimbabwe larger than Grand Canyon National Park, some of the rhinos roaming the park have sensors embedded in their horns. Three times a day, the trackers send the animals’ GPS locations to solar-powered base stations, which then send the data to rangers through ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

In this rhino internet of things, rhinos wear GPS trackers in their horns

Fast Company

The best meat-free choices for your Memorial Day barbecue

Memorial Day weekend is finally here. Many of us in the United Sates get to kick back and pray that it doesn’t rain. If the weather does hold up, you’ll likely have the chance to go to a barbecue, one of the very few good American food traditions. This year, your cookout could be different–you ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

The best meat-free choices for your Memorial Day barbecue

Fast Company

How to prevent potential employees from ghosting you

Ghosting: a term for disappearing or going missing in action without any explanation. You’ve probably heard it in the realms of the online dating world, where a romantic interest would cease all communication after a few dates. But it seems like it’s starting to creep into the professional ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

How to prevent potential employees from ghosting you

Fast Company

Top title insurer exposed huge trove of financial data at website

As Americans grow increasingly concerned about data privacy, there’s never a shortage of confirmation that their worries are justified. The latest is news that First American Financial Corp., a large real estate title insurance company, left exposed “hundreds of millions” of documents ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

Top title insurer exposed huge trove of financial data at website

Engadget

Poland challenges EU's new copyright law over censorship fears

The EU's contentious copyright law is already facing some opposition from one of its existing members. Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Justice arguing that the law's requirement for filtering content had the potential for c...

2 hours ago

Engadget

Poland challenges EU's new copyright law over censorship fears

Engadget

Mac security hole reportedly lets attackers bypass app safeguards

Apple may have another Gatekeeper security flaw on its hands. Researcher Filippo Cavallarin has detailed a macOS vulnerability that he said would let attackers install malware without the usual permission request. As Gatekeeper considers network sh...

8 hours ago

Engadget

Mac security hole reportedly lets attackers bypass app safeguards

Engadget

Fiat Chrysler may strike Renault deal to survive changing car industry

Fiat Chrysler hasn't been on the cutting edge of automotive change as of late. Unless you count concepts like the Centoventi, the company hasn't done much with EVs -- and its support for autonomy mostly involves supplying minivans to Waymo. The aut...

10 hours ago

Engadget

Fiat Chrysler may strike Renault deal to survive changing car industry

Engadget

Alexa's intercom-like broadcasts come to more non-Echo devices

Amazon has slowly been expanding the circle of devices that can use Alexa Announcements, but now it's throwing the gates wide open. The company has made the intercom-like feature available to any device with Alexa support built-in -- you could use y...

12 hours ago

Engadget

Alexa's intercom-like broadcasts come to more non-Echo devices

Engadget

Leak shows Microsoft's very purple 'Fortnite' Xbox One S

Microsoft's rumored Fortnite Xbox One appears to be real... and it wouldn't just be a basic software bundle. WinFuture claims to have obtained images and details of the system, and the Xbox One S variant would come in a very, very conspicuous "Gradi...

13 hours ago

Engadget

Leak shows Microsoft's very purple 'Fortnite' Xbox One S

Engadget

'Dauntless' success leads to hours-long wait times across platforms (update)

The launch of Phoenix Labs' co-op hunting RPG Dauntless was such a huge success, the developer has announced that the game attracted 4 million players in just a couple of days. In fact, the game drummed up so much interest that Phoenix Labs had a har...

14 hours ago

Engadget

'Dauntless' success leads to hours-long wait times across platforms (update)

Venturebeat

AI doesn't always need to be more human

It's time to stop obsessing over making AI seem human and start focusing on how this transformative technology can help consumers, businesses, and society.

9 hours ago

Venturebeat

AI doesn't always need to be more human

Venturebeat

Superhot VR studio tested "larger" levels for Oculus Quest port

Superhot VR studio Superhot Team experimented with larger levels for the Oculus Quest port of their hit game -- but found it wasn't a good idea.

9 hours ago

Venturebeat

Superhot VR studio tested "larger" levels for Oculus Quest port

Venturebeat

Niantic's view of the future of augmented reality

Ross Finman, head of AR at Niantic, talked with gaming personality Blair Herter about the future of augmented reality at GamesBeat Summit 2019.

11 hours ago

Venturebeat

Niantic's view of the future of augmented reality

Venturebeat

AR will build upon data aggregation's disruption of real estate

In the same way that VR startups have found thriving uses in architecture and construction, AR is creating new opportunities for real estate companies

13 hours ago

Venturebeat

AR will build upon data aggregation's disruption of real estate

Venturebeat

World Health Organization classifies "gaming disorder" as an illness

The World Health Organization moved forward with a proposal to classify "gaming disorder" as an illness. The game industry opposed the move.

16 hours ago

Venturebeat

World Health Organization classifies "gaming disorder" as an illness

Venturebeat

Why mental-health tech must ally with academia

The field of mental health is waiting for academia and industry to team up, as it might be the best match any medical field has yet seen.

16 hours ago

Venturebeat

Why mental-health tech must ally with academia

Ars Technica

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web

From the archives: Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything.

21 hours ago

Ars Technica

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web

Ars Technica

Website for storing digital currencies hosted code with a sneaky backdoor

WalletGenerator.net and the mystery of the backdoored random number generator.

22 hours ago

Ars Technica

Website for storing digital currencies hosted code with a sneaky backdoor

Ars Technica

Here are the finalists for 2019's "Board game of the year" award

Tabletop gaming's highest honor, the Spiel des Jahres, is back.

22 hours ago

Ars Technica

Here are the finalists for 2019's "Board game of the year" award

Ars Technica

Apple releases iOS 12.3.1 and a supplemental update for macOS 10.14.5

It's all about small bug fixes in the lead-up to big announcements at WWDC.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Apple releases iOS 12.3.1 and a supplemental update for macOS 10.14.5

Ars Technica

Star Wars: KOTOR film rumors, Sonic film delayed to fix its VFX

Slew of nerd-film Friday news also includes a date for the live-action Akira remake.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Star Wars: KOTOR film rumors, Sonic film delayed to fix its VFX

Ars Technica

Trump gives Barr authority to declassify anything in campaign 'spying? probe

Orders agencies to hand over anything about "intelligence activities" during 2016 election.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

Trump gives Barr authority to declassify anything in campaign 'spying? probe