Sci-tech
After Successful Pilot Testing Ford Is Expanding Its HoloLens Program
On the Microsoft blog, the company announced that Ford is expanding testing of Microsoft HoloLens after a successful pilot in 2016 at their Design Center. They've been able to explore different shapes, sizes and textures of future vehicle attributes in minutes and hours instead of the weeks and months it can take to create clay models. [Full Article...]
Health care coalition protests latest ACA repeal bill
But now, as congressional Republicans make what could be the final push to shut down Obamacare once and for all, the patience-or more likely, the ideological stubbornness-of the leaders who turned down all that federal money because enslaving more citizens in a government program would be immoral-are finally receiving their reward. [Full Article...]
Niantic is hosting a new event for Pokemon Go
On top of the aforementioned bonuses, Niantic are also launching a new in-game item in the form of the Super Incubator , which hatches Eggs 1.5 times faster than your average incubator. Paired up with that are the item boxes and their new Super Incubator which will allow players to hatch those special eggs by walking only 1.5 kilometers. [Full Article...]
Discovery of an earlier Equifax hack complicates matters even further
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Apache said Thursday it provided a patch for the software fault on March 7, well before Equifax said the security breach began in mid-May. "Equifax's internal investigation of this incident is still ongoing and the company continues to work closely with the FBI in its investigation", the company said in a statement. [Full Article...]
Calcutta HC revokes WB Govt's Durga Idol Immersion Order
Criticising the state government, the acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court , Justice Rakesh Tiwari , said , "There is a difference between regulation and prohibition". The issue spurted up when the West Bengal government ordered fixing schedules for idol immersion and Taazia procession during Muharram separately. [Full Article...]
Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV gets TGS trailer
Now, the company has decided that Tokyo Game Show 2017 is the ideal place to tease the role-playing game's forthcoming story DLC, as the firm has put out a brand new trailer hinting at the content to come for the title. As seen toward the end of Final Fantasy 15 's official Tokyo Game Show 2017 trailer below, fans are given a glimpse of a couple instances of Gentiana and Luna having a convers... [Full Article...]
This is Volvo's XC40, and it's coming to SA
The Lead Exterior Designer Ian Kettle termed the XC40 as a modern product and narrated how the modern design came to him during the conceptualisation stage and was best exemplified by science fiction movies due to their modern robotic design. [Full Article...]
Resident Evil 7 teases Not A Hero in-game footage
Resident Evil 7 is back, it's brilliant, and it's scary. Capcom may be preserving this footage for a future announcement or an embargo release. As was always promised, the DLC is much more action-focused that the main game and stars - and there's no point trying to spoiler this anymore - Chris Redfield. [Full Article...]
The CCleaner malware targeted tech firms like Microsoft and Google
Craig Williams , a senior technology leader and global outreach manager at Talos, said the code contains a "fileless" third stage that's injected into computer memory without ever being written to disk, a feature that further makes analysis hard. [Full Article...]
IOS 11 control won't turn off WiFi or Bluetooth completely
Over the last few days, I've been digging through all of iOS 11's features , looking at how they work, and wondering what will happen if I use them in different ways. It took Apple a while, but the Camera app now scans QR codes. Another benefit of using the Camera with iOS 11 is support for AR. Issues ranging from slow download speeds to frozen devices often plague the first version of new ... [Full Article...]
Zuckerberg says Facebook can't catch everything
Congressmen have been calling for companies like Facebook and Twitter to share more information on Russian interference. The company said it will not make the ads in question public, citing federal law that "places strict limitations on the disclosure of account information", Schrage wrote. [Full Article...]
To update or not to update, that's the question for Apple users
It is believed that around 180,000 apps will no longer function as a result of the iOS 11 rollout, or eight per cent of all iPhone apps, according to Sensor Tower. No longer will you need to download a third-party app to screen various QR readers. You can follow this process on Windows or Mac systems easily. [Full Article...]
Facebook bans Rohingya militant group
The Myanmar government does not use the word "Rohingya" and does not recognize them as an official race, which means that they have not been given citizenship and which means that Rohingya has become a countryless way. "We are carefully reviewing content against our Community Standards and, when alerted to errors, quickly resolving them and working to prevent them from happening again". [Full Article...]
Here's how much each iPhone X might cost Apple to build
If you don't stare at the phone, it won't unlock. You can find out more details about the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus over at Vodafone at the link below. The feature is called "Trusted Face" and the idea is exactly the same as the iPhone X Face ID . [Full Article...]
Brinton to open doors for Museum Day Live!
Museums across the nation will emulate the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, DC-based facilities, which offer free admission every day. "Being involved with Museum Day Live! ever since its very beginning has become an important tradition for The Brinton Museum", said Barbara Schuster, museum staff responsible for marketing and development. [Full Article...]
The Russians will pay for the smartphone Meizu M6 two prices
We don't know when it will launch in India. Apart from the new design, there are only a few upgrades made in terms of the specification of the device. The... It will be available in Moonlight Silver, Champagne Gold, Matte Black, and Electric Blue color options. The mBack button actually serves as a physical home key, capacitive back button, and also a fingerprint scanner. [Full Article...]
Xbox boss Phil Spencer becomes executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft
The organisational change is effective immediately, and followed an announcement from Mr Nadella to Microsoft's employees. Whether this means that Spencer now has greater leeway and freedom to chart Xbox's course - or that he must adhere even more closely to company lines - is something that remains to be seen. [Full Article...]
Moto Z gets Android 8.0 Oreo via Lineage OS 15
It offers exceptional coverage by intelligently switching among the networks of Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. Google's Project Fi is ready to expand beyond just serving Google-backed smartphones . Although the new version is pretty much the same as a regular Moto X4 , the Android One variant lacks most of the customisations present in the standard version as well as Alexa voice as... [Full Article...]
Takeaways from the Lions HUGE win over the Giants on MNF
They aren't fatal to their goals for the year, but if the team doesn't learn from them, they will be. When the offense stagnated in the second half, the team needed a someone to make a play and ice the game. Defensively, Detroit picked Carson Palmer off three times , but that's what Carson Palmer does. "It's five guys. We can help him out", Pugh said in defense of Flowers during an impassio... [Full Article...]
Apple acknowledges Apple Watch Series 3 has LTE connectivity issues
Fowler for The Wall Street Journal . "Then, realizing the battery is down to 8% and that cellular isn't connecting, he ducks under a desk to find a power outlet and futz with the settings". "I've barely touched on the advantages the new watchOS 4 software brings, with its much-improved interface, News app, improved Music app and more". [Full Article...]