Gaming the Laws on Cockroach Repair

Repair your gear rights, cheap USB C

Cheap USB-C Cables Could Kill Your Phone or Laptop

Benson Leung, an engineer on Google

That Dragon, Cancer and how the digital age talks about death

That Dragon, Cancer is not an easy game to experience. It

Stephen Hawking: 'Things can get out of a black hole' - BBC News

An illustrated version of Prof Stephen Hawking

‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 | Money | The Guardian

If you have fixed your iPhone or someone other then Apple has fixed your iPhone, do not update, your phone could be bricked.

Make your own cyborg cockroach for under $30

Every few years, cockroaches find themselves conscripted into humanity

A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything

Repair groups from across the industry announced that they have formed The Repair Coalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to preserve the

SpaceX sets launch date for later this month, sea landing likely

SpaceX will make its next launch attempt on February 24th when it attempts to put

Study finds tired people overuse Facebook

The results showed a direct correlation between chronic fatigue and accumulated sleep debt, increased IT usage, bad moods, and more frequent changing from one app or task to another, which could indicate increased distractability.

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Google now blocking websites that show fake download buttons

Google has now started blocking websites that use deceptive content or ads to make you do things that you wouldn’t normally do, such as fake download buttons that appear right next to the real download button, or pop-ups demanding you phone tech support to remove a

Windows 10 passes 10% market share, overtakes Windows 8.1 and Windows XP

Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Windows 10 was installed on over 75 million PCs in its first four weeks and passed 110 million after 10 weeks. Last month, Windows 10 passed 200 million active devices

Microsoft makes Windows 10 a 'recommended update' for Windows 7 and 8.1 users

Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively, and the company’s latest move is going to do nothing to silence these accusations. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 just became a ‘recommended update’ in Windows Update.

This is a change from the previous categorization of the upgrade as an ‘optional update’ and it means that there is renewed potential for unwanted installations.

Microsoft's Cortana Won't Put Up With Sexual Harassment

A specific goal was to make sure Cortana wasn’t treated as a subservient. If she’s insulted, she doesn’t apologize or back down. She handles it with tact, so as to reduce the chance of further abuse. Interestingly, some AI assistants out there do cater to this sort of thing. CEO of Robin Labs, Ilya Eckstein claims there is a high demand for AI assistants that are “more intimate-slash-submissive with sexual undertones”.


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