NASA is currently investigating what could be considered the first crime perpetrated in space, after one of the agency’s astronauts was accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station. Investigators have yet to decide if the event actually constitutes a crime, but this case does raise questions
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has long positioned itself as a place where communities can share information during a crisis. Today, the company said it will start giving local governments and first responders the ability to send alerts to their communities during an emergency. Facebook already offers tools like Safety Check, which
Read More{$inline_image}Yelp is rolling out new options for personalization today, meaning you’ll tell the app about your dietary and lifestyle preferences, and it’ll spit back appropriately-tailored search results — in theory, anyway. If you log into Yelp today, you might find that you have the option to add “preferences.” These include several categories on foods you
Read MoreAnthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley’s foremost technologists on autonomous cars, was charged with theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google. Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe US Open is starting to wind down, with the last rounds of matches ending on Monday and the men’s and women’s quarterfinals being broadcast Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by the semifinals and then the men’s and women’s singles and doubles final the following weekend, September 7-8. Read more… How to Livestream the US Open
Read MorePhoto by Angelo Merendino / AFP / Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, the controversial self-driving car engineer whose shenanigans helped spur a multimillion-dollar lawsuit between Waymo and Uber, was charged by federal prosecutors with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, according to The New York Times. The criminal charges from the US
Read More5G is great, but it’s a big Wi-Fi upgrade that’ll likely help you out sooner with faster speeds and longer range at home, school and work. Wi-Fi 6 will upgrade your workhorse wireless network – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe change comes after the FCC gave carriers greater power to “aggressively block” unwanted robocalls. Verizon's anti-robocall service will be automatically enabled on Android phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou can’t put a price on a good night’s sleep, but mattress sales are nonetheless appreciated. The best Labor Day mattress sales available now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn her quarterly letter to creators, Susan Wojcicki says the openness of the Google-owned service is “more important than ever.” YouTube CEO, amid criticism, defends the site's open platform – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube must leave up some videos that are “controversial or even offensive” in order to remain an open platform, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today. In her quarterly letter to creators, Wojcicki addressed YouTube’s perpetual struggle with troubling content and how to moderate it, saying that it’s worthwhile
Read MoreOver at the New York Times, a frustrated employee shared their story of a lazy, “do-nothing” colleague with the Ethicist. “She frequently takes lunch breaks, comes in later than her start time and is not actually working on her ‘work from home’ day,” they wrote. “… In addition, she is constantly complaining and… Read more…
Read MoreWhen my colleague James Vincent tried out Double Robotics’ first telepresence robot in 2015, slowly wheeling around our New York office from his London home base, he described the experience as like playing Doom, but in an office. The company’s latest version of the robot, the Double 3, adds mixed reality video to let users
Read MoreThe huge new world zips around its host star on an egg-shaped orbit. No yolk. Astronomers find bizarre planet 'unlike any other discovered so far' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreI’m often asked to design customer and employee tracking systems. There are quite a few ways to do it, and it’s an interesting intersection of engineering and ethics – what information is reasonable to collect in different contexts, anonymizing and securely storing it, and at a fundamental level whether the entire system should exist at
Read MoreA Massachusetts woman recently died of eastern equine encephalitis, and health authorities in the area are on the alert. But EEE is an extremely rare disease, and the main thing you need to know is that it’s always a good idea to protect yourself from mosquito bites. Read more… Eastern Equine Encephalitis Is Scary But
Read MoreHome Wi-Fi speeds can be difficult to understand at the best of times, but as I’ve been testing Three UK’s new 5G home broadband package this week, I’ve been getting especially superstitious. I’ve tried using different Wi-Fi access points, I’ve moved my modem around, and I’ve been switching between my phone, laptop, and desktop to
Read MorePlagiarism and cheating prevention software company Unicheck has introduced Emma, an artificial intelligence tool for authorship verification. Unicheck Debuts AI-Powered Contract Cheating Detection Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreMicrosoft is holding a fall hardware launch in New York City and an ARM-based Surface with LTE and an AMD-based Surface Laptop could be among the devices debuting there. Microsoft issues 'save the date' for expected October hardware event Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreApple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tech companies will usually do their best to keep customers from using their gear with a competing company’s software. Let’s face it, you’re probably not going to be using iMessage on an Android phone anytime soon. But sometimes, you can get around these limitations.
Read MoreHow do you practice your music? Do you sit down and play a specific piece all the way through, over and over? Do you do the thing where you start at the beginning of a piece, play until you make a mistake, repeat that part until you play it perfectly, and move on—only to make
Read MoreBaroness Kidron says tech giants exert too much leverage over young users and has pushed laws to change that. “It’s little Timmy in his bedroom versus Mark Zuckerberg in his Valley,” she said. The Baroness Fighting to Protect Children Online Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux’s history to date. The biggest events in Linux's history Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read More{$inline_image} [MisterM] seems to specialize in squeezing new electronics into old but good-looking technology. His latest creation focuses on a space-age specimen: an interesting car radio from 1963 that could be pulled out from the dashboard and taken along wherever. The beat goes on, thanks to a shiny built-in speaker on the bottom. He replaced
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date — Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million … E-commerce startup
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