Month: September 2017

Why it matters to you Pain-predicting AI could help doctors discover if any of their patients are faking it. Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to […]

Vulnerabilities Discovered In Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors Published on September 05, 2017 at 08:00AM An anonymous reader writes: Android bootloader components from five major chipset vendors are affected by vulnerabilities that break the CoT (Chain of Trust) during the Android OS boot-up sequence, opening […]

Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams Published on September 05, 2017 at 04:30AM Simon Sharwood, reporting for the Register: Soon-to-be-former Oracle staff report that the company made hundreds of layoffs last Friday, as predicted by El Reg, with workers on teams covering […]

About a month ago, Twitter rolled out a new feature that would show you a bunch of random shit in your notifications tab. For example, if a couple of people that you follow liked a tweet, it’d show up in your notifications tab. If someone […]

Un Tir ha preso fuoco questa mattina intorno alle 7 sulla tangenziale di Torino all'altezza di Rivoli in direzione Savona, in prossimità dello svincolo di corso Francia. Non ci sono stati feriti, l'autista è riuscito a mettersi in salvo ma per domare … by Livio […]

In our extensive review of the original Jabra Elite Sport wireless headphones, we called the in-ear earbuds “near perfect”. Clearly, Jabra saw this as a challenge, announcing a new and improved set of Jabra Elite Sport headphones today that promises improved sound quality and up […]

Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams Published on September 05, 2017 at 04:30AM Simon Sharwood, reporting for the Register: Soon-to-be-former Oracle staff report that the company made hundreds of layoffs last Friday, as predicted by El Reg, with workers on teams covering […]

After the 9:21pm ET landing, @AstroPeggy has a total of 665 days in space, the U.S. record and places 8th on all-time space endurance list pic.twitter.com/grVIRo3SmX — NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2017 Whitson arrived on the ISS on November 18th, 2016, her third time aboard […]

Blue Apron and Snap had disappointing debuts this year, but others have fared much better. Of the tech companies that have gone public this year, most are trading above their IPO price. But there haven’t been many of them, with just 15 tech companies debuting […]