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Hackers allegedly leak First Lady's passport and White House emails

Hackers allegedly leak First Lady's passport and White House emails

The hacking group that was able to get a hold of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's emails earlier this month is back with a new breach: Emails from a White House staffer Ian Mellul. [Read more...]
Earthlings get a chance to own NASA's Golden Records

Earthlings get a chance to own NASA's Golden Records

Back in the 70's, famed astronomer Carl Sagan and a team of scientists and artists put together a collection of golden phonograph records, which were sent to space aboard Voyager 1 and 2. [Read more...]
Hydrogen fuel cell train offers pollution-free rail trips

Hydrogen fuel cell train offers pollution-free rail trips

Hydrogen fuel cells aren't gaining a huge amount of traction in cars, where there's a steady move toward electric. [Read more...]
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Lockheed Martin's bioenergy plant turns waste into clean power

Lockheed Martin's bioenergy plant turns waste into clean power

When it's not taking forever to deliver the F–35 or creating new blimp inspection drones, Lockheed Martin is hard at work finding ways to turn actual trash into useable clean energy. [Read more...]
Twitter reports increase in info and removal requests for 2016

Twitter reports increase in info and removal requests for 2016

Twitter has published its transparency report for January to June 2016, and one thing's clear: requests for user info and content removal keep on piling up. [Read more...]
Scientists use 3D scans to 'unwrap' an ancient scroll

Scientists use 3D scans to 'unwrap' an ancient scroll

The scientific world is developing a knack for reading texts without opening them. Researchers in Israel and the US have conducted the first "virtual unwrapping" of a heavily damaged scroll, the En-Gedi scroll, to read its contents without destroying what's left. [Read more...]
Curt Schilling to repay a fraction of $75 million game loan

Curt Schilling to repay a fraction of $75 million game loan

The saga of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, the state of Rhode Island and an awful lot of money might finally be over. [Read more...]

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Curt Schilling to repay a fraction of $75 million game loan

Curt Schilling to repay a fraction of $75 million game loan

The saga of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, the state of Rhode Island and an awful lot of money might finally be over. [Read more...]
The CoWatch brings Amazon's Alexa to your wrist starting today

The CoWatch brings Amazon's Alexa to your wrist starting today

Amazon hasn't dared to make a smartwatch of its own yet, but it might not have to when companies like iMCO have shoehorned Alexa into a wearable themselves. [Read more...]
Pokémon chief says Nintendo's NX is both handheld and console

Pokémon chief says Nintendo's NX is both handheld and console

The head of The Pokémon Company has let slip that his outfit is working on a pocketable monster title for Nintendo's NX. [Read more...]
Google Maps' shining blue beam guides Android users' travels

Google Maps' shining blue beam guides Android users' travels

Google has replaced the tiny Maps arrow on Android with something that can better represent the way you're facing. [Read more...]
Control this smart candle's real flame with your smartphone

Control this smart candle's real flame with your smartphone

Do you like the thought of smart lighting, but think that LED bulbs are a little too modern? No? Well, LuDela has a compromise regardless. [Read more...]
Allo brings Google's 'Assistant' to your phone today

Allo brings Google's 'Assistant' to your phone today

If you're going to unveil a new messaging app, it had better do something unique. At this point, finding a place amongst entrenched options like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and iMessage is not an easy task. [Read more...]
The SproutsIO smart microgarden nurtures your inner botanist

The SproutsIO smart microgarden nurtures your inner botanist

I'm not good at remembering to water my one houseplant. I know I'm not alone -- the phrase "black thumb" exists for a reason. [Read more...]

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Editor's Pick: Incentives-Driven Disaster: Wells Fargo's Ethical Implosion


Christopher J. Bucholtz
Sep 21, 2016 5:00 AM PT
Anyone who works with sales people knows that their ultimate incentive is their commission check. Since the first time that "sales" was identified as a profession, we've been paying the people who sell based primarily on their results. This has worked well -- but things are starting to change. The drive for results at the expense of all other considerations is running smack dab into new realities. [More...]

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The Internet's Shameful Role in Propagating Body Shaming
A problem once associated mainly with school playgrounds often follows people into adulthood, and the anonymity of the Internet has aided its proliferation. People have been shamed for being overweight, underweight, too conservative, too revealing, too young, too old, too plastic or too real. Bullying and harassment are very real problems not only for children, but also for countless adults. [More...]
DoT Refreshes Rule Book to Include Self-Driving Cars
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has introduced new federal guidelines for the emerging highly automated vehicle industry -- including self-driving and semi-autonomous vehicles -- creating a framework that will help drive one of the most important new sectors in the national economy. Foxx was joined by Mark Rosekind, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [More...]
Congress to Bureaucrats: Trust No One
Congress earlier this month lowered the hammer on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in a report on the massive data breach that resulted in the theft of 4.2 million former and current government employees' personnel files, as well as 21.5 million individuals' security clearance information, including fingerprints associated with 5.6 million of them. [More...]
Parsix Normalizes GNOME
Parsix is a feature-rich distro that will delight GNOME desktop users looking for a well-tweaked user experience. It offers a well-oiled, single track Linux desktop operating system. It has no distractions from multiple desktop options. It provides one of the best integrations of the latest GNOME desktop available. Parsix has been around since at least 2007. Along the way, it built a reputation for dependability. [More...]
Samsung Troubles Deepen Following Formal CPSC Action
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Samsung last week announced a formal voluntary recall of about 1 million Galaxy Note7 smartphones, after the high-end flagship device was found to have overheated or caught fire in at least 92 incidents. Samsung was notified of 26 cases of people being burned by the defective 5.7-inch smartphones and 55 cases of property damage, according to the CPSC. [More...]
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