Apple's new Touch Bar is causing problems for MacBook Pro users who intended to use their new hardware to sit for bar exams. Multiple states have banned the new systems or restricted their use due to concerns about cheating.
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A near miss by a small asteroid, but we only spotted it a few hours ahead of time.
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The LG 5K UltraFine monitor that Apple recommends as a replacement for its now-discontinued Thunderbolt display has a significant problem -- it goes bonkers if you put it too close to a wireless router. If it's too close, it can freeze a machine completely.
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The Mayan city of El Mirador might have been more advanced than we thought.
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All you need is hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug.
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If you've hoped Microsoft would release a consumer version of HoloLens, the company does plan to do so -- but it doesn't have a firm timeline nailed down just yet.
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Governments, ISPs, and malicious individuals have no qualms about watching your every move online, and a good way to thwart them is by encrypting your traffic with a VPN. And since you can get a lifetime subscription to VPNSecure for under 40 bucks, now's the time to act.
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Quick, roomy (even in back), Chevy hit a home run with this 238-mile EV-only compact. It matches the Tesla Model 3 on tech, specs, and price.
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Some of this generation's best titles are looking better than ever, here are 10 games that really benefit from this $400 half-step.
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Windows Cloud is less about a cloud-based operating system, and more about Microsoft challenging Google in the education and enterprise markets, where the locked-down nature of Chromebooks makes them preferable.
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Tired of Windows 10 rebooting out from under you while you try to get work done? There's a solution for that.
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The Washington Auto Show again focused on public policy and government-industry alliances such as V2V and V2I.
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In search of an affordable desktop that has plenty of room for upgrades? Take a look at the XPS 8910 tower PC from Dell. With a sleek modern design, a Skylake CPU, space for three 3.5-inch drives, and support for up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, this PC is up for almost anything.
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A custom new camera that can take a hundred billion frames per second has allowed scientists to photograph light producing the optical equivalent of a sonic boom.
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Get serious about Android with these powerful apps.
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The Nintendo Switch only ships with 32GB of internal storage, but it isn't supposed to require proprietary microSD cards -- so why is Nintendo shipping cards so much more expensive than average?
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The Apollo I fire that claimed the lives of three astronauts -- Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee -- was 50 years ago today. We discuss the fire and how it changed the Apollo program -- and NASA itself.
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Seagate has big plans for its storage divisions, with 16TB drives planned for mid-2018 and a 20TB push for 2020. Hard drive growth has plateaued somewhat of late; can helium and new drive recording methods put things back on track?
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This week's goings-on feature SpaceX, Hubble, and a needle in a haystack. Three times as much space per space. Plus some eye candy from NASA's new satellite!
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Metallic hydrogen has been theoretical for more than 80 years, but it might be a reality now.
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Nvidia's latest Shield update includes 4K streaming, Android 7.0 (Nougat), a unified and simplified game hub, and new capabilities for older versions of the device.
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Complete details on Samsung's Galaxy S8, including photos, have leaked. We round up the information inside.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board points the finger at Donald Trump for taking us this close to doomsday.
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A new pair of Blu-ray drives from Panasonic promise enhanced audio playback and full support for UHD Blu-ray discs -- but full compatibility is much more involved this time around, and you'll need an entire hardware stack capable of playing back 4K content.
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We've found exoplanets, but what about the exomoons?
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Microsoft will remove Snap mode from an upcoming version of the Xbox One dashboard. This is supposed to boost performance and give the company more breathing room for future planned improvements.
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Looking for a powerful tiny PC on the cheap? Check out the Optiplex 3040 Micro desktop PC from Dell. For a limited time, this quad-core machine is being discounted by a total of 35% off the sticker price.
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Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who learn from history are doomed to watch helplessly while others repeat it.
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Why let all those neat components go to waste?
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The federal government is expected to renew its assault on strong encryption under likely incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions. President Trump, FBI Director James Comey, and Sessions himself have all attacked strong encryption and called for the creation of backdoors or mandated cooperation that would require companies to break their security measures when ordered to do so by the US government.
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With voice recognition software being used in household products, Hannah Fry explores how it works – and what the future might bring. She test-drives Alexa, one of the new wave of virtual home assistants that works out what you’re saying and attempts to answer your questions. The artificial intelligence housed in the Amazon Echo device can find answers for many of your daily needs. But what are its limitations?
D-Wave has launched a new quantum annealing machine, this time with 2,048 entangled qubits. That's twice what the company offered last year, though there are still questions about the type of problems the computer will solve and how its performance will compare with classical computers.
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Off-site storage shields you from catastrophic data loss if your phone or computer are stolen or damaged, and it enables you to access your files wherever you go. Better yet, cloud storage isn't prohibitively expensive anymore.
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Remember how that Google neural net learned to tell the difference between dogs and cats? It's helping catch skin cancer now, thanks to some scientists at Stanford.
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A team is working to filter out these common meteorites to see what the most ancient objects to fall to Earth were like.
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Plankton are tiny, but important. The robotic variety could help us study the real plankton in the ocean.
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Samsung's semiconductor business is the star of the company's 2016. Not only has revenue jumped the last two years, this relatively small division cranks out a disproportionate amount of Samsung's total profit.
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Windows 10's Creators Update will pack a number of improvements, including a new Windows Defender Security Center and a centralized location for managing devices and applications.
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A leaked Microsoft document sheds light on the Xbox Scorpio's upcoming capabilities, 4K rendering options, and technical details. It's shaping up to be a beast of a console.
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The CyanogenMod project is gone, but Lineage OS continues in its place.
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Dystopian future, meet dystopian present. But how are they going to make the rejected Internet content pay for enhancements to the Great Firewall?
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Getting ready for the biggest game in football? Treat yourself to an affordable 4K UHD TV from the Dell online store, and you'll get a bonus gift card with your purchase. Order before the 25th, and you'll receive your new television by the time of the big event.
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3D TV is finally dead, with the last manufacturers dropping it from TV sets going forward. Unfortunately, many of the same headwinds that killed the 3D business could be trouble for virtual reality as well.
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Despite the popularity of Chromebooks, they have suffered from a lack of first-class applications. Now, Adobe is leveraging Google's new Android on Chromebook effort to bring some of its top mobile applications on board.
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The new Star Wars movie, Episode VIII, now has a formal title: The Last Jedi. Who that refers to, and what it means, is already a source of considerable speculation. We step through the possibilities and discuss outcomes.
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Jon Peddie Research reports that spending on PC gaming surged in 2016, thanks to pent-up demand for 14nm products and an ongoing strong market for PC titles.
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The damage from a coronal mass ejection could be devastating to the US economy, costing us billions of dollars per day and impacting US economic production for five to 16 months depending on where the blow strikes and how strong the geomagnetic storm is.
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To show off the impressive technological feats of GOES-16, NOAA has released a number of images taken by the satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument.
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Android apps will be a standard feature on all new Chromebooks.
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IT security is a massively important field. Not only is there potential for a very successful career, but there's a lot of good to be done as well. If you're inspired by recent events to start down the path of IT security and ethical hacking, today's deal from StackSocial is worth picking up.
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Symantec has once again been caught issuing faulty HTTPS certificates for "test" purposes. It's the second time in 16 months that the company's certification practices have come under fire.
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