Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Feds have asked Google for help breaking into phones, too and other top stories.

  • Feds have asked Google for help breaking into phones, too

    Google has been asked by the federal government to help it break into Android phones. Thai La Apple isn't the only company the government has tapped for help getting data from phones. The feds have asked both Google and Apple to help it break into smartphones at least 63 times, according to data published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. About 90 percent of the requests were directed toward Appl..
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  • Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica

    Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica
    Landsat 8 natural-color mosaic of the ice cliff at the terminus of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica on Jan. 9. (Knut Christianson/USGS) This story has been updated. Sea levels could rise nearly twice as much as previously predicted by the end of this century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, an outcome that could devastate coastal communities around the globe, according to new research published Wednesday.  The main reason? Antarctica. Scientists behind a new study published in..
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  • HoloLens uncensored: A candid hands-on with HoloLens Development Edition

    HoloLens uncensored: A candid hands-on with HoloLens Development Edition
    It felt like an undercover operation: On Tuesday night, while Microsoft executives were rehearsing their keynote presentations for Microsoft Build, I was in a hotel room next door to the conference venue, testing out what everyone would be coming to see: the HoloLens Development Edition.  This is actually the third time I’ve gone hands-on with HoloLens hardware, and it's clear Microsoft has used the last 15 months of HoloLens development to craft a remarkably polished experience.  Microso..
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  • First iPhone SE and 9.7" iPad Pro Orders Begin Arriving to Customers

    First iPhone SE and 9.7
    It's just after 9:30a.m. in New Zealand, which means the first customers who ordered an iPhone SE or a 9.7-inch iPad Pro on March 24 are starting to receive their shipments. Soon, customers in Australia will begin receiving their devices, and the first Apple retail stores in the country will open for in-store sales. New Zealanders have already started photos and news of their devices on social networks like Instagram, reddit, and Twitter, and a few lucky customers who ordered the 9.7-inch iPa..
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  • Buy now or wait? Apple's new iPhone SE vs. the rumored 'iPhone 7'

    Buy now or wait? Apple's new iPhone SE vs. the rumored 'iPhone 7'
      Feature Buy now or wait? Apple's new iPhone SE vs. the rumored 'iPhone 7' By Neil Hughes Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 08:45 am PT (11:45 am ET) It's one of the most common questions any prospective smartphone buyer asks: Should I buy now, or wait? The launch of the iPhone SE — an uncharacteristic-for-Apple mid-cycle upgrade — makes the answer slightly more complex this year.tl;dr: If you prefer smaller phones, now is the time to buy the iPhone SE. If you want a larger screen and you can h..
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  • Microsoft Bets On Chatbots As New Way To Interact With Devices and Applications

    Microsoft Bets On Chatbots As New Way To Interact With Devices and Applications
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  • Ubuntu (not Linux) on Windows: How it works

    Ubuntu (not Linux) on Windows: How it works
    Yes, Microsoft is going to enable users to run Bash natively on Windows 10, and yes Ubuntu on the next major Windows 10 update, Redstone. How the heck did they do that? First, Ubuntu parent company Canonical and Microsoft will be running it not on Linux in a container or virtual machine (VM), but on Windows native libraries and programs: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL was quietly placed in the Windows 10 (build 14251) code in late January. A few days later, a developer worked out..
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  • Microsoft Build's biggest reveals: Super-smart bot butlers and the future of Windows

    Microsoft Build's biggest reveals: Super-smart bot butlers and the future of Windows
    Cortana, the personal digital assistant baked into Windows 10, is about to get more powerful and even easier to converse with. Microsoft’s building more utility and contextual awareness into Cortana, including more proactive actions where she offers to perform tasks without even being prompted, and putting it all at your beck and call with powerful natural language tools.A quick pair of demos by Marcus Ash, the group product manager for Cortana at Microsoft, drove home how useful the new skills..
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  • 'Hobbit' found in Indonesia may have gone extinct earlier than thought

    'Hobbit' found in Indonesia may have gone extinct earlier than thought
    It turns out a tiny hominin nicknamed the “Hobbit” may have disappeared from the Indonesian island of Flores much earlier than scientists originally thought. When it was first discovered in 2003 in the Liang Bua cave, an international team concluded that H. floresiensis was 18,000 years old and bone fragments were deposited there from 12,000 and 95,000 years ago. But after digging up new stratigraphic and chronological evidence from other parts of the massive, stalactites, filled cave, scientis..
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