Slashdot user #1083, downwa, writes: Canonical engineer Simon Fels has publicly released an Alpha version of Anbox. Similar to the method employed for Android apps on ChromeOS, Anbox runs an entire Android system (7.1.1 at present) in an LXC container….
Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business'
“We have decided to close down our email business,” Verizon has announced — in a move which affects 4.5 million accounts. Slashdot reader tomservo84 writes: Strangely enough, I didn’t find out about this from Verizon, itself, but SiriusXM, who sent…
Steve Case On How To Get Funded Outside Tech Corridors
Long-time reader Esther Schindler writes: Innovation occurs outside the Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Austin. So why is it so hard for a startup to get attention and acquire venture capital? Steve Case and Kara Swisher discussed this never-ending-topic…
Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming?
MIT Technology Review reports: David Mitchell, a lanky, soft-spoken atmospheric physicist, believes frigid clouds in the upper troposphere may offer one of our best fallback plans for combating climate change… Fleets of large drones would crisscross the upper latitudes of…
Microsoft Will Block Desktop 'Office' Apps From 'Office 365' Services In 2020
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is still encouraging businesses to rent their Office software, according to TechRadar. “In a bid to further persuade users of the standalone versions of Office to shift over to a cloud subscription (Office 365), Microsoft…
SMSVova Spyware Hiding in ‘System Update’ App Ejected From Google Play Store
An Android app that falsely claimed to be a tool for keeping smartphones up-to-date with the latest version of the OS was found surreptitiously tracking the physical location of it users using spyware called SMSVova.