BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Want to know something shocking? Like, literally shocking? Barnes and Noble is recalling 147,000 faulty NOOK Tablet 7 power adapters due to shock risk. In other words, owners of this tablet could face an…
Amazon To Build $1.5 Billion Air Cargo Hub In Kentucky, Creating Around 2,000 New Jobs
Amazon is planning to build a $1.5 billion air cargo hub in a spot that crossed the Cincinnati and Kentucky border, according to the Wall Street Journal. When the project is completed, it will eventually result in around 2,000 total…
Touch Bar MacBook Pros Are Being Banned From Bar Exams Over Predictive Text
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: When it launched late last year, the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar was largely reliant on first-party applications to show off what it could do. Since then, a number of other companies…
2K Games Wins the Right To Store and Share Your Biometric Facial Data
In October 2015, two gamers who used face-scanning tech found in 2K Games’ NBA series to create more realistic avatars filed a lawsuit against the company as they were concerned about how 2K would store and use their biometric data….
GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups. On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued the…
NASA's Cassini Captures Photos of Saturn's Rings In Unprecedented Detail
NASA’s Cassini probe has captured news images of Saturn’s rings in unprecedented detail. The images were captured by the probe in its penultimate mission phase of its mission that includes “20 orbits that dive past the outer edge of the…
Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is prioritizing “authentic” content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content “that people consider genuine, and not misleading, sensational, or spammy.” The algorithm will also boost stories that are…
Do I have to hand over bank and social media details at the US border?
Your right to decline to share privacy-busting details with border agents depend on your visa, and with checks stepping up, it makes sense to find out before you travel
‘I’m not a robot’ verification test beaten by … a robot
The Captcha test may finally be on the way out, but that didn’t stop one robot rising to the challenge of beating it
News in brief: Witcher user details stolen; email chain generated 500m messages; Russians face treason charges
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