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- Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast a month ago – Tesla shares dropped six per cent and the company's chief accounting officer departed after Tesla CEO Elon Musk smoked weed on Joe Rogan's podcast.
- Apple yanks Alex Jones’ Infowars app from its App Store a month ago – The App Store's guidelines prohibit content that is "offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, or in exceptionally poor taste."
- U.S. military announces $2 billion investment in artificial intelligence a month ago – The military's research arm said it hopes to explore how machines can "recognize new situations and environments and adapt to them."
- Cybercriminals locked two Ontario towns out of their servers this summer. They weren’t the only targets 24 days ago – After trying and failing to unlock their systems on their own, both Midland and Wasaga Beach made the decision to pay the ransom demanded by the hackers.
- Toronto woman’s Facebook account cloned, teen girls wearing ‘best-fitting bras’ targeted in scam 25 days ago – Toronto police are investigating an alleged scam making its way across buy-and-sell groups on Facebook.
- Potential ‘meme killer’ law moves forward with EU lawmakers 25 days ago – The European Union is moving forward with a bill that could dramatically change the way videos, photos and memes are shared on the internet.
- Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger stepping down from company 14 days ago – The pair are taking time off to "explore our curiosity and creativity again."
- Report finds Canadian firms fall behind in adoption of artificial intelligence 14 days ago – A new report says artificial intelligence deployment has not yet been a ``real success'' for Canadian companies, in spite of the country's reputation as an AI hotbed.
- Ontario researchers use 3D-printing technology to replace part of dog’s skull 15 days ago – "Our hope is this is something that could be more widely available on a broad scale," Oblak said. "It went very well."
- New Canadian cybersecurity centre to look at election interference threats 7 days ago – An updated report on threats to Canada's electoral system will be issued next year, said Scott Jones, head of the fledgling Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
- Saudi Arabia used controversial spyware to monitor Canada-based political refugee: report 7 days ago – University of Toronto's Citizen Lab say that Omar Abdulaziz's cellphone was infected with the spyware Pegasus, and that it was being monitored from Saudi Arabia.
- Toronto law firm hits Facebook with class action lawsuit after security breach 7 days ago – The social media company announced last week that about 50 million user accounts worldwide had been accessed by hackers, with another 40 million left vulnerable during the attack.
- Google+, Google’s social network, to shut down after bug exposes users’ data 5 hours ago – Google will shut down its social network, Google+, over a 10 month period after the Wall Street Journal reported that users' data was vulnerable to outside parties.
- Tech trouble hobbles Hubble Space Telescope 9 hours ago – NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has been put into 'safe mode' due to problems with its pointing mechanism.
- Facebook wants customers to trust its new camera-enabled home gadget 13 hours ago – Facebook is launching a new camera-enabled digital assistant called Portal, with the goal of connecting more people through video calls.
- 2 days ago – Joel Kaplan has been friends with Kavanaugh for decades and worked with him during the George W. Bush administration.( Bitching about lending moral support to a friend in a time of trial. Nice people - not )
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- Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 to Developers 10 hours ago – Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 to Developers Mac RumorsApple distributes third developer beta of macOS 10.14.1 Mojave AppleInsidermacOS Mojave 10.14.1 Beta 3 Released To Developers WccftechFull coverage
- Telltale's Walking Dead Final Season Will Continue After Massive Layoffs 12 hours ago – Telltale's Walking Dead Final Season Will Continue After Massive Layoffs GameSpotThe Walking Dead: Final Season will be completed, but not by Telltale Games TrustedReviewsSkybound Games will complete The Walking Dead: The Final Season New Game NetworkFull coverageTelltale's Walking Dead Final Season Will Continue After Massive Layoffs 12 hours ago – Telltale's Walking Dead Final Season Will Continue After Massive Layoffs GameSpotThe Walking Dead: Final Season will be completed, but not by Telltale Games TrustedReviewsSkybound Games will complete The Walking Dead: The Final Season New Game NetworkFull coverage
- Sci-fi thriller Observation gives you control of a watchful space-station AI 4 hours ago – Sci-fi thriller Observation gives you control of a watchful space-station AI DestructoidYou're the onboard AI in Stories Untold dev's new sci-fi thriller Observation Eurogamer.netStories Untold Developer No Code Unveil New Game 'Observation' Hardcore GamerFull coverage
- Exclusive dating app launches in Vancouver 4 hours ago – Exclusive dating app launches in Vancouver Times ColonistThis Exclusive, Invite-Only Dating App Is Launching In Canada Tomorrow And Canadians Already Have Mixed ... NarcityFull coverage
- Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes 24 minutes ago – Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes KOMO NewsBoz: Defending Facebook's Portal gadget BBC NewsWhat is Facebook Portal and how does it work? Pocket-lint.comPortal from Facebook: Data Security & Protection Guidelines Portal from FacebookOpinion: Facebook Portal: The ...
- Guerrilla Games Recruiting 'Rainbow Six Siege' Talent for Secret Project 2 hours ago – Guerrilla Games Recruiting 'Rainbow Six Siege' Talent for Secret Project Comicbook.comHorizon Zero Dawn Studio Hires Talent From Rainbow Six Siege Dev GameSpotHorizon Zero Dawn dev Guerrilla hires 2 Rainbow Six Siege designers VG247Full coverage
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- The Focal Elegia are $899 closed-back headphones that promise open-back sound 3 days ago – Earlier this year, I raved about the Focal Clear, a $1,500 pair of high-end heaphones. Not only does it sound good enough to justify the price – assuming you’re the type of person to even consider dropping $1,500 on headphones – they are also unusually easy to power from a smartphone or laptop. A...
- Crypto-jacking epidemic spreads to 30K routers across India 3 days ago – The spate of crypto-jacking plaguing the internet shows no sign of slowing down. After infesting hundreds of thousands of routers in Brasil with cryptocurrency mining malware, reports indicate hackers have compromized a further 30,000 routers across India. As Hard Fork previously reported, black-...
- My colleague Googled my dad and it got weird 3 days ago – The other day, my colleague Googled my dad. I can’t remember why, so don’t ask, but he sent me a 20-year-old photo of my dad sitting in an office that can only be described as Dunder Mifflin-esque. I had never seen it before in my life. And no, I will not include the photo, you creeps. It’s hard...
- The end of the world as we know it? 3 days ago – This week I went to get a sneak preview of the new exhibition which opens today at the Science Museum in London. The Sun: Living with our Star explores our love (and fear) relationship with this enormously powerful force that sustains all life on Earth, but could also destroy us all. As a tech pe...
- Binance vows to donate all cryptocurrency listing fees to charity 18 hours ago – Soon after being forced to defend accepting money for new listings, Binance has announced it will donate all the fees paid by cryptocurrency projects to charity. The new initiative will see previously kept funds being diverted to its Blockchain Charity Foundation, which claims to be “decentralizi...
- An Indian mental health clinic is treating its first Netflix addict 18 hours ago – Most of us are no strangers to spending hours binging great and not-so-great shows on Netflix. But as it turns out, you can have too much of a good thing. An Indian user was so addicted to the service that he spent an average of seven hours a day streaming shows on the platform – and had to under...
- Rapid scaling can ruin your startup — so fix these technical problems now 14 hours ago – In the grand scheme of things, everything has been going perfectly to plan. Your product or service launch has been a success, your company has started to gain lots of traction, and as a result your user base has begun to grow rapidly. But then, as your 100 daily users suddenly become 100,000 … c...
- How the new mosquito emoji can create buzz to battle mosquito-borne disease 14 hours ago – Mosquitoes have arrived on our emoji keyboards as a part of the iOS 12.1 update. The Unicode Consortium approved the design earlier this year. The mosquito emoji was released alongside other emoji wildlife including butterflies, bees, whales, and rabbits. We see a strong case that the addition of...
- Google+ is dead because of a security flaw the company couldn’t be bothered to fix 5 hours ago – Google today revealed it’d be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ in response to a previously undisclosed security flaw — and also because no one’s really using it. Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported Google discovered the flaw, which exposed the data of thousands of users, ...
- Microsoft’s Surface Headphones will arrive November 19 for $350 6 hours ago – Microsoft’s Surface headphones were by far the biggest surprise to come out of the company’s big launch event last week, but the company didn’t tell us when they’d actually be available. Now we know: You can pre-order them on November 15, and they’ll be available just four days later, on November...