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Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

Apple Inc. plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium subscription offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is part of a broader push by the iPhone maker to generate more revenue from online content and services.

Target debuts same-day delivery for in-store purchases in some urban markets

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

Target wants to make it easier for customers in urban markets to shop its store and get their hauls home, without having to lug their bags onto the subway or other public transit.

Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s latest exoplanet-hunting satellite

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today during a 30 second window at 6:32pm EDT. Onboard is NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) designed to find exoplanets. SpaceX said this morning there’s an 80 percent chance of launching today.

Nikola Tesla predicted the smartphone in 1926

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

In an interview published in Collier’s magazine in 1926, Nikola Tesla, then in the twilight of his career, made some predictions about the future that included electric airplane flights “from New York to Europe in a few hours”, more frequent earthquakes, and temperate zones becoming cooler o

Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

Botnet operators and cyber-espionage groups (APTs) are abusing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with all modern routers to proxy bad traffic and hide their real location from investigators.

Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you.

Apple considering third-party Apple Watch face support, watchOS beta code reveals

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

A line of code unearthed in Apple’s latest watchOS 4.3.1 beta release suggests a future version of the operating system will allow third-party developers to deploy customizable watch faces, a feature for which many users have pined since Apple Watch debuted in 2015.

Facebook tracks you even if you’re not a user, and you can’t really do anything about it

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

We’ve talked about the fact that Facebook is tracking everyone online — even people who choose not to open a Facebook account — long before the Cambridge Analytica revelations came to light.

Porsche plans 500 fast chargers in US by end of 2019

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

Porsche will come out next year with an electric car based on its Mission E concept from the 2015 Frankfurt auto show.

The new frontier of doping will modify athletes’ DNA

Posted on April 13, 2018 by HeyJK

Nick Busca is a triathlon coach, personal trainer and CNN sport and health contributor.

More than half your body is not human

Posted on April 11, 2018 by HeyJK

More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body’s total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists.

These Robots Are Learning to Conduct Their Own Science Experiments

Posted on April 11, 2018 by HeyJK

Inside a lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a robot arm lifts a bottle filled with chemical reagents and carries it over a bank of test tubes, where it dispenses a precise number of drops into each one.

’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source code

Posted on April 9, 2018 by HeyJK

Microsoft has released the source code for the original, 1990s-era File Manager that is so familiar to all of us who were dragging and dropping on Windows 3.0. The code, which is available on Github under the MIT OSS license, will compile under Windows 10.

RSS is undead

Posted on April 9, 2018 by HeyJK

RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead.

iOS 12 concept shows off always on display, Lock screen complications, dark mode, and more [Video]

Posted on April 7, 2018 by HeyJK

A new iOS 12 concept today gives us a new take on how Apple could advance its mobile operating system. A slick new video shows off design ideas for an always on display, Lock screen complications, group FaceTime calls, a system-wide dark mode and more.

Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief, John Giannandrea

Posted on April 4, 2018 by HeyJK

Apple said on Tuesday that Mr. Giannandrea will run Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy,” and become one of 16 executives who report directly to Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook. Now this is some news that clearly shows Apple is getting more serious about Siri.

Building your own smart mirror is surprisingly easy

Posted on April 3, 2018 by HeyJK

Smart mirrors are straight from science fiction. They’re part of an optimistic vision of the future that imagines a world where screens and data are everywhere, ready to feed you whatever information you need at a moment’s notice.

Elon Musk just took charge of Model 3 production, saying it’s his “most critical” job right now

Posted on April 2, 2018 by HeyJK

You can probably argue over whether it’s a good or a bad sign, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter today a report in The Information that he has taken over direct control of the division that’s producing Tesla’s Model 3 electric sedan after the company failed to meet the deliver

Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16 Billion Housekeeping Industry

Posted on April 2, 2018 by HeyJK

Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc. launched a marketplace to connect its customers with handymen, landscapers and housekeepers in their neighborhoods, a direct challenge to the likes of Angie’s List Inc. and Yelp Inc.

No more secrets! New mind-reading machine can translate your thoughts and display them as text INSTANTLY

Posted on April 2, 2018 by HeyJK

Scientists have developed an astonishing mind-reading machine which can translate what you are thinking and instantly display it as text. They claim that it has an accuracy rate of 90 per cent or more and say that it works by interpreting consonants and vowels in our brains.