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Google's Deepmind AI beats Go world champion for a second time 10 Mar 2016, 12:46 am

Google's Deepmind AI has done it again: it's beaten Go world champion Lee Sedol in the second of a five-match challenge. After forcing the 9-dan professional to resign in yesterday's test, today's four-and-a-half hour match went into overtime before...

Opera's desktop web browser gets built-in ad blocking 10 Mar 2016, 12:00 am

If you use a major desktop web browser, you usually have to hunt down an ad blocking add-on if you're determined to purge intrusive promos from your internet experience. You won't have to go scrounging if you're an Opera fan, however: the company has...

Napster founder is making a day-and-date movie release service 9 Mar 2016, 10:16 pm

Sean Parker, Napster co-founder and ex-Facebook president, is cooking up another big project. According to Variety, he and Prem Akkaraju (an exec at SFX Entertainment, Inc.) have recently pitched a premium day-and-date movie release service to studio...

Oculus Social launches on Gear VR, Facebook tie-in coming soon 9 Mar 2016, 8:57 pm

Following the lead of nearly everything else on the internet, Oculus has announced it's adding social features to the company's VR platform. Starting tomorrow, Gear VR owners will be able to create a profile of their own, and then search for others b...

Chrome Music Lab puts sound experiments on your browser 9 Mar 2016, 7:32 pm

If you love to play with musical instrument apps, you might find Chrome Music Lab entertaining. It doesn't have straightforward virtual pianos or guitars -- it's more of a collection of experiments (some familiar, some odd) to explore sounds, rhythms...

Sonos announces layoffs, refocuses on streaming and voice tech 9 Mar 2016, 6:40 pm

Sonos has announced that it will be "letting go of some employees,"; part of reshaping the company in a new direction. In an (admittedly vague) blog post, CEO John Macfarlane doesn't say exactly how many jobs are going to be cut, but he says its's a...

New research hints at stem cell treatments for cataracts 9 Mar 2016, 6:29 pm

A pair of unrelated studies into the efficacy of stem cell-based treatments for correcting cataracts had the scientific community abuzz on Tuesday. The studies are "amazing, almost like science fiction" Mark Daniell, head of corneal research at the C...

Google joins Facebook's effort to reinvent the data center 9 Mar 2016, 5:22 pm

Facebook and Google aren't the best of friends, but they're willing to make exceptions for the right causes: Google has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project in a bid to improve data centers everywhere. It's starting off by contributing a new server...

Netflix wants Will Smith's next feature film 9 Mar 2016, 4:34 pm

Netflix's track record for original movies is spotty, to say the least. On one hand, you have something like the pretty stellar Beasts of No Nation. Then there's Adam Sandler's output that's exclusive to the streaming juggernaut and the Crouching Tig...

'EVE Online' now rewards you for helping science 9 Mar 2016, 4:13 pm

At last, playing a ton of EVE Online can do a lot of good in the real world. As promised, the massively multiplayer space title now includes a Project Discovery minigame that has you contributing to real science. If you offer to classify proteins i...

Pentagon has deployed military drones in the US 9 Mar 2016, 3:40 pm

If you were skeptical that the US military would only fly its drones in combat zones, your suspicions were well-founded -- although the situation isn't as bad as you might think. A recently published Department of Defense report has revealed that the...

Immerse yourself in Vive's VR with two mixed-reality videos 9 Mar 2016, 3:13 pm

Fantastic Contraption launches with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset on April 5th and it promises to take advantage of the technology's coolest features. It's a full-body kind of game that challenges you to craft objects that can overcome physica...

The first uterus transplant in the US has failed 9 Mar 2016, 2:47 pm

Medical progress sometimes doesn't go according to plan. Cleveland Clinic has announced that the first US uterus transplant failed just two weeks after doctors put it in. Details of what went wrong are scarce, but the Clinic says that a "sudden compl...

Watch leading thinkers debate the risks and rewards of AI 9 Mar 2016, 2:15 pm

The advent of artificial intelligence is as dreaded as it is lauded. Proponents believe it's a technological advancement that will augment humans in unprecedented ways -- think immortality and super-intelligence. But the critics often point out the d...

'XCOM 2' gets its first DLC pack on March 17th 9 Mar 2016, 1:43 pm

2K has revealed a launch date for the first XCOM 2 downloadable content: March 17th. Titled Anarchy's Children, the add-on pack will come with more than 100 "exotic" goodies, which you can use to deck out your soldiers. This includes new armor, helme...

Researchers grow crops in simulated Martian and Lunar soil 9 Mar 2016, 1:27 pm

Researchers from the Dutch Wageningen University and Research Center announced on Tuesday that they had successfully cultivated 10 food crops in soil that simulates what astronauts would encounter both on the Moon and on Mars. The team managed to har...

RSA security conference: 25 years of discontent and pranks 9 Mar 2016, 1:00 pm

The first time I went anywhere near the RSA information security conference in San Francisco, it was by way of a prank. Two things I love to cover are computer crime and and enterprise security, so when I met friends for drinks at a downtown hotel b...

Microsoft app logs you into Windows 10 using your phone 9 Mar 2016, 12:40 pm

Windows 10 already does a lot to spare you from typing in your password, but Microsoft wants to take that text-free login one step further. The company has quietly posted a beta Phone Sign-in app for Windows 10 Mobile that, as the name suggests, sign...

Google Docs gets speedy Android navigation and an outline tool 9 Mar 2016, 12:20 pm

It'll soon be a lot easier for you to browse through Google Docs files on Android phones and tablets. With the latest version of Docs on Android, you'll now see a small overlay when scrolling through documents. Tapping on it brings up the basic struc...

Fresco News teams with Fox stations for crowd-sourced coverage 9 Mar 2016, 12:00 pm

Back in January, Fresco News launched an Apple TV app to deliver a curated feed of crowd-sourced breaking news coverage. Now, the citizen journalism app is working with local Fox affiliates to make user-submitted photos and videos part of regular new...

'League of Legends' studio buys a fighting game powerhouse 9 Mar 2016, 11:40 am

Riot Games, the studio in charge of League of Legends, acquired Radiant Entertainment and all of its fighting game technology this week. Radiant is staffed by popular figures in the fighting game community, including former Street Fighter commentator...

Facebook nabs face-swapping app Masquerade to take on Snapchat 9 Mar 2016, 11:20 am

The face-swapping filter on Snapchat is getting plenty of use as of late, and Facebook is joining the fray as well. Zuckerberg & Co. bought the popular app Masquerade (MSQRD) that offers a similar feature. Masquerade's CEO Eugene Nevgen confirmed...

Sony's A6300 is a step forward for mid-tier mirrorless cameras 9 Mar 2016, 11:00 am

Sony had the right idea with its A6000: It made a powerful mirrorless camera and sold it at a relatively affordable starting price. And people loved it, with Sony claiming it's been the world's best-selling mirrorless camera since it came out two yea...

Android N Preview arrives with split-screen view and more 9 Mar 2016, 10:41 am

What, did you think that you'd have to wait until Google I/O to see what the next version of Android would entail? In a pleasant surprise, Google is releasing Android N Preview to developers (and curious fans) today. The early release is meant to col...

Facebook will soon let you turn off all Live Video notifications 9 Mar 2016, 10:20 am

Since Facebook opened up its Live Video feature to all users earlier this year, there has been a sharp uptick in the number of folks livestreaming. That's all well and good, but there's currently no way to turn off notifications when a company or fri...

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