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Through a new partnership announced this week, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will work with Bigelow Aerospace to launch a large inflatable habitat on an Atlas V rocket in 2020. The size of the habitat will be based off of Bigelow’s B330 module, which is named for its total expanded volume of 330 cubic meters. The announcement comes shortly after Bigelow Aerospace had their smaller… Read More... →

About 77 percent of information technology professionals trust the cloud more than they did a year ago, but only 34 percent of them believe that executives understand the security risks of the cloud. That’s the result of an Intel Security survey based on more than 1,200 IT decision makers. The report concludes that the majority of IT […]... →

I was once hooked on Flappy Bird. Millions of us were. But, not quite like this. Balázs Bank has decided that in the event that he doesn’t have his phone on him, his e-cigarette will do. Bank decided he wanted to play the infamous addicting game on his eVic-VTC Mini e-cigarette. Because the device has […]... →

Between the current advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the future, completely autonomous car rests in some potentially treacherous semi-autonomous territory. Renault has enlisted the help of gesture-control experts at gestigon to help ease the transition from vehicles taking care of driving tasks to humans taking over driving duties. Read More... →

You may have trouble getting your Hearthstone on. Blizzard acknowledges it is dealing with a distributed denial-of-service attack that is preventing some people from getting online with the publisher’s Battle.net services. We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting connections to our games. https://t.co/YsDZ0CYdFX — BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) April 14, 2016 […]... →

GUEST: Facebook’s big announcement at its annual F8 Developer conference, was to make Messenger, its 900-million-user messaging app into a full-fledged platform that allows businesses to communicate with users via chatbots. On the surface, that sounds like a standard, if very ambitious, product announcement, taking an already successful product to the next level. But it’s a […]... →

The President has just released the list of appointees to the Committee on Enhancing National Cybersecurity — and it’s more or less what you’d expect: higher-ups from the big players in tech, plus some academics and the former director of the NSA. Wait, what? Read More... →

Despite the objections of many privacy advocates and security professionals, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now the law of the land. Slipped into the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill, CISA permits private entities to share information about cyberthreat indicators (CTIs) and defensive measures against cyber attacks, both with each other and with the federal government. Read More... →

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a draft appeared online last week. The bill, titled the Compliance with Court Orders Act 2016, would require tech firms to decrypt customers’ data at a court’s request. Read More... →

Posted by ronell-smith[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] One of my most memorable interactions in college took place in English 202, when my professor would have us come to the front of the class and share with him (while seated in a chair right beside his desk) what our thesis was for the assignment we'd be working on for the first half of the semester. In nearly every case, my thesis was too long, something my professor had no truck with. "Smith," he'd say, "if you cannot explain it in a sentence, you don't... →

After separating from eBay, PayPal has been on a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce, and today it is taking a step to do both, with the UK launch of PayPal Credit — a service that lets consumers use their PayPal accounts to spread out online payments for goods as a replacement for traditional credit cards. It will give consumers… Read More... →

Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs, in order to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report, or even go shopping.… Read More... →

Основатель «ВКонтакте» и Telegram Павел Дуров впервые вошёл в список 200 самых богатых бизнесменов России, который составляет журнал Forbes. Он занял 135 место.... →

Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State University have taken an important step: weaving circuits into clothes with enough precision to integrate them with ordinary PCBs. Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: When the gold rush happens, selling shovels can be lucrative. You could say that Kochava, a mobile attribution and measurement company, is one of the first to show up to sell shovels now that Facebook has set off a new kind of gold rush. Facebook yesterday provided a way for brands to use chatbots as […]... →

The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology. “The fact that there are so many terms going around these things is almost a function of the fact the industry is so new,” Airbnb VP of Engineering Mike Curtis told me… Read More... →

Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. During his sentencing hearing, Keys tweeted, “This whole process has been exhausting.” Keys was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) last October, in a bizarre case that led to the temporary defacement of a… Read More... →

Vine has added a new button to channels that allows you to watch every video back-to-back without having to manually scroll through individual posts. This “watch” button appears next to the follow button on a channel and performs the same functionality as the “Play All” button that YouTube offers. This update is available for both […]... →

Maybe you’ve delighted in reading some of Hillary Clinton’s more humorous emails, released in several stages over the past year — there’s the one where she calls Harriet Tubman her “home girl,” or the time she jokes about Chinese hackers messing with her contacts. But imagine someone digging into your old emails and reading through all your bad jokes,… Read More... →

Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app. The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back, continuously. Read More... →