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07 Jul 14:27

What you need to know about HummingBad

by Russell Holly

It's called HummingBad? Seriously?

Researchers at Check Point have published a blog detailing their report on a new bit of nastiness stealing data from Android phones and translating to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for a Chinese group called Yingmob. The revenue comes from delivering ads, creating false clicks on those ads by making the buttons bigger than they look, and using those clicks to install one of over 200 apps the group has for keeping users connected to this network.

Are you in danger? How can you tell? Are your friends having data stolen and handed over to this group without their knowledge? Is there a worse name they could have used? It turns out there's a very low likelihood that this was ever a problem for you, but here's what you need to know about HummingBad and how to stay safe from this group.

What is HummingBad?

A lot of things, actually. HummingBad refers to malware that tries to establish a foothold on your Android. Once it is successful, Whatever you have that is running HummingBad can create false clicks for the ads being produced by the Chinese company hosting the malware. This generates a lot of money for that company, but the Malware also tries to install additional apps to pull more of your personal data from the version of Android you are using. The installation attempts include attempting to see if your phone can be rooted, which would lead to Yingmob having significantly more control over your phone. If the root attempt fails, app installation attempts are made through the normal Android sideload mechanism, which gives the user a pop-up asking if they're sure they want to install the app.

Researchers are currently aware of 10 million devices globally that have been infected with HummingBad at one point or another, but Check Point also offers information that suggests HummingBad's infection rate is dropping sharply.

How do I know if I have HummingBad on my phone?

There are a couple of apps you can use that will scan your system for HummingBad, but before you use them it's important to understand the infection process. If you've never had the "Unknown sources" box on your phone checked, and you've never installed an app from somewhere other than the Google Play Store, it's nearly impossible for HummingBad to have infected your phone.

If you're using a phone with the Google Play Store for apps, and you regularly use it to install apps, Google's app scanning service will detect apps on your phone that are misbehaving and advise you to uninstall them. This includes HummingBad apps, so if you've seen one of those messages and dismissed it in the past, act on it right now.

Check Point, the company that published the report on HummingBad, says since the tools to detect HummingBad are publicly available, any security app will do. None of the apps we checked in the Play Store announce the ability to detect HummingBad as a feature yet, but Kaspersky or Avast should be able to help if you feel the need to check.

How do I get rid of HummingBad?

Those security apps may help you detect HummingBad, but they can't guarantee the Malware has been removed from your phone. No app you can install from the Google Play Store can make that guarantee, no matter what they claim.

To fully get rid of HummingBad, you need to perform a factory reset on your phone. This will totally erase all of the data you've previously installed on your phone, forcing you to start over. Make better decisions this time, don't install things from places that aren't the Google Play Store.

Am I really safe from HummingBad?

As long as you stick to the Google Play Store, yes. Google knows companies will use fake buttons to try and get you to click OK for security related things. The Android Security Team won't allow apps that use these tactics in Google Play, and haven't done so for a while. Keep that "Unknown sources" box unchecked and only install apps you trust from Google Play. As long as you do this, you're safe from HummingBad.

07 Jul 14:20

Avast acquires antivirus maker AVG for $1.3BN to gain scale and dive into IoT security

by Natasha Lomas
AVG Security giant Avast has announced it intends to acquire fellow Czech-based antivirus software maker AVG for a purchase price of $25.00 per share in cash — resulting in a transaction that will total around $1.3 billion. Read More
06 Jul 23:05

How to install and set up Authy for two-factor authentication on your Android

by Jerry Hildenbrand

Using two-factor authentication is a great way to protect yourself and your data. It's also fairly easy to do once you get used to having an extra step when you first use an account on your Android. Using it on multiple devices is easy with Authy.

There are several great apps you can use on your phone to get a 2FA (that's the abbreviation for two-factor authentication and it's much easier to type) token when you need one, and if you have multiple things with a screen that may need access to 2FA codes, Authy is pretty hard to beat. After you set up an Authy account, you can install the app on all your Android devices and any computer that has the Chrome web browser and the Authy extension installed. The first thing you need to do is install the Authy app from Google Play on a phone with a working SIM card.

During the initial setup, Authy will need to send you a registration PIN. This can be done via an SMS message or a phone call, so make sure the phone you're using has service. You'll also want this primary device to be available when you set up Authy on any other devices because it acts as a master — the phone number you enter will need to "approve" other installations as a security measure. Let's get started.

Head to Google Play on your primary phone and install the Authy app.

Download: Authy (Free)

Once you have Authy installed, open the app and you'll be prompted to enter a phone number. This number will be tied to your Authy account (you can change it in the settings if you ever need to) when you set up another device to use Authy.

If this is the first device and you're creating a new account, enter your phone number here. If this is a second (or third, or etc.) device, enter the phone number you used when you created an account. You will need access to the phone using the number you enter here.

If this is the first time you've used Authy, you'll need to enter an email address to set up an Authy account. Go ahead and use your email (you'll also want access to it when you're setting up a new Authy account) on the line where it asks.

Finally, you'll need a registration PIN code. You can choose to get the code in an SMS message or a phone call. If this is a secondary device, you can also use your primary device to authorize things. Pick your method, and enter the PIN code when asked.

Now Authy is installed and ready to go. Any time a service asks you to scan a barcode or enter information in your authenticator app, you'll want to use Authy. That's a little bit different for every service, but for a great overview see how it's done with a Google account.

Read more: How to set up 2FA on your Google account

But we're not quite done. There are a couple extra steps you can (and should) take to keep things even more secure and to set things up for multiple devices. You want to set an app PIN so that nobody else can get to your 2FA token (if they get your phone and get past the lock screen and encryption PIN that you should be using), and you can set up encryption on your Authy account backups with your own password.

You'll find these options in the settings, along with a setting to allow multiple devices and list of the devices using your Authy account so you can manage them.

Having multiple devices act as an authentication token (and sharing those tokens across an internet account) isn't as secure as a single-purpose device or an app limited to one active installation. There's no denying this. But Authy is super-convenient and secure enough for most uses. It sure beats not using 2FA because it's a pain to switch devices. If you use more than one thing with a screen and value your security and privacy, you should be using this.

06 Jul 21:13

Drone's eye view photos reveal the racism of South African neighbourhoods

by Cory Doctorow

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Johnny Miller is a Cape Town-based photographer who uses drones to capture aerial views of neighbourhoods and cities that reveal the deep, racial inequalities in architecture and city planning between black and white populations. (more…)

06 Jul 19:12

UK Tory leadership race: "a sort of X Factor for choosing the antichrist"

by Cory Doctorow

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The Guardian's Frankie Boyle is on fire in his new column on the post-Brexit machinations in the UK Conservative Party, where the hardline, ultra-authoritarian elements of the party are splitting their time between knifing each other in the back and planning to eliminate the few remaining environmental, safety and finance regulations that have not been shredded since the first David Cameron government in 2010. (more…)

06 Jul 19:11

Epipens have more than quintupled in price since 2004

by Cory Doctorow

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Epipens -- self-injection sticks carried by people with deadly allergies, which have to be replaced twice a year -- were developed by NASA at taxpayer expense, were patented by a government scientist who receives no royalties, require no marketing, and have gone from as little as $60 each to up to $606 in a few short years (during which time the company has switched to selling them exclusively in two-packs). (more…)

06 Jul 19:08

Concentric circles, not a spiral

by Jason Weisberger

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I had to stare at this for a few minutes. Via Neatorama.

The blue elements in the image above appear to be a arranged in a continuous spiral, but in fact they form a series of concentric circles. Your brain will argue so strongly for a spiral that you may need to run your mouse cursor around the circles a few times to convince yourself.
06 Jul 19:06

Exclusive: Google is building two Android Wear smartwatches with Google Assistant integration

by David Ruddock

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Speaking to Android Police, a reliable source has told us that Google is currently building two Android Wear devices - possibly Nexus-branded - for release some time after the latest Nexus phones are announced. One watch will be larger, sportier, and more fully-featured (LTE, GPS, heart rate), the other will be smaller and lack the aforementioned mobile data and GPS.

Disclaimer: No matter the confidence level, there's always a chance product updates, features, and some or all details will be changed or cancelled altogether.
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Exclusive: Google is building two Android Wear smartwatches with Google Assistant integration was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

06 Jul 19:06

Nexus factory images and OTA ZIPs with July's security updates are now available

by Cody Toombs

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The Factory images and OTA ZIPs for July 2016 are now available for the full line of supported Nexus hardware (still waiting for the Pixel C). They're a little behind schedule this month, possibly because it was Independence Day in the United States on Monday, or possibly to leave time for some late-breaking security patches that may have been added in the eleventh hour. The Android Security Bulletin covers the list of vulnerabilities addressed with this set of updates, and for the first time it includes two separate lists: one dated July 1st and the other dated July 5th.

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Nexus factory images and OTA ZIPs with July's security updates are now available was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

06 Jul 16:35

If You Want to Cut Back on Clutter, Keep It Out of Your Home to Begin With

by Kristin Wong on Two Cents, shared by Andy Orin to Lifehacker
If You Want to Cut Back on Clutter, Keep It Out of Your Home to Begin With

It feels great to get rid of junk. You feel productive. You feel free. However, if you truly want to be free of clutter, here’s a better solution: avoid bringing it into your home in the first place.

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Personal finance writer Carl Richards points out a silly paradox—we buy stuff to feel good and then we feel good throwing it out later. Sometimes feeling productive isn’t the same as actually being productive, and this is kind of the same idea: if you keep buying more crap and throwing it out, you’re stuck in a cycle of consumption and purging, and that’s a waste of money and time.

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Instead, Richards suggests getting to the root of the issue with a “seven-day quarantine.” He explains:

I recommend a stuff quarantine of seven days, particularly if we’re talking about anything that costs more than $50. Anything that you’re considering ought to sit in your head for at least a week, and you should test it out on your fellow customer officers...I’ve fallen in love with lululemon’s ABC pants for men. I bought a pair, and now I really want them in another color...So I ran the idea by my wife.

“Are you kidding me?” she said. “You’re going to buy pants that you’ll wear two or three times, and then will just hang in the closet?” She’s taking her screening duties seriously.

It’s hard to admit that there’s a slight chance she’s right. But in reality, she probably is. So the camo pants will go in the quarantine bin — for now.

Look, I know that buying things feels good. So does tossing out stuff that you don’t use. But wouldn’t it feel so much better to spend that time and money on something you’ll actually use or enjoy instead?

Sure, thinking about purchases is not a new concept, but I love his point that spending and purging give you a similar rush. Living in a more resourceful environment is less about decluttering and more about not buying crap you’re going to toss out in the first place. For more detail, head to his full post below.

New Rule: All Purchases Subject to a 7-Day Mental Quarantine | The New York Times

Photo by Robert Couse-Baker

06 Jul 16:35

Google acquires French image recognition startup Moodstocks

by Ryan Whitwam

unnamedGoogle has shown a lot of interest in computer vision over the last few years. You need only look at the way it digs around for similar images in Google search and identifies specific objects in your uploaded photos. It can always be better, though, so Google has purchased a French company called Moodstocks that specializes in image recognition.

Moodstocks has been around since 2008, working to improve image recognition on mobile devices.

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Google acquires French image recognition startup Moodstocks was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

06 Jul 16:32

This ergonomic office chair will help you lose weight as well as the respect of your coworkers

by Dami Lee

Like it or not, sitting ståtionåry in your chåir for 8 motionless hours of your work dåy will probåbly kill you. Thåt's whåt the "måinstreåm" mediå likes to tell me, ånywåy!

Å lot of my coworkers work on stånding desks, much to my jeålousy. I wånted to request one for myself, but no one on my teåm uses them ånd I don't wånt to be the only stånding weirdo! Thåt's where the Språng chåir, "the perfect bålånce of movement ånd comfort", comes in.

The seåt is held onto the båll by bungee cords. It provides lumbår support. You cån do crunches while you work. It looks like ån IKEÅ chåir åssembled by swole toddlers. It's perfect.

Språng is å pretty Swedish nåme for å compåny båsed in Vermont. It's the "noun form of leåp, spring, bound,...

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06 Jul 16:32

Google’s Now on Tap is adding near-instant translation to Android

by Adi Robertson

Google’s Now on Tap service is adding translation to its ever-growing list of options. After the latest update, Android users will be able to translate any screen of foreign text — in both apps and web pages, including pages with multiple languages — into their native language. While it can seemingly translate from any language that Google Translate supports, it’s only supported on Marshmallow phones whose default language is set to English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian.

Using Google Translate on a phone is nothing new. This spring, a new Android feature let users highlight text in a foreign language and get a pop-up option to translate it. But Now on Tap should ideally make the process near-automatic — as...

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06 Jul 15:10

UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates

by Ernesto

uk-flagLast year the UK Government announced a plan to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years.

The current maximum of two years is not enough to deter infringers, lawmakers argued.

The plan followed a recommendation put forward in a study commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) a few months earlier.

This study concluded that criminal sanctions for online copyright infringement could be increased to bring them into line with related offenses, such as counterfeiting.

Before implementing the changes the Government launched a public consultation, asking for comments and advice from the public. But, even though the vast majority of the responses urged the authorities not to up the prison term, lawmakers decided otherwise.

As a result, a new draft of the Digital Economy bill published this week extends the current prison term from two to ten years. The relevant part amends the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and simply replaces the word two with ten.

The new bill was unveiled in Parliament yesterday where it passed its first reading. If adopted in its current form, it allows courts to hand out tougher sentences.

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Copyright holders have lobbied for this update for a long time. According to them, harsher penalties are needed to deter people from committing large-scale copyright infringement, something the Government agrees with.

“The Government believes that a maximum sentence of 10 years allows the courts to apply an appropriate sentence to reflect the scale of the offending,” the Government explained previously, adding that the maximum sentence will only be applied in rare cases.

This means that casual file-sharers are not likely to end up in prison for a decade. However, organized groups that systematically offer pirated files, such as Scene or P2P release groups, are likely to be punished more harshly.

One of the motivations to up the sentence for online piracy is to bring it on par with counterfeiting. Interestingly, however, both were already equal when they were first adopted.

When the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act was first introduced both counterfeiting and piracy carried a maximum sentence of two years. Following industry calls the counterfeiting sentences were increased in 2002, and now the piracy side has followed the same path.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

06 Jul 15:08

How to Shoot 360-Degree Photos With Your Smartphone

by David Nield on Field Guide, shared by Andy Orin to Lifehacker
How to Shoot 360-Degree Photos With Your Smartphone

Flat, two-dimensional photos are old news. The future is 360-degree photos that let you look around in any direction from a single standing position. You can share 360-degree photos everywhere from Facebook to Street View, and unlike 360 video, they can be easily snapped using the phone you’ve already got. Here’s how to get started.

First, you need an app. The one you want depends on where you’re sharing or storing the picture, but most platforms work with most apps. The best app for the job is Street View for Android or iOS, but you can also use the photo sphere mode in the stock Android camera or Surround Shot mode on Samsung phones.

How to Shoot 360-Degree Photos With Your Smartphone

The Street View app is a lot like the photo sphere mode offered by the stock Android camera. Tap the large orange plus icon then pick Camera, at which point the app will guide you through the capture process—basically you have to stand in one place and hit all the orange circles to fill the orb at the bottom.

Images are snapped automatically when you reach each designated position (no need to press the shutter button), and once you’re done, the app does all the hard work of stitching together the images you’ve taken. If you’ve got Google Photos installed, that’s one of the apps that will be able to show your 360-degree photo in all its glory.

How to Shoot 360-Degree Photos With Your Smartphone

If you’re on a phone, you can view a photo by moving the handset around to change the view (or tapping and dragging). If you’re in the browser mode of Google Photos, you can click and drag using the mouse. If you want more people to see your immersive image, you can upload it to Street View or to Facebook in the same way as any other photo.

At the moment Android is more 360-degree photo-friendly than iOS, but Apple will most likely catch up. Facebook can process iPhone panorama pictures as 360-degree pictures, or you can use a third-party app (such as Street View or something like 360 Panorama). Of course you can pick up a dedicated 360-degree camera if you prefer, which will let you shoot video clips too.

06 Jul 15:07

Google buys machine vision startup focusing on 'instant object recognition'

by James Vincent

It's a good time to be a machine learning startup. Two weeks after Twitter bought London-based Magic Pony, Google has purchased French firm Moodstocks. The acquisition was made for an unknown sum, and seems primarily a grab for talent. Moodstocks' engineers and researchers will move to Google's Paris R&D site, and the startup's primary commercial product — an image recognition API for smartphones — will be phased out.

"Ever since we started Moodstocks, our dream has been to give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sensors able to make sense of their surroundings," said Moodstocks in a statement. "Our [new] focus will be to build great image recognition tools within Google."

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06 Jul 12:25

Google Now weather card has been improved with detailed hourly Wind and Precipitation graphs

by Rita El Khoury

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Google Now's new weather card was spotted at the beginning of January then officially announced later that month. Ever since, it has been going on and off when you tapped on the weather card or did any weather search inside Google Now, and mostly never made it onto the regular Google Search results inside the browser (mobile and desktop - think when you open Chrome and do a normal weather search there, not through the Google app).

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Google Now weather card has been improved with detailed hourly Wind and Precipitation graphs was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

06 Jul 12:22

Bearcam is back and better than ever

by Sam Byford

There is pretty much no better way to spend your time on the internet than watching live footage of bears chilling in Katmai National Park, Alaska — and now Explore.org has brought Bearcam back for a "fourth season" ahead of this year's salmon migration. Hundreds of brown bears are now available to watch live 24/7, all powered by a complex network of remote cameras, solar panels, microwave uplinks, and wind turbines.

This year Bearcam has a new feature that makes it easy to take a snapshot from the live feed and share it along with associated video, and there'll be daily contests for the best shots. Viewers will also be able to chat live with park rangers, and Explore.org is planning exclusive content beyond the live feed for platforms...

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05 Jul 23:30

Camel bites news reporter's hair

by Mark Frauenfelder

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After I saw this gif of a camel biting a news reporter's head, I took a look at other camel videos. A lot of videos on YouTube are about biting camels. Example: https://youtu.be/BHG1l-4ML2s

Many videos are even worse.

This camel, which is treated with love, has no desire to bite its human friend: https://youtu.be/K9X7zQ6Cb1A

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05 Jul 23:29

Thief robs GPS tracking manufacturer, gets caught

by Jason Weisberger

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I doubt this thief knew he was robbing Noa Technologies, the manufacturer of tiny GPS trackers intended to be stashed on public bikeshares. Turns out near everything he stole had a tracker on-board! I bet the San Francisco police officers responding to this call were pretty entertained.

Via the San Francisco Chronicle:

A local thief must have figured he’d made a clean getaway last month. He broke into a house in Noe Valley in the middle of the night and began collecting loot. He grabbed three bicycles and a laptop, then apparently found car keys. He jumped into a 2015 Ford Explorer and roared out of the garage.

And ran smack into the future.

What he didn’t know was that he’d ripped off the work/live space of a company called Noa Technologies, which markets GPS tracking devices. Almost everything the suspect took was outfitted with a tracker. On the scale of bad ideas, this was right up there with attempting a strong-arm robbery of a martial arts academy.

05 Jul 23:29

UK cops routinely raided police databases to satisfy personal interest or make money on the side

by Cory Doctorow

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Between 2011-2015, there were more than 800 individual UK police personnel who raided official databases to amuse themselves, out of idle curiosity, or for personal financial gain; and over 800 incidents in which information was inappropriately leaked outside of the police channels. (more…)

05 Jul 23:26

Exclusive: this is what the 2016 Nexus phones, Sailfish and Marlin, will look like

by David Ruddock

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The moment you've all been waiting for, right? As you can see in the above image, Google's Nexus phones are taking on a decidedly cleaner design language for 2016, according to information we've received from a reliable source. The image you're seeing is not an actual press render, but our own recreation of the upcoming Nexus phones based on evidence from our source. So, let's do the rumor breakdown.

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We give this rumor a confidence level of 8 out of 10.

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Exclusive: this is what the 2016 Nexus phones, Sailfish and Marlin, will look like was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

05 Jul 23:24

Skype Meetings is Microsoft’s new free video conferencing tool for small businesses

by Frederic Lardinois
animation-tablet Microsoft today launched Skype Meetings, a new audio and video conferencing tool specifically designed for small businesses. Skype Meetings is essentially a stripped down version of the Skype for Business solution. The more fully-featured Skype for Business product allows you to host meetings with up to 250 people and it’s deeply integrated into Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. Skype… Read More
05 Jul 23:20

Netflix signs deal to exclusively stream CW shows eight days after season finale

by Kwame Opam

Netflix today reached an exclusive multi-year agreement with the CW to stream all past seasons of the network's shows online in the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company has the streaming rights to hit series like The Flash and The Vampire Diaries, and starting with the 2016-2017 season, viewers will be able to watch the latest full season of new shows like Supergirl only eight days after the season finale airs.

"Netflix members in the U.S. love the great lineup of series from The CW, and we are thrilled to extend the relationship and bring those shows to our members exclusively now, just eight days after their season finales," said Netflix content boss Ted Sarandos in a statement.

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05 Jul 23:20

The 16GB iPhone may finally be going away soon

by Chris Welch

The days of 16GB iPhones are nearly over. Our friend Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple's next flagship iPhone — the iPhone 7 or whatever it's eventually called — will start out at 32GB of storage; there won't be any 16GB option offered. If true, the bump in storage to the entry-level model will finally address a longstanding complaint regarding Apple's iPhone family.

In recent years, 16GB simply hasn't been enough for most consumers to hold all of their apps, games, music, photos, and 4K video recordings — even when you factor in iCloud storage and other cloud services. Warnings about low storage start popping up, and it all takes away from the iPhone user experience that Apple prides itself on.

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05 Jul 16:12

UK Tories use Brexit as an excuse to slash corporate taxes to the lowest of any major economy

by Cory Doctorow

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Nearly 2 weeks ago, 17 million Britons (mostly poor) voted to leave the EU in what amounted to a plebiscite on austerity, finance capitalism, and the widening gap between the increasingly wealthy and the increasingly poor. In response, the Conservative government says it will tempt corporations to come to the UK by making the rich get even richer and the poor even poorer. (more…)

05 Jul 16:08

The FBI recommends not to indict Hillary Clinton for email misconduct

by Russell Brandom

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has competed its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server and is recommending that the Department of Justice not indict Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said in a press conference today. The recommendation is not binding, and the ultimate decision will be made by the Department of Justice. Still, the recommendation will likely serve to clear longstanding questions that have dogged Clinton’s presidential campaign for over a year.

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05 Jul 16:08

Aston Martin built an F1 car for the road and it's amazing

by Vlad Savov

If you thought Aston Martin was a manufacturer of exclusive cars, wait until you get an eyeful of its latest.

I have just emerged from the cavernous Aston Martin factory where a throng of company employees got their own first look at the British marque's extraordinary new car, codenamed the Nebula and now known as the AM-RB 001. It's a measure of the secrecy surrounding this hypercar that most of the people slated to work on producing it didn't even know what it will look like. Today, the AM-RB 001 — a second codename filling the void until a final official name is announced — got its grand unveiling and served to signal the direction of Aston Martin's future design as well as a clear and direct challenge to the very best Ferrari,...

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05 Jul 14:02

The Great Sulphur Pyramids of Alberta

by Rob Beschizza

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Sulfur, useful as it is, is produced in such vast quantities as a byproduct of energy production that it is of little value. There's so much of it that Canadian oil company Syncrude's storage site is slowly turning into an enormous pyramid of sulfur.

Google Maps reveals that there are in fact three of them, a Gizeh of The North!

Here's a photo by Jason Woodhead, released under the Creative Commons.

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If they keep going, it'll eventually be far larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

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05 Jul 12:29

Google DeepMind will use machine learning to spot eye diseases early

by James Vincent

Google's DeepMind is embarking on a new research project to help doctors spot the early signs of sight-threatening eye diseases. The company's British-based artificial intelligence division will use machine learning to analyze more than one million anonymous eye scans, creating algorithms that can detect early warning signs that humans might miss. The project is DeepMind's second collaboration with the UK's National Health Service (NHS), but the first to use artificial intelligence.

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