Commentary: With the arrival of a new FCC chairman, the HBO comedian returns to his favorite subject and mocks Bing in the process.
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An ambitious search for signals from aliens across space hasn’t found much yet, but there was an odd blip from a star system popular with science fiction fans.
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The FCC suffered multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks Sunday night and Monday morning, the agency said in statement today. The attacks appear to be aimed at shutting down the electronic comment filing system by which people can submit opinions on the proposed rollback of net neutrality rules. Read More
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Introducing the new Cortana-enabled device designed to compete with Amazon Echo and Google Home. The post The Invoke Smart Speaker Brings Microsoft’s Cortana AI to Your Living Room appeared first on WIRED.
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This makes Apple the most valuable publicly traded company in the leadup to this year’s big iPhone reveal.
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Social Cues: Four schools in Wisconsin are blocking social media in an attempt to improve learning. But don’t blame Twitter for distracted teens.
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If you weren’t already aware, USB Type-C is quickly becoming mainstream. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of the better USB Type-C cables on the market, whether you’re looking to charge or sync your smartphone.
The post The best USB Type-C cables to keep your gadgets powered appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Instagram wants to be the photo app for the whole world, even if you can’t or won’t download it. In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive, Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app, including photo sharing and a lightweight version of the Explore tab. Until now, users could could only… Read More
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Google rolled out a “Downloads” feature in its mobile web browser Chrome for Android in December that allows you to save web pages, music and videos for offline access. Today, the company is introducing a series of improvements to make it easier to save content for offline access, as well as quickly find the pages you had already saved. To download a web page previously, you would… Read More
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The first full trailer for the new sequel is a gorgeous, beguiling preview of our film-going future. But let’s keep everything else under wraps. The post I Literally Don’t Want to Know Anything More About Blade Runner 2049 appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired