Sunday, January 8, 2017

An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case and other top stories.

  • An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case

    An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case
    Internet-connected devices may start helping in criminal cases. As first reported in The Information, police in Bentonville, Arkansas have issued a warrant to Amazon, asking the company to hand over data from an Echo device to help prosecute a suspected murderer. James Andrew Bates, the suspect in the case, was charged with first-degree murder in November of 2015 after authorities found victim Victor Collins strangled and drowned in Mr. Bates’ hot tub. Mr. Bates told police he’d invited Collin..
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  • New iPhone 7S Leak Will Anger Everyone

    New iPhone 7S Leak Will Anger Everyone
    For and the iPhone, 2017 is the big one. It marks the 10th anniversary of the iconic smartphone and leak after credible leak has told us about radical design changes and revolutionary new technology. But are they wrong? According to new information from Mac Otakara, the 2017 iPhones could be very disappointing indeed. Citing a “Taiwan supplier”, the site says that instead of the so-called ‘iPhone 8’ Apple will instead follow tradition and simply release an iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus which wil..
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  • Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women

    Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women
    Scientists now know we are not the center of the universe, nor are we even made of the same stuff as most of creation. Cosmologists have now concluded that there is five or 10 times as much dark matter in the universe as there is ordinary atomic matter — the stuff of stars, planets and people.What it is, nobody knows, although theories abound, and attempts to identify it in laboratory and particle-accelerator experiments and in outer space have transfixed modern physics.“We know very little abo..
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  • How Frog Fractions 2 Stayed A Secret For Two Years

    How Frog Fractions 2 Stayed A Secret For Two Years
    Jim Crawford, the man who just released the most well-hidden video game of the last two years by smuggling it inside another one, misses a time when video games had more secrets. “One thing that’s been lost about games since the ‘80s is that they’re no longer particularly mysterious, because of marketing, because they’re cheap or free, because there are always let’s-plays or FAQs or super-fans with decompilers doing nitty gritty breakdowns if you wonder about something,” he said. “In the ‘80s..
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  • Sylvania smart light bulb talks to Siri without a hub

    Sylvania smart light bulb talks to Siri without a hub
    As you might guess, Bluetooth imposes some limitations. You'll need an Apple TV or iPad to serve as a hub if you want to control the bulb when you're not within range. Still, this is potentially a wiser choice than many smart lights if you live in an Apple ecosystem and feel that a hub would only get in the way. There's no mention of pricing as of yet, but you should see Sylvania's latest bulb reach Amazon by early 2017.
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  • Facebook's Safety Check feature helped promote a fake news story about a Bangkok explosion

    Facebook's Safety Check feature helped promote a fake news story about a Bangkok explosion
    Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference runs through September 11. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Once again, Facebook is under fire for its role in the spread of fake news reports. This time, the social network helped publicise an incorrect news story claiming that Bangkok had been "rock[ed]" by an explosion, promoting the report using its Safety Chec..
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  • Samsung is bringing a massive wireless speaker and its own audio algorithms to CES

    Samsung is bringing a massive wireless speaker and its own audio algorithms to CES
    Every company flirts with some variation of talking about the future in its promo materials, but Samsung has decided to be more direct by announcing it's bringing "the future of audio" to CES 2017. The Korean company has developed a proprietary audio ...
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  • Lenovo Tips Refreshed Kaby Lake ThinkPad Line for Early 2017

    Lenovo Tips Refreshed Kaby Lake ThinkPad Line for Early 2017
    Lenovo has a slew of ThinkPad laptops and peripherals for the new year, including updates to the T- and L-Series lines, as well as a wholly fresh hybrid system, the ThinkPad Yoga 370. All new ThinkPad laptops will boast Intel's latest Core i Kaby Lake processors, MilSpec certification for durability, discrete TPM 2.0 for security, and Microsoft Signature Image for a clean system with no bloatware. Aimed at either business or personal use, the Yoga 370 is a 13-inch convertible laptop featuring Le..
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  • BlackBerry: How To Revive a Dying Brand - Sci

    BlackBerry: How To Revive a Dying Brand - Sci
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Redstone to Leave Viacom Board -- WSJ .Uber's self-driving cars put tech's 'move fast, break things' credo to the test .
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