Tuesday, May 10, 2016

T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer and other top stories.

  • T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer

    T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer
    T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trade restrictions between the US and Cuba last year; Verizon and Sprint both made similar arrangements in the fall. Google is also looking into expanding internet access in the country. "The historic opening of Cuba is a n..
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  • The Transit of Mercury Across the Sun's Face Has Begun: First Videos

    The Transit of Mercury Across the Sun's Face Has Begun: First Videos
    GREENBELT, Md. — The small planet Mercury is making a rare transit of the sun today (May 9), the first such event of its kind in a decade, as the world looks on. Case in point: this awesome NASA video captured just as Mercury began its journey across the sun, as seen from Earth. Credit: Space.com Store NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this first Mercury transit video as the planet began a 7.5-hour trip across the face of the sun. Another video shows the Mercury..
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  • FTC, FCC launch inquiry into how companies distribute security fixes to mobile devices

    FTC, FCC launch inquiry into how companies distribute security fixes to mobile devices
    The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission announced today that they are teaming up for an inquiry into how security updates to smartphones and other mobile devices are released in the United States. One of the inquiry’s main concerns is the amount of time it takes for security fixes to be released to users. In a statement, the FCC said: Consumers may be left unprotected, for long periods of time or even indefinitely, by any delays in patching vulnerabilities once t..
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  • Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there's no evidence

    Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there's no evidence
    Facebook is now strongly refuting claims that it suppressed conservative Trends after issuing a more vague and indirect PR statement earlier today about having neutrality guidelines. Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky Facebook has “found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true” wrote VP of search Tom Stocky on the social network tonight at 9:30pm pacific May 9th, regarding a Gizmodo report from sources who said they were formerly on the team that chose what Trends appeared on Faceboo..
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  • 'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam

    'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam
    Final Fantasy XV finally launches this September, but publisher Square Enix wants you to take a look back in the vaults ahead of that. Final Fantasy X and its direct sequel X-2 got the HD remaster treatment on PlayStation 4 last year and now the double pack is headed to PCs by way of Steam. That means a remastered soundtrack, better-looking graphics and a few bits and bobs from the International Editions like a special boss fight mode for the first. No word on improved voice acting, though. How..
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  • Botanists warn on threats to world's plant kingdom

    Botanists warn on threats to world's plant kingdom
    Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world's plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species. The "State of the World's Plants" report was drawn up by ...
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  • Periscope to implement new save and search options, drone-based streaming

    Periscope to implement new save and search options, drone-based streaming
    Periscope’s rise to the top of the live-streaming video service heap had more to do with its ease of use than depth of functionality — the service lacked a way to opt out of obtrusive alerts at launch, for example, and for several months was without an Android client. But spurred on by the competition, the Twitter-owned broadcasting app is finally stepping up its feature game. On Monday, it announced search, video archiving, and integration with DJI drones. The attention to detail within search..
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  • 'Second Skin' May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say

    'Second Skin' May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
    Dr. Murad Alam, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, who also was not associated with the study, was impressed, too, but he cautioned that it was still early.“This is a first step,” he said, “and all these applications will require further work.” But, he added, if the testing is successful, “I think it will be very popular.”The idea for second skin originated more than a decade ago when Dr. R. Rox Anderson, a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, was approached b..
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  • The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

    The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible
    Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone. Today the pair showed off their newest creation, Viv, a next generation AI assistant that they have been developing in stealth mode for the last four years. The goal was to create a better version of Siri, one that connected to a multitude of services, instead of routinely shuffling queries of..
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