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Get the popcorn ready, book lovers because Big Little Lies is about to make its big TV debut on Sunday. Starring Resse Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley, the new limited series based on the page turner written by Liane Moriarty that tells the story of three very different women whose children attends the same Catholic grade school. While their lives looks perfect from the outside, things begin to unravel, ending in a murder. But that's just the beginning of the story. Part

Deleted your Yahoo account? Think again. Several Yahoo users, who last year decided to leave the service, told us that their accounts remained open for weeks or months after the company said they would be

Twenty years ago, tech-savvy aspiring enterpreneurs joined a dot-com. Now, developers, programmers, and engineers gravitate to mobile apps and social media companies. But given the latest round of big-buck acquisitions, self-driving car technology could be the latest gold rush for ambitious and talented geeks. Auto makers and tech firms like Uber and Apple are seeking to supercharge their autonomous tech via acquisitions and talent poaching. The opening salvo in this cash-fueled competition was GM's acquisition last year of Cruise Automation for a

Critically acclaimed Cities: Skylines is calling the Xbox One its home pretty soon. Cities: Skylines publisher Paradox Interactive broke the good news in its official website. Xbox One owners will have the chance to recreate the hit Windows city-building game experience in their home consoles. The game is set for release this Spring 2017. Sky-High With Features Paradox Interactive released the details in its official Cities: Skylines website. The Xbox One port comes "with all of its robust city-simulation gameplay and unique charm along for the ride." This special edition

Current economic conditions around the world provide a good foundation for growth. But unprecedented levels of market uncertainty mean that organizations have to be ready to change strategy faster than ever before.Growth around the

You've been worrying about that strange, swollen, and oozing lesion on your arm for a week now. You're pretty sure it's a brown recluse spider bite, but you actually haven't asked a doctor yet.What if it's not a spider bite? In an effort to avoid misdiagnosis, which has become very common in the United States, a team of researchers consisting of a bug scientist and skin doctors released new guidelines that would prove useful in determining what the lump really

Amazon Echo: Now with Outlook.com calendars.Users of Amazon's Echo smart speaker can now set Outlook as a default calendar for the Alexa service to access.Outlook users can set Microsoft's web-based calendar as the default option for

A new technique using liquid metals to create integrated circuits that are atoms thick could shape the future of electronics, according to research led by RMIT. The technique, which can produce large electronic wafers around 1.5

Snapchat for Android is apparently set to become a lot better in the future, with some performance improvements coming next week and more upgrades slated for later this year. The move to bet more on Android is likely part of Snap's bid to drive user growth outside of the United States, and offering a quality Android app would be essential to this purpose. Snapchat Quality On Android Snapchat is widely popular in the United States, but apparently it's not doing all that great in

The Australian government has announced the signing of a treaty-level Science, Research, and Innovation Cooperation Agreement with the New Zealand government.

A South Korean court has approved an arrest warrant for Samsung's heir Lee Jae-yong. This concerns the bribery and embezzlement charges against Lee, which also form part of a wider corruption scandal that has led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye in December. Arrest Order The arrest order, which was issued by the Seoul Central District Court Feb. 17, is expected to send shockwaves not just through the Samsung conglomerate but also the South Korean business community. It appears that new

We are in an era of "Hyperscale companies" such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple with limited opportunities for startups warns Sam Altman, head of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's influential investment group and educator.

Sprint refuses to be left in the dust when it comes to all the new unlimited plan news. Getting in on the action, the carrier announced new improvements to its unlimited plan on Thursday in hopes to attract new customers. Calling it the "Best HD Plan Ever," the new Sprint deal that will be available starting Friday includes unlimited talk, text and data, and HD video streaming (a main selling point in these new unlimited plans) and 10 GB of hotspot

Have you heard? Unlimited data plans are making a comeback!

The Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, and Galaxy Note 5 are all set to be receiving the software upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat imminently. The vice president of Samsung electronics in Turkey has confirmed the timeline for the release of the Nougat update to the devices in his country, meaning users of the smartphones in the rest of Europe should be receiving the update soon as well. Android 7.0 Nougat Update Coming To Samsung Galaxy Devices We recently

Before anyone at Apple officially utters a word about the iPhone 8 it seems that we already know a lot about Apple's upcoming $1,000+ smartphone. But Apple could still drop some surprises on us.Must read: OLED

Tinder could be launching a Stories feature, and we're not talking about a place where users reveal the most bizarre conversations they've had on the platform. Instead, there is a really strong possibility that the dating app adds some form of a video feature. Tinder announced on Wednesday it acquired the startup Wheel, the L.A.-based company that has developed a social network app where users share "video stories." The acquisition means it will probably follow in the footsteps of Instagram and

Containers are great, having to re-invent persistence to use them, not so much. But that is changing.You're not the only one concerned about container persistence: 82 percent of respondents in a recent survey said they'd deploy

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Using a computer algorithm and brain scans of babies as young as 6 months old, researchers were able to predict infants who are likely to develop autism when they get older. 1 In 68 American Children Has A Form Of Autism About one in 68 children in the United States has some form of autism, a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication as well as repetitive behaviors or interests. Behavioral symptoms often become evident when children reach 2 to 4

Astronomers have found 60 new planets, including a super-Earth, orbiting stars near the solar system. Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey For two decades, scientists observed 1,600 stars using the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and discovered 60 new planets outside of the solar system. Through the project called the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey, which started in 1996 and aims to search for exoplanets, scientists were also able to find evidence of 54 planets, bringing the total number of potential new worlds to 114. Finding Planets Through

The Xen Project has requested feedback from the community in thrashing out new disclosure guidelines which may only reveal the most serious vulnerabilities affecting the hypervisor.

New Zealand telecommunications provider Spark has announced its financial results for the first half of FY17, reporting earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of NZ$471 million, up 3.5 percent.Revenue was up by 4.1 percent,

There has been a buzz for some time regarding Apple's next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 8, which is also dubbed the iPhone X. Recent rumors have indicated that the device would support wireless charging. Now, a renowned analyst - Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities - has revealed yet another supposed detail about the upcoming device. In a note to investors, which has been obtained by publication AppleInsider, he shared that the iPhone 8 will house a "function" area on the screen. The function area

LG G6 features will use the 1:1 Square GUI.(LG Electronics)LG Electronics' upcoming G6 smartphone will have a new UX that utilizes the 18:9 ratio Full Vision display, the company has said.The South Korea tech giant on

About 10 years have passed since Google's stalwart engineers started creating a system that, in all reality, defeats the conventional logic of database services. It's now named Cloud Spanner, and it's the first global database — an information storage system spanning millions of machines across data centers placed all throughout the world, which Google itself has long used to maintain proprietary services like Gmail, Google Photos and AdWords, one of the company's headliners in profit generation. Google Cloud Spanner As per a report by

Upon the closing of the proposed merger between Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the new organisation will be renamed to DXC Technology before it begins its journey

IBM and Yahoo are not fans of telecommuting, an odd, retrograde approach. (via PCMag)

The paper chore chart has gotten a modern update. Introducing BusyKid, a mobile first site that allows parents to keep track of tasks, while also being a tool to introduce kids to learning about their personal finances. Created by Gregg Murset, a father of six, BusyKid is an online chore chart that promotes work ethic and responsibility. It also educates about money management, serving as a platform where kids can earn, save, share and invest their money. BusyKid actually has humble beginnings, starting

The Resident Evil franchise is on a roll this 2017. Following on the heels of the successful Resident Evil 7 game and the Resident Evil: Final Chapter film, Capcom released the second trailer for CG movie Resident Evil Vendetta. The film is due for release on May 27 in Japan, with the U.S. release coming soon after. This is the third CG-animated movie for the franchise; Resident Evil: Degeneration was released in 2008, and Resident Evil: Damnation followed in 2012. Sony Pictures Entertainment will distribute the film. The S.T.A.R.S.

Munich mayor Dieter Reiter: "Employees are not satisfied with our IT. More than half are not happy."