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Image: Shutterstock / Dan74By Karissa Bell2017-05-09 00:14:26 UTCLast week, Intel revealed that a serious security flaw in some of its chips left potentially thousands of devices vulnerable to attackers. Then, security researchers revealed the problem was way worse than anyone initially thought as the vulnerability could allow attackers to remotely "hijack" affected machines.It's still not clear just how many devices are impacted as Intel has't said, but some in the industry have put the number . Here's a look at

Well, Blade Runner 2049 looks goddamn gorgeous. Warner Bros. has dropped a new trailer for the Blade Runner sequel, which arrives 35 years after the original.Ryan Gosling stars as K, an LAPD officer who enjoys wearing high-collared coats and tracking down replicants. He makes a shocking discovery that sends him on a journey to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who's been missing for the past 30 years. Jared Leto, Robin Wright, and Dave Bautista also star. Blade Runner 2049 is in theaters October

One cool way to pass the time in an Australian country town? Enter the local short film competition. #ShepPROUD is one such competition organised by the local council in Shepparton, Victoria, and the latest entry they've showcased on Facebook is a cracker. Half tongue-in-cheek and half genuine praise, local guy Matt Magill has created a rap video, praising the community's cultural diversity, thriving fruit industry, and penchant for "fake cows, real cows, and fake real cows." With sweet lines like "Nothing hurts like

Move faster, migrating reindeer!Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesBy Maria Gallucci2017-05-07 18:32:09 UTCThe producers of Norway's smash-hit "Slow TV" genre have captivated audiences with videos of a 134-hour-long cruise voyage and 13 hours of people knitting. But sometimes even Slow TV can be too slow. Norway's public broadcaster NRK recently suspended a show following the progress of migratory reindeer because the animals stopped moving, The Local reported, citing Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.The latest addition to this hypnotizing genre followed the spring migration of

Zounds! 'Tis Free Comic Book Day, when younglings and olds alike descend upon their local comic book merchants in search of the only nourishment that will slake their savage geek thirst: MOAR COMIC BOOKS. But despite the feeding frenzy focused on the wonder secreted in the pages of these paper treasures, Free Comic Book Day is actually a sweet moment for many families when friends and family get to unapologetically share their collective guilty pleasure.No, this isn't the day to haggle

Loads of these guys have awesome Instagram accounts.Image: Paul Buck/Epa/REX/ShutterstockBy Sam Haysom2017-05-06 08:30:00 UTCWarning: Contains spoilers for all seasons of Game of Thrones. We've still got far, far too much time to kill before Game of Thrones Season 7 kicks off, so what better way to fill the gaps between promos than with some good old fashioned Instagram stalking?Gone are the days when an actor from the show might drop a clue on social media — or, even better, accidentally

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Uber’s use of Greyballing, we get the first look at the rumored Amazon Echo device and Facebook shuts down its VR filmmaking division. All this on Crunch Report. Read MoreVia ASDA Alltop

Everyone just calm down.Image: Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesBy Kayla Bazile2017-05-05 15:40:12 -0400Yeezy come back, you can blame it all on us. Kanye West has left the social media building as he appears to have deactivated his Twitter and Instagram as of Friday. If you do a search for his profiles, both sites show the same "Sorry, this page isn't available" error message.Miss you already. Where are you Ye?This is not the first time West's account has been deactivated; back in August 2016

I’d been living in Cuba for about a year when I met Marta. She was sitting in her friend Mita’s car, a woman I was shooting a project for. Marta was smoking a cigarette and had long nails. I took a picture.They were picking me up from the police station, I’d been taken into custody for photographing a police officer on the street, and I didn't have my press credentials on me.Marta's hand, the first photo I took of her

Singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe is using technology to try to recapture some of music’s old-school magic and physicality. We met with Wolfe last year to talk about her NFC-powered jacket, where you could tap your phone against the jacket and bring up a website promoting one of her singles. For the launch of her new album Raw Space, Wolfe teamed up with Nokia Bell Labs (that’s the historic research facility Bell Labs, now owned by Nokia) and Design IO. Starting tomorrow, May 5, Bell

Scientists, including the controversial doctor Sergio Canavero, have transplanted the head of a rat onto the back of another, ahead of a plan to carry out the world's first human head transplant later this year. Read more

What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form? These are the questions that guided a new, long-term study of the Australian national Twittersphere that my colleagues and I have undertaken. Drawing on , a major multi-institutional facility for social media analytics, we identified some 3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts in existence by early

Ecobee unveiled its latest connected thermostat at the Collision conference today. Far and away the most interesting bit is its inclusion of a microphone that utilizes Amazon’s far-field voice recognition to deliver Alexa functionality. And if that weren’t enough Alexa in your life, the company will also be building Amazon’s smart assistant directly into smart light switches it has planned for later in the year. The Ecobee4 arrives in stores on May 15, priced at $249. The actual thermostat-centric skills sound

Uber had announced in January that it was bringing its food delivery service to India, its fastest-growing market in the world. And finally, it's here. UberEATS has rolled out in Mumbai and will soon be taken to five other Indian cities.India becomes UberEATS' fourth Asian market, after it launched in Singapore last May, followed by Tokyo (Japan) and Bangkok (Thailand). Interestingly, Uber's local rival Ola had started a similar service, Ola Cafe, in 2015 and shut it down a year later after

Finally, the perfect gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day gift has arrived. Beyoncé is releasing Lemonade on yellow vinyl as part of a $300 box set. The collector's edition box set, titled How To Make Lemonade, will include a 600-page book with photos from the making of the album, a foreword from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and poetry by Warsan Shire.The set will be delivered sometime this summer, when you need a refreshing glass of

Janet Jackson performs last March in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Image: Francois Nel/Getty ImagesBy Josh Dickey2017-05-02 01:36:53 UTCJanet's back, and there's nothing nasty about it. Janet Jackson's official website carried a curious count-down clock that had fans wondering what news its expiration would bring Monday morning — especially since her long-awaited "Unbreakable" tour was postponed last year. But by afternoon, the clock had disappeared — then re-set to four-plus hours

Between Thumbtack,  Yelp Angie’s List, and Amazon, it wouldn’t appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That’s not the way that Julio Vasconcellos sees it, clearly. Vasconcellos has spent the last year-plus working on a services platform called Prefer that relies exclusively on trusted referrals, replacing the wisdom of crowds with the wisdom of one’s friends when it comes to hiring a babysitter or accountant or housekeeper. In fact, if Prefer has its way, it will eventually become users’ go-to source for

SpaceX is taking its second shot at NROL-76, a Falcon 9 mission launching from LC-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Station. The launch was originally scheduled for Sunday, April 30, but that attempt was scrubbed due to a sensor issue. The window for the re-try today opens at 7 AM EDT (4 AM PDT) and continues for two hours after that. As of earlier this morning, SpaceX was advising a 7:15 AM liftoff time, but was monitoring winds in the upper level

President Donald Trump was a distracting entertainment from the moment he launched his campaign in June of 2015 — until he wasn't. His opening speech, in which he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and told the world he would be the best jobs president "God ever created," was looked at as the ravings of a man whose outsized ego was too big to be anything but hilarious. News outlets such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC carried his run-on sentences and gesticulations seemingly

Your newest prom bandImage: Larry Marano/REX/ShutterstockBy Marcus Gilmer2017-04-30 19:32:20 UTCThe kids at Huntley High School got a pretty rousing surprise when internet darlings The Chainsmokers crashed their prom, causing the kind of mass teen hysteria not seen since Marty McFly lit up the guitar at the Hill Valley High "Enchanted Under the Sea" dance in 1955.According to the Daily Herald, the surprise appearance was in the works for several weeks before the duo dropped in.The school, located in the

Russia. Flags.Image: Yuri Kochetkov/Epa/REX/ShutterstockBy Colin Daileda2017-04-30 02:42:34 UTCTrolling is mostly dumb, but sometimes it's an art. President Donald Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and, as he was speaking, someone tossed a bunch of tiny Russian flags, confetti-style, in front of the cameras streaming his speech to news networks.As far as protests go, it certainly earns points for creativity.The Trump campaign and administration officials have had a lot of unexplained contact with Russian officials, much of which

In addition to its many other failures, it looks like Fyre Fest is also an unintentional copycat. According to some Friday tweets from Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island, the two are combining comedic forces for a film about a "music festival that goes horribly wrong." Interesting! That sounds familiar.This seems like a good time to mention the movie we are making with @thelonelyisland about a music festival that goes HORRIBLY WRONG. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) April 28, 2017We don't yet have

A theory building momentum among Game of Thrones fans is that Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) may in fact kill his twin sister and lover, Cersei (Lena Headey). Coster-Waldau weighed in on the theory earlier this week while doing press for his upcoming Netflix film Small Crimes, and while he can’t confirm or deny it, he does seem to have thought it out quite a bit. “I mean I don’t think he — I’m just saying it’s a valid theory,” Coster-Waldau told Mashable.

Elon Musk shows off a video about his tunnel boring company, The Boring Company, a self-driving Apple test vehicle is spotted in the wild and Cloudera and Carvana each price their IPO at $15; one does well, the other not so much. All this on Crunch Report. Read MoreVia ASDA Alltop

Violence erupted in Macedonia’s parliament as tensions between ethnic Albanian minorities and nationalists boiled over, prompting sharp rebukes from Western governments. Protesters supportive of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party, as well as individuals clad in identity-concealing hoods, stormed parliament on Thursday night local time, violently accosting at least lawmakers and journalists. Police say the violence left 102 inside and outside parliament injured. Parliament had just managed to break the “filibuster” of the minority VMRO-DPMNE. The party lost its governing majority in December’s elections,

An early player in drone-tech, 3D Robotics Inc., announced that it has raised $53 million in a Series D round of funding on Thursday, including new equity funding and conversion of debt equity. Atlantic Bridge led the round joined by Autodesk Forge Fund, True Ventures, Foundry Group, Mayfield and other undisclosed investors, according to the company statement. The company didn’t break out how much new capital it saw coming in the door in this round. We reached out for more information. But

The FCC has made its initial proposal as to how it intends to do away with net neutrality — and despite what leadership there has said, that’s definitely how the document reads. You are free to make your thoughts known on the notice of proposed rulemaking, as it’s called, and here’s how to do it. Because millions of commenters nearly crashed the entire system when net neutrality was being established, the FCC has prudently improved the process ahead of the “significant

There's rich material to be mined from the premise of The Circle, a new thriller set in the offices of a tech giant that's like Google, Facebook, and Apple all rolled into one. Unfortunately, the film has neither the patience nor the insight to dig very deeply at all. Instead, it blows the whole concept to rubble and pats itself on the back for having the insight to drop such truth bombs.Directed by James Ponsoldt and based on a novel by

Google’s internal startup incubator, Area 120, unveiled last year, has to date led to the creation of a number of projects, including a personal stylist app Tailor, a voice messenger Supersonic, and most recently, an app for watching YouTube videos together called Uptime. We’ve now spotted another app in development over there called Appointments, a salon booking tool. Appointments has not yet been publicly released to the app stores or web, but its project page is currently live at salon.area120.com.The app appears to

A cancer survivor shared her moving story of how she came to embrace her prosthetic leg on reality dating show First Dates. Sarah, 21, was on a date with Phil, who lost his mum to breast cancer when he was 17, when she talked about her experience of dating after having her leg amputated. "When I first went dating, I had my leg covered up so that the guys I went on dates with couldn't see that I had my leg

Ontario capital Toronto. The province is hosting the first major universal basic income test in North America in 30 years.Image: carlo allegri/getty imagesBy Patrick Kulp2017-04-26 01:15:48 UTCThousands of randomly chosen Canadians may soon receive free checks in the mail. The province of Ontario just announced that a major trial run of a universal basic income program could begin as early as this summer.Universal basic income is a largely untested policy concept in which every citizen would get a regular government

Uber is making its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plans more concrete, via new partnerships announced today during its Elevate conference focused on the VTOL industry. The partnerships are with established aeronautics and emerging VTOL players, including Aurora Flight Sciences, Embraer, Bell Helicopter, Pistrel Aircraft, Mooney and ChargePoint, and will focus on two markets initially, including Dallas in the U.S. and Dubai abroad. The partners will provide various elements of the technology requirements for Uber to run its so-called Elevate Network,

Seagulls are commonly known for their thievery of beach and boardwalk snacks. Occasionally, though, they'll get their beaks on other miscellaneous items. On Friday, a seagull in Newton Abbot, England, was photographed with something quite surprising in its beak.Someone shared the following pictures on the Spotted Newton Abbot Facebook page with a caption that said: "Hi Spotted Newton Abbot, can you please post this picture below. Someone's false teeth were found on a bench on Torquay Harbour at lunchtime. Unfortunately anyone

Earlier this month, a Tor node operator in Russia was arrested in a potential misunderstanding about the nature of the decentralized network. Dmitry Bogatov, a lecturer at the Moscow Finance and Law University, was taken into custody on April 6 and charged with organizing mass unrest, which was later appended with the more serious charge of incitement to terrorist activity. He remains in custody at this time. Bogatov is accused of writing posts at sysadmins.ru in late March that encouraged protesters to