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- President Oprah? President Zuckerberg? The rich and famous seem to be asking: Why not me?
- Trump’s address to Congress boasts of ‘new national pride’ sweeping nation
- Feds: Criminal officers stole from the innocent in Baltimore
- You May Not Even Need an iPhone 8 to Benefit From Its Best Feature
- Teenager Killed by Car While Trying to Rescue Cat Cat That Was Hit by Car
- Yahoo says about 32 million accounts accessed using 'forged cookies'
- China to cut 500,000 steel and coal jobs this year
- Donald Trump Is Tarnishing America’s Brand
- AG Sessions says he 'didn't recall' several times during press conference
- Subway swears its chicken is chicken and releases its own study
- Suspects charged with murder in airport nerve agent attack
- Photos of the day — February 28, 2017
- The Latest: California snowpack nearing record depths
- As US pressures Iran, parallel tensions grow between Israel and Hezbollah
- Ginsburg Skips Trump's Speech
- Marine Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over tweets
- Amazon finally explained what happened when it accidentally took down the internet
- How to Get the Most Out of Your Home Inspection
- Cop Tackles Man Seen Hitting Police Station Windows With Baseball Bat
- Photos of the day - March 2, 2017
- Small Plane Crashes Into California Homes, Killing 3 People
- Japan emperor to meet abandoned Vietnam families of soldiers
- US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials
- Canada, U.S. join forces on tackling border asylum-seekers
- Spoiler Alert: Subway chicken sandwiches are only 50% chicken, but they’re still 100% delicious
- Apple Wins $533 Million Patent Case
- The Latest: 1 of 3 slain teens had feuded with gang member
- Scientists are firing lasers at dinosaur fossils, and the result is awesome
- The U.S. Military's Greatest Advantage Is Dying a Slow Death
- Eleven bodies, some with signs of torture, found in Mexico's Veracruz
- Official: Yemen raid yields data on al-Qaida explosives
- Saudi king urges fight against terrorism on Indonesia trip
- Contamination of Lake Titicaca: Lake worshipped by Inca now littered with trash
- Google’s Assistant AI is available for all modern Android handsets right now
- Rights groups says Philippine police has falsified evidence
- Canadian bacteria-like fossils called oldest evidence of life
- Tornadoes leave a basement without a house in Missouri
- Taiwan Steps Up Patrols Amid China's Threats In South China Sea
- Mom Gets 50 Years for Giving Son, 5, Fatal Dose of Pills and Setting His Body on Fire
- ICE detains 'Dreamer' after she urged Trump to protect her
- Canada has seen jump in asylum seekers from US: officials
- Why Mercedes is confident it can pick up new customers
- This may be the battery tech that prevents the next Galaxy Note 7 disaster
President Oprah? President Zuckerberg? The rich and famous seem to be asking: Why not me? Posted: 01 Mar 2017 02:24 PM PST
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Trump’s address to Congress boasts of ‘new national pride’ sweeping nation Posted: 28 Feb 2017 09:36 PM PST
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Feds: Criminal officers stole from the innocent in Baltimore Posted: 01 Mar 2017 03:46 PM PST |
You May Not Even Need an iPhone 8 to Benefit From Its Best Feature Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:06 PM PST |
Teenager Killed by Car While Trying to Rescue Cat Cat That Was Hit by Car Posted: 01 Mar 2017 05:47 PM PST |
Yahoo says about 32 million accounts accessed using 'forged cookies' Posted: 01 Mar 2017 03:27 PM PST
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China to cut 500,000 steel and coal jobs this year Posted: 01 Mar 2017 02:17 AM PST
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Donald Trump Is Tarnishing America’s Brand Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:29 PM PST |
AG Sessions says he 'didn't recall' several times during press conference Posted: 02 Mar 2017 02:53 PM PST |
Subway swears its chicken is chicken and releases its own study Posted: 02 Mar 2017 07:56 AM PST
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Suspects charged with murder in airport nerve agent attack Posted: 28 Feb 2017 08:47 PM PST |
Photos of the day — February 28, 2017 Posted: 28 Feb 2017 05:41 PM PST
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The Latest: California snowpack nearing record depths Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:38 PM PST |
As US pressures Iran, parallel tensions grow between Israel and Hezbollah Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:39 PM PST
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Ginsburg Skips Trump's Speech Posted: 28 Feb 2017 07:00 PM PST |
Marine Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over tweets Posted: 02 Mar 2017 09:26 AM PST
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Amazon finally explained what happened when it accidentally took down the internet Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:58 AM PST The Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Web Services, also known as S3 and AWS, happen to power a lot of the internet as you know it. And they're usually quite dependable, meaning that the companies using the solutions can rest assured that their websites will be up no matter what. But no internet service can have a 100% uptime rating, and the same goes for AWS. It was Amazon's AWS that failed on Tuesday, taking plenty of popular services and sites down with it. Now, Amazon has finally explained exactly what happened on Tuesday when it took down much of the web. In lengthy and rather technical note to customers, Amazon explained that an employee entered a command incorrectly and caused a chain of events that ultimately led to parts of the internet going bonkers. Amazon has protocols in place to fix downtime issues like these, but the problem was so ample that not even Amazon could fix it in a timely matter. That's why the outage lasted for several hours — well, technically it wasn't an outage since only subsets of AWS's complex architecture went down. "We build our systems with the assumption that things will occasionally fail, and we rely on the ability to remove and replace capacity as one of our core operational processes," Amazon said. "While this is an operation that we have relied on to maintain our systems since the launch of S3, we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years." The good news is that Amazon was able to restore order in the universe, and it's now looking to prevent this from ever happening again. If you want to read the entire explanation, check out Amazon's full post here. |
How to Get the Most Out of Your Home Inspection Posted: 02 Mar 2017 06:48 AM PST
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Cop Tackles Man Seen Hitting Police Station Windows With Baseball Bat Posted: 01 Mar 2017 05:40 AM PST |
Photos of the day - March 2, 2017 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 01:45 PM PST
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Small Plane Crashes Into California Homes, Killing 3 People Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:06 PM PST |
Japan emperor to meet abandoned Vietnam families of soldiers Posted: 01 Mar 2017 04:16 AM PST |
US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials Posted: 02 Mar 2017 08:51 AM PST
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Canada, U.S. join forces on tackling border asylum-seekers Posted: 01 Mar 2017 03:36 PM PST
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Spoiler Alert: Subway chicken sandwiches are only 50% chicken, but they’re still 100% delicious Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:33 PM PST As a sandwich aficionado, I've always hated the fact that Subway tends to get a bad rap. Because the company has franchises everywhere, and because most everything on the Subway menu is pretty cheap, people tend to dismiss the sandwich chain as 'low-rent' compared to some pricier and less tastier options. To be perfectly honest, and at the risk of embarrassing myself, I've long been a staunch Subway defender and apologist.
When someone a few years ago discovered that Subway bread contains azodicarbonamide, a chemical found in yoga mats, I said nothing. After all, far be it from me to judge the chemical composition of tasty bread. If anything, the news made me look at yoga mats in a whole new light. More recently, when Subway was caught ripping off consumers by selling 11-inch bread while advertising footlong sandwiches, I, once again, said nothing. Alas, the latest controversy involving my beloved sandwich chain has prompted me to speak up. It pains me to say it, but Subway has finally gone too far. According to a troubling report from the CBC, DNA testing on Subway's oven-roasted chicken found that the patty only contains about 50% chicken. As for what comprises the remaining 50%, well, let's just say I'd rather not know. The oven-roasted chicken, though, wasn't the only offending item on Subway's menu. Similar DNA testing found Subway's Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki strips are only 42% chicken. While it's not realistic to expect a menu item at a fast food joint to be 100% pure chicken -- marinades and other add-ons can easily dilute the results -- 40% is simply inexcusable. Subway's performance here is even more glaring given that chicken dishes tested at other fast food establishments scored much higher. McDonald's grilled Country Chicken sandwich, for example, was found to be about 85% chicken. Subway has since come out and refuted the CBC's findings, while at the same time promising to look into the matter. "The accusations made by CBC Marketplace about the content of our chicken are absolutely false and misleading," Subway said in a statement provided to Consumer Affairs. "Our chicken is 100% white meat with seasonings, marinated and delivered to our stores as a finished, cooked product. "We have advised them of our strong objections," the statement adds. "We do not know how they produced such unreliable and factually incorrect data, but we are insisting on a full retraction. Producing high quality food for our customers is our highest priority. This report is wrong and it must be corrected." As for me, the report has forced me to look at Subway in a whole new light. I'm not going to stop eating there -- that would be downright crazy -- but I might just stick with the tuna from now on. What can I say, I like to live dangerously. |
Apple Wins $533 Million Patent Case Posted: 02 Mar 2017 04:04 AM PST |
The Latest: 1 of 3 slain teens had feuded with gang member Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:24 AM PST |
Scientists are firing lasers at dinosaur fossils, and the result is awesome Posted: 01 Mar 2017 08:21 AM PST
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The U.S. Military's Greatest Advantage Is Dying a Slow Death Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:09 PM PST |
Eleven bodies, some with signs of torture, found in Mexico's Veracruz Posted: 01 Mar 2017 03:32 PM PST
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Official: Yemen raid yields data on al-Qaida explosives Posted: 28 Feb 2017 07:54 PM PST |
Saudi king urges fight against terrorism on Indonesia trip Posted: 02 Mar 2017 12:55 AM PST
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Contamination of Lake Titicaca: Lake worshipped by Inca now littered with trash Posted: 02 Mar 2017 09:18 AM PST
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Google’s Assistant AI is available for all modern Android handsets right now Posted: 02 Mar 2017 10:11 AM PST Remember the flood of Amazon Alexa news coming from CES 2017 in early January? Everyone wanted a piece of Amazon's voice technology, including companies that made Android devices, which you'd expect to get support for Google Assistant before anything else. Well, the Amazon buzz wasn't nearly as strong as the biggest mobile show in town. Sunday was packed with press conferences, and everyone was announcing support for Google Assistant. Something strange was happening.
It all started with the LG G6, at which point I thought Google was choosing select partners to bring its Google Assistant to more devices. Soon after than Huawei announced that the P10 line would get it. Then, Nokia, Motorola, and Sony followed, saying that their brand new handsets will also get Google Assistant integration. Google even made special appearances during some of these press events, to talk about some of its Android features, including Google Assistant. It didn't take long for it to become clear, all these upcoming handsets will feature Google Assistant integration out of the box. This is something Google wants, and Google will have it. Why hasn't Google launched its Assistant on other devices aside from the Pixel? For some reason, it wasn't apparently ready to do it. But it is now. On Thursday, the final day of MWC 2017, Google made it official: all Marshmallow and Nougat devices will get Google Assistant support, not just the brand new ones coming out of the show. Google did not make a big fuss about Google Assistant at the show, although it did announce that Google Assistant will be available to try out on a variety of devices at its Android Village. On the other hand, MWC attendees probably got the idea as soon as the Congress kicked off last Sunday and they got to try more and more devices. A hard press on that home button would constantly bring up the Assistant, signaling that something big is happening. You didn't need to see Google's announcement to know something was going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_BeK48-Bzc What matters now is that everyone who's on a fairly new device will be able to use it. Google posted a video on Thursday to inform the masses about the roll out. And I can't but observe that the timing of this Google initiative could not be better. Samsung is rumored to bring to life a brand new advanced assistant for the Galaxy S8 called Bixby. By the time it launches, however, Google Assistant should also be enabled on the Galaxy S8. Google did mention Samsung specifically in its announcement. How do you install Assistant on your smartphone or tablet? You don't. You just update Google Play Services, and Assistant will come to you. If you want to use it, that is. You can also disable it if you find the whole concept too creepy for your taste. Android Wear 2 will also get the feature, and TVs and cars will follow. |
Rights groups says Philippine police has falsified evidence Posted: 02 Mar 2017 12:29 AM PST
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Canadian bacteria-like fossils called oldest evidence of life Posted: 01 Mar 2017 10:08 AM PST
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Tornadoes leave a basement without a house in Missouri Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:50 PM PST |
Taiwan Steps Up Patrols Amid China's Threats In South China Sea Posted: 02 Mar 2017 01:15 AM PST |
Mom Gets 50 Years for Giving Son, 5, Fatal Dose of Pills and Setting His Body on Fire Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:04 AM PST |
ICE detains 'Dreamer' after she urged Trump to protect her Posted: 01 Mar 2017 04:07 PM PST
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Canada has seen jump in asylum seekers from US: officials Posted: 02 Mar 2017 10:20 AM PST
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Why Mercedes is confident it can pick up new customers Posted: 01 Mar 2017 05:26 AM PST
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This may be the battery tech that prevents the next Galaxy Note 7 disaster Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:04 AM PST Samsung has retrieved about 98% of the 3 million defective Galaxy Note 7 units it shipped in the short time span between the phone's official launch last August and its swift demise in October. But on my way to Mobile World Congress, flight attendants still insisted over the plane's speaker system that Galaxy Note 7 use on board the flight is strictly forbidden, and anyone carrying such a device should inform the crew. That's what fear of a potentially exploding device will do to an airline. Samsung may have "fixed" its massive debacle, but there's still concern related to the few Galaxy Note 7 units that may be lurking around. It's not just Galaxy Note 7 batteries that explode, either. In fact, anything powered by a Lithium battery can explode following an incident that causes a short circuit — just check out this video of a smoldering iPhone 7 that went viral, prompting Apple to investigate. Thankfully, there are nascent technologies out there that could prevent future disasters like the Galaxy Note 7, and I got to speak with one company that aims to prolong battery life on devices while making them even more safe.
Qnovo is a familiar name to some people, especially Sony handset fans who purchased one of Sony's Android phones last year. The surprising Xperia XZ Premium phone (above) that Sony announced at MWC 2017 also ships with Qnovo adaptive charging support, a technology that's supposed to prolong the battery life of the handset. Qnovo analyzes charging data coming from the phone's battery to extend its lifespan and increase safety. Qnovo's algorithms take into account real-time readings to determine how a battery is operating at any given moment, and to optimize battery charging. The software actively changes charging parameters such as charging rate and current to prevent battery degradation during fast-charging sessions. Monitoring the data and comparing the battery's performance against lab measurements for a specific battery might be incredibly useful resources to smartphone makers. The software can determine whether a phone is charging normally, or whether there's a short circuit inside the battery, a detail that's not apparent to the user, but that can be responsible for explosions and fires. Smartphone makers are looking to provide bigger capacity batteries (see the Galaxy Note 7), faster charging technology (see Meizu's brand new innovation), and longer battery life for high-end devices that do not ship with user-replaceable batteries (see Sony's Xperia XZ Premium). Qnovo says its tech can help with all that. The firm has so far included its adaptive charging tech only in Sony smartphones starting with the Xperia X flagship that was unveiled here in Barcelona last year. But things may change in the future. Qnovo would not tell me whether it partnered with other smartphone makers, but a recent announcement from the firm seems to be pretty revealing. Qnovo announced in early February that the Snapdragon 835 processor will be the first chip to support Qnovo's adaptive charging. That's the chip expected to power a variety of flagship Android handsets this year including the Sony XZ Premium, the Samsung Galaxy S8, and many others. The chip already supports Qualcomm's Quick Charge 4.0 technology that should further reduce charge times. Qnovo's tech, meanwhile, could increase the battery lifespan up to twice what you would usually expect from a phone battery. As I understood it, Qnovo's algorithms would work on any smartphone, not just flagship phones. They do not require any additional components to measure the performance of the battery; it's all done using software that extracts real-time frequency data as the battery is charging. But the new Snapdragon 835 chip will provide additional hardware acceleration for Qnovo's software, which should ensure even better battery performance. In addition to monitoring battery charging, Qnovo is able to detect the formation of lithium metal plating during charging. Whether caused by manufacturing defects or accidents, that's the kind of chemical process that can occur in any battery and ultimately lead to short circuits. This real-time battery monitoring technology could also be used to power down a device whose battery may pose a risk to the user, Qnovo said, giving OEMs a solution to prevent imminent battery failures. Will more Android device makers, and even the iPhone, adopt Qnovo or similar solutions in the near future? We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, the only sure way to completely eliminate the risk of exploding batteries might be developing non-lithium batteries that can't explode. Hopefully, someone is inventing that battery as we speak. |
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