Saturday, April 15, 2017

1100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr and other top stories.

  • 1100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr

    1100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr
    Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100 men have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to have sex with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular dating app for gay and bisexual men, because of it. According to the complaint, Herrick, 32, is the victim of an elaborate revenge scheme that's playing out on Grindr's platform. An ex-boyfriend of Herrick's, who he says he met on Grindr, has allegedly been creating fake accounts since October 2016. The accounts have Herri..
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  • Microsoft has already patched the NSA's leaked Windows hacks

    Microsoft has already patched the NSA's leaked Windows hacks
    Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA, were released online yesterday, and Microsoft was able to test and confirm patches are already ...
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  • Facebook Cracks Down On 30000 Fake News Accounts Ahead of French Election

    Facebook Cracks Down On 30000 Fake News Accounts Ahead of French Election
    Too late for the U.S. presidential election, Facebook is going after 30,000 phony accounts used to distribute fake news in France, ahead of the national vote there. The company is using automated methods to help screen out the fakes, such as finding content repeated on hundreds of the phony sites. Facebook said in a statement Friday that it’s taking “decisive action” against the accounts, presumably shutting them down. “While these most recent improvements will not result in the removal of ever..
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  • Apple gets permit to test self-driving cars in California

    Apple gets permit to test self-driving cars in California
    In the first official confirmation of Apple’s automotive ambitions, the secretive Cupertino company on Friday received a permit to test self-driving vehicles on California roads.With major Silicon Valley tech firms and U.S. carmakers jumping into the frenzy to bring the technology to the market, the possibility that Apple will join the fray has fascinated the valley. The company has long been rumored to be working on a mysterious “Project Titan” connected to vehicles, but has never confirmed t..
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  • Enceladus' Subsurface Energy Source: What It Means for Search for Life

    Enceladus' Subsurface Energy Source: What It Means for Search for Life
    A space mission that could hunt for definitive signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus looks even more enticing following the release of new evidence that a habitable environment lies under the surface of this icy world.  The surface of Enceladus consists of a solid ice layer that is estimated to have an average thickness of 11 to 14 miles (18 to 22 kilometers), and that covers a massive, liquid-water ocean. The new study indicates that the floor of Enceladus' ocean likely features hot w..
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  • NES Classic Edition's Discontinuation Could Be Temporary

    NES Classic Edition's Discontinuation Could Be Temporary
    Earlier this week Nintendo made a very surprising announcement when they revealed that they would be discontinuing the extremely popular NES Classic Edition. Given that last we heard they managed to sell 1.5 million units, it seemed like something that they’d want to keep making and selling, right?Now there is some potential good news, and we have to say that you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up just yet but there might be a very slim chance the discontinuation could be temporary. According ..
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  • Microsoft officially ends support for a bunch of Windows phones

    Microsoft officially ends support for a bunch of Windows phones
    Lumia 950Peter Bright reader comments 71 Microsoft has just released a couple of new Windows Insider builds for people on the fast ring, one for PC and one for mobile. The builds are surprisingly divergent. For PC, the build is numbered 16176; it's another Redstone 3 build, though as with the first Redstone 3 build, it doesn't change a whole lot. It adds access to serial ports from the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which will help with remote device debugging. The build also fixes some min..
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  • Pokémon GO's Easter Eggstravaganza Event Is Its Weirdest Yet

    Pokémon GO's Easter Eggstravaganza Event Is Its Weirdest Yet
    Niantic Yesterday, Pokémon GO announced and launched its egg-themed event for Easter, called an “Eggstravangza” because well, of course it is. The event has a wider range of Pokémon hatching from 2 km eggs, Lucky Eggs on sale, and double XP. Quadruple, with those Lucky Eggs. Since the launch of the Eggstravaganza yesterday, we have learned a few things about the specific details of the event. There do not appear to be any big secrets in the event like we’ve seen with Ditto or Shiny Magikarp..
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  • Android Circuit: Destroying The Galaxy S8, Note 8 Images Leak, Google's Pixel 2 Design

    Android Circuit: Destroying The Galaxy S8, Note 8 Images Leak, Google's Pixel 2 Design
    Taking a look back at seven days of news and headlines across the world of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes third-party destructive reviews of the Galaxy S8, Samsung’s problems with Bixby, why the Note 8 will have to fight the S8, a curved screen for the new Pixel smartphones, the return of the Note 7, Android Pay’s steady improvements, WileyFox’s move back to stock Android, and asking if Microsoft should start shipping Android handsets. Android Circuit is here to remind you of a fe..
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  • YouTube has a hidden dark mode. Here's how to turn it on

    YouTube has a hidden dark mode. Here's how to turn it on
    Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET YouTube has a hidden dark mode that lends the site a more cinematic feel. The feature is available only through Chrome and requires you to dip your toes in Chrome's developer tools. But it's nothing more than pasting in a line of code and refreshing YouTube; it'll take less than a minute. Here's how to do it.1. Make sure you're using the most recent version of Chr..
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