Google Dodges $9 Billion Bullet and other top stories.

• Google Dodges $9 Billion Bullet

  

  Google just won a major court battle with software giant Oracle over Google’s use of elements of Oracle’s Java programming language. If Google had lost, it could have held major ramifications for the ways in which almost all software is developed. Oh, and Google would have had to cough up $9 billion in damages. For now, the fundamental principles of how coders create software will stay the same. That is, of course, unless Oracle wins an appeal. Let’s take a look at how we got here, and what e..

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• Intel buys computer vision startup Itseez to improve navigation in self-driving cars

  

  Intel has acquired computer vision and machine learning startup Itseez to develop better navigation for self-driving cars. The value of the deal was undisclosed. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, Itseez makes computer vision algorithms and software. The company’s products include a suite of algorithms for automobiles it calls “advanced driver assistance systems,” which allows car hardware to recognize pedestrians and traffic signs and warn about potential collisions. The acquisition ..

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• NASA Hits Snag While Inflating Space Station's New BEAM Habitat

  

  NASA called off attempts to inflate the first privately built expandable room on the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 26) after early efforts to pump up the module didn't go exactly as planned.  The inflatable room, called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is an experimental habitat built by the company Bigelow Aerospace. NASA wants to study the technology for future deep-space habitats, while Bigelow Aerospace has its sights set on private space stations and mo..

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• 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' Gives Us One Of The Best Live-Action Game Trailers Ever

  

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• Facebook and Microsoft Are Laying a Giant Cable Across the Atlantic

  

  Getty Images Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive cable across the middle of the Atlantic. Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this giant underwater cable will stretch from Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, shuttling digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean. Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16 million times the bandwidth of your home Internet connection—it will allow the two tech titans to more efficiently move enormous amounts of information between the many comput..

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• Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400000 years ago

  

  Mars is emerging from an ice age, according to a new study. Studying the Martian climate and how it changes over time can help scientists better plan future missions to Mars and even understand climate change here on Earth, the study authors say. Models had already predicted that Mars underwent several rounds of ice ages in the past, but little physical measurements ever confirmed those predictions. Today’s study, published in the journal Science, is the first to map the ice deposits on the nor..

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• Moto Z Style, Z Play MotoMods Snap-On Modules Revealed Along With Leaked Renders Of Moto Z Droid Edition

  

  Lenovo will be holding a launch event on June 9 to unveil the new Moto brand smartphones, Moto Z Style and Moto Z Play. The company is expected to unleash the smartphones with several snap-on modules.In 1973, Motorola had launched the world’s first handheld cellular phone. A decade ago, the company had launched Moto RAZR V3 clamshell phone that became immensely popular across the world. A new tweet from Moto US suggests that it will “transform mobile, again” by launching Moto Z Style and Moto Z ..

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