Friday, August 19, 2016

Pokémon GO heads to 15 new countries in Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and other top stories.

  • Pokémon GO heads to 15 new countries in Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam

    Pokémon GO heads to 15 new countries in Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam
    Slowly but surely, the creatures are coming. They advance, nation by nation, relentless, refusing to stop until the entire planet is their domain. Hundreds of millions have felt their impact. Politicians and titans of industry are not immune. And even mainstream news outlets are scrambling to find "22 Tips For Catching Pokémon - #12 Will Make You Scream!" Today developer Niantic continues its bid for global mobile gaming domination by expanding Pokémon GO to 15 new markets in Asia, including hu..
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  • Apple's $200 Million Turi Acquisition To Challenge Google, Amazon And Facebook In Pervasive Computing

    Apple's $200 Million Turi Acquisition To Challenge Google, Amazon And Facebook In Pervasive Computing
    Apple puts the pedal to the metal to take over its rivals from Google, Amazon and Facebook in machine learning capabilities, and for that it recently purchased Turi, an AI startup from Seattle. Turi's technologies should help Apple boost its advances in pervasive computing capabilities. For those who skipped that lesson, pervasive computing allows a software (such as a virtual assistant) to make appropriate suggestions to a user on whatever topic they may ask about. For example, the suggestions..
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  • Popular Torrent Search Engine Shuts Down Without Explanation

    Popular Torrent Search Engine Shuts Down Without Explanation
    Photo credit: Shutterstock The torrenting community has been tumultuous these past few weeks. First, Kickass Torrents was seized by the government after the owner’s arrest. Now, one of the largest search engines has vanished. According to TorrentFreak, Torrentz.eu unexpectedly shut down on Friday, disabling its search functionality. The domain is still active, but currently, the site just features the search bar with a message in the past tense: “Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-s..
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  • Nissan's “No Charge To Charge” Program Expands To 10 New Markets

    Nissan's “No Charge To Charge” Program Expands To 10 New Markets
    Nissan's “No Charge to Charge” program just keeps growing, and it is nice to find some Florida cities in the group of 10 new markets added to the program — environmental incentives are all too scarce in the Sunshine State. 009. “Participating Nissan ...
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  • 'Mayhem' Takes $2 Million First Prize in DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge

    'Mayhem' Takes $2 Million First Prize in DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge
    TOP OF THE NEWS   AUGUST 7, 2016 NETWORK SECURITY 'Mayhem' Wins DARPA Challenge Aimed at finding and fixing bugs faster.
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  • Iran is First Country to Ban Pokemon Go

    Iran is First Country to Ban Pokemon Go
    Good luck trying to catch 'em all in Iran. The country's High Council of Virtual Spaces has officially banned the Pokemon Go app, making Iran the first country to do so. As for why, High Council of Virtual Spaces wasn't very specific. The BBC reported that the High Council claimed the game caused "security concerns," but it neglected to elaborate on what those were. We have our guesses, though. Pokemon Go can encourage players to get creative with their sleuthing at all hours of the night, wh..
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  • Google Loses Car Project CTO

    Google Loses Car Project CTO
    Some changes are afoot over at Google's self-driving car division. Its CTO and technical lead, Chris Urmson, is officially departing the project in addition to a few other key staffers. First, Urmson: he recently wrote a lengthy blog post on Medium yesterday to explain his move. "After leading our cars through the human equivalent of 150 years of driving and helping our project make the leap from pure research to developing a product that we hope someday anyone will be able to use, I am ready ..
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