The US Is the Last Country to Remain Outside the Paris Climate Agreement
Credit to Author: Ankita Rao| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:56:07 +0000
Syria signed the agreement in Germany this week.
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Rise of the Wannabes: The Game Boy’s Many Uninspired Knockoffs
Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000
How the success of the Game Boy inspired a wealth of rip-off consoles sold under a variety of bizarre corporate structures. This goes deeper than the Lynx.
Read MoreTemporarily turn off Windows Automatic Update
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 03:35:00 -0800
Last month we had no end of problems with Microsoft’s Windows and Office patches. If your machine was attached to a corporate Windows Update server, and your admin approved Windows patches for immediate distribution, your PC may have joined a sea of blue screens. There were lots and lots of additional gotchas.
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IBM Wants British Columbia to Track Legal Pot With Blockchain Tech
Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:37:41 +0000
The blockchain could help stamp out the black market, IBM says.
Read MoreEx-NSA Director Says Companies Should Never Hack Back Because They Could Start Wars
Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:47:12 +0000
Keith Alexander, the retired general who headed the NSA for nine years, is not a fan of letting companies go after hackers.
Read MoreIn ‘Soonish,’ a Scientist/Cartoonist Couple Predict Tomorrow’s Technologies
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:20:00 +0000
From asteroid mining to brain-computer interfaces, ‘Soonish’ explores ten developing technologies with the power to make the future awesome, awful, or a little of both.
Read MoreSimple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:53:03 +0000
There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers (SSN/DOB) that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn’t acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our money, and I began taking our business away from those that wouldn’t let me add a simple verbal passphrase that needed to be uttered before any account details could be discussed over the phone.
Read More‘Brutal Wolfenstein 3D’ Makes Old-School Nazi Killing Look Better Than Ever
Credit to Author: Leif Johnson| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:21:53 +0000
‘Brutal Wolfenstein 3D’ modder releases massive new patch, introducing reworked weapons and sprites.
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