Google-Backed Company Partners With Ancestry To Beat Aging
This plan to come up with a pill that will help us all live longer seems a bit far fetched. Then again, the company in question is backed by Google so who knows?
On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal for access to genetic information from Ancestry, the largest family tree website. It's among the first public moves from Calico, the secretive division born to (gasp!) extend human life. With its new DNA data — properly anonymized — Calico will look for genetic patterns in people who have lived exceptionally long lives, then make drugs to help more of us do that.
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eBay Shutting Down Its On-Demand Delivery Service
Something tells me that no one is really going to notice when eBay's on-demand delivery service is actually gone. Do you know anyone that has ever used the service?
It was only a matter of time before eBay Now would be put out to pasture once and for all. But that's official as of today, eBay revealed in a statement about how it plans to simplify shopping for users. The company introduced its same-day, on-demand delivery service in 2012, but struggled to capture valuable attention from consumers.
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BitFenix Prodigy M Colour Series
Another review of the BitFenix Prodigy M Colour Series micro-ATX chassis has popped up on the internet today. This time around it is the crew at eTeknix doing the reviewing.
Colour coordinating your build becomes a lot easier when you can pick something that suits your needs and preferences. Today I've got the Prodigy M Red, as well as a few other bonus goodies from BitFenix to help with the build, such as the BitFenix Fury PSU, a 120mm Spectra Pro red LED fan, a BitFenix Alchemy white LED strip, as well as a red side panel window.
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OUYA CEO Leaves The Company
It looks as though OUYA's CEO was the first casualty of the Razer buyout.
Julie Uhrman, CEO of OUYA, has announced that she'll be leaving the Android gaming company that she co-founded. The executive took to Twitter to make the statement, spending the better part of an hour thanking employees, developers and backers.
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Steam Security Hole Closed
For those of you that missed this earlier, Valve has closed that Steam security hole that was allowing anyone to hijack another person's account in minutes.
As this video demonstrates, this involved simply entering a blank in place of a required security response code, making it a trivial matter to hijack any account only by knowing a user's name. Valve says this resulted from a bug which was active between July 21-25 which has now been fixed.
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Microsoft Releases Tool To Block Unwanted Windows 10 Updates
It looks as though Microsoft is backtracking a bit on forcing updates on Windows 10 users.
Windows 10 testers who've complained about mandatory updates in Microsoft's new operating system might have a solution at hand. The tool, available as an optional download, lets you hide or block any update for Windows or a hardware driver.
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Google Removing Google+ Requirement For YouTube
Finally! It's about damn time Google did this. I think we can all agree that this was a bonehead idea from the start.
So in the coming months, a Google Account will be all you'll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more, all across Google. YouTube will be one of the first products to make this change, and you can learn more on their blog. As always, your underlying Google Account won't be searchable or followable, unlike public Google+ profiles. And for people who already created Google+ profiles but don't plan to use Google+ itself, we'll offer better options for managing and removing those public profiles.
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Cool Photo of the Day
This picture of the Nile, taken at night from the International Space Station, is pure awesomeness.
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95% Of Android Phones Open To Attack
Security researchers are saying these six vulnerabilities are the worst Android flaws ever uncovered. Yikes!
Six critical vulnerabilities have left 95 per cent of Google GOOGL +0.64% Android phones open to an attack delivered by a simple multimedia text, a mobile security expert warned today. In some cases, where phones parse the attack code prior to the message being opened, the exploits are silent and the user would have little chance of defending their data.
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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4K Video Card Review
Our AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4K video card review is now online for your viewing pleasure. Hit the link to find out just what type of 4K gameplay experience you can expect from this card.
We take the new AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and evaluate the 4K gaming experience. We will also compare against the price competitive GeForce GTX 980 Ti as well as a GeForce GTX TITAN X. Which video card provides the best experience and performance when gaming at glorious 4K resolution. Can the new AMD Radeon R9 Fury X rise up to the occasion?
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Researchers Call For A Ban On Autonomous Weapons
Should robots ever be able to engage targets without human intervention? Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak don't think it is a good idea at all and I agree with them.
In summary, we believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity in many ways, and that the goal of the field should be to do so. Starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
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Georgia Sues Man For Posting Annotated State Laws Online
I honestly do not understand how the government works anymore at all. Thanks to cageymaru for the link.
You might think that legislation should be freely accessible as a matter of course, but the state of Georgia begs to differ. It's suing Public.Resource.Org owner Carl Malamud for allegedly violating copyright by publishing the annotated versions of Georgia's laws (that is, the ones that truly reflect the legislative process) online. While it's fine to publish the basic, note-free laws, the state argues that you should pay Lexis Nexis up to $378 to read the context-laden versions.
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