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Sponsored Links Daniel Cooper/Engadget The US government is still bent on blacklisting Huawei in most respects, but the Chinese tech giant just got an important reprieve. The Commerce Department has granted Microsoft a license to “export mass-market software” to Huawei, according to a Microsoft statement to Bloomberg. The American company declined to say just what…
Sponsored Links REUTERS/Paresh Dave Tensions between Google and its employees aren’t about to ease up any time soon. Staff held a protest in San Francisco on November 23rd that accused Google of retaliating against two workers, Laurence Berland and Rebecca Rivers, for workplace organizing. The two were placed on indefinite leave earlier in November for…
Sponsored Links Undead Labs/Xbox Game Studios You don’t have to be fully committed to Microsoft’s vision of gaming to play State of Decay 2. The zombie-filled survival game is now slated to come to Steam in early 2020. You won’t have to be worried about finding friends to play, either. The title will support four-person…
Sponsored Links Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Facebook’s stance on facial recognition has changed as of late, but its past enthusiasm for the technology may have been stronger than previously thought. Business Insider has learned (subscription required) that Facebook developed an internal mobile app between 2015 and 2016 that used facial recognition to identify…
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Worldwide scientific consensus warns of climate disaster and has made an urgent call for action. Yet, the Trump administration has doubled down on its effort to suppress the science around climate change, burying government-funded studies from public view. While the reality of climate change is not debated among scientists, that same science is dismissed by…
Sponsored Links Engadget As we wrap up a week of LA Auto Show news, two themes become apparent: we are well on our way towards electric drivetrains being the rule rather than the exception, and you should always ensure that your unshatterable windows are indeed unshatterable before heading on-stage for the livestream. Bollinger’s badass EV…
The best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for Apple products aren’t usually found at the company’s own stores, but at several other retailers. Best Buy, Target, Amazon, B&H Photo, and Walmart each are hosting some noteworthy deals on Apple products. We’re seeing the best-ever pricing on the new seventh-generation iPad, the Apple Watch Series…
Sometimes paleontologists uncover ghosts. I don’t mean the spirits of Brontosaurus that I imagined in the gloomy museum halls of my childhood or spectral Smilodon enlivening old bones. I mean ghost tracks, footprints that are all-but-undetectable with the naked eye but can still be discerned with other techniques. And by utilizing 3-D radar imaging, Thomas Urban…
Sponsored Links Burhaan Kinu/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Law enforcement has struck a blow against the group that compromised Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s account, albeit relatively late. Motherboard has learned that police arrested a former leader of Chuckling Squad (unnamed as the person is a child) roughly two weeks ago. The suspect allegedly used SIM…