In a blog post, Imgur announced that it has been acquired by a company called MediaLab. “It’s the beginning of a new chapter, and we’re excited to share the news with you,” writes the Imgur team. From the post: We’ve been acquired by MediaLab! MediaLab…
Google Photos’ Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon
Google Photos’ Locked Folder feature, which lets you hide sensitive photos and videos from your main library and secure them in a passcode- or biometric-protected folder, is coming to all devices running Android 6 and above. The Verge reports: The feat…
Engineer Devises ‘UFO Patents’ For US Navy
Paul Ratner writes via Interesting Engineering: Theoretical inventions known as the “UFO patents” have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the American engineer Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, the patents were filed during his work for the U.S. …
‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Russell T. Davies To Return For Next Season
spaceman375 shares a report from the BBC: Screenwriter Russell T Davies is to take charge again of Doctor Who, the sci-fi show he helped revive in 2005. Davies, who was the fantasy drama’s showrunner until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall depar…
Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For a Utility Company
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bitcoin’s massive power consumption is the cryptocurrency’s dirty secret. To mine bitcoin, computers across the globe chew through enough electricity to power a medium size country, somewhere on th…
Chinese Scientists Synthesized Starch From Carbon Dioxide
AltMachine shares a report from Phys.Org: Chinese scientists recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. Relevant results were published in Science on Sept. 24. The new route makes it …
Microsoft Rushes To Register Autodiscover Domains Leaking Credentials
Microsoft is rushing to register Internet domains used to steal Windows credentials sent from faulty implementations of the Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol. BleepingComputer reports: On Monday, Guardicore’s Amit Serper released new research ab…
Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: For the past 10 years, Sonia Grego has been thinking about toilets — and more specifically what we deposit into them. “We are laser-focused on the analysis of stool,” says the Duke University rese…
Facebook Will Open Its Fiber Networks To Expand Broadband Access In Rural Virginia
Facebook announced a new project on Thursday that will bring broadband service to thousands of households in Virginia this fall, in partnership with a local ISP and utility company. The Verge reports: The project began with fiber networks Facebook was …
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou To Be Released After Agreement With US In Wire Fraud Case
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech firm Huawei will be released and allowed to return to China after reaching an agreement with the U.S. government on fraud charges, prosecutors said Friday in a Brooklyn federal court. CNBC reports: A U.S. dis…