SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft executives are scheduled to take the stage here starting at 8:30 a.m. today, addressing a sold-out crowd at the company’s annual Build developer conference.
On the agenda: Windows 10, HoloLens, Windows Server, Microsoft Azure, lots of developer tools, and potentially...
While smartphone navigation apps are great for learning how to get to new places, they’ve never been that smart about leading you along familiar routes.
But if things are jammed up along your usual route, it can be helpful...
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While figuring out whether the leftovers in your fridge have gone bad or not, the sniff-test just doesn’t cut it. But unfortunately, there are virtually no consumer-based tests to assure you that your food hasn’t turned, which is a huge public health problem. Each year, around 50 million Americans get food poisoning, and...
The spectacular eruption of Alaska’s Mount Pavlof...
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The US government isn't saying whether it will divulge to Apple the method it used to access the locked iPhone seized by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The iPhone has been at the center of a bitter dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But that legal battle—in which a...
The earliest dynamic and thermal history of the Moon is not well understood. The hydrogen content of deposits near the lunar poles may yield insight into this history, because these deposits (which are probably composed of water ice) survive only if they remain in permanent shadow. If the orientation of the Moon has changed, then the locations of the shadowed regions will also have...
On Wednesday night there was a break in at Comics Plus, a comic book shop in Macon, GA. According to WMAZ, a local news outlet, the bandit or bandits used a crowbar to pry open the door and then disabled the alarm system by cutting out the wires and ripping it off the wall.
While the robbers made off with a safe containing $ ...
Remember the Concorde? Boom Technology has picked up a high-profile set of allies in its quest to revive supersonic passenger jets: British...
Elements heavier than zinc are synthesized through the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron-capture processes. The main site of production of the r-process elements (such as europium) has been debated for nearly 60 years. Initial studies of trends in chemical abundances in old Milky Way halo stars suggested that these elements are produced continually, in sites such as core-collapse supernovae. But evidence from the...
Some of France’s most popular publications are taking a tough new stance against ad blockers, the name given to software that strips advertisements out of web pages.
Geste, a trade group representing these...
