Trailer for The Girl with All the Gifts
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Over last 6 months, FBI looked at 4,000 devices, couldn’t unlock about 500
James Comey (right) is the director of the FBI.
The head of the FBI said Wednesday that the government will bring more legal cases over encryption issues in the near future, according to Reuters.
Speaking with reporters at FBI headquarters in Washington, FBI Director James Comey specifically said that end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is affecting the...
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Starbucks mobile order-ahead usage doubles from last year, now up to 8M transactions per month
Starbucks said today that usage of its mobile order-ahead feature doubled year-over-year during the most recent quarter.
The company’s Mobile Order...
Pharma’s drug hikes doubled average cost of prescriptions in last decade
(credit: Eric Hunsaker)
Trips to the pharmacy are getting more and more expensive. From 2006 to 2013, the average retail cost of a year’s supply of 622 common prescriptions doubled—from about $ 5,500 to more than $ 11,000—according to a new report from AARP, a senior citizen advocacy group.
The rising costs are likely to...
Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second
A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm...
Covariation of deep Southern Ocean oxygenation and atmospheric CO2 through the last ice age
No single mechanism can account for the full amplitude of past atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration variability over glacial–interglacial cycles. A build-up of carbon in the deep ocean has been shown to have occurred during the Last Glacial Maximum. However, the mechanisms responsible for the release of the deeply sequestered carbon to the atmosphere at deglaciation, and the relative importance of deep ocean sequestration...
Huge demand for $50 Fire tablet vaults Amazon to 3rd, behind Apple and Samsung — but it won’t last
Amazon’s tablet business grew at a faster rate than any other vendor in the critical holiday quarter, shipping 5.2 million units and posting year-over-year growth of more than 175 percent, according to...
Schizophrenia: From genetics to physiology at last
The identification of a set of genetic variations that are strongly associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia provides insights into the neurobiology of this destructive disease.
Nature doi: 10.1038/nature16874
GeekWire Deals: Last chance to grab this simple timelapse-creation software
Timelapse photography illuminates all kinds of interesting patterns you probably miss every day. And while smartphone apps have made it easy to create some timelapses on the fly, those looking to step up their game may want more control than what a smartphone can offer. With today’s...
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