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Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo

(credit: Yuri Samoilov)

A co-leader on Google's product security team has waved a piece of red meat in front of already frothing privacy advocates by deleting part of a blog post saying he wished the Allo messenger app the company announced Wednesday would provide end-to-end encryption by default.

To critics, the deletion by Thai Duong amounted to tacit...

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Push Me Pull You—and the other modern 4P couch games you should be playing

Last week, one of my favorite video games of the past few years, Push Me Pull You, launched on PlayStation 4 (with a PC/Mac/Linux version "coming soon"). It's not the best game of the year by any stretch, and it may not even be the best multiplayer game that we see this year—but it'll almost surely top my year-end list.

Why? I'm a couch-combat freak....

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Beating graphene to push supercapacitors closer to batteries

(credit: Oak Ridge National Lab)

Most people think of batteries when they consider energy storage, but capacitors are an alternative in some use cases. Capacitors are used in almost all electronic devices, often to supply temporary power when batteries are being changed to prevent loss of information. In addition to everyday devices, they are also used in more...

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