Commentary: KPLU’s proposed acquisition by KUOW puts a global online audience at risk
The clock is ticking in the campaign to save a beloved media institution based in the Seattle area. With 24-hour jazz and exclusive in-studio artist sessions (plus quirky promos and lively personalities), this unique combination of sounds ends if the non-profit “Save...
Where Woz meets Shatner: Silicon Valley Comic Con puts the science in science fiction
SAN JOSE, Calif. — At one point during an...
NASA puts Pluto and its heart on a valentine
Say it with Pluto? After NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spotted a heart-shaped region on Pluto, you had to know it was just a matter of time before the dwarf planet made its appearance on a valentine. Sure enough, this year’s crop of printable Valentine’s Day cards...
President Obama’s new ‘Computer Science For All’ plan puts $4B toward tech education in schools
A new program called “Computer Science For All,” announced today by President Obama, proposes more than $ 4 billion in funding for schools to boost computer science education across the United States. The program, part of a broader push to recognize computer science as a...
Bug in Magento puts millions of e-commerce sites at risk of takeover
Millions of online merchants are at risk of hijacking attacks made possible by a just-patched vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform.
The stored cross-site scripting (XSS) bug is present in virtually all versions of Magento Community Edition and Enterprise Edition prior to 1.9.2.3 and 1.14.2.3, respectively, according to researchers from Sucuri, the website security firm that discovered and privately reported the vulnerability. It allows attackers...
Meet the biologist who puts the scientific truth out there in ‘The X-Files’
If the truth is out there in this year’s reboot of “The X-Files,” microbiologist Anne Simon helped put it there. Simon, a researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been a science adviser to “X-Files” creator...
Electric vehicle puts in solid performance in the world’s toughest rally
Norwegian high school puts e-sports and gaming on the timetable
Most of us have tried to sneak a quick game of Minesweeper in during our computer classes at school, but for students at Garnes High School in Norway, playing games won't be something they'll have to hide. Garnes Vidaregåande Skole, a public high school in the city of Bergen, Norway, is to start teaching e-sports to its students starting in August. The elective class...
Xiaomi puts a 4100 mAh battery in the $105 Redmi 3 budget smartphone
As 2016 begins, Xiaomi continues to make budget devices with features and materials that you wouldn't usually think of as "budget." The company announced its newest low-cost smartphone, the Redmi 3, which looks even more like an iPhone than other Xiaomi phones thanks to an all-metal body and an impressive battery bump.
While the Redmi Note 2 has colorful, plastic back...