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Zestimiss: Why did CEO Spencer Rascoff’s home sell for 40% less than Zillow estimate of $1.75M?
Home owners across the country love to debate whether their Zestimates are...
Frontier: Fewer than 30,000 customers lost service in Verizon transition
"Less than one percent" of Verizon customers who were switched over to Frontier Communications suffered service outages after the transition, according to Frontier.
But with more than 3 million customers being forced to switch providers, that could put the total number of customers who suffered outages at nearly 30,000. What isn't clear is how many people still lack service.
Frontier closed its acquisition of Verizon's FiOS and DSL...
Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 revealed: Faster than Titan X at half the price
AUSTIN, Texas—After numerous rumours and a supposed "several billion dollars" spent on R&D, Nvidia's first consumer graphics cards based on its Pascal architecture are here: the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. The GTX 1080 will retail for $ 599 (~£450), $ 50 more than the GTX 980 cost at launch, while the GTX...
The leap second: Because our clocks are more accurate than the Earth
(credit: Toni Verdú Carbó)
We've recently been treated to that extra day in February that reminds us that 2016 is a leap year. Introduced by Julius Caesar, the leap day is necessary because the orbital year is not exactly equal to the 365 days of our calendar year. Without the adjustment, this year’s spring-like Christmas would...
More than half of South Lake Union tech workers live outside of Seattle, Zillow finds
Mounting data suggest antibacterial soaps do more harm than good
(credit: UGA)
Whether you’re coming home from an airport fluttering with international germs, a daycare full of sticky-fingered toddlers, or just a grimy office building, scrubbing your hands with bacteria-busting soap seems like a great idea. But the data that have washed up on the cleansers in recent years suggest that they actually do more harm...
It takes more than one type of neuron to form a memory
The rat hippocampus. (credit: National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
Memories allow us to record and store information, a central feature of our lives. Since the groundbreaking case of HM, a patient who lost the majority his hippocampus, we’ve known that this brain structure is central to forming long-term episodic memories. But we’re still unsure...
GeekWire Deals: This super-small computer packs plenty of ports for less than $40
The Internet of Things is all about putting connected sensors everywhere.
However, those sensors often need to connect to the cloud to do anything useful because they lack the power to run real software. Today’s GeekWire Deals offer packs a Linux-running computer into a compact cube, bringing some more...
More than $200,000 in vintage comics stolen from Macon, GA comic book shop
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 $ ...