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Android 101: How to stop location tracking
Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the near restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue. Do you want all your wanderings registered by Google? Are you comfortable knowing that Mark Zuckerberg’s minions know where…
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Harvard and Sony built a tiny surgery robot inspired by origami
Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Sony have created a surgical robot that’s much smaller than many other such devices. They took inspiration from origami to build the mini-RCM, which is around the size of a tennis ball and weighs about th… Source
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Fortnite Battle Arena is a new multiplayer map courtesy of AMD AMD
AMD has released a brand new Fortnite Creative Islands multiplayer map, the AMD Battle Arena, to “celebrate the future of AMD gaming”. Developed in collaboration with Fortnite Creative Island modder MAKAMAKES, the AMD Battle Arena offers Fortnite’s 350 million gamers three different game modes: Boxfight, Capture the Flag and Free for All.…
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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps gets another assignment to the space station after canceled trip
Two years after being unexpectedly pulled from a flight to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is now assigned to a new mission to the ISS. Rather than flying on the Russian Soyuz rocket as first planned, Epps will join the first operational crew of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner,…
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‘Predator: Hunting Grounds’ will let you play as young Arnie
Although you could already play as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s iconic character Dutch in Predator: Hunting Grounds, it was an older version of Major Alan Schaefer to fit with the game’s more modern setting. But for those who’d prefer to adopt the guise o… Source
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Office 365 deploys a clever new technique for dealing with dodgy attachments Application Guard
Malicious attachments are often used by cybercriminals as a means to gain access to an organization’s network which is why Microsoft has developed its Application Guard for Office which is now available in public preview. Application Guard for Office opens files downloaded from untrusted sources in an isolated sandbox in…
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