Missing MH370 pilot conducted suicide flight simulations over Indian Ocean

Last week, we covered how the search for Malaysia Flight MH370 is set to end in the near future, as the last of the 46,300 square-mile search area is due to be mapped shortly. With less than 10% of the search area left still to examine, the chances of finding the plane within its boundaries is very small....

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The Human Connectome Project zeroes in on the firmware of the brain

Is the mind an emergent property of the brain, or is it something… else? Cartesian dualism is a polarizing topic, but like many other ideas that we thought were the province of philosophers, we’re getting light shed on it from a surprising source. Researchers...

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TECNO Camon C9 Eye Scanner, Overrated or Not?

  Upon the release of the Camon C9, a lot of people thought the Camon C8 was the best camera phone, nonetheless, they felt the next phone in the Camon series will be better than the former. What’s peculiarly interesting about the device is the eye scanner feature. Ideally, you need a backup passcode if you are to unlock your phone when there’s blackout. Most people use their phones in...

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Multiple Galaxy Note 7 snapshots leak ahead of Samsung announcement

The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 was a fine device, though fans of the Note series were irked by the smallish battery and lack of expandable memory. Samsung didn’t even give the Note 5 a full release in Europe, leading many to question its commitment to the stylus-packing phablet form factor. Rumors...

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Five Easy Ways To Save Your [Mobile & Computer] Data

  Things you should do right now to conserve your data. Worry less about exceeding your data limit by following these five simple tips for Android users: 1. Reduce the data used by your Android mobile device or computer by turning on Chrome Data Saver Mode. From compressing web pages to removing images when loading a page on a slow connection, you’re able to save up to 70% more data. 2....

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Crypto-heist threatens to tank blockchain-based future

The DAO stands for the “Distributed Autonomous Organization,” and while that could very well refer to anything from a blockchain car-share app to a hive of honey bees, this rather boring title stands for something truly remarkable: the first unmanned investment...

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FBI, cybersecurity experts investigating potential Russian ties to DNC email leak

On Friday, WikiLeaks posted a trove of 20,000 emails procured in a hack of the Democratic National Committee. Today, the FBI announced that it was investigating the hack and the circumstances surrounding it. The hack was first reported last month, by the Washington Post, which said hackers affiliated...

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Paypal Ranks Nigeria 3rd In Mobile Shopping

PayPal Holding, Inc. ranked the most populous black nation and the largest African economy Nigeria as the 3rd highest mobile shopper worldwide. The online payment giant is the most popular medium among Nigerian cross-border shoppers, and estimated 55 percent of all oversea online purchases in the past 12 months were done via PayPal. Nigerian mobile shoppers reportedly spent N128.1 billion...

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Samsung Just Killed The Micro Sd Card And This Is What Will Replace It

Samsung and SanDisk are looking to one-up each other when it comes to expandable memory for smartphones and any other device that supports a microSD card. SanDisk made a 200GB card last year that is quite affordable, and then Samsung came up with a 256GB model. A few weeks ago, SanDisk matched Samsung’s 256GB card with two new microSD options of its own , both more affordable than Samsung’s...

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Moore’s law scaling dead by 2021, to be replaced by 3D integration

Over the past few years, we’ve chronicled the transformation of Moore’s Law. Originally coined as a way to explain ongoing improvements in transistor scaling, Moore’s law has been redefined and extended to include long-term trends in semiconductor...

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Japan’s SoftBank offers ARM a $32 billion buyout

UK-based ARM Holdings has dominated the cell phone industry for decades, with an estimated 50 billion ARM processors built by the year 2014. Now the company has been acquired by Japan’s SoftBank in a deal worth $32 billion (£24.3 billion). ARM will retain...

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Hackers claim DDoS knocked Pokémon GO offline last weekend

Pokémon GO has been an unbridled success since it launched about two weeks ago, and that comes amid sometimes crippling server issues. Developer Niantic was forced to slow its global rollout so it could add server capacity, and there are still some days...

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SpaceX sends major science payload to the ISS

SpaceX has now made five successful rocket landings. As part of the ninth Commercial Resupply Services flight, the SpaceX team recovered a booster from a successful launch Monday — the second stage touched down, in accordance with the mission...

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Microsoft will give you a new laptop if it can’t upgrade your system to Windows 10

    There’s less than two weeks before Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 10 expires and the company is pulling out all the stops to encourage people to update. The company’s latest offer is that they’ll give you a free Inspiron 15 laptop from Dell if they can’t update your laptop...

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HoloLens developers create Pokémon Go mockup for Microsoft’s augmented reality headset

When Pokémon Go launched last week, we theorized that Microsoft’s HoloLens could be a huge platform for the game. While HoloLens’ high price makes any kind of official port extremely unlikely, that hasn’t stopped HoloLens developers from creating mock-ups...

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Nvidia’s GTX 1060 GPU: Fast, cool, and potent competition for AMD’s RX 480

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Neuroscientists just isolated the part of the brain that controls free will

Free will might have been the province of philosophers until now, but we’ve cracked the problem with an fMRI. Neuroscientists from Johns Hopkins report in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics that they were able to see both what happens...

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