Former Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe is joining Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy team
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to give away virtually all of their wealth. Now they're taking steps to ensure that the issues they invest in — curing diseases and pushing for more personalized learning, among others — won't hit ...>> view originalStudy suggests Earth once had many moonlets — until they merged to form the moon
This narrow-angle image taken by NASA's Cassini shows the moon in August 1999. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) The moon is the most obvious and familiar object in Earth's night sky — constant, consistent, predictable in its monthly cycles and its daily rising and setting. Astronomers understand the moon's movements so thoroughly that even a break from the routine, like an eclipse, can be anticipated 1,000 years in advance. But we don't know the moon as well as we think. In fact, for years..>> view originalSamsung leader named a suspect in South Korea political probe
SEOUL A South Korean special prosecutor's office will question Samsung Group [SAGR.UL] leader Jay Y. Lee as a suspect in a widening influence-peddling scandal that may force President Park Geun-hye from office.Prosecutors have been looking into whether Samsung payments of about 30 billion won ($25 million) for a business and foundations backed by Park's friend, Choi Soon-sil, were connected to a 2015 decision by the national pension fund to back a controversial merger of two group affiliates. ..>> view originalSpying on Our Stellar Neighbors: New Strides Made in Alpha Centauri Planet Hunt
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Earth's lonely sun is an outlier: most of the nearest sun-like stars have a stellar buddy or two in orbit with them. And researchers are getting closer to probing those complicated systems to directly image their planets. At last winter's meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Space.com reported on a talk by Ruslan Belikov, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, about how to complete a seemingly impossible task: using a deformable mirror ..>> view originalSonos CEO resigns amid high competition
Sonos makes smart speakers, like this Play:5.Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET John MacFarlane, CEO and co-founder of smart speaker company Sonos, said Tuesday he's stepping down. MacFarlane led the company for 15 years but faced increased competition from companies like Google and Amazon over the past couple of years."There are no typical transitions of leadership, especially for founder-led companies where the strength l..>> view originalGaming Community ESEA Hacked, 1.5 Million User Accounts Leak Online
More than 1.5 million usernames and passwords from popular competitive gaming community ESEA have leaked online following an attempted ransom by a hacker who managed to steal the data from the website.According to a statement from ESEA, leaked account information includes usernames, email addresses, passwords, security question answers and forum posts. It also, more troublingly, includes private and personally identifying information like private messages, IP addresses and phone numbers.The si..>> view originalNew Video Pits iPhone Click Wheel Prototype Against Scott Forstall's Icon-Based iPhone Prototype
Like you know them so well eh? Forstall was a motor mouth who thought he was as important as Jobs or Ives. One can see his arrogance during his presentations. This is based purely on his stage presence, I don't think anyone here can say what he was like behind the public eye, but I reckon he was a royal pain in the ass. For the record, Forstall was more important than Ives. Ives developed industrial design cases that met Steve's ideals. He didn't introduce cases and Steve went, ``that's perfect..>> view originalThe guy who created one of Apple's most beloved technologies is leaving Apple
Chris Lattner, the inventor of Apple's relatively new programming language called Swift, is leaving Apple, he announced on the Swift mailing list on Tuesday as spotted by MacStories' John Voorhees. Lattner didn't at first give a reason for his exit, simply saying he would leave later this month "to pursue an opportunity in another space." However, Tesla later announced via a blog post that Lattner was joining Tesla as its Vice President of Autopilot Software. (He's replacing Jinnah Hosein, Spa..>> view originalAirlines can stop warning passengers about the Galaxy Note 7 before boarding
The Department of Transportation has lifted a requirement that airlines notify passengers that the recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a prohibited flight risk, according to a press release from the Federal Aviation Administration. The phone remains ...>> view originalAn asteroid had a semi-close encounter with Earth
A previously undetected asteroid that could rival the size of a mid-sized Boston office building passed by Earth this week in a close shave that brought the object within half the distance of the moon. The space rock — with the catchy name 2017 AG13 — was likely somewhere between 36 feet and 115 feet across, a relatively small size that makes asteroids difficult to detect when they are far away from Earth but could be very dangerous if they broke up or hit the ground near a city. Advertisement..>> view original
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
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