By MIKE ISAAC and SYDNEY EMBER
A change in the social network’s algorithm is meant to identify misleading headlines on news stories and rank them lower, to keep users coming back.
Published: August 4, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By QUENTIN HARDY
Snooping on you to sell you stuff is so 2015. Now we willingly turn ourselves into advertisements.
Published: August 4, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By NICOLE PERLROTH
Apple, which has been criticized for not paying outside hackers who point out bugs, says it will pay as much as $200,000 to people who flag critical vulnerabilities.
Published: August 4, 2016 at 07:00PM
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Ahora hay un negocio en el exterminio de Pokémon.
Argumentando la preocupación de que los jugadores de Pokémon GO entren a terrenos privados y caminen cerca de equipos eléctricos, empresas de electricidad de Florida contrataron a la compañía de ciberseguridad LookingGlass para sacar a los pokemones del mapa.
"Ahora tenemos como negocio matar a los Pokémon", dijo el presidente de LookingGlass, Chris Coleman, a CNNMoney este jueves.
Coleman dijo que ocho compañías le han pedido a LookingGlass alterar el código del juego para eliminar a las pequeñas criaturas de las áreas restringidas. Su equipo de programadores luego envía sugerencias a Niantic Labs, el fabricante del juego.
Departamentos de policía a lo largo de EU han emitido advertencias a los jugadores de Pokémon Go para que dejen de entrar a propiedades de negocios, del gobierno o de instituciones religiosas. Pero nadie hasta ahora ha determinado erradicar los pokemones de sus propiedades.
El muy popular juego de smartphones les instruye a los jugadores explorar sus alrededores para recolectar los pokemones, y luego proyecta imágenes digitales de las tiernas criaturas en el mundo real.
La unión del mundo físico y el digital ha causado incidentes incómodos.
Un adolescente en Wyoming se tropezó con un cadáver en un río mientras jugaba. Dos hombres cayeron de un acantilado cuando intentaban agarrar un Pokémon al no despegar sus ojos de las pantallas. Otro jugador chocó contra un auto de policía debido a que estaba jugando mientras conducía.
Esto no le está impidiendo a la gente jugar la app, que ya ha roto récords de popularidad.
Coleman dijo que su empresa de ciberseguridad está en una posición única para ayudar a eliminar los pokemones debido a que es amigo de un miembro de la junta directiva de Niantic: Gilman Louie.
Louie es conocido en los círculos de ciberseguridad debido a que fue el primer presidente de In-Q-Tel, la firma de capital de riesgo de la CIA que la agencia de inteligencia usa para invertir en tecnología de vanguardia.
Niantic no respondió a una solicitud de declaración.
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The OLED option your wallet’s been waiting for
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There’s no denying that a few innovators rise above the rest.
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At SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim last week I had the unique opportunity to try Hewlett-Packard’s HP Omen X VR backpack. This is in addition to trying out the Zotac VR backpack at Computex in June and seeing Dell’s Alienware VR backpack at E3. Other companies like MSI also have VR backpacks, but these backpacks vary wildly in terms of size and weight. Some are modified SFF PCs while others are repurposed laptop components built into a VR backpack. What was made abundantly clear with all of these VR backpacks was that they are all prototypes and not anywhere near the finished product. But I will admit that the HP Omen X VR backpack PC had me fooled, because it looked like and felt like a finished product, even if it wasn’t.
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Take a gander at Netflix’s new original series, watch the amazing new ‘Little Prince’ or see an entire suite of shows designed to relax you.
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An entrepreneur shares tips on starting an escape room business
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Applied Materials‘ stock price has surged by approximately 45% in 2016, outperforming the 13% gain posted by the PHLX Semiconductor Index (the so-called SOX) during the same period. The strong rally in Applied’s stock is despite a forecast of a 2% decline in the capital equipment spending by Gartner. We attribute the surge in Applied’s stock to the following factors:
Strong growth expected in the near term: The company is expected to experience strong growth in the coming quarters as its key customers — Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor and Intel — are expected to ramp up their capital expenditure in the current fiscal year. Because of this, Applied should witness higher orders and revenues.
Major technology inflections expected soon: As major technology inflections such as the transitions to 3D NAND memory and 10-nanometer process technologies come into play, competition is expected to intensify among the top semiconductor manufacturers. In an effort to maintain their market share, semiconductor manufacturers will have to increase their capital spending to advance their manufacturing capacity to implement the latest technologies. The following factors point out the same:
Both Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor are allocating significant investments towards developing 10nm manufacturing facilities in 2016. Samsung is likely pursuing an aggressive strategy to get more semiconductor orders to offset the slowdown in its smartphone business.
Intel and Micron together have beefed up their efforts to start the mass production of 3D-NAND flash products. Their production capacity is expected to increase significantly with the start of Dalian plant in China.
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