You No Longer Need a Facebook Account to Use Facebook Messenger
You no longer need a Facebook account to use Facebook Messenger, the company’s standalone messaging app. Instead, all you need is a phone number. You can connect the app to the contact list on your phone versus your Facebook’s friends list in order to find and message your friends.
June 24, 2015 at 03:16PM
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Samsung silently disabling Windows Update on some computers
Microsoft MVP Patrick Barker, who spends a large portion of his life analyzing, debugging, and helping other people troubleshoot Windows, has discovered that Samsung is actively disabling Windows Update on some of its PCs.
June 24, 2015 at 12:25PM
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Robots Won’t Be Taking These Military Jobs Anytime Soon
A chief Air Force scientist says that there’s no way to automate drone-based intelligence collection without a major technological breakthrough.
June 24, 2015 at 11:23AM
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A Visit to the Le Creuset Factory
The original foundry was started in 1925 in the North of France, in Fresnoy-le-Grand, and is still making cookware today the same way they’ve been doing it for nearly a hundred years. The factory isn’t open to the public, because it’s an actual working foundry and isn’t set up for visitors.
June 24, 2015 at 08:59AM
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Tell It About Your Mother
Can brain-scanning help save Freudian psychoanalysis?
June 24, 2015 at 08:59AM
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How to Unsend Emails in Gmail
Plagued by Sender’s Remorse? Google’s finally releasing its fix to (one of) your most serious email woes. “Undo Send” is finally available for Gmail.
June 24, 2015 at 06:50AM
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How NASA Broke The Gender Barrier In STEM
The notorious lack of women in leadership roles in STEM seems to run rampant everywhere — everywhere except NASA, an administration that not only puts women at the helm, but continually gives them a platform to drive the larger conversation around the need for more women in the sciences. Their next frontier is big data.
June 24, 2015 at 06:18AM
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Using Algorithms to Hire More Diverse Employees
Humans are biased decision makers. One well-known and troubling example of this is the tendency for interviewers to hire candidates who remind them of themselves, resulting in workplace homogeneity. Some recruiters are hoping that software can somehow compensate for human failings.
June 24, 2015 at 05:15AM
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Pentagon Creating Space-War Center To Counter Russia, China
The Pentagon and intelligence community are developing war plans and an operations center to fend off Chinese and Russian attacks on U.S. military and government satellites.
June 24, 2015 at 04:12AM
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This Huge Wind Turbine Floating on Water Is Fukushima’s Energy Solution
The turbine, completed Monday, will generate up to 7 megawatts of electricity, making it Japan’s most powerful wind turbine, and the most powerful floating turbine in the world. That’s good news for Japan, a country that’s shut down nuclear power plants in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent meltdown.
June 24, 2015 at 03:12AM
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