Weird Facebook bug sees old chat messages pop up for users
A strange Facebook problem has seen users confronted with the past. People have reported a weird bug where old chat messages, some from years ago, are...
Watch the electrifying moment InSight lands on Mars from mission control
NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Monday, and there’s no better place to relive the nail-biting moment than from inside mission control at NASA’s Jet...
On the road to Go 2: Officially starting the Go 2 proposal evaluation process
In 2015, Go introduced a proposal process for any language or library changes. Anything that didn’t follow Go’s backwards compatibility promise got labelled as “for Go...
Lyft’s L7 proxy rides on: Envoy is the third CNCF project to graduate
First, there was Kubernetes. Then, Prometheus joined the stage. Now, welcome the third Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project to graduate. The Envoy proxy flips its...
Flixtor Promises to Return More Resilient and Better than Ever
Last Tuesday Flixtor became unreachable after its domain nameservers were updated. Initially, the domain name’s A records were removed, and later they were set to localhost,...
Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends list
No one wants to post silly, racy, or vulnerable Stories if they’re worried their boss, parents, and distant acquaintances are watching. So to get people sharing...
Developers must consider privacy for the entire product lifecycle
Competing with so many complex functionalities and design requirements in today’s sophisticated applications means security and privacy are sometimes afterthoughts in product development. However, due to...
Researchers use AI and 3D printing to recreate paintings from photographs
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created a system that can reproduce paintings from a single photo, allowing museums and art lovers...
Language learning app Babbel sold 1M US subscriptions this year, moves into language travel
In the world of online language learning, there are basically two heavyweights: Duolingo and Babbel. Duolingo is betting on a freemium model and a strong focus...
Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled to pay SEC fines for flogging garbage ICOs
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled have agreed to “pay disgorgement, penalties and interest” for failing to disclose promotional payments from three ICOs including Centra Tech....
