Katherine the White Shark crashes research site’s servers
Like the real star of the movie Jaws, another White Shark has taken on celebrity status along with dozens of others tagged with electronic tracking devices - so much so that visitors to a research site are crashing its servers.The celebrity's name is Katherine, a 14-foot,...
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Amazon seeks US exemption to test delivery drones
Amazon.com has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration permission to test drones outdoors for use in its Prime Air package delivery service.In the run up to launching the service, which aims to deliver packages in 30 minutes or less, the...
Unicode update lets you say ‘spider,’ ‘dark glasses’ in pictures
Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to...
Dropbox learns Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai in international expansion
Dropbox launched Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai versions of its application and clients, as the company seeks to grow the...
Will full encryption sideline Google’s targeted ads?
Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business—and of many other online firms. But what...
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Alibaba shares open at a high $92.70
In their first day of trading, shares of Alibaba stock opened at US$92.70 on...
