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This full-moon photo gives a preview of what you'll see on the solstice.
NASA/Goddard/Lunar Recoaissance OrbiterJune 20, the longest day of 2016, happens on a Monday, which already feels like the longest day of the week. There's an extra special astronomical occurrence to go along with the summer solstice for the Northe Hemisphere this year. We're also getting a strawberry moon.
The name "strawberry moon" might lead you to envision a glowing red apocalyptic disk in the night sky, but NASA says it's actually named for strawberry-picking season and is sometimes known as a "rose moon" in Europe. This is the first time we've had a full moon on the June solstice since way back in 1967, so that should add some extra flair to your druidic celebrations.
We see the moon almost every clear night, but our lunar friend is still an object of fascination. Earlier this year, a rumor of a green moon spread around the inteet, but it was entirely fictional. Astrophotographers are tuing out some stuing images of our natural satellite, including this shot of the ISS in front of a full moon. Monday's strawberry moon could be a nice photo op for space fans looking to mark the rare occasion.
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: دوشنبه 31 خرداد 1395 ساعت: 23:09
Sansa Stark has been through a lot.
HBOCaution: so many spoilers ahead.
Until Sunday night's "Battle of the Bastards" episode of "Game of Thrones," whiny boy-king Joffrey Baratheon's blubbering death by poison was the most satisfying departure on the series. Then someone let the dogs out. Monday, the social-media world seems downright celebratory about the timely death of Ramsay Bolton.
The main story arc follows Stark bastard Jon Snow as his army faces off against bastard Ramsay Bolton and his icky flayed-man baers in a fight to regain the Stark home of Winterfell. You can nearly smell the stench of bodies, fear and blood during the tense battle scenes. But what we were really waiting for was the ultimate answer as to which bastard survives: Snow or Bolton.
It wasn't surprising Bolton ends up dead, but the way his passing is delivered is one of the most stomach-tuing and visceral moments ever delivered by a show that already revels in beheadings and blood spurts. It's not Jon Snow who ultimately presides over his exit. It's Snow's sister Sansa Stark, the woman who was wed to Bolton and horrifyingly mistreated by him.
Twitter users are especially vocal about the satisfaction they feel after Ramsay's face was graphically chewed off by his own hungry dogs as Sansa Stark watched. You see phrases like "nice," "poetic justice," "won't be missed" and "most satisfying scene ever."
What is it about a television character getting chewed on by large dogs that makes so many people so happy? Here's a quick reminder as to why Ramsay Bolton was the most hated man in Westeros: He raped Sansa. He stabbed his father. He murdered his half-brother. He castrated Theon Greyjoy. He killed young Rickon Stark with an arrow. His favorite hobby was feeding people to his starving dogs. And that's just part of his rap sheet.
"Game of Thrones" never shies away from taking beloved characters away from us. (We miss you, Hodor!) But George R.R. Martin and the TV series writers don't just taketh away, sometimes they give back. Ramsay's horrifying death is a gift to the fans, but it's also a gift to Sansa's character. She wears a hint of a smile as she walks away from her torturer's screams. What this means for her development remains to be seen, but this unblinking woman is a far cry from the flighty child we first met way back in season 1.
Now that Ramsay is not-so-dearly departed, fans will need to look elsewhere for the next great villain. Will it be the High Sparrow? The Night King? They're both plenty scary, but it will be hard to top the sheer hatred viewers had for Ramsay Bolton and the muddled mixture of relief, satisfaction and disgust we felt at his death.
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Users of Citrix's GoToMyPC are the latest victims of an online password hack.
CNETThose of you who use Citrix's GoToMyPC are going to have to reset your passwords.
The service, which lets users remotely access PCs over the Inteet, was hit by a "very sophisticated password attack," Citrix said Sunday in a blog post. The company didn't provide details but advised users to reset their passwords using the "forgot password" link.
Cyberattacks against websites have jumped in recent years as hackers find new ways to exploit security flaws. Hackers often sell stolen customer credentials on the black market. Users typically are prompted to reset their passwords but still have to worry about their personal information winding up in the wrong hands.
To reset your GoToMyPC password, go to the site and click on the Log In link.
You may also want to enable two-step verification, a process that sends a code to your phone each time you want to sign in. If you've used the same password for GoToMyPC at other websites or for other accounts, you should change it at those places as well.
Citrix didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A new feature inside of the Fitbit app looks to help improve the sleep habits of millions of Fitbit owners. While a majority of the company's products already offer sleep tracking and let users create custom sleep goals, a new Sleep Schedule will now allow for even more control.
The new feature, which will arrive today as part of an update to the Fitbit app, adds bedtime and wakeup targets to help establish consistency and bedtime reminders to push you stay on schedule. Sleep goals have also been revamped and will now be personalized based on your sleep data.
All of this is in addition to existing features, such as viewing how long you've slept, the efficiency of that sleep and how frequently you woke up.
The Sleep Schedule, which Fitbit has said is the first in a series of new sleep features coming to devices, was developed in collaboration sleep experts from the University of Arizona, Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University.
The new features are compatible with all Fitbit devices capable of tracking sleep. That includes the Fitbit Blaze, Alta, Charge HR, Surge, Charge, Flex and One.
The updated Fitbit app will be available today in Apple's App Store and Google Play.
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A lot of people listen to Spotify.
The music streaming service said its user base of active listeners has passed 100 million. The majority of those are "free" users who listen to streams with commercial breaks, but the company also claims the largest paid subscriber base in the music industry, with 30 million paid subscribers.
Although it might be the biggest, Spotify faces stiff competition. Less than a year after launch, Apple Music now has 15 million paid subscribers to go with a newly redesigned app.
Meanwhile Amazon Prime, which offers the Amazon Music service free to all subscribers, could technically have more than both services combined at an estimated 46 million subscribers, although Amazon doesn't officially release those numbers. Google Music doesn't officially provide paid subscriber numbers either.
In the "free" music space Pandora is Spotify's main rival, but growth in its 80-odd million user base has been flat recently.
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See ya, New York, I'm off to Spain
Solar ImpulseThe Solar Impulse 2 soared back into the the air early this moing on the last oceanic hurdle of its global flight, the Atlantic. The pokey but tough solar-powered plane took off from New York's John F. Keedy Inteational Airport at 2:30 a.m. local time and headed toward Seville, Spain, on a trip that should last four days.
Six hours later, Captain Bertrand Piccard guided the plane over Nantucket Island, his last sighting of North America. Not long before that, a tweet showed Piccard having his first breakfast on the Atlantic leg.
The goal of the Solar Impulse 2, which doesn't use fossil fuel or spew pollutants, is to demonstrate the potential of solar technology. The 5,500-pound plane, which travels about 47 miles per hour, is powered by 17,248 solar cells built on the wings. They convert sunlight into electricity to power the four electric engines and propellers.
"This is the first step of green aviation," Andre Borschberg, who alteates pilot duties with Piccard, told CNET during the plane's layover in Silicon Valley seven weeks ago. "Every leg is a challenge because every leg you discover something else."
Seville should be the penultimate stop on Solar Impulse 2's around-the-world flight, which will end in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The record-breaking trip began in March 2015 from Abu Dhabi and proceeded relatively uneventfully until a battery problem forced Piccard to make a nine-month stopover in Hawaii.
Before departing New York, Solar Impulse had spent almost 390 hours in the air while flying 14 legs covering a distance of 18,540 miles (29,837km). You can follow the rest of the flight live online or get regular updates from the Solar Impulse Twitter feed.
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"Independence Day" director Roland Emmerich hopes our civilization won't take any cues from his films when extraterrestrial life makes contact.
"Talk, and don't shoot," he advised in an interview. "And I hope [aliens] will not mind that I portray them badly. Otherwise I have to hide."
Emmerich, whose "Independence Day: Resurgence" hits theaters Thursday, has enjoyed plenty of time to mull over the possibility of a close encounter of the third kind. Twenty years have passed since his 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day" wowed popco-gobbling movie-goers by pushing special effects to their limits, as the flick aihilated landmarks like the White House and the Empire State Building in a 4-minute spectacle of destruction.
In the present day, when computer-generated scenes make it easy to lay waste to entire city blocks, it's a challenge to remember that the cinematic disasters of the original film were stuing. The original "Independence Day" won an Oscar for best visual effects.
"In the first film already when I was writing it, I had scissors in my head because I knew what you can do and you caot do" with the special-effects technology of the day, he said in an interview. "This time around, you don't even have the scissors...because everything is possible."
See more of my interview with Emmerich in the video above.
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Slowly but surely, researchers are stripping away the limitations of 3D printers. Until now, dense and finely-featured objects had been considered off-limits, simply because the computer-aided design (CAD) files required would be enormous and take hours to compute. But new software designed by researchers at MIT's Media Lab circumvents this problem.
Called Cilllia, it uses sliders to allow the users to create surfaces covered in thousands of hairs with a resolution of 50 microns, about the width of a human hair. Unlike CAD, where each hair has to be drawn individually, this process takes just a few minutes.
"[Hair] comes with a challenge that is not on the hardware, but on the software side," said first author Jifei Ou, an MIT graduate student in media arts and sciences, in a statement.
Cilllia uses sliders that allow the user to quickly change the parameters of the hair structure, with a real-time visual representation. The user can adjust height, thickness, profile and angle, as well as the quantity of hair on a structure. The software can even be used to create curved hairs in a spiral patte.
The result is a program that can be easily used to create brush structures in various forms using stereolithography 3D printing. The team made paintbrushes, Velcro-like pads that stick to each other, hair-based actuation, and a furred toy buy that lights up green when you stroke it correctly.
It's the latest advancement in 3D printing, an industry that will be worth just over $20 billion by 2019, according to Canalys.
"The ability to fabricate customized hair-like structures not only expands the library of 3D-printable shapes, but also enables us to design alteative actuator and sensors," the team's paper, presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May, concluded. "3D-printed hair can be used for designing everyday interactive objects."
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Next year is finally now for Cleveland Cavaliers fans.
Long-suffering Ohio basketball fans rejoiced Sunday as their team defeated the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors 93-89. And they did so in a way they couldn't when the franchise was founded 52 years ago: social media.
In a blizzard of tweets, diehards, like Patrick Ward, celebrated the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat Game 7 thriller. Ward lost his mind tweeting in the moments after LeBron James & Co. battled back to become the first NBA team facing a 3-1 deficit to win a NBA title:
"Cleveland, this is for you!," said Finals MVP James. "Our fans deserve it. They deserve it. I came back to our city to bring a championship."
The Cavs' improbable feat brought Cleveland its first pro sports championship since 1964, when the Cleveland Browns won the NFL title. Browns' great Jim Brown -- arguably the greatest football player ever -- was elegant in celebrating the end of the drought:
Meanwhile, the Warriors, who won an all-time NBA record 73 games during the regular season, also became the first NBA team to blow a commanding 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals.
"It's not a good feeling," NBA MVP and Warriors sharpshooter Steph Curry said postgame. "This isn't the last time you'll see us on this stage."
Maybe not, but that doesn't matter to "Mr. Cavalier" Austin Carr, the Cavs legend and TV color commentator, who cried on-air when James left for the Miami Heat six years ago. He joyously tweeted:
Cleveland should enjoy the celebration, because the next big event in town, the Republican National Convention, could prove to be a rumble. The convention, where Donald Trump will likely be named the party's presidential nominee, opens on July 18.
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Weher von Braun standing next to five Rocketdyne F-1 engines og the Satu V first stage.
NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterThe Satu V rocket was a remarkable achievement of human engineering. The man-rated rocket carried every Apollo mission into space, and won the Space Race for America.
It was also based on Nazi technology.
Weher von Braun was an aerospace engineer and member of the Nazi Party during World War II. As the chief engineer of the Third Reich, he created a long-range ballistic missile called the V-2 rocket.
June 20 is a key date in his story, popping up twice. The first time was June 20, 1944, when the V-2 rocket became the first man-made object to cross the Kármán line, which lies 100 kilometres above Earth's sea level. On that day, it reached a jaw-dropping altitude of 189 kilometres.
From September 1944, over 3,000 V-2 rockets were launched, killing 2,754 civilians and around 4,500 military persoel. But this doesn't even scratch the human cost of actually producing the rockets - they were constructed by concentration camp prisoners at the underground Mittelwork factory, and at least 13,000 (and as many as twice that number) of these slave workers were killed by beatings, starvation and execution.
In 1943, Von Braun attained the rank of SS-Sturmbaführer (Major), and had found himself atop a US-Army list of scientists to be captured and interrogated.
This plan was changed when the war was winding down, and the US realised it could use Germany's scientists and engineers. Operation Paperclip, as it came to be known, was a secret program of recruitment, spiriting the top scientists out of Germany and into the US. This would boost American expertise, and keep that expertise from the Soviet Union and the UK.
This brings us to the second June 20, this time in 1945. It's the day the transfer of von Braun and his team was approved by the US Army. He and Arthur Rudolph, operations director at the Mittelwerk factory where so many died, went on to develop the Satu V rocket, based on the work they had done on the V-2 ballistic missile.
In 1960, von Braun became the first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. An official NASA webpage declares him to be, "without a doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history."
But it's worth remembering that these achievements came at a great cost of human lives, most of whom simply disappeared, remembered only as statistics.
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Starting today, music streaming service Spotify is offering a dedicated Pride category called #PressPlayForPride.
The category will bring together curated playlists with personal commentary from LGBTQ artists and advocates across a wide range of music genres. There are over 975,000 Pride and LGBTQ themed playlists on Spotify, the company says.
The playlists will come from a variety of public figures, including actor Alan Cumming, music duo Tegan and Sarah, Conchita Wurst and many more.
You can access #PressPlayForPride on Spotify's main browse page, in the exclusive Pride category under the Browse menu and at Spotify.com/pride.
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In honor of Father's Day, I wanted to salute -- by which I mean, judge -- some father figures I've spent a lot of time with lately, Barry's three dads on "The Flash."
Editors' note: "The Flash" is on The CW, which is part of the CBSi family like CNET.
Raised by a single-parent cop after his bio father was put in prison, then mentored by a briliant scientist -- and again by an alteate-universe version -- Barry Allen's had a life short on mothers, but unusually full of fathers. They're not all perfect, but they've all been very attentive. In some ways, he's a lucky guy.
Joe's face on leaing Iris got a story onto the front page. I never said Joe was the best father to Iris.
Screencap by Kelsey Adams/CNETBarry's main dad, Detective Joe West, is clearly the best dad. Possibly anywhere. Maybe yours is better, I don't know, I'll take your word on that one, but Joe is pretty great. He saw Barry as his own kid from very early on; he's warm, he's fun, he enthusiastically accepts Barry as his own person despite their differences, and (according to Iris, anyway) he did give them healthy limits growing up.
Nowadays Joe, like everyone else, seems to have given up on keeping Barry from screwing up the fabric of the universe whenever he gets the impulse, but nobody's perfect. Top dad: Joe. Give that man a slogan mug.
I want to rate Henry Allen the worst, but let's face it. Of the remaining two he's the one who hasn't been a murdering sociopath even a little. Sure, Henry did thank his son for finally getting him out of prison by ruing off and leaving him with a vague smile and some BS about letting him be all he could be. Ugh, Henry. Your actor possibly having other commitments is no excuse.
But, to be fair, before that, he gave Barry a model of dignity in adversity, he was always affectionate and supportive, he appreciated Joe's place in Barry's life, and he insisted that saving his beloved wife wouldn't be worth Barry losing his powers (...which is another reason I don't care for him that much, actually.) He was getting so creepy with all that talk about destiny that I even thought a villain had taken him over somehow, but then he flipped his script and tried being the "You've convinced my son he needs powers to be great!" dad. Whatever.
Here's how I feel about Henry.
Screencap by Kelsey Adams/CNETHenry, you're an abandoner and a flip-flopper, but you were a positive presence in your son's life for a long time, and you've probably not murdered anybody. Rating: Medium dad. Good-Enough Dadsville, population variable.
Doctor Wells, versions one and two: OK, Wells is my personal favorite -- here's last year's Valentine's Day tribute and screencaps -- but I can't really call him a great dad.
(I'm throwing in Wells from Earth 2 because his daughter said something about Barry being special to him. Didn't see it myself. But Wells 2 wasn't that great a dad to Jessie either: he neglected her, he freaked her out and he made her sleep in the same room with him. No wonder she wanted some space!) The important Wells for Barry was the Earth 1, possessed-by-a-villain-from-the-future version.
Wells gave him a role model related to his own interest in science, and someone he could ea approval and quiet affection from. Of course, finding out that was all grooming by a sociopath was a blow for Barry, but possibly a useful lesson for the future, and he's got a solid support system while he works through it.
All things considered, I have to squeeze my eyes shut against his charm and vote, Wells: Worst dad. Really not good at it. Would keep inviting him to reunions anyway.
Tune in for next season where we see if Barry's changed the timeline enough to become his own father. Just kidding...I think?
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Anton Yelchin this past April.
Paul Redmond/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesAnton Yelchin, the actor known for playing Chekov in the recent series of Star Trek reboot films, died in a freak accident in Los Angeles early Sunday moing.
Yelchin, 27, was killed when his car rolled backward down his steep driveway and pied him to a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence, said Jey Houser, a spokeswoman with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Friends found Yelchin after he failed to show up for a scheduled rehearsal, Houser said.
The Russian-bo actor played Pavel Chekov in 2009's "Star Trek," 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness" and in "Star Trek Beyond," which is due out later this year.
His Star Trek co-star John Cho, who plays Hikaru Sulu, took to Twitter on Sunday to express his sorrow:
Update, 12:23 p.m. PT:Adds information from the LAPD; adds Cho's tweet.
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Warriors' Stephen Curry jokes he will shut off Wi-Fi, after wife Ayesha's controversial tweet - CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
Stephen Curry, a life all a-Twitter.
NBA; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNETAnd so we've come to this: an NBA finals game seven in which the most important topic is a tweet.
During Thursday night's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in game six, Ayesha Curry, wife of Golden State Warriors star and two-time league MVP Stephen Curry, insisted that the fix was in.
She tweeted: "I've lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money....Or ratings in [sic] not sure which. I won't be silent. Just saw it live sry."
What she'd just seen live was her husband ejected for throwing his mouthpiece at the rich seats, after he'd been assessed his sixth foul -- four by the same referee, Jason Phillips.
She subsequently removed the tweet and said it was sent in the heat of disappointment.
However, Stephen Curry's pre-game seven press conference was garlanded by questions about his wife's self-expression on social media.
As The Washington Post reports, Curry said: "There is nothing really that's going to distract me from what's happening on the court. Yeah, I get asked about it, and what's between me and Ayesha is...the conversations about what happened, that's going to be handled."
One can imagine that any handling has included forceful self-expression on behalf of a number of parties, not least the NBA itself.
Indeed, Curry joked, "I might have to cut the Wi-Fi off at my house, though." He won't manage it at the Oakland Arena, however.
The NBA doesn't like being accused of corruption. This isn't exactly the first time.
Some might speculate that on Sunday we could see how the NBA views its two greatest stars.
Is LeBron James the star of the past, so not deserving of refereeing favors in game seven? And now that the NBA has its maximum number of games, will the refs suddenly be kinder to the relatively small, angelic-featured, future-of-the-game Curry? (I hope so. Warriors fan.)
What's sure is that Twitter will be the place to enjoy instant, unedited reactions.
The ABC aouncing crew features Mark Jackson, the last (and fired) Warriors coach who has sometimes seemed envious of the team's achievements. His views sometimes come with an ill-conceived subtext.
Twitter, on the other hand, features anybody and everybody -- including the big star's wife who won't be silenced.
It's not as if Ayesha Curry's forthright tweeting is a first. Miko Grimes, wife of Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coerback Brett Grimes, is also one who enjoys tweeting what she thinks.
I suspect that after Ayesha Curry's breakthrough tweet, many will be watching her Twitter account and that of some others in order to seek gems of enlightenment.
Will Ayesha Curry still be tweeting during the game? She didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the very question isn't one many expected would be one of the highlights of game seven discussions.
Twitter is an astonishing thing. So much media impact, so little business success.
Dare I wish that we can say the same thing about the Cavaliers when the game is over? Yes, I do dare.
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
Shot on Galaxy S7.
Samsung/YouTube; screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNETI fear the hackles of Apple fanpersons might rise at the sight of this.
I sense that certain Cuperteenies might screech: 'There they go again, those Samsungians! Call Judge Lucy Koh!"
For here is a new campaign for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge that is slightly identical to a campaign Apple has been ruing for more than a year.
Samsung's new oeuvre is called "Captured on Galaxy S7." Might this remind anyone of the award-wiing Apple campaign entitled "Shot on iPhone"?
The Samsung campaign doesn't appear to claim that its ad was shot by real people, as the Apple campaign does.
Indeed, it's there to highlight the 4K Ultra HD Video enjoyed by its latest phones. The images are pretty and, oddly, not wobbly in the slightest.
And, frankly, how else is Samsung supposed to show off its fine video capabilities, you might say. (I can think of a couple of ways.)
Perhaps it's just the tagline that hurts. "Captured on Galaxy S7" does enjoy an excessive echo of "shot on iPhone."
It could be meant as a dig, of course.
Neither Samsung nor Apple responded to a request for comment.
The controversy over who copies whom has been long and tortured. It's made it to courts as well as to hearts.
The truth, of course, is that the copying just might have drifted both ways on occasion. Just as Apple has pursued Samsung for copying on many fronts, the iPhone maker did suddenly have the brainwave of big-screen phones rather later than its main competitor.
This new Samsung ad, while pretty in itself, isn't entirely involving. It feels far too manicured to be inspiring. It feels like a lot of stock footage slapped together.
Perhaps the hearts of those who made it weren't quite in it. Perhaps they felt as if they'd seen the idea somewhere before.
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Forbidden fruit.
Robin G. London/Getty ImagesIf Trump can boycott Apple, Apple can boycott Trump.
That seems to be the message underlying a story from Politico, which cites uamed sources in reporting that the Cupertino, Califoia-based maker of the iPhone and other iconic tech gadgets won't provide support to the upcoming GOP convention.
The sources told the Beltway-news site that the reason is Donald Trump's controversial remarks about immigrants, minorities and women.
Other tech firms, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft are reportedly participating in the convention in some form or another, with Google set to provide a live stream of the event (despite protests), Microsoft contributing tablets and cloud storage and Facebook plaing a presence including a lounge of some kind. None of the companies immediately responded to a request for comment.
Apple itself provided computers to the event in 2008, Politico notes, as well as to that year's Democratic convention. It sat out both events in 2012, after the Democrats decided not to accept any corporate sponsorship, the site said.
Apple joins other companies, including storied tech brand HP, in tuing away from the Republican proceedings this time around.
In February, Trump called for a boycott of Apple because of the company's refusal to help the FBI hack into an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Beardino, Califoia, shootings.
Apple declined to comment on the Politico report.
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Admire artifacts from failed love coections in a new museum dedicated to heartbreak.
Museum of Broken RelationshipsWhen Croatia-based film producer Olinka Vistica and artist Drazen Grubisic broke up after four years together, they wondered what to do with all their sentimental gifts to each other over the years -- including a small, wind-up buy they both adored.
Instead of throwing out their beloved treasures and the memories attached to them, the duo decided to open the Museum of Broken Relationships.
The museum showcases donated items that each include a title, relationship duration, location and the tale behind the item as described by the heartbroken donor.
Items included in the museum have included everything from lingerie and toys to love letters and photos. There's even a wedding dress crammed into a pickle jar.
This gold, engraved Zippo lighter is one of the many artifacts you can see at the Los Angeles branch of the Museum of Broken Relationships.
Museum of Broken RelationshipsThe museum originally opened in Zagreb, Croatia in 2006, and its exhibits have made the rounds in France, Argentina, South Africa and the United States. The Museum of Broken Relationships now has a branch in Los Angeles, when opened in June.
Entrance into the museum is a mere $18 while in the US, to see over 100 items on display in the Los Angeles branch. You can also visit the museum's confessional booth.
For those of you with mementos of relationships gone wrong, the museum offers to take them off your hands.
"If you've wished to unburden the emotional load by erasing everything that reminds you of that painful experience by throwing it all away -- don't," the museum website stated. "Give it to us."
Thanks to an ex-boyfriend who loved his band more than me, I already have a rather mangled Metallica tour T-shirt and a pair of drumsticks to donate to the museum.
What will you donate?
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This toy of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange from the upcoming Marvel movie will be available only at San Diego Comic-Con Inteational.
FunkoDoctor Strange gets the Pop Vinyl treatment from Funko toys, complete with his iconic superhero costume.
In the upcoming Marvel film, actor Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dr. Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, discovers the hidden world of alteate dimensions and magic while becoming an unusual superhero who protects us from paranormal and other-worldly villains.
The Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange Pop Vinyl toy features his goatee, cape and high-collared costume just as his character wears in the well-known Marvel comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko during the Silver Age of comics in the 1960s.
The Doctor Strange vinyl figure stands at about 3.75 inches (9.5 cm) tall. The price for the toy has yet to be revealed.
Vinyl Pop figures, which are more stylized than realistic, have become collectibles for fans of numerous franchises including "Star Trek," "Ghostbusters" and "Firefly."
This Doctor Strange Funko figure would make a great companion to other Cumberbatch toys, such as the Sherlock Holmes Funko figure or the more realistic Sherlock collectible doll from Big Chief Studios.
The Doctor Strange film figure is an exclusive collectible only available this July at the San Diego Comic-Con Inteational event.
Fans can preorder a classic Marvel comics version of the Doctor Strange toy from Funko - also available this July -- online for $11 (about £8 in the UK or AU$15 in Australia) from Entertainment Earth.
Marvel's "Doctor Strange" movie opens in movie theaters on October 27 in Australia, October 28 in the UK and November 4 in the US.
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
Asked and answered.
Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNETLawyers tell me they never ask questions in court without knowing the answers.
This same general policy doesn't seem to apply to politicians.
Some are so (over)confident that they tell people to ask questions, merely believing they know the answers.
Or, in the case of Donald Trump, perhaps not wondering whether someone will actually ask the questions he says should be asked.
After his numb-mouthed, self-aggrandizing response to the massacre in an Orlando gay club, the presumptive Republican candidate for president continued to assert that he was a champion of the LGBT community.
This may be because Trump believes he's a champion of everyone and a champion at everything.
He did, though, issue a challenge to those who weren't quite convinced that he was quite what he claims.
On Wednesday, he suggested during a speech that people "ask the gays" about how they're treated in Saudi Arabia and other countries and then decide who's a better friend: Hillary Clinton or himself.
The memes flowed on Twitter like tweet, tweet Trump chardoay. Below, I present just a few for your edification.
Perhaps my favorite was this, from a tweeter with the screen name r 0 b y n: "#AskTheGays how to blend your damn foundation." This was accompanied by an image of Trump with especially striking makeup.
Many brands -- some even larger than Trump's -- have discovered that inviting response from the wide world can lead to unforeseen consequences on social media. Just ask Coke about the time it wound up tweeting elements of "Mein Kampf."
The Trump campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
It's not as if his likely opponent, Hillary Clinton, has a stellar record of support for the LGBT community. She seems to have waited until public opinion was overwhelmingly in favor before deciding that, yes of course she's for gay marriage.
However, her campaign took to Twitter to answer the question of who might be better for the gay community than Trump. The tweet was a single word: "Hi."
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The world got a sneak peek at the biggest and best upcoming video games in Los Angeles last week. Here are the ones that looked most promising.
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Queen Elizabeth II become inteet royalty as a meme when artists used her suit as a green screen.
Video screenshot by Boie Burton/CNETWhen you're Queen Elizabeth II, making a fashion statement every time you venture outside Buckingham Palace is a regular way of life.
So when, for her 90th birthday celebration last week, the queen decided to wear an all-green ensemble in the exact same color as a green screen, video and digital artists had some fun with the photos and YouTube clips.
By treating the queen's green suit as a chroma-key screen, a device often used to insert superimposed images onto another object in TV programs and movies, creative net users could show Her Majesty dressed in everything from pizza to Michael Bay-eque explosions.
With this handy Green Screen the Queen site by British digital-artist and bot-maker Shardcore, all you have to do is supply the URL of a video you'd like to see appear on the queen's green suit, and the site does the rest.
It's rather amusing to watch YouTube cat videos and Star Wars fan films projected onto the queen's posh outfit.
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Don't worry, you aren't the only one searching for a last minute Father's Day gift. If your dad is into tech, you might consider swinging by Best Buy on Sunday.
The electronics chain is cutting $250 off all Apple Watch models with the purchase and activation of any iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus. That means you'll be able to snag the 38mm Watch Sport for $49 (with the purchase of a new iPhone, of course).
The deal, available online and in stores starting Sunday, includes activation on AT&T, Sprint or Verizon.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple introduced the next version of the software powering its smartwatch, WatchOS 3. Available to the public in the fall, it promises a new interface and the ability to load apps much faster -- and it might finally make the Apple Watch a must-have gadget.
Apple is also expected to unveil new iPhones in the fall, a reason Best Buy may be looking to clear out soon-to-be-outdated iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models.
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Apple aounced many new features and security systems across its devices at WWDC 2016.
Apple/YouTubeTerms like "magical," "incredible," "amazing" and even "chamfered edge" have long sat in the lexicon of Apple keynote events. Here's a new one: "differential privacy."
The words were uttered at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference Monday by Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, while explaining the way its new iOS 10 software will anticipate your needs and wants. And more importantly, it will get smarter without violating your privacy.
"All of this great work in iOS 10 would be meaningless to us if it came at the expense of your privacy," Federighi said during the event, held in San Francisco.
With that, he drew a clear line separating the philosophies of Apple and competitors like Google when it comes to how it handles your personal data.
The bottom line: Apple has chosen not to use its data to create "profiles," which means it doesn't need access to specific information about you in order to figure out what you need. Google, on the other hand, relies on information like photos, email and favorite locations users send to the company in order to help it better understand who they are and, ultimately, to show them more relevant ads as well.
There are many reasons Apple prefers this approach. In the case of a cyber attack, hackers would have a harder time collecting data on Apple users since there's less data about individuals that's available to steal.
This concept also represents the latest step in Apple's fight over privacy. In March, the company refused to help the FBI hack into an iPhone belonging to the gunman in the San Beardino, Califoia, shootings that left 14 dead. The episode pushed Apple to the forefront of the debate over our privacy, and even inspired the presumptive Republican nominee for US president, Donald Trump, to call for a boycott of the company.
Towards the end of Monday's keynote address, Federighi said Apple was doubling down on its privacy efforts, offering to encrypt communication for any app ruing on its products, jumbling the data so only the intended recipient can read it.
"We believe you should have great features and great privacy," he said.
Apple believes privacy can be different
"Differential privacy" isn't something Apple just dreamed up. It's a technology that's been around since the '60s. At its heart, this type of software adds "noise," or random information, as data is being accessed.
Take the onscreen keyboard and its QuickType feature, which promises to correct spellings and recommend words as you're typing. Using differential privacy, Apple will collect information from your device about what you're typing, but it will inject noise while it's being transmitted to Apple's computer systems so it doesn't know the exact words you used. When the information gets to Apple, it'll be mixed in with millions of other responses, which are then monitored for popular new words, like "gymbership" (a gym membership). Once a new one is identified, Apple can add them to the QuickType dictionary and beam them to your device. So the next time you write "That gymbership costs way too much!" the keyboard will be able to help.
It's perhaps a small distinction to some people, but if done right, experts say this type of data collection can create the same feel as mode technology that's built using all sorts of information about you, your family and anything else you do on the web.
"It is a tool for trying to lea statistical information about a population without leaing specific information about any particular individual," said Professor Aaron Roth who co-wrote the book, "The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy" and discussed the technology with Apple.
Apple plans to use this new privacy feature in iOS 10's QuickType keyboard, its new emojis, the Spotlight search function and its "LookUp" function for finding dictionary definitions, iTunes store items and Wikipedia entries. Other apps could potentially benefit later.
Rand Hindi, head CEO of the artificial intelligence startup Snips, believes this system is more secure than Google and Facebook's approach of storing data in the cloud.
"For most people, it sounds counterintuitive because for many years, we have been told that giving away data was the only way to get an intelligent system or advanced data-based services," Hindi said.
Apple is not the only one trying a new approach to privacy and data. In 2014, Google launched a new software called Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response, RAPPOR for short. The technology, which is used exclusively in the Chrome browser, attempts to control malware and viruses that attempt to take over people's computers by analyzing what they use as a home page.
Hindi's startup, Snips, has been trying to do the same thing. But companies need large pools of users in order for differential privacy to work. For now, that means Apple and Google are helping to prove this technology can work.
"What matters is that some people are doing it right," Hindi said.
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This summer, CNET will be dropping in to some of the hottest music, food and beer festivals around the country. And we hope to see you there.
We're kicking off our summer tour this weekend at Boulevardia, a beer, food and music festival in Kansas City, Missouri. At Boulevardia, the CNET lounge will offer festival-goers a cool refuge from the crowds with plenty of shade, charging stations and ever-important (and hard to get) Wi-Fi. We'll also have fun giveaways and have demo areas where you can try out cutting-edge virtual reality systems in person. You can find us at the coer of Mulberry and 12th Street -- across from the Native Flavor stage.
This is just the first of a string of summertime stops for us, so keep an eye on this page to see if we'll be coming to your town soon. We're also filling it up with clever tips and tech gadgets that will make sure you have the ultimate festival experience -- everything from leaing how to edit your photos on the fly to making sure your phone's battery doesn't die just as the headliner gets onstage.
We'll see you out there!
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Elbnb, an online platform, aims to help add more handy charging locations across Sweden.
RenaultIf home is where the heart is, then homes in Sweden may also be where the energy is stored for people hoping to give their electric car an added boost.
Renault just launched Elbnb, a new service that allows anyone in Sweden to transform their house into a charging station for electric cars.
Elbnb, an online platform, is meant to add more handy charging locations across the country and encourage more residents to lessen their carbon footprint by driving electric cars.
The private-home stations will be featured on a map that can be quickly located by electric-car drivers. The charging price and times will be determined by the driver and homeowner.
"Swedes are used to the sharing economy in anything from cars to apartments," Lars Höglin, Renault Nordic brand engagement manager, said in a statement. "After conversations with both locals and politicians, we can see that our initiative is already being positively perceived by the Swedes, who also seem ready to start sharing their power outlets."
The service may also get local politicians to move faster on legislation that would help build more publicly accessible charging stations throughout Sweden.
"Electric cars are a reality. But even though it's year 2016, a year when environmental issues are a big topic, the infrastructure is lacking," Höglin said. "That is why we started Elbnb as an initiative run by locals, showing that the Swedes are ready to contribute when political actions are too slow. We also want to show that making a case for greener roads is as easy as charging your electric car."
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There may already be a pistol emoji, but you won't see a rifle emoji any time soon.
There is already a pistol emoji.
UnicodeThe Unicode Consortium, the technical group responsible for overseeing emoji, unanimously voted to remove the rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, BuzzFeed reported on Friday. Unicode President Mark Davis confirmed the move to the publication.
Apple, a member of the consortium along with tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft, led the charge to remove the rifle emjoi, said BuzzFeed. The iPhone maker reportedly started the discussion and said it would not support a rifle emoji on its platforms.
No reason was given for the decision. But it comes amid renewed debate in the US over gun control in the wake of a Florida shooting that left 49 people dead. The shooter, who claimed an allegiance to the Islamic State, reportedly purchased his weapons legally.
Apple and the Unicode Consortium did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Unicode 9.0, which is set to be release later this month, will add 72 new emoji. The rifle emoji was a candidate as part of a set of Olympics-themed emojis. Fencer, water polo and boxing glove all made the emoji cut.
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Waze doesn't like left tus either.
WazeIt's almost undeniable that left tus are evil.
Not only are poorly-managed left tus responsible for about half a million crashes and hundreds of deaths per year, but they're also inefficient. UPS, the brown-truck delivery company, famously baed left tus for its drivers in 2004, and since then it's avoided uecessarily buing more than 10 million gallons of gas, cut down on pollution and probably saved lives (and a few fenders too.)
Now Waze, the crowd-sourced traffic app owned by Google, is joining in the anti-left-tu crowd by offering a new feature to Los Angeles drivers. Waze will effectively seek routes that doesn't include a left tu, and when it finds one it will calculate to see whether it will cost more time. If not, you're off to right-tu land. The feature is already available and was aounced Friday.
Now, before you get out your pitchforks and scream bloody murder about Silicon Valley's patealistic "we know better" attitude, users can shut the feature off if they prefer. It'll be in the settings under "Difficult Intersections."
An illustration of how Waze will get you around those evil left tus.
WazeAnd for the rest of us, Waze promises we'll still be occasionally vexed by left tus for the foreseeable future.
"The goal of the feature is to reduce the amount of these intersections, not completely eliminate them," Waze said in its aouncement.
Why did it all take so long? Apparently this isn't something a mere computer can figure out. Waze said it worked with Angelenos who often help edit its maps to determine the worst intersections. And since it needs help from locals, the rollout will be pretty slow. New Orleans will be next, though Waze didn't say when.
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Whether you can't wait to see the new "Ghostbusters" movie or you've spent an inordinate amount of time disliking the movie's trailer on YouTube, you'll want to check out this clip from the BBC's "The Graham Norton Show."
The British talk show gathered together the four female leads of the "Ghostbusters" reboot, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKion. Norton had a special surprise in store for them during the show's infamous "Red Chair Story" segment, in which members of the audience sit down to tell an interesting story before being booted off in some unceremonious fashion.
This time, the lucky folks who sat down in the chair got slimed after finishing their story, and Norton surprised the actors with a special appearance by "Ghostbusters" director Paul Feig, who also wrote the new movie with "Parks and Recreation" and "The Heat" screenwriter Katie Dippold.
In the clip posted Friday, Feig tells Norton and his guests that he's willing to get slimed if McCarthy and Wiig sing the female folk cover of the iconic "Ghostbusters" theme song that they created while making the movie. "Since we're all in the business of ruining men's childhoods," he added.
The entire episode is scheduled to air tonight in Great Britain on BBC One and hopefully sometime soon on BBC America. "Ghostbusters" opens worldwide in July.
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DirecTV users can see the US Open in 4K.
DirecTVDirecTV delivered the first live 4K-resolution broadcast in the country in April with all four rounds of The Masters golf touament. The AT&T Byron Nelson touament and several Major League Baseball games followed that, and now the satellite TV provider is bringing the US Open to viewers in 4K.
The championship started June 13 and runs through June 19. For the remainder of the Open, DirecTV customers can head to chael 106 to see holes three, 13 and 17 broadcast in 4K UHD resolution. The chael is only available to DirecTV's Ultimate or Premiere package subscribers and requires the latest Genie HD DVR and a compatible 4K TV to watch.
Subscribers can watch the broadcast on chael 705 in HD, too, and watch four chaels of coverage through the service's Mix chael for viewing them all simultaneously. The leaderboard, player scorecards, bios, groupings and tee times can also be accessed through the service as well.
4K resolution promises improved picture quality and sharpness, although in our experience it's often difficult to tell from regular high-def. Current sources of 4K TV shows and movies include streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video, as well as a new disc format calledUltra-High Definition Blu-ray.
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Which Amazon pilots will survive? It's up to you.
AmazonAmazon's latest TV shows promise to be a little... interesting.
The inteet retail giant debuted two of its TV-like video show pilots: The Interestings, about artistic teenagers in the 70s, and The Last Tycoon, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work about Hollywood power struggles. They're available to Amazon subscribers starting Friday.
The shows are part of Amazon's efforts to find hit shows by allowing viewers to vote on their survival. Last year, Amazon debuted one of its most controversial shows "The Man in High Castle," a show based on a novel about life in a world where the Nazis and Japanese won WW2. That same year, another show, Transparent, nabbed the inteet giant its first Golden Globe award.
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