Day: December 15, 2018

OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code ‘Has Too Many Swear Words’

Thursday a bug report complained that the source code for OpenJDK, the free and open-source implementation of Java, “has too many swear words.” An anonymous reader writes: “There are many instances of swear words inside OpenJDK jdk/jdk source, scattered all over the place,” reads the bug report. “As OpenJDK is used in a professional context,…


Young Entrepreneurs Learn What Really Goes Into Making a Product

Just to be clear, the primary goal of the Papas Inventeurs (Inventor Dads) was to have the kids make something, have fun, and learn. In that light, they enjoyed a huge success. Four children designed, made, and sold laser-cut napkin rings from a booth at the Ottawa Maker Faire as a fun learning process (English…


‘Bomb threat’ scammers are now threatening to throw acid on victims

Bomb threat extortion campaign yielded less than $1 for the spammers. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild

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70% Of Americans Worried About Holiday Shopping Identity Theft

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Were Taylor Swift Fans Tracked At Her Gig?

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Amazon’s creepy facial recog doorbell, Facebook open sources machine learning code and much more

Plus: Listen to some new classical piano generated by an algorithm Roundup welcome to the last AI round up of the year; thank you for reading.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The 29 best AR apps for iOS that you need try – CNET

Here are our favorite augmented reality apps for Apple devices. …read more Source:: CNet


Bumblebee director on replacing Michael Bay: ‘I couldn’t go bigger’ – CNET

Travis Knight reveals how Bay and Steven Spielberg inspired the Transformers spin-off. …read more Source:: CNet


Celebrities who died in 2018: Stephen Hawking, Stan Lee, other geek greats – CNET

Remembering the many big names in pop culture, science and politics who left us this year. …read more Source:: CNet