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YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change

YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fifth-amendment-protections-account-passwords-and-device

Using tidal energy to power off-the-grid towns

ORPC is a company based in Portland Maine that makes turbines for ocean and river applications. The company is currently working with a remote village in Alaska to supplant its need for diesel power generation.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/uk-first-coal-free-power-day/

The UK has not gone without coal power for a day since it was fired up in 1882. 135 years of burning coal is a really long time.

Report: Microsoft is jumping onto the wireless earbud bandwagon

It appears that a trend is developing.
It appears that Microsoft is going to expand its range of audio hardware. Last year the company released the Surface Headphones, a pair of premium-priced wireless noise-cancelling headphones with integrated microphones.

Growing baby lambs in plastic bags, humans in three years...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/26/artificial_womb_for_preemie_sheep/

Unexpected protection added to Microsoft Edge subverts IE security

Permissions that Edge added to downloaded files break important security feature.
A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to be productive today and get a few jobs done and sorted.

Now that's just silly.

HP’s first 15-inch Chromebook features a full-size keyboard and IPS touchscreen for $449

Pretty solid specs for the price
Chromebooks continue to impress in the price-for-quality department, and the HP Chromebook 15 is no exception.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@mlnews said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that's just silly.

It is but saves me from doing other stuff like answering the phone to stupid people

So does... just not answering the phone.

A mystery agent is doxing Iran’s hackers and dumping their code

Iran seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
Nearly three years after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open Web, Iran's hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/twitter-s-dorsey-says-trump-won-t-get-banned-his-tweets-are-evidence-to-be-used-515236.shtml

See NASA test a swarm of 100 US Navy Cicada drones

The tiny drones travel in packs to investigate the weather.
Hives and Cicadas. It might sound like NASA is getting into entomology, but it's actually taking a new set of drones for a test run.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/unknown-humans-were-in-california-130000-years-ago-say-scientists/

Razer adds 4K OLED and 240Hz screen options to its Blade 15 laptops

The base Blade 15 also gets a faster screen, and the Blade Pro sees a complete overhaul
Razer has announced that, starting on April 24th, there will be two new display choices available for the Blade 15 Advanced gaming laptop: a 4K OLED panel and a 240Hz high-refresh LCD option.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/most-groundwater-is-ancient-but-contains-surprising-human-fingerprint/

Microsoft Bringing Files Restore Capability to SharePoint Online and Teams
Microsoft on Monday announced that it's delivering its Files Restore feature for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams to Office 365 tenancies as early as this month.
The Files Restore feature is currently arriving for some Office 365 subscribers that have elected to receive "targeted" product updates.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/was-ubers-ceo-really-the-second-best-wii-sports-tennis-player/

Alphabet’s Wing drones get FAA approval to make deliveries in the US

A commercial service will launch in Virginia in the coming months
Wing, the Alphabet-owned startup, has become the first drone delivery company to gain the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval to make commercial deliveries in the US.