The European Space Agency lost contact with its Rosetta mission’s plucky little lander, Philae, in May 2015. Now the orbiter’s high-resolution camera has found Philae wedged into a dark crack on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Read more…
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Lost Philae Lander Found Wedged Into a Crack on its Comet
For the past year YouTubers have been trying to navigate a deluge of false copyright claims and a changing algorithm that rewards needlessly-long videos. Now, allegedly, the platform is starting to withhold paychecks. Read more…
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YouTube Stars Are Blowing Up Over Not Getting Paid (Update)
Earlier this month, Leoni AG, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wires and electrical cables, informed investors that the German company lost almost 40 million euros (or about $44.6 million) to online scammers. Today, we finally know how: According to investigators, the thieves simply spoofed emails to look like official payment requests, a tactic known as “ CEO fraud .” Read more…
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An Email Scam Cost One of Europe’s Biggest Companies $40 Million
For the second time in five months, the Transmission BitTorrent client for Mac has been infected with malware. Read more…
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Mac BitTorrent Client Transmission Gets Infected With Malware Again
Just last week Sony announced that its game streaming service, PlayStation Now, was on its way to Windows PCs this fall. Turns out it’s sooner than that, because you can download it for Windows right now. Read more…
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PlayStation Now Is Available On Windows PC
If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again. Read more…
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Rest In Peace ITT Tech, You Bastards
Apple just sent out press invites for its next major event. As expected, the event will take place on September 7. Like last year, the iPhone event will be at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Read more…
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Apple’s Big iPhone Event Is September 7
The Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on the home of Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board, which develops the SAT, an aptitude test for college bound high schoolers, according to a report by Reuters . Read more…
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FBI Raids SAT Critic Over Leaked Test Questions
Today, Facebook announced that human curators will no longer write short descriptions that accompany trending topics on the site. Instead, the company will rely on an algorithmic process to “pull excerpts directly from stories.” The company also said it will stop using human curators to sort through the news. Read more…
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Facebook Removes Human Curators From Trending Module
If you’ve been using Dropbox for over four years and you haven’t changed your password since then, then two things are true. One, you haven’t been reading Lifehacker very long . More importantly, two: Dropbox is about to make you change it. Read more…
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Dropbox Will Make You Change Your Password If You Haven’t Since 2012