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Not sure what you mean by emit darkness as how you see things is based on light entering your eyes either directly from a source or reflected off of a surface. About the best way to get darkness is to get rid of any direct sources and have any stray light hitting a material that absorbs the spectrum and photons as opposed reflecting them (such as the Vantablack)...

Exactly, I'm hoping Microsoft is realizing their Windows 10 Store/Game Library is really not used and are trying to come up with a better way to get more of a user base so that it builds the library more...

In what can be looked at as a great way for trying out new games through the Xbox One and Windows Store, Microsoft is rolling out a program for a new Self-Service Refund policy. From an article on Hexus: http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/104593-microsoft-offer-xbox-one-windows-digital-games-refunds/ So the terms of this appear to be that gamers would be able to change their minds on games purchased within 14-days and having a total gameplay limited to less than 2 hours across devices. Of course, DLCs, Add-Ons and Season Passes are excluded from this policy and if Microsoft feels that someone is abusing the program, they reserve the right to restrict access to the Self-Service Refund system. Hot Hardware's Article stipulates that the program is currently only rolling out to 'select Microsoft Insiders' for the time being, however, this may be a great way for Windows to follow Valve's lead and create a system for people to try out new games as well as expand their online store. http://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-offers-self-service-refunds-on-xbox-one-and-windows-10-games EDIT: To expand onto this a little bit further, I guess the program can't please everyone, especially some of the smaller Game Dev companies... According to a WCCFTech article (so of course grains of salt may apply) the group at The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Amnesia) feels that the self service refunds should not be based just on the number of hours played, but should instead operate on the games completion. http://wccftech.com/the-chinese-room-xbox-refunds-bollocks/ This does raise an interesting point/question, should your refund be based on whether you enjoy the game or not or does it make sense to compensate the game devs a bit as well for their development time and costs.

Soooo, the US Air Force, working with Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks has made yet another 'improvement' in fully autonomous drone technology. Previously, the USAF has been able to use F-16 fighter jet drones as target practice for the newer F-35's to destroy, however, their technicians have made a more advanced version of this F-16 Drone. From an article on Hot Hardware: http://hothardware.com/news/us-airforce-demonstrates-f-16-drone-take-out-targets-autonomously While this is really neat in the way that it removes pilots from the threat zone during combat operations in the same way as other UAV technology has done, this is implying that the computer is actually doing a lot of the planning, threat assessment and striking in these scenarios, which is definitely something that I'm hoping has been well thought out by the programmers...

Considering this is supposedly software on the opposite side of their 'God-View' software that they were ordered to pay a fine on, the issues they are having with Google concerning self driving technology, the software called 'Greyball' that was aimed at sidestepping government regulators and the legal case being brought against the company by drivers in California for having their software double-dip from drivers and passengers and it seems kind of bad for them as a company...

In articles published both on Engadget and WCCFTech and originally being reported on The Information, Uber may be in yet even more hot water for their 'top secret' software based program code-named as 'Hell'. From the Engadget Article: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/13/uber-hell-program-lyft-drivers/ According to the article, in order to cut back on the number of double-app drivers, the Hell program would begin to send more riders to double-appers and then give them special bonuses for hitting a rider per week count. This apparently led to Uber shelling out tens of millions per a week in bonuses to the double-appers and Uber ended the program in 2016 once Lyft began it's expansion to more cities. If this information is true, it would seem like there might be some more serious legal battles ahead for Uber, beyond their current list of legal issues... Additional Articles: http://wccftech.com/uber-secret-hell-track-lyft-drivers/ https://www.theinformation.com/ubers-top-secret-hell-program-exploited-lyfts-vulnerability

Appears to be a gathering and not a new product announcement... http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-is-teasing-something-to-be-released-29-04-1.html

More of a paraphrasing of Henry Ford from 1909...

And this is how you drive someone insane. Room painted to absorb all light and sound deadening walls with a single light bulb to see yourself but no reference point or just lose the light source and have no sense of sight or sound.

In a new Hexus & Phys.org Article, Surrey Nanosystems has developed a refined version of their Vertically Aligned Nanotube Array Black (Vantablack). The original vantablack was able to absorb approximately 99.96% of visible, ultraviolet and ifrared light that contacted it. This new refinement though absorbs even more, so much to the point that it cannot be measured by a spectrometer. According to the Phys.org Article https://phys.org/news/2017-04-version-vantablack-coating-blacker.html: In addition, Surrey Nanosystems has also developed a more marketable version called Vantablack S-VIS. From the Hexus Article http://hexus.net/ce/news/general/104536-improved-vantablacks-blackness-dark-measured/: While the current applications may be extremely limited, especially with the delicacy of Vantablack vs the spray version, it is thought that this might be used to improve the performance of cameras and optical sensors, where reflected light can cause interference with capturing a better image quality. Or, of course, you can always give it to Luke to line the inside of his next custom build. Maybe have a pure light absorbing interior with RGB accent lights...

The problem you'll have is the first driverless car to have an accident with a kid as the sole passenger, then there will be a series of lawsuits that would probably put the car company out of business.

How about: Titan X Titan XP Titan Xp (Compensator Edition) or (CE) for brevity

If you like burning money... Otherwise you're looking at $400+ extra or around 30% more money over the 1080Ti for not as much gains.

I don't mind the ones on the side, top or bottom of the page, but the one after the first post in a topic or forum is really annoying and poorly placed (or really well placed for being noticed).

Twitch is in the process of digging out who is behind a series of spambot posting that started on February 24th that was bombarding channels with on average of 34 messages per a minute and at times up to 700 a minute. These spambots were posting messages that were racists, homophobic and worse that Twitch's Automod tool was unable to keep up with. According to Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/twitch-unleashes-scorched-earth-attack-to-unveil-malicious-spambot-creator/ Legal documents: https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/twitch.pdf In total, Twitch is requesting: Moral of this story is if you try to mess with Twitch's business, they will track you down.

Someone needs to create a fake fact check site just so they can fact check the fake facts to make the fake facts facts that then need further fact checking to prove whether they are fake facts.

Well... That was fast... It appears the summons was withdrawn already and Twitter is dismissing their claim. https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/07/government-gives-up-on-unmasking-anti-trump-twitter-account/

However, there are a lot more Windows 10 phones that have these processors than the ones that were originally listed.

In a bid to help combat fake news items, Google implemented an algorithm back in October on it's News search site to show which News Articles had been checked against a 'fact-check' source. Now though, Google is rolling this out across their complete web search engine. According to the Tech Crunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/07/fact-check-the-world-is-flat/ Of course, this being Google, the question about how these are conducted and what about a disagreement in facts. From Tech Crunch again: BBC Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39527644 I haven't seen this pop up on any of my Google Searches yet, but keep an eye out. Of course, I still recommend people to question the search results and try to apply some critical thinking to anything you come across. EDIT: To add on to how this is apparently working, Ars Technica did an article where apparently the search criteria right now to show these results are an often repeated claim. https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/04/google-expands-automatic-fact-check-insertion-into-search-results/ Google's automation is only combing certain data and research sites and the data must be put forth using the "Share the Facts' widget or with Schema.org ClaimReview markup. Google's algorithm then determines whether the source is authoritative using: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/4582731#fact-checking I'm thinking that there will probably be a lot of room for algorithm improvements as this system develops. As stated above though, critical thinking still should be applied to any article that you read online.

This is the rub though... While individuals have a freedom of expression and speech (at least in the US), if they are a federal employee they may have a contract that they signed a contract that this is currently in breach of or they be privy to sensitive information that it is illegal to share. A lot of these accounts appear to have been created as a form of political protest, which could also be against their own union anti-lobbying rules if they are a federal employee. It may also be that some of the tweets on these accounts are occurring by employees during working hours and maybe even on federal equipment which could be a breach of contract. The big problem I see is that there is too much grey area in all of this situation and too little information being presented to determine how much of a legitimate issue is being presented by DHS vs how much is this being used to silence an opposing political opinion.

I'm fairly sure that since we've seen leaks relating to how the CIA has tools to install malware on Macs and Windows, and can gain access to Android and iPhones as well as access several other smart devices that it is a safe assumption they have multiple tools to break into the Linux Kernel. It almost seems like the safest way to store data maybe going back to a physical medium, like film or paper or just not storing it.

Probably not considering that as a part of this leak, Wikileaks also released the manual for Stolen Goods. From Bleeping Computers article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wikileaks-reveals-grasshopper-cias-builder-for-windows-malware/ Seems like they are more than willing to 'borrow' code from other malware sources as well...

I originally noticed this article over at PCPer and AMD has now released their third Ryzen community update, which includes their own version of a Ryzen optimized Power Plan for Windows. Accordint to the PCPer article, one of the issues that Windows Power Management has been having with the Ryzen chips consists of: (https://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/AMD-Releases-Ryzen-Balanced-Power-Plan-Test-Results-Inside). The guys over at PCPer tried to deconstruct what exact changes have been made in order to create the AMD Balanced Power Plan over the High Performance Plan and created the following chart (Note: Units differ varying by parameter in this chart - compare within each set of 3 bars): In addition to this, AMD is reporting a performance update in Total War: Warhammer with the Bretonnia Update released on March 27th. In the final part of the community update, they have an update coming out for the Ryzen Master software that will report the junction temps for the CPU rather than the tCTL temps by removing the tCTL offset that is applied on the 1800X, 1700X and 1600X processors: https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/04/06/amd-ryzen-community-update-3 Tech Report Article: http://techreport.com/news/31710/amd-offers-a-power-plan-in-its-third-ryzen-community-update Of these updates, it is good to see that they will hopefully have something in place in Windows for the Power Management and Core Parking issue that has been occurring. Of course, it would have been better had these things not been needed in the first place.

I honestly wonder about this myself as it does seem like a low achievable number, however at the same time, YouTube it trying to generate it's own revenue by selling ad spots. If all of a sudden the number of channels that they create to place ads on sharply declines, that means less views of ads and maybe less advertisers. I guess their business question comes down to having less channels to place ads on but also better QC/QA on the channel content or loosening up the minimum views on a channel for collecting channel data in order to get more ad space available. Seems like a really tight balancing act.

From my reading of it the steps are as follows: You Apply for the YPP Your channel has to hit the 10k lifetime views YPP reviews the activity against their policies Assuming all criteria is met, your channel begins to serve ads. I think the main thing is that they are trying to come up with a way to sort out which channels actually need to be looked at with finer detail based on when they hit the 10k views. Whether this will work and what metadata they end up collecting on the channel as it approaches the 10k views will be the tricky part of this to all work out. My best assumption is that they will probably use the first 10k views as a start to a scoring system to see how much content falls out of (or is reported to fall out of) their ad friendly content guidelines.