Microsoft Man: Internet Explorer Had to Go Because It's Garbage

The title says it all, but it’s not something you would expect to hear directly from Microsoft. The company decided to completely jettison Internet Explorer from the upcoming Windows 10 in favor of its new Project Spartan browser. The main complaint about IE was dragging the vestiges of older Internet Explorer versions that were non-compliant, creating unnecessary problems for new versions of IE (10/11).

Recent versions of IE have included various backward-compatibility modes that force the browser to repeat the errors of earlier versions.

Windows 10 to Support USB 3.1 Type-C at Launch

Windows 10 impending release date is getting closer each month and more information is being released on what to expect from the new OS. From the WinHec Conference, we now know that Windows 10 will havenative support for the new USB 3.1 Type-C right out of the gate. 

Seeing that Windows 10 will ship in a few months and Type-C has already been approved, it makes perfect sense that the company will support the new connector natively from day one.

Human Head Transplant Just 2 Years Away, Surgeon Claims - FREAKING CREEPY!!!

This has to be the creepiest story of the week. An Italian Neurologist, Dr. Sergio Canavero has outlined hishead transplant procedure in a medical paper submitted to the Surgical Neurology International. The paper outlines the techniques and the prognosis for a full recovery within a year. The good doctor is looking for a few good test subjects if you are interested in getting ahead. 

And that's all without even taking into account the ethical considerations: in order to have the best chance of success, the donor body has to be still technically living. This also means that donor bodies -- even if the procedure could be approved -- would be in very short supply. Unsurprisingly, the concept leaves many uncomfortable.

Vegas mom, son searched for vehicle before shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas mother of four killed in a road rage shooting last week got in her car with her adult son and his gun and drove around their neighborhood looking for the assailant who ended up shooting her in a residential cul-de-sac, police said Tuesday.

In a change from earlier accounts, police Lt. Ray Steiber said 44-year-old Tammy Meyers had her teenage daughter run in the house to fetch her armed son, who then went with her as she drove to find the driver who had earlier stopped his car in front of hers, got out and approached her with angry words.
"Mrs. Meyers is scared, but she's upset," Steiber said, adding that the intent appeared to be "so they can find who frightened them on the roadway."

"I would never say that anybody went looking for trouble," Steiber said when asked to characterize Tammy Meyers' five-to-10 minute drive through the neighborhood. He said she found, and for a time followed, the vehicle she had apparently been looking for.

Wyoming Woman Stunned by Gift From Husband Who Died Last Year

A Wyoming woman who lost her husband of 28 years to brain cancer last year was shocked to receive a special gift from him this Valentine's Day.

Shelly and Jim Golay of Casper, Wyoming, met at church in 1984. They had a "fairy tale romance" and even went to Disneyland in California for their honeymoon, Shelly Golay told ABC News today.
Her husband was "very much a family man," Golay, 52, said, adding that they have two children, now 27 and 25.

The family has owned Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, an industrial and safety distribution company, since 2007.

You Soon Might Be Able to Design Your Nike Shoes in Virtual Reality

Say goodbye to boring sneakers designed in regular, no good, boring reality! (Photo: Nike)

Take a moment to recall the last thing you drew in MS Paint. Now imagine it stamped on a shoe that you shaped in thin air with a similar toolbar. How does that make you feel?

Be sure to contemplate that image, because you may soon have an opportunity to make it a reality. Per a report from Quartz, Nike was recently awarded a patent for an invention that would let you custom-design a pair of kicks via projected virtual reality.

Here’s what we can discern from the wording and images in the official filing: Say you think you’re supertalented, with enough chops to design your own shoe line. (Me too, Kanye, hiiii!) You’ll get cozy with your computer at a desk, along with what the patent refers to as an “interacting device” (the patent makes it look like a stylus) and a disembodied mannequin’s foot. Then you’ll slip on a pair of virtual reality goggles. The patent doesn’t specify which devices Nike’s Matrix shoe will be designed for, but the obvious contestant here is Microsoft’s trippy new HoloLens. Unlike most other virtual reality headsets, the HoloLens comes with a virtual toolbox that allows you to build stuff in empty space and then 3D-print it.

US to allow export of armed military drones

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is amending its regulations for weapons sales to allow the export of armed military drones to friendly nations and allies.

The State Department said Tuesday the new policy would allow foreign governments that meet certain requirements — and pledge not to use the unmanned aircraft illegally — to buy the vehicles that have played a critical but controversial role in combating terrorism and are increasingly used for other purposes. Recipient countries would be required to sign end-use statements certifying that the drones would not be used for unlawful surveillance or force against domestic populations and would only be used in internationally sanctioned military operations, such as self-defense.
Each sale would be reviewed individually and the pledges would be monitored for compliance, the department said in a statement.

This 'Flying Mega-Yacht' May Be the Nicest Plane Ever

TSA guards with cold hands who insist on patting you down. Babies who spend the entire flight screaming in a piercing five-octave range. Flight delays so long you actually could have saved time walking.

All of those indignities we would happily bear, if only we could take all of our flights on this plane.

A ridiculously tricked-out Boeing 747-8, whose interior was refurbished by Washington-based Greenpoint Technologies, has just been delivered to an unidentified private owner. According to the Robb Report, it’s the first Boeing 747-8 (which is Boeing’s largest passenger jet) to receive Greenpoint’s VIP treatment.  And it is stunningly luxurious.

Arizona measles exposure worries parents of at-risk kids

(CNN)Anna Jacks checks her baby's forehead over and over again. Is he hot? Does he have a rash? Is his nose still runny?

Her son has been sick before, but this time it's different: Last week Eli was at a Phoenix Children's Hospital clinic with a woman who had the measles, which spreads easily from person to person. Now he's showing signs of the virus, such as runny nose and cough and fatigue.

At 10 months old, Eli is too young to get vaccinated and would be especially vulnerable to serious complications of measles, such as deafness and brain damage or even death. But his parents have an even bigger worry. If Eli does have the measles, he could give it to his 3-year-old sister, Maggie, who has leukemia.

Physicists Have Built a Time Machine Simulator

No, it’s not Doc Brown and his DeLorean, but a team of physicists at the University of Queensland, Australia that have built not a time machine, but instead built a time machine simulator that will mimic a quantum particle passing through a closed time-like curve (CTC) creating identical particles that are able to interact with each other. November 5, 1955 here we come.

Time travel isn't possible yet, but this simulation means it could be. The experiment also fit both the laws of general relativity and quantum mechanics, demonstrating that the two bodies of law could actually be compatible.

Startups With Shorter Names Are More Likely to Succeed

Who knew that all you needed for your startup to be successful was a short name. Here comes the rush of new businesses with single digit names.

With companies, particularly in tech, there has been a tendency to form names by misspelling common words, dropping vowels, or appendly "ly" (think: Flickr, Feedly, Pinterest, and so on). While the study in Science only examined name length in terms of number of words, Stern says the principles of eliminating letters are probably the same. "Firms are looking for names that are easy to remember, that will come up in a search," he says.

Hackers Unknowingly Gather Intel For The NSA

The NSA would like to personally thank hackers everywhere for all they do to help the agency.

The National Security Agency and its intelligence partners are reportedly sifting through data stolen by state-sponsored and freelance hackers on a regular basis in search of valuable information. Despite constantly warning about the threat of hackers and pushing for their prosecution, the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. are happy to ride their coattails when it serves their interests.

TurboTax halts all state tax filings due to fraud concerns

(CNN Money) The popular TurboTax software has temporarily stopped processing state tax refund filings in all states after reports of fraud increased.

Criminals may be using identity information (like a Social Security number) that was stolen from somewhere else to file fake returns via TurboTax and collect refunds.
In Minnesota and Utah, for example, some taxpayers recently logged into TurboTax and saw that a return has already been filed under their name.

Intuit (INTU), the company that owns TurboTax, said that itself has not been breached, but an investigation is ongoing. About 29 million people used TurboTax to file their tax returns last year.

Help! My teen's watching online porn

(CNN)—What happened to Maddie, a mom of two boys, one afternoon has no doubt happened to countless other parents across the country.

Maddie's computer was out of juice, so she hopped on her 15-year-old son's laptop. She looked at the history of something she was working on and then, bam. There were links to 40 porn sites with topics too racy for me to print.

"I was freaking out," said Maddie, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy and her son's.

She immediately did something she has never done before during her nearly two decades as a parent: called her husband out of an extremely important client meeting.

"I thought, 'Oh, my God, we need to talk about this,' " Maddie said. "There's nothing I can't handle with the kids. ... This I cannot handle," she added, remembering how she felt at the time.

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Chilling bodycam footage shows the other side of policing

Arizona police release an officer's bodycam footage taken shortly before a deadly shooting. Everything seems calm, until a suspect in an alleged domestic violence incident pulls out a gun. Should the video have been released at all?

Footage of police officers behaving imperfectly has emerged more than once now that almost everyone has a cell phone.

It makes for news. It keeps people on their guard for what might happen. It feeds into people's need for justice.

Yet, there's another side to policing. It's one where officers are out every day, never entirely knowing whether a situation might turn in an awful direction, never knowing whether an individual who seems calm might suddenly not be.

EA Exec: Games Are "Too Hard to Learn"

If your chief creative officer gets up on stage and tells the world that your games are "too hard to learn," you might want to take a long, hard look at the games you are making.

"Our games are actually still too hard to learn," Hilleman said during an on-stage interview at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. "The average player probably spends two hours to learn how to play the most basic game." LINK

This Is The Gorgeous Infiniti We've All Been Waiting For

With the introduction of the Q60 Concept at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Infiniti gave us a tantalizing glimpse at what could become the next generation of its popular luxury sport coupe.

For years, the Infiniti coupe has been one of the most popular entry level luxury cars on the market. The Q60's high style, features, and performance — all at a reasonable price — made it one of the go-to options for young professionals and older buyers alike.

Deep in UFO country, a prepper's dream home for sale: Roswell nuclear missile silo

Deep in the heart of flying-saucer land, a real estate agent is peddling conspiracy theorists' dream home.


This Atlas-F nuclear missile silo — decommissioned, of course — is one of a dozen around Roswell, New Mexico, a remote town best known as the site of a supposed flying-saucer crash in 1947. (Almost 50 years later, the Air Force revealed that the wreckage was actually an atomic-age spy contraption meant to detect minute atmospheric evidence of Soviet nuclear test blasts on the other side of the planet.)

Century 21 agent Jim Moore, who's marketing the 25-acre property, recently gave the New York Times a silo tour. He told the paper that the property is already under contract, for close to its $295,000 asking price.

Former Maryland banker reveals he used to work for CIA

A banker comes in from the cold

BALTIMORE—Edwin “Ed” Hale Sr., a retired bank executive known locally for his sharp-elbowed approach to business, installed video surveillance on his 186-acre farm and still sleeps with a sawed-off shotgun by his bed.

His friends, former employees and even his own daughters were shocked to learn in his recently published biography that he had ample reason to do so: The former chief executive and chairman of Bank of Baltimore says he worked covertly for the Central Intelligence Agency for almost a decade in the 1990s and early 2000s.
During that time, he said, he spoke regularly with a CIA handler and allowed the agency to create a fake company under his corporate umbrella, which included shipping and trucking companies he ran at the same time he led the bank. Operatives in the field used the fictitious firm as cover when traveling the world, complete with business cards and hats. Mr. Hale said he worked under “nonofficial cover,” in which his identity was unassociated with the U.S. government.

You can buy Lockheed Martin's experimental cruiser for just $180,000

Ladies and Gentlemen, Pacific Coast Yachts is delighted to offer you an exclusive opportunity to purchase a unique piece of maritime history for a rock-bottom price. After being pressed into service in 1996, Lockheed Martin's experimental naval vessel, the Sea Slice, is now being offered into private hands. Yes, it may look like a catamaran, folks, but this craft actually uses Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull technology, where the ballast is kept beneath the water for enhanced stability. In fact, friends, the Sea Slice is significantly more stable than other vessels of its size, making it perfect for entertaining guests on deck.

In the future, the perfect commute vehicles will be... The Storm eBike: An Inexpensive Answer to Gridlock?

Photo: Storm eBike

Stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic again? Tired of being crammed like cattle into a subway car?

An Indiegogo campaign launching Monday may help change that. The Storm eBike is a basic two-wheeler with a battery-powered motor that could make your daily commute a breeze.

Read our followup story: A $500 eBike? Not so fast.

“It’s the Tesla of bicycles,” says company co-founder Storm Sonders (yes, that’s his real name). But the Storm eBike doesn’t come with a Tesla-like price. At an introductory price of $499, it lives at the low end of the range for electric bikes, which can cost $3,000 or more.

Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine

Ever wanted to know what it takes to mine $1.5 million worth of bitcoin in a month? You'll find all your answers in this video.

47,000 Wikipedia Edits Made By One Man

This guy made 47,000 Wikipedia edits to fix one error...over and over and over.

Henderson has made more than 47,000 edits to Wikipedia correcting a single grammatical error, when writers use 'comprised of' instead of 'consists of'. That particular error irritates Henderson so much that he spends an hour a week fixing it on the online encyclopedia – and has done since 2007.