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Long Island Tech News: Red Bull heir still evading police arrest. Appears to be living life just fine.
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From "The Department of Why?" - ArsTechnia: Logitech releases the first trackball mouse in almost ten years.
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C|Net: Mazda's next gen high tech, 2020 and beyond.

...the Skyactiv-X technology works by making a gasoline engine operate something like a diesel engine under certain conditions. At low engine speeds, traditional gas combustion is used, igniting the air-fuel mixture with spark plugs in the combustion chamber. As the revs climb, Skyactiv-X switches off the plugs and relies solely on the high pressure in the combustion chamber to ignite the gasoline without the need for a spark.

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Tech Crunch: Facebook sold political ads to a Russian company in 2016.
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Tech News World: Vivaldi CEO alleges Google retaliated for privacy criticism.

Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner, the brains behind both the new Vivaldi browser and the early Opera browser, on Monday accused Google of retaliating against his company after he questioned its customer privacy practices.

Vivaldi's Google Adwords campaigns mysteriously were suspended just two days after von Tetzchner's criticisms of Google's handling of customer data appeared in a Wired article this spring, he said.
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[It] That was the second time that Google suspended Vivaldi's AdWords campaign in 12 months[.]

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Gizmodo: The "inventor" of Email had his lawsuit tossed out of court.

...Shiva Ayyadurai, the self-identified “inventor of email,” was tossed out by a Massachusetts judge today, concluding a baseless suit filed against Techdirt back in January. According to the site, the judge also “rejected Ayyadurai’s request to file an amended complaint.” 

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Tech nostalgia. BetaNews: It was eleven years ago today that TDK developed Blu-Ray. 
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Whoa! BGR: Epson unveils a 130-inch screen-free TV. Price: $ 3 Grand.
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Webopedia: Do you know the five generations of computers? Six if you include the abacus.  😎
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What is this, you ask?

Image credit: Dinara Kasko

It's a cake. New Atlas: A 3-D cake at that.

[Dinara] Kasko initially created a series of different 3D-printed geometric molds comprised of six different models based on simple geometrical figures. The result was a set of several small, concrete-like objects, that when cut open revealed a complex and delicious cake.

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MIT Tech Review: Shoplifting; in the autonomous, self-check out age.
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You know IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. MIT Tech Review: What is an ICO? Initial Coin Offering.

...an ICO does indeed work similarly to an initial public offering. Instead of offering shares in a company, though, a firm is instead offering digital assets called “tokens.”

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Live Science: A virtual tour inside of a volcano.
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Science News: Machines are learning "fairness."

Machine-learning programs can introduce biases that may harm job seekers, loan applicants and more[.]
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... the inner workings of an algorithm could make the difference between someone getting parole, an executive position, a mortgage or even a scholarship. So computer and data scientists are coming up with creative ways to work around the black box status of machine-learning algorithms.

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Science Magazine: Why people are willing to die fighting for a cause.

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Image: straightfromthea.com

ZD Net: Here come the flying taxis. (The story itself is a 46 second video. The bad news...you have to sit through a 30 second ad before the story starts).

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Extreme Tech: Hurricane Irma is LARGER than the state of Ohio.