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Europe’s Net Neutrality Doesn’t Ban BitTorrent Throttling

Millions of Europeans will have to do with throttling on BitTorrent. The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communication (BEREC) published its guidelines for Europe’s net neutrality rules on Tuesday in which it hasn’t challenged the BitTorrent throttling practices by many ISPs. TorrentFreak reports:Today, BEREC presented its final guidelines on the implementation of Europe’s net […]

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Mitsubishi Overstated Mileage For More Vehicle Models, Japan Ministry Says

Earlier this year Mitsubishi admitted to using some less-than-correct tactics when calculating the fuel economy of four of its Japanese market vehicles. But that wasn’t the end of the scandal. The Japanese transport ministry has announced that its investigation into Mitsubishi’s practices has revealed eight additional vehicles with misreported fuel economy numbers. Reuters reports: Earlier […]

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Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell

Jason H. Harper, writing for The Verge: Et tu, Hyundai? Until recently, the Korean brand offered two upmarket cars, the Genesis and the Equus. The first name had biblical shades and the latter shared a title with a play where an adolescent likes to get naked and straddle horses. So while the connotations were a […]

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Facebook Lets Users Prompt Danger Alert

Facebook’s Safety Check is a handy service that allows people to let their friends and family know they are okay in an event of emergency. The social giant announced the next major step for this feature. From a BBC report: Facebook is to enable members to trigger its Safety Check service themselves if a dangerous […]

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Google’s Close To Beating Amazon, Microsoft For a Major Cloud Client: Sources

An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: Google’s aggressive push into cloud computing, where it trails Amazon.com and Microsoft, has put the internet giant in the lead position to land a marquee client: PayPal. While Google is the front-runner, according to people familiar with the matter, PayPal is evaluating the other leading providers and hasn’t […]

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Early Human Ancestor Lucy ‘Died Falling Out of a Tree’

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: New evidence suggests that the famous fossilized human ancestor dubbed “Lucy” by scientists died falling from a great height — probably out of a tree. CT scans have shown injuries to her bones similar to those suffered by modern humans in similar falls. The 3.2 million-year-old hominin […]

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C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index

Gamoid writes: The venerable C programming language hit a 15-year low on the TIOBE Index, perhaps because more mobile- and web-friendly languages like Swift and Go are starting to eat its lunch. “The C programming language has a score of 11.303%, which is its lowest score ever since we started the TIOBE index back in […]

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Tesla To Further Restrict Its Autopilot Software To Prevent Accidents

Tesla is planning to further restrict its Autopilot mode via a v8.0 software update that will make it much harder for drivers to ignore safety alerts. Tesla’s Autopilot currently issues alerts on the dashboard “reading Hold Steering Wheel and the driver has to apply pressure on the wheel to make it go away,” reports Electrek. […]

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European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Commission will rule against Ireland’s tax dealings with Apple on Tuesday, two source familiar with the decision told Reuters, one of whom said Dublin would be told to recoup over 1 billion euros in back taxes. The European Commission accused Ireland in 2014 of dodging […]

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Judge Allows Kim Dotcom To Livestream Court Hearing

Kim Dotcom has been granted the right to livestream his extradition appeal on YouTube. The appeal hearing began Monday, but will be livestreamed tomorrow because “the cameraman needs to set this up professionally and implement the judge’s live streaming rules.” tweets Kim Dotcom. Mashable reports: “The United States, which wants Dotcom extradited from New Zealand, […]

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