Top Stories of the Day // September 10, 2016

Saturday, September 10, 2016 Posted by bloggerdaddy
Dropbox responds to accusations its Mac desktop client hacks OS X security | The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income | Confirmed: Honest Company in talks to sell | Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup | The drone race is off and running, with Israel in the lead | Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music | Ford Smart Mobility acquires Chariot to boost its smart city transit plans |
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas

Dropbox responds to accusations its Mac desktop client hacks OS X security

Dropbox has responded to concerns about how it implements the desktop client of its cloud storage service on Apple's macOS platform, conceding it needs to do... Read More…
Scott Santens

The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income

It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal... Read More…
Connie Loizos

Confirmed: Honest Company in talks to sell

The Honest Company, the consumer products startup that has largely operated in the limelight thanks to its famous cofounder, actress Jessica Alba, is talking... Read More…
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Devin Coldewey

Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup

What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you're pretty sure it'll crumble into dust if you even crack the cover a little bit? Well, nothing:... Read More…
Yoav Leitersdorf, Ofer Schreiber, Iren Reznikov

The drone race is off and running, with Israel in the lead

Audiences around the globe enjoyed all the action of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games thanks in large part to the drones hovering above the events (or below them),... Read More…
Devin Coldewey

Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music

Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it's pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for... Read More…
Darrell Etherington

Ford Smart Mobility acquires Chariot to boost its smart city transit plans

Ford Smart Mobility, the company founded by Ford Motor Company to help provide alternate means of transportation, just made its first acquisition: Chariot, the... Read More…
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