In the wake of a mini fantasy sports scandal that erupted earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo is now banning its employees from participating in paid fantasy sports leagues. The move comes after it was revealed that an employee from DraftKings — one of the top fantasy sites today — may have used information gleaned from his position inside the company to make more informed bets on FanDuel, another leading fantasy site.
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Yes, The Martian is a great space movie because it depicts events that seem very real while building suspense and peppering everything with snarky remarks. Without spoiling the film for you, we can safely say that the space-related technology and the science used to get us to Mars sound plausible. And it turns out that the NASA actually has a plan for getting humans to Mars to better understand the red planet and potentially learn more details about its past.
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Portable Bluetooth speakers are hugely popular right now, and it’s pretty obvious why. You can go anywhere and pull out your wireless speaker to play music from your phone or anyone else’s phone in seconds. But here’s a question for you: If you’re going to carry a portable speaker with you, why not get one that can pull double duty as a portable phone charger as well?
The RiverFi Portable Bluetooth Speaker + 2600mAh Battery Bank might be just the device you’ve always wanted but never known existed.
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A new James Bond movie is about to be released, Daniel Craig’s fourth and possibly final appearance in the famous spy saga. As always, you can expect to see plenty of action-packed scenes, high-tech toys, new Bond women and cars. Focusing solely on cars for a moment, Bond will drive a custom Aston Martin DB10 in Spectre that has been designed precisely for this role.
Let’s check it out.
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Amazon has a problem: A lot of its employees seem desperately miserable. This isn’t something the company wants to become part of its permanent reputation since it will make it harder to attract top engineering talent. To fix this problem, Amazon is apparently trying to do more to figure out just how many of its employees absolutely hate their jobs and, more importantly, figure out why those employees hate their jobs.
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There’s really only one game that everyone’s going to be talking about this weekend — a game that doesn’t even launch until next month — but an interesting collaboration from Square Enix and Tecmo Koei is slated to launch on Tuesday, and although I’ve only spent a couple of hours with it, I thought it was worth sharing my initial impressions.
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For a long time now, I’ve been a big fan of SwiftKey, which I’ve found to be the most reliable third-party smartphone keyboard around. This week I was excited to see that my favorite smartphone keyboard is working on a major project that will make it smarter than ever before. Dubbed SwiftKey Neural, this experimental new keyboard software uses technology that “is based on the use of neural networks, a subfield of artificial intelligence inspired by the structure and operation of the human brain,” the company explains.
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You probably think you know several tips and tricks for improving your phone’s battery life… but some of them may be straight-up myths. LifeHacker has written a lengthy article that aims to debunk several key myths about smartphone batteries and it includes some vital information every smartphone user should know.
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If the skills section of your resume currently looks a little bare, 60 design and animation courses might help beef it up. Get the Ultimate Design & Animation Bundle for $29 at the BGR Store.
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Billions of years ago, there were lakes shimmering on Mars.
That is the conclusion from the team behind NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity, who used data from the Curiosity rover to determine that water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater. Three years ago, the rover landed at the crater and it has been exploring the area ever since.
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