The US Navy just put a futuristic HUD in a diving helmet and other top stories.

• The US Navy just put a futuristic HUD in a diving helmet

  

  The project is still in the early stages, but the potential of DAVD is fairly promising. A heads-up display with real-time data could be a big boon for underwater missions, offering divers sonar data, photographs of what they might be looking for, briefing data, text messages and more. Project leader Dennis Gallagher likens it to Tony Stark's augmented display from the Iron Man films. "You have everything you visually need right there within the helmet," he says.The DAVD helmet is a little more..

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• Facebook officially addressed the conspiracy theory about listening to your phone calls

  

  Facebook has shut down rumors that it uses your mobile device's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations so it can better target ads. In a statement issued on June 2nd, Facebook said it "does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed." The company says it only shows ads based on people's interests and other profile information. Facebook is responding directly to claims made by Kelli Burns, a professor of mass communications at University of South Flori..

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• Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time

  

  This backlit Pluto photo was captured on July 14, 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons probe, shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet. Mountains, ice plains and a possible cloud are visible in the sunlit portion of the photo (top inset), while rugged topography is apparent on Pluto’s dark side (bottom inset). Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skie..

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• Dear millennials: Instagram doesn't owe you anything

  

  It's time to stop freaking out about your Instagram feed.  Yes, Instagram has started rolling out its new algorithmic-based feed, which may make posts appear "out of order." Yes, it's a big change and yes, people are freaking out about it. But they shouldn't. Complaining on social media about an Instagram update is about as pointless as expecting your iPhone battery to last all day. Losing it As with any big change to Instagram (or Facebook or Snapchat or Twitter), the new Instagram feed was ba..

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• Can We Make A Computer Make Art?

  

  In the summer of 2015, researchers at Google realized they could make their artificial intelligence algorithms dream. They set the programs to not just classify images, but enhance what they saw. The machines showed their interpretation of art. The researchers found they could also set the programs to generate images, giving an idea of how the machine thought certain objects looked. This discovery came on the rising tide of the idea that machines could be creative tools. Nearly a year later, Goo..

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• Study suggests dogs first appeared in 2 places in Eurasia

  

  NEW YORK (AP) — The long-debated question of where dogs first appeared has always been complex, and now a new study suggests it may have two answers. Dogs arose from the domestication of wolves, and the study suggests this happened twice, once in Asia and also in either Europe or the Near East. “We were slightly surprised,” since domestic animals usually have a single origin, said Oxford University’s Laurent Frantz, the study’s lead author. The paper, released Thursday in the journal Science, u..

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• Computex highlighted VR's growing pains

  

  Take the VR rower I tried a few days ago, which had me wearing an HTC Vive while using an ergometer. I do like the idea of pretending you're paddling in a kayak rather than on a stationary rower, but it doesn't seem very practical for most consumers as it requires the investment of not just a VR headset but a specialized computer. How many people will buy this? Will gyms and fitness centers cough up the cash for it? If they do, how will they solve the issue of the sweaty headset? (Believe me, i..

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• Tony Fadell is leaving Nest

  

  Tony Fadell is leaving Nest, the home automation company he founded and sold to Google (now Alphabet). He'll be stepping into an advisor role to Larry Page and Alphabet, but won't be involved in Nest day-to-day. According to a blog post he just put up, the transition has been in progress since "late last year" — but recent reports of turmoil, a disastrous acquisition of Dropcam, and delays at Nest plus Tony's new electric go-kart company Actev Motors have certainly fueled a sense that change wo..

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• This Underwater 'Lost City' Is Actually a Natural Phenomenon

  

  Underwater structures once thought to be remnants of an ancient civilization were actually created by nature, according to a recent study. First discovered by snorkelers off the coast of the Greek island Zakynthos, the “lost city” appeared to be a long-forgotten civilization outpost, but a study published in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology on Friday says the structures were created millions of years ago by a geological phenomenon. There were earlier clues, too, that what appeared to b..

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