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For the Windows Phone using population of the United States, today is an important day. Across the country tens of thousands of WP handsets are finally being ushered intothe promised land of NoDo. Everyone knows the main elements of NoDo: faster app launching, Marketplace search and copy/paste support. But what about the changes that are off the record? They have the potential to be as useful, on a day-to-day basis, as the three big, announced upgrades....

The universe is getting hotter as it gets older — here’s why Surfing the cosmic web Thecosmic web(sometimes called the cosmic net) began as material connected to the first galaxies in the known Universe. As clumping began, their gravitational influence became more pronounced, bringing in still more gas. “As the Universe evolves, gravity pulls dark matter and gas in space together into galaxies and clusters of galaxies. The drag is violent — so violent that more and more gas is shocked and heated up,” said Yi-Kuan Chiang, research fellow at the Ohio State University Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics....

A few years ago, it was not uncommon to hear search people talk aboutThe Dark Web(also known as Dark Net orthe Deep Web). Basically, the Dark Web is made up pages or files that are unreachable by search engines. Examples of this sort of content include information that sits behind login, or pages without inbound links. Some estimates put the Dark Web at about 400 times the size of the Surface Web (content indexed by search engines)....

The US is banning TikTok and WeChat — but the benefits won’t outweigh the costs National security threat? The threats posed by TikTok and WeChat, according to theexecutiveorders, include the potential for the platforms to be used for disinformation campaigns by the Chinese government and to give the Chinese government access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information. Disinformation campaigns may be of particular concern, due to the upcoming election and the impact of the alleged “sweeping and systematic”Russian interferencein the 2016 elections....

It seems that US anti-piracy bodies could be seeking to extradite international website owners for copyright infringement, regardless of the level of connection the owners have with the US. If you’ve been following the extradition case of UK studentRichard O’Dwyer, then it may appear that extradition agreements between the countries have been encroaching on questionable territory. O’Dwyer used to operate a website called TVShack which linked to other websites that contained pirated versions of films and TV shows....