It would includes stricter enforcement against tech companies who mishandle your data and privacy. Privacy advocates tell senators what they want in a data protection law – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCNBC: Square CEO Jack Dorsey says CFO Sarah Friar is leaving to become CEO of Nextdoor — Independent Programming Subscribe to CNBC PRO Licensing & Reprints Join the CNBC Panel Advertise With Us Closed Captioning Digital Products Privacy Policy Corrections — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip? Square CEO Jack Dorsey says CFO
Read MoreThe 45-year-old media magnate (and son of Rupert Murdoch) is currently a nonexecutive member of Tesla’s board. Tesla close to finding a new board chair in James Murdoch, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCorrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Tech stocks had their worst day in six months as Amazon closes -6.15%, Microsoft -5.43%, Apple -4.63%, Netflix -8.38%, Google -4.6%, and Facebook -4.13% — U.S. stocks head toward their biggest decline in more than six months — U.S. stocks are headed toward their biggest decline … Tech stocks
Read MoreSilicon Valley isn’t as against defense projects as it might seem, if Luckey’s new company is any indication. Palmer Luckey talks VR and the military at Vanity Fair confab – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter a swift backlash, Verizon has removed a video highlighting the “first responders who rely on us” from YouTube. Verizon praises itself for aiding first responders after it throttled their data – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEven if you aren’t a vintage computer aficionado, you’re probably aware that older computer hard drives were massive and didn’t hold much data. Imagine a drive that weighs several pounds, and only holds 1/1000th of what today’s cheapest USB flash drives can. But what you might not realize is that if you go back long enough,
Read More“Funding secured.” When Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted the above statement early August, it kickstarted a series of things: Tesla stock jumped from about $363 to $379. The Securities and Exchange Commission launched a formal investigation into Musk — accusing him of making false and misleading statements to prop up Tesla’s value. The US
Read MoreAlex Sherman / CNBC: Sources: Apple plans to make content it owns free to device owners as part of its forthcoming TV service, launching early next year — – Apple is planning to mix free original content with subscription “channels” to existing digital video services on its “TV” application. Sources: Apple plans to make content
Read MoreWe just wrapped up the Musical Instrument Challenge in the Hackaday Prize, and that means we’re sorting through a ton of inventive electronic musical instruments. For whatever reason we can’t seem to find many non-electronic instruments. Yes, MPCs are cool, but so are strings and vibrating columns of air. That’s what makes this entry special:
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Norwegian educational gaming startup Kahoot raises ~$15.4M at a $300M valuation, tripling its March valuation — School’s back in session and a startup that’s building games to help students learn has moved to the top of the class. Kahoot — the educational gaming startup out of Norway … Norwegian educational gaming
Read MoreA growing number of simulations are helping audiences understand the consequences of ignoring hurricane evacuation warnings. Researchers say this technology could be the key to people taking hurricane warnings seriously Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Variety: Magic Leap says it will add multi-user chat rooms with custom avatars in November, support for two controllers by early next year, city-wide AR layers, and more — Augmented reality (AR) startup Magic Leap used the opening keynote of its L.E.A.P. developer conference in Los Angeles Wednesday to preview its plans
Read MoreAnna Fifield / Washington Post: As Tim Cook visits China on a multi-day trip amid trade tensions with the US, his main objective is staying in China’s good books — BEIJING — Tim Cook was all smiles at the Chaoyang Future School in Beijing on Wednesday, watching high school students use Apple Pencils on iPads.
Read MoreNo word on how much it’ll cost. (HBO Now already costs $15 a month.) AT&T plans HBO-based streaming service bundled with Turner, Warner Bros shows and movies – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company has released a fix for iOS and Android users. WhatsApp fixes video call bug that could have let hackers in, says report – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe smaller of Google’s new Pixel 3 phones throws down against the competition. Pixel 3 vs. iPhone XS vs. Galaxy S9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: How teens are using Instagram to bully each other, including making dedicated hate accounts, sometimes with a mass audience, and how Instagram is addressing it — No app is more integral to teens’ social lives than Instagram. While Millennials relied on Facebook to navigate high school and college … How
Read MoreThis may be the next Samsung Galaxy A9. Samsung phone with four rear cameras leaks ahead of Galaxy event – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere’s a certain minimum set of stuff the typical Hackaday reader is likely to have within arm’s reach any time he or she is in the shop. Soldering station? Probably. Oscilloscope? Maybe. Multimeter? Quite likely. But there’s one thing so basic, something without which countless numbers of projects would be much more difficult to complete,
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: New York’s MTA announces Transit Tech Lab, an accelerator to help vet high-tech solutions to the extensive problems with its subway and bus systems — ‘A dire need’ for new products to fix subway delays and move buses through congested streets — New York’s subways and buses are in
Read MoreThe latest batch of fast radio bursts could help us better understand the universe. New load of mysterious alien signals detected in one big haul – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSony officially announced that, after twelve years and countless user requests, it’s finally allowing users to change their PlayStation Network names. It’s opening the feature to the PlayStation Preview program so certain users can test it. The rumor that PlayStation was making this long-awaited change surfaced earlier this month, when developers hinted they’d been told
Read MoreThe agency’s watchdog found that Boeing, the main contractor, is expected to burn through the remaining contract funds by early next year, three years ahead of time and without delivering a single rocket stage. The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in price to billion, IG says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFor this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking all about FPGAs, with our own resident FPGA expert. This summer, Hackaday.io launched FPGA bootcamps, simple, easy-to-follow tutorials that will get you up and running with Verilog. These were all done by Al Williams, Hackaday’s resident FPGA hacker. Al’s an electrical engineer, author of over
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