Admins struggle with the latest Windows 10 1809 patch on some HP systems. More Windows 10 October update woes? HP users report BSOD after Tuesday patch Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreCory Doctorow / Boing Boing: EU Parliament rules that data generated by autonomous cars, including telemetry data, can be copyrighted, likely by car manufacturers to sell to third-parties — Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened… EU Parliament rules that data generated
Read MoreIBM fears that the JEDI deal is aimed at ‘one specific vendor’, which is not Big Blue. IBM: We're protesting over Pentagon's bn winner-take-all JEDI cloud deal Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreNASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Aleksey Ovchinin returned safely to Earth. NASA astronaut, Russian cosmonaut make emergency landing after Soyuz rocket failure – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRob Price / Business Insider: Legal chatbot service DoNotPay now helps users lock down privacy settings of social media accounts and help sue companies that expose users’ data through hacks — – Automated legal tool DoNotPay is trying to help people lock down their online privacy settings and sue companies that get hacked. Legal chatbot
Read MoreMicrosoft updated its Surface Pro line with the new Surface Pro 6. But it’s not the only Windows 10 2-in-1 available on the market. Here are some really compelling alternatives to consider. Microsoft Surface Pro 6 alternatives you can buy right now Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe breadboard microcontroller experimenter has a host of platforms to work with that can be had in the familiar DIP format. Old-school people can still find classic 8-bit platforms, the Ardunisti have their ATMegas, and PIC lovers have a pile of chips to choose from. But ARM experimenters? Out of luck, because as we have
Read MoreSingapore’s financial regulator has revealed it will help local cryptocurrency firms set up traditional bank accounts, to help boost the country’s fintech economy. “What we are trying to do is to bring the banks and cryptocurrency fintech startups together to see if there is some understanding they can reach,” Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director
Read MoreIdeas are mysterious things. Sometimes the worst ones smell like solid gold, sometimes the profit-driving powerhouses masquerade as giant turds. Telling the difference, it seems, takes a certain measure of psychotic genius. Where, for example, is the hazy boundary of brilliance that separates the Slinky from, say, Picnic Pants? Maybe I just have no vision, but if you’d asked
Read MoreRoy Trakin / Variety: IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the worldwide record business, released its Music Consumer Insight Report … IFPI report: 86%
Read MoreLet the memes begin. No one's ever seen a moonmoon but the internet already loves them – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreToday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Samsung announced the world’s first phone with four cameras on the back: the Galaxy A9. The company has aimed the mid-range device at photography enthusiasts. A few days ago, Samsung released the Galaxy A7 with three rear cameras. Now, it has gone all guns blazing with a quad-camera system on
Read MoreSouth Korean lawmakers will decide the future of domestic initial coin offerings (ICOs) in November, but that hasn’t stopped its top financial regulator from lashing out at the cryptocurrency market one last time. Financial Services Commission (FSC) chairman Choi Jong-ku has continued to back his governments ban on public ICOs, enacted last September, saying it is
Read MoreAngela Watercutter / Wired: How some climate scientists use a Fortnite channel on Twitch to discuss and disseminate information about climate change to a young audience — I KNOW VERY little about climate change. I know even less about Fortnite. And Twitch. (Yes, I know; I should be fired.) How some climate scientists use a
Read MoreThe successful demonstration of remote-controlled “drones-bees” by Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has been making news since Tuesday. But the buzz surrounding the drone’s applications could be much hyped, according to at least two independent estimates by biologists. Many popular news websites reported that the university’s drone-bees could successfully replace real bees in
Read MoreIn an effort to stimulate the wider adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech, social trading platform eToro is making it significantly cheaper to invest in crypto-assets. The global company, which already boasts more than 10 million users, has reduced fees for spread trades on its platform by more than half for a number of assets,
Read MoreSumUp, the London-based payments startup, today launched the SumUp 3G Reader — a card terminal that lets merchants process payments without the need for a mobile app or a constant Wi-Fi connection. Previous iterations of SumUp’s card reader hardware required users to tether the device to either a smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth. This approach
Read MoreThe latest list of challenges has been leaked early as usual, and though they’re subject to change, we can help you get a head start now. Fortnite season 6, week 3 challenges and how to complete them – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA property of radio waves is that they tend to reflect off things. Metal surfaces in particular act as good reflectors, and by studying how these reflections work, it’s possible to achieve all manner of interesting feats. [destevez] decided to have some fun with reflections from local air traffic, and was kind enough to share
Read MoreSocial media reliance is so rampant in today’s landscape that it has come to drive some of our best and worst impulses and experiences. Outside of cyberbullying and poor treatment, there are much more serious implications—like when a community turns these platforms into a weapon to smear and systematically destroy the lives of others. It’s a
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Read MoreThey just stopped flying in the darkness. Scientists discover bees stop buzzing during solar eclipses – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn a move that might surprise a few people, Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s joining Open Innovation Network (OIN) – an open source patent consortium – and making its entire portfolio of patents open source. Microsoft will add nearly 60,000 patents to OIN, vastly enlarging its existing pool of 1,300 global patents. In the past few
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Apple to buy a part of Dialog Semiconductor, a chipmaker based out of Europe, for $300M in cash, and will commit $300M in further purchases from the business — Apple has quietly been putting considerable effort into building faster and more efficient chips that can help differentiate … Apple to buy
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