Month: November 2018

Sources: EU's antitrust regulators sent questionnaires to Google rivals last month, asking for details on Google's practices and impact on competing services (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU’s antitrust regulators sent questionnaires to Google rivals last month, asking for details on Google’s practices and impact on competing services  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators have asked Google’s rivals if the internet search giant unfairly demotes local search competitors … Sources: EU’s antitrust regulators sent questionnaires

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Microsoft’s new Office logos are a beautiful glimpse of the future

Microsoft was one of the pioneers of the current trend of flat design, but recently the company has been evolving its aesthetic into something a bit more three-dimensional. Last year, it unveiled its new approach, called Fluent design, adding depth, lighting, motion, and more to its aesthetic. Fluent has slowly been making its way into Windows,

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Streamlabs CEO describes building monetization tools for Twitch & YouTube

As streamers have grown from being scrappy amateurs to professionals, the tools that facilitate their careers have undergone a similar evolution. While several of the tools are integrated into the streaming platforms themselves, successful streaming relies, to an almost astonishing degree, on third-party software. As Twitch, YouTube, and the like have risen to be entertainment

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Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020 (Stephen Hall/9to5Google)

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020  —  According to source familiar with the product’s internal roadmap, Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020.  That’s not entirely unsurprising since Google essentially ceased development on the app more than a year ago. Source:

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Fallout 76 would have been marginally less disastrous on Steam

Bethesda has been widely lambasted for its latest game, open-world MMO Fallout 76 — both for releasing the game when it was nigh-unplayable, and for allegedly refusing to issue some gamers refunds. This tidal wave of censure begs the question: would the company still be having this problem if it’d released its game on Steam rather

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DHS proposes H-1B visa rule changes that would prioritize workers with US advanced degrees and make it harder for outsourcers to hire cheaper staff from abroad (Melia Russell/San Francisco Chronicle)

Melia Russell / San Francisco Chronicle: DHS proposes H-1B visa rule changes that would prioritize workers with US advanced degrees and make it harder for outsourcers to hire cheaper staff from abroad  —  Stacked shipments of H-1B visa petitions outside a government processing center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., April 3, 2017. DHS proposes H-1B visa

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Air Bubble Characters Float Along This Unique Scrolling Display

We’ve seen a lot of unique large-format scrolling message boards on these pages, but most of them use some sort of established technology – LEDs, electromechanical flip-dots, and the like – in new and unusual ways. We’re pretty sure this air-bubble dot matrix display is a first, though. While it may not be destined for

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Scientists work to accurately model human pain in robot brains

It’s almost certain, based on current research trends, that an artificial brain will replicate the organic pain experience in its entirety one day. So here’s a thought experiment: if a tree falls in the forest, and it lands on a robot with an artificial nervous system connected to an artificial brain running an optimized pain

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‘Quantum healing’ is the new snake oil

Holistic healers are increasingly embracing “quantum physics” as the new age answer to all ailments. Because, of course, nobody understands the nuances of advanced physics like someone who eschews a medical education in favor of ancient mysticism from the Kindle province of Amazon. A little over a decade ago, Deepak Chopra – a person who’s

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Venafi, which protects machine identities like cryptographic keys and digital certificates to minimize harm after a network is breached, raises $100M (Martin Coulter/Financial Times)

Martin Coulter / Financial Times: Venafi, which protects machine identities like cryptographic keys and digital certificates to minimize harm after a network is breached, raises $100M  —  A start-up specialising in “machine identity protection” has secured $100m in its latest round of financing, led by Silicon Valley-based … Venafi, which protects machine identities like cryptographic

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