The Mysteries of Animal Movement
A scientist’s unfettered curiosity leads him to investigate the physics at work in some very odd corners of the natural world. The Mysteries of Animal Movement Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA scientist’s unfettered curiosity leads him to investigate the physics at work in some very odd corners of the natural world. The Mysteries of Animal Movement Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWelcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Using a Bitcoin address for the first time is definitely cool, but it’s also a little confusing. Is it a wallet? Is it a username? Well, it’s neither. Bitcoin addresses
Read MoreAt this point, you’ve almost certainly heard of OctoPrint. The web-based control interface for 3D printers is especially popular for those who’s primary computers run on an operating system that has a penchant for occasionally imploding. Even if you aren’t laboring under that common software handicap, OctoPrint offers a wide away of compelling features. Perhaps
Read MoreMatthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: iPad Pro (2018) review: the new Pencil is one of Apple’s most impressive version 2 devices ever, the new Smart Keyboard is much more stable for lap use — Apple’s new tablet shows early signs of maturity — Laptop users have been focused for a very long time on whether the
Read MoreWelcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. With every week that passes there is a new use for blockchain that promises us a better and brighter future. Blockchain is now being used for more than just cryptocurrency,
Read MoreThe appeal brought by the telecom industry challenged federal rules that were against the blocking or slowing down of websites. The Supreme Court won’t take up net neutrality — this time Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreYang Ziyu / Sixth Tone: Weibo gives 1,638 media accounts and 1,322 Chinese government-affiliated accounts the ability to directly flag content as fake news with a customizable notice — Nearly 3,000 ‘credible’ accounts will get the authority to flag posts as fake news without any screening from Weibo. Weibo gives 1,638 media accounts and 1,322
Read MoreThe teasers show the latest Neunelfer tackling all the weather. All of it. 2020 Porsche 911 teasers offer our best look yet – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePlaygrounds were the comment sections of their day. Every weekday from exactly 1:17 PM until 1:43 PM there were swings to be swung, rumors to be spread, and debates to be settled by whomever was the loudest (some things never change). Allegiances were formed and battle lines were drawn based solely on what video game
Read MoreDidn’t you hear mobile game app sales will top $70 BILLION this year? You can line up your cut with the training found in the Complete Mobile App Game Development Kit. Fortnite pulls in more than million a day — it’s time to start building games Source: The Next Web
Read MoreIt’s Day 1 of CNET’s 10 Days of Deals! Find out why these are the best gift ever. Get a 10.1-inch Nixplay Seed widescreen digital photo frame for – CNET Source: CNet
Read More5G has the potential to reduce complexity and improve performance across the smart home. But not every company is ready to talk about it. 5G and the promise of a smart home makeover – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to Plugged Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Ever think your iPhone got slower as it got older? Same. Well, it turns out we weren’t going insane – Apple actually implemented a feature that slows down the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify announces a stock buyback program, says it will buy back up to $1B worth of stock before April 21, 2021 — In a move aimed at boosting its falling stock price, Spotify this morning announced it would buy back up to $1.0 billion worth of stock – up to 10
Read MoreLarry Dignan / ZDNet: Verizon says it will reorganize into three business units from January 1st: Consumer Group, Business Group, and Media Group/Oath — Verizon will have three units—consumer, business and media—and the business division may see the most growth due to telematics, IoT, edge computing and 5G enterprise applications. Verizon says it will reorganize
Read MoreThe government has been looking into the matter for months. Amazon, Facebook and Google are all being looked at for antitrust violations, Trump says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you need to edit PDFs, but would prefer not to end up frustrated beyond reason, the PDF Expert for Mac may just save your system and your sanity. Right now, it’s available at just $19.99 (75 percent off) from TNW Deals. If PDF equals Pretty Damn Frustrating to you, this app may change your
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Credit Karma acquires Noddle, a UK-based credit reporting service with 4 million users owned by TransUnion, to expand beyond the US and Canada — Credit Karma, the US startup with 85 million users that offers credit reports and a platform to browse and buy other financial services … Credit Karma acquires
Read MoreIn October every year, air quality takes a plunge in the Indian capital of New Delhi due to the Diwali festival. At the time of writing this story, PM10 levels in several places in the city have breached the hazardous mark of 700. To fix this problem, a startup situated near Delhi plans to make
Read MoreIt’s really bloody hard to fall asleep at 33,000 ft. A huge part of the problem is that airplane seats aren’t designed with restful snoozes in mind. There’s nothing to prevent your head from lolling towards the seat in front of you, or drifting onto the awaiting shoulder of your neighbor. One interesting solution to
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: iPad Pro(2018) review: extremely powerful with a beautiful screen, but iOS limitations like no USB-C storage support means it is still a poor laptop replacement — The thing about bullet trains is that they’re always on rails — Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with a spectacular series … iPad
Read MoreMicrosoft engineers have already ported the ProcDump utility and are currently working on porting ProcMon as well. More tools to follow. Microsoft working on porting Sysinternals to Linux Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWould you wear a shirt if the label said it was made of shit? Chances are you’re currently wearing something made of cotton. Ever since the fifth millennium BC, people have used the natural fiber derived from the cotton plant in textile production, and it’s now an enormous industry. Currently, the plant is growing on
Read MoreMany people who read Hackaday hold the title of “Webmaster” but [The Thought Emporium] is after slightly different credentials with the same title. He aims to modify a strain of yeast to produce spider silk. Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the
Read MoreChris Williams / The Register: Intel announces Xeon E-2100 CPUs aimed at low-end servers and Cascade Lake AP, a top-end variant of the next gen Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 48 cores — The AP does not stand for ‘AMD P**-off’ — In brief Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family
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