Day: December 4, 2018

Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor for smartphones that uses sound waves to map fingerprints (Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor for smartphones that uses sound waves to map fingerprints  —  After years of prototypes and fine-tuning, Qualcomm on Tuesday finally announced a fingerprint reader that uses sound to unlock your phone. Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor

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Replace Legacy CNC PCs With A Gerbil

There are lots of laser cutters and other CNC machines available for a decent price online, but the major hurdle to getting these machines running won’t be the price or the parts. It’s usually the controller PC, which might be running Windows XP or NT if you’re lucky, but some of them are still using

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Sound researcher quantifies how awful airplane earbuds actually are

It’s one of the worst feelings in the world: You’re on an airplane, only to realize you’ve forgotten your headphones. You’re then forced to use the pair of earbuds provided by the airline just so you don’t have to spend your flight in silence. Unfortunately, they almost always end up being even more awful than

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In a leaked email, Uber's India lead told company executives that Uber India reached an annualized bookings rate of $1.64B in Q3 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)

Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: In a leaked email, Uber’s India lead told company executives that Uber India reached an annualized bookings rate of $1.64B in Q3  —  – In an email to executives including CEO Dhara Khosrowshahi, Uber India head Pradeep Parameswaran said the company doubled its engineering team in the country as of the

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New York police say they have acquired 14 drones and have trained 29 officers to fly them but will not use them for everyday police patrol or surveillance (New York Times)

New York Times: New York police say they have acquired 14 drones and have trained 29 officers to fly them but will not use them for everyday police patrol or surveillance  —  The police say they could be used for reconstructing traffic crashes, mapping crime scenes, securing large events, and conducting search-and-rescue operations. New York

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A Neat Pen POV build

We’ve seen a lot of persistence of vision (POV) builds on bike wheels, sticks, and many other holders, but this one puts it on something new: a pen. [Befinitiv] was looking for a new way to add some smarts to everyday devices, and the result is a neat POV display that fits over a pen.

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Facebook says it will let developers build competitors to its features on its platform, reversing an earlier policy (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook says it will let developers build competitors to its features on its platform, reversing an earlier policy  —  Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform.  Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1 which stipulates … Facebook says it

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor brings ‘up to 3 times’ the AI power

Qualcomm today unveiled its next flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 855. Get ready to see that number in nearly every high-end phone released next year. As with Apple’s A12 bionic and Huawei’s Kirin 980, the 855 moves Qualcomm down to a 7nm manufacturing process, which basically means more transistors per chip, and faster performance. The

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Shanghai-based Keking, a cloud-based logistics services provider, says it has completed a ~$144M Series C led by Alibaba's Ant Financial and Centurium Capital (Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc/DealStreetAsia)

Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc / DealStreetAsia: Shanghai-based Keking, a cloud-based logistics services provider, says it has completed a ~$144M Series C led by Alibaba’s Ant Financial and Centurium Capital  —  Shanghai-headquartered cloud-based logistics services provider Keking has completed a RMB1 billion ($144-million) … Shanghai-based Keking, a cloud-based logistics services provider, says it has completed a

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Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 (Hannah Boland/Telegraph)

Hannah Boland / Telegraph: Alphabet’s Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019  —  Alphabet will start testing its drone delivery service in Europe from next year, having struggled to gain momentum for the service in the US … Alphabet’s Wing

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