Day: December 4, 2018

    • New York City adopts the nation's first pay floor for rideshare drivers, approving measures for a $26.51/hour gross pay floor, est. $17.22/hour after expenses (Bryan Menegus/Gizmodo)

    Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: New York City adopts the nation’s first pay floor for rideshare drivers, approving measures for a $26.51/hour gross pay floor, est. $17.22/hour after expenses  —  Today, New York’s City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno. New

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up to 3x better AI performance than last gen, and its new under-display fingerprint reader using an ultrasonic sensor (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up to 3x better AI performance than last gen, and its new under-display fingerprint reader using an ultrasonic sensor  —  This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit.  Sadly, we’re not there … Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up

    0Shares
    Read More
    New rules guarantee minimum wage for NYC Uber, Lyft drivers

    New York City ride hailing drivers are guaranteed a minimum wage following the a vote by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission Tuesday. The rate — set at $17.22 per hour after expenses — makes New York the first American city to adopt minimum pay for app-based drivers, according to the Independent Drivers Guild. New

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU (Joseph Menn/Reuters)

    Joseph Menn / Reuters: Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week …

    0Shares
    Read More
    ​Microsoft, SpaceX, and T-Mobile's various plans to bring broadband to rural America

    If you live in the country, chances are you don’t have internet broadband. While the FCC and most major ISPs continue to spin their wheels, three major technology companies are working to bring true broadband to rural areas. ​Microsoft, SpaceX, and T-Mobile’s various plans to bring broadband to rural America Source: ZDNet Microsoft

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available  —  There’s now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes. Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group  —  Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday. Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a .5M Series

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019  —  Samsung announced yesterday that it’s set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise. Following Verizon, AT&T says it

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Leisure Suit Larry’s source code reaches over $10,000 in eBay bids

    The creator of Leisure Suit Larry has just unearthed the source codes of several games, including the first two games in the series. He’s put the code on eBay, and interested gamers have already driven the bids into five figures. I’ll wager it’s been a long time since most of us have heard the name “Leisure

    0Shares
    Read More
    • A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend (Casey Newton/The Interface)

    Casey Newton / The Interface: A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend  —  I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th

    0Shares
    Read More
    Adorable Desktop Disc Sander Warms Our Hearts and Our Parts

    Casually browsing YouTube for “shop improvements” yields a veritable river of project ideas, objects for cat amusement, and 12 INCREDIBLE SHOP HACKS YOU WON’T BELIEVE, though some of these are of predictably dubious value. So you might imagine that when we found [Henrique]’s adorable disc sander we dismissed it out of hand, how useful could

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Facebook schedules F8 2019 for April 30-May 1 in San Jose (Anna Hensel/VentureBeat)

    Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: Facebook schedules F8 2019 for April 30-May 1 in San Jose  —  Developers, mark your calendars: Facebook announced today that its annual F8 conference will be held on April 30 – May 1, 2019 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.  —  Though Facebook hasn’t released the official schedule

    0Shares
    Read More
    • Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

    Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales  —  – ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand  — Analysts look again for what’s next beyond the iPhone Apple

    0Shares
    Read More
    Daphne Oram and the Birth of Electronic Music

    For most of human history, musical instruments were strictly mechanical devices. The musician either plucked something, blew into or across something, or banged on something to produce the sounds the occasion called for. All musical instruments, the human voice included, worked by vibrating air more or less directly as a result of these mechanical manipulations.

    0Shares
    Read More