A colleague of mine used to say he juggled a lot of balls; steel balls, plastic balls, glass balls, and paper balls. The trick was not to drop the glass balls. How do you know which is which? For example, suppose you were tasked with making sure a nuclear power plant was safe. What would
Read MoreShowcased at Apple’s WWDC, the Lego app does multiplayer AR. Lego Playgrounds app hits App Store, mixing AR and real Lego pieces – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWho nose what the deal is with this eel in a seal snoot? Seal with eel stuck up its snout gets help from nosy scientists – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRe-listen to your summer anthem or your fave album that dropped at the beginning of the year. Spotify's Wrapped playlist brings back your favorite songs of 2018 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCEO Pete Lau’s prediction of a price tag that’s $200 to $300 more than the OnePlus 6T confirms that 5G phones won’t come cheap. OnePlus' 5G phone is going to cost you much more than its predecessors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s Chrome project will now become that much more dominant. Google gains power over web as Microsoft rebuilds Edge browser on Chrome tech – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: Firefly, which wants to use GPS and other sensors to display contextual ads on ride-sharing cars, raises $21.5M in seed funding — A car is just a packet carrying a payload through a network so plopping an ad unit atop it as it caroms from node to node is
Read MoreMichael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres — Pandora has officially launched its podcasts platform today after running a beta on iOS and Android for about three weeks. Podcasts on Pandora is now available for all users … Pandora officially launches
Read MoreWith yesterday’s addition of Zcash (ZEC), popular exchange service Coinbase has more than doubled its cryptocurrency lineup in 2018 – and by the looks of it, the trend is here to stay. Up until August, Coinbase supported a narrow inventory of cryptocurrencies on its flagship desktop and mobile apps, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin
Read MoreA three-judge panel expressed skepticism that the government proved the merger would harm consumers. It’s not looking great for the Justice Department’s appeal of the AT&T-Time Warner merger Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIt’s a new era for Microsoft. After dominating the early web with Internet Explorer and struggling to reach the same prominence with Edge, the company today announced it will be transitioning its browser to a Chromium-based platform in 2019. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. But Microsoft doesn’t just see the move as a
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google’s open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its
Read MoreMicrosoft’s grand browser experiment flopped in the marketplace, so the company is turning to an unlikely successor: the open-source Chromium project. Can it succeed where EdgeHTML failed? Microsoft Edge: What went wrong, what's next Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreMicrosoft is going to remake its Edge desktop browser by using Chromium components and by bringing it to Windows 7, 8.1 and macOS, in addition to Windows 10. Microsoft's Edge to morph into a Chromium-based, cross-platform browser Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read More{$inline_image} Mix / The Next Web: Kik begins rolling out tipping using its Kin cryptocurrency, letting users send tips to admins and mods, available only in group chats initially — Kik is getting ready to roll out its Kin cryptocurrency to its mobile messenger in a big way. — The company has announced a new
Read MoreIt’s often said that if something is worth doing it’s worth doing right, or maybe even worth overdoing. This is clearly a concept that [ANTALIFE] takes very seriously, as made abundantly clear by projects like the solar powered “beating” heart he made as a gift for his wife. What for most of us would have ended
Read MoreFew could have predicted where the Web would take us when it was first getting off the ground. But now, with the average American spending 24 hours online each week, it’s safe to say the Web plays a major part in our daily lives. This is both a good and bad thing. On one hand,
Read MoreAnother day, another mad cryptocurrency anomaly. For a brief moment, the price of Ethereum on Coinbase Pro (formerly known as GDAX) collapsed from almost $100 down to a measly $13. The incident took place at around 6 AM UTC. Since then, the price of Ethereum – the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin
Read More“The prototype was $12 in parts, so I’ll sell it for $15.” That is your recipe for disaster, and why so many Kickstarter projects fail. The Bill of Materials (BOM) is just a subset of the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and if you aren’t selling your product for more than your COGS, you will
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: LeanIX, a SaaS that lets enterprises map out their software architecture, raises $30M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners — LeanIX, the Software-as-a-Service for ‘Enterprise Architecture Management’, has closed $30 million in Series C funding. — The round is led by Insight Venture Partners … LeanIX, a SaaS that lets
Read MoreThink a 3D fingerprint reader, killer speeds and portrait mode for your videos, not just your photos. 6 ways Snapdragon 855 could make the Galaxy S10 soar in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest update, WatchOS 5.1.2, rolled out two new heart features that could help warn users of life-threatening conditions. The Apple Watch EKG detected something strange about my heart rhythm – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIts rainbow lights make me incredibly happy. In praise of the Razer Phone 2's wireless charger – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Assassination of Gianni Versace, The Americans and Barry were among the big TV nominees. A Star is Born, Black Panther win 2019 Golden Globe movie nominations – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChristina Farr / CNBC: Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live today in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, allowing users to detect irregular heart rhythms — Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart’s electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device. Apple
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