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Read MoreWe all have fond memories of a toy from our younger days. Most of which are still easy enough to get your hands on thanks to eBay or modern reproductions, but what if your childhood fancies weren’t quite as mainstream? What if some of your fondest memories involved playing with 1960’s educational games which are
Read MoreIt’s only a few key steps away from being Apple’s killer computer. But when will Apple take those steps? What the iPad Pro needs next – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe brand name on the pump tells you less than you think. Is cheap gas good for your car? – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan — Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Artificial general intelligence is far from
Read MoreTawanda Kanhema took a bunch of 360-degree cameras to the streets of Zimbabwe and even managed to map the Zambezi river on a speedboat. This man spent ,000 of his own money to put Zimbabwe on Street View – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn August 2017, the controversy over Bitcoin’s scalability issues led to its blockchain being split for the first time in history, resulting in its first hard fork — Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Bitcoin Cash was a cryptocurrency with a purpose. Its proponents wanted a digital currency that would reduce high transaction fees associated with Bitcoin (BTC),
Read MoreThis holiday period, Plugged is running a very special advent calendar. Over the course of 12 days, we’ll be sharing a selection of sweet, sweet deals. You can thank us later. You know what? We couldn’t just stop at 12 days of TNW advent — we’re going to take it up to 14. So, on the
Read MoreHe would like you to stop doing them in 2019. This Internet Person Thinks Your ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Memes Are Terrible Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: France, Germany, Italy, and UK secure EU approval to grant €1.75B in state aid to a joint microelectronics project, expecting €6B more from private investors — BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France, Germany, Italy and Britain secured EU approval on Tuesday to grant 1.75 billion euros … France, Germany, Italy, and UK
Read MoreWe’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control
Read MoreHere at TNW every day is a present, so it’s always our birthday. But we understand that the world can be a bit of a bummer for everyone else. After all, we write about the dark underbelly of science and technology: Elon Musk. Kidding, actually there’s a lot more wrong with science and tech than
Read MoreAlex Howard / E Pluribus Unum: Congress passes the Open Government Data Act, which requires public information to be open to the public by default in a machine readable format — On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017 …
Read MoreAnyone who has decorated a Christmas tree knows that the lights are what really make the look. But no matter how many strings you wrap around it, there never seems to be enough. Plus the standard sets either sit there and do nothing, or just blink on and off at regular intervals. Yawn. But hackers
Read MoreWall Street Journal: As Snap hits an all-time low, sources describe Evan Spiegel’s instinctual and imperious management style that can stifle dissent and led to the redesign debacle — Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular As Snap hits an
Read MoreIt credits the success of its P20 and Honor 10 phones, among others. Huawei exceeds 200 million smartphone shipments, setting company record – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEntries into the Circuit Sculpture Contest tend to be pretty minimalist by nature, and this LED candle by [Amal Mathew] is a perfect example. The idea here was to recreate the slim and uncomplicated nature of a real candle but with a digital twist, and we think he’s pulled it off nicely with a bare
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Crew, a chat app targeting businesses that employ shift workers like multi-store retailers and fast-food chains, raises $35M Series C — When it comes to shift workers communicating with each other in the workplace when they are not face-to-face, gone are the days of cork announcement boards. Crew, a chat app
Read MoreBrian Barrett / Wired: How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more — IT’S FAIR TO say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren’t quite
Read MoreFew inventions affected our relationship with technology as much as push notifications have. Before modern-day notifications, most of us felt in charge of deciding when we want to use and interact with technology, but now, technology is largely making that decision for us. It’s easy to blame technology, but it’s important to note that it
Read MoreThe entirety of Silicon Valley is predicated on the ability to ‘move fast and break laws’. Have an idea for a scooter startup? No problem, just throw a bunch of scooters on the curb, littering and e-waste laws be damned. Earlier this year, Swarm Technologies launched four rogue satellites on an Indian rocket. All commercial
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: HQ Trivia to launch HQ Words tonight, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that’s been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO — HQ’s expansion beyond trivia emerges from beta tonight, but the question is whether it’s different and accessible enough to revive the startup’s growth. HQ Trivia
Read MoreScrappy business people are fantastic people to work with — lean, mean, execution machines. But there comes a point where all scrap and no strategy results in a hard working team that are running to stand-still. Many small company CEOs lean too far into the COO role, at the expensive of setting — and ensuring
Read MoreCraig Mod / Wired: Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book — THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. Although the functionality of
Read MoreBuilding a real-life version of the Star Trek tricorder has been the goal of engineers and hackers alike since the first time Dr McCoy complained about being asked to work outside of his job description. But while modern technology has delivered gadgets remarkably similar in function, we’ve still got a long way to go before we replicate
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