What the Galaxy S10 really needs – CNET
Samsung’s next flagship can take a tip from the iPhone XS and Pixel 3. What the Galaxy S10 really needs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSamsung’s next flagship can take a tip from the iPhone XS and Pixel 3. What the Galaxy S10 really needs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLight is a wonderful medium for art, and there’s all manner of ways to approach it. We’ve always been huge fans of all that blinks and glows, but there’s a whole wide world of other methods and techniques in the lighting arena. Lumia is one that does not always get a lot of mainstream attention,
Read MoreUgh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This December-ish roundup lands on the awe-inspiring Cold Moon! Since my last post, the US patent
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. Need the deals from day 10? Go over here. On the eleventh day of TNW’s advent, the lovely team gave to me… A “buy
Read MoreAmazon has been a good performer in 2018, and is up nearly 40 percent in the year. In September, the share price for it hit $2,000. The Seattle-based American electronic commerce company, whose CEO and founder is Jeff Bezos — America’s richest as noted by Forbes —was created in 1994. Back in 1997, when it issued its initial
Read MoreThe Game Boy Camera is a legendary piece of 90s gaming hardware, despite not being a game at all. It consisted of a low-resolution greyscale camera, fitted to a Game Boy cartridge, that you could use to photograph your friends, vandalise their pictures, then print them out on a thermal printer. It’s hardware that was
Read More2018 has been a year with some awesome games, and some not-so-awesome things happening in the gaming industry. Here are the biggest stories we saw in gaming this year. The Jacksonville shooting We can’t bring up this year’s events in the gaming industry without bringing up the tragedy in Jacksonville, Florida. Two gamers lost their
Read MoreWe all have that app on our phone we’ve been meaning to delete. You might be wasting too much time on it, its creators might be morally corrupt, or it simply hogs up too much space on your phone. It’s a difficult process to take the final step and let it go, but anything’s possible
Read MoreRyan Mac / BuzzFeed News: A timeline of Facebook’s scandals in 2018 lists 31 entries, showing the company faced a major problem, on average, every 12 days this year — Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems. A timeline of Facebook's scandals
Read MoreSteven Loeb / VatorNews: ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer — ACV Auctions will use the funding to continue to expand to new markets across the country — Financial trends and news by Steven
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to sit at the console of the machine that started the revolution in interactive computing, your options are extremely limited. Of the 53 PDP-1 machines that Digital Equipment Corporation made, only three are known to still exist, and just one machine is still in working order at the Computer History Museum.
Read MoreKaitlin Thaney / Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia says Facebook, which uses Wikipedia content to provide information on article sources in the News Feed, has donated $1M to the Wikimedia Endowment — We are pleased to announce that Facebook, one of the world’s leading social networking platforms, has given $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment … Wikimedia
Read MoreKNSD-TV: The San Diego Unified School District says a phishing attack exposed personal info of 500K+ students and staff, including full names, addresses, SSNs, and more — Student records from 2008 up to the present are impacted, district officials told NBC 7 — 500K Student Records Compromised in SDUSD Data Breach The San Diego Unified
Read MoreOne of the nice things about living in the Internet age is that creating amazing simulations and animations is relatively simple today. [SmarterEveryDay] recently did a video that shows this off, discussing a blog post (which was in Turkish) to show how sine waves can add together to create arbitrary waveforms. You can see the
Read MoreSlack: Slack says it inadvertently deactivated some accounts after update to comply with US trade regulations, didn’t block any user based on nationality or ethnicity — Two days ago, we updated our system for applying location information to comply with U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations. Slack says it inadvertently deactivated some accounts after
Read MoreHerbie meets Short Circuit in this adorable 1980s throwback. Bumblebee review: The Transformers movie we've been waiting for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen I was young, I remember my mother telling me I can go play only after I finish my homework. Which was goddam frustrating at the time. But thinking about this, I realize most of the things I was doing back then were automatically classified into 2 groups: a fun group — when I was allowed to
Read MoreMegan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Self-driving car startup Zoox granted the first permit by California to transport passengers in driverless vehicles in the state as part of a pilot program — While more than 60 companies have received permits to test their driverless vehicles in California, Zoox has become the first permitted … Self-driving car
Read MoreJon Russell / TechCrunch: Sources: SoftBank’s Vision Fund is planning to invest $1B in Singapore-based ride-hailing service Grab; source: investment could be as much as $1.5B — SoftBank’s Vision Fund is set to continue its recent spree of investments in Asian tech unicorns. The mega fund — which is targeted at $100 billion — is
Read MoreThe Macintosh SE/30 is the greatest computer ever made, and I’m not saying that just because I’m sitting on a cache of them, slowly selling them to computer collectors around the world. No, the SE/30 is so great because of how powerful it is, and how much it can be expanded. A case in point:
Read MorePaul Thurrott / Thurrott: Sources: Microsoft is planning to release 4K webcams in 2019, including one with Windows Hello-based authentication and one that is enterprise-focused — It’s been several years since Microsoft has released a webcam. But two separate sources tell me that the firm is plotting a return to this market in 2019. Sources:
Read MoreThe DC Extended Universe movie offers a little sequel bait. Warning, spoilers ho! Aquaman post-credits scene, explained – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Chat app Discord has raised a $150M round at a $2.05B valuation and says it now has ~200M users, more than four times what it had a year ago — The company plans to spend $150 million to move into new areas, including selling videogames online — Discord
Read MoreDon’t throw away your shot to hear this moving testament to love of country. Hear Barack Obama as George Washington in new Hamilton remix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter opening your gifts, many will now be looking around to see their entire families face down into their devices after too much food and bad TV. The days of enjoying each others company once a year will probably feel like a distant memory from a much simpler analog age. But, what about the tech
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