“Animal Crossing” has hosted weddings and graduations during pandemic. Now, with positive tests spiking in much of the country, families are opting to spend Halloween in the game. Families turn to ‘Animal Crossing’ for trick-or-treating amid covid-19 fears Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWhile more and more consumer products are rushing to include WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, the simplicity and reliability of infrared has kept it in the game in the game far longer than many might have thought. Despite being thinner and sleeker, the IR remote control that comes with your brand new smart TV isn’t fundamentally
Read More{$inline_image} Some people have known how they’re going to vote in next week’s election—and, specifically, the presidential race—since Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Others somehow still remain undecided, even less than a week before Election Day. And then there are those who have already voted by mail, but have since changed their… Read more… Can You
Read MoreThe GPT-3 language model has inspired both awe and fear since OpenAI unveiled the system in June. But one person who isn’t overly impressed is Facebook‘s Yann LeCun. In a Facebook post published Tuesday, the social network’s chief AI scientist said the text generator is “not very good” as a question-answering or dialog system, and
Read MoreFacebook, Google and Twitter C.E.O.s return to Washington to defend their content moderation. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIt’s a good news day for UK-based electric vehicle drivers. Earlier today, EV charging infrastructure tracker and locator Zap-Map announced that it had just logged the nation’s 20,000tht electric car charging device. EV charging #milestone reached!⚡️🚗 There are now 20,000 charge devices across the UK #EV Find them on Zap-Map➡️https://t.co/rGNYvocPZj pic.twitter.com/IImRuVgf4C — Zap-Map (@zap_map) October
Read MoreEarlier this week, I wrote about the future of Apple Watch design. In it, I asked a simple question: why hasn’t the Apple Watch design changed much? The device has remained strangely static, especially when compared to something like the iPhone. I had some ideas about this, but it was simply opinion. Wanting to dig a bit
Read MoreAugmented reality might seem like a daunting new frontier for the average business, but adopting this new technology is a lot easier than it seems. With an anticipated 3.8 billion smartphone users in 2021, more people are using mobile tech to experience the world, from enhanced museum tours to Animoji. If you haven’t already considered
Read MoreDespite the impressive variety of thermoplastics that can be printed on consumer-level desktop 3D printers, the most commonly used filament is polylactic acid (PLA). That’s because it’s not only the cheapest material available, but also the easiest to work with. PLA can be extruded at temperatures as low as 180 °C, and it’s possible to
Read MoreTLDR: The Ultimate FinTech and Blockchain Bootcamp Bundle explores the ways technology and innovation are changing financial markets in front of our eyes. With many financial institutions assuming a wait-and-see posture as the world recovers from the COVID-19 economic fallout, there’s one group that seems to be embracing Wall Street’s current uncertainty with gusto: the
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Windows OEM Pro business was down 22% in its first fiscal 2021 quarter, but its Windows consumer business was strong. What’s going on? Reading the tea leaves around Windows PCs and the pandemic Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIn their prepared remarks, the leaders of Facebook, Twitter and Google detailed why they supported Section 230. Tech chiefs plan a vigorous defense of speech on their sites. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe lightning phenomenon known as a sprite depicted at Jupiter in this illustration. 'Sprites' Frolic in Jupiter's Atmosphere Source: NASA
Read MoreMicrosoft has released an update for manual removal of Flash Player across its web browsers, noting that Flash will no longer be supported from December 31 2020. Windows 10 has finally killed off Flash Player Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreJoint survey by edX and Linux Foundation shows encouraging results, but work still to be done. Open source and Linux expertise more in-demand than ever Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreBig Tech’s chief executives are becoming regulars on Capitol Hill. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Outrider, which operates a SaaS platform for autonomous and semi-autonomous truck fleets, raises $65M Series B led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — Autonomous logistics startup Outrider today closed a $65 million funding round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing the company’s total raised to $118 million. Outrider, which operates a SaaS
Read MoreIt has the look, feel and functions of smart scales costing much more. Holy weight-loss, the Wyze Scale is an amazing deal at shipped – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhile the newest iPhone launched after the close of its fiscal fourth quarter, Apple watchers will be hanging on CEO Tim Cook’s every word. Was iPhone 12 a smash? Apple may soon offer its first hint – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: T-Mobile could take a new spin on an old cable and telecom strategy to cement its customer loyalty. Then things get really interesting. T-Mobile's TVision gets it closer to assembling a new triple play bundle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHappiness during COVID-19 can seem elusive. Here’s how a wide range of people are managing to find glimmers of it. Finding happiness during the pandemic: Scientists, writers, comedians share how – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLG’s latest dual-screen phone flies too close to the sun Continue reading… LG Wing review: learning to fly, failing to soar Source: New feed
Read MoreImages in the filings show an unnamed accessory attached to the back of the phone. | Image: Apple / FCC Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup has the ability to wirelessly charge an external accessory, according to a series of newly unveiled FCC filings that just went public yesterday. The documents first spotted by VentureBeat’s Jeremy Horwitz
Read MoreCould extraterrestrials find life on Earth? The question of whether or not life exists on other worlds suggests pondering if extraterrestrial beings might be able to find life on our home world. More than 4,500 exoplanets are currently known to astronomers, many of which were found as they orbited in front of their parent star
Read MoreEmily Birnbaum / Protocol: Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing, a selection of questions that experts on Section 230 would prefer to ask social media executives — Mark Zuckerberg, are your views on freedom of expression hypocritical? Sundar Pichai, are you ready for collective responsibility for online harm? Ahead of Wednesday's Senate Commerce Committee
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