GIF by Chris Welch / The Verge LG has announced that its world-first rollable TV is finally going on sale, albeit in limited fashion. The 65-inch LG Signature OLED R is now available at seven consumer electronics store throughout South Korea and will cost 100 million won, or more than $87,000. The Signature OLED R
Read MoreThe second trailer aired during Monday Night Football. Star Wars: The Mandalorian season 2 trailer delivers action, Baby Yoda cuteness – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: EU enables cross-border interoperability between contact tracing apps from Germany, Ireland, and Italy, with plans to add at least 18 others in the coming weeks — The European Union has switched on cross-border interoperability for a first batch of COVID-19 contacts tracing apps … EU enables cross-border interoperability between contact tracing
Read MoreWe like to pretend that our circuits are as perfect as our schematics. But in truth, PCB traces have unwanted resistance, capacitance, and inductance. On the other hand, that means you can use those traces to build components. For example, it isn’t uncommon to see a very small value current sense resistor be nothing more
Read MoreThe Mandalorian’s second season is just days away from premiering on Disney Plus, and a new trailer for the Star Wars series teases what fans can expect. Most of the trailer focused on the Mando’s continued adventures with the Child, including an ominous moment where he’s warned that the worlds he’s trying to visit are
Read MoreBloomberg: Intel agrees to sell its NAND memory unit to SK Hynix for about $9B; the acquisition includes Intel’s solid-state drive, NAND flash, and wafer businesses — – U.S. chipmaker has fallen behind in a chip manufacturing race — Intel Corp. agreed to sell its Nand memory unit … Intel agrees to sell its NAND
Read MoreActivision today dropped the trailer for its Call of Duty Halloween event: The Haunting of Verdansk. We’re getting a few new game modes, a bunch of horror themed packs, and rewards, both in Modern Warfare and Warzone. Warzone players will get to experience Verdansk at night, and it’ll come with “more than a few Halloween-themed frights” — and I’d be
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, raises $22.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures — A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country’s largest Series A financing round. Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp, which aims to digitize
Read MoreMicrosoft’s update to its Xbox app lets you can stream games from your console to your iPhone or iPad. However, it’s not quite Project xCloud. You can now play Xbox games on your iPhone and iPad – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere aren’t any ghosts, but the schadenfreude will chill you to the bone. Rebecca review: In 2020 Netflix adaptation, marriage is the real horror – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe debate commission has adopted new rules for this week’s debate, AP reports. Trump and Biden mics will be muted in the final presidential debate – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOn Saturday, I pointed out how Microsoft force-restarting Windows 10 computers to install unwanted web apps was the latest proof you don’t own your own Windows PC. Today, the company says it was at least partly a mistake — and will be pausing the “migration” that brought web apps to your Start Menu this way.
Read MoreCristiano Lima / Politico: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones its plans to vote to subpoena Twitter and Facebook CEOs after some Republicans expressed reservation about the move — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify … Senate Judiciary Committee postpones its
Read MoreCorbin Davenport / Android Police: Google confirms it’s discontinuing Nest Secure, a home security system it introduced in 2017, but will continue to support existing users — Google released the Nest Guard in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even as other Nest
Read MoreThe Mandalorian season 2 will be in full flight. Disney Plus: Every new movie and TV show coming in November 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePointy-eared kitty sprawls for 121 feet across a hillside in the Nazca desert. Archaeologists discover massive 2,000-year-old cat doodle carving in Peru – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster will be published in February 2021. Bill Gates reveals details of his upcoming climate change book – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSearching for a great show to binge? Here are some of the best Netflix has to offer. 51 of the best TV shows to binge-watch on Netflix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf there’s any holiday that is worth adjusting for strange times, it’s gotta be Halloween. Are you inclined to leave a bowl of candy on the porch to avoid the doorbell? If so, this is the perfect year to finally figure out some sort of metering apparatus so that greedy preteens are less likely to
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities via a simple API and dashboard, raises $13M Series A led by A. Capital Ventures — Unit21, a startup providing a no-code service that monitors for fraudulent activity online, has raised $13 million in funding. Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities via a
Read MoreThe company that produces HoloPatient has developed a remote version for pandemic-era teaching. GigXR’s original HoloPatient allows medical and nursing students to interact with a holographic patient via virtual and augmented reality. The new HoloPatient Remote is intended to provide students with safe and physically distanced versions of that immersion as a replacement for normal
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox app update for iOS and iPadOS is now live, allowing Xbox One owners to stream games to their devices. A new Xbox app is available in the App Store that includes a remote play feature, which lets Xbox One console owners stream their games to an
Read MorePhoto by Nick Statt / The Verge Google has discontinued its Google Nest Secure alarm system, the company first confirmed to Android Police. And sure enough, if you visit the Nest Secure’s page on the Google Store right now, there’s a big button right at the top that says the product is no longer available.
Read MoreOn the horizon for 2021, 10G offers the promise of delivering 10 times the current most prevalent maximum speeds offered to consumers. 10G Networks Promise Millisecond Latency Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is looking for Among Us teammates. On Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez put out an open call for people to play with “to get out the vote.” In a follow-up tweet, she shared a Twitch page for AOC with the note “getting set up!” Her tweet has already drawn attention from streamers like Pokimane
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