TLDR: These two VPN deals will assure your 4th of July — not to mention the coming year are completely safe and secure online. Is there anything more obvious than writing a post about some huge VPN deals on July 4th and drawing the line about independence? Independence from online terrorists? Independence from governmental oversight?
Read MoreApple’s new iPhone SE is $300 cheaper than the baseline iPhone 11. Here’s exactly what you get by spending almost double. iPhone SE vs. iPhone 11: The features and upgrades you get from spending an extra 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor moving about in the real world, robots can crawl along the ground or take to the sky. Both options have disadvantages, with obstacles being a problem on the ground and flying being very energy intensive. What we don’t often see are robots that move along aerial cables, which can offer the best of both
Read MoreCommentary: Today’s services are primed to help you figure out where you come from. How technology unlocked my family tree and changed my understanding of myself – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreState regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto insurance customers. We tested whether Allstate’s personalized pricing algorithm treated customers differently based on non-risk factors by analyzing rare customer-level data we found in documents
Read More3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT Cheetah Robot is no exception. You’ve undoubtedly seen MIT’s cheetah robot. Well, [jegatheesan’s] hack takes a
Read MoreWill Oremus / OneZero : A look at some radical proposals for creating better social networks, from establishing sites as nonprofits to restrictions on data collection — An offhand tweet sparked an outpouring of ideas to fix what’s broken about Facebook and Twitter — Welcome back to Pattern Matching … A look at some radical proposals
Read MoreGreg Thomson / Decrypt: Voice, a blockchain-based social media site on EOS that rewards users with tokens for posting “quality content”, is now open for the public to browse — After months of delays, and a $150 million cash injection, the EOS-based Voice platform is now open for viewing. — EOS — In brief: Voice,
Read MoreSatoru Iwata is perhaps best remembered for leading Nintendo through the development of the DS and Wii, two wildly successful systems which undeniably helped bring gaming to a wider and more mainstream audience. But decades before becoming the company’s President in 2002, he got his start in the industry as a developer working on many
Read MoreManuel Vonau / Android Police: Indian ISPs start restoring access to DuckDuckGo after blocking the service via their DNS servers starting July 1; it is unclear why the service was blocked — Following the Indian ban of almost 60 Chinese apps including TikTok and Weibo, many people living in the country now report … Indian
Read MoreSankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: India’s TikTok ban resulted in a surge in popularity for Indian apps like Roposo, Mitron, and Chingari; Roposo says it has added 22M users in 48 hours — NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian tech and entertainment firms are looking to capitalise on sudden opportunities arising from a government ban … India's
Read MoreNo doubt that every hacker has already heard of Digi-Key, the electronic component distributor that makes it just as possible to order one of something as it is to order a thousand of it. As an essential business, Digi-Key has been open during the duration of the lockdown since they support critical manufacturing services for
Read MorePei Li / Reuters: Tencent launches US game studio LightSpeed LA, to create AAA titles and increase overseas share of its total games revenue, which accounted for 23% in Q4 2019 — HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media and video game company, launched a new California-based studio this week … Tencent
Read MoreHardware hackers love the Nokia 5110 LCD. Or at least, they love the clones of it. You can pick up one of these panels for a couple bucks wherever electronic bits and bobs are sold, and integrating it into your project is a snap thanks to all the code and documentation floating around out there.
Read MoreRocket Lab’s 13th mission ended in failure on Saturday, after the company’s rocket experienced some kind of problem after launching to space. As a result, Rocket Lab lost its rocket, as well as all the satellites it carried on board. The company’s Electron rocket successfully took off at 5:19PM ET from Rocket Lab’s primary launch
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: Ifeoma Ozoma, Aerica Shimizu Banks, and five other former Pinterest employees share examples of Pinterest’s failure in addressing racial discrimination and bias — Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks claim they were underpaid, faced racist comments, and were subject to retaliation for raising complaints. Ifeoma Ozoma, Aerica Shimizu Banks, and
Read MorePrivacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been restored in India after being unreachable for many users there since July 1st, Android Police reported. Reports about what was causing the outage have varied. Some users reported the Indian government appeared to be behind the block, and others said they were getting what appeared to be DNS lookup
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google VP in charge of Android Security withdraws from Black Hat conference and asks the infosec community to stop using terms like “black hat” and “white hat” — A Google security researcher withdrew from the Black Hat security conference and asked the community to stop using the ‘black hat’ term. Google
Read MoreA space rock reportedly causes a sonic boom as it crashes into our atmosphere over Japan. A bright fireball over Tokyo explodes with the force of 165 tons of TNT – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSaritha Rai / Bloomberg: India’s e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an e-commerce regulator, mandates government access to online companies’ source codes and algorithms, more — – Plan comes amid calls to reduce dominance of global giants — E-Commerce regulator to be named to ensure fair competition India's e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an
Read MoreThe creator of The League also discusses his show Dave, which stars comedian and rapper Lil Dicky, plus Brews Brothers on Netflix and the story behind the Festivus pole on Seinfeld. Curb Your Enthusiasm head Jeff Schaffer learned a key rule of comedy from Sasha Baron Cohen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. It’s only been five years since the last major
Read MoreOr get just one charging stand for $16 Get a 2-pack of Anker PowerWave wireless charging stands for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCompared to other cell phones of its day, the Motorola StarTAC was an amazingly sleek, cutting edge device. This early flip phone cost an astonishing ,000 and proves just how far we've come – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBloomberg: Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, steps down; the company says he will remain chairman and work on long-term strategy — – PDD shares have more than quadrupled in less than two years — Huang gives away $14 billion stake after stepping down as CEO Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese
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