Newton Mail is returning to life once again under new ownership, marking the unexpected third life for the premium email app. Newton Mail was originally set to shut down on April 30th after Essential — which previously owned the service — shut down earlier this year. But in the latest plot twist in the long-running
Read MoreShanghai Disneyland has reopened, but with new health and safety measures. | Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images Mickey Mouse has returned to Disneyland: capitalism is healing. After shutting its parks and resorts worldwide in March, Disney is starting to restart what is a core part of its business. The company is beginning with
Read MoreSymptom-checking apps and fever-screening cameras promise to keep sick workers at home and hinder the virus. But experts warn they can be inaccurate and violate privacy. Employers Rush to Adopt Virus Screening. The Tools May Not Help Much. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Pasteur used to say: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, May 10 2020, at a price
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 768G processor with faster graphics performance and global 5G support — Qualcomm isn’t wasting any time following up last year’s Snapdragon 765G gaming chip with a more powerful model. It’s unveiling the Snapdragon 768G, a follow-up that appears to address what many gamers want the most: raw performance.
Read MoreDigital marketers today are faced with a unique challenge: tell a creative, compelling brand story while simultaneously fitting it to a formula that ensures the message ranks among competitors, goes viral, or is perfectly optimized for all platforms. Also, the formula changes every day without notice, so make sure you stay on top of it
Read MoreFinSMEs: Corcentric, which develops business spend and revenue management software, raises $80M led by private equity firm Bregal Sagemount — Corcentric, a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based provider of business spend management and revenue management software and services, raised $80m in funding. Corcentric, which develops business spend and revenue management software, raises M led by private equity
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The first phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 processor are just starting to trickle out, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcing an upgraded version today called the Snapdragon 768G, which offers better CPU and GPU performance than its predecessor. The original 765G was announced back in December
Read MoreA new set of flaws discovered in the Intel Thunderbolt port has put millions of machines at risk of local hacking. This new research by Eindhoven University‘s Björn Ruytenberg suggests that if a hacker gains access to a machine for just five minutes, they could bypass login methods to gain full data access. Thunderbolt ports are present in machines
Read MoreHoly Great Red Spot! Stunning, high-res photos of Jupiter find holes in the Great Red Spot – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThat’s not all for Some Good News episode 7: Emma Stone brings us the weather while Emily Blunt does her best Krasinski impression. The Office cast reunites for a Zoom wedding hosted by John Krasinski – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAntenna design can be confusing, to say the least. There’s so much black magic that goes into antennas that newbies often look at designs and are left wondering exactly how the thing could ever work. Slight changes in length or the angle between two elements result in a vastly different resonant frequency or a significant
Read MoreVasquez, one of the earliest viral stars of the internet, passed away on Saturday. 'Double rainbow guy' Paul L. Vasquez dies, aged 57 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDisney recently released an instructional video on how to attend the Shanghai park, which reopens this Monday. Watch how Disney plans to reopen its Shanghai park – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMany games have generous discounts — until May 14. PlayStation Store sale: 5 discounted PS4 games to buy now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSiva Vaidhyanathan / Wired: In its quasi-judiciary role, Facebook Oversight Board is neutered from the start since it can not mandate codes of conduct or effectively help minimize harm — The company’s new review board is designed to move slowly and keep things intact. — My late colleague, Neil Postman … In its quasi-judiciary role,
Read MoreWondering what games you should pick for the Nintendo Switch? Here are our favourites… 34 of the best games on Nintendo Switch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBen Smith / New York Times: As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention — News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. As
Read MoreLike many of us, [Artistikk] is inspired by astronauts and space travel in general. To keep the inspiration coming, he made the Cosmo Clock — a sleek little clock that changes color whenever an astronaut is launched into space. As awesome as space is, we’re inspired by the amount of Earth-saving reuse going on in
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected — The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and affects any PC manufactured before 2019. Researcher: PCs
Read MoreMuch, much more fun than expected. WWE Money in the Bank 2020: Results, full recap, wild ending and match ratings – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe PS4 has an incredible line-up, here are our favourites. The 32 best games on PS4 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft and Intel Labs work on STAMINA, a new deep learning approach for detecting and classifying malware. Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: online used-car seller Vroom files confidentially for IPO, setting sights on a June offering after its December 2019 funding round valued it at $1.5B — Firm sets sights on a June offering after rich funding round — Online used-car seller Vroom Inc. has filed confidentially … Sources: online used-car seller Vroom
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories — Iran and other nations are also looking to steal data and exploit the pandemic with attacks on infrastructure, officials say. Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China
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