The company abandons the no-notch display and adds a 120Hz refresh rate, superfast charging and 5G. Oppo Find X2 Pro hands-on: New camera, 65W charging and 120Hz screen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt says it’s taken down hundreds of thousands of highly priced products. Amazon plans to prosecute sellers for price gouging during coronavirus outbreak – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: Postmates Food delivery platform Postmates is starting what the company is calling a “non-contact delivery” initiative designed to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus when its contract workers are delivering ordered meals and other goods. The move was spotted by Recode’s Rani Molla and The Verge has confirmed it is in effect starting
Read MoreWe’ve been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ever got the chance to take hold? A pair of researchers recently published an analysis of 3.5 billion-years-old soil samples from Mars containing chemical compounds called “thiophenes” that could, potentially, be organic. If they
Read MoreRoss Rubin / ZDNet: Qualcomm licenses tech from BASF which relies not only on the shapes of faces but on the detection of live skin itself and may be competitive with Face ID — Qualcomm is betting on a German technology company that analyzes backscatter reflections to defeat face detection spoofs. Qualcomm licenses tech from
Read MoreNvidia said today that game publisher 2K Games is pulling its library from the company’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service at 2K’s request. “Per publisher request, please be advised 2K Games titles will be removed from GeForce NOW today. We are working with 2K Games to re-enable their games in the future,” said Nvidia community
Read MoreRobots might be finding their footing above ground, but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so they are running a Subterranean (SubT) Challenge which just wrapped up its latest round. A great review of this Urban Circuit competition (and some
Read MoreThe uncrewed December space mission could have ended in disaster. ‘Close Call’: NASA-Boeing Investigation of Starliner Flight Finds Lapses Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreHundreds of thousands of people were expected to arrive in Austin next week, but a number of companies had pulled out and on Friday, city officials called off the whole event. South by Southwest Is Canceled as Coronavirus Fears Scuttle Festival Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreBatman in one world, Marvel villain in another. Christian Bale will play the villain in Thor: Love and Thunder – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHBO this week announced it was adapting The Last of Us, that one zombie game that scooped up every known Game of the Year award a few years ago, into a TV show with the creator of Chernobyl. So if we’re making video games into streaming series, what intellectual properties would actually make good shows. Hey @Neil_Druckmann
Read MoreNo, that is not a typo. This thing exists. Nintendo PlayStation prototype sells for 0k – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA team of researchers from UC San Diego recently came up with a relatively simple method for convincing fake video-detectors that AI-generated fakes are the real deal. AI-generated videos called “Deepfakes” started flooding the internet a few years back when bad actors realized they could be used to exploit women and, potentially, spread political misinformation.
Read MoreReuters: Italian antitrust authority fines Telecom Italia €116M for abusing a dominant position in the broadband market in an attempt to obstruct rivals — MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s competition watchdog said on Friday it had fined former phone monopoly Telecom Italia (TIM) 116 million euros … Italian antitrust authority fines Telecom Italia €116M for abusing
Read MoreThe bite-size video start-up debuts April 6, and nearly everyone in Hollywood seems to be involved. Here’s what we know so far. Quibi Is Coming. Here Are the Famous People Making Shows for It. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSome followers are angry at the CEO, while others say he is addressing panic behavior, not the seriousness of the illness. Elon Musk draws ire after calling panic over coronavirus epidemic 'dumb' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is slowly but steadily opening its Stadia cloud gaming service to more interested customers, with a new promotion starting this month that offers three months of its Stadia Pro subscription to new buyers of Chromecast Ultra devices. Google confirmed to The Verge that this is the
Read MoreThe moves follow a similar decision by Microsoft. Google, Twitter, Facebook to pay hourly workers affected by coronavirus – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTens of thousands of Facebook pages that ran US political ads failed to disclose who paid for them, researchers say. Facebook's transparency efforts around political ads fall short, study finds – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreResearchers at Augusta University are creating an app that will allow users to assess their COVID-19 infection risk at home in minutes, based on how they feel and where they’ve been. Coronavirus App to Provide At-Home Risk Assessment Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreA new Windows Insider preview shows off one subtle change to Windows 10’s telemetry settings, along with a handful of new and revised Group Policy settings. Windows 10 privacy: In new preview build, Microsoft tweaks telemetry settings Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MorePhoto by Adi Robertson / The Verge SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin, is the latest major conference to be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, and just one week before it was slated to start. It is the first time in the event’s 34-year history that it’s been
Read MoreStephen Brashear/Getty Images Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have all pledged to pay hourly workers their regular rate even if those staffers are asked to remain at home due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. All six of those tech companies and many others have asked employees to work from home to help prevent
Read MoreWhen it comes to paying extra for travel insurance, we typically err on the side of skipping it. And it’s not because we’re exceedingly confident that all your trips will go exactly as planned—it’s just that unless you’re taking a long, international trip, you can probably get the benefits you need from the credit… Read
Read MoreThere was a time when you could hold onto a TV or A/V receiver for the better part of the decade and not feel as though you were missing out on the latest and greatest features. But today you’re lucky to get three years out of a “smart” TV before it’s either supplanted by a
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