The Department of Defense originally had opposed Commerce’s recommendation to tighten restrictions on sales to Huawei, saying it would ultimately hurt U.S. semiconductor companies, which the Pentagon relies on to help produce cutting-edge military tech. Pentagon drops opposition to new rules that would further restrict tech sales to Huawei Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MorePhoto: Stewart Volland / Blizzard Entertainment Last month, Blizzard announced that all of its scheduled Overwatch League games in China during February and March were canceled in the wake of the coronavirus. Now the publisher has revealed its plan to reschedule the games — and it involves moving them out of the country altogether. According
Read MoreImage: HQ HQ, which made the once-popular HQ Trivia app, is shutting down and laying off its 25 employees, according to CNN Business. HQ CEO Rus Yusupov reportedly sent a note to employees announcing that HQ would cease operations. In the note, he said that there had been an offer “from an established business” to
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The faculty at the University of Michigan’s computer science and engineering department wrote a letter calling for professor Jason Mars to take a leave of absence, following an investigation from The Verge into his behavior as CEO of Clinc, an AI startup with ties to the school. “On
Read More{$inline_image}Just about every major app is implementing some kind of Dark Mode these days, but there’s one notable omission: Facebook. We saw the company test a dark mode for Android in August and a dark desktop UI in October, but there’s been no permanent option yet. Now it seems the company is finally ready to
Read MoreJust about every major app is implementing some kind of Dark Mode these days, but there’s one notable omission: Facebook. We saw the company test a dark mode for Android in August and a dark desktop UI in October, but there’s been no permanent option yet. Now it seems the company is finally ready to
Read MoreFrom Goldman Sachs to Amazon to the Democratic contenders, older rich men are going wild online. Lots of Rich Men Tweet Like the President Now Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThis tip comes our way courtesy of [Elad Orbach], who’s been experimenting with a device that uses a servo to turn the function dial on a multimeter. It’s something you can put together in a few minutes with leftovers from the parts bin, and as you can see in the video after the break, the
Read MoreHere we go again: The latest Windows 10 patch, KB4532693, might stick you with an annoying bug. Some Windows users who have installed it have reported that their Windows user profile—and all the data and apps therein—weren’t loading when they logged in. Read more… How to Fix the User-Profile Bug in Windows 10's Latest Patch
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Surface Books are due for an update. Though the company announced a plethora of new devices at its event last October, we were a bit surprised to find there was no update to the Surface Book in sight – a product that was last updated in November of 2017. It seems we won’t have
Read MoreSkeletor has a new voice. Mark Hamill tops cast list for Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFrom Sonic the Hedgehog to Mortal Kombat and Warcraft, these are the films that give the phrase “video game movie” a bad rap. The 41 worst video game movies of all time, ranked – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images Giant corporations, governments, and individuals are all making decisions that they hope will reduce the risk of spreading the new coronavirus — but not all of those tough calls are solely based on the latest health information. The factors that led people to enact two-week travel restrictions,
Read MoreCustomers can soon opt out of sharing “most” of their info with the social media site. Amazon's Ring to tighten privacy after accusations it shares data with Facebook – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNarcos started as a show about Pablo Escobar, a real-life gangster who outdid even the most outrageous fictional ones. The show built a compelling two-season crime thriller around his astonishing life and death. But while Escobar died, Narcos — a hit that premiered in 2015, when Netflix was rapidly building its streaming empire — needed
Read MoreFitness classes can be motivating in a way that exercising by yourself is not. Somebody’s pushing you to go the distance, to do that next rep, and with luck they’ll drown out the part of your brain that’s tempting you to go home and have dinner already. Read more… Get a Group Fitness Experience on
Read MoreThat’s $50 below Samsung’s not-even-available-yet discount. Galaxy S10E slashed to 0 at Amazon and Best Buy ahead of Samsung price cut – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The film industry has the Oscars, and the music industry has the Grammys, so the podcast industry wants its own awards show. A group of industry leaders spanning networks, including from Spotify, NPR, Wondery, and Sony Music, announced today that they plan to launch a new awards
Read MoreOnce thought impossible, SpaceX is on the verge of its 50th landing of a booster rocket after launch, a milestone that has helped convince the space industry that ditching rocket boosters into the ocean, the practice for decades, is an expensive waste of a perfectly good vehicle. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to land its
Read MoreThe Mike Bloomberg memes we’ve all seen on social media are a laugh for us, but they’re apparently giving Facebook something of a headache. The company revealed today it’s changing its rules on Instagram, and will require users to label these posts as sponsored. View this post on Instagram Great job Mike… (Yes this is
Read MoreMicrophones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor. Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSmartphones are becoming even more powerful gaming machines as time goes on, with the latest devices capable of pushing some incredible graphics on a pocket-sized device. But what if you’ve got an old or budget device that doesn’t have the huge amounts of processing power or RAM? Well, Google’s hoping the answer is GameSnacks —
Read MoreNinety percent of the drinks I order at cocktail bars are Negronis. The holy trinity of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth possess a near cosmic, peanut butter and jelly-esque affinity for each other that renders their combination almost error proof. Too much gin? Still pretty good. Super shitty ice? Whatever. Totally… Read more… Make Your
Read MoreIt’s a simple fact that, in this universe at least, energy is always conserved. For the typical electronic system, this means that the energy put into the system must eventually leave the system. Typically, much of this energy will leave a system as heat, and managing this properly is key to building devices that don’t
Read MoreMaking friends doesn’t come naturally to all of us—or to our kids. Or sometimes, the making part isn’t as challenging as the keeping part. But it’s heartbreaking to think our kids might be lonely or excluded from their peers, particularly at school. But how much—if anything—can parents do to help without being… Read more… What
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