In an unexpected and shock reveal, Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony released its Vision-S concept car to world at CES this week. Sony? Making a car? WHAT!?! Last year Tesla also unveiled its Cybertruck. An angular, steel, supposedly bulletproof electric utility vehicle designed in line with Musk’s dystopian vision of the future. But there are more
Read MoreGoogle offers extended Chrome support for Windows 7 to cater to businesses that haven’t finished migrating. Google to Windows 7 users: Chrome support will run until at least July 2021 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTesla has maintained its grip on the market with the most obvious tool at its disposal: range. Teslas still go much farther on a single charge than their competitors. But the strategy carries risks. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFrom 8k to 5G to AI to concepts, we all saw through the hype Continue reading… Eight big takeaways from CES 2020 Source: New feed
Read MoreLeft: a purported leak of Samsung’s marketing material. Right: an official Samsung concept. | via Ajunews and Samsung Could Samsung’s next foldable phone be named the Galaxy Bloom? That’s what Korean outlet Ajunews is reporting, showing a blurry photo of what it claims is an early marketing image for the Bloom. The outlet’s story (which
Read MoreSure, a new truck isn’t cheap, and getting up at 3 a.m. sucks, but what’s the respect and admiration of your neighbors worth to you? 2020 Ford Super Duty's snow plow prep package will make you a neighborhood hero – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales In October, Facebook made the controversial decision to exempt most political ads from fact-checking. The announcement met with a swift backlash, particularly among leading Democratic candidates for president. As criticism mounted, Facebook began to hint that it would further refine its policy to address lawmakers’ concerns. One change that seemed
Read MoreLauren Goode / Wired: A look at sexual health and wellness companies at CES 2020, where they were allowed to exhibit their products for the first time this year — Sexual health and wellness companies were allowed to exhibit their wares for the first time this year. — If there was ever a metaphor …
Read MoreWhen are two propellors better than four? When they give your drone extra battery life, greater portability, and reduce noise, claims Zero Zero Robotics. That’s the pitch for the company’s V-Coptr Falcon: a bicopter drone with an impressive flight time of 50 minutes — 20 minutes more than the comparable DJI Mavic 2. For years,
Read MoreTwitter used to provide CSV exports of your data, now it’s all in machine-readable JSON. How can you use it in Excel? Want to analyse your tweets? How to import Twitter JSON data exports into Excel Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MorePaying for gas with Amazon’s Alexa or playing table tennis with a robot: Whether the latest tech trends will become fixtures in our lives is an open question. A Glimpse of Our Connected Tech Future, Courtesy of CES 2020 Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreYour automotive future is about to get a lot better thanks to these high-tech trends that use biometrics, AI, solar power and more. CES 2020: These car tech innovations will change your life – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreToday, computers are separated into basically two categories: desktops and laptops. But back in the early 1980s, when this ideological line in the sand was still a bit blurry, consumer’s had a third choice. Known as “portable computers” at the time, and often lovingly referred to as luggables by modern collectors, these machines were technically
Read MoreImage: Bethesda Bethesda’s has given its re-releases of Doom 1 and 2 from last year a pretty hefty update that improves performance, adds new features, and gives access to a huge amount of content in the form of free community-made add-ons. At the top of the list of performance improvements is an increase in framerate,
Read MoreJason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: Research: more VC deals were struck around the world in 2019 than in any other year, though the total dollar volume of deals dropped slightly from 2018 — In VC pitch meetings, startups are typically expected to show a chart that looks like a hockey stick: up and to
Read MorePrior to the development of CD-quality audio hardware in the mid-1990s, home computers and consoles typically made do with synthesized music. Due to the storage and RAM limitations of the time, there weren’t a whole lot of other practical options. If you’re willing to ignore practicality, however, you can do some wonderful things – such as
Read MoreIn a landmark judgment, India’s Supreme Court said indefinite internet shutdowns violate the country’s laws concerning freedom of speech and expression. The government must pass an order describing the reason and duration of the shutdown each time it wishes to implement this action. However, the order won’t directly affect the ongoing internet shutdown in Kashmir at this time. The
Read MoreParasite director Bong Joon-ho teams up with Succession’s Adam McKay. Parasite limited series in the works for HBO – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFast radio bursts are one of the newest unexplained phenomena in the universe, and each discovery seems to add another layer to the riddle. Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to unexpected location – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreVisit Nathaniel Stern’s “The World After Us,” a strange and provocative place. Your phone in a million years: When electronics outlive humans – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDozens of people are suffering from a pneumonia outbreak now attributed to a virus related to deadly SARS. Outbreak of mysterious illness in China traced to never-before-seen virus – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: Facebook updates its hate speech policy to ban statements denying the existence of marginalized groups and an additional eight specific dehumanizing comparisons — There are a few things Facebook’s proven, time and again, that it can’t get quite right—like keeping its user data under wraps … Facebook updates its hate speech
Read MorePhoto by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Boeing employees discussed the problems with the 737 Max in chats and emails that the company characterized as “completely unacceptable” in a statement released today. “Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t,” one employee said to another in one chat in February 2018, according
Read MoreThe LVL1 Hackerspace in Louisville hosted a hackathon for useless and impractical devices a couple of years ago and this makeshift Duh-Vinci Surgical Robot was one of the “successful” results. While it’s not necessarily a project that should ever be used for its intended purpose, its miniature setup is certainly an interesting one. The project
Read MoreI’ll never think about my bathroom the same. 10 life changing things I learned at CES 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
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