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Read MoreImage: 91Mobiles / @OnLeaks The Pixel 4A could be Google’s first phone to feature a hole-punch display, new renders published by 91Mobiles claim. The unofficial renders, which are based on information provided by leaker OnLeaks, show what could be an unannounced budget version of the recently released Pixel 4, similar to the Pixel 3A that
Read MoreEileen Yu / ZDNet: Grab partners with Singtel to apply for a Singapore digital banking license, with Grab owning a 60% share in the joint entity — Ride-sharing operator and telco plan to form a joint entity, with Grab owning a 60% share, and apply for a digital bank licence in Singapore, where they will
Read MoreFacebook has reversed course and quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis. Facebook disables some misleading ads on HIV prevention drugs, responding to growing outcry Source: Washington Post
Read MoreThese were our motoring highlights over the past 365 days. The best cars we drove in 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’re entering 2020 with plenty of exciting possibilities in kitchen tech. Here are a few ways to bring our smart kitchens into the next decade. What the smart kitchen needs in 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read More2019 is dead and gone, and with it, we bid a bitter farewell to the dregs of Netflix’s streaming coffers, the meager end-of-year scraps they’ve been tossing our way these past weeks. 2020 starts with a bumper crop of modern classics that it’s hard not to be at least a little bit pleased by: we’ve
Read MoreThis was the year when, once and for all, it became clear that the future of technology belongs to Linux and open-source software. Linux and open-source rules: 2019's five biggest stories show why Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreMobile knowledge workers who are also Surface enthusiasts with deep pockets will love this ARM-based tablet/laptop. Gamers and creative types should look elsewhere, for now. Microsoft Surface Pro X review: Desirable but expensive hardware, work-in-progress software Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MorePeerzada Abrar / Business Standard: Report: Indian startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019, up from $10.5B in 2018 and $550M in 2010; Sequoia, Accel, and Tiger Global were the most active VCs — As the decade is coming to an end, it has seen an impressive 25x growth from a tiny $550 million in
Read MoreHe Jiankui at the event where he publicly announced the experiment. | Image: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images A Chinese court has sentenced the scientist behind the world’s first gene-edited babies, He Jiankui, to three years in prison, saying that the researcher’s team “crossed the bottom line of ethics.” Alongside his prison sentence, The Guardian
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has delivered the first cars produced by its Chinese Gigafactory, just under a year after the company broke ground on its first factory located outside of the US. Reuters reports that the Model 3 vehicles were delivered to 15 of Tesla’s employees as part of a ceremony.
Read MoreTwenty-one years old this year, no one can dispute the dominance Google has enjoyed in the world of search. After all, it has a massive 81.5 percent market share worldwide. But, new players are beginning to chip away at its position in Europe and North America — particularly when it comes to users researching products
Read MoreEpiphan VGA2USB LR VGA-to-USB devices [Ben Cox] found some interesting USB devices on eBay. The Epiphan VGA2USB LR accepts VGA video on one end and presents it as a USB webcam-like video signal on the other. Never have to haul a VGA monitor out again? Sounds good to us! The devices are old and abandoned
Read MoreDavid Streitfeld / New York Times: How Amazon has shaped the economy of Campbellsville, KY, where it opened one of its first fulfillment centers and is now the town’s largest private employer — In Campbellsville, Ky., the tech giant’s influences abound. The profits, not so much. — CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — In the late 1990s …
Read More2019 brought us some nifty apps, websites and tools out there that make the dub dub dub a bit more enjoyable — and also saw us stick to a bunch of old favorites that are still going strong at the end of the decade. Here are our favorite things the TNW crew used online this
Read MoreIt can be amusing sometimes, to read an incredulous reaction from outside our community to something that would be bread-and-butter in most hackerspaces. Take the sorry saga of the Cadillac XLR tail light, as reported by Jalopnik. This car was a more-expensive Corvette with a bit of lard around its midriff, and could appear a
Read MoreHBO’s Watchmen comic book reboot, a saucy British comedy and an eye-opening book on surveillance impressed the former US president in 2019. Watchmen, Fleabag, Parasite top Barack Obama's 2019 favorites – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWith an ever-growing range of smart-home products available, all with their own hubs, protocols, and APIs, we see a lot of DIY projects (and commercial offerings too) which aim to provide a “single universal interface” to different devices and services. Usually, these projects allow you to control your home using a list of devices, or
Read MoreByuu / Medium: Chrome’s overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software as potential malware is stifling online distribution of indie and free software — Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks. Chrome's overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software
Read MoreI enjoy online shopping. However, I often find myself fussing about the delivery options during checkout. This is because not all delivery services are equally efficient and stress-free. This personal experience has also inspired my research. As a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, I have engineered tiny nano-materials – objects about 10,000 times smaller than
Read MoreThe retrocomputing crowd will go to great lengths to recreate the computers of yesteryear, and no matter which species of computer is being restored, getting it just right is a badge of honor in the community. The case and keyboard obviously playing a big part in that look, so when a crowdfunding campaign to create
Read MoreFollowing an array of internal security breaches across a wide range of industries in 2019, awareness of insider threat is finally starting to grow. As we move towards 2020, it is undoubtedly becoming a major problem, and considerable changes need to be made in order to stop any further growth. According to Verizon, the number
Read MoreReuters: France’s top court rules that customs and tax authorities can review citizens’ public social media posts for evidence of undeclared income or inconsistencies — PARIS (Reuters) – France’s government can pursue plans to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance, its Constitutional Court ruled on Friday … France's top court rules that customs and
Read MoreWith open source software, we’ve grown accustomed to a certain level of trust that whatever we are running on our computers is what we expect it to actually be. Thanks to hashing and public key signatures in various parts in the development and deployment cycle, it’s hard for a third party to modify source code
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