Whether he’s a son, a brother, a cousin or a friend, finding a gift for the tweenager in your life can be difficult. Let us help you find the perfect gift. Best gifts for tween boys in 2019: 10-, 11- and 12-year-old gifts for Christmas – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe new ride to orbit built for NASA is returning to Earth early after problems during its first trip to space on Friday. Boeing Starliner Landing: What You Need to Know Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLooking for a pocket-size power bank for charging your iPhone on the go? Here are some top picks. Best portable chargers and power banks for iPhone: Mophie, MyCharge and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe perfect Star Wars gift can be hard to find, but we’ve done some of the hard work with our line up of best gifts for Star Wars fans these holidays. Best Star Wars gifts for new or old-school fans in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere’s a diverse range of stuff for the gearheads in your life, and each gift costs less than $100. Best affordable gifts for gearheads and car lovers in 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreElias Groll / Wired: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, head of the Joint AI Center for the DOD, talks integrating AI into its weapons systems, building predictive maintenance tools, and more — Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan doesn’t want killer robots—but he does want artificial intelligence to occupy a central role in warfighting. Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan,
Read MoreHelp your favorite shutterbug step up their photography game with this selection of best camera gear and cameras for the holiday season. Best camera gear and cameras in 2019: Canon, Nikon and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMessing about in boats has always held a curious appeal for the hardware hacker. Perhaps that’s because it remains an approachable way to make something that moves under its own power with a bit of speed, and barring calamities, the worst that can happen to the unwary boater is a soaking. [NASAT Channel] is a
Read MoreIn this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. I truly don’t want to be able to go online during flights — no matter how long
Read MoreWant something unique and useful? We’ve got Mom covered. Last minute gifts for Mom: Christmas gift ideas for current, first time and expecting moms – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War to win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, China’s Communist leadership launched the sweeping, and ultimately devastating, Great Leap Forward. In the spring of 1959 in Cuba, Fidel Castro’s guerrillas forced
Read MoreLisa Kaplan / Lawfare: TheSoul, a Russian web publisher with YouTube channels like 5-Minute Crafts, has the most reach among entertainment groups on YouTube, after Disney, WarnerMedia — What the heck is TheSoul Publishing? I’m still honestly not sure. — Here’s what I do know: Measured in terms of views and subscribers … TheSoul, a
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been using a website and wished it had a voice input, now you can add one yourself. Read more… Add Speech-to-Text to Any Website With This Extension Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreMatt Brown / Jalopnik: California DMV to start approving permits for self-driving delivery vehicles, with and without backup drivers, from Jan. 17, both for testing and commercial use — Are you ready to be stuck in traffic behind armies of autonomous delivery robots? No? Well good news: if you live in California … California DMV
Read MoreIn December 1964, over a single evening session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane, and his quartet recorded the entirety of A Love Supreme. This jazz album is considered Coltrane’s masterpiece – the culmination of his spiritual awakening – and sold a million copies. What it represents is all too human: a climb out of
Read MoreWhether you’re new to electronics and programming, or you were bit-banging bare metal long before hair metal, CircuitPython is a great tool for getting a project up and working without all the fuss. The boards show up as mass storage devices, and programming consists of editing the Python file and saving it back to the
Read MoreYoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: China releases new rules for online content, requiring platforms and app operators to use AI-based moderation; the rules are set to come into effect in March — Government control over online content likely to tighten further following release of comprehensive regulations China releases new rules for online content, requiring
Read MoreOfficials still don’t know what caused a glitch with the timing system that resulted in the engines failing to fire and push the spacecraft on a path to the International Space Station. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft faces another perilous test: Getting back to Earth Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreNew York Times: Text messages show how the head of DOJ antitrust division Makan Delrahim steered the T-Mobile-Sprint deal and played a crucial role in getting Dish involved — Text messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal.
Read MoreDon’t trust every image you see on social media. Facebook removes bogus accounts that used AI to create fake profile pictures – CNET Source: CNet
Read More[Gabor Horvath] thinks even two monitors is too little space to really lay out his windows properly. That’s why he’s building a VR Desktop straight out of our deepest cyberpunk fantasies. The software runs on Windows and Android at the moment. The user can put up multiple windows in a sphere around them. As their
Read MoreLots of electrified powertrains here, but there’s something for everybody. The 10 best engines and propulsion systems, as told by Wards – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Navy reportedly tells personnel they can’t have the app on government-issued mobile devices and warns them about safeguarding personal information. US Navy bans TikTok over security worries, says report – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA billion here, a half-billion there: Calculating the installed base of PCs, including those still running Windows 7, is a tricky task, filled with uncertainty. After clearing away the noise, I think I’ve got a reliable estimate. How many PCs will still be running Windows 7 in 2020? Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreOne of the ways you can tell that a new technology is still at the hype stage is that no one talks about its problems. When an innovation is rising towards the ‘peak of inflated expectations,’ people talk about it in hushed tones as something almost miraculous — and they hardly ever discuss the obstacles
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