The 2020 Audi A6 Allroad gets US pricing and availability – Roadshow
Audi’s tall wagon is back in the US market after a long hiatus and it’s looking good. The 2020 Audi A6 Allroad gets US pricing and availability – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAudi’s tall wagon is back in the US market after a long hiatus and it’s looking good. The 2020 Audi A6 Allroad gets US pricing and availability – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe agency’s proposal would free airwaves for Wi-Fi, too. But it’s bad news for the older DSRC car network technology. FCC endorses C-V2X mobile network that lets cars talk to each other – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreReusable duodenoscopes infected patients in a series of notorious outbreaks. Now there’s a disposable model to be used just once. To Prevent Deadly Infections, F.D.A. Approves the First Disposable ‘Scope’ Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA tank that drives itself. A drone that picks its own targets. A machine gun with facial-recognition software. Sound like science fiction? Weapons powered by artificial intelligence are already here. A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreConvicted criminals and people susceptible to extortion are named in a LexisNexis database that leaked onto the open internet. Database exposes names of risky potential bank customers – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSam Danley / Food Business News: Zippin raises $12M Series A led by Evolv Ventures, Kraft Heinz’s VC arm, for Zippin Cube, a modular, prefabricated cashierless “store-in-a-box” — SAN FRANCISCO —Zippin, a start-up focused on cashierless checkout for brick and mortar retail, secured $12 million in a Series … Zippin raises M Series A led
Read MoreWWE has one of the most popular YouTube channels in the world and has become a social media force, and today (as reported by Variety) the company officially joined TikTok. There’s a WWE TikTok channel, sure, but more important to wrestling fans and meme creators is that WWE’s arrival brings with it a slew of
Read MoreBanking information, Social Security digits, names and salaries were stolen from several unencrypted hard drives left in a payroll employee’s car, a report says. Payroll data for 29,000 Facebook employees stolen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s an awful feeling realizing that your internet speed is far slower than what your provider promised. But according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission could be doing very little to force providers to live up to their
Read MoreAfter meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies at 94 Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreBenQ has, perhaps quietly, made a name for itself as one of the best in the business when it comes to home theater projectors. Recently, I got my hands on the HT5550, the brighter and beefier twin to the popular HT3550. And while it’s a bit on the lighter side of features when compared to
Read More“Community groups, workers, journalists, and researchers—not corporate AI ethics statements and policies—have been primarily responsible for pressuring tech companies and governments to set guardrails on the use of AI.” AI Now 2019 report AI Now’s 2019 report is out, and it’s exactly as dismaying as we thought it would be. The good news is that
Read MoreFor eight years, I’ve been unable to grow leg hair along my shins. Read more… Get Deadlift Shinguards If You Want to Keep Your Leg Hair Source: Life Hacker
Read MorePhoto by Donat Sorokin / TASS via Getty Images A new software system that will let people with diabetes customize their treatment and automatically adjust their insulin levels was just approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. It will reach patients in January 2020. The technology, called Control-IQ, is manufactured by Tandem Diabetes
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s common knowledge that Google has photographed a huge amount of the planet for its Street View and Google Earth projects. But for the first time, Google has revealed how much of the world it has photographed: 10 million miles of Street View imagery and 36 million
Read MoreJust in the nick of time before a new round of tariffs was supposed to go into effect, the U.S. and China have announced a limited deal to end the trade war. Eventually. Read more… What Does the China Trade Deal Mean for Holiday Shopping Prices? Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe Game Awards were last night. And while we do love a pretty trophy (and are sad The Outer Worlds didn’t take top honors), there’s more to the event than pixel pageantry. Coinciding with the big day, there’s also a PC “Game Festival” going on—all on Steam—that features some great time-locked demos you can play
Read MoreWith 18650 cells as cheap and plentiful as they are, you’d think building your own custom battery packs would be simple. Unfortunately, soldering the cells is tricky, and not everyone is willing to invest in a spot welding setup just to put the tabs on them. Of course that’s only half the battle, you’ll still
Read MoreAn annoying lock screen bug has been bothering some unlucky Android users for months now, locking them out of their devices by way of a weird authentication loop. The bug has been present as far back as September, when it was originally spotted on Pixel XL devices. It remains unfixed and, worse, seems to be
Read MoreIn November, Google said that it was starting to roll out RCS Chat, the successor to SMS, as Android’s primary texting platform, and as of Monday, if you are an Android user on any carrier in the US, you should now be able to use it — though you may need to update your Messages
Read MoreThe maker of the Firefox web-browser joined other tech firms and public-interest advocates to fire their latest salvo Friday: They asked a panel of judges to rehear a case that upheld a decision by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal open-Internet rules last year. Net neutrality supporters ask court to reconsider ruling that upheld FCC
Read MorePolina Marinova / Fortune: WeWork sells SEO startup Conductor, which it bought for $113.6M, back to its management team, shuts down Spacious, which it acquired for $42.5M four months ago — As WeWork looks to sort out its future, the flashy startups it acquired are also seeking a new path forward. WeWork sells SEO startup
Read MoreWith Boris Johnson winning the election in Britain, you’ve probably seen a bunch of headlines about how Brexit is sure to happen. But it’s not that simple. Let’s break down the event and what it means for the U.K.—and what it might (eventually) mean for us in the U.S. Read more… OK, So When Does
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge Billboard has announced that YouTube streams will be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart starting early next year. Video streams from other platforms will also count, including Apple, Spotify, Tidal, and Vevo, and Billboard says the change will also impact genre album consumption charts, like country, Latin,
Read MorePhoto by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon has been steadily growing its logistics operation over the last decade, and it now delivers more than half of all Amazon packages in the US, according to an estimate from Morgan Stanley published on Thursday and reported by CNBC. That’s a staggering increase over the course of
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