Reuters: Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SEC — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing … Ericsson admits it has bribed officials
Read MoreGive the gift of household convenience to your friends and loved ones. Just make sure they know what they’re getting into. The best smart home gifts of 2019: Amazon Echo Dot, Google Nest Hub and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit — Reddit bans 61 accounts and one subreddit for “misuse of the platform.” — Reddit said today that a leak of official US-UK trade documents
Read MoreVICE: A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators want — A lineup of female celebrities stand in front of you. Their faces move, smile, and blink as you move around them. A look at the
Read MoreEver wish you could augment your sense of sight? [Nick Bild]’s latest hack helps you find objects (or people) by locating their position and tracking them with a laser. The device, dubbed Artemis, latches onto your eyeglasses and can be configured to locate a specific object. Images collected from the device are streamed to an
Read MoreA huge toy Gold Box, The Claw multi-tool, magazine subscriptions, and a $50 Instant Pot lead of Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Saturday's Best Deals: Anker PowerPort Strip, Aged & Ore Drinkware, Razer DeathAdder, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIt does what it says, but it might not be what you need. Theragun review: This high-end percussive massage gun is not the end-all, be-all – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAcross this six-course package, you’ll get all the tools you need to understand, create and management database systems great and small. Companies want database experts. This SQL training can make you one. Source: The Next Web
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Are you sick of storming off your gaming station without realizing you’re still wearing your wired headset? Now’s the time to go wireless. “But wireless headsets are such a rip-off,” you might say. Nope, not when the HyperX Flight
Read MoreCommentary: The app has had a run of bad press too spectacular to ignore. TikTok is the best place on the internet. We should all delete it – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Crisis on Infinite Earths on The CW is a television comic book crossover event unlike anything done before. With Avengers done, 'Crisis' is the superhero event to get excited for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThink: new chips, cheaper devices and broader networks. 5G in 2019 underwhelmed. Here's how 2020 should be different – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBack on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead. A decade later, the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not recognize it. Here’s how this endangered species evolved and survived. The PC was supposed to die a decade ago. Instead, this happened Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreFinancial Times: Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their data — Most people would like to be able to choose traditional methods of identification over facial recognition technology … Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74%
Read MoreSamsung’s upcoming flagship phone will be one of the first to use new features from the Snapdragon 865 processor. What this powerful new chip could mean for 2020 phones like the Galaxy S11 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCould quantum dots and OLED combine to create the TV of the future? How Samsung's QD-OLED hybrid could take on LG for TV supremacy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreESP8266 development boards like the Wemos D1 Mini and NodeMCU are an excellent way to get a one-off project up and rolling quickly, but their size and relative complexity mean they aren’t necessarily a good choice for even short-run production hardware. On the other hand, programming the bare ESP modules can be something of a
Read MoreThe schedule is kinda weird. Check in to see when you the next episode of The Mandalorian is available. When is episode 6 of The Mandalorian released on Disney Plus? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreApple’s iPhone lineup could be getting a shakeup in 2020 with four new iPhone 12 models released in the fall and one surprise iPhone before then. Wait, Apple is releasing how many iPhone 12 models in 2020? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s ID accreditation will work with certain phones that run Android R and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip. You could store a digital driver's license on your phone soon. Here's how it works – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case. When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls, and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change – where none exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block
Read MoreMost of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal block diagram and get how it works, see the registers and ALU, follow the principles of a von
Read MoreSteven Levy / Wired: A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet’s organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet’s other companies — With Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping back (again!), Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now in charge of Alphabet—and its dysfunction. A look at the mixed
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Pichai’s track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into Google — I’ve been thinking a lot about the Alphabet-Google (my colleague Kyle Wiggers prefers “Googlebet”) news this week. Pichai's track record at Google over
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