A drive spotted on their phone in New South Wales. | Image: Transport for NSW Last week, the Australian state of New South Wales announced a plan to crack down on drivers using their phones on the road. The state’s transport agency said it had integrated machine vision into roadside cameras to spot offenders. The
Read MoreAnna Wiener / New Yorker: A profile of Hipcamp, a platform for campsite booking where listings include off-grid plots, RV hookups, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tree houses, and cabins — Can a startup save the wilderness by disrupting it? — In Northern California, booking a public campsite is a blood sport. A profile of Hipcamp,
Read MoreFord is trying to do its part to combat climate change by recycling old coffee waste from McDonald’s into car parts. The automaker will be taking food waste from the fast food giant, diverting it from a landfill to its laboratory, where it will be engineered into bioplastics, Ford said. In addition to reducing food
Read MoreIn 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.” How wrong he was. The following century completely turned physics on its head. A huge number of theoretical and experimental discoveries have transformed
Read More{$inline_image}Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I went on a trip to Taiwan in July, and I had no plans to make a significant purchase. But then I was in an electronics market with a bunch of tech journalists. And let me tell you, that’s
Read MoreThe new process uses coffee chaff, a byproduct of the coffee roasting product. Ford and McDonald's brewed up a way to make car parts out of coffee waste – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMotorola may be all about introducing premium phones for 2020, but this super-affordable Android 10 device has “bargain” written all over it. Motorola One Hyper has a 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera and big battery for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA man costumed as ‘Dr. Manhattan’ of the comic ‘Watchmen’ arrives at the International Comic Salon, accompanied by ‘military escort’ in Erlangen, Germany, 19 June 2014. | Photo by Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images You never forget the first time you see Sergey Brin. This is because he is wearing Crocs, and while you
Read MoreNewley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country — New barriers make world’s biggest untapped digital market a slog for Walmart, Facebook; taking cues from China’s protectionism India, which is increasingly
Read MoreMozilla’s Firefox VPN extension will cost $4.99 per month for now, but that could change in future. Firefox 71 rolls out: Windows 10 picture-in-picture video plus wider VPN beta for .99 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWe break down the saga of the controversial Chinese telecom giant and phone maker. Huawei ban: Full timeline as FCC bars Chinese companies from billions in federal subsidies – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen an executive wrote about her house arrest in Canada, an outcry about a former employee’s treatment arose on social media. How Huawei Lost the Heart of the Chinese Public Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe social network is exploring new product areas through a team dedicated to building the company’s future. Podcasts and Travel Apps? Facebook Is Working on Those Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe weapons are notorious for their effects on civilians. But five years of reporting and hundreds of interviews have revealed they’ve also killed and wounded scores of Americans. America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India with an enclosed 4,800mAh battery, claims up to 10 hours of continuous music playback — After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix …
Read MoreAustralian police have reportedly seized a record amount of cryptocurrency after intercepting a drug delivery from the UK. The dodgy drug delivery eventually led police to search a property in Marangaroo, Perth and seize AUD$1,524,102 ($1,022,827) worth of cryptocurrency. Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Matthews, the officer in charge of the drug and firearm squad, said
Read MoreZ is back! | SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images Today is the birthday of Shawn Corey Carter. To celebrate his 50h, the artist better known as Jay Z has returned his entire music catalog to Spotify where he’s sure to cash in on this gift to subscribers. Jay Z owns the rival music streaming service
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Photo by Joshua Lott / Getty Images The defamation trial started today Continue reading… Elon Musk tries to explain Twitter in ‘pedo guy’ defamation case Source: New feed
Read MoreThe discovery suggests a privacy vulnerability exists in the new flagship handset or the latest iOS, or both, KrebsOnSecurity reports. iPhone 11 Pro discovered to still seek user location data despite settings – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFreeCAD started out a little shaky, but it has gotten better and better. If you are trying to draw a schematic, it probably isn’t the best way to do it. However, it is a great graphical alternative to OpenSCAD for 3D printing and even incorporates OpenSCAD if you don’t want to choose. However, if you
Read MoreAmazon has launched a new Echo smart speaker exclusively for the Indian market. The Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition is a compact speaker with 360-degree sound and, unusually for the Echo line, a built-in rechargeable battery. Amazon says the 4,800mAh capacity should be good for 10 hours of music playback and 11 hours of
Read MoreAmazon has just launched an Echo speaker with a battery pack in India. The device, called the Echo Portable Speaker Edition, is priced at Rs. 4,999 ($69.70). The new Echo device has a 4,800 mAh battery that can last up to 10 hours in a single charge. #JustLaunched Feedback from our Indian customers that they
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size ever, largely thanks to improved algorithms, not better hardware — 795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms achieved using more efficient algorithms. — 34 with 24 posters participating Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size
Read MoreComet goes bang. NASA telescope captures 'explosive outburst' on small comet – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge The official Chinese variant of the Nintendo Switch will launch in mainland China next week, Tencent and Nintendo have announced. The bundle will sell for 2,099 yuan (~$297) and includes a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. That’s the only title officially approved for sale so far,
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