Google wants search to be the center of everything you do. Now, in a logical next step to make its search products the access point for all content on the web, the internet goliath is turning its focus to healthcare. David Feinberg, the recently appointed head of its Google Health initiative, outlined plans to make it
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Marcus Aurelius used to say: Prepare to open the imaginary money chest… Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November
Read MorePhoto by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images A new initiative from the Internet Archive makes it easier to check citations on Wikipedia by linking to digitized previews of the books being referenced. When a scan of a book is available this should make it far easier to that a source is saying
Read MoreLED cubes are all the rage right now, and rightly so given the amount of work that goes into them and the interesting things people find to do with them. Not content to make yet another position-sensitive display or an abstract design, though, [Greig Stewart] opted for something a bit more ambitious: an LED cube
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Interview with Micron Technology VP Steve Pawlowski about the recent acquisition of AI startup FWDNXT and why the memory chip maker is moving into AI processing — I did a double-take last week when Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest memory chip makers, acquired artificial intelligence hardware and software startup
Read MoreNotorious forum 8chan, which is associated with numerous mass shootings, is back with a new name called 8kun. The site, a home for far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, allows users to post anonymously and has famously hosted manifestos for Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, and El Paso shooting in the US. During the Christchurch shooting the terrorist
Read MoreAdobe Photoshop, the company’s most anticipated app for the iPad, is finally here. The release follows an official announcement at Adobe’s MAX event last year. To be clear, the company will likely officially announce its available later this week, but the app link is live on the App store. The app is free to download
Read MoreOn the Hackaday.io page for his gorgeous “Sunrise Alarm Clock”, [The Big One] is quick to point out that his design is only inspired by Japanese lanterns, and does not use authentic materials or traditional woodworking techniques. Perhaps that’s an important fact to some, but we’ll just say that the materials used seem far less
Read MoreThe Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Saturday, November 2, 2019. Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission Bringing Science, Cargo to Station Source: NASA
Read MoreThe Star Wars actor hints that more photos and “cool clips” will be popping up on his Instagram. John Boyega teases new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clips – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChinese tech giant Bytedance, the maker of the popular social video app TikTok, launched its first phone this week. It’s called the Smartisan Jianguo Pro 3, and its claim to fame is a quick shortcut to the beloved app right from the lock screen. In January, the Tik-Tok owner acquired numerous tech-related patents from Smartisan,
Read More“Less is more,” Bob Iger said, in a recent radio interview. Disney CEO admits they released 'too many Star Wars films over a short period of time' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreElon Musk, James Wan, Will Poulter, Millie Bobby Brown, Wil Wheaton and more. Here are celebs who’ve cited mental health issues, racism, sexism and fan drama as reasons to say sayonara to social media. Elon Musk is the latest celeb to take social media break – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKlint Finley / Wired: Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive’s scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia’s users to check citations from books as well as the web. Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to
Read MoreSecurity researchers have issued warning for Ai.type, an Android third-party keyboard app, that’s been found stealthily signing up users for millions of unauthorized purchases of premium digital content. The findings — disclosed by mobile tech company Upstream — reveal the app was downloaded over 40 million times. Troublingly, it’s active on million of devices to
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post: A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance’s TopBuzz — Both news aggregation apps provide a more personalised news-reading experience, but ‘David’ is beating ‘Goliath’ in this case News Break … A look
Read MoreApple is known for a lot of things, but opening up their platforms to the world isn’t one of those things. According to a recent Google post by [Brandon Azad], there do exist special iPhones that are made for development with JTAG ports and other magic capabilities. The port is in all iPhones (though unpopulated),
Read MoreNatasha Frost / Quartz: How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia’s collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone — In the early days of the mobile phone, Nokia was everywhere—ubiquitous, inescapable, supreme. It created the best-selling 1100 … How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after
Read MoreA mysterious object, hidden behind a distant star, could be the lowest-mass black hole ever found. Astronomers may have discovered a new class of tiny black holes – CNET Source: CNet
Read Moredavid.dev: Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using the latest versions of Electron framework for non-public API usage, warns devs repeated app submissions can result in ban — Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app
Read MoreNASA and SpaceX take another step toward launching astronauts from US soil. SpaceX shares thrilling Crew Dragon parachute test – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Do you too experience extremely awkward interactions with children? Help us speak their language, Duolingo. SNL just created a Duolingo course that needs to be real – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019. Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later
Read MoreTop executives at TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing slated for next week to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, a move that threatens to worsen the social-media app’s woes in Washington. TikTok declines to testify to Congress about China, in move that threatens to stoke lawmakers’ ire Source:
Read MoreDepending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old last week. On October 29, 1969, the first message was transmitted between two of the four nodes that made up ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor network. ARPANET was created after a million dollars earmarked for ballistic missile defense was diverted from the Advanced
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