GAO The US Defense Department has finally ended the use of 8-inch floppy disks for coordinating the country’s nuclear forces. C4ISRNET reports that as of this June, the USA’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) has transitioned to a “highly secure solid state digital storage solution.” SACCS is one of the US nuclear force’s
Read MoreHarry McCracken / Fast Company: Google says it’s improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words’ relationship with each other — For Google’s namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for. Google says it's improving 10% of
Read MoreTalks over how American companies can ensure future supplies of advanced computer chips have taken on more urgency. Pentagon Pushes Tech Industry to Help U.S. Retain Military Edge Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAhead of the launch of its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft has begun talking up a gaming accessory that holds your phone right above your Xbox controller, so you can have an easier time killing bad guys in titles that the company will beam to your phone from the cloud. The arrival of this
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 Bentham used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 24 2019, at
Read MoreSubscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the third edition of Pardon The Intrusion, where we explore the wild world of security. Almost everyone agrees that two-factor authentication (2FA) is the holy grail when it comes to keeping our accounts safe from breaches. Still, it’s unbelievable how many companies screw this up, like Twitter did earlier this
Read MoreA common measurement for circuits is heat dissipation inspection. While single point thermometers do the trick, they can be quite annoying to use. Meanwhile, a thermal imaging camera is often out of the budget for hobbyists. How about building your own visual thermometer for cheap? That’s what [Thomas Fischl] decided to do, using an infrared
Read MoreApple and Google have cumulatively removed over 50 apps from their respective mobile app stores that were found serving malicious ads to millions of users. The findings were were disclosed separately by London-based mobile security firm Wandera and Slovakian security solutions provider ESET. Disruptive ad behavior ESET found at least 42 Android apps that were
Read MoreGoogle is making what it calls the biggest tweak to its search engine in the past five years. But it’s still a work in progress. Google is making a big change to its vaunted search engine. You might not notice. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe company touts the change as “one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of search.” Google says its search engine will better understand natural speech, instead of just keywords – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s cheapest Chromebook is still more expensive than the competition Continue reading… Google Pixelbook Go review: the price of simplicity Source: New feed
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is currently rolling out a change to its core search algorithm that it says could change the rankings of results for as many as one in ten queries. It’s based on cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) techniques developed by Google researchers and applied to its search product
Read MoreJag joins the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Honda, McLaren, Bugatti and Daihatsu in offering a wild digital concept to gamers. Jaguar's the latest company to do a Vision Gran Turismo concept and it's stunning – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreJaguar’s Vision Gran Turismo joins the likes of Bugatti, Peugeot and Mercedes in the Gran Turismo series of games. Jaguar's Vision Gran Turismo concept is long, low and electric – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreImages: Jaguar Jaguar has placed itself at the forefront of the electric car revolution with the I-Pace SUV, despite being a smaller player in the overall car market. The British automaker also competes in all-electric racing series Formula E, and operates a whole support series made up of I-Paces. But the latest and greatest electric
Read MoreJonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers with freight companies and helps manage trucking logistics, has raised $35M Series B from Georgian Partners — Shipwell, the software platform for managing trucking logistics, has raised $35 million and is expanding its suite of services to become … Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers
Read MoreOut in the countryside, having a cow or to wouldn’t be a big deal. You can have a cattle shed full of them, and no one will bat an eyelid. But what if you’re living in the big city and have no need of pet dogs or cats, but a pet cow. It wouldn’t be
Read MoreLeah Williams / Kotaku Australia: Microsoft says it’s paid $1.2B to indie game devs during the current Xbox generation, for games that came through its ID@Xbox cross-platform publishing program — [email protected] was launched in 2014 as a tool for independent developers to publish their titles across Windows PC and Xbox One. Microsoft says it's
Read MoreKellen / Droid Life: Google Pixel 4 review: not competitive, as $800 is pricey for 64GB, Motion Sense is fiddly, no expandable storage or fingerprint reader, battery life is weak — We’re four years into the Google experiment that is high-end Pixel phones. Google has given us two, once again, the Pixel 4 and Pixel
Read MoreJames Shields / Xbox Wire: Ahead of Project xCloud’s launch, Microsoft adds mobile gaming gear, like a new smartphone-holding clip for Xbox controllers, to its Designed for Xbox program — As Kareem Choudhry shared last month, our vision for Project xCloud is to empower gamers to play the games they want, with the people they
Read MoreIoT devices rarely ever just do what they’re advertised. They’ll almost always take up more space than they need to – on top of that, their processor and memory alone should be enough to run a multitude of other tasks while not necessarily compromising the task they were built to do. That’s partially the motivation
Read MoreAlex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: Ally, maker of enterprise goal-planning software, raises $15M Series B led by Tiger Global, its third raise of 2019 after a $3M seed round and $8M Series A — In the daily blizzard of new venture rounds announced each week, it is hard to stand out. Sometimes a founder is
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge RED’s ambitious Hydrogen phone project is ending after the release of just a single device, the Hydrogen One, according to an announcement from Jim Jannard. The company’s founder says that he is “shutting down the HYDROGEN project” as he retires due to “a few health issues.” The
Read MoreGoogle From initial rumors through to the latest updates Continue reading… Google Stadia: the latest news about the cloud gaming platform Source: New feed
Read MoreSarah Frier / Bloomberg: Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg’s free speech comments, says there wasn’t any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a … Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's
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