New Honda Fit takes the stage in Tokyo – Roadshow
Will this new Fit come to the US? We aren’t so sure. New Honda Fit takes the stage in Tokyo – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWill this new Fit come to the US? We aren’t so sure. New Honda Fit takes the stage in Tokyo – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreReuters: Samsung rolls out a patch for Galaxy S10 and Note10 to fix the fingerprint sensor flaw that caused 3D patterns in screen protectors to be read as fingerprints — SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has updated software to fix problems with fingerprint recognition features … Samsung rolls out a patch for
Read MoreMaking a capacitor is pretty easy. Just get two conductors close together. The bigger area you can get and the closer you can get them, the bigger the capacitor you can make. [BigClive] found some fake capacitors that were supposed to be very high value, but weren’t. Taking them apart revealed the capacitors didn’t have
Read MoreIt’s a tiny van with chunky styling and big personality. Mitsubishi's little Super Height K-Wagon concept debuts in Tokyo – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCraig Timberg / Washington Post: Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp’s Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars — Facebook plans to launch a “News” tab on Friday that will offer stories from hundreds of news organizations, some of which will
Read MoreStephen Shankland / CNET: Samsung unveils Exynos 990, its new flagship SoC that’s 20% faster overall and 2x faster on AI-specific tasks, and a new 5G modem, both made with a 7nm process — If you buy next year’s flagship Samsung Galaxy phone, it might come with a performance boost from a new processor the
Read MoreSarah Lacy / Pando: Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr sell Pando, seven years after launching it, to ad-tech company BuySellAds, which bought Digg in 2018 — If there is a single moment when it seemed like my journalism career suddenly caught fire, it was the 2006 Business Week cover story I wrote about the rise
Read MoreChromebooks are able to run Android apps, but mostly just ones from the Google Play Store — if you wanted to install something that’s not officially sanctioned, you’d generally need to flip your device into a far less secure Developer Mode and/or beam it over from a tethered phone. That won’t be the case with
Read MoreImage: iFixit Earlier this month, Surface boss Panos Panay showed how you’d be able to get into the Surface Laptop 3 just by lifting off the top plate — and it turns out, it’s pretty much as easy as Panay made it seem, according to iFixit’s Surface Laptop 3 teardown. Previous Surface Laptops weren’t easy
Read MoreThese gallant grandmothers don’t mind getting close to reptiles that are probably bigger than most of their grandkids. Meet the snorkeling grandmas who swim with deadly sea snakes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStephanie Condon / ZDNet: Industrial IoT company PTC to acquire Onshape, maker of a SaaS product development platform for CAD, for $470M; Onshape has received over $150M in VC funding — The $470 million deal should help PTC, a major industrial IOT player, accelerate its transition to a SaaS-based business model. Industrial IoT company PTC
Read MoreGoogle showed off the inside of its quantum computing lab — and the insides of its five massive quantum computers inside. Take a look at Google's quantum computing technology – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft Azure Q1 revenue growth has slowed down to 59%, compared to 64% in Q4, and 73% in Q3 — – Demand for cloud services remains strong, but is decelerating — Office 365 revenue jumped 25% in fiscal first quarter — Microsoft Corp. posted sales and profit that topped analysts’
Read MoreIt’s got edgy style, a fully electric powertrain and a little flying worker bot hidden in the back. This is Lexus’ vision for the future. Lexus LF-30 Electrified concept debuts with in-wheel motors, in-trunk drone – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAnd it’s even got suicide doors. Mazda MX-30 debuts in Japan as the brand's first production EV – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla may grant certain customers early access to a “feature complete” version of the company’s “full self-driving” (FSD) capabilities by the end of 2019, Elon Musk said in a call with investors Wednesday. Musk said that this wasn’t “for sure” — but that he thinks Tesla is on
Read MoreImage: Epic Games It’s been just over a week since Fortnite came back online following a two-day, black hole-induced hiatus. But the event, which ushered in the game’s eleventh season and its all-new redesigned map, was one of the biggest singular online gaming events to date — with more than 7 million concurrent viewers across
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has been experiencing a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting customers across the country. But it’s hard to tell exactly what’s causing the outage, or how long until it will be fixed — and AT&T is saying conflicting things about what’s going on. Here’s what the company told us,
Read MoreMicrosoft doesn’t break out Microsoft 365 as a separate category in its earnings reports. But indicators that the suite is starting to gain traction are evident in its Q1 FY’20 report. A new Microsoft cloud category to watch: The Microsoft 365 number Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google employees have accused their employer of creating a surveillance tool disguised as a calendar extension designed to monitor gatherings of more than 100 people, a signal that those employees may be planning protests or discussing union organizing. Google parent company Alphabet “categorically” denies the accusation. The accusation, outlined
Read MoreIt’s a treadle lathe! No, it’s a power lathe! It’s a wood lathe! No, it’s a metal lathe! Actually, [Uri Tuchman]’s homebrew lathe is all of the above, and it looks pretty snazzy too. To say that [Uri]’s creations are quirky is a bit of an understatement – birds, crustaceans, hands, and feet all appear
Read MorePhoto by Joshua Lott for The Verge Electronics manufacturer Foxconn’s promised Wisconsin “innovation centers,” which are to employ hundreds of people in the state if they ever get built, are officially on hold after spending months empty and unused, as the company focuses on meeting revised deadlines on the LCD factory it promised would now
Read MoreThe electric-car maker’s revenue declined, but it said it had removed “substantial cost” from its operations. Tesla Reports Profit for Quarter, Sending Shares Soaring Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreImpeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump were delayed today when a group of Conservative lawmakers stormed the room in which they’re being held. BREAKING: I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions. Still inside – more details to come. https://t.co/fHhqkZ6x3Z — Rep. Matt Gaetz
Read MoreA new supercomputer at the Milwaukee School of Engineering will serve both research and instruction in artificial intelligence and deep learning for the university’s computer science program. Milwaukee School of Engineering Supercomputer to Support AI Education and Research Source: Campus Technology
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