Commentary: Microsoft says you’ll call the Surface Duo a phone even if it doesn’t. Huh? Microsoft says its Surface Duo phone isn't a phone — here's why – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Some people love working up a sweat in the gym. Others, on the other hand, don’t. For some it’s an uplifting, almost meditative experience, but for different folks it’s a painful, never-ending slog. While these two camps might disagree
Read MoreThe €50 per month subscription package for home cinema. | Image: Sonos Sonos has quietly launched a new subscription service that lowers the initial barrier to taking home its costly connected speakers. Sonos Flex subscriptions start at €15 per month and can be canceled at any time. The service is currently restricted to just 500
Read MoreAs Facebook deals with the loss of PayPal‘s backing for its ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra, the tech giant must now get ready to answer EU regulators’ questions about the potential risks posed by the project. The European Commission has requested that Facebook and the Libra Association – the body tasked with supervising the digital currency – answer questions relating
Read MoreStalkware apps — software used to spy on users’ messages, call information, and GPS locations — have increased a staggering 373 percent during the first eight months of 2019 when compared to the same period the year before. The findings, disclosed by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, found 37,532 users who encountered such apps at least once,
Read MoreWelcome, it’s time for Moonday Mornings. If you don’t know what it is, where have you been? It’s Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Take a look. 1. Despite numerous Libra Association member companies getting cold feet over the regulatory challenges facing Facebook‘s ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra, none have actually pulled out
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 Descartes used to say: Let’s pull this rabbit out the hat! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 6
Read MoreDo you know what the most overused word in consumer tech is? It’s “pro.” Brands love to attach those three little letters to their products in the hope it’ll make the general public salivate with desire. And far too often it’s entirely unjustified. Anker’s gorgeous new Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro wireless earbuds are an exception.
Read MorePhoto by Vlad Savov / The Verge Sony has announced version 7.00 of the PlayStation 4’s system software, which centers around updates to Remote Play and party functionality. The update will be available this week. Remote Play will now let you stream games from your console to any Android device running version 5.0 or above.
Read MoreWe’ve always felt that sections of PVC pipe from the home improvement store are a criminally underutilized construction material, and it looks like [Troy Proffitt] feels the same way. Rather than trying to entirely 3D print the enclosure for his recently completed portable Bluetooth speaker, he combined printed parts with a piece of four inch
Read MoreMedical personnel in Kashmir say preventable deaths are happening because of blocked streets, medicine shortages, and a phone and internet blockade by India. In a Race Against Death, No Way to Call a Doctor Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAndrew Sheivachman / Skift: Real estate data company CoStar Group has agreed to buy hotel data company STR for $450M in cash — Data and analytics are not just vital in the contemporary hospitality ecosystem but also big business. CoStar’s acquisition of STR shows the overlap between traditional commercial real estate and the global hotel
Read MoreInstagram might finally let you make stories for your group. According to app researcher Jane Mancun Wong, the company is currently testing out this feature in one of the app’s test builds. Screenshots posted in Wong’s tweet indicates once you snap a photo from the stories camera option, it’ll let you post it to your
Read MorePopular encrypted messaging app Signal has fixed a crucial flaw in its Android app that could’ve allowed bad actors to answer calls on your behalf. What’s more, it needed no intervention from your end. Google’s Project Zero team, which uncovered the bug on September 28, said it only affects audio calls, as the video option needs to be
Read More[Ryan Schenk] had a problem: he built the perfect surfboard. Normally that wouldn’t present a problem, but in this case, it did because [Ryan] had no idea how he carved the gentle curves on the bottom of the board. So he built this homebrew 2D-scanner to make the job of replicating his hand-carved board a
Read MoreThe show’s ending had fans booing and chanting “AEW”. WWE Hell in a Cell 2019: Full results, horrible ending, new champions and reactions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCarrie Mihalcik / CNET: Two new California laws crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn, with one giving citizens the right to sue if they are placed in porn without their consent — While some deepfakes are silly and fun, others are misleading and even abusive. Two new California laws aim to put a
Read MoreAudiophiles have worked diligently to alert the rest of the world to products with superior sound quality, and to warn us away from expensive gimmicks that have middling features at best. Unfortunately, the downside of most high quality audio equipment is the sticker price. But with some soldering skills and a bit of hardware, you
Read MoreJean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: Microsoft Puzzling Announcements — Microsoft has been on a roll and is back at the top of the tech industry by doing exactly what Satya Nadella said he’d do when he took the reins from Steve Ballmer. But now, Microsoft is engaging in a number of risky processor (ARM) and
Read MoreSarah Gooding / WordPress Tavern: Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails’ creator David Heinemeier Hansson discuss balance of power in open source projects, tradeoffs of growing WordPress market share — In what began as a heated conversation on Twitter, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails creator … Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails'
Read MoreWhen I first started writing, a short 300-500-word story like this one would take me literal days to write. I was publishing something for people to read, and I wanted to make sure every word was perfect. Read more… Stop Trying to Make Things 'Perfect' Source: Life Hacker
Read More“If you or someone you love has been exposed to questionable quality electrolytic capacitors, you could be entitled to financial compensation.” Perhaps that’s not exactly the pitch behind this class action lawsuit against capacitor manufacturers, but it might as well be. The suit claims that the defendants, a group of capacitor manufacturers that includes Nichicon,
Read MoreCommentary: Microsoft insists that its Surface Duo for 2020 is much more than a dual-screen phone. Here’s what’s up. Why Microsoft doesn't want you to call its phone a phone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAiring live right now on the WWE Network. WWE Hell in a Cell 2019: Results, live updates, reactions and ratings – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJack Corrigan / Nextgov: DHS’ new cloud-based HART system, which will house biometric data on 250M+ people via AWS’ GovCloud, promises to significantly expand DHS’ biometric operations — The cloud-based HART system, which will house data on hundreds of millions of people, promises to significantly expand … DHS' new cloud-based HART system, which will house
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