If you look at enough of another developer’s code, you will eventually say, “What were you thinking, you gosh-darn lunatic?” Now, this exchange can precede the moment where you quit a company and check into a padded room, or it can be akin to calling someone a mad genius and offering them a beer. In
Read MoreThe Apple Watch’s fall detection has already been credited with saving lives, and now Google is applying that sort of thinking to car safety. According to XDA Developers, Google is at work on a Personal Safety app with “car crash detection.” With the help of various sensors including the accelerometer and even the microphone, Pixel
Read MoreDyson’s latest air purifier, the Pure Cryptomic, can eliminate formaldehyde that’s floating around in your home. It’s the main selling point that distinguishes this model from the presently-available Pure Cool and Pure Hot + Cool, which can only capture formaldehyde, not destroy it. But before you drop $649 on a formaldehyde-fighting device there are a
Read MoreLook upon this ungodly creation and weep. A terrifying, decaying Leonardo costume from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 is on sale for K – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe cloud-based transformation is part of the university’s 2025 strategy to become a top 10 university in Australia. Flinders University taps into Microsoft Azure, 365, and Dynamics 365 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: What to expect from Microsoft’s event on October 2: Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, an ARM-based Surface, and at least a teaser of a dual-screen device — Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and some mysterious new hardware — Microsoft is holding a big Surface hardware event in New
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Twitter is rolling out a filter that moves unwanted DMs containing questionable language or spam to an “additional messages” folder on Android, iOS, and the web — Twitter is quickly acting on plans to filter potentially offensive direct messages. It’s rolling out the filter to all users on Android, iOS and
Read MorePlanet GJ 3512b is challenging existing ideas about planets. Astronomers discovered a gigantic planet that should not exist – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt wasn’t long ago that we introduced you to a web site, the Godbolt compiler explorer, that allows the visitor to compile code using a slew of compilers and compare their output. We suspect some number of readers said, “Wow! I can use that!”, while perhaps everyone else said, “Huh?” Well if you were in
Read MoreThe American psychiatrist saved countless lives in the process. Google Doodle honors Dr. Herbert Kleber, changed how drug addiction is viewed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Leaked images reveal the upcoming Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 (13-inch and 15-inch), and an ARM-powered Surface 2-in-1 device — Well dang, there they are — Microsoft’s new Surface lineup appears to have leaked almost in its entirety, thanks to product images obtained by journalist and leaker Evan Blass.
Read MoreJules Wang / Android Police: Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango — Back at I/O, Google announced a major expansion to its Assistant-based concierge automation engine, Duplex. Up until then, it would help people book restaurant tables … Google confirms it is
Read MoreImage: Evan Blass / Twitter Microsoft’s new Surface lineup appears to have leaked almost in its entirety, thanks to product images obtained by journalist and leaker Evan Blass. Blass posted a series of images to his Twitter account this evening featuring what he says are the upcoming Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 (13-inch and
Read MoreRyan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown ‘hot’ civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump — When is promoting violent extremism not promoting violent extremism? When Twitter says so. Twitter to leave up a tweet about a "full-blown 'hot' civil
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s bumpy rollout of iOS 13 has hit another roadblock in the form of major iCloud Reminders issues. Since the release of Apple’s mobile OS update last week, some users have reported problems trying to sync notes to the revamped Reminders app, which Apple redesigned this year
Read MoreThe social network relies on third-party fact checkers to flag misinformation. Facebook's fact-checking program to reportedly exempt opinion and satire – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMehedi Hassan / Thurrott: Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally — Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage. Both of the features are launching worldwide today. Microsoft now lets OneDrive
Read MoreJason Torchinsky / Jalopnik: Videos of owners trying Tesla’s new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral — Just a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead … Videos of owners
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Read MoreThe new tablet could have a thinner design and better camera, according to a report. Microsoft Surface 7 could be packing Snapdragon chip – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor those of you who just checked your iPhones or iPads and saw you have another software update available — no, you’re not going crazy. Apple today pushed out iOS 13.1.2, which will hopefully bring the number of bugs down to manageable levels. iOS 13.1.2 is the latest in a line of rapid fire updates, iOS 13.1.1 having
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Today, Apple announced that Apple News Plus, its premium news subscription service, is now available in the UK for £9.99 a month and in Australia for $14.99 a month. It’s the first expansion of the service since its March launch; previously, it had only been available in the
Read MoreThe motorcycle division’s previous HP designation is getting kicked to the curb in favor of the more recognizable M. BMW's M badge is making its way to Motorrad – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft rolls out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop globally, with a WVD client app available for Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and HTML 5 — Microsoft is rolling out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service and readying some new capabilities around Teams support and MSIX App Attach which could make it
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period — EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission … Block.one settles with
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