One of the big themes we’ve been tracking for a few years now is Amazon’s various attempts to make Alexa useful outside your home. Amazon has a very good value proposition for customers inside their houses: Echo speakers are great for music, timers and such in the kitchen, and smarthome controls. Amazon clearly has ambitions
Read MoreHow to tell if your resting heart rate is too high, and what to do about it. 6 ways to lower your resting heart rate – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! For a long time I wasn’t really a fan of smart speakers. The idea was cool, but relying only on audio seemed like a clumsy way to interact with technology. Then, I started using smart speakers with screens. It
Read MoreHere’s a look at our most important stories for the week ending Sept. 28, 2019. 2020 Porsche Taycan, Audi RS7 Sportback and more: Roadshow's week in review – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreDisney’s $7 rival to Netflix will stream its big-budget movies and exclusive original shows from Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and its own studios. Disney Plus: Launch dates, prices, preorder deals, movies and shows to expect – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I have a confession to make, I’m terrible at picking something to watch on Netflix. I’m getting better at using other tools to find something that tickles my taste buds,
Read MoreAs one of the pioneers of 3D penning, 3Doodler has released an improved 3Doodler pen along with doodling tools for just $79.99 from TNW Deals. Bring your illustrations into the world with 3Doodler’s 3D printing pen Source: The Next Web
Read MoreTheir guesses have been scattershot, conspiratorial and often untethered from reality. But they say they’ve been spurred to action by Trump’s fury and the possibility to score political points. Amateur pro-Trump ‘sleuths’ scramble to unmask whistleblower: ‘Your president has asked for your help’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe next TV technology to challenge the supremacy of OLED is coming next month. Mini-LED is here: How smaller lights could lead to big TV improvements – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLaptops are great for portable productivity, but ergonomically they can leave something to be desired. They tend to force the user to look down, creating neck strain over extended periods. Rather than invest in expensive massages, [DIY Perks] decided what he really wanted was a dual screen laptop. So he built one! (Video embedded below.)
Read MoreSteve Lohr / New York Times: AI research increasingly requires datacenter-scale computation, raising concerns that only a few big tech companies will dominate advances in the field — Each big step of progress in computing — from mainframe to personal computer to internet to smartphone — has opened opportunities … AI research increasingly requires datacenter-scale
Read MoreThe ongoing review continues! From the giant 7.3-inch screen to photography, multitasking and that awful notch. Galaxy Fold: 11 best and worst parts of Samsung's foldable phone – CNET Source: CNet
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 Isaac Newton used to say: Let’s pull this rabbit out the hat! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I’ve owned iPhone after iPhone. Ever since my first iPhone 5c, I’ve never backed it up to iCloud — and for no good reason, really. It was just something I
Read MoreWhat a nuisance is a faulty memory. How many times have you forgotten where you parked the car? A few years ago, probably as a sign that my retirement was overdue, I spent literally half a day trying to find my car at a major New York airport. Fortunately, I am not alone. When people
Read MoreTheir message was inspired. Their returns, not so much. The Week the C.E.O.s Got Smacked Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf you owned a classic Commodore home computer you might not have known it at the time, but it would have contained a versatile integrated circuit called the MOS6526. This so-called CIA chip, for Complex Interface Adaptor, contained parallel and serial ports, timers, and a time-of-day counter. Like so many similar pieces of classic silicon
Read MoreJoaquin Phoenix rises but Batman is missed in this violent, visceral experience. Joker movie review: No one's laughing in this bleak Batman spin-off – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFinSMEs: UK-based digital wealth management company Moneyfarm raises £36M Series C, says its assets under management grew 80%+ YoY to £734M in 2018 — Moneyfarm, a Milan, Italy and London, UK-based digital wealth management company, raised £36M in Series C funding. UK-based digital wealth management company Moneyfarm raises £36M Series C, says its assets under
Read MoreWere you aware that there’s a market for backpack-housed live streaming video systems, and that they can cost as much as $1600? Apparently these things are popular with social media moguls who want to stream themselves living their fabulous lives to people sitting at home watching on YouTube or Twitch. But believing that even slack
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: Audius, a SoundCloud alternative built on the blockchain, has launched its music streaming service with songs hosted on independent operators to avoid takedowns — Launching today — “It was SoundCloud’s opportunity to lose and now it’s ours,” says Audius CEO Roneil Rumburg. Audius, a SoundCloud alternative built on the blockchain, has
Read MoreDigital design is hard. But in the right environment, digital circuits are more forgiving than analog. That 3.3V signal coming out of the chip has to drop a lot along the way to not be a logic level at the destination. If you are trying to push the boundary then digital design has much of
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Ohio-based commercial insurance platform Bold Penguin raises $32M Series B, bringing its total raised to over $50M — Bold Penguin, a commercial insurance tech provider headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, today announced that it has secured $32 million in a series B funding round … Ohio-based commercial insurance platform Bold Penguin raises
Read MoreThe judge ordered Tesla to reimburse one pro-union worker for lost wages and rescind rules aimed at union activity. Tesla and CEO Elon Musk violated federal labor law, judge rules Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreA nearly flawless film by masterful talent, it’s a mobster movie at its most mature. It’s epic, venerable — the best version of something I’m bored of seeing. Netflix's The Irishman is the masterpiece I'll probably forget next week – CNET Source: CNet
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