Our 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 Rousseau used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin Price We closed
Read MoreWere you thinking that cryptocurrency mass adoption was just around the corner? Well, perhaps think again. A recent study from Dutch bank ING has found that cash still reigns supreme. ING says in its report that general sentiments towards cryptocurrencies and their usefulness “have not changed drastically” since the bank conducted a similar survey a
Read MoreFossil Collider FTW7008, FTW7010, FTW7009 (from left to right). Remember how Google paid the Fossil Group $40 million for its secret smartwatch tech and R&D personnel? At the time Fossil and Google told Wareable that Google had acquired “new product innovation that’s not yet hit the market,” that would sit within the Wear OS family.
Read MoreLeo Kelion / BBC: London’s Gatwick to become the UK’s first airport to use facial recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks for passenger boarding — Gatwick has become the UK’s first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks before passengers board planes. London's Gatwick
Read MoreThe company says the European Commission is trying to “retrofit changes to national law.” Apple says EU's billion tax demand 'defies reality' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFortnite today added cross-platform voice chat, a feature that lets friends talk even if they’re not currently playing the game. Party Hub, which is available in the game’s mobile apps, lets you see which of your friends are online and start audio conversations with them. The feature is based on similar technology developed by Houseparty,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is launching new voices for Google Assistant in nine countries today, adding a secondary voice option outside the US for the first time. When users set up a new Android phone, the default voice will also be chosen at random, so there’ll be a mix of people
Read MoreAmazon officially today announced suppor for Hindi in its Alexa virtual assistant, allowing users to issue voice commands in the fourth most spoken language in the world. The development comes more than a year after Google introduced Hindi support in Google Assistant. Using machine learning and deep learning models, Amazon said it has addressed the contextual and cultural
Read MoreApple revealed its new series of iPhones last week. While the company released almost all specifications of these devices such as processor, camera sensors, and screen resolution, their RAM and battery sizes were unknown. Now, thanks to the Chinese certification site, TENAA, we know about these specs too. All three phones – the iPhone 11,
Read MoreMedical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure servers that did not have basic security precautions in place, a new investigation by ProPublica has found. “Data from more than 13.7 million medical tests in the US were available online, including more than 400,000 in which
Read MoreCherlynn Low / Engadget: HP debuts 13″ Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light business convertible with Intel Core vPro processor, 2TB storage, 16GB RAM, available Oct. 25, starting at $1,549 — HP is chasing superlatives again. Last year, the company launched the Spectre Folio — the first laptop made out of leather. HP debuts 13" Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light
Read MoreStarbucks is releasing a new hardware product in Japan this month, and it’s a pen. Not a stylus or anything — an actual pen, with “coffee brown” gel ink, a drip coffee machine-inspired design, and the built-in ability to pay for things at Starbucks. “Starbucks Touch: The Pen,” for that is its name, contains an
Read MoreTavi Gevinson / The Cut: Founder of the Rookie mag reflects on being an early influencer and the effect that Instagram had on her life and career as Instagram’s aesthetic keeps evolving — My senior year of high school, I had three Instagram accounts: a public one, a private one for friends and internet friends,
Read MoreA Times Square billboard is teasing the Oct. 15 release. An orange Pixel 4, confirmed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge HP’s latest EliteBook, the Elite Dragonfly, doesn’t look like a business laptop. It comes in a shade of deep blue, and its lightweight magnesium build looks and feels more like a premium consumer laptop than something made for the commercial industry. The 13.3-inch Elite Dragonfly weighs less than
Read MoreEcuador offiicals have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 20 million individuals, including 6.7 million children. The 18GB cache of data was attributed to a leaky Elasticsearch server, but it has since been plugged. In response, local law enforcement authorities
Read MoreThe US justice department has sued whistleblower Edward Snowden, following the release of his new book, Permanent Record. The department alleges this book violates a non-disclosure agreement Snowden signed with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) while working as a contractor for the two agencies. The lawsuit sees Snowden accused
Read MoreAmy Thomson / Bloomberg: Mike Muller, who has served as ARM’s CTO for nearly 20 years and was one of about 16 founders, is retiring at the end of the month — – Muller, 60, will retire from the company at end of September — He’d been CTO for nearly 20 years and was one
Read MoreCould there be a worse fate for a guy with a Swiss accent than to be subjected to a clock that’s seconds or even – horrors! – minutes off the correct time? Indeed not, which is why [The Guy With the Swiss Accent] went to great lengths to keep his IKEA radio-controlled clock on track.
Read MoreSteve Dent / Engadget: HTC names former Orange exec Yves Maitre as its new CEO; HTC had $770M in revenue in 2018, the first time its annual revenue fell below $1B as a public company — HTC announced that it has appointed a former executive from telecom giant Orange, Yves Maitre, as its new CEO.
Read MoreMobile dating app’s first series will have little to do with relationships, Reuters reports. Tinder reportedly tinkering with original video content – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDevin Coldewey / TechCrunch: FarmWise, which is developing autonomous farming robots for removing weeds, raises $14.5M Series A, following a $5.7M seed round in 2017 — Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy companies are giving it their best shot. FarmWise,
Read MoreJuli Clover / MacRumors: Judge in California certifies lawsuit against Apple for offering refurbished replacement devices under AppleCare and AppleCare+, as a class action — A U.S. District Judge in San Jose today certified a class action lawsuit that accuses Apple of using “inferior” refurbished products … Judge in California certifies lawsuit against Apple for
Read MoreReuters: Adobe beats with Q3 revenue of $2.83B, up 24% YoY, and Digital Media revenue of $1.96B, up 22% YoY, forecasts $2.97B Q4 revenue, vs. $3.03B expected by analysts — (Reuters) – Adobe Inc (ADBE.O) on Tuesday gave a tepid current-quarter revenue forecast and said that bookings … Adobe beats with Q3 revenue of .83B,
Read MorePocket Casts Pocket Casts, a popular podcast app, is changing up its money-making strategy and launching a subscription service. The company previously charged users between $4 and $10 to download the app, depending on the OS and platform. The app will now be free, but users will have the option to pay $0.99 per month,
Read More
