In the second quarter, Chinese company Baidu beat out Google for the No. 2 spot in the global smart speaker market with its Xiaodu device. Alexa, who is Baidu? Chinese firm passes Google to become Amazon’s top smart-speaker rival Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreTaisuke Nakamura has been responsible for some of the coolest concepts to come from the brand in recent memory and his design sense could be a real leg up for the brand. Infiniti's getting a new global design chief and that's a good thing – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe 2020 Corvette is drawing massive amounts of interest, and some dealerships are looking to profit off of that with markups of up to $30,000 over MSRP. Corvette fans are using the power of the internet to fight dealer markups – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it’s done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers’ licenses … Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum,
Read MoreCook appears to be the first tech CEO to speak out about the fires. Tim Cook pledges Apple's help for Amazon rainforest as fires rage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen a processor has a fault it can leave what looks to be precious little in the way of cause and effect. Debug-by-print-statement works surprisingly well in simple cases, but where in a desktop environment you would drop into a debugger to solve trickier problems this can be an onerous task on an embedded system.
Read MoreStephanie Condon / ZDNet: VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant powered in partnership with IBM Watson — VMware is also updating the digital workplace platform with expanded endpoint management services, new multi-cloud support … VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including
Read MoreKentucky Fried Chicken is testing a new recipe at a restaurant in Atlanta — essentially, it’s going without the “C” of KFC, offering a “Kentucky Fried Miracle” in the form of Beyond Meats’ plant-based fake meat nuggets. If it’s well-received, KFC might roll it out to more places — which can only be a win. It’s
Read MoreCasey Newton / The Verge: Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing … Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app
Read MoreThe working logo for Threads, a new messaging app from Facebook and Instagram | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is developing a new messaging app called Threads that is meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends, The Verge has learned. Threads, which is designed as a companion
Read MoreGlobalfoundries has accused T.S.M.C., a competitor in Taiwan, of infringing on 16 patents in a suit that could also affect companies like Apple and Google. Lawsuit Over Computer Chips Invokes Trade War With China Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has delivered a climate plan that fleshes out his dreams for a geoengineered world. According to his proposal, which was released on August 26th, it’ll take 20 years, $4.87 trillion, and maybe even space mirrors to prevent a climate catastrophe. Similar to other Democratic
Read MoreIMDb launched IMDb TV earlier this year, a streaming service that allows you to watch some programming for free through IMDb’s website. Today the company announced that it’s bringing IMDb TV to its mobile app as well, giving you the ability to stream all that content on your mobile device. Read more… Watch Free Movies
Read MoreDoes your neighborhood have strange joke listings on Google Maps? Are you living next to a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Fake Google Maps locations are surprisingly common, and these fictional locations and pop-cultural references can even come with highly detailed (false) information, such as… Read more… How to Report Fake Listings on Google
Read MoreGoogle used to be the epitome of young, smart, techy culture. Its offices have always been lauded as a workplace where free expression, thinking outside of the box, and challenging the status quo were valued more than the ability to keep your head down and meet quotas. Those days are over. The Mountain View company
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has reportedly put a technology for iPhones on hold that would have let people send text messages to other iPhones over a 900MHz radio spectrum that’s typically used for dispatchers in the utility and manufacturing industries, allowing the phones to act like walkie-talkies for texts, according to
Read MoreIf you’ve ever broken up with someone—and been on the receiving end of an angry series of texts or phone calls—you might recoil at the idea of ending a relationship when it isn’t working. To save yourself from having the talk altogether, you might even ghost dates instead. Read more… Practice Breaking Up With Someone
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple pushed out a software update today to repair a problem that it had previously patched — and then somehow unpatched. Update 12.4.1 introduces a fix for a vulnerability in which, according to Apple, “a malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges” —
Read MoreChristopher Bing / Reuters: Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments, US officials fear similar attacks on election databases; CISA to launch a program to help secure them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government plans to launch a program in roughly one month that narrowly focuses … Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments,
Read Morepalantir logo In September, the LGBTQ tech organization Lesbians Who Tech will throw its annual conference in New York, including a range of high-profile speakers, breakout sessions, and a job fair aiming to place talented LGBTQ employees at high-profile firms. Sponsors include some of the biggest names in tech, including Google, Oculus, and Verizon. Last
Read MorePorsche’s first EV, the Taycan, has set a new record for the fastest lap by a four-door electric sports car at the hallowed Nürburgring in Germany. The previous record-holder was… well, probably no one, since Porsche is kind of stretching here in the name of claiming that the Taycan set a record. Automakers love bragging
Read MoreApple has released a trailer for its upcoming Apple TV Plus original series Dickinson. It’s a half-hour anachronistic comedy show starring Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2 and 3) as the eponymous poet Emily Dickinson. Per Apple’s capsule description, “Dickinson audaciously explores the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of rebellious
Read MoreSpecifically, the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia is a leading contender. Tesla reportedly eyes Germany for new factory – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreEmily Baumgaertner / Los Angeles Times: Source: DHS exposed sensitive data from a bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website for over a decade, despite warnings, before being secured in May — The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation’s bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website … Source: DHS exposed sensitive
Read MoreAnalytics can save higher education, according to a bold new statement from the Association for Institutional Research, Educause and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The associations’ call for action highlighted the importance of harnessing analytics to improve completion rates, campus operations, strategic decision-making and more. Associations Offer 6 Principles for Leveraging
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