The Chinese e-commerce giant delayed plans to sell potentially billions of dollars worth of shares in the market, which has fallen as tensions have worsened. Alibaba Postpones Hong Kong Listing as Protests Roil Markets Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA good first aid kit is one of the 10 things you need to take with you when you go on a long hike or camping trip, and this kit from Adventure Medical Kits is what our outdoor expert Heather Balogh Rochfort recommends: Read more… Stay Safe On the Trail With This Discounted Backcountry First
Read MoreCapto is an app that’s all about helping users handle the kind of everyday projects they need done. You can give Capto Screen Capture and Video Editing for Mac a try now at almost half off the regular price, only $16.99 from TNW Deals. Capto makes video editing quick and seamless for under Source: The
Read MoreDanny Crichton / TechCrunch: Drop, which scans users’ credit card purchases and offers personalized rewards, raises $44M Series B led by HOF Capital — Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time … Drop, which scans users' credit card purchases and
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Multiple details about Apple’s upcoming lineup of iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and Watches have emerged in a new report from Bloomberg. According to the report, two of the iPhones will be camera-focused “Pro” phones, with a new triple-lens camera design that will include a wide-angle lens for the first
Read MoreAlnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: Amazon is bringing its online grocery store, Amazon Fresh, which will offer two-hour delivery, to India, starting with Bengaluru on August 23 — Customers will be able to choose from 5,000 fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, ice-creams, and dry grocery like staples, packaged food, personal care and home care
Read MoreOn August 9, Huawei launched it’s much talked about operating system, HarmonyOS. However, the company is not releasing any phones powered by that in 2019. Huawei‘s Senior Vice President, Vincent Yang, told media in New York there’s no phone running HarmonyOS in the launch pipeline. Yang said the Chinese tech giant wants to maintain one ecosystem at
Read MoreUpset with your cable provider? 5G could mean that help is on the way. 5G promises to revolutionize home broadband. Will it? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMehreen Khan / Financial Times: The European Commission is planning regulation to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology by companies and public authorities — Brussels is exploring ways to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology in an attempt to stamp out creeping public surveillance of European citizens.
Read MorePhoto by Vlad Savov / The Verge In addition to details on Apple’s 2019 hardware plans, Bloomberg is also offering insight into Apple’s audio accessory ambitions for 2020. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a cheaper HomePod. It’ll undercut the current HomePod’s selling price of $299 by offering just two tweeters instead of the
Read MoreThe US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies in the buying and selling of illegal substances such as fentanyl. Published on Wednesday, the advisories are focused on four facets of illegal drug trafficking: manufacturing, marketing, movement, and money. The money advisory states that “convertible virtual
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light photos and video recording, new iPads, larger MacBook Pro — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years. Sources: Apple
Read MoreGorgeous puppets bring a thoughtful new vision of the classic fantasy movie to life on Netflix. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is Game of Thrones with puppets – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSony’s new earbuds have great sound quality and noise cancelation, but they’re $70 more expensive than the AirPods. Are they worth the splurge? We compared both to find out. AirPods 2 vs Sony WF-1000XM3: The best wireless earbuds are… – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMonitoring the health of small-herd cattle is a big job, but automated drones might just be a farmer’s new best friend. Drones and facial recognition could help keep cows healthy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis morning, August 22nd, the United Launch Alliance is set to fly the very last mission of its Delta IV Medium rocket, a single-core vehicle that’s been launching to space since 2002. This final flight will be the 29th mission of the Delta IV Medium. The vehicle is now being retired as ULA works to
Read More{$inline_image} The Charliewatch by [Trammell Hudson] is one of those projects which is beautiful in both design and simplicity. After seeing [Travis Goodspeed]’s GoodWatch21 digital watch project based around a Texas Instruments MSP430-based SoC, [Trammell] decided that it’d be neat if it was more analog. This is accomplished using the CC430F5137IRGZR (a simpler member of
Read MoreSome of the biggest names in tech have banded together in an effort to promote industry-wide security standards for securing data in use. The initiative — dubbed Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) — has Alibaba Cloud, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom, and Tencent as its founding members. It was formally launched
Read MoreMicrosoft releases new builds of Windows 10 and Chromium-based Edge. No more buggy Windows 10 updates? Microsoft makes it easier to flag early flaws Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHow do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms? Until now, companies have generally tried two approaches. One is to ban individual users who are caught posting abuse; the other is to ban the large pages and groups where people who practice hate speech organize and promote their noxious views. But what if
Read MoreLast week, a good friend approached me with a question. The organization he works for is struggling to attract engineers for their technical team, and he was desperate to find ideas. As a developer myself, I appreciated that he came to me to understand what motivates technical minded people to consider switching jobs. The hiring
Read MoreFrench President, Emmanuel Macron, has started turning up the heat before this weekend’s G7 summit. At a press meeting yesterday, Macron stuck to France’s policy of upping taxes on big tech, calling the system which provides companies with a “permanent tax haven status” simply “crazy,” The Local reports. Europe has been cracking down hard on
Read MoreA million electric rickshaws sprang up out of nowhere and are now being used by 60 million people a day. The government and vehicle makers are struggling to catch up. Inside India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit is working with Singapore’s government to supply residents with free fitness trackers. The company says Singaporeans will be able to pre-register next month to receive a Fitbit Inspire band for free if they commit to paying $10 a month for a year of the company’s premium
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 Bentham used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed the
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