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A New TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu Facebook Love Scams: Who’s Really Behind That Friend Request? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA New TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu Facebook Love Scams: Who’s Really Behind That Friend Request? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreRules protecting user data could encourage companies to behave better, but there’s little agreement in Washington about what they should look like. The Week in Tech: Huge Fines Can’t Hide America’s Lack of a Data Privacy Law Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Honest Ads Act has been languishing. The Technology 202: Mueller testimony a reminder Congress hasn’t passed bill targeting disinformation Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreImage: Awair Awair has announced a new smart plug called the Glow C. The Glow C is a follow-up to the Glow from a couple of years ago, and it blends Awair’s air quality-sensing technology with a smart plug and a customizable night light. It’s available at an introductory price of $75 starting today, which
Read MoreThe T-Mobile merger with Sprint appears set to be finally announced Friday. DOJ media advisory hints at T-Mobile-Sprint deal action – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Southwest Airlines has announced that it’s moving its operations out of New York’s Newark Airport amid falling revenue resulting from the grounding of the 737 Max. The New York Times reports that the airline will consolidate its flights into nearby La Guardia Airport. Southwest has also cancelled all 737 Max
Read MoreIf you use GitHub’s online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings. GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe country’s antitrust watchdog recommended setting up an office to the police the US tech giants. Facebook, Google face tightened regulatory grip in Australia – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe sharply angled perspective in this Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 3169 makes it seem as if we, the viewers, are craning our necks to see over a barrier into the galaxy’s bright center. In the case of NGC 3169, this barrier is the thick dust embedded within the galaxy’s spiral arms. Hubble Snaps
Read MoreMore users are flocking to the site daily. Twitter earnings show growth as the social network experiments – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter added 5 million daily users last quarter, bringing the company to 139 million in total. That’s the highest the number has been since Twitter started reporting daily usage statistics earlier this year, and it represents the highest annual growth in almost two years. While it’s a great
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: Twitter Q2 earnings beat estimates with revenues of $841M, up 18% YoY, and 139M monetizable daily active users (mDAUs), up 14% YoY — KEY POINTS — Its the first quarterly report with a new measurement of engagement — monetizable daily active users (mDAUs). Twitter Q2 earnings beat estimates with revenues of
Read MoreA Saudi man chatting with a robot at an investment event in 2017. | Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images The riches of Silicon Valley have enabled some extravagant and quixotic projects, but they’ve got nothing on what oil money can do. A new report from The Wall Street Journal shares some of the
Read MoreNASA is working to determine the future of the aging International Space Station, whereas China is planning to launch a station of its own within the next few years. Another front in the tensions between the U.S. and China: Space Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreApple has been gradually improving its iPad Pro with monitor support, USB-C, and even the ability to use a mouse with the tablet. All of these improvements have led to more of a need for a docking solution, if you want to attempt to use the iPad Pro as a desktop-like PC. MagicDock has appeared
Read MorePrepare for trouble, make it double. You can collect and cleanse corrupted Pokemon after defeating the villainous goons in battles. Team Rocket brings Shadow Pokemon chaos to Pokemon Go – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe search giant is partnering with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for the promotion. Google is giving away 100,000 Google Home Minis to people living with paralysis – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAt just three years old, Alyssa Carson knew she wanted to be an astronaut, and since then, she’s worked tirelessly. Carson could soon become the first human to set foot on Mars — even if it means never returning back to Earth. “My fascination with space all started when I watched an episode of the cartoon
Read MoreA technology-driven quest to identify protesters and police officers has people in both groups desperate to protect their anonymity. Some fear a turn toward China-style surveillance. In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreOpen-source software can be an excellent resource, but it brings its own challenges. Here are some things to consider. 12 challenges businesses face when using open-source software Source: The Next Web
Read MorePopular battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), just released a lite mobile version for India. The lite version for Android an installation package of 400MB, that’s just a fourth of the size of the normal variant which is sized at 1.6GB. Tencent Games and PUBG Corp, which developed the game, says it has redesigned the app with Unreal
Read MoreCreating a video signal from a computer, a job that once required significant extra hardware, is now a done deal with a typical modern microcontroller. We’ve shown you more NTSC, PAL, and VGA projects than you can shake a stick at over the years. Creating an HDMI video signal however is not so straightforward. It’s
Read MoreI was curious when the famous programmers do their work. And it is quite easy to find. The result of programmers work is a code. Code is stored in version control systems (VCS). When you put code in VCS the time is record. One of the most popular version control system is git. When you
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge A new Nvidia Shield TV model is on the way, according to a listing at the FCC. The product is referred to as the “NVIDIA Corporation SHIELD Android TV Game Console P3430,” and will likely use the Tegra X1 T210 B01 processor that seems to be in the
Read MoreIf you’ve been interested in cryptocurrency and blockchain for anything more than a week, you’ll almost certainly know about Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum platform. But if you don’t here’s a quick recap on what Ethereum is. Ethereum’s creators wanted to build a platform that would allow users all over the world to write decentralized applications, and
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