Shark vacuum freebies, a grooming essentials gold box, and a PUMA spring-to-summer sale lead off Thursday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Thursday's Best Deals: Shark Vacuums, Grooming Essentials, PUMA, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreBy restricting the Chinese technology giant’s ability to buy American components, Washington could hamstring Huawei’s operations worldwide. Trump’s Latest Move Takes Straight Shot at Huawei’s Business Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe White House launches a website that lets people report allegations of online “censorship.” Trump wants to know if you think Facebook and Twitter are politically biased – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSanDisk’s tiny card will set you back $450. You can buy a 1TB microSD card now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOn Capitol Hill yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a Democratic frontrunner, told Politico that he supports his colleague and presidential competitor Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) calls to break up Facebook. When asked about her proposal for antitrust action against the social media company, Sanders said, “The answer is yes of course.” “We have a monopolistic—
Read MoreSeniors in hospice care can visit Europe or swim with dolphins thanks to virtual reality. VR helps hospice patients break free from their isolation – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle has issued a response to criticisms of its recent announcement to close the Works with Nest program, a set of connections and controls that link third-party smart home devices with Nest thermostats, cameras, and other products. The company had originally announced that the Works with Nest program would be shutting down on August 31st,
Read MoreWhat’s more annoying than having a great wifi or Ethernet connection, but slow internet speeds? Nothing. Nothing is more annoying than that. When it happens to you—and it will, especially if you jump onto wifi access points at your favorite local businesses—you’re going to wish you could do anything to speed up your… Read more…
Read MoreThe irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing galaxy. Rather than destroying the galaxy, the chance encounter is spawning a new generation of stars, and presumably planets. Galaxy Blazes With New Stars Born From Close Encounter Source: NASA
Read MoreThis recipe for Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker’s “Phat Thai Ruam Mit” comes from his latest cookbook, Pok Pok Noodles. Read our interview with Ricker here, find out why he believes a dish as ubiquitous stateside as pad Thai should be approached with reverence and respect, then try to recreate his recipe below. Read more…
Read MoreGoogle Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, taking pics of text, and using speech-to-text technology. Now, the company’s launching a new project called Translatotron, which will offer direct speech-to-speech translations – without even using any text. In a post on Google’s AI blog,
Read MoreIt’s figured out the design issues that hit review units, according to a Korean outlet. Samsung reportedly solves Galaxy Fold problems – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFresh off breaking box office records with Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. has returned to his hobby of endorsing smartphones, this time agreeing a deal with OnePlus. The Chinese company tells The Verge that it intends to use the famous actor’s visage across Asia, with its home country and India being the focal points. Downey
Read MoreUse Google Home to track workouts, count calories, put you to sleep and more. 56 Google Home commands for health, nutrition and fitness – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShow Us Yours: Ike’s from Down Under and a big fan of science fiction, fantasy and music — with the basement to prove it. Marvel meets Game of Thrones and Star Wars in this dungeon home theater – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are remarkably useful things, but they generally require some accessories to be hooked up to become a useful computing platform. [Ramin Assadollahi] wanted a pocket-sized computer to work on without the distractions so common on smartphones, so whipped up the PocketPi to do the job. It’s a testament
Read MoreDrones are agile things, but they’re not exactly known for their quick reactions. If you want to knock one out of the sky, a well-thrown ball or even a spear should do the trick. Not for much longer, though, as researchers from the University of Zurich have created a drone that can autonomously dodge objects
Read MoreIt seems some overzealous cryptocurrency traders didn’t get the memo that exchange service Cryptopia is shutting down – and they’re still trying to make deposits to the platform. In a tweet earlier today, the embattled exchange warned users not to send funds to the trading platform. The message was written in all caps, so you know they
Read MoreWhatsApp’s recent spyware hack took advantage of a security vulnerability and allowed attackers to access private, digital communication. In this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet walks through the hack, who was affected and how you can secure your devices ASAP. WhatsApp attacked by spyware | TECH(feed) Source: Security
Read MoreI. Three years ago this month, Mark Zuckerberg gathered together a group of influential conservatives to defend Facebook against allegations of political bias. The company had found itself under pressure after Gizmodo reported that the editors who then worked for Facebook “routinely suppressed conservative news” from its since-abandoned Trending Topics module. It hoped that a
Read MoreDespite the excitement currently surrounding blockchain, it seems supply chain managers are falling out of love with the decentralized technology. Procurement industry leaders discussed blockchain at the Supply Management Forum in London last week and spoke of how they are still waiting for the value of blockchain adoption to be proven. Organizations aren’t investing in
Read MoreStellar’s blockchain suffered a “cascading failure” that halted transactions for roughly two hours on May 15. Breaking: yesterday the Stellar network went down for about 2 hours… only those who run validators noticed it. no new transactions were added for ~2 hours. network stats:https://t.co/eSRYFPjDQi — Tim Swanson (@ofnumbers) May 16, 2019 “What basically happened was
Read MoreWe all live professional lives alongside people who look pretty different from one another. So, why is it that the conferences many of us frequent have stages that are manned by – well, men? All too often, I show up to a panel only to find that all of the speakers are male. As someone
Read MoreIt’s not been a great week for security, and after Twitter, WhatsApp and Intel, Google has now joined the list. The internet giant has issued an advisory, stating it is recalling Bluetooth versions of its Titan Security Key after it found a vulnerability that allows attackers in close proximity to take control of the device.
Read MoreIf you want to take a picture of something fast, and we mean really fast, you need to have a suitably rapid flash to illuminate it. A standard camera flash might be good enough to help capture kids running around the back yard at night, but it’s not going to do you much good if you’re
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