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Here’s how to save your tax records digitally so you can get rid of the paper in your home office. How to Go Paperless in Your Home Office Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreHere’s how to save your tax records digitally so you can get rid of the paper in your home office. How to Go Paperless in Your Home Office Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJeff Fieldhack / Counterpoint Research: 51% of consumers who bought the Google Pixel 3 in Q4 2018 were previously Samsung smartphone owners, while only 18% previously owned an iPhone — Both the devices have failed to swing iOS users over to Android. Over 80% of Pixel 3’s volumes are coming from previous Android smartphone owners.
Read MoreA team of Brazilian astronomers recently determined a giant exoplanet, over thirteen times more massive than Jupiter, is likely responsible for some funky orbital observations of a far away half-dead binary system. How it got there remains a mystery, but the scientists have some interesting theories. KIC 10544976 – or ‘the place where a big
Read MoreThe Google-owned video service shuts down the comment section on the stream. Hateful comments flood YouTube livestream of congressional hearing on hate – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe target is those default settings that let companies collect as much data as possible. Bill would outlaw 'Dark Patterns' that help tech companies get your data – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew legislation would make it harder for tech companies to nudge Internet users to give up their data. Lawmakers want to ban ‘dark patterns,’ the Web designs tech companies use to manipulate you Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you think your family is weird, you haven’t met the Addams Family. The Addams Family animated movie trailer full of creepy critters, clown jokes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSomeone’s apparently planning to recreate a battle royale match in reality, if an advertisement on a swank website is any indication. The unnamed millionaire is offering to pay a princely sum for help making this endeavor work, but I’ll tell them this, right now, for free: it isn’t going to. The advertisement is on HushHush,
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 — Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang. It took the wraps off of three
Read MoreIf you have a Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway router, get the latest update. Verizon issues patch for vulnerabilities on millions of Fios routers – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you want to display numbers, just go for Nixies. There’s no better way to do that job, simply because they look so cool. Unfortunately, Nixies require high voltages, controlling them is a tiny bit strange, and they suck down a lot of power. These facts have given us a few Nixie alternatives, and [Dave]
Read MoreA team of scientists from Griffith University in Australia and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed a quantum-powered machine that accurately simulates future outcomes. This research has huge implications at the intersection of quantum mechanics and machine learning. The team created a photonic quantum information processor that determines the possible trajectories of single photons
Read MoreLucas Shaw / Bloomberg: YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix’s “Bandersnatch” and others — – Video site is steering program dollars into new technology — Company to announce new slate of shows next month in New York YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style
Read MoreK.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry — Scores of games in Google’s Play Store that are rated safe for kids are packed with guns, gore and panda mutilation – but little is being done to
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items — Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon. Walmart expands its rollout
Read MoreApril 2019 Patch Tuesday comes with 74 security fixes, including patches for two Windows zero-days. Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for two Windows zero-days Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWhat prosthetic limbs can do these days is nothing short of miraculous, and can change the life of an amputee in so many ways. But no matter what advanced sensors and actuators are added to the prosthetic, it has to interface with the wearer’s body, and that can lead to problems. Measuring and mapping the
Read MoreKarl Bode / The Verge: White House promises to veto the Save the Internet Act, a bill to restore net neutrality and undo FCC’s 2017 repeal decision, justifying it with fuzzy math — Broadband really is getting faster, but it has nothing to do with the end of net neutrality — In a statement on
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google debuts Cloud Run for open and portable serverless computing, letting devs run stateless HTTP-driven containers in fully managed serverless environments — At Google Cloud Next 2019 in San Francisco, Google today announced Cloud Run, the newest member of its serverless compute stack, in beta. Google debuts Cloud Run for open
Read MoreDiane Bartz / Reuters: Bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer to ban online companies with 100M+ MAUs from designing addictive products for kids under 13 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senators Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Deb Fischer, a Republican, are introducing a bill on Tuesday … Bipartisan bill introduced by
Read MoreBuzzFeed News: Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to make an appearance a Google’s weekly “TGIF” town halls in 2019, their longest absence since at least 1999 — Following leaks and employee revolts, the absences raise questions about the future of transparency at Google Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to
Read MoreDisney’s getting ready to give Netflix a run for its money, and Thursday’s investor day is set to reveal a trove of details about Disney Plus. Will the service be worth it for you? Disney Plus streaming service: Release date, price, shows and movies to expect – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere’s a new hole in the red planet, and this one is extra special. NASA rover Curiosity fulfills dream, drills into Mars clay – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTheorized but never imaged directly, black holes may finally be ready for their close-up. A brief history of black holes as we await the big reveal from the Event Horizon Telescope Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreSamsung has priced out its full range of 2019 sound bars, including the $800 HW-Q70R, which has Dolby Atmos. Samsung details pricing for 2019 sound bars, starting at 0 – CNET Source: CNet
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