Specially modified version of the AR goggles has a video game feel, writes a CNBC reporter who got a demo. Army's version of Microsoft's HoloLens AR goggles likened to Call of Duty – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many with non-public personal details, via exposed databases in the last 3 months — Leaks have taken place in the first three months of the year, via either ElasticSearch or MongoDB databases. Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many
Read MoreAnthony Ha / TechCrunch: VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt alleging false advertising and violations of its ToS, claims PicsArt reverse engineered 19 filters from VSCO — Photo-editing app-maker VSCO has filed a lawsuit against competitor PicsArt. — The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly … VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features — Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried … With Snap
Read MoreVerizon is hungry to win you over to its 5G model, whatever it takes. Verizon's 5G network launch was rocky at best, but it has A Plan – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRed Carpet Home Cinema offers Hollywood’s latest movies, but it’s not cheap for customers to rent films still in the theaters. ,000 to Rent a Movie? Bringing the Theater Home for the 1 Percent Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreHow do the X-Men movies stack up to Iron Man, Spider-Man and *shudder* Ghost Rider? Just so happens we made a list. All Marvel franchises ranked, from Avengers to Daredevil – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more — Android’s Bubbles feature can actually completely replace the notification panel. — Android Q Beta 2 is out! Hands on with Android
Read MoreSource control is often the first step when starting a new project (or it should be, we’d hope!). Breaking changes down into smaller chunks and managing the changes between them makes it easier to share work between developers and to catch and revert mistakes after they happen. As project complexity increases it’s often desirable to
Read MoreMillions of Chinese are using the app as part of President Xi’s efforts to strengthen ideological control in the digital age. Critics say it fuels a personality cult. In China, an App About Xi Is Literally Becoming Impossible to Ignore Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFor 20 years, a business’ homepage was its front door. When consumers needed information about a company, they would simply go to the brand URL, choose a navigation option like “menu,” and arrive at a transactional landing page where they could take a specific action, such as “order online.” However, with the growth of third-party
Read MoreJodie Comer and Sandra Oh again walk in the not-always-fashionable shoes of professional assassin Villanelle and MI6 rookie Eve Polastri. Killing Eve season 2: A new killer, new fashion crimes and more cat-and-mouse games – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSeems even Jon Snow’s co-stars Emilia Clarke, John Bradley and Rose Leslie want to know how the HBO hit ends. Game of Thrones stars crash SNL as Kit Harington delivers monologue – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user trustworthiness scores — When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly … How fraud-detection services
Read MoreThere are some parts of the world where living without air conditioning borders on unthinkable. But in more moderate climates, it isn’t all that unusual. [Josh’s] apartment doesn’t have central air conditioning — the kind that connects to a forced-air heating/cooling system. It does, though, have a water circuit for air conditioning, so he decided
Read MoreA skilled crew of Honda factory workers from Alabama will build the SUV over three days at Barber Motorsports Park. Honda is building a new Passport at an Indy race, pop-up style – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMark Murray / NBC News: Poll: 69% of Americans use social media at least once a day, 82% believe it wastes their time, 55% think it spreads lies and falsehoods, 57% say “it divides us” — A sizable majority say social media does more to divide the country than unite it, according to the latest
Read MoreSeems like everyone, even Jon Snow’s co-stars, want to know how the HBO hit ends. Real Game of Thrones stars crash SNL when Kit Harington hosts – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJason Schreier / Kotaku: Following Anthem’s rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA’s Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare … Following Anthem's rough launch,
Read MoreWe are fantastically lucky not only in the parts that are easily available to us at reasonable cost, but also for the affordable test equipment that we can have on our benches. It was not always this way though, and [NFM] treats us to an extensive teardown and upgrade of a piece of test equipment
Read MoreThe Galaxy S10 5G and launch of Verizon’s 5G data network are the first drops in a 5G flood. Thanks to Samsung and Verizon, 5G is about to all get up in your face – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn the Valley, there’s a perception that serial entrepreneurship is just a glamorized way of saying “serial failure.” And while ‘serial entrepreneur’ has a nice ring to it, just because you’ve been successful once doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be successful again. After all, not all lessons in one industry are applicable to different business models
Read MoreYou can train in the ways of the seasoned data masters with the Excel Data Analyst Certification School, a collection of instruction available now for just $49, a savings of over 90 percent off the regular price. Earn an accredited Excel certification with this data analyst training Source: The Next Web
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you’re still using an ageing, decrepit iPhone, but don’t really wanna pay an absolute shit ton for an Xs, Xs Max, an Xr, listen up. We’ve got an option for you: an unlocked 64GB iPhone X for only
Read MoreArielle Pardes / Wired: Founder of Change My View subreddit, which has 700K+ subscribers, launches Change A View site, with paid moderators and some funding from Alphabet’s Jigsaw — A FEW MONTHS shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken. Founder of Change My View
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