Gal Gadot, along with director Patty Jenkins, Chris Evans, Edgar Wright and more, praise the Captain Marvel team for its box office success. Wonder Woman congratulates Brie Larson on Captain Marvel success – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMake your cat Captain Marvel’s heroic feline sidekick … at least on Twitter. Goose the cat from Captain Marvel inspires adorable meme trend – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePlus, PewDiePie loses his YouTube throne. Apple's mysterious Netflix-like TV service to be revealed (The 3:59, Ep. 532) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA social-media status report, with Barack Obama, John Cusack, Conan O’Brien and Joss Whedon. The Anxiety of Having a Famous Follower on Twitter Source: NY Times Tech
Read More{$inline_image} Knowing in what absolute direction your robot is pointed can be crucial, and expensive systems like those used by NASA on Mars are capable of calculating this six-dimensional heading vector to within around one degree RMS, but they are fairly expensive. If you want similar accuracy on a hacker budget, this paper shows you
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify Premium now offers a subscription to Hulu’s ad-supported plan for free, in a deal available to new and existing users in the US until June 10 — Hulu and Spotify today announced an expansion of their partnership on discounted streaming bundles, which lowers the price of Hulu’s ad-supported service to,
Read MoreFuck, it’s real. The official trailer for CRYPTO, Hollywood‘s attempt at a cryptocurrency movie, has finally dropped. Fuck fuck fuck fuck. CRYPTO (somehow) stars Kurt Russell, Luke Hemsworth, and Alexis Bledel. It centers on a “financial sector prodigy” (Beau Knapp) re-assigned to the small town of Elba for being too damn good at his job. While
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber settles two years-old lawsuits over driver classification for $20M, a boon to the company as it prepares to go public — The ride-hail company gets to continue not paying for traditional benefits like paid sick time and workers’ compensation — The fight over the classification … Uber settles
Read MoreJeff John Roberts / Fortune: Ripple launches a $100M fund, overseen by Forte, to encourage integration of blockchain into games, such as in-game marketplaces, with grants to developers — The cryptocurrency company Ripple on Tuesday announced an ambitious project to integrate blockchain technology into video games. Ripple launches a 0M fund, overseen by Forte, to
Read MoreDan Seifert / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S10 review: despite being stuck awkwardly in between the S10 Plus and S10E, it’s a great phone with an excellent display and performance — The standard S10 model is almost as excellent as the S10 Plus, but not quite — Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup of phones is perhaps
Read MoreStarting next month, Microsoft will start displaying periodic pop-up notifications reminding Windows 7 users that support for that OS is ending early next year. Happily, you’ll be able to shut them off. Microsoft to start nagging users in April about the January 2020 Windows 7 end-of-support deadline Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAt long last, YouTube Music has launched in India with a free ad-supported option, as well as its Premium plan at Rs. 99 ($1.42) per month. That’ll see it compete with the likes of international heavyweights Spotify (which went live there last month) and Apple Music, as well as local incumbents like JioSaavn, Gaana, and Wynk.
Read More{$inline_image}From concerns about data sharing to the hosting of harmful content, every week seems to bring more clamour for new laws to regulate the technology giants and make the internet “safer”. But what if our existing data protection laws, at least in Europe, could achieve most of the job? Germany has already started introducing new
Read MoreIf you’ve ever searched Mouser or Digikey for LEDs parametrically, you won’t find just one red in your LEDs. You won’t find one green. There is quite literally an entire rainbow of colors of LEDs, and this rainbow goes into infrared and ultraviolet. You can search LEDs by frequency, and an RGEB LED is right
Read MoreThey’re not the same as run-flat tires, but they have the same goal in mind. 2020 Ford Explorer wears self-sealing Michelin tires – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreApple’s long-rumored streaming service might be revealed. Apple plans March 25 event for rumored Netflix-like service – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreConsider it confirmed: the Howey test is definitely the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SECs) gold standard benchmark for deciding whether a cryptocurrency is in fact, a security. “Security” is a term used for describing certain financial assets that can be traded. It can refer to any form of financial instrument, even cryptocurrencies and associated
Read MoreBlanket your home in Wi-Fi goodness with this top-rated mesh network setup. Eero Wi-Fi System gets a rare discount: Just 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSahil Patel / Digiday: Facebook has launched a new funding program for Facebook Watch shows pairing publishers and creators, starting with 12 publishers including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast — Facebook is recruiting publishers, including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast and Complex Networks, to produce … Facebook has launched a new funding program for Facebook Watch shows pairing publishers
Read MoreMicrosoft’s goal: to keep your system running. Windows 10 now automatically recovers from bollixed updates – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWill Smith plays the (mostly) blue-skinned Genie, with Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Naomi Scott as Jasmine. First full Aladdin movie trailer takes a magic-carpet ride onto screens – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Senator Warren’s proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about — Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust, particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory … Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant
Read MoreSaqib Shah / Engadget: Mozilla’s free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta — Mozilla has made privacy Firefox’s calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don’t meet the bar on security. Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send
Read MoreMicrosoft showed off the ability to mirror applications running on an Android phone to a Windows 10 PC last fall. Windows Insiders could begin testing this feature as soon as this week. Microsoft is preparing to test Android app-mirroring on Windows 10 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreUSA Today: A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation’s black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016 — ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids
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