Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler talks at SXSW about the power of a story to bring about change in Silicon Valley. Susan Fowler: 'I wanted to speak up, share my story and get back to work.' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Brie Larson movie claims the second-biggest global opening weekend for a superhero film. Captain Marvel soars to super-powered 5 million at global box office – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA partnership with Google is part of a global effort to build and deploy systems that can detect signs of illness and disease in medical scans. India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From A.I. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreDid you have anything planned for the next hour or so? No? That’s good because if you’re anything like us, watching even one of the restorations performed on [Marty’s Matchbox Makeovers] is likely to send you down a deep dark rabbit hole that you never knew existed. Even if you can’t tell the difference between
Read MoreAt a recent industry gathering, retailers talked of how collecting customer data will help them compete in a landscape dominated by the internet. Stores See a Future Without ‘May I Help You?’ (They’ll Already Have Your Data) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreKalev Aasmae / ZDNet: In this month’s parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44% of about 561K votes counted were cast online using the e-voting system, setting a new digital record — In this month’s Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting. In this month's parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44%
Read MoreI don’t know why it took so long to dawn on me – after 20 years of a scientific career – that what we call the “scientific method” really only refers the second half of any scientific story. It describes how we test and refine the ideas and hypotheses we have about nature through the
Read MoreTova Cohen / Reuters: Report: after Intel reportedly offered $6B for Mellanox in January, Nvidia has now submitted a competing bid for the Israeli chip designer — TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp has submitted an offer to buy Israeli chip designer Mellanox, the Calcalist financial news website said on Sunday. Report: after Intel reportedly
Read MoreThese days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is easy. Cheap displays have proliferated, ready to go on breakout boards with controllers already baked in. Load up the right libraries and you’re up and running in a matter of minutes. However, turn your attention to trying to drive a
Read MoreWe live in an age where customers have more power over their lives than ever before. Users can tap their phone to summon a car, groceries, a Wikipedia page, or even a dog walker. But that doesn’t mean there’s room for everyone. After all, customers are only going to settle on a few tools in
Read MoreManish Singh / VentureBeat: Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition — Google, which already dominates India’s smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children … Google launches Bolo, an Android
Read MoreKnowing how to grow and maintain a system in the Azure environment is becoming an increasingly smart play for web professionals. You can stake your claim to serving this expanding market with the training in the Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 ($29, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals). Microsoft Azure is chasing
Read MoreAnil Nanduri says it’s cheaper to put cars in the air than under cities in tunnels. Flying cars coming in five years, says Intel drone chief – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt should be unveiled in the last quarter of 2019. Aston Martin DBX SUV teased in Swedish snow – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreOf all the retro systems, the Commodore 64 had the best video system. The VIC-II chip in the C64 was the best example of why Commodore was the best, but in terms of video output, the C64 was still a consumer device: the only output was S-video, or composite video, or something like it. The
Read MoreWhat it’s like to go from Southern California to Washington state, 1,377 miles, as slowly as possible. Sleeper to Seattle: 39 hours on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhat it’s like to take Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Southern California to Seattle, Washington. By the Coast Starlight: 39 hours from LA to Seattle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics take on a last-gen leader. Nvidia RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080: A next-gen gaming laptop showdown – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. How TikTok Is Rewriting the World Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMars Woo / DealStreetAsia: Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates online stores for social media influencers, files for a $200M IPO on Nasdaq — Ruhnn Holding, an Alibaba-backed Chinese e-commerce platform for social media influencers, has filed for a Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO) … Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates
Read More[Marek Gibney] poses an interesting puzzle. What does the following bash command line print? ( echo red ; echo green 1>&2 ) | echo blue You’d like to think it prints three lines: red, green, and blue. But would you be surprised to find out that it can sometimes output “blue green” and sometimes just
Read MoreKatia Moskvitch / WIRED UK: Inside CERN’s quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it’ll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026 — Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption … Inside
Read More{$inline_image} Hackaday would like to invite you to a Mini Unconference on Saturday 16th of March, hosted by our friends at Cambridge Makespace, UK. One of our most successful engagements with our community over the years here at Hackaday has been the Unconference. A group of you our readers join us for a while and
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: In a summary judgement, court dismisses Paris’ lawsuit against Airbnb for allegedly posting illegal listings, which likely means its case isn’t strong enough — A court in Paris has dismissed a case against Airbnb, as Le Monde reported. Last month, the City of Paris sued Airbnb for 1,010 illegal listings. In
Read MoreIf you don’t live in a former Eastern Bloc country, odds are that you’ve never seen a Lada driving around your neighborhood. This car is ubiquitous in Russia and its neighboring countries, though, and for good reason: price. Lada gave many people access to affordable transportation who otherwise would have been walking, but this low
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