The Hayabusa2 probe is designed to fire a bullet at Ryugu to retrieve rocks from the asteroid’s surface. Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMaria Armental / Wall Street Journal: Baidu beats with Q4 total revenue of $3.96B, up 22% YoY, profit down 50% YoY to $303M; iQiyi beats with Q4 revenue of $1B, reports 87.4M subscribers — Stronger revenue driven by search-engine business and artificial-intelligence initiatives — Baidu Inc. BIDU .37% reported stronger … Baidu beats with Q4
Read MoreHackers really like their tools. This leads to holy wars over languages, editors, keyboards, and even laptops. The problem with laptops is that they age, and not always gracefully. [Syonyk] likes his ThinkPad T430S, except for one thing, its TN display wasn’t really very good. These flat screens use an older technology and show color
Read MoreThe company is joining a stampede of high profile start-ups heading toward the public markets. Pinterest Is Said to File for I.P.O. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe company had pledged to do away with the controversial practice for sexual harassment claims, but expanded it to all disputes. Google Ends Forced Arbitration for All Employee Disputes Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Samsung says it will extend Bixby button remapping to all Galaxy phones on Android Pie in a future software update, after confirming the feature for the S10 — That includes the S8, S9, and Note line — The Bixby button saga has been an ongoing blemish on an otherwise sterling
Read MoreAdvertisers could reach people interested in perpetrators of the Holocaust and neo-Nazi music, the Los Angeles Times reports. Facebook allowed advertisers to target people interested in Nazis – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’ll be based on a different story, leaving the Crain family in peace. Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House returns with second season in 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSingapore Airlines was criticized earlier for having cameras in some of its entertainment systems. American Airlines has cameras in some seat back screens, but says it won't use them – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Google-owned video site’s latest scandal isn’t the first time the service has had a problem with the exploitation of kids. YouTube’s ‘whack-a-mole approach’ to child safety isn’t working, critics say – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAaron Mak / Slate: Police across the US are increasingly using “reverse location search warrants” to force tech companies to hand over location data of anyone near a crime scene — Police departments are using “reverse location search warrants” to force Google to hand over data on anyone near a crime scene. Police across the
Read MorePinterest plans to seek a valuation of at least $12 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Pinterest reportedly files confidentially for an IPO – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere’s a certain kind of computer game everyone plays, the kind that have been around for so long most people don’t even know a time when they weren’t always available to play. No, I’m not talking about Fortnite. I mean the really ubiquitous games: Minesweeper, FreeCell, or Mahjong. How have these games lasted so long,
Read MoreTaylor Soper / GeekWire: Portland, Ore.-based Lytics, whose platform helps enterprises provide personalized marketing experiences, raises $35M Series C, bringing total raised to $58M — Lytics has raised more funding to help brands such as Nestlé, The Economist, Atlassian and others bolster their 1-to-1 customer marketing outreach. Portland, Ore.-based Lytics, whose platform helps enterprises provide
Read MoreStephanie Condon / ZDNet: HPE reports Q1 revenue of $7.55B, down 2% YoY, Intelligent Edge revenue of $686M, up 5% YoY, and Hybrid IT revenue of $6B, down 3% YoY — Shares were up in after-hours trading, as the company also raised its FY 2019 EPS outlook — HPE published its first quarter fiscal 2019
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: DoorDash says it has raised $400M in new VC funding at a $7.1B post-money valuation, up from a $4B valuation in August — On-demand food delivery company DoorDash has raised $400 million in new venture capital funding at a $7.1 billion post-money valuation. DoorDash says it has raised 0M in new
Read MoreIt’s difficult to tell whether wide-spread use of predictive policing AI is the result of capitalism or ignorance. Perhaps it’s both. AI cannot predict crime; it’s ridiculous to think it could. What it can do is provide a mathematical smoke-screen for unlawful police practices. And it does this very well, according to AI experts. A
Read MoreMaureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Pinterest has confidentially filed for an IPO, seeking a valuation of at least $12B — Pinterest has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, joining a parade of highly valued technology startups planning to list their shares in 2019. Sources: Pinterest
Read MoreWith the cost of 3D printers dropping rapidly, we’ve started to see a trend of hackers re-purposing them for various tasks. It makes perfect sense; with the hotend and extruder turned off (or removed entirely), you’ve got a machine that can move a tool around in two or three dimensions with exceptional accuracy. Printers modified
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Developers and Intel officials expect Apple to move to ARM-based Macs as soon as next year; Bloomberg report suggests first ARM-based Mac arriving in 2020 — Apple is widely expected to move its Mac line to custom ARM-based chips in the coming years. — What we’re hearing … Developers and Intel
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Armorblox, which uses natural language processing to protect against cyber attacks by analyzing sensitive info in emails and documents, raises $16.5M Series A — Natural language processing (NLP) — the branch of AI that helps computers understand and manipulate human language … Armorblox, which uses natural language processing to protect against
Read MoreHere’s how Samsung’s and Apple’s affordable flagships stack up spec-by-spec. Galaxy S10E vs. iPhone XR: We compare every spec – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA demonstration shows a Waymo car handling a broken traffic light with ease. Waymo self-driving cars can now respond to traffic cops' hand signals – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreHis last day is April 15. Nintendo figurehead Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring, being replaced by Bowser – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDavid McCabe / Axios: Google says it will no longer enforce mandatory arbitration for current and future employees from March 21; change won’t apply to many temporary staff — Google will no longer require current and future employees to take disputes with the company to arbitration, it said Thursday. Google says it will no longer
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