If your office leaves you with pain in your wrists, back or neck, it doesn’t have to be that way — in fact, it shouldn’t. Here’s how to fix it. How to Make Your Office More Ergonomically Correct Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Austin-based construction lending platform Billd raises $60M Series A in debt and equity, says 2,200+ contractors have used its platform — Construction is expensive. In a city like New York, the average cost of building in 2017 was upwards of $354 per square foot; in Zurich, the next-priciest locale, it was
Read MoreLike many of us, [Benjamin Poilve] was fascinated when he took apart a broken printer. He kept the parts, but unlike most of us, he did something with them, building a neat little plotter called the Liplo. Most pen plotters work by moving the pen on two axes, but [Benjamin] took a different approach, using
Read MoreTechCrunch: Google’s Screenwise Meter app has coaxed users with rewards into sharing info since 2012, in a similar way to Facebook’s Research app but with better disclosure — It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
Read MoreRob Price / Business Insider: Memo: Facebook confirms Apple disabled access to internal iOS apps and says it’s “working closely” to reinstate “our most critical internal apps immediately” — – Facebook employees are furious after Apple temporarily crippled the company by revoking its developer certificate. Memo: Facebook confirms Apple disabled access to internal iOS apps
Read MoreEmily Bazelon, an investigative reporter at The New York Times Magazine, craves easy-to-use tools, whether for interviews, Freedom of Information Act records or her home TV. Tech We’re Using: An Arsenal of Skype, Voice Recorders and FOIAs Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNo, I’m not referring to “Clocks.” 2019 Lexus LC Inspiration heads to Chicago looking like a Coldplay song – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreResearchers have created a robot that combines vision and touch to remove blocks without toppling the wooden tower. This smart, agile MIT robot plays a mean game of Jenga – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter some pretty major (intentional?) leaks, it appears DJ Marshmello will be playing Pleasant Park on Saturday. Fortnite is about to have a live concert and everybody is invited – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA 55-inch for $330! A 75-inch for $1000! An HD projector for under $450! But act fast, because time is running out for these deals to ship in time for the big game. Last chance for great TV deals for watching the big game – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThese satellite images will make you shiver. NASA watches wild polar vortex from space – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Taiwan-based company’s intent to build a $10 billion plant with 13,000 jobs was hailed by President Trump. It now sees a shift toward research. Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJack Nicas / New York Times: An attempt to work out how many fake accounts are on Facebook, as the company ramps up efforts to remove them and provides confusing estimates — The social network has disclosed an estimate for years, but a closer look raises lots of questions. — Facebook sells advertisers on its
Read MoreLove it or loathe it, the pharmaceutical industry is really good at protecting its intellectual property. Drug companies pour billions into discovering new drugs and bringing them to market, and they do whatever it takes to make sure they have exclusive positions to profit from their innovations for as long a possible. Patent applications are
Read More{$inline_image}We’re likely to see a real-world application of blockchain technology over the next two years – if recent research is to be believed. More than 23 percent of developers out of the 71,281 who contributed to HackerRank’s 2019 Developer Skills report said the”real-world” application of the technology over the next 24 months was very realistic. Some 27.54 percent said
Read MoreThe Intercept: State officials and documents show prisons in NY, CT, GA, TX, FL, and AZ have pursued voice recognition tech to track inmates and phone call participants — Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. State officials
Read MoreWelcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Something major is happening to Bitcoin in 480 days – the Halvening. Bitcoin is created when the blockchain rewards the individual (or group) for validating transactions. The network gives Bitcoin to miners for
Read MoreThe 3D print by [critsrandom] in the image above may not look like much at first glance, until one realizes that the 90 degree overhang has no supports whatsoever. Never mind the messy bottom surface, and never mind that the part shown might avoid the problem entirely with some simple supports or a different print
Read MoreSomething special happened today. Samsung, a tech company you definitely know, announced it’s mass-producing 1TB flash storage chips for mobile devices. In other words, you’ll soon be able to buy phones with a terabyte of storage space. When I asked people about this news, there were two main schools of thought. The first was a deep apathy focusing on why
Read MoreThe Mac Lock Screen is a land of wasted opportunity. My MacBook, for example, users valuable screen real estate to convey a message that anyone who’s used a Mac for more than a few days doesn’t need to see: “Touch ID or Enter Password.” I’d like to personalize that. In my case, I’m going to
Read MoreReuters: Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked … Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using
Read MoreOpen-Source Extruded Profile systems are a mature breed these days. With Openbuilds, Makerslide, and Openbeam, we’ve got plenty of systems to choose from; and Amazon and Alibaba are coming in strong with lots of generic interchangeable parts. These open-source framing systems have borrowed tricks from some decades-old industry players like Rexroth and 80/20. But from
Read MoreTal Shahaf / Globes Online: Israeli startup Pliops, which develops cloud storage processors, raises $30M Series B led by Softbank Ventures Asia — Pliops will use the funds to accelerate development of its storage processor technology for cloud storage and database applications. — Israeli cloud storage solutions … Israeli startup Pliops, which develops cloud storage
Read MoreFinSMEs: Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting applications and data at runtime, raises $23M Series B led by Intel Capital — Fortanix, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based runtime encryption technology company, closed a $23m Series B round of funding. — The round, which brings total funding to $31m … Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting
Read MoreKurt Wagner / Recode: Apple says Facebook’s research app is a “clear breach of their agreement with Apple” and has revoked their enterprise certificate — Facebook will stop its “market research” program that was paying users in exchange for their mobile data. — Facebook is at the center … Apple says Facebook's research app is
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