The Thai securities and exchange commission (SEC) has granted operating licenses to four applications from businesses wanting to operate digital asset and cryptocurrency-based businesses. The four applicants granted a licence are: Bitcoin Exchange Co., Ltd., Bitkub Online Co., Ltd., and Satang Corporation, and Coins TH Co., Ltd. The first three of these are digital asset
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Intel and Alibaba announce they are developing a 3D athlete tracking tech using Intel hardware and Alibaba’s AI, as a training tool for the 2020 Olympics — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working with Intel Corp. on a new “athlete tracking technology” powered by artificial intelligence … Intel and Alibaba announce
Read MoreApple hasn’t had the best few weeks. Not only did the company have to drop its revenue forecast for Q1 2019 by a whopping $9 billion, it has also had to reduce the amount of iPhones it’s making by 10 percent. Ouch. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Apple makes premium (read: expensive) products,
Read MoreCommentary: I haven’t eaten beef in a decade, and the new fake meat at CES comes close enough to cow to gross me out. That’s actually a compliment, I think. Impossible Burger 2.0 tasted so real it made this vegetarian's stomach turn – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhy would anyone bother to create new content for a console system that’s staring down its 40th birthday? Perhaps just for the challenge of fitting a game into 40 kilobytes of storage. That at least seems to be the motivation behind [Morphcat Games] pending release of Micro Mages, a new game for the Nintendo Entertainment
Read MoreA new study from Finland suggests people may view sex with a robot more kindly than they view sex with a human sex worker. The University of Helsinki found that from a sample of 432 participants, the majority of respondents were more accepting of a human paying to have sex with a robot than a human paying for
Read MoreThe explosion of cheap LED lighting products has given a never-ending array of opportunities for the resourceful hacker. A few dollars can secure strings of colourful illumination, but without further expenditure they lack the extra utility of electronic control. This is something that [Albert David has addressed] with his simple ESP8266-based WiFi switcher that he’s
Read MoreThe floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters, thus preservation is key. But how to go about it? [CHZ-Soft] has found an easy way, using a logic analyzer
Read MoreIt’s January, and that means it’s time once again for the Consumer Electronics Show. CES is the place where electronic manufacturers from all across the globe to show off their future products and make promises they probably can’t keep. Of course there is no better indicator of a company’s future than looking at the past,
Read MoreFor pedophiles, a single hashtag opened the door to one of Instagram’s seediest corners, one where images of sexually exploited children were openly traded as if they were collectibles. For anyone willing to engage, finding images of child sexual abuse was about as simple searching for a laptop on Craigslist. The transactions started in the
Read MoreAt least Star Trek: Lower Decks, Short Treks, Starfleet Academy, a Discovery spin-off and a new Picard series are still coming. Star Trek 4 movie reportedly shelved, but more shows on the way – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe robot offers companionship and home monitoring. Plus, it’s still cute with the ‘E’. What Bocco Emo robot lacks in eyeliner, it makes up for in empathy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe battery cases for the iPhone XS/X, XS Max and XR aren’t cheap, but they do feature wireless charging and full access to the Lightning port. Mophie Juice Pack Access battery case coming soon to latest iPhones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAccess the Lockly Secure Pro via the keypad, fingerprint scanner, key hole, app or voice command. There are five ways to unlock the Lockly Secure Pro smart lock – CNET Source: CNet
Read More65-inch roll-up OLED, 98-inch 8K QLED, 120-inch 4K short-throw laser projection, 216-inch MocroLED. See tomorrow’s screens right now. TVs of CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTaylor Soper / GeekWire: Report: VC funding in US startups reached $99.5B in 2018, the highest since 2000, in a total of 5,536 deals, the lowest since 2013 — U.S. startups are raising investment dollars at levels unseen since the dot-com era. — Venture capital funding in U.S. companies reached $99.5 billion in 2018 …
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Google Assistant-supported car devices announced: Anker’s $50 Roav Bolt USB charger with Bluetooth 5.0 and JBL’s $60 Link Drive, both shipping this spring — Anker added Amazon Alexa to its Roav Viva charger a year ago, and now it offers Google, too — Amazon’s Alexa got a head start …
Read MoreDowels are a useful woodworking technology making it easy to connect several pieces of timber, particularly with the aid of adhesive. However, depending on where you live, it can be difficult to come by a wide variety of stock. This is particularly important if you’re concerned about appearances – cheap pine dowels could spoil the
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. Exp.CVE-2019-0569 Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. Exp.CVE-2019-0566 Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. ISB.Downloader!gen184 Source: Symantec lastest threats
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Read MoreThere was a chance Samsung’s foldable phone prototype could have been at CES, but rival Royole is flying solo. Royole FlexPai's foldable phone returns at CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe 992-generation 911 Carrera S and 4S Cabriolet models go on sale in the US this summer, priced from $126,100 and $133,400, respectively. Porsche's new 911 Carrera S Cabriolet is a 443-horsepower topless dancer – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe take a ride in Mercedes’ autonomous people-and-things-mover. Mercedes-Benz Vision Urbanetic Concept hits the Las Vegas Strip at CES 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
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