Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Q&A with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Snapchat’s future, fighting with Facebook, Spectacles, and why he limits his kids’ screen time — It only takes about 30 seconds of waiting in line at Nando’s before somebody recognises Evan Spiegel. “You’re not from Snapchat, are you?” a young man asks. Q&A
Read MoreThe names, birth dates and addresses of 997 defectors were stolen through a computer infected with malicious software, the South Korean Unification Ministry said. North Korean Defectors’ Personal Data Was Stolen by Hackers, South Says Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe American dream is built on the notion that the US is a meritocracy. Americans believe success in life and business can be earned by anyone willing to put in the hard work necessary to achieve it, or so they say. Thus, Americans commonly believe that those who are successful deserve to be so and
Read MoreOver on the Cloudflare blog, [Marek] found himself wondering about computer memory, as we all sometimes do. Specifically, he pondered if he could detect the refresh of his SDRAM from within a running program. We’re probably not ruining the surprise by telling you that the answer is yes — with a little more than 100
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. Blockchain and cryptocurrency can be a daunting place sometimes and the swathes of jargon, specialist terminology, and acronyms don’t really help matters. Sometimes it feels like complex terms are used
Read MoreAssociated Press: CenturyLink experiences day-long disruption across the US on Thursday, impacting 911 emergency call services in some areas in Washington, Idaho, and Arizona — BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S. were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage that stretched from New York to California. CenturyLink experiences day-long disruption across
Read MoreBitcoin — the cryptocurrency that started it all — was released in 2009 as open-source software by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The idea was to create a peer-to-peer electronic currency that didn’t rely on any central authority or intermediary for validating the exchange of money. Transfer of Bitcoin
Read MoreOne of the biggest, and most unwelcome revelations of the past few years is just how much social media platforms can be — and have been — used for manipulation and distribution of falsehoods. And in 2018, several social media executives were called into the hot seat in front of elected officials to account for
Read MoreI hate gratuitous destruction videos. You know, the ones that ask “what happens if we drop a red-hot ball of Plutonium onto a bag of Cheetos?” There’s a lot of smoke, flames and a big pile of ad revenue for the idiots behind it. This destruction video is a little different, though. [Tesla 500] wanted
Read MoreInteractive filmmaking, where the viewers take control, has always been a technology in search of an audience. Netflix thinks the time is right. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWe tend to think of electric vehicles as a recent innovation, however many successful products are not the first ones to appear on the market. We have a habit of forgetting the progenitors such as mechanical scanned TVs or the $10,000 Honeywell kitchen computer. A case in point is [Clive Sinclair]’s C5 electric vehicle from
Read MoreSome time ago, [Trammell Hudson] took a shot at creating a tool that unfolds 3D models in STL format and outputs a color-coded 2D pattern that can be cut out using a laser cutter. With a little bending and gluing, the 3D model can be re-created out of paper or cardboard. There are of course other and
Read MoreThe new feature-length movie debuts Friday on Netflix. In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch trailer, a video game warps reality – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs 2019 nears, the New Horizons spacecraft is zooming toward mysterious space rock Ultima Thule on a historic flyby. NASA to photograph most distant world explored yet on New Year's Day – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHisashi Iwato / Nikkei: Japanese electronics maker NEC says it will acquire Denmark’s largest IT business KMD for ~$1.22B, in deal expected to close end of February 2019 — Japanese company taps KMD’s experience in servicing European public sector — TOKYO — Electronics maker NEC will acquire KMD Holding … Japanese electronics maker NEC says
Read MoreEvery year, the time comes again when many of us switch our clocks from summer or daylight-saving time back to winter time. And the usual confusion sets in, is it an hour forwards or back? Why do we need to change the time at all? Indeed, EU member states have been asked if they would
Read MoreFor a Western, Netflix’s Ballad of Buster Scruggs sure has a lot of cutting-edge digital effects. Check out the pictures to see how they came to be. Behind the CGI of the Coen Brothers' Ballad of Buster Scruggs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKhamila Mulia / KrASIA: Indonesia lifts ban on Tumblr, which was blocked in March for failing to comply with the country’s anti-pornography rules — We reported last week Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) was considering to unblocking Tumblr which has been banned since March … Indonesia lifts ban on Tumblr, which was
Read MoreBefore we had Raspberry Pis and Beaglebones, the art of putting a Linux system in a small, portable project was limited to router hacking. The venerable WRT54G controlled Internet-connected robots with a careful application of a Unix-ey firmware. Now, things are different but there’s still a need for a cheap, portable Linux system that’s just good
Read MoreMax Fisher / New York Times: Over 1,400 pages of leaked Facebook content rules for moderators reveal gaps, biases, and errors as Facebook tries to distill complex issues into yes/no rules — Under fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions
Read MoreThe New York Times obtained more than a thousand pages of internal guidelines. They shed light on how Facebook decides what should be kept off the platform. 5 Takeaways From Facebook’s Leaked Moderation Documents Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreUnder fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions about its approach. Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThroughout history, innovators have strived to create automata, or robots as we now know them, to augment labor intensive and dangerous human jobs. As far back as 322 BC, Aristotle predicted that fleets of mechanical automata could finally rid the world of the scourge of slavery by taking over backbreaking manual roles forced upon human
Read MoreAn amusing Sesame Street sound bite posted to Reddit could be the internet’s new “Yanny or Laurel.” Sesame Street muppet Grover might have dropped the F bomb in this clip – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAlso on the second anniversary of Fisher’s death, co-star Mark Hamill says he “will never stop missing” her. Billie Lourd, Star Wars fans honor Carrie Fisher two years after she died – CNET Source: CNet
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