If anyone said that banks and cryptocurrencies are natural enemies and can never work together — Ripple was out there to prove them wrong! Unlike Bitcoin — which is aimed at performing like regular currencies and be used to pay for goods and services — Ripple is a real-time payment settling and remittance system for banks and
Read MoreDaniel Frankel / Multichannel News: Google says Android TV has now been deployed by 100+ pay TV operators worldwide and is used by “tens of millions” of customers, mostly in Europe and Asia — Google’s open video operating system proliferates as AT&T readies deployment of set-top powered by platform in the U.S. Google says Android
Read MoreThe House of Mouse has been at the forefront of entertainment technology from its very beginnings in an old orange grove in Anaheim. Disney Imagineers invented the first modern animatronics in the 1960s and they’ve been improving the technology ever since, often to the point of being creepy. But the complicated guts of an animatronic
Read MoreYou’ve heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still grossly underrepresented. Currently, women are only nine percent of IT leaders around the world. The figure has barely changed in the past few years despite one third of organizations claiming to have implemented diversity initiatives. Women make up
Read MoreMara Hvistendahl / MIT Technology Review: Chinese tech companies have thrived thanks to government incentives that allowed them to grow, but government ties can also prove problematic as they go global — Multibillion-dollar companies like Alibaba and Tencent have thrived thanks to a government that provided incentives but otherwise let them grow. Chinese tech companies
Read MoreRocketry is wild, and [Foaly] is sharing build and design details of the Cortex 2 mini rocket which is entirely 3D printed. Don’t let that fool you into thinking it is in any way a gimmick; the Cortex 2 is a serious piece of engineering with some fascinating development. Cortex 1 was launched as part of
Read MoreCan you turn 47 pounds (21 kg) of PLA filament into a gigantic working 3D-printed RC car? No, no you can’t — at least not if you eschew proper bearings in favor of printed bushings. That’s the hard lesson that [Joel Telling] learned with his scaled up version of the OpenRC F1 car, an RC car
Read MoreReuters: Israel will give Intel a $185M grant for a planned $5B expansion of its production operations in the country, expects the company to hire 250 new employees — JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will give Intel Corp (INTC.O) a 700 million shekel ($185 million) grant in return for a planned $5 billion expansion … Israel
Read MoreMost people can tell you the various uses of the umbrella — it keeps the rain off, pokes sleeping train passengers awake, and can be used as an improvised defensive weapon when tension in the hot dog line reaches boiling point. A true Englishman would never deign to employ their brolly so imprudently, of course, but
Read MoreYou probably use computer vision every day and don’t even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That’s computer vision. Unlock your iPhone with your face? That’s computer vision, too. Use your phone to deposit your latest paycheck and get some cash in your bank account? Well, that’s also computer vision. Computer vision as we
Read MoreA couple and a homeless man were charged last month over the fundraising campaign. GoFundMe returns 3,000 to donors in NJ scam – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreZachary Fryer-Biggs / Wired: Sources describe DOD’s plan to win “hearts and minds” in Silicon Valley, amid frustration and anger inside the Pentagon after Google pulled out of Project Maven — THE AMERICAN MILITARY is desperately trying to get a leg up in the field of artificial intelligence … Sources describe DOD's plan to win
Read MoreThe purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is perfectly formed is no mean feat, and the concentration required to master it is the point of the whole thing. But who has time
Read MoreDisney offers a tease for Star Wars fans. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge behind-the-scenes video docks on Christmas Day – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor Christmas, the writer and director of Get Out gives a glimpse of his new nightmare. Jordan Peele drops first Us movie trailer, and it's spooky – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Crypto mining startup Bitmain confirms layoffs, which, source says, may affect half of its total headcount, with some departments being laid off entirely — Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain … Crypto mining startup Bitmain confirms layoffs,
Read MoreSanta finally gets a break. Google Doodle wishes you a Merry Christmas – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen you think of microcontroller development, you probably picture either a breadboard with a chip or a USB-connected circuit board. But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost completely hidden inside of a USB port. His talk at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference tells that story and then some. Check out the newly
Read MoreBärí a. Williams / Fast Company: The First Step Act, which seeks to reform the federal criminal justice system, risks perpetuating racial and class disparities due to its reliance on algorithms — The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Often in a rush of excitement and eagerness to solve a problem … The
Read MoreIf you’ve been hanging out here at Hackaday for awhile, you’ve certainly seen projects that were based around the concept of putting a miniature computer inside the carcass of some other piece of electronics. In fact at this point it’s something of a running joke, certainly we must have seen an Arduino or Raspberry Pi
Read MoreThe directors of the popular and critical hit broke with the conventions of computer animation, using hand-drawn techniques to create digital movement. How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Animators Created That Trippy Look Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe writer and director of Get Out gives a glimpse of his new nightmare. Jordan Peele's Us trailer has arrived – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) is finding its way into more and more aspects of our daily lives. It powers the smart assistants on our mobile phones and virtual “home assistants.” It’s in the algorithms designed to improve our health diagnostics. And it’s used in the predictive policing tools used by the police to fight crime. Each
Read MoreThe Falcon Heavy rocket launch headlined a year filled with marvelous milestones when it comes to navigating and understanding space. From NASA to SpaceX, just look to space for good news from 2018 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMatt Sheehan / MIT Technology Review: A history of Google’s relationship with China from its first foray in 2006 to Project Dragonfly, and how Google hopes to reenter China in the era of AI — It used to be that while Google wanted China, China really needed Google. Not any more. — Google’s first foray
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