Bird, the electric scooter giant, says safety is one of the company’s top priorities. But a new study from the University of Southern California points out that the company’s Instagram feed includes very few images of riders wearing protective gear. Bird says safety is their ‘top priority.’ So why is the e-scooter company’s Instagram page
Read MoreBefore you hit the road this weekend, grab the Hackaday Year in Review Podcast to keep you company during your journey. Google Play iTunes Soundcloud Spotify Stitcher Direct Download (64 mb, mp3) We released this on Tuesday and mentioned that the podcast was available on all major podcasting platforms. But turns out you need to
Read MoreAmazon’s power is even more pronounced in the nail-biter sprint toward Christmas. A two-decade obsession with delivery speed has given it a huge edge. Last-Minute Shoppers Increasingly Trust Only Amazon to Deliver Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreScandals and wrongdoing in tech rightly get a lot of attention, but there’s good — yes, really — happening elsewhere. The Shift: The 2018 Good Tech Awards Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThis holiday period, Plugged is running a very special advent calendar. Over the course of 12 days, we’ll be sharing a selection of sweet, sweet deals. You can thank us later. Need deals from yesterday? You got it, bud! On the tenth day of TNW’s advent, the lovely team gave to me… Massdrop x Sennheiser
Read MoreThere are millions of mobile applications available to smartphone users today, and that number will only keep growing as it becomes easier to build and deploy apps. Some apps are for amusement, but others are specifically designed to improve the lives of their users or the world at large. We asked a panel of Young Entrepreneur
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: Coinbase launches in Lithuania, Iceland, Andorra, Gibraltar, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man amid plans for a more aggressive international push in 2019 — – Coinbase has expanded its product to Lithuania, Iceland, Andorra, Gibraltar, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Coinbase launches in Lithuania, Iceland, Andorra, Gibraltar, Guernsey, and the
Read MoreSomewhere in Silicon Valley, a man wakes early with the sunrise. Venturing into the kitchen, he pacifies his rumbling belly with a cup of coffee infused with a large knob of grass-fed butter. He’s in the middle of a fast, after all. After a two-hour meditation session, he’s off to spend thousands of dollars on
Read MoreNeural networks are computer systems that are vaguely inspired by the construction of animal brains, and much like human brains, can be trained to obey the whims of the almighty domestic cat. [EdjeElectronics] has built just such a system, and his cat is better off for it. The build uses a Raspberry Pi, fitted with
Read MoreKik might not be the only messaging app to support cryptocurrency payments if Facebook‘s latest dream comes true. According to people close with the matter, the social media behemoth is looking to develop a cryptocurrency that enables WhatsApp users to transfer money to each other, reports Bloomberg. Apparently it’s going to be a stablecoin pegged
Read MoreDash cryptocurrency (DASH) was created by software developer Evan Duffield in 2014 as “XCoin,” an open source fork of the Bitcoin protocol. Its vision was to facilitate fast anonymous transactions over the blockchain. XCoin was rebranded as “DarkCoin” a few months into the launch to highlight its privacy-centric approach compared to Bitcoin. At a time when
Read MoreIt’s the end of the year, so you know what that means: awards lists. In our case, it’s time to crown the best phones of 2018, which is a surprisingly tough activity given how many great phones there were this year. Besides, we recognize that everyone is different, with varying preferences on devices. So instead
Read MoreThe Computer History Museum in Mountain View has two operational IBM 1401 mainframes, which use IBM 1403 high-speed printers. They aren’t some decades-old notion of “high speed” that barely looks sluggish today, either. These monsters slam out ten lines per second thanks to a rotating chain of type slugs and an array of electromagnetic hammers.
Read MoreShe’s back. Ellen DeGeneres's first comedy special in 15 years is up on Netflix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Something different from all previous movies in the DC Extended Universe, please. Aquaman: 5 things I want to see from the new DCEU film – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhat lies beneath? Plastic. A lot of it. Scientists discover Earth's deepest point is polluted by plastic – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Blind, an anonymous community chat app used by staff at Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and more, left one database server exposed from Nov. 1 to Dec. 19 — One of the company’s servers was exposed without a password for weeks. — Thousands of people trusted Blind, an app-based … Blind, an
Read MoreWe’ve all been there. When debugging a microcontroller project, we just want to put in a print statement to figure out what’s going on with the microcontroller in real time. However, advanced embedded programmers know that printf statements are verboten: they’re just too SLOW. While not fixing this plight entirely, [Atakan Sarioglu] has come up with a clever way
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: Reid Hoffman funded $100K project that secretly tested disinformation tactics against Roy Moore on Facebook and Twitter during the Alabama Senate race — As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try … Sources: Reid Hoffman funded 0K project that secretly
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Facebook is developing a stablecoin for money transfers on WhatsApp, focusing first on the remittances market in India — – First focus will be on remittance market in India, people say — Social network is still working out its blockchain strategy Sources: Facebook is developing a stablecoin for money transfers on WhatsApp, focusing
Read MoreFor the first time in a long time, Epic Games is bringing back an old favorite challenge. Fortnite season 7, week 3 challenges and how to complete them – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRoland Li / San Francisco Chronicle: Square says it has leased all of the office space in Oakland’s Uptown Station, which Uber sold to developer CIM Group in 2017, with room for up to 2,000 staff — Payments processor Square signed an office lease Thursday for Oakland’s Uptown Station in one of the city’s biggest
Read MoreExplaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. Consciousness, I argue in a new paper, may be caused by the way the brain generates loops of energetic feedback, similar to
Read MoreThe two German luxury car manufacturers could work together to offset some of the costs associated with developing new advanced technology. BMW and Daimler are eyeing a partnership for self-driving car tech, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreJuli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea, who joined from Google in April, has been promoted to its executive team as SVP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy — Apple today announced John Giannandrea, who handles machine learning and AI for the company, has been promoted to the Apple’s executive team …
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