Asus launched its mid-range Zenfone Max Pro M2 phone in India today, and priced it competitively at Rs. 12,999 ($181). The company’s aiming to woo customers with a massive 5,000 mAh battery, a powerful camera system, and near-stock Android on board. The M2 is packed with solid hardware that should meet the needs of most
Read MoreWe hope you have been good this year because we have a list to start your own biology lab and not everything will fit into Santa’s bag (of holding). If you need some last minute goodie points, Santa loves open-source and people who share on our tip line. Our friends at [The Thought Emporium] have
Read MoreOrbiting instruments are now so small they can be launched by the dozens, and even high school students can build them. It’s a Briefcase! It’s a Pizza Box! No, It’s a Mini Satellite Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Internet of Things is eating the world alive, and we can’t buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. This means the Internet is now in light bulbs, and with that comes some special powers. You can turn lights on and off from a botnet. You can change the colors. This is the idea for the Phillips
Read MoreLast night, chipmaker Qualcomm announced that a Chinese court has awarded it two preliminary injunctions against Apple that might lead to it being banned from selling its older phone models, ranging from the iPhone 6S to the iPhone X. However, Apple said that the phones are still on sale across China. The Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court ordered
Read MoreFacebook-owned Instagram has just added one of the best features from its sister app, WhatsApp: direct voice messages. Just as in WhatsApp, you can find it in any conversation (including group chats) in the Direct messaging section of the app. Tap and hold the microphone button located in the text entry box, and you can
Read MoreWhen water and lava collide, you’d better get out of the way. Watch scientists make and explode lava to study volcanoes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou have a clean MSDOS system, and you need to write some software for it. What do you do? You could use debug, of course. But there are no labels so while you can get machine code from mnemonics, you’ll still need to figure out the addresses on your own. That wasn’t good enough for
Read MoreThe German automaker is recalling an improperly manufactured ski accessory because it could fail dangerously in a crash. Porsche recalling Macan, Cayenne accessory over incorrect thread? – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s not easy being green, especially when your team looks like a highlighter dipped in nuclear waste. Seattle Seahawks uniforms go Grinch-green on Monday Night Football – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Steph Curry, famous for freakishly dropping 3’s, dunks on NASA’s moon landing — and misses. We hope it was all just good-natured dribbling. NBA star Steph Curry drops ball, suggests NASA moon landing was faked – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYouTube has become a convenient online library for racists, anti-Semites and proponents of other extremist ideas. Two years after #Pizzagate showed the dangers of hateful conspiracies, they’re still rampant on YouTube Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe LG HomeBrew works with single-use capsules that can make up to a gallon of beer with the push of a button. LG takes up the mantle of brewer with HomeBrew countertop beer bot – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUber Eats seems to be affected as well. Uber app apparently suffering outage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe UK’s NHS health system is desperately short of information security professionals, research from infosec consultancy Redscan shows. The firm found that NHS trusts typically have just one member of staff with cybersecurity credentials per 2,628 employees. A quarter of all trusts surveyed – which includes some of the largest trusts, employing as many as
Read MoreThere’s perhaps nothing harder to throw away than a good power supply. Whether it’s the classic “wall wart” whose mate has long since been misplaced or a beefy ATX you pulled out of a trashed computer, it always seems like there should be something you could do with these little wonders of modern power conversion. So
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm. SONAR.SuspBeh!gen676 Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreLocked within the Earth are organisms that can withstand extreme pressures, temperatures and lack of nutrients — changing how we think about “life.” Scientists discover deep-underworld ecosystem teeming with life – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe retailer is now making its own server chips. It’s the latest sign that big internet outfits are willing to cut out longtime suppliers. Amazon’s Homegrown Chips Threaten Silicon Valley Giant Intel Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThanks to a budget impasse between Democrats in Congress and the White House, there may be more time to eke out a long-shot victory for net neutrality supporters. Congress has a couple more weeks to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHer device freed secretaries from the typewriter. But as word processing became ubiquitous, it helped eliminate their jobs. Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhen Microsoft announced its Edge browser would be transitioning to the Chromium platform next year, I had one question: will it support Chrome’s extensions? The answer appears to be yes. As spotted by Thurrott, Edge’s Project Manager, Kyle Alden, took to Reddit to answer some question about the change. Alden notes that it’s Microsoft’s “intention to
Read MoreYou can reportedly record a message as long as a minute. Instagram now lets you send voice messages – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreToday we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by examining the positive ways artificial intelligence will affect humanity in the next decade. Also, we ate an entire cake by ourselves. There’s very little chance AI will rise up and become sentient any time soon. So there’s no real rush
Read MoreLast week, Fortnite creator Epic Games announced it was creating its own store, in direct competition with Valve’s Steam store. As part of its incentive, it was using a new revenue sharing model, in which it would keep only 12 percent of revenue, as opposed to the industry standard of 30. It appears that effort is already
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