Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue the EdgeHTML browser engine. Future versions of Edge would use Google’s Chromium rendering engine, which powers a swathe of browsers, including Chrome and Opera. Edge was never a popular browser, and at the time of writing commands just 4.34 percent of the market, according to NetMarketShare. However, the
Read MoreSaritha Rai / Bloomberg: SoftBank hires Kirthiga Reddy, former managing director of Facebook India, as the first female partner to manage its $100B Vision Fund — SoftBank hired Facebook Inc. executive Kirthiga Reddy as a partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund, the first woman to join a group of just a dozen … SoftBank
Read MoreAlthough hard to believe in the age of cheap IMSI-catchers, “subscriber location privacy” is supposed to be protected by mobile phone protocols. The Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocol provides location privacy for 3G, 4G, and 5G connections, and it’s been broken at a basic enough level that three successive generations of a technology have had
Read MoreWelcome to our weekly column, in which YouTuber NimbleThor brings you a short list of the best new mobile games for your Android device. Whether you’re into casual time wasters or hardcore shooters, you’ll find something in here to exercise your thumbs with. Facebook has been on a downward spiral for months now, as we’ve come to realize
Read MoreAstasia Myers / Memory Leak: In 2018, at least $46.8B has been spent on acquiring open source companies, including IBM’s $34B Red Hat purchase and Salesforce’s $6.5B MuleSoft buy — Astasia MyersBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing — When Elastic filed its S-1 in September, we wrote a piece calling “2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever!” In
Read MoreAt what temperature change inflection point does interest in fleece spike? Fruit of the Loom is using weather data to crunch the numbers and save on marketing. How Fruit of the Loom uses weather data to better market fleece Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTill now, we were trying to develop an AI which can beat Human players at respective board games. But the race has now shifted to beating other top AI players at their own games. Alphabet Inc.’s AI division, DeepMind, has developed an AI named AlphaZero, which can learn and master games like chess, Go, and
Read MoreHere are six ways Qualcomm’s new processor can benefit Samsung’s phone and others in 2019. Galaxy S10 could take portrait videos and double the photos using new Snapdragon 855 chip – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you had any hopes that a Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) would be coming in early 2019, to bring Bitcoin to Wall Street, it’s time to put them aside – again. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday released an update stating it is pushing its decision on the VanEck Bitcoin ETF back to
Read MoreThe movement that Facebook’s chief operating officer started is trying to leave her, and her scandals, behind. Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg Problem Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Wired: Microsoft steps up calls for regulation of facial recognition tech; research group AI Now stresses urgency for companies to open their AI algorithms to auditing — AFTER A HELLISH year of tech scandals, even government-averse executives have started professing their openness to legislation. Microsoft steps up calls for regulation of facial
Read MoreThe developers of Fallout: New Vegas put the FPS RPG in sci-fi. Yes, please. Obsidian reveals The Outer Worlds, a new sci-fi RPG, at Game Awards 2018 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreVirtual reality (VR) has made massive bounds in recent years. We’re now seeing VR as an innovative and creative experience catered to customers. To find out about the creative ways entrepreneurs are using VR — and which methods have true applicability — I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council the following question: What’s
Read MoreMore and more companies are offering ways for customers to personalize their products, realizing that the increase in production cost will be more than made up for by the additional sales you’ll net by offering a bespoke product. It’s great for us as consumers, but unfortunately we’ve still got a ways to go before this
Read MoreAsk a three-year-old why they think it’s raining, and she may say “because the flowers are thirsty”. Her brother might also tell you that trees have leaves to provide shade for people and animals. These are instances of teleological thinking, the idea that things came into being and exist for a purpose. Teleological explanations for
Read MoreAutomattic has just released version 5.0 of its immensely popular WordPress CMS, with a bunch of new features centered around customizable content blocks – catching up at last to its rivals who have offered this for years now. At the heart of this new version is the content editor, which lets you insert all kinds
Read MoreQualcomm has previously developed some ho-hum chips for Windows 10-based always-connected PCs. But this time it means business, with its first 7nm Snapdragon 8cx (Compute Extreme) chip for laptops that promises significantly greater performance than its predecessors. The company first introduced connected PC support with the Snapdragon 835, and last year it modded the Snapdragon
Read MoreOur review has arrived, and the new Smash Bros. is the best yet. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate reviews are in: Here's what you need to know – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s supposed to be an awards show, but we know why you’re really here: announcements, trailers and reveals. Game Awards 2018: Mortal Kombat 11, Smash Bros., and everything else revealed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMore and more phone companies are eliminating the headphone jack — here are the phones that waved goodbye to the audio port. iPhone XS, Pixel 3, OnePlus 6T and 20 other phones without headphone jacks – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJackson Ryan / CNET: DeepMind’s new AI program, AlphaZero, taught itself to play and beat the world’s best AI in three different board games: chess, shogi, and Go — Humans have mostly accepted that they will never be as good at chess as the robots, but now even the robots have to accept they will
Read MoreAll the retrocomputer love for Commodore machines seems to fall on the C64 and Amiga, with a little sprinkling left over for the VIC-20. Those machines were truly wonderful, but what about the Commodore machine that paved their way? What about the machine that was one of the first to be gobbled up in the
Read MoreOne of the biggest upgrades to the Apple Watch Series 4 from its predecessor is its ability to record an electrocardiogram and detect issues with how the user’s heart is functioning. The company’s FDA-approved feature is now live for users in the US. The device can detect irregularities in your heartbeat, which can point to
Read MoreFortnite’s wintery season 7 has begun and we’re going to help you level up to a tier 100 Ice King. Fortnite season 7, week 1 challenges and how to complete them fast – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle Translate has previously displayed signs of gender bias by assigning genders to certain adjectives and words describing occupations. Thankfully, the company’s rolling out an update to fix this. The company said that after the update, Google translate will provide both feminine and masculine translations for gender-neutral words: Historically, it has provided only one translation
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