The creator of Leisure Suit Larry has just unearthed the source codes of several games, including the first two games in the series. He’s put the code on eBay, and interested gamers have already driven the bids into five figures. I’ll wager it’s been a long time since most of us have heard the name “Leisure
Read MoreThe hearing was postponed because of the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before the House on Dec. 11 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company, which is hosting a conference this week, is making a big push with the next-generation wireless technology. Qualcomm’s 5G-capable prototype phone teases our mobile future – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePro players respond to early outrage that blitzed the game with more than 1,500 negative reviews, mainly over the price of building the perfect deck. Artifact’s monetization structure is making Valve money and some gamers very angry Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you haven’t bought into the hype around the Instant Pot pressure cooker yet, now’s your chance to get in with some aggressive holiday pricing. The best Instant Pot deals right now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCasey Newton / The Interface: A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend — I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th
Read MoreCasually browsing YouTube for “shop improvements” yields a veritable river of project ideas, objects for cat amusement, and 12 INCREDIBLE SHOP HACKS YOU WON’T BELIEVE, though some of these are of predictably dubious value. So you might imagine that when we found [Henrique]’s adorable disc sander we dismissed it out of hand, how useful could
Read MoreThe streaming service and AT&T struck an agreement that raises the yearly licensing fee for the show by more than three times. Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a 0 Million Agreement Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWalmart is adding even more robots to its stores. This week, the big box retailer announced plans to place 360 autonomous robots — tasked with scrubbing floors — inside stores across the country. Walmart’s latest hire: Robotic janitors that clean floors and collect data Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWe all love to talk about tech and the cloud as if they’ve these things dramatically changed the way we live our lives and work. And don’t get me wrong – they could. They should. But too many of our businesses still operate like it’s 1997 when it comes to asset management. Sure, you may
Read MoreAnna Hensel / VentureBeat: Facebook schedules F8 2019 for April 30-May 1 in San Jose — Developers, mark your calendars: Facebook announced today that its annual F8 conference will be held on April 30 – May 1, 2019 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. — Though Facebook hasn’t released the official schedule
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales — – ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand — Analysts look again for what’s next beyond the iPhone Apple
Read MoreFor most of human history, musical instruments were strictly mechanical devices. The musician either plucked something, blew into or across something, or banged on something to produce the sounds the occasion called for. All musical instruments, the human voice included, worked by vibrating air more or less directly as a result of these mechanical manipulations.
Read MoreResearchers tout smaller electronics that consume lower power in a Nature paper. As chip speeds fizzle, Intel and Berkeley offer spintronics fix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, a key part of Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available — Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning. Microsoft open sources
Read MoreEpic Games, the company behind the wildly successful Fortnite, today revealed it’s opening its own digital game storefront. The new store will offer developers an 88 percent share of revenue, in contrast to Valve’s industry-standard 70 percent. Calling it a “Steam rival” would be more than just a trite comparison, as Epic’s own announcement features a chart
Read MorePlus, a look at Ring’s Neighbors app. Want a 5G-powered iPhone? Get ready to wait (The 3:59, Ep. 498) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePolitico: Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP’s campaign arm, had several months’ worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker — Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident. Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP's campaign arm, had several months' worth of
Read MoreFortnite’s success led to the announcement, with more details to come at The Game Awards. Fortnite dev Epic Games is launching a Steam rival, teases bigger reveal – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreResearchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The attack, which is still ongoing, affects MikroTik routers in particular. For the record, the string of crypto-jacking attacks on the brand first began in August, when security experts discovered over
Read MoreYou can make short-lived contributions no matter where you are. Facebook spreads group stories globally – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLarson is active on Twitter, except when paparazzi are on set. When Captain Marvel green suit leaked, Brie Larson ignored social media – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google launches Flutter 1.0, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments — At Flutter Live in London today, Google launched version 1.0 of Flutter, the company’s open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS.
Read MoreThe bear market – which many optimistically hoped would only span a few months – has swallowed the entire year, and with it, a string of cryptocurrency projects The latest casualty is ETCDEV, the development team for much of the software adopted by notable alt-coin Ethereum Classic. According to a recent post, the group simply does not
Read MoreToday, at the Flutter Live event in London, Google announced the first stable release of Flutter, its cross-platform UI toolkit. Flutter is intended to help developers build attractive, native app experiences from a single codebase. While cross-platform UI toolkits are nothing new, Flutter is unique in how it emphasizes speed and developer control above all else.
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