We break down the momentous Mars landing, run through Cyber Monday and question whether “classic” consoles have hit a wall. What will NASA InSight find on Mars? (The 3:59, Ep. 494) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEligible college students can save big on YouTube’s streaming subscription services. YouTube offers student discount for Premium and Music services – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe project would allegedly provide the Chinese government with tools it could use to track people’s searches. Google employees say company must drop project Dragonfly – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBill Gross is one of the great heros when it comes to technology incubators. Twenty years ago, he founded Idealab, a business whose business plan is to create more businesses. This started out with just a handful of companies in 1996, and has since gone on to found 150 companies, that have collectively raised three
Read MoreCyber Monday and Black Friday are done, but the deals are not. The 30 best Cyber Monday 2018 deals still available – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify has signed deals with major Indian music labels, clearing a path to enter the major market as soon as Q1 2019 — – Streaming service is said to launch as soon as first quarter — Swedish company seeks faster Asian growth to placate investors Sources: Spotify has signed deals
Read MoreTechnology companies are notorious for attracting talent with alluring perks designed to make life easier. To attract talent, a Manhattan transportation startup is introducing a new perk for employees: electric scooters. A Manhattan start-up’s new strategy for attracting top talent: Free electric scooters. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Apple’s case before SCOTUS is about standing, and its argument is strong, but that doesn’t mean App Store isn’t a monopoly and rent-seeking isn’t on the rise — Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon says Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in its history, topping Prime Day’s 100M+ products sold, with the new Echo Dot as the best seller — Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company’s history on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26), based on
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work — Great hardware undone by a hundred tiny software indignities — The tricky thing about Google’s new Pixel Slate is that it checks … Pixel Slate
Read MoreBy all indications, the PlayStation 5 is not supposed to arrive until 2020, but that isn’t stopping the internet from doing its thing. We may have just gotten our first glimpse at what the console will look like thanks to images of an alleged prototype posted on Russian tech site Rozetked. While I’d be highly skeptical
Read MoreMore than thirty Google employees have joined a public petition protesting the company’s plans to build a search engine that complies with China’s online censorship regime. Google employees go public to protest China search engine Dragonfly Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIt’s very difficult to find an hour of Arlan Hamilton’s time — besides for running Backstage Capital, a VC firm “investing in underestimated founders,” she’s lately been the subject of countless high-profile interviews and features. Hamilton was featured on the cover of Fast Company‘s October issue, making her the first black woman who is neither an
Read MoreYou may not think you need a VPN. If you’re laboring under that assumption, we’d like to counter with this: You’re wrong. If your IP isn’t masked by a VPN connection, there’s a good chance your Internet service provider is compiling information on you. Maybe it’s for security purposes, maybe it’s so they can sell
Read MoreThe most awesome things about having a 3D printer is that you can create almost anything which includes parts for the 3D printer itself. Different materials give power to your imagination and allow you to go beyond the 3D printed vase. So much so that one maker has gone as far as 3D print the
Read MoreAnother major European supermarket is getting in on the distributed ledger (DLT) fun. Auchan, a global leader in food distribution, is set to roll out a blockchain platform to allow customers to track goods from plate to fork. Following successful trials in Vietnam, French supermarket giant Auchan says it’s chosen grocery-tracking blockchain solution is now
Read MoreDespite the cryptocurrency market’s plummeting price of recent weeks, the Nasdaq is still plowing ahead with preparations to launch Bitcoin futures. Sources close to the matter say it could happen as soon as Q1 2019, according to Bloomberg. The Nasdaq is currently making sure its Bitcoin futures offering satisfies regulations from the Commodity Futures Trading
Read MoreAnother Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication service outage is causing problems for a number of Office 365 users. Microsoft's multi-factor authentication service goes down for second week in a row Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThere’s a battle going on in academia between the scientific journal publishing companies that have long served as the main platform for peer review and spreading information, and scientists themselves who just want to share and have access to the work of their fellows. arxiv.org launched the first salvo, allowing researchers in physics to self-publish their
Read MoreThe ride-hailing company is still feeling the heat. Uber slapped with .2M in British, Dutch fines for 2016 hack – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle Employees Against Dragonfly: A group of Google employees have joined Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly, penning an open letter to the company — We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create … A group of Google
Read MoreHere are the best smart-home bargains from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Fry’s, Target and more, updating frequently. Best Cyber Monday 2018 smart-home deals still available: Nest thermostat for 9, Ring, Philips Hue and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNASA Deputy Associate Administrator Melanie Saunders and astronaut Mike Massimino ring the closing bell of Nasdaq after the NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. Ringing in InSight's Landing on the Red Planet Source: NASA
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook launches Watch Party, its group viewing feature where users can see and comment on the same video at the same time, to all profiles and Pages worldwide — Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it’s hoping to differentiate through the company’s core strength: social. Facebook
Read MoreTech giants jump on board with Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday: Facebook, T-Mobile, Amazon rally for charitable causes – CNET Source: CNet
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