Do you absolutely hate YouTube’s pre-roll ads? Well, YouTube’s thinking about introducing two back-to-back skippable ads, called “Ad-pods.” In return, it’ll let you watch a longer video without interruptions. Currently, YouTube shows an ad while you’re in the middle of watching a video. So, instead of that, YouTube will show two back-to-back ads before the
Read MoreMicrosoft puts another block on the Windows 10 1809 rollout and says it’s all part of its “controlled approach”. New Windows 10 1809 block: Microsoft halts update if you use flawed Intel drivers Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: LinkedIn quietly introduces a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking a user’s connections from exporting the user’s personal email address — A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters, and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections.
Read MoreThe tech industry has had so many screwups this year, it’s hard to keep track. But with CNET’s 2018 edition of Tech Turkeys, we’re gonna try. Facebook's Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and bitcoin: The biggest Tech Turkeys of 2018 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGet a camera drone with GPS for less than $100 or fly an app-controlled paper airplane for $35. Black Friday 2018 drone deals: DJI Mavic Air, Parrot Anafi, Ryze Tello and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTech’s major players made even more big blunders, marking one of the industry’s worst years ever. Tech Turkeys 2018: So much Facebook! But net neutrality too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSay goodbye to the grid. Eventually, a programming-first design similar to the Roku Channel will take over. Roku's home screen is going to get an overhaul (and you can already take a peek) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNeural networks are a key technology in the field of machine learning. A common technique is training them with sample data, and then asking them to create something new in the same vein. AI researcher [Janelle Shane] decided to task a neural network with a fun task – inventing new kinds of pie. Using the char-rnn library, the
Read MoreTwo major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have been forced offline, after critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers suffered nationwide failure Thursday morning. AWS, one of the world’s widely used cloud services, was hit with major internal server failures that brought popular digital asset exchanges, Upbit and Coinone, to a screeching halt. Several popular e-commerce hubs
Read MoreTakashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is offering subsidies to network operators in Japan to shore up sales of iPhone XR, after an underwhelming launch of its least expensive phone — Japanese carriers will use subsidies from Apple to discount the cheapest new iPhone, after an underwhelming launch Sources: Apple is offering subsidies
Read MoreOver the past couple of weeks, Twitter and Instagram have begun testing ways to reduce visual emphasis on users’ follower counts. The tweaks aren’t much more than changes in font size and where the text appears. But they represent a shift focus away from personalities’ popularity to the content they create, and the value they
Read MoreSurgeons at St Mary’s Hospital have been using a HoloLens-based system to pick out blood vessels before surgery. Augmented reality in the operating theatre: How surgeons are using Microsoft's HoloLens to make operations better Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA critical vulnerability in an Ethereum token made it possible for malicious actors to force cryptocurrency exchange desks to spend extremely high fees on transactions. Even worse, the attackers could abuse the bug for profit. The flaw, discovered by a group of cryptocurrency researchers, resides in Ethereum-based cryptocurrency GasToken. It remains unclear precisely how many
Read MoreRobin Wauters / Tech.eu: Workable, a recruiting automation platform that uses AI software to help SMBs in more than 100 countries, raises $50M Series C bringing the total raised to $84M — Greek-American growth company Workable, which is building a recruiting automation platform used by an ever-increasing number of SMBs worldwide … Workable, a recruiting
Read MoreWhenever [MakerMan] hits our tip line with one of his creations, we know it’s going to be something special. His projects are almost exclusively built using scrap and salvaged components, and really serve as a reminder of what’s possible if you’re willing to open your mind a bit. Whether done out of thrift or necessity,
Read MoreXiaomi has built a commanding position in the Indian smartphone market by selling a wide range of affordable phones priced between $85 to $200 over the past few years. It’s now added an intriguing new model to its budget Redmi lineup: the Redmi Note 6 Pro. While the mid-range phone retains most of the characters
Read MoreAfter you stuff yourself with turkey, you can buy a Pixel 3 or 3 XL. Black Friday 2018 Pixel 3 deals today: Free Pixel 3, 0 Pixel 3, 0 Pixel 3 XL; free Home Hub soon – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSome of these deals from Amazon, Walmart, Target and your carrier are already on. Black Friday 2018 Galaxy deals: Free Galaxy S9, 0 Note 9 today; 0 gift card Nov. 23 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePlus, $400 off the LG V40, a $430 BlackBerry Key2 LE and $150 off a Palm. Black Friday 2018 phone deals Nov. 22: Free OnePlus 6T, buy LG V40, get free TV, 0 Palm – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe board organizing the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems – one of the world’s most noted events for researchers working on artificial intelligence – has changed the acronym used for the event’s name after attendees complained that the name contributed to an atmosphere of sexism. The event attended by machine learning researchers and statisticians
Read MoreEvery year, we sit around the Thanksgiving dinner table and recount the full annotated list of everything we’re thankful for. Then we engage in the Thanksgiving gluttony (otherwise known as dinner) — and thankfulness gets shoved into the back of the closet for yet another year. But since that’s just an amazingly cynical attitude, we’d
Read MoreBBC: Facebook appeals UK regulator’s decision to impose maximum £500K fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal, citing lack of evidence that UK users had suffered harm — Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the UK’s data watchdog after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook appeals UK regulator's decision to impose maximum £500K fine
Read MoreWe’re tracking the best smart home bargains from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Fry’s, Target and more, updating frequently. Black Friday 2018 smart home deals: Best offers available now on Google Home, Hue, Ring, Alexa devices, Netgear Arlo cameras, Nest, Ecobee and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest craze in revolutionary materials science is no longer some carbon nanotube, a new mysterious alloy, or biodegradeable plastic. It seems as though a lot of new developments are coming out of the biology world, specifically from mycologists who study fungi. While the jury’s still out on whether or not it’s possible to use
Read MoreFor years, Amazon, Google, and Roku have been battling it out in for the top spot in the video streaming market with their affordable dongles. But it seems that a new competitor might join the fight: Apple. According to a report from The Information, the company considered building a low-priced streaming dongle to get an
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