Hyundai’s new range-topping SUV gets a premium-sounding name to match its higher ambitions. 2020 Hyundai Palisade flagship SUV bound for LA Auto Show – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreLooks like Android will be ready if there’s a wave of foldable phones. Looks like Android is ready for the wave of foldable phones coming – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDavey Alba / BuzzFeed News: Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends Rekognition, says it’s the government’s duty to help specify regulations for facial recognition tech — Amazon executives defended the company’s controversial facial recognition technology at an all-hands staff meeting on Thursday … Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends
Read MoreDara Kerr / CNET: Bird unveils a new feature called Community Mode, which lets people report badly parked and damaged scooters to the company — Scooter company Bird is looking for tattletales. — It unveiled a new feature on Thursday called Community Mode, which lets people report badly parked and damaged scooters to the company.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed. Windows 10 users seeing their erroneous product-activation issues resolved Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIt’s a feature only iPhones with 3D Touch have had thus far. iPhone XR users can expand notifications with Haptic Touch in iOS 12.1.1, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDisney’s Netflix rival gets a name and another Star Wars original series starring Diego Luna. Star Wars Rogue One prequel series slated for Disney's streaming service, Disney+ – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEpic Games revealed in a recent interview that the concurrent player count of the world’s most popular game has now climbed into truly dizzying numbers — most likely because of its recent debut on the Korean market. An Epic Games rep told Korean news site Inven that Fortnite now has over 8.3 million concurrent players. I feel like
Read MoreCNBC: Yelp reports Q3 revenue of $241M, missing analyst estimates of $245M, and issues weak Q4 guidance; stock down more than 28% after hours — – The company reported revenue of $241 million for the quarter, just shy of analyst projections of $245 million. — “We do not believe there was a single … Yelp
Read MoreMichelle Castillo / CNBC: Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019 — – Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises. Disney says its new
Read MorePhysicists and researchers working in several laboratories are close to proving a theory that lays the groundwork for an advanced understanding of … well, everything. The theory in question is quantum mechanics, a form of physics that relies on the movements of subatomic particles to explain the natural universe. Proving it has been one of
Read MoreCoinDesk: Coinbase says it is adding Brave browser’s Basic Attention Token to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro — Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding web browser Brave’s Basic Attention Token (BAT) to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro. Coinbase
Read MoreThe electric scooter company says it’s going to deploy workers to reposition irresponsibly parked vehicles. Bird wants people to report poorly parked scooters – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePicture an endless loop of Byte’s logo rising from Vine’s ashes. Vine is coming back in the spring as Byte – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHTC announced its new push toward enterprise VR applications. HTC reveals standalone Vive Focus VR headset geared toward business – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePerhaps you heard about Oumuamua (don’t ask us how to pronounce that). The cigar-shaped object is the first item found by astronomers that is known to have come from outside the solar system and is continuing to pass through, not being captured by the sun’s gravitational field. A recent paper from [Shmuel Bialy] and [Abraham
Read MoreIt definitely wasn’t aliens in Antarctica. NASA found where that bizarre rectangular iceberg came from – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJim Waterson / The Guardian: David Attenborough says he will front a new eight-part natural history documentary for Netflix called Our Planet, to be released in April — Broadcaster synonymous with BBC documentaries will record voiceover for eight-part series — Sir David Attenborough will front a new natural history documentary … David Attenborough says he
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: HTC brings Vive Focus, its standalone VR headset available in China, to North America and Europe for $599 with an Advantage service option costing $749 — HTC will start selling its standalone Vive Focus virtual reality headset worldwide today, after an initial launch in China earlier this year. HTC brings
Read MoreFacebook: Facebook says it has removed 14M+ pieces of terrorist content this year and median time to take action is less than 2 minutes in Q3 2018 — Online terrorist propaganda is a fairly new phenomenon; terrorism itself is not. In the real world, terrorist groups have proven highly resilient … Facebook says it has
Read MoreKane Wu / Reuters: Sources: Chinese bike-sharing company Hellobike is looking to raise $400M from SoftBank and others; spokesman says Hellobike’s valuation is now over $2B — HONG KONG (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is looking to invest in Chinese bike-sharing start-up Hellobike … Sources: Chinese bike-sharing company Hellobike is looking to raise 0M
Read MoreDocker is helping bang the drum for customers still on older versions of Windows Server who want/need to migrate to maintain support. Docker is getting in on Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 migration push Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance. At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhat’s the best way to turn a high-powered brushless DC motor optimized for hobby use into a decent low-RPM generator? Do you take a purely mechanical approach and slap a gearbox on the shaft? Or do you tackle the problem electrically? The latter approach is what [GreatScott!] settled on with his BLDC rewinding and rewiring project. Having
Read MoreSarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday accused CNN’s Jim Acosta of “inappropriate behavior” towards a White House intern, citing this as the reason his press pass was revoked. The Press Secretary did this in a 194-word screed posted from an official White House account on Twitter. She then punctuated her point by sharing a video of the
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