What is pareidolia? It is the psychological phenomenon where we see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data. Pareidolia: Seeing Shapes in the Cosmos Source: NASA
Read MoreUsing BSSIDs isn’t foolproof, but far more accurate. This malware uses a crafty new technique to establish the location of victims Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm announces CEO Steve Mollenkopf is retiring and current president, Cristiano Amon, will take over on June 30 — – Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf is retiring this year, the company just announced. — The company has recently emerged from a thicket of challenges including business model scrutiny … Qualcomm announces CEO
Read More2021 has barely gotten out of bed, but the gadget machine never stops churning. And today? Well, it has coughed up the impending arrival of a OnePlus fitness tracker: This year, we are here to help you achieve all your fitness goals and make your life easier.#SmartEverywear Head to the link to get notified: https://t.co/LUCWvulREa
Read MoreAnd we’re looking forward to meeting them all at a later, safer date. Here are the robots taking the virtual stage at CES 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor 2021, GE Lighting is revamping its product line, complete with a brand-new app and gadgets. See ya, C by GE: GE Lighting's growing smart home lineup is now called Cync – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOver the next year, the issue of cloud vendor lock-in won’t be quite so cut and dry. Data 2021 Outlook Part II: Hedging the cloud Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHealthifyMe’s FitFest is Asia’s first virtual fitness festival to help users stay motivated about their fitness goals for 2021. Virtual fitness comes calling this January, courtesy the HealthifyMe app Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreAt one point in history, the British automotive marque MG was one of the most revered names in the world when it came to sporty two-seaters. Through its early years, MG cars set world speed records, and it was sister company to the likes of Jaguar and Triumph. By the 2000s, MG had lost much
Read MoreCompanies like Google and Microsoft have been investing heavily in the concept of cloud gaming, where a player uses their computer or a mobile device to stream the video feed of a game that’s running on powerful machine tucked away in a data center somewhere. With this technology you can play the latest and greatest
Read MoreMicrosoft plans on ending support for several apps and services this year, so make sure you’re prepared. These are the Windows 10 apps and services Microsoft is killing off in 2021 Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreSpace exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including commercial human spaceflight and returning samples of an asteroid to Earth. The coming year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for. Artemis 1 Artemis 1 is the first flight
Read MoreMicrosoft Edge is climbing up the browser market share rankings, fast. Death of Internet Explorer pushes Microsoft Edge to impressive new heights Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreAmazon is the latest company to turn photos of our bodies into data for custom products. For Amazon’s custom T-shirt, your body is a wonderland (of data) Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe 90s rock band’s front man Max Collins tells the story behind his strange tweets — and his adoration of Marianne Williamson. How Eve 6’s Twitter account became its own strange form of art Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreSometimes I want to copy a couple of sentences from a document to get a list from the website for your personal reference, but can’t do so because of restrictions on the text. Thankfully, I came across TextSniper — a Mac app that lets you extract text from non-selectable sources such as YouTube videos, PDFs,
Read MoreThe US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by Russian billionaire, technology, and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come from the nearest star to the Sun – Proxima Centauri. This has generated a flood of excitement in the press and among scientists themselves. The
Read MoreAccording to a recent report from American industry analysts ABI Research, 2021 will be the year that electric vehicles hit the mainstream in a big way, Roadshow by CNET says. The main driver behind this will be a slew of more affordable EVs — like the VW ID.3, ID.4, and Ford Mustang Mach-E — coming to
Read MoreDemand for Python outscores others for a record fourth year. Python was the programming language king of 2020 Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines vision for turning Teams into a digital platform as significant as the internet browser. Satya Nadella says 2021 will be the year of Microsoft Teams Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreSnapchat is looking to further increase its links with the emerging Indian market by investing in local social platform ShareChat in which Twitter has already invested. Snapchat, Google likely to invest in India's ShareChat – Here's why Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreKim Lyons / The Verge: Venmo launches a check cashing feature for eligible users in the US, says it is waiving stimulus check deposit fees for a limited time — Fees will be waived for a short time for deposits of government stimulus checks — PayPal-owned banking app Venmo is launching a check cashing feature
Read MoreA solderless breadboard is a place where ideas go to become real for the first time. Usually, this is a somewhat messy affair, with random jumpers flying all about the place, connecting components that can be quickly swapped to zero in on the right values, or to quickly change the circuit topology. Breadboards aren’t the
Read MoreThis is the part of the intro where we talk about what a turbulent year 2020 has been, and then, via a tenuous link, make some reference to how phone manufacturers somehow kept pumping out [INSERT ADJECTIVE] devices. Here is where we tell you what the article is: a list of TNW’s favorite phones in
Read MoreImagery from the Cold War’s Corona satellites is helping scientists fill in how we have changed our planet in the past half century. It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries. Source: NY Times Tech
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