PlayStation Plus and the Hydrow Connected Rower lead Monday’s best deals. Read more… Monday's Best Deals: PlayStation Plus, Hydrow Connected Rower, Disney Store Sale, Stasher Reusable Food Bags, Kingdom Hearts Games, Charter Club Sheets, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe new Brexit trade agreement makes reference to long-defunct computer programs, including Mozilla Mail and Netscape Communicator. Brexit deal recommends using long-dead software Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreTLDR: Right now, a lifetime subscription to training 14 different languages from Babbel Language Learning is now half off its regular price, just $179. Last year, marketing firm Advanced Symbolics Inc. enlisted their artificial intelligence system Polly to look at New Year’s resolutions made by almost 275,000 Americans and project the top 10 resolutions of
Read MoreCOVID struck at the height of the resurgence of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and while it’s not the worst aspect of a worldwide plague, nerds not being allowed to gather at the local hobby store and pretend to be elves really sucks. Luckily, though, with a little know-how, you can take the…
Read MoreKim Lyons / The Verge: Slack confirms it has been experiencing a widespread outage since 10am ET — Users began reporting problems around 10AM ET — Slack is down on the first full work day of 2021. The company said Monday morning “Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time.
Read MoreDarrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Industrial sensor giant Teledyne says it will acquire thermal imaging sensor maker FLIR for $8B in cash and stock — Industrial sensor giant Teledyne is set to acquire sensing company FLIR in a deal valued at around $8 billion in a mix of stock and cash, pending approvals … Industrial sensor
Read MoreMicrosoft looks to be finally moving to a true, single Outlook client, but it may not be available as part of Windows 10 until 2022, according to a new report. Microsoft to replace its many mail variants with 'One Outlook' Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read More{$inline_image} Virtual reality has seen enormous progress in the past few years. Given its recent surges in development, it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that the ideas underpinning what we now call VR were laid way back in the 60s. Not all of the imagined possibilities have come to pass,
Read MoreVirtual reality has seen enormous progress in the past few years. Given its recent surges in development, it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that the ideas underpinning what we now call VR were laid way back in the 60s. Not all of the imagined possibilities have come to pass, but
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Google and Snap are in advanced talks to invest $200M+ in Indian Twitter-like social network ShareChat at a $1B+ valuation — ShareChat, which added Twitter as an investor in 2019, is in talks to add two more American giants to its captable. — The Indian social network … Sources: Google
Read MoreWhat’s harder than getting a rocket into space? Getting self-driving cars to actually work… at least according to the boss of Waymo, Google’s self-driving vehicle spinoff. In an interview with the Financial Times, Waymo’s Chief Executive John Krafcik said the process of developing autonomous vehicles is an “extraordinary grind.” Krafcik goes on to say that
Read MoreNASA astronaut Michael Hopkins tends to radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment. Tending the Plant Habitat-02 Source: NASA
Read MoreQualcomm has officially announced the Snapdragon 480 5G, the company’s latest 5G-capable processor and the first in its Snapdragon 4-series of chips which power budget Android devices that tend to be far cheaper than most of Qualcomm’s 5G efforts to date. The news of a 4-series chip with 5G was originally teased at IFA 2020,
Read MoreAs someone who writes for a living, you’d think I’d be good at making up stories. But a thing I learned about myself long ago is that while I’m capable of writing about facts and my own opinions (which I also consider to be facts), I cannot create a work of fiction. I once tried
Read MoreZak Doffman / Forbes: While Facebook touts e2e encryption on WhatsApp, Apple’s privacy labels highlight how much user metadata WhatsApp collects compared to iMessage — WhatsApp, the world’s leading messenger with 2 billion users sending 100 billion messages each day, popularized secure messaging. While Facebook touts e2e encryption on WhatsApp, Apple's privacy labels highlight how
Read MoreThe union will be open to all employees of Alphabet, regardless of their role or classification. Google, Alphabet employees to form union – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRumored interface changes for later in 2021 could be something really special. Windows 10 could get a brand new look later this year Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreYou can do a lot to make sure the rated range of your electric car is close to reality. EV range risk factors that affect how far you go on a charge – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreSpongebob Squarepants More than 14 ViacomCBS networks, including Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, and Comedy Central are coming to Hulu with Live TV, the company announced today. Hulu is not announcing a price hike with the new additions at this time. This marks the first time that many of ViacomCBS’s networks are being made available to Hulu
Read MoreImage: Marvel For the first time in what feels like ages, the entertainment I looked forward to most was a handful of monthly comic books about the X-Men. Week after week this fall — a time absolutely lousy with great books, movies, TV, and video games — what I really wanted most was to pour
Read MoreMy grandmother Jewel accumulated many things throughout her life. Some of the things were nice antique pieces, and some of the things were purchased at the Dollar Tree, but all of the things were mixed together throughout her home, making it hard to tell (at a glance, at least) which was which. Read more… Get
Read MoreBut the automaker came seriously close to sending 500,000 EVs to new homes. Tesla 2020 vehicle deliveries fall a touch short of Elon Musk's goal – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: AMP Robotics, which creates robotics systems that sort recyclable material, raises $55M Series B led by XN, bringing its total raised to $75M — AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that sort recyclable material, this morning announced that it has closed … AMP Robotics, which creates robotics systems
Read MoreGabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: Aeva, a lidar company started by two Apple engineers, says it is raising $200M at a ~$3B valuation from a Hong Kong-based hedge fund ahead of reverse merger — – Deal values Aeva around $3 billion ahead of reverse merger — Volkswagen shareholder Porsche SE is strategic investor Aeva, a lidar
Read MoreNew York Times: Executives of the Alphabet Workers Union say discrimination and harassment continue and the company cracks down on those who are to speak out — Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it. — Ms. Koul and Mr. Shaw are, respectively
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