In one of the most notable tech acquisitions of recent years, Salesforce will buy Slack for approximately $27.7 billion. It’s Salesforce’s biggest purchase ever, and a shot in the arm for Slack, which has been facing increasing competition from platforms like Microsoft Teams and Google Chat. In the announcement post, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says: “This
Read MoreDon’t fall for the fake drive-through coronavirus testing sites that have been cropping up in recent weeks. Yes, that’s right—according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), scammers are dressing up like medical professionals and conducting fake, unsanitary tests for money and identity theft, while possibly spreading… Read more… Watch Out for Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites
Read MoreIn the past half century, it has been common for vice president-elects to resign from their previous posts in late December or January. No, it isn’t unusual that Kamala Harris is still in the Senate. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Marvel-themed season of Fortnite ended with a Galactus-sized bang. As has been teased since the debut of season 4 in August, the game’s current season concluded with a live event that pitted Fortnite players against the planet-sized supervillain in a dramatic showdown — and it ended with the game going down, replaced by a
Read MoreThe latest Nintendo Switch software update, version 11.0.0, makes it much easier to transfer screenshots and gameplay videos to your smartphone or PC. The new methods are miles better than the unintuitive post-to-social-media-then-delete workaround we’ve been forced to use since the console’s launch, or the similarly… Read more… How to Send Nintendo Switch Screenshots to
Read MoreCoronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals, Let’s dive right in. I was researching for this newsletter this morning when I came across this glorious headline from WRAL TechWire:Eager to get schooled,
Read MoreBipartisan commission says U.S. should create a government committee to work with companies and U.S. allies to push their priorities at global organizations that set technology standards. Government should take bigger role in promoting U.S. technology or risk losing ground to China, commission says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreTechCrunch: Salesforce announces it’s buying Slack in a $27.7B deal — Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. — Every worker at every company needs … Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cloud computing giant Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The deal, rumblings of which began surfacing last week, marks one of the most consequential acquisitions in the business software industries in recent years and Salesforce’s biggest purchase ever. Salesforce is
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple’s chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — Roku Inc. has hired a Siri executive at Apple Inc. to lead advanced technology development. — Brian Pinkerton has joined the San Jose … Roku hires Brian
Read MoreLike many modern smart home gadgets, Belkin’s Wemo brand of smart plugs has a tendency to phone home every time you turn on a lamp. [Gigawatts] wasn’t having it, so they figured out how to flash the device with OpenWRT and replicated its original functionality with a web interface. Unfortunately this stopped working after awhile,
Read MoreTuesday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals Read more… The 10 Best Deals of December 1, 2020 Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreAs we finish up the unforgettable year that is 2020, you’re going to see everyone start reminiscing about the various geeky distractions they enjoyed during what was otherwise an anxiety-filled year. Google is one of the first ones out of the gate with its list of the best Android apps and games, noteworthy additions… Read
Read MoreLarry Dignan / ZDNet: AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools — Amazon is stepping up its contact center services with Amazon Connect Wisdom, Customer Profiles, Real-Time Contact Lens, Tasks and Voice ID. AWS launches a range of new
Read MoreCyber Monday may be a thing of the past, but some of its best deals are still happening. Many retailers will keep some of them going a little longer this week, now dubbed “Cyber Week.” Between now and the winter holidays, you can expect the non-stop barrage of deals to slow down a bit. However,
Read MoreImage: Warner Bros. When Warner Bros. announced in mid-November that Wonder Woman 1984 will be available on HBO Max the same day it premieres in select theaters, I groaned. Not because of the decision to bring the movie right to the living room — that’s the right call — but I knew that, at the
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud — AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper —
Read MoreIt’s not easy to bring your relationship back to equilibrium after a major fight. Even if you and your partner have come to an agreement, the arguing can really put a damper on things. It might take some time to restore the romance and affection. Read more… How to Get Your Relationship Back on Track
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes — Amazon today launched SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new AWS service designed to speed up data prep for machine learning and AI applications. Amazon unveils DevOps Guru,
Read MoreThe landing of the uncrewed spacecraft was China’s third on the lunar surface since 2013 and came almost two years after China pulled off a historic first — landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. China lands spacecraft on the moon for the third time, another sign of its ambitions in space
Read MoreThe Galaxy Note line is one of the most iconic among smartphones. The original Galaxy Note was almost single-handedly responsible for popularizing big-screened phones — remember when phablets were a thing? — even if its 5.3-inch screen might seem small by today’s standards. It is also one of the few phones to hold onto a stylus
Read MoreChang’e 5 will be bringing back a little lunar gift before the New Year. China's Chang'e 5 lands on moon, gets readies to dig in the lunar dirt – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou hold in your hand a circuit board from a product you didn’t make. How does the thing work? What a daunting question, but it’s both solvable and approachable if you know what you’re doing. The good news is that Eric Schlaepfer knows exactly what he’s doing and boiled down the process of reverse engineering
Read MoreThe IVY platform collects and normalizes sensor data that can be used for all kinds of things. BlackBerry and Amazon Web Services partner on IVY tech for your car – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe may be a society (understandably) prone to skepticism and negativity right now, but fear not: Help is on the way, in the form of a restructured boneless pork patty covered in sauce and served with pickles and onions on an oval-shaped bun. That’s right—the McRib has made its triumphant return to McDonald’s. And… Read
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