A worker administers a COVID-19 test at a drive through testing site in Texas | Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images This week, COVID-19 headlines were split between cautious optimism and abject despair. On the positive side, Monday morning brought us a scrap of hope — claims from Pfizer and BioNTech that their vaccine candidate was
Read MoreNetflix Netflix’s The Liberator almost didn’t get made. The four-episode miniseries, now streaming, was initially envisioned as an eight-episode drama for the History Channel. The story — both in that version and the one that exists now — was based on the true story of the “Thunderbirds” battalion, a group of US forces that spent
Read MoreAn Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV and a sale on Macy’s cookware lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more… Saturday's Best Deals: Insignia 32" Fire TV, Tacklife Jump Starters and Tire Inflators, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Macy's Cookware, GoWise Air Fryer, N95 Masks, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreDo you currently live in an expensive city and have been working entirely remotely for months? Have you cringed as you paid your rent, knowing that there’s technically no work-related reason to be in that location? If you’ve experienced these thoughts lately (or even before the pandemic), there’s an offer you may want… Read more…
Read MoreThe store’s one-day-only “Treat Yourself” event includes a $60 air fryer and a Fitbit Inspire 2 for $70. Best Buy Black Friday flash sale: Discounts on TVs, vacuums, headphones, more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBlack Friday deals on Apple products are already underway. Here are the best ones we’ve found so far. Apple Black Friday 2020 deals available now: Save on AirPods Pro, on Apple Watch SE and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTLDR: The Premium Learn to Code 2021 Certification Bundle collects 26 courses with training in dozens of major coding disciplines every programmer needs to know. While the latest U.S. jobs report shows the country slowly rebounding fiscally from the COVID-19 pandemic, don’t be fooled — the job market is as fierce today as it’s ever
Read MoreThere comes a time in many elementary school students’ academic careers when they ask their parents to drive them to the local craft store and purchase several styrofoam spheres of varying sizes. The real magic begins back at home, where, thanks to some paint and other materials, the styrofoam balls are transformed… Read more… How
Read MoreSome awesome Black Friday deals are already available. Best Amazon Black Friday 2020 deals you can get now: AirPods Pro, Beats Solo 3, Apple Watch, cheap TVs, SanDisk price cuts – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe put to the test plenty of drip coffee makers from Ninja, Oxo, Technivorm, KitchenAid, Bonavita and others to see which are best. The best coffee maker for 2020: Ninja, Oxo, Bunn, Bonavita and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGiven all the problems we’ve seen with Windows 10 updates in recent times, this seems like a smart decision. Microsoft is being extra careful with Windows 10 security updates for December Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreTawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal: Analysis finds that nearly three dozen ransomware attacks have targeted US school districts educating 700,000+ students since the pandemic began in March — Districts around the U.S. are fighting a wave of increasingly aggressive hackers, who are publicly posting sensitive student information Analysis finds that nearly three dozen
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge The Sonos Move smart speaker is $100 off at retailers like Best Buy, B&H Photo and Amazon today only, bringing the cost from $400 to a more reasonable $300. You can save a little more at Wellbots on the speaker if you live outside of NY, as it
Read More[SamsonMarch] designs electronic products by day and — apparently — does it in his spare time, too. His latest is a pair of really cool shades that give him turn-by-turn directions as he walks around town. Unlike some smart glasses, these get around the difficult problem of building a heads-up display by using a very
Read MoreThere are some big things missing from the awesome iPhone 12, but are they deal breakers? Five features missing from the iPhone 12 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: New M1 MacBooks should follow the iPad Pro’s lead and evolve their design. The MacBook is changing on the inside. Now it needs to change on the outside, too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRich Karlgaard / Forbes: Q&A with AI expert Kai-Fu Lee on China catching up to the US in AI, his investment philosophy, ethics in AI, China’s natural advantages, and more — Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
Read MoreThis SUV from the trident brand sounds great and looks exotic, but it misses the mark in so many ways. 2020 Maserati Levante Trofeo: Falling short of expectations – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThis article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Spending on smart city technology is expected
Read MoreDremel’s attempt at breaking into the 3D printer market back in 2014 was respectable, if not particularly exciting. Rather than design their own printer, their 3D20 “Idea Builder” was a lightly customized Flashforge Dreamer (itself a Makerbot Replicator clone) with a new warranty and support contract tacked on. It wasn’t necessarily the 3D printer of
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware — Tech giants dominate research but the line between real breakthrough and product showcase can be fuzzy. Some scientists have had enough. Scientists criticize
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Unity posted a net loss of $144.7M, up 218% YoY, on revenue of $200.8M, up 53.3% YoY, in its first earnings report since the company went public in September — – Video game software developer Unity Software’s stock fell more than 6% in after-hours trading on Thursday as the company posted
Read MoreKen Shirriff / @kenshirriff: [Thread] A look at the first ARM processor ARM1, which was built in 1985 and had 25K transistors, next to Apple’s M1 chip, which has 8 cores and 16B transistors — how it started: how it’s going: https://twitter.com/… [Thread] A look at the first ARM processor ARM1, which was built in
Read MoreHallowe’en may be over for another year, but that just means you’ve got more time to prepare your build for next time. [gocivici] has a fun twist on the classic mirror scare that might be just up your alley. The build starts with an old black and white TV, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi
Read MoreDan Levin / New York Times: The challenge of closing the digital divide for students has proved daunting in N. Carolina, which has a large rural population lacking reliable internet access — Millions of American students lack reliable internet access. Some are learning in parking lots connected to Wi-Fi buses or crashing with relatives to
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