Rajiv Rao / ZDNet: How Apple, after languishing in India for years, became the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the country in 2019 — For the first time in its brief history in India, the premium brand has gone all out to woo customers with big price cuts, and thanks to local manufacturing efforts,
Read MoreOne of the biggest problems of owning an older boat (besides being a money pit – that is common to all boats regardless of age) is the lack of parts and equipment, and the lack of support for those parts if you can find them at all. Like most things, this is an area that
Read MoreGilad Edelman / Wired: The Intuit-Credit Karma deal, driven by the latter’s stash of user data, poses an important test case for US regulators’ budding interest in data-driven mergers — Antitrust regulators say they’re interested in data-driven mergers. Intuit’s $7 billion deal to buy Credit Karma will show how serious they are. The Intuit-Credit Karma
Read MoreOn Tuesday I’m supposed to be flying to the Maldives. I say “supposed to” because on Friday I found out that my flight to the country had been canceled by the airline, thanks to the two-hour layover I was going to have in South Korea, currently one of the areas heavily impacted by COVID-19 aka
Read MoreIsaac Asimov, roboticist and science fiction writer, predicted in his novel I, Robot in 1950 that robots and artificial intelligence were going to be banned from Earth in the year 2030. Instead, we are seeing huge advances in AI and this is likely to continue within the next decade. The UK’s investment in AI recently reached a record
Read MorePerfect for rideshare drivers, this dashcam can record everything that happens inside and outside your car, complete with a GPS location and timestamp. Record it all: Add a dual front and interior dashcam to your car for just – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Tools like Twine have made it easier than ever to make interactive
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises $15M from Lightspeed Venture Partners — WordPress has become so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that it still drives a huge ecosystem of startups that build tools and services around the platform. Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises M from Lightspeed
Read MoreManufacturers of low-cost 3D printers that use the masked stereolithography (MSLA) process are able to build their machines so cheaply because they’re using repurposed smartphone or tablet LCD panels to mask off the UV backlight. Considering the quality you get out of even the entry-level MSLA resin printers, we certainly aren’t complaining about this bit
Read MoreMolleindustria There are simulation games that try to be neutral. SimCity never lays out its philosophy of urban planning. Democracy lets you rewrite its rules to role-play any democratic system. These are games that aim to reflect reality, and sometimes, developers even recoil at the idea that they have an ideology at all. Democratic Socialism
Read MoreSave $30 on the best-sounding Echo smart speaker to date. Amazon's Echo Studio is on sale for the first time – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLooking for eco-friendly condoms is complicated. Kim Marks, the owner of As You Like It, a nontoxic and environmentally conscious sex shop in Eugene, Oregon, describes the concept as a Catch-22: “Condoms are onetime use, but we need them for safe sex,” she says. Matthew Nolan, the co-author of the Oh Joy Sex Toy book
Read MoreA Rosetta Stone lifetime subscription, Aukey webcam, eufy robovacs, and a Backcountry clearance sale lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Sunday's Best Deals: Kindle eBooks, Daemon X Machina, Sonos Playbase, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreAccording to a report by developer community Hacker Rank, the number one position hiring managers need to fill this year — with 38 percent of the vote — is for a full-stack developer. Of course, another finding of that report is that 60 percent of full-stack developers will also be required to learn an entirely
Read MoreEvery once in a while, this job helps you to discover something new and completely fascinating that has little to do with hacking but is worth sharing nonetheless. Turning a single brass bolt into a beautiful Cupid’s bow is certainly one of those times. Watching [Pablo Cimadevila] work in the video below is a real treat,
Read MoreLooking for a set of over-ear cans? These are CNET’s current top picks. Best over-ear headphones of 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: In a year of new consoles, don’t expect anything new from Nintendo. That’s OK, because what I really want is better software. Be happy with the Nintendo Switch you've got, because you're not getting a new one this year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAll the latest, hottest rumors about a potential successor to the iPhone SE, aka the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2. iPhone 9 rumors: Launch date, price, specs and Touch ID might be back – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHimanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times: Indian phone-maker Lava International says it has signed an agreement for a $90M investment over the next three years with Global Emerging Markets Group — GEM group will make the investment over the next 36 months for through a ‘Share Subscription Facility’ which will allow the company … Indian
Read MoreDid you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks from those driving the future of technology this year? Nir Eyal, who authored this piece, is one of the speakers. Check out the full ‘Impact‘ program here. I don’t usually write about personal and revealing matters,
Read MoreIt’s something that can happen to all of us, that we forget things. Young and old, we know things are on our to-do list but in the heat of the moment they disappear from our minds and we miss them. There are a myriad of technological answers to this in the form of reminders and
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: A look at top Democratic presidential candidates’ stances on tech issues like breaking up Big Tech, digital privacy, encryption and backdoors, and Section 230 — – Voters from 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide which Democratic candidate to support for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday. A look at
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: K Health, whose AI-powered primary care app lets patients in 47 US states chat with doctors, raises $48M Series C, bringing its total raised to $97M — K Health, a primary care consultant powered by artificial intelligence, announced this morning it has raised a $48 million Series C round.
Read MoreOur rankings of longest-lasting laptops has a few surprises. The 35 best battery life laptops for 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreVivo’s new phone has a curved waterfall display, 60-watt super-fast charging and a notch-killing in-screen selfie camera. Vivo Apex 2020 concept phone hides 16-megapixel selfie camera under screen – CNET Source: CNet
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