It can be amusing sometimes, to read an incredulous reaction from outside our community to something that would be bread-and-butter in most hackerspaces. Take the sorry saga of the Cadillac XLR tail light, as reported by Jalopnik. This car was a more-expensive Corvette with a bit of lard around its midriff, and could appear a
Read MoreHBO’s Watchmen comic book reboot, a saucy British comedy and an eye-opening book on surveillance impressed the former US president in 2019. Watchmen, Fleabag, Parasite top Barack Obama's 2019 favorites – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWith an ever-growing range of smart-home products available, all with their own hubs, protocols, and APIs, we see a lot of DIY projects (and commercial offerings too) which aim to provide a “single universal interface” to different devices and services. Usually, these projects allow you to control your home using a list of devices, or
Read MoreByuu / Medium: Chrome’s overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software as potential malware is stifling online distribution of indie and free software — Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks. Chrome's overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software
Read MoreI enjoy online shopping. However, I often find myself fussing about the delivery options during checkout. This is because not all delivery services are equally efficient and stress-free. This personal experience has also inspired my research. As a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, I have engineered tiny nano-materials – objects about 10,000 times smaller than
Read MoreThe retrocomputing crowd will go to great lengths to recreate the computers of yesteryear, and no matter which species of computer is being restored, getting it just right is a badge of honor in the community. The case and keyboard obviously playing a big part in that look, so when a crowdfunding campaign to create
Read MoreFollowing an array of internal security breaches across a wide range of industries in 2019, awareness of insider threat is finally starting to grow. As we move towards 2020, it is undoubtedly becoming a major problem, and considerable changes need to be made in order to stop any further growth. According to Verizon, the number
Read MoreReuters: France’s top court rules that customs and tax authorities can review citizens’ public social media posts for evidence of undeclared income or inconsistencies — PARIS (Reuters) – France’s government can pursue plans to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance, its Constitutional Court ruled on Friday … France's top court rules that customs and
Read MoreWith open source software, we’ve grown accustomed to a certain level of trust that whatever we are running on our computers is what we expect it to actually be. Thanks to hashing and public key signatures in various parts in the development and deployment cycle, it’s hard for a third party to modify source code
Read MoreWhen you’re trying to find something to watch on Netflix, sometimes you want to know what others outside of Netflix thought about the show. That’s where zRate can help. The Chrome extension brings in rating info from IMDB and occasionally Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and offers information about the program’s plot,… Read more… Add IMDB
Read MoreIf you grew up in the United States in the 1980s, chances are you’ll remember riding the Gravitron at the local fair or struggling to get past level one of the video game Robotron: 2084 at the arcade downtown. That would be after you got up early to watch five cartoon robots form the defender
Read MoreAbdel Latif Wahba / Bloomberg: Egypt approves Uber’s $3.1B acquisition of Careem after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive — Egypt signed off on Uber Technologies Inc.’s acquisition of ride-hailing peer Careem Inc. after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive. Egypt
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year where all of us start to think about how we’re going to improve our lives in the following year. Maybe we’re going to start running or spend time more time with friends or family. Whatever your hopes and dreams are for 2020, you’re likely to be a lot more
Read MoreSecurity camera startup blames employee error for weeks-long data leak. Wyze data leak may have exposed personal data for millions of users – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStartup blames employee error for weeks-long data leak. Security camera maker Wyze exposed personal data for millions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHulu is a streaming service whose content depends a bit on what’s available on regular broadcast television, but the service has a number of unique movies and series available as well. Read more… What's Coming to Hulu in January 2020 Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreComposing music can be quite difficult – after all, you have to keep in mind all of the elements of musical theory, from time signature and key signature to the correct length for all of the notes. A team of students from Cornell University’s Designing with Microcontrollers class developed a solution for this problem by
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talks about the company’s evolution after acquisition by Microsoft, integration with Outlook and other Microsoft products, and more — – Microsoft closed its $26.2 billion LinkedIn acquisition three years ago this month. — LinkedIn has done some things … LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talks about the company's
Read MoreWell it’s certainly been a long year, hasn’t it? It doesn’t feel like it’s still the same year that gave us Kingdom Hearts 3 and Resident Evil 2 Remake. There have been so. Many. Games. And a lot of them were excellent! Not all of them, but quite a large percentage of them. We’ve really
Read MoreUri Berkovitz / Globes Online: In 2019, nine Israeli startups became unicorns, bringing the total unicorns in the country to 20, and 16 startups completed a financing round of $100M or more — Israel now has 20 unicorns, privately-held tech companies worth more than $1 billion. Only the US, China and UK have more unicorns.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the average smart phone today packs an abundance of gadgets fitting in your pocket, which could have easily filled a car trunk a few decades ago. We like to think about video cameras, music playing equipment, and maybe even telephones here, but let’s not ignore the amount of measurement equipment we
Read MoreA 55" Roku-powered Hisense TV, eufy doorbell camera, 8-week Washington Post subscription, and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle lead off Sundays’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Sunday's Best Deals: Sabred NVMe Enclosure, Cuisinart Cookware, Kindle eBooks, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreFor when the time comes to trade out your trainers. 9 of the best running shoes for 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDriving long distances without a passenger can be lonely. If you’ve ever done it, you might have wished for a companion to talk to – someone emotionally intelligent who can understand you and help you on the road. The disembodied voice of SatNav helps to fill the monotonous silence, but it can’t hold a conversation
Read MoreHisense 55" 4K UHD Roku TV | $230 | Best Buy Read more… Upgrade to a 55" Hisense 4K Roku TV For Just 0 Source: Life Hacker
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