These easygoing games are perfect to take your mind off day-to-day stresses for a little while. 10 relaxing games on Apple Arcade that will help you chill out – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBlockchain has existed as a concept since the early 1990s, but keeping a distributed ledger for IoT transactions wasn’t widely implemented until IOTA developed Tangle. The blockchain company was initially founded as a hardware startup and pivoted to work on transactional settlement for IoT. The Tangle, their distributed ledger architecture based on a directed acyclic
Read MoreAirbnb has more properties, but Vrbo is more customizable. We’ll help you decide which hotel alternative is best for your trip. Difference between Airbnb and Vrbo: Which vacation rental site is best for you? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDid you know that the Finnish telecommunications company Nokia is one of the main players in the global mobile infrastructure market? It produces everything to build 5G networks – from antennas to routers and other equipment – and massively exports its products to the USA, Japan, and China. At first glance, this sounds great –
Read MoreTiernan Ray / ZDNet: Facebook’s AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power — Facebook AI research’s latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks … Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Of all the promises technology has made, the one I care about most is its potential to make my life as simple and carefree as possible. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases, tech has had the opposite impact. It’s
Read MoreHoney bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have been losing and then replacing an average of 40 percent of their honey bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably unsustainable and would be unacceptable in other kinds of husbandry. The biggest contributor to this decline is viruses spread by
Read MoreThe ever-resourceful [Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle] has an excellent excuse for starting on projects, he’s building them for his kids and making videos. We’re not so sure his little motorcycle wasn’t built because Dad also wants to have a go though, because it seems he had quite a lot of fun testing it. The build
Read MoreBill Wasik / New York Times: A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone — The Internet Dream Became a Nightmare. What Will Become of It Now? — “Hey, everyone!” the world’s eighth-richest man said …
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Variety: Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media’s properties promoted and Netflix app blocked — Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it’s not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device … Verizon releases a
Read MoreThe Commodore 64 remains the best selling home computer of all time, and is unlikely to be toppled anytime soon. It continues to inspire a diehard community of makers and hackers to this day. [Cem Tezcan] is one of those people, and his design study of a handheld C64 is utterly droolworthy. It’s quite likely
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Jimmy Wales’ WikiTribune, which launched as a crowdfunded news site in 2017, relaunches as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site — Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines. Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune, which
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify confirms it is testing real-time lyrics synced to music in its mobile app for some users; the feature appears below the playback controls during testing — With the launch of iOS 13, Apple added perfectly timed live lyrics to its Apple Music app. Now Spotify may do the same. Spotify
Read MoreExclusive: Motorola, in need of a comeback, wants to bring back the buzz with a foldable Razr that’s equal parts retro and cutting edge. Motorola Razr: Reinventing the flip into a foldable phone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTony Wan / EdSurge: Guild Education, which helps companies connect their employees to online higher-ed programs offered by universities, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — The education technology industry has given birth to its newest unicorn, one that wants to connect employees at Fortune 1000 corporations … Guild Education, which helps companies
Read MoreEverything’s here, from estimated range and pricing, to models and performance figures. Ford Mustang Mach-E all-electric SUV leaks ahead of official LA reveal – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybrary, a crowdsourced freemium cybersecurity training platform for enterprises that says it has 3M individual users, raises $15M Series B — Online cybersecurity career development startup Cybrary Inc. today said it has raised $15 million in new funding to accelerate the growth of the company’s online workforce development platform. Cybrary, a
Read MoreRotating mechanisms can be a headache when it becomes necessary to deliver power through them. [Igor Brkic] faced just such a challenge when creating his double-pendulum build, and solved it with a little DIY. The project is known as KLAATNO, inspired by the Croatian word for pendulum, klatno. It’s a mechanical installation piece, consisting of
Read MoreChristina Farr / CNBC: PillPack adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers — – PillPack, the Internet pharmacy it acquired last year, has updated its logo to “PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy.” PillPack adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to its
Read MoreApple removed all vaping-related apps from its App Store on Friday, siding with experts who call vaping “a public health crisis” and “a youth epidemic.” Vaping apps go up in smoke on Apple’s App Store Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreOlivia Solon / NBC News: Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company’s Series A — According to five sources, AnyVision’s technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank. Microsoft hires former AG Eric
Read MoreThe TGIF meetings will be narrower in scope, in addition to being less frequent. Google scales back its culture of transparency, as all-hands meetings become monthly Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreHere are the properties we know will join the MCU within the next three years (plus some rumored ones), and new film dates. Every upcoming Marvel movie and TV show in MCU Phase 4 and beyond – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAvengers assemble for eight more MCU movies across 2022 and 2023. Disney announces four Marvel movies for 2023 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRumor has it that Bioware is working on a new game in the venerated Mass Effect game series. This news should have me jumping for joy — but now that I’ve heard it, I’m not sure it’s such a good idea. According to the rumors, the new game is very early in development — that’d jibe with
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