Years ago, the US carriers tried to make a mobile wallet to compete with Google Wallet and Apple Pay. It did not go well, and not just because of the unfortunately first attempt at naming it. I am so discombobulated by yesterday’s news that the four major US carriers are banding together to make a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has added a new way to quickly create calendar entries when using a browser. If you head over to “cal.new” or “meeting.new,” you’ll find it takes you to a blank Google Calendar entry, ready for you to fill out its details. It’s a small feature, but it
Read MoreFacebook: Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news — Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy. Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people
Read MoreFriday marks a new phase in Facebook’s approach to online news, particularly after the company shifted the focus of its news feed last year to promote posts shared by family and friends. Facebook will begin paying some outlets for their content as it introduces its News tab Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe social network introduced a new section of its mobile app dedicated to news content, offering stories from a mix of publications. Facebook Calls Truce With Publishers as It Unveils Facebook News Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreForget the Galaxy Fold. This prototype from TCL is the largest and most daring yet. We tried a new foldable phone with a 10-inch screen that folds in different directions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFacebook began testing a new home for news in its mobile app today called Facebook News. It will roll out to a few hundred thousand users in the United States and host reporting from big publishers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BuzzFeed. Facebook is paying some (but not all) participating publishers for
Read MoreBy leveraging artificial intelligence to help clean up code, DeepCode aims to become to programming what writing assistant Grammarly is to written communications. Likened to a spell checker for developers, DeepCode’s cloud service reviews code and provides alerts about critical vulnerabilities, with the intent of stopping security bugs from making it into production. The goal
Read More{$inline_image}TCL is primarily known as a display manufacturer and TV brand — but it also makes phones under the Alcatel, BlackBerry, and Palm labels. If all goes according to plan, you’ll remember the name a lot better in the near future when it starts bringing its foldable phones to market, including this ambitious tri-fold model
Read MoreGAO The US Defense Department has finally ended the use of 8-inch floppy disks for coordinating the country’s nuclear forces. C4ISRNET reports that as of this June, the USA’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) has transitioned to a “highly secure solid state digital storage solution.” SACCS is one of the US nuclear force’s
Read MoreHarry McCracken / Fast Company: Google says it’s improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words’ relationship with each other — For Google’s namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for. Google says it's improving 10% of
Read MoreTalks over how American companies can ensure future supplies of advanced computer chips have taken on more urgency. Pentagon Pushes Tech Industry to Help U.S. Retain Military Edge Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAhead of the launch of its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft has begun talking up a gaming accessory that holds your phone right above your Xbox controller, so you can have an easier time killing bad guys in titles that the company will beam to your phone from the cloud. The arrival of this
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Bentham used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 24 2019, at
Read MoreSubscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the third edition of Pardon The Intrusion, where we explore the wild world of security. Almost everyone agrees that two-factor authentication (2FA) is the holy grail when it comes to keeping our accounts safe from breaches. Still, it’s unbelievable how many companies screw this up, like Twitter did earlier this
Read MoreA common measurement for circuits is heat dissipation inspection. While single point thermometers do the trick, they can be quite annoying to use. Meanwhile, a thermal imaging camera is often out of the budget for hobbyists. How about building your own visual thermometer for cheap? That’s what [Thomas Fischl] decided to do, using an infrared
Read MoreApple and Google have cumulatively removed over 50 apps from their respective mobile app stores that were found serving malicious ads to millions of users. The findings were were disclosed separately by London-based mobile security firm Wandera and Slovakian security solutions provider ESET. Disruptive ad behavior ESET found at least 42 Android apps that were
Read MoreGoogle is making what it calls the biggest tweak to its search engine in the past five years. But it’s still a work in progress. Google is making a big change to its vaunted search engine. You might not notice. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe company touts the change as “one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of search.” Google says its search engine will better understand natural speech, instead of just keywords – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is currently rolling out a change to its core search algorithm that it says could change the rankings of results for as many as one in ten queries. It’s based on cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) techniques developed by Google researchers and applied to its search product
Read MoreGoogle’s cheapest Chromebook is still more expensive than the competition Continue reading… Google Pixelbook Go review: the price of simplicity Source: New feed
Read MoreJaguar’s Vision Gran Turismo joins the likes of Bugatti, Peugeot and Mercedes in the Gran Turismo series of games. Jaguar's Vision Gran Turismo concept is long, low and electric – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreJag joins the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Honda, McLaren, Bugatti and Daihatsu in offering a wild digital concept to gamers. Jaguar's the latest company to do a Vision Gran Turismo concept and it's stunning – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreImages: Jaguar Jaguar has placed itself at the forefront of the electric car revolution with the I-Pace SUV, despite being a smaller player in the overall car market. The British automaker also competes in all-electric racing series Formula E, and operates a whole support series made up of I-Paces. But the latest and greatest electric
Read MoreJonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers with freight companies and helps manage trucking logistics, has raised $35M Series B from Georgian Partners — Shipwell, the software platform for managing trucking logistics, has raised $35 million and is expanding its suite of services to become … Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers
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