Out in the countryside, having a cow or to wouldn’t be a big deal. You can have a cattle shed full of them, and no one will bat an eyelid. But what if you’re living in the big city and have no need of pet dogs or cats, but a pet cow. It wouldn’t be
Read MoreLeah Williams / Kotaku Australia: Microsoft says it’s paid $1.2B to indie game devs during the current Xbox generation, for games that came through its ID@Xbox cross-platform publishing program — [email protected] was launched in 2014 as a tool for independent developers to publish their titles across Windows PC and Xbox One. Microsoft says it's
Read MoreKellen / Droid Life: Google Pixel 4 review: not competitive, as $800 is pricey for 64GB, Motion Sense is fiddly, no expandable storage or fingerprint reader, battery life is weak — We’re four years into the Google experiment that is high-end Pixel phones. Google has given us two, once again, the Pixel 4 and Pixel
Read MoreJames Shields / Xbox Wire: Ahead of Project xCloud’s launch, Microsoft adds mobile gaming gear, like a new smartphone-holding clip for Xbox controllers, to its Designed for Xbox program — As Kareem Choudhry shared last month, our vision for Project xCloud is to empower gamers to play the games they want, with the people they
Read MoreIoT devices rarely ever just do what they’re advertised. They’ll almost always take up more space than they need to – on top of that, their processor and memory alone should be enough to run a multitude of other tasks while not necessarily compromising the task they were built to do. That’s partially the motivation
Read MoreAlex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: Ally, maker of enterprise goal-planning software, raises $15M Series B led by Tiger Global, its third raise of 2019 after a $3M seed round and $8M Series A — In the daily blizzard of new venture rounds announced each week, it is hard to stand out. Sometimes a founder is
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge RED’s ambitious Hydrogen phone project is ending after the release of just a single device, the Hydrogen One, according to an announcement from Jim Jannard. The company’s founder says that he is “shutting down the HYDROGEN project” as he retires due to “a few health issues.” The
Read MoreGoogle From initial rumors through to the latest updates Continue reading… Google Stadia: the latest news about the cloud gaming platform Source: New feed
Read MoreSarah Frier / Bloomberg: Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg’s free speech comments, says there wasn’t any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a … Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You’ve probably heard the idiom of the fox guarding the hen house — but how about the one of the encrypted phone company run by drug lords? Okay, that’s obviously not an idiom, but it’s a true story chronicled by Vice’s Joseph Cox. In the story, Cox tells
Read MoreImage: Google When Microsoft was slammed for not offering enough compelling exclusive games to attract gamers to Xbox, it bought its way out — purchasing game developer after game developer to prep itself for the next console war. Now, it appears Google may similarly be shoring up the upcoming Stadia cloud gaming platform by building
Read MoreCook says he has no regrets, “not at all.” Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses decision to come out in new interview – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreExclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess | Artists: Garret Beard and William Joel All four major US carriers – AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — have each issued the same press release announcing that they are forming “a joint venture” called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). It is designed to
Read MoreFor this edition of CNET’s Show Us Yours we visit Alex from Worcester, Massachusetts, who describes himself as one of the last 3D enthusiasts. A butt-kicking home theater for a 3D diehard – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhile expanding at a breakneck pace, the co-working company has struggled to turn a profit on millions of square feet of office space. ‘It’s Definitely Pretty Empty’: Why Saving WeWork Will Be Hard Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe company confirms that it quietly shrank its “Add-on items” program in recent months. Amazon now makes super-cheap items insanely easy to impulse buy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThese heavily upgraded rigs could take you places you might not think possible. Ford bringing 5 modified Super Duty trucks to SEMA 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreForget the Galaxy Fold. This prototype from TCL has a 10-inch screen and folds in two different directions. Hands-on with a new foldable phone concept that's the largest and most daring yet – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since Red Dead Redemption 2 was released — and it still stands head and shoulders above most of the games released this year. Not to pre-emptively jinx my opinion of any of the games coming out between now and the end of the year, but I think, if I had the
Read MoreShannon Liao / CNN: Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream video games, after having raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others — New York (CNN Business)In the world of live-streamed video games, there’s Twitch and then there’s everything else. Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs
Read MoreTwitter probably won’t be joining the Libra Association. Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency gets a 'hell no' from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNothing spoils your mood quite like your windscreen wipers not feeling it when the beat drops. Every major car manufacturer is focused on trying to build the electric self driving vehicle for the masses, yet ignoring this very real problem. Well [Ian Charnas] is taking charge, and has successfully slaved his car’s wipers to beat
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber — SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5 billion to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020 — Here’s a shocker. All four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — have just announced that they’re joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the US for Android
Read MorePhotography by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If your Google Home or Google Home Mini has recently stopped working, good news: Google will likely replace it. This year, there have been a growing number of reports of bricked Homes and Home Minis on Google’s support forums (via 9to5Google) and on Reddit (via Android Police), and
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