Concept foldable Windows device. | Photo by Jonas Daehnert / PhoneDesigner Over the past six months, we’ve seen some pretty weird and wonderful Windows laptops. There was Lenovo’s first “foldable PC,” HP’s dual-screen gaming laptop, and even an Asus notebook with two 4K screens. Laptops are definitely getting weird again. As the smartphone industry looks
Read MoreMicrosoft improves TypeScript, its programming language for developers building big JavaScript applications. Microsoft TypeScript 3.7: Programming language beta lands with all these features Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is currently experiencing an outage that’s affecting both the main Twitter interface as well as TweetDeck. The company’s support account acknowledged the issue at 00:26 AM EST today, in a tweet which noted that users might experience issues “Tweeting, getting notifications, or viewing DMs.” Twitter’s status page
Read MoreSixteen companies are calling for more transparency from the likes of Google and Facebook, and setting their own example in hopes of a less expensive, more efficient system. The Online Ad World Is Murky. A Group of Companies Wants to Fix That. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGoogle has a password manager that syncs across Chrome and Android, and now the company is adding a “password checkup” feature that will analyze your logins to ensure they haven’t been part of a massive security breach — and there have been oh so many of those. Password checkup was already available as an extension,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month by rolling out new tools that give customers greater control over their privacy when using Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Assistant. The company has confirmed that it’s launching incognito mode for Maps, which will debut on Android this month before expanding
Read MoreBitlocker and self-encrypting hard drives can make it easier to erase data so that it cannot be recovered. This is how the “crypto-erase” method works. How to safely erase data under Windows Source: Security
Read MoreTechnologies and practices such as cloud-native architectures, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), devops, and site reliability engineering (SRE) are enabling organizations to innovate and accelerate the delivery of software products. But they are also disrupting the traditional software development and maintenance life cycle (SDLC) and significantly changing what enterprises need to do to successfully
Read MoreImprovements in automatic speech transcription are beginning to have a significant impact on the workplace. From Your Mouth to Your Screen, Transcribing Takes the Next Step Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAn emergent A.S.M.R. category on YouTube involves young men role-playing romantic partners, all in service of a better night’s rest. What Does Having a Boyfriend Have to Do With Sleep? Source: NY Times Tech
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 Nikola Tesla used to say: The long and winding road awaits! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 01
Read MoreA smartphone in 2019 is an essential piece of everyday equipment. Many of you are probably reading this page on one, and it will pack a very significant quantity of computing power into your hand. Pocket computing has a long history stretching back decades before the mass adoption of smartphones though, and Paleotronic has an
Read MoreAs a reporter, I often need to record interviews or Q&A sessions. But it’s painfully tiring to go back and manually transcribe the recordings. Surely, there are few apps that can help me out. However, most of them have a limit on free transcriptions and you usually have to go through the whole process of uploading your
Read More“Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing almost 70 years ago. Today, some experts have no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be able to develop the kind of general intelligence that humans have. But others argue that machines will never measure up. Although AI can already
Read MoreStart-ups are disrupting the practice of shelling out thousands of dollars to rent a home. What if You Could Rent an Apartment Without a Security Deposit? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThreat actors have exploited “obscure” bugs in WebKit and Chrome browsers to serve over 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months, a new research has found. The attackers targeted iOS and macOS users with zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Safari browsers that bypassed built-in security protections to show potential victims intrusive pop-up ads, and
Read MoreSeveral popular messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and Signal offer a “self-destructing messages” feature. You can set a timer for messages in your conversation with someone, and those will disappear after the specified time. This feature might soon be coming to WhatsApp. According to a report by WABetaInfo, the company is testing disappearing messages on
Read MoreNASA’s Pegasus Barge arrives at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency’s Artemis missions. Space Launch System Mock Up Arrives at Kennedy for Testing Source: NASA
Read MoreYep, Tinder has a TV show now. Tinder's apocalyptic TV show will affect your actual Tinder profile – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWatch a live stream of Microsoft’s hardware announcements event, including updates to its Surface line of computers, on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Microsoft Surface event 2019: Leaks, how to watch, rumors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMost people have at least seen those cheap component testers you can buy on the Chinese websites for $10 or so. If you haven’t seen them before, they usually have some kind of multi pin socket. You put a component in the socket and it will identify — with a push of a button —
Read MoreWe explain the futuristic new photo processing mode that will be available in the next developer beta of iOS. With iPhone 11 'Deep Fusion' camera mode, Apple takes your photos to the next level – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe chief executive of International Workplace Group contends his company’s approach may not be as flashy but is more sustainable. As WeWork Slows Down, Biggest Competitor Says It’s Thriving Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft is planning to announce new hardware tomorrow, and all signs suggest it’ll be one of the company’s biggest Surface events yet. The event is taking place in New York City at 10 AM Eastern Time, and it’s one of relatively few Microsoft will be streaming live – further pointing to some major reveals. Where
Read MoreJames McLeod / Vancouver Sun: Canadian telecom Telus to buy local operations of US-based ADT for $527M in an effort to expand the home and security business — ‘… potentially they can offer more of a whole-home solution …’ — Telus Corp. announced Tuesday it is buying ADT Canada for $700 million … Canadian telecom
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