In this image, a galaxy called ESO 243-49 is home to an extremely bright object called HLX-1. Circled in this image, HLX-1 is the most likely example of a black hole in the intermediate mass range that scientists have found. Finding Intermediate-Sized Black Holes Source: NASA
Read MoreState Rep. Lorena Gonzalez is preparing a new bill. The Technology 202: California lawmaker seeks to hold Uber accountable for sexual assault investigations Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe app will allow on-trip reporting of safety incidents that don’t rise to the level of an emergency. Uber makes changes amid swarm of criticism over rider safety Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreGoogle has created 3,000 videos using actors and manipulation software to help improve detection. Google's war on deepfakes: As election looms, it shares ton of AI-faked videos Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe idea that the gesture is secretly associated with white supremacy began as a hoax to trigger a reaction from liberals and the media. The ‘okay’ hand sign has moved from trolling campaign to real hate symbol, civil rights group says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFacebook, the American tech behemoth known for its “move fast and break things” motto, the mishandling of customer data, and interference in democracy, may not launch its ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra in time after all. “In the last few years, there are a lot of important social issues that Facebook and the other big internet companies are
Read MoreShould we be surprised that you can now get full 1080p HD resolution projected up to a whopping 240 inches? Or that it’s available from a 2-inch by 2-inch cube you can slip into your pocket and take anywhere? That’s the power of the wickedly cool PIQO 1080p Mini Projector. You can check it out
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based HR management platform, raises $15M Series B led by Sequoia India to expand in Southeast Asia — An Indian SaaS startup, which is increasingly courting clients from outside of the country, just raised a significant amount of capital to expand its business. Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which
Read MoreFrom the giant 7.3-inch screen to photography, multitasking and that awful notch. Galaxy Fold: 9 things I love and hate about Samsung's foldable phone so far – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFanny Potkin / Reuters: Indonesian ride-hailing service Gojek, valued at $10B in its last fundraising round in July, launches GoPlay, a mobile-only streaming platform for ~$6 per month — JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek launched a video streaming service featuring original movies … Indonesian ride-hailing service Gojek, valued at B in
Read MoreFew words have more power – and baggage – than “story.” It describes everything from novels, movies, and TV shows to news reports, histories, and podcasts. In business, we love to borrow the power of “story,” even when it’s probably the wrong word choice. Often, we think we’re storytelling when, in fact, we’re arguing. We’re
Read MoreVerizon’s 5G city count is now up to 13. Verizon officially turns on 5G in New York, Boise and Panama City – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDave Gershgorn / OneZero: A look at Deep Learning Indaba, an AI conference founded in 2017 that brings together researchers from across Africa, who often can’t attend Western conferences — Researchers want to pave their own path. But the growing industry is still dependent on tech giants like Google and Microsoft. A look at Deep
Read MoreThe International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body for the sport, announced today it’s partnering with Facebook to show exclusive digital content for ICC tournaments hosted in the Indian sub-continent until 2023. The social network will also show post-match recaps for ICC events hosted elsewhere in the world. The governing body had partnered with Facebook earlier
Read More{$inline_image}Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain platform TRON, and current CEO of BitTorrent, is appearing a little desperate for the attention of US Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Sun reinforced his desire to work with Yang to make Universal Basic Income (UBI) a reality during a livestream on Tuesday, just after promising to reschedule his
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the past couple of years we have endured a lengthy, one-sided, and largely fruitless debate over “censorship” on our US social networks. The issue reached a low point in May, when the Trump White House put out a call for all Americans to report perceived incidents of
Read MoreDina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it — – Company says it’s challenging ‘secrecy order’ on data demand — Enterprise customer targeted in warrant isn’t identified Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from
Read MoreGoogle is making its Android Go — a lightweight alternative of its mobile platform design to run smoothly on low-end phones — even faster. In a new blog post, the company says apps on Android 10 Go will now launch about 10 percent faster than they did on the older version. This improvement in speed has also
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 Machiavelli used to say: Let’s whip up a knowledge omelette! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 25 2019,
Read MoreImage: Google Google has detailed its latest version of Android Go, its lightweight operating system meant for low-powered devices with less than 1.5GB of RAM. With Android 10 (Go Edition), Google says it has improved the operating system’s speed and security. App switching is now faster and more memory efficient, and apps should launch 10
Read MoreIf you’ve ever done any small production runs of anything that needs a bit of assembly, you know that jigs and fixtures are a huge time saver. However, these usually need to be mounted, which means you end up drilling holes in your workbench or making one-off mounting plates. [Jim Smith] is no stranger to
Read MoreCryptocurrency giveaway scams are nothing new. Fraudsters have been known in the past to impersonate the likes of Elon Musk or Vitalik Buterin to con unwitting victims. And now, just days after its launch, we are seeing crypto con artists impersonate Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt. Con artists launched a fake website, bakktlaunch.com, earlier this week,
Read MoreCommentary: When you make $10 million a year playing video games, what have you got to lose? Ninja was on The Masked Singer and a dancing ice cream is our god now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology. A.I. Researchers See Danger of Haves and Have-Nots Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Attackers are mass-exploiting a vBulletin 5 vulnerability, now patched, allowing remote code execution, after an exploit was anonymously published Monday — Devs push a fix for the flaw, but hackers are still hitting unpatched sites. — Attackers are mass-exploiting an anonymously disclosed vulnerability … Attackers are mass-exploiting a vBulletin 5
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