More than any other group, disabled Americans are far less likely to be online. Comcast is trying to change that. Comcast throws a broadband lifeline to the disability community – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFacebook announced three new Portal devices with cameras in its quest to take on Google and Amazon. Facebook is still trying to make the Portal happen Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFacebook is bringing its connected device strategy to the television. The company today announced Portal TV, an accessory that brings the company’s wide-angle video chats to the biggest screen in the house. Portal TV is begins shipping November 5th for $149 — or you can also bundle two Portal devices together and take $50 off.
Read MorePhoto by Nick Statt / The Verge Facebook today announced three new products as part of its growing Portal family of smart home gadgets, including two smaller versions of its flagship video chat device. The larger of the two screens is called Portal, and represents a redesign of the previous year’s model, and the smaller
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Acronis, which provides backup software and data protection tools, raises $147M round led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B+ valuation — Data recovery juggernaut Acronis today announced it’s nabbed $147 million in an investment round led by Goldman Sachs at a valuation of over $1 billion … Acronis, which provides backup
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Descript, which offers tools for creating podcasts, raises $15M Series A from a16z and Redpoint, and acquires Lyrebird, which built audio transcription tools — The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the
Read MoreImage: Nextdoor Nextdoor, the social networking app for neighborhoods, is adding a new Kindness Reminder feature to try and dissuade neighbors from posting mean comments. Now, if you try and post a comment that is too similar to one that’s been flagged in the past, the app will prompt you to edit your response and
Read MoreThere’s basically no competition Continue reading… Apple Watch Series 5 review: the best smartwatch Source: New feed
Read MoreAttackers are now enabling WDigest credential caching to allow them to harvest credentials. Here’s how to spot it. How to monitor Windows to prevent credential theft attacks Source: Security
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 Rousseau used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin Price We closed
Read MoreWere you thinking that cryptocurrency mass adoption was just around the corner? Well, perhaps think again. A recent study from Dutch bank ING has found that cash still reigns supreme. ING says in its report that general sentiments towards cryptocurrencies and their usefulness “have not changed drastically” since the bank conducted a similar survey a
Read MoreFossil Collider FTW7008, FTW7010, FTW7009 (from left to right). Remember how Google paid the Fossil Group $40 million for its secret smartwatch tech and R&D personnel? At the time Fossil and Google told Wareable that Google had acquired “new product innovation that’s not yet hit the market,” that would sit within the Wear OS family.
Read MoreLeo Kelion / BBC: London’s Gatwick to become the UK’s first airport to use facial recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks for passenger boarding — Gatwick has become the UK’s first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks before passengers board planes. London's Gatwick
Read MoreThe company says the European Commission is trying to “retrofit changes to national law.” Apple says EU's billion tax demand 'defies reality' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is launching new voices for Google Assistant in nine countries today, adding a secondary voice option outside the US for the first time. When users set up a new Android phone, the default voice will also be chosen at random, so there’ll be a mix of people
Read MoreFortnite today added cross-platform voice chat, a feature that lets friends talk even if they’re not currently playing the game. Party Hub, which is available in the game’s mobile apps, lets you see which of your friends are online and start audio conversations with them. The feature is based on similar technology developed by Houseparty,
Read MoreAmazon officially today announced suppor for Hindi in its Alexa virtual assistant, allowing users to issue voice commands in the fourth most spoken language in the world. The development comes more than a year after Google introduced Hindi support in Google Assistant. Using machine learning and deep learning models, Amazon said it has addressed the contextual and cultural
Read MoreApple revealed its new series of iPhones last week. While the company released almost all specifications of these devices such as processor, camera sensors, and screen resolution, their RAM and battery sizes were unknown. Now, thanks to the Chinese certification site, TENAA, we know about these specs too. All three phones – the iPhone 11,
Read MoreMedical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure servers that did not have basic security precautions in place, a new investigation by ProPublica has found. “Data from more than 13.7 million medical tests in the US were available online, including more than 400,000 in which
Read MoreCherlynn Low / Engadget: HP debuts 13″ Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light business convertible with Intel Core vPro processor, 2TB storage, 16GB RAM, available Oct. 25, starting at $1,549 — HP is chasing superlatives again. Last year, the company launched the Spectre Folio — the first laptop made out of leather. HP debuts 13" Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light
Read MoreStarbucks is releasing a new hardware product in Japan this month, and it’s a pen. Not a stylus or anything — an actual pen, with “coffee brown” gel ink, a drip coffee machine-inspired design, and the built-in ability to pay for things at Starbucks. “Starbucks Touch: The Pen,” for that is its name, contains an
Read MoreTavi Gevinson / The Cut: Founder of the Rookie mag reflects on being an early influencer and the effect that Instagram had on her life and career as Instagram’s aesthetic keeps evolving — My senior year of high school, I had three Instagram accounts: a public one, a private one for friends and internet friends,
Read MoreA Times Square billboard is teasing the Oct. 15 release. An orange Pixel 4, confirmed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge HP’s latest EliteBook, the Elite Dragonfly, doesn’t look like a business laptop. It comes in a shade of deep blue, and its lightweight magnesium build looks and feels more like a premium consumer laptop than something made for the commercial industry. The 13.3-inch Elite Dragonfly weighs less than
Read MoreEcuador offiicals have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 20 million individuals, including 6.7 million children. The 18GB cache of data was attributed to a leaky Elasticsearch server, but it has since been plugged. In response, local law enforcement authorities
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