After losing top professors, college students are less likely to create artificial intelligence start-ups and get less venture funding, the research says. When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMobile internet services were working, however. T-Mobile outage across East Coast takes out voice calls – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt reportedly wants phone numbers and other identifying information too. Defense Department wants Apple, Google to reveal names of gun scope app users, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYour garden variety car generally comes with four wheels, plus a spare in the boot. It’s a number landed upon after much consideration, with few vehicles deviating from the norm. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other possibilities however, and [RCLifeOn] decided to experiment in just such a manner. The result is a gyro-stabilized two-wheeled RC
Read MoreTony Romm / Washington Post: Google confirms it has received a civil-investigative demand from the DOJ, requesting records related to prior antitrust investigations — Google said Friday that the Justice Department has requested records related to its prior antitrust investigations, marking the tech giant’s … Google confirms it has received a civil-investigative demand from the
Read MoreThe search giant said it’s sent records to US regulators. Google confirms DOJ antitrust scrutiny, preps for probe from states – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle said Friday it had received a legal demand for records from the Justice Department related to the tech giant’s prior antitrust investigations, marking the company’s first major acknowledgment that it’s a subject of a federal competition probe. Google receives demand for documents from Justice Dept., acknowledging federal antitrust scrutiny Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Apple responded to Google’s discovery of a major iPhone security flaw with a bristling statement that accused its rival of creating “false impressions.” But Apple did very little to clear up those false impressions, and seems to have created some of its own, as we’ll see by
Read MoreAlex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] Apple’s response to Project Zero downplays exploits against an oppressed minority, discounts the risk of other targets, and ends in unseemly marketese — Apple’s response to the worst known iOS attack in history should be graded somewhere between “disappointing” and “disgusting”. First off, disputing Google’s correct use of “indiscriminate” when
Read MoreDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is demanding that Facebook, Twitter, and Google more aggressively counter disinformation on their platforms. In letters addressed to the companies Friday, O’Rourke’s team outlines how they believe each of them could address the issue after his campaign was falsely linked to a suspected shooter on social media last weekend.
Read MoreAt the dawn of the Internet era, developers on the Windows Shell team created some nifty utilities and shared them with power users in the Windows community. A quarter-century later, PowerToys are back, and this time they’re open source. In nostalgic move, Microsoft brings back PowerToys for Windows 10 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA scene from India’s mission control room, after communication with the lander was lost | Image: ISRO What was supposed to be India’s first soft landing on the Moon today appeared to end in failure when the country’s robotic Vikram lander seemingly crashed into the lunar surface during its powered descent to the ground. If
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Philadelphia news anchor has sued Facebook, Reddit, and other web platforms after a convenience store photo started showing up in dating and erectile dysfunction ads. Karen Hepp, who works for Fox 29 News, filed the suit earlier this week. She alleges that the sites violated her right
Read MoreI’ve been doing Instagram all wrong. Read more… How to Skip All of a Person's Instagram Stories in One Swoop Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIndia’s attempt to become only the fourth country to successfully soft-land on the moon doesn’t look good. India's Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander status a mystery – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Huawei launches PocketVision, an AI-powered app to help those with visual impairments read documents, menus, or any other text using their smartphone camera — Huawei’s Honor subsidiary today launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app called PocketVision, which is designed … Huawei launches PocketVision, an AI-powered app to help those with
Read MoreThey’re not coming to America, though. Smart Fortwo, Forfour debut with chiseled looks – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: YouTube Seems like modifying the Apple Cards, with their titanium build and all-white finish, is becoming a thing. We spoke with one person who etched the design from the back of a Bicycle playing card onto his Apple Card. Another is going a step further and has sharpened the Apple Card into an actual
Read MoreWhen you think about locking your car doors, in most cases your biggest concern is keeping people from stealing items in your car—or the car itself. While that’s certainly a valid concern, one Reddit user brought up another important reason to keep doors locked: to keep kids out. Read more… Keep Kids Safer by Always
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about buying cars from far away, custom orders from Japanese luxury brands, and how to ethically off-load a lemon. Read more… If
Read MoreTile doesn’t want people to forget about it, especially if Apple debuts its own item tracker. Today, Tile announced a minor update to its Google Assistant integration that’ll allow Assistant to directly ring a Tile. The functionality isn’t launching until later this year, but clearly, Tile wants to get its news out ahead of Apple.
Read MoreImage: Google, re-stitched by @atn1988 Fresh off our best look at the Pixel 4’s hardware, another batch of rumors has cropped up regarding what might be the most important part of the phone: the camera. A pair of leaks claims that the upcoming smartphone will offer 8x zoom, an improved Night Sight feature, and a
Read MoreThe line between an advertisement and entertaining content is blurry on YouTube, and a children’s rights watchdog group is asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step in. The group Truth in Advertising has filed a complaint with the FTC over one specific YouTube creator’s channel — Ryan ToysReview. Hosted by seven-year-old Ryan Kaji (but
Read MoreIt was just last week that we covered a report by Google‘s Project Zero security researchers claiming they’d identified a malware campaign targeting iPhones for “at least two years.” When successful, the exploit chain allowed iPhones to be compromised with no interaction from the user beyond visiting a malicious website. Now Apple is disputing some
Read MoreIn our info-obsessed culture, hackers are increasingly interested in ways to quantify the world around them. One popular project is to collect data about their home energy or water consumption to try and identify any trends or potential inefficiencies. For safety and potentially legal reasons, this usually has to be done in a minimally invasive
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