Mario Kart Tour hits your Android, iPhone on Sept. 25 – CNET
Mario Kart on your phone. What a time to be alive. Mario Kart Tour hits your Android, iPhone on Sept. 25 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMario Kart on your phone. What a time to be alive. Mario Kart Tour hits your Android, iPhone on Sept. 25 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRadar was a great invention that made air travel much safer and weather prediction more accurate, indeed it is even credited with winning the Battle of Britain. However, it carries a little problem with it during times of war. Painting a target with radar (or even sonar) is equivalent to standing up and wildly waving
Read MoreSpeculation has mounted after an official Overwatch-themed Switch case was listed on Amazon. Overwatch might be coming to the Nintendo Switch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTime to look for a group once again. WoW Classic, live today, lets you party in Azeroth like it's 2006 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJim Waterson / The Guardian: BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch
Read MoreVisitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are seeing dung that seems to be self-driving. National Park Service explains mysterious rolling poop balls – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe astronaut and the civil rights pioneer have been honored with lookalike figures. See the new Sally Ride and Rosa Parks Barbie dolls – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA very early version of Elon Musk’s Mars Starship didn’t get off the ground as planned Monday. But it could come Tuesday. SpaceX 'Starhopper' prototype rocket aborts second test flight at last minute – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNot only do they want the open internet rules restored, they want presidential candidates to vow not to take campaign money from telecoms. Activists challenge 2020 candidates to sign net neutrality pledge – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn the second quarter, Chinese company Baidu beat out Google for the No. 2 spot in the global smart speaker market with its Xiaodu device. Alexa, who is Baidu? Chinese firm passes Google to become Amazon’s top smart-speaker rival Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreTaisuke Nakamura has been responsible for some of the coolest concepts to come from the brand in recent memory and his design sense could be a real leg up for the brand. Infiniti's getting a new global design chief and that's a good thing – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe 2020 Corvette is drawing massive amounts of interest, and some dealerships are looking to profit off of that with markups of up to $30,000 over MSRP. Corvette fans are using the power of the internet to fight dealer markups – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it’s done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers’ licenses … Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum,
Read MoreCook appears to be the first tech CEO to speak out about the fires. Tim Cook pledges Apple's help for Amazon rainforest as fires rage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen a processor has a fault it can leave what looks to be precious little in the way of cause and effect. Debug-by-print-statement works surprisingly well in simple cases, but where in a desktop environment you would drop into a debugger to solve trickier problems this can be an onerous task on an embedded system.
Read MoreStephanie Condon / ZDNet: VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant powered in partnership with IBM Watson — VMware is also updating the digital workplace platform with expanded endpoint management services, new multi-cloud support … VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including
Read MoreKentucky Fried Chicken is testing a new recipe at a restaurant in Atlanta — essentially, it’s going without the “C” of KFC, offering a “Kentucky Fried Miracle” in the form of Beyond Meats’ plant-based fake meat nuggets. If it’s well-received, KFC might roll it out to more places — which can only be a win. It’s
Read MoreCasey Newton / The Verge: Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing … Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app
Read MoreThe working logo for Threads, a new messaging app from Facebook and Instagram | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is developing a new messaging app called Threads that is meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends, The Verge has learned. Threads, which is designed as a companion
Read MoreGlobalfoundries has accused T.S.M.C., a competitor in Taiwan, of infringing on 16 patents in a suit that could also affect companies like Apple and Google. Lawsuit Over Computer Chips Invokes Trade War With China Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has delivered a climate plan that fleshes out his dreams for a geoengineered world. According to his proposal, which was released on August 26th, it’ll take 20 years, $4.87 trillion, and maybe even space mirrors to prevent a climate catastrophe. Similar to other Democratic
Read MoreIMDb launched IMDb TV earlier this year, a streaming service that allows you to watch some programming for free through IMDb’s website. Today the company announced that it’s bringing IMDb TV to its mobile app as well, giving you the ability to stream all that content on your mobile device. Read more… Watch Free Movies
Read MoreDoes your neighborhood have strange joke listings on Google Maps? Are you living next to a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Fake Google Maps locations are surprisingly common, and these fictional locations and pop-cultural references can even come with highly detailed (false) information, such as… Read more… How to Report Fake Listings on Google
Read MoreGoogle used to be the epitome of young, smart, techy culture. Its offices have always been lauded as a workplace where free expression, thinking outside of the box, and challenging the status quo were valued more than the ability to keep your head down and meet quotas. Those days are over. The Mountain View company
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has reportedly put a technology for iPhones on hold that would have let people send text messages to other iPhones over a 900MHz radio spectrum that’s typically used for dispatchers in the utility and manufacturing industries, allowing the phones to act like walkie-talkies for texts, according to
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