NASA is reportedly investigating what’s said to be the first ever instance of a space crime. According to a report by The New York Times, the space organization is currently looking into a claim that astronaut Anne McClain improperly accessessed the bank account of her estranged spouse Summer Worden outside the confines of earth —
Read MoreWhat’s sitting on [Bob Alexander]’s desk in the video below did not start out life as the desktop calculator it appears to be. Turning it into a standalone calculator with features the original designers couldn’t imagine turned out to be an interesting project, and a trip down the retrocomputing rabbit hole. A little explanation is
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth … Megvii, a China-based
Read MoreBlack Widow’s is probably one of the coolest superhero posters full stop. Marvel official posters unfurl at D23: Black Widow, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pew study: smartphone users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks than those without smartphones — The latest study from Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact mobile technology, including the use of smartphones and social media, is having on the diversity of people’s social network in emerging
Read MoreThose alive during the 1990s will remember the clear or “crystal” versions of various home consoles. Made with the usual injection molding processes, they usually came out somewhere closer to a smoky translucency and didn’t reveal much of the insides. [BitHead1000] likes to do things right though, and has busted out an awesome acrylic case
Read MoreSurprisingly, asking Twitter to name newly discovered moons does not end in disaster. Jupiter's five new moons get names, but no Moony McMoonface – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHawkeye will have a successor and she could pave the way for a new generation of Avengers. Marvel's Hawkeye Disney Plus TV series: D23 details, cast, release date – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEverything you need to know about the upcoming Thor movie is right here! Thor 4: Love and Thunder: Natalie Portman is Mighty Thor, D23 details, release date and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMary Loritz / EU-Startups: Lunar Way, a Denmark-based banking app which raised €13M and expanded to Norway in February, raises €26M, says it has obtained a European banking license — Copenhagen-based banking app Lunar Way has raised a €26 million round led by SEED Capital, while obtaining … Lunar Way, a Denmark-based banking app which
Read MoreAlienware and Origin PC still dominate the top spots, with Acer’s Triton 900 with the Razor Blade Pro sliding into the top 3. The best gaming laptop performers of 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDoesn’t the Z-axis on 3D-printers seem a little – underused? I mean, all it does is creep up a fraction of a millimeter as the printer works through each slice. It would be nice if it could work with the other two axes and actually do something interesting. Which is exactly what’s happening in the
Read MoreLast Christmas I decided to splurge on an Airbnb for a few days in my hometown rather than stay with friends and family for my entire trip. I loved the idea of being able to come and go as I wanted, as well as stay up as late as I wanted without bugging my hosts.
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Interview with Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, as its market cap has surpassed eBay, and it sets its sights on Amazon, building out its own fulfillment network — Tobi Lütke, the Shopify chief executive, prefers his employees to refrain from checking the ecommerce company’s share price too often. Interview with
Read MoreThe Glia project aims to create a suite of free and open-source medical equipment that can be assembled cheaply and easily when and where it’s needed. Even essential tools like stethoscopes and tourniquets can be difficult to acquire in certain parts of the world, especially during times of war or civil unrest. But armed with
Read MoreCommentary: Samsung its on its way to closing the low-light photo gap with the best camera phones. Note 10 Plus camera night mode helps Samsung catch up to rival phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe actor and the director are good friends, but there’s no official confirmation. Yet. Nathan Fillion may be joining James Gunn's The Suicide Squad – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreColin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: Inside PlusToken, a Ponzi scheme that collected ~$3B worth of cryptocurrencies from investors in China and SE Asia this year, and the efforts to trace the funds — On June 27, 2019, a handful of leaders for a wildly popular ponzi scheme that spread across Asia were arrested by Chinese
Read MoreIf you read through my Lifehacker posts, you can figure out pretty quickly that I’m a fan of browser extensions. I have extensions for adding a dark mode to my browser, one of showing previews of sites so I don’t have to open a tab, and even a browser extension for helping me manage all
Read MoreMatt Burgess / WIRED UK: FireEye: China-linked hacking groups are increasingly targeting healthcare systems to obtain medical research data and the IP for medical devices — New research shows cyber espionage groups linked to China are targetting medical research data and the intellectual property for medical devices FireEye: China-linked hacking groups are increasingly targeting healthcare
Read MoreI am admittedly a pretty messy person. I persistently have stacks of items around my office, and sometimes my home that I plan to get to “later;” however, as my boyfriend can tell you, that later more often than not never comes. Which is why I recommend scheduling it. Read more… Keep Your Space Clean
Read MoreThere’s no doubting the allure of a nicely crafted LED cube; likewise, there’s no doubting that they can be a tremendous pain to build. After all, the amount of work scales as the cube of the number of LEDs you want each side to have, and let’s face it – with LED cubes, the bigger,
Read MoreAnyone who has travelled across multiple time zones and suffered jet lag will understand just how powerful our biological clocks are. In fact, every cell in the human body has its own molecular clock, which is capable of generating a daily rise and fall in the number of many proteins the body produces over a
Read MoreSuit accused the carrier of deceiving unlimited-data customers when it slowed their connection speeds. FTC, AT&T settle 2014 data-throttling lawsuit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s gotten a lot of grief for its messaging strategy, and rightly so. While Facebook and Apple have seen their messaging platforms become indispensable to users and businesses alike, Google has launched a litany of apps whose pithy names (Buzz, Wave, Allo, Hangouts, and the list goes on) couldn’t save them from the dustbin of
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