New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments). Intel, IBM, Google, Microsoft & others join new security-focused industry group Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MorePicking fresh produce and eating fresh produce are two of my favorite summertime activities. I make “salads” that are really just piles of raw corn, eat juicy peaches over the sink, and down bowls of berries swimming in heavy cream. I never had much reason to get anything cooked involved, until the geniuses at Food…
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Crossbeam, which builds a platform for potential partner companies to compare data, raises $12.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital — When Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore was working at previous startups, he noticed a problem around sharing information with potential partners. Crossbeam, which builds a platform for potential partner
Read MoreThe academics, Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias, said they were protesting the institute’s connection to the financier, who was facing sex-crime charges when he killed himself this month. 2 Prominent Academics to Cut Ties to M.I.T. Media Lab Over Epstein Link Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIt’s 2019, and your lawn tools don’t need to run on gas anymore. Worx’s eBay storefront is currently blowing out a couple of 20V cordless tool bundles, with an extra 15% off at checkout. Read more… These Cordless Yard Tools Are Dirt Cheap, And Ready For Fall Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreBadgelife culture is our community’s very own art form, with a plethora of designs coming forth featuring stunning artwork, impressive hardware, and clever software tricks. But sometimes a badge doesn’t need a brace of LEDs or a meme-inspired appearance to be a success, it just needs to be very good at what it does. A
Read MoreJohn Whitehouse / Media Matters for America: Contrary to conservatives’ claims, data from 2018-19 shows right-leaning Facebook pages with over 500,000 likes consistently outperform left-leaning rivals — Facebook issued a report regarding right-wing cries of bias on the platform. Notably, the report includes no actual data supporting those claims. Contrary to conservatives' claims, data from
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories — In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced … YouTube
Read MoreThis month, Netflix gets the movies American Psycho, Mystic River, Superbad, 300, The Taking of Pelham 123, and the second and third Lord of the Rings films. (You can’t get Fellowship on Netflix. Weird!) In TV, there’s season 9 of The Walking Dead, season 9 of Shameless, season 6 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., series 8
Read MoreThe idea of throwing a party for a gaggle of your kid’s friends sounds great in theory, but dealing with an additional five (six? Eight? A dozen?) children requires a special set of skills—the very kind a teacher has, in spades. Read more… How to Calm Rowdy Kids, According to Teachers Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreJOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images While I paged through Ninja’s first book — with its few words sandwiched between high-gloss promotional photos and charts — I got the distinct feeling that I was consuming something from the future. The book, Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, is itself gamified; it has a progress bar, for example,
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Facebook’s conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data — Neither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy. Facebook's conservative bias "audit" draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data (Cat
Read MoreFamous actors and musicians, the head of the US Department of Energy, and regular Instagram users have been spreading a hoax memo that claims the company will soon have permission to make deleted photos and messages public and use those posts against them in court. The claims are fake, and the assertions don’t make a
Read MoreThere’s good news for Americans saving for retirement: We’re getting better and better at actually doing it, according to a new survey from Bankrate.com. The percentage of people who have increased their contributions in the past year has almost doubled since 2011, with 29% increasing their contributions. Forty-six… Read more… You Should Increase Your Retirement
Read MoreThe ramifications of Instagram’s supposed new “rule where they can use your photos” weren’t totally clear. This viral Instagram hoax duped A-listers — and the man overseeing our nuclear arsenal Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreStandard LED headlights and safety systems are among the tweaks for 2020. 2020 Honda Civic Si piles on the value – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAt just $25,000, the 2020 Civic Si looks to be a pretty sweet performance bargain. 2020 Honda Civic Si gets a big tech upgrade for only 0 more – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’ve rounded up the best prices on every model. The best Apple AirPods and Beats wireless earbuds deals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe PC maker’s Inspiron line, including the new ultralightweight Inspiron 14 7000, will also get Intel’s latest mobile processors. Dell's award-winning XPS laptop gets 6-core Intel Comet Lake chip ahead of IFA 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA member of the audience takes a picture with their phone as Vice President Mike Pence is introduced during the sixth meeting of the National Space Council. A View of the National Space Council Source: NASA
Read MoreSpace is very much the final frontier for humanity, at least as far as our current understanding of the universe takes us. Only a handful of countries and corporations on Earth have the hardware to readily get there, and even fewer are capable of reaching orbit. For these reasons, working in this field can seem
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized loans in emerging markets, raises $100M Series D led by RPS Ventures to expand into India — Tala, a Santa Monica, California-headquartered startup that creates a credit profile to provide uncollateralized loans to millions of people … Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized
Read MoreThe quantum internet is coming sooner than you think—even sooner than quantum computing itself. When things change over, you might not even notice. But when they do, new rules will protect your data against attacks from computers that don’t even exist yet. Read more… You Won't See Quantum Internet Coming Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreRyan Smith / AnandTech: Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process — Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power
Read More{$inline_image}Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. One of today’s greatest technology mysteries is not how Bitcoin works, but who created it. On October 31, 2008, someone, somewhere, published Bitcoin‘s white paper on a cryptography mailing list
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