Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the big lessons of Amazon’s HQ2 debacle, at least from my perspective, was that the company can be weirdly tone-deaf. A purported nationwide search to find a home for a “second headquarters” looked, as soon as the company announced it had settled on New York and
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 Nikola Tesla used to say: Bob’s your uncle! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 15 2019, at a
Read MoreSmall businesses have options when it comes to embracing green technologies. Here are some approaches of note. 9 green technologies small business should consider Source: The Next Web
Read MoreIt’s never funny when someone is scammed or robbed of their cryptocurrency. It’s especially bad when the victim is at the mercy of attackers and seemingly can’t do anything to get their money back. That’s the situation tech journalist Monty Munford has been left in after losing over $30,000 (£25,000) worth of cryptocurrency. The writer
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft’s head of Xbox and gaming, Phil Spencer, has confirmed the company isn’t working on a streaming-only console. Rumors previously suggested that Microsoft’s next-generation Project Scarlett console would ship with both a high-end version, and a “cloud console” with limited amounts of local compute for things like like
Read MoreImage: Google You can now opt-in to test experimental Google Books features on the web, allowing you to try out new features while they’re still under development and yet to be widely released. You can opt into the new features by going to play.google.com/books and clicking the settings cog on the top right of the
Read MoreThe quality of a photograph is a subjective measure depending upon a multitude of factors of which the calibre of the camera is only one. Yet a high quality camera remains an object of desire for many photographers as it says something about you and not just about the photos you take. [Neutral Gray] didn’t
Read MoreApple is taking a hard stance on online privacy with a new anti-tracking policy in Safari. The iPhone maker has published a “WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy” that goes into specifics about the types of anti-tracking methods it has developed, the practices it believes are harmful to users, and the unintended consequences of those preventive countermeasures.
Read MoreCharlie Savage / New York Times: In a letter to Congress, the Trump administration asks lawmakers to reauthorize a law that lets the NSA gain access to logs of phone and text records — The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans’ phone and
Read MoreLook for the Type S Concept to heavily inspire the design of the next-generation Acura TLX. Acura Type S Concept previews the brand's very attractive future – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAcura says this concept previews the design of the new TLX sedan. Acura's Type S concept is the sexy shape of things to come – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreDebuting at Monterey Car Week, the new color pays homage to the spa yellow paint offered on the 1997-2003 NSX. 2020 Acura NSX gets throwback Indy yellow paint option – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIndy Yellow Pearl is meant to mimic the Spa Yellow paint of the 1997-2003 NSX. Acura NSX adds throwback yellow hue for 2020 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreTwitter announced today it has invested an undisclosed amount into ShareChat, an Indian social media app for local languages. The company led the investment round of $100 million along with TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAIF Capital, India Quotient, and Morningside Venture Capital. ShareChat is a popular local language content app which has over
Read MoreThankfully, Ram offers the diesel engine on every single 1500 model. The 2020 Ram 1500's diesel V6 is a ,995 upcharge – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreConsoles over the years have innovated, bringing new features and experiences with each subsequent generation. Rumble, motion controls and more recently VR have all come to the fore as companies vie for supremacy in the marketplace. Nobody’s really had the guts to tackle fire, though. Until now. The case and spinning logo alone would have
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Apple will start selling the HomePod in Japan and Taiwan from next week. Pre-orders are already live on the company’s website, with the smart speaker set to ship on Friday, August 23rd. The HomePod is priced at 32,800 yen in Japan, which works out to about $309, and
Read MoreHilary Milnes / Digiday: Sources and a leaked pitch deck indicate that Amazon may have offered vendors the ability to bid for an Amazon Choice badge in 2017 — Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to “bid” for an Amazon’s Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising … Sources and
Read MoreMicrocontrollers are a great way to learn about developing for embedded systems. However, once you outgrow their capabilities, FPGAs bring muscle that’s hard for even the fastest-clocked micros to match. If you’re doing anything with high-speed signals, loads of RAM, or something that requires lots of parallel calculation, you can’t go past FPGAs. Dev boards
Read MoreBiswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: India-based Twitter-like platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises $100M round led by Twitter, sources say at $600M-$650M valuation — Regional language social networking platform ShareChat has completed a $100 million (about Rs 718 crore) equity financing round led … India-based Twitter-like platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional
Read MoreBeyond Meat has taken the world by storm. Its signature “bleeding” burger manages to resemble that of real meat and has become a menu item at a number of restaurants, from TGI Friday to Carl’s Jr. — its competitor, Impossible Burger, just rolled out nationwide at Burger King. Perhaps feeling the pressure, a group called
Read MoreProject Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the ‘bombshell’ that it’d obtained hundreds of leaked internal documents from a whistle-blower showing Google‘s bias against Conservatives. Unfortunately, as is almost always the case with Project Veritas, the claims are crap. As TNW’s Ravie Lakshmanan pointed out, the documents are probably authentic. I’ve pored over
Read MoreJeff John Roberts / Fortune: Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain; source says for $55M — Cryptocurrency firm Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing Bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss
Read MoreThe company underwent a three-day cloud transition to Microsoft Azure, aimed at cutting costs and preparing for future transformation with a vision to include machine learning and the Internet of Things. Coates Hire preps for the future with three-day Azure shift Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Force is strong with Ewan McGregor if the rumors are true. Ewan McGregor may return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in upcoming Disney Plus Star Wars series – CNET Source: CNet
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