I flew 7,000 miles on Alaska Airlines last year, but I currently hold the airlines top-tier of status “Gold 75k” an accolade reserved for passengers that have flown 75,000 miles or more on the airline over the course of the previous year. It’s a designation that’s scored me First Class upgrades on at least a
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Read MoreThe new Comic-Con trailer brings the vigilantes one step closer to our doorsteps. HBO's Watchmen series: New Comic-Con trailer, release date, cast and plot – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest trailer unmasks more plot details at SDCC. HBO's Watchmen Comic-Con trailer goes deep into masked vigilante war – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe shipping center is a necessary pit stop for collectors at the Con. Comic-Con has the nerdiest FedEx in the world – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhil Yeh went to Comic-Con when it was in a hotel basement. It changed his life. When Comic-Con was new: This guy was there in San Diego in 1970 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFollowing the latest innovations in science and technology may seem daunting, but these podcasts can help. 8 Podcasts for the Tech Curious Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreBreathing LEDs are an attractive adornment on many electronic devices. These days they’re typically controlled by software but of course there were fading effects back in the days of analog too. [Pepijn de Vos] mixes a little of the new and the old by building a hardware-based fader from a Verilog design. Rather than using
Read MoreFinSMEs: BriteCore, a cloud-based insurance platform used by 50+ property and casualty insurers, raises $47.5M led by Warburg Pincus, bringing its total raised to $70M — BriteCore, a Springfield, MO-based provider of next-generation core software solutions for insurers, received $47.5m in growth funding. BriteCore, a cloud-based insurance platform used by 50+ property and casualty insurers,
Read MoreImage: Amazon Studios Amazon has finally revealed when the next season of The Expanse will begin streaming: December 13th, 2019. The company made the announcement today at San Diego Comic-Con, releasing a trailer and a longer clip of the upcoming fourth season. Based on the science fiction book series by James S.A. Corey, The Expanse
Read MoreImage: Ice Universe A new set of leaked images of Google’s forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone have surfaced on the web, showing off something that we’ve been expecting: it’ll have a large bezel on the top of the phone. The leaked images comes from Ice universe (via 9to5Google) on Twitter, and show off the phone’s front
Read MoreThe HBO show unmasks for another look at Comic-Con. In new trailer for HBO's Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan tips his blue hand – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePart of Westworld’s charm has always been trying to solve the puzzle before it’s spelled out, but the third season is experiencing a shift in direction. A new trailer for the third season introduces a different futuristic world, set in neo-Los Angeles, with a story that focuses more on the lives of robots and humans,
Read MoreWe already knew the series will return in 2020, and now we have some hints about where we’re headed in season three. New Westworld trailer drops at Comic-Con – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome aboard once again, sir. Star Trek: Picard gets trailer at Comic-Con with surprise guests – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: CBS At San Diego Comic-Con today, CBS showed off a full trailer for its upcoming series, Star Trek: Picard, featuring Patrick Stewart’s older version of the character as he’s drawn out of retirement. The series will debut in early 2020 on CBS All Access. The show will take place more than 20 years after
Read More{$inline_image} By taking advantage of persistence in human vision, we can use modest bits of hardware to create an illusion of a far larger display. We’ve featured many POV projects here, but they are almost always an exploration in two dimensions. [Jamal-Ra-Davis] extends that into the third dimension with his Volumetric POV Display. Having already
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Hackers breached SyTech, a contractor for Russia’s FSB, and stole 7.5TB of data about its projects for the agency, including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic — SyTech, the hacked company, was working on research projects for the FSB, Russia’s intelligence service. Hackers breached SyTech, a contractor for Russia's FSB, and stole
Read MoreIt was a battle for the ages. Fortnite The Final Showdown: The Giant Robot Wins – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: CBS During its big Hall H panel, CBS announced that it was bringing back its series of standalone mini Star Trek episodes, Short Treks, to CBS All Access this fall. CBS introduced the series last year alongside Star Trek: Discovery, and used them to delve a bit further into the show’s various characters. Three
Read MoreHulu released season 4 of Veronica Mars Friday, a week early, as a birthday present for its star Kristin Bell. Her birthday was July 18th. If you’re all caught up, you can stream that now through the service. Read more… How to Stream the Veronica Mars Movie Before Binging Season 4 Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreBiswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: India-based MogliLabs, which operates the B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix, raises $60M Series D, sources say at a valuation between $200M and $300M — The company will primarily use the proceeds to ramp up infrastructure. Moglix is currently present in 14 locations, and plans to be in 22-25 industrial
Read MoreAndrew Liptak / The Verge: Some publishers are demanding Audible to exclude their audiobooks from Captions, Audible’s upcoming AI-powered transcriptions feature, citing copyright claims — Some are asking for their books to be withheld from the feature — Earlier this week, Audible revealed that it was working … Some publishers are demanding Audible to exclude
Read MoreImage: Elago Accessories company Elago recently its latest product, a neat stand that makes your Apple Watch look like a classic iPod (via 9to5Mac). The W6 stand works with all of Apple’s Watches (Series 1-4), and works with the device’s Nightstand mode. The stand will charge the watch, and can act as a neat, retro
Read MorePlus, the fight for a $15 minimum wage and a Russian viral app that may be dangerous. (It’s not. It just makes you look older.) The Week in Business: A Suddenly Vulnerable Netflix Source: NY Times Tech
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