Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will “most likely” start retrofitting its new, more powerful processing chip into older vehicles near the end of the year. The new FSD chip is the first to have been designed in-house. Tesla says it offers 21 times the performance of the Nvidia chips it replaces — a
Read MoreTool changing on 3D printers is hot right now, and it’s going to be really interesting to see the ideas that reliable tool changing lets people try out. One such idea is having the 3D printer use a marker to label the enclosure and buttons it just 3D printed. The 3D print shown is an
Read MoreUpcoming events include the 2019 A.A.E.E.B.L. Annual Meeting, SANSFIRE 2019, and the Distance Teaching & Learning Conference. Upcoming Events, Webinars & Calls for Papers (Week of July 8, 2019) Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreI have had the opportunity to work with numerous businesses on their analytics strategy. One of the most common questions I receive is “what are the right success metrics to measure?” If you build or market products, you’ve likely asked yourself this question as well. The vagueness of “big data” has reached a point that
Read MoreHigh-ranking police officers in India will receive cryptocurrency training to help with investigations involving digital currency. The country’s national police academy – the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP NPA) – has launched an educational course to help officers gain an understanding of how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology work. Additionally, officers will learn about the “legal
Read MoreThe Information Commissioner’s Office plans to hit the airline over the data breach that hit 500,000 customers. British Airways faces record-breaking 0M GDPR fine for 2018 data breach – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAndy / TorrentFreak: A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated — In recent weeks, TF was able to speak to a member of The Scene, the shadowy network of individuals and groups sitting right at the apex of the so-called
Read MoreGates calls himself a “minor wizard,” not as powerful at influencing people as the Apple founder. Bill Gates praises Steve Jobs ability to 'cast spells' on people – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHello and welcome to another Monday and with that, another Moonday Morning – where we take a look at the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain news. Here’s Hard Fork’s selection of last weekend’s top stories: 1. In a progressive move, Singapore’s tax agency wants to remove goods and services tax (GST) from cryptocurrency transactions that
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Tired of Facebook too? We’ve got a guide for that. Oh, and Instagram? Yep, here’s how to delete that too. Social platforms like Twitter walk a fine line between
Read MoreBritish Airways (BA) is about to be slapped with a massive fine of £183 million ($229 million) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The penalty is for failing to secure its site and preventing the theft of some 500,000 users’ personal information in a data breach it suffered last September. In what the airline called a
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting pretty bored by phone colors of late. Everyone is offering the same silver and gold finishes, of course, while China’s initially laudable effort to develop every single blue gradient pattern imaginable seems to be running out of steam. Former Oppo sub-brand Realme thinks it has the
Read MoreAmanda Hess / New York Times: A look at the rise of the ambivalent conspiracy theorists, popular YouTubers using irony and nonchalance to refurbish old conspiracies for new audiences — Conspiracy theories were once deadly serious. On the internet, skepticism about the moon landing shows how the mood has shifted. A look at the rise
Read MoreThe UK’s data watchdog has announced plans to fine the airline British Airways a record £183 million over last year’s data breach. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that “poor security arrangements” at the company lead to the breach of credit card information, names, addresses, travel booking details, and logins for around 500,000 customers. The
Read MoreGround plastic bits go in one end, finished 3D-prints come out the other. That’s the idea behind [HomoFaciens]’ latest build: a direct-extrusion 3D-printer. And like all of his builds, it’s made from scraps and bits most of us would throw out. Pellet agitator is part of the extruder. All of this travels along with the
Read MoreWelcome back to Lady Bits, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Sorry we’re late this month… we had women stuff to do. We have a new feature! Each month, our gloriously talented designer, Saïna, will illustrate one of the many shitty replies, comments, or tweets we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic readers. Here’s
Read MoreThe GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend on July 6. While the hacker‘s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories. The repositories were named “CAN_GOT_HAXXD.” “We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Podimo, which says it is building Europe’s “Netflix for podcasts,” raises €6M in seed funding, ahead of a planned launch in Germany and Denmark later this year — Podimo, a Copenhagen-based startup building what it hopes will become Europe’s “Netflix for podcasts,” … Podimo, which says it is building Europe's "Netflix
Read MoreEfforts to form unions at several smaller tech companies have stalled, showing the limits of how far a wave of employee activism can go. Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreDaily chances of winning Amazon gift cards for 10 lucky readers and the prize gets bigger every day. This giveaway ends July 17, 2019 and it’s valid only in US and Puerto Rico. We're giving away up to ,000 for a Prime Day shopping spree – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTokyo-based media outlet The Asahi Shimbun’s Takeho Morita published a quintessentially Japanese story last week: many people who rent cars through vehicle-sharing services across the country don’t drive them at all. Instead, they use them to take naps, making business calls, catching up privately with friends, eating lunch, – and according to a 2018 survey
Read MoreMozilla last month hinted at a paid version of Firefox browser last month, and now it’s making its plans more explicit. The not-for-profit organization has announced it’s exploring a bunch of “alternative funding models for the web.” To that effect, it said it has started testing an ad-free news subscription product for $5 per month
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla says it has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox in the UK, after ISPs and the UK government criticize its support of the protocol — But there’s nothing stopping users from enabling the DNS-over-HTTPS feature in Firefox on their own, though. Mozilla says it has no plans
Read MoreDial 618-625-8313 for a bizarre phone message. Stranger Things 3: You can actually call Murray Bauman's phone number – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen planning out a workspace at home, the job, or at a makerspace, we all tend to focus on the fun parts. Where the equipment will go, how you’ll power it, what kind of lights you’ll get, etc, etc. It’s easy to devote all your attention to these high-level concepts, which often means the little
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