There’s no chance that the US will ever get this featherweight turbo coupe, and that’s criminally unfair. The Alpine A110 is getting a faster S version and we're madder than ever – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company is archiving the tweets from the accounts in a public database. Twitter pulls down thousands of accounts tied to Iranian government – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle Chrome’s last big feature was dark mode in Chrome 73 and 74, and version 75 didn’t bring much of note, but Chrome 76, in beta today, has some sneaky features you may want to know about. While Adobe Flash won’t truly die till 2020 and has been blocked by every major browser in one
Read MoreI’m going to come right out and say it: I didn’t have high expectations when I agreed to review Onn’s 8-inch Android tablet, a Walmart exclusive. But I’m glad I did because this is a decent little slab. My trepidation wasn’t because Onn is one of Walmart‘s veritably untested tech brands, nor did it have anything
Read MoreThe pilot program for Vera will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Trucks' electric and autonomous Vera gets its first job – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe technology will help Lady Justice keep her blindfold on, says San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. San Francisco tapping AI to reduce racial bias in making criminal charges – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGame Builder allows you to create and play games with your friends in real time. Google Game Builder lets you create 3D video games without coding knowledge – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMathew Katz / Digital Trends: Instagram was down for some users for just over an hour Thursday afternoon; PlayStation Network also experienced an outage on Thursday — Instagram finally came back online Thursday afternoon after an outage that lasted just over an hour. The Instagram outage was one of several that hit at the same
Read MoreFinally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table. The system that [Edje Electronics] has built, dubbed “Rain Man 2.0” in homage to the classic title character created by [Dustin Hoffman] for the 1988
Read MoreApple has registered seven unreleased Mac models with the Eurasian Economic Commission today. These models, first spotted by MacRumors, are all described as “portable” computers, making it increasingly likely that each belongs to a new MacBook that could arrive in the next couple of months. The filings contain no information about the new models, beyond
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week — Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+
Read MoreAnalysts and industry observers say they could see the automaker being sold or relegated to the status of a “niche” automaker. Tesla wants everyone to drive an electric car. Now it risks becoming a niche brand. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreDeadspin Report: Kellen Winslow II Couldn’t Stop Masturbating In Front Of His Teammates | The Slot Holy Shit, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Out | Splinter Republican Leader Insists Trump Definitely Didn’t Say the Thing He Definitely Said | The Root When Karma Has GPS: Linda Fairstein Dropped By Literary Agency Amid… Read more… Deadspin Report: Kellen Winslow II Couldn’t Stop
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Hands-on with Microsoft’s xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they’re both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare — xCloud and Stadia are at vastly different stages of development, and aren’t even directly competing right now Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia:
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: VMware says it is buying Avi Networks, a startup that helps companies with application delivery in the cloud, which has raised $115M, per Crunchbase — VMware has been trying to reinvent itself from a company that helps you build and manage virtual machines in your data center to one that helps
Read MoreWith the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation, you might expect those upcoming consoles to be the buzz of this year’s E3. But instead, subscription services have become the talk of the show, as seemingly every console maker and game publisher looks to shift the way that games are sold. Every
Read MoreHands up if you’ve killed a succulent. Yeah, me too. Succulents and cacti are great beginner plants in theory because they can survive a little neglect. But that’s actually what makes them terrible for brown thumbs like me and (perhaps) you. Read more… Low Maintenance Plants Are Actually Terrible for Beginners Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreCloud gaming is the undeniably industry-altering shadow looming over this year’s E3 video game conference. Paired with the rise of subscription services, the idea of running games from remote servers could not only change how they’re are played, distributed and sold, but even how games are developed, thanks to the promise of running software off
Read MoreA number of Huawei phone owners have noticed that their devices have suddenly begun displaying ads in their lockscreens, according to Android Police. Users began complaining yesterday that ads from Booking.com have appeared on their phones. 9to5Google notes that a variety of phones appear to be displaying them, and that Huawei appears to have slipped
Read MoreSupermassive Games has a unique problem. As with its horror game Until Dawn, where every character could die a horrific death, Man of Medan — the first in its Dark Pictures Anthology — will carry on that tradition. Keeping those deaths fresh, however, keeps the team on its toes. “It’s s a real big problem
Read MoreWhile traditional personal computers and tablets are continuing to lose their luster worldwide, other types of computing devices are holding strong. Gaming Computers and 2-in-1 Devices on the Rise as Overall Computing Market Slides Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreOnline institution Capella University is opening its first brick-and-mortar Campus Center. Capella University Opens Brick-and-Mortar Campus Center Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreValve has just announced Underlords: its own version of the popular Auto Chess mod for Dota 2. Underlords will be a standalone game for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Valve says it has been running a “friends and family” beta of the game for the past few weeks, and will be expanding the test
Read MoreEmily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: Freelance services marketplace Fiverr closes up 89% on its first day of trading after raising $111M in its IPO — FVRR) stock rose above its initial public offering price after opening for trading Thursday, as investors scooped up shares of the latest gig-economy tech firm to hit the public markets.
Read MoreTarget announced today that US customers — with some geographic exceptions — can now select same-day delivery for orders placed directly through its website that total more than $35 for a flat fee of $9.99, or for free if they’re already a member of shopping app Shipt. It’s part of the company’s integration with Shipt
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