Waze pioneered the idea of putting a lightweight social layer of reporting traffic and cops on a maps app. That made it super popular around the world — so much so that Google up and bought it in 2013. Since then, Waze features have crept their way into Google Maps from time to time, and
Read MoreThe head of Google’s upcoming Stadia game streaming service, Phil Harrison, has said publishers will be allowed to offer their own game subscriptions through the streaming service. In an interview with Geoff Keighley during YouTube’s E3 Live show, RockPaperShotgun reports that Harrison said he expects publishers to start thinking about their own subscriptions “in relatively
Read MorePython’s ascent continues among software developers, bolstered by its usability compared with Java and C. Programming languages: Python predicted to overtake C and Java in next 4 years Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read More{$inline_image}Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Sorry to break it to you, but exercise is kinda important if you don’t want to die an early death. We’ve just got to do it. But there’s one way to make the whole experience better: music. Listening to
Read MoreDid you see the transcendent Martin Scorsese documentary Shine a Light, about the Rolling Stones? You don’t even have to be a Stones fan in order to love this movie. Well, Scorsese’s got another rock doc hitting Netflix, and this time it’s about Bob Dylan. Rolling Thunder Revue (Wednesday) is about Dylan’s poorly… Read more…
Read MoreUnlike most of the press conferences at E3, the PC Gaming Show and UploadVR E3 VR Showcase aren’t focused on a specific publisher. The inaugural VR Showcase — which UploadVR announced in April — kicks off early on Monday in Los Angeles. The PC Gaming Showcase, which has been around for a few years now,
Read MoreAndy Patrizio / Ars Technica: A look at EverQuest, the 20-year-old game that served as the model for many other MMORPGs, inspired over a dozen spin-offs, and is still running to this day — A game born in an era of dial-up Internet is still doing well after all this time—how?! — Twenty years ago
Read MoreIn the latest example of deepfake technology, researchers have shown off new software that uses machine learning to let users edit the text transcript of a video to add, delete, or change the words coming right out of somebody’s mouth. The work was done by scientists from Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: UK-based Privitar, which provides data privacy software for large organizations including HSBC and UK’s NHS, raises $40M Series B led by Accel — Privitar, a software startup that helps enterprises and other organizations engineer privacy protection into their various data projects … UK-based Privitar, which provides data privacy software for large
Read MoreThe G20 is pushing ahead with plans to close international loopholes used by tech giants to lower their tax bills. In a draft communique obtained by Reuters, the group said that it endorses the “ambitious” two-pillar approach to a so-called digital tax, and that it will “redouble [its] efforts for a consensus-based solution with a
Read MoreBroadwayHD, the Netflix for Broadway, wants plays and musicals to be as accessible as a $9-a-month streaming subscription. All that the theater world needs to do is abandon its most basic instinct. Tony winners like Hadestown available to stream? Meet Broadway's Netflix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal — On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) …
Read MoreWindows 10 hardware keyboard gains inline predictive text suggestions with next year’s update. Windows 10 20H1: You'll get better predictive typing on physical keyboards Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe US ban on Huawei casts a dark shadow over one of the best phones this year. But here are some worthy options for photos and video. The Huawei P30 Pro is banned, here are four great alternative phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUpcoming events include STEAM Week 2019, Learning Summit 2019, and the 2019 A.A.E.E.B.L. Annual Meeting. Upcoming Events, Webinars & Calls for Papers (Week of June 10, 2019) Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreHere comes fast food’s meatless meat. Burger King's vegan Impossible Whopper makes its way to California – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe are entering a new era, a battleground of sorts between nations, that some government and industry watchers have termed the “Splinternet.” The Splinternet is, essentially, the splitting up of the internet into country-specific and region-specific internets, creating a ‘balkanization’ effect. Why is this splintering happening? Most of it stems from a combination of effects
Read MoreThree is the third of the UK’s networks to announce its 5G launch date. Three UK to switch on 5G in August, starting with home broadband – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYingzhi Yang / South China Morning Post: ByteDance acquires a 30% stake in Shanghai-based Hupu, an online sports forum, for ~$150M, as part of Hupu’s pre-IPO round of funding — Shanghai-based Hupu was founded in 2004 by Shawn Cheng as an online community where sports fans talk about basketball, football, and other sports Beijing-based ByteDance
Read MoreMozilla’s reportedly set to launch a premium version of its revered Firefox browser this fall. In an interview with German media outlet T3N, the company’s CEO, Chris Beard, said that it’s aiming to launch the new version by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage. The company’s already experimented with a VPN service
Read MoreSky: Children of the Light, the next game from Journey developer thatgamecompany, will officially launch on July 11th for iOS devices. This will be the full version of the game, following the launch of its beta prologue, Sky: Light Awaits, last year. When it was announced alongside the iPhone X back in 2017, Sky was
Read MoreWhen your thermostat comes with Linux running on it, that’s not a hack. When it doesn’t, and you get Linux on there yourself, it most definitely is. This is exactly what [cz7asm] has done. In a recent video, he shows the Honeywell thermostat booting Linux and running a wide range of software. While the hardware
Read MoreAt its E3 keynote on Sunday, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to everyone, almost two months after it was unveiled as a beta. The subscription plan, which combines Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass into a single monthly charge, costs $14.99 / £10.99 / ₹999 a month and gives you access to
Read MoreBeing the Elite. E3 2019: Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 brings Bluetooth, Scarlett compatibility – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAssemble your Materia. E3 2019: Final Fantasy VII Remake's official release date is March 3 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
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