For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been catching up on a book that’s been on my to-read list for a while now: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear. It came out back in March, and I’m kind of kicking myself for not getting to it earlier. It’s a huge space opera that follows the adventures
Read MoreThe Revel Concerta2 M16 stand mount speakers roll out a huge soundstage. Curvaceous Revel speakers will delight discerning audiophiles – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Etymotic ER2 in-ear ‘phones sound great and keep noise at bay. These affordable audiophile in-ear headphones banish noise – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSupersonic fighters and WWII bombers sit in silence, awaiting their fate. Some could learn to fly again. Take these broken wings: Touring the Yanks Air Museum Boneyard – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe only thing that can dampen a ‘90s nostalgia trip is seeing an old, beloved gadget fall victim to the cruelty of time, specifically the degradation of a consumer electronic device until the point it barely works properly and is covered head to toe in grime. And gadgets as old as the original Nintendo Game
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Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III — Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world? DeepMind researchers detail how
Read MoreThis personal smart air conditioner is the answer to a bunch of cooling problems — and right now, you can save $70 off the price (an over 25 percent savings), just $199 from TNW Deals. This smart personal air conditioner that raised over M on Indiegogo is now off Source: The Next Web
Read MorePanic, the venerable Mac and iOS software firm, made a major splash the other week with the announcement of its first hardware device. The Playdate is a bright yellow handheld gaming console with a monochrome screen; it was co-designed by Swedish hardware wizards Teenage Engineering and features exclusive releases from renowned developers like Zach Gage,
Read MoreIn the history of weird musical instrument interfaces, isomorphic keyboards are a favorite. These keyboards look like a grid of buttons, but when you play them, the relative shapes of chords are always the same. The benefit? Just say no to five hundred years of clavier tradition. It looks cool, too. Theoretically, it’s easier to
Read MoreThe interface changes that could be coming to your iPhone with iOS 13, a new Apple Watch app store and the most important updates we’re expecting at WWDC 2019. iOS 13 dark mode leaks and more WWDC 2019 predictions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThings are expected to get “dark” at this year’s keynote, especially for iOS. Apple WWDC 2019 keynote: How to watch, start time, livestream – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJeffrey Mervis / Science: IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei’s other membership privileges — A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions … IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain
Read MoreImages of the Starlink constellation in orbit have rattled astronomers around the world. After SpaceX Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA digital platform called OBTranslate that aims to translate more than 2,000 African languages to enable rural dwellers to gain easy access to global markets has been launched. According to its creator, 63 per cent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to global markets because of language barriers. “Over 52 native
Read MoreMost readers will be familiar with the work of the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose Strandbeest wind-powered mechanical walking sculptures prowl the beaches of the Netherlands. The Jansen linkage provides a method of making machines with a curious but efficient walking gait from a rotational input, and has been enthusiastically copied on everything from desktop
Read MoreAmy Maxmen / Nature: As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income countries are used in big data projects for saving lives, critics worry about potential misuse — Researchers have analysed anonymized phone records of tens of millions of people in low-income countries. As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income
Read MoreDecent laptop computers have been available for decades now. Despite this, there’s still something charming and enigmatic about a computer hidden within a briefcase. [MakeFailRepeat] wanted just such a rig, so did the maker thing and built one. The project began when [MakeFailRepeat] was donated a 15″ monitor that ran on 12V. Naturally, it needed
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display — Apple’s big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more
Read MoreTony Romm / Washington Post: Sources: DOJ began work on a possible Google antitrust investigation after brokering a deal with FTC, which considered and opted not to pursue the case in 2013 — A possible probe could open a new chapter in the tech giant’s troubles with regulators around the world who contend that the
Read MoreThe Justice Department has taken early steps toward opening a federal antitrust investigation into Google, according to three people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department is preparing a potential antitrust investigation of Google Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreYou feel that you’re unpopular and no one likes you. The bad news is that if that’s the case in the real world there’s no easy way to fix it. The good news is there’s a great substitute — your popularity on Instagram. With this vending machine you can replace your personality with followers on
Read MoreGoogle’s search and other businesses will be investigated by the DOJ, says The Wall Street Journal. Department of Justice reportedly preparing Google antitrust investigation – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUS 5G networks could be a case of the tortoise and the hare, depending on how carriers play their cards. Verizon 5G vs. Sprint: We put real-world download speeds to the test – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAlex Kantrowitz / Tech Giant Update: Camera app VSCO, which has an ad-free social feed and makes its money on subscriptions, says 2M+ people paid $20 in 2018 for its premium service — The camera app VSCO is unlike its social counterparts. Though it has a feed similar to Facebook’s News Feed and Twitter’s Timeline
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