The fastest SL is getting a little long in the tooth and its older 5.5-liter engine isn’t cutting the Euro emissions mustard anymore. Mercedes' SL63 may be on the chopping block in Europe, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe flaw made the information easy to scrape and turn into a database. Instagram website leaked phone numbers and emails for months, researcher says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has raised $21.5M; sources: GM’s Cruise was looking at acquiring Blackmore last year — Aurora, the self-driving car startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has
Read MoreTesla has sold 50,000 cars this quarter already, according to a purported email from the automaker’s chief. Tesla sales set for record-breaking quarter, CEO Elon Musk reportedly says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreSave, then sleep. Here are the best Memorial Day deals on mattresses – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFrequency counters are useful tools for anyone that finds themselves regularly working with time-variant signals. There are a huge range available, from cheap eBay specials to expensive lab-grade hardware. [itakeyourphoto] had a counter on the lower end of the cost spectrum, and decided to make some improvements with the help of GPS (Youtube link, embedded
Read MoreTwo-factor authentication is annoying. Getting flustered because you have to find your phone and tap on a prompt every time you log into your accounts from a new device is peak first-world problems. But if you ever had any doubt whether it really made you that much safer, Google has the data to dispel that
Read MoreIan Duncan / Baltimore Sun: Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials during its ransomware recovery; Google’s automated security systems initially disabled the accounts — Gmail accounts created by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city recovers from the ransomware attack have been disabled … Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials
Read MoreJohn Storyk, the founder of WSDG, an acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm, is a legend in the music world. He’s a world-class architect and acoustic designer whose built recording studios for everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Jay-Z. As someone whose built more than 4,000 audio/video studios, he knows a thing or two about getting a
Read MoreGood Old Games (GOG) has long been Steam’s quirky alternative in the world PC stores, and is now putting itself in the unlikely position of peacemaker with the launch of GOG Galaxy 2.0. With this updated platform, GOG intends to combine all your disparate gaming libraries in on place, inadvertently providing a solution to a
Read MoreTom Angell / Forbes: Square quietly launches an invite-only beta to process payments for some CBD products — Companies that sell cannabis products—even those consisting of CBD derived from hemp, which was legalized in the U.S. through the Farm Bill late last year—are continuing to have trouble accessing basic … Square quietly launches an invite-only
Read MoreMicrosoft is changing how WSUS and Configuration Manager will handle patches as of Windows 10 1903. Here’s what admins need to know. Systems administrators: You need to know about this Windows 10 1903 patching change Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBrady Dale / CoinDesk: Coinbase says Coinbase Commerce, its app to help merchants easily accept crypto, has exceeded $50M in transactions since launching in February 2018 — People really do seem to be buying things with cryptocurrency. — Announced today, Coinbase Commerce – the exchange unicorn’s app for online retailers … Coinbase says Coinbase Commerce,
Read MorePeter Kafka / Vox: Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, about how the service deals with objectionable content, YouTube remaining an open platform, and more — A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer. — YouTube, the world’s largest video site, has 2 billion users. Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product
Read MoreT-Mobile today announced that its unlimited data plans will soon be called Magenta and Magenta Plus — a change from their current “T-Mobile One” branding. With the new names come some tweaks to how each plan works. First, T-Mobile is now including 3GB of LTE hotspot usage with the base Magenta plan. Previously, T-Mobile One
Read MoreThe very-excellent tower defense game, Bloons TD 6—normally $5 on mobile—is now available for free on iOS and Android for a limited time. Even if tower defense games aren’t your scene, this one is going to suck you in with its combination of cutesy, monkey-themed gameplay and a decent difficulty curve as you get… Read
Read MoreThe Baltimore city government is recovering from a devastating ransomware attack that has locked up its systems, but officials in the city have a new problem. According to The Baltimore Sun, Google has blocked city departmenmts from using Gmail accounts created as a workaround. Ransomware attack hit May 7th On May 7th, a ransomware attack
Read MoreSenators Cory Booker and Sherrod Brown are reintroducing a 2018 bill to put an end to banking overdraft fees, Vox reported this week. The Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act would prohibit banks from imposing overdraft fees on debit transactions and from charging insufficient fund fees at ATMs. Check-based overdraft fees… Read more… How to Protect Yourself
Read MoreThe Justice Department has filed 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The charges follow a much more limited indictment unsealed in April, when Assange was charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to the indictment, he’s now facing several counts of obtaining and disclosing national defense information without authorization,
Read MoreFor the last five years, Gallup has surveyed a national sampling of 75,000 college graduates to understand their post-college “well-being and workplace engagement.” Recently, the survey company did the same specifically for graduates of Western Governors University. Survey: Competency-Based Model Excels for Nontraditionals Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreCompanies store a ton of data. You know this. Everyone knows this. But we’re not always happy about the kinds of data they store. We rightfully get pretty touchy when we hear our address, credit card number, mental health inquiries, or private conversations are just hanging out on some internet server where they might wind
Read MoreIt’s offering discounts of up to 75% to get sellers onboard. To power Prime one-day shipping, Amazon asks sellers to send it more stuff – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreProsecutors at the DOJ are basing the charges on alleged violations of the Espionage Act. Julian Assange faces 17 new charges over WikiLeaks, attempted hacks – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKhari Johnson / VentureBeat: Google adds group video calls for up to 8 people to its Duo video calling app for iOS and Android users worldwide — Google’s Duo video call app today introduced group video calls for up to 8 people for iOS and Android users worldwide. At launch, Duo group video calls will
Read MoreAnd they’d still have a half billion dollars left over for avocado toast. Uber's IPO millionaires could buy every home for sale in the Bay Area – CNET Source: CNet
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