Among 3D printer owners, “spaghetti” is the common term for the tangled mess of stringy plastic that’s often the result of a failed print. Fear of their print bed turning into a hot plate of PLA spaghetti is enough to keep many users from leaving their machines operating overnight or while they’re out of the
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our brand-new series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Did you miss this deal last time? Were you left slapping your legs in anger that you missed this offer on the Apple Watch Series 3? Don’t worry my lovely friends, because the deal’s back and you can get
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Google pulls “conversion therapy” app after prominent LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign suspended Google’s ranking from its influential Corporate Equality Index — Google is pulling a controversial app that LGBTQ rights groups say engages in a form of conversion therapy … Google pulls "conversion therapy" app after prominent LGBTQ group Human
Read MoreA small town in Canada, just north of Toronto, is joining Ohio in providing its citizens with an option to pay some taxes in cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. The town of Innisfil will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for property taxes in April, local news outlet Simcoe. According to the report, Innisfil is
Read MoreNow that weed tech has boomed into a billion-dollar industry, vaporizers are swiftly gaining traction – and the Arizer Solo 2 is one of the most popular alternatives in this fledgling market. For those unfamiliar, the device is the second iteration to Arizer’s Solo series of portable vaporizers. The Solo 2 comes with a number of
Read MoreWhen you move, you have a few choices of what to do with all the stuff you’ve accumulated. You could sell or donate most of the stuff you’ve accumulated over the years. Or, you could just move it, because you don’t have the time or the energy to figure out what you keep and how
Read MoreThere’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending personalized content in your YouTube feed to translating text, diagnosing cancer and driving cars, the number of domains that the AI industry is touching is constantly expanding. With so much hype and money surrounding the AI industry,
Read MoreWhile cloud technology may seem new to some, it is quickly taking over the way companies are sharing and storing their information. As technological capabilities increase, companies will have more cloud computing options available than ever before. To find out how to best use cloud technology to impact company growth, we asked a panel of
Read MoreA while ago, [Skippy] bought a cheap knock-off of the Apple USB mains charger from an AliExpress seller, for the British low, low price of 89p. Normally we’d give you a dollar conversion, but since that’s coincidentally the price of the basic McDonalds hambuger in the UK we’ll go with the hamburger as a unit
Read MoreWe’ve seen Boston Dynamics’ robots running on different terrains with ease, opening doors for each other, and dancing to Bruno Mars’ hit Uptown Funk. Now, in the latest episode of “Robots Got Talent,” a video released by the company features its robot, Handle, stacking boxes in a factory like a champ. the two-wheeled robot picks up
Read MoreMary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft tells business users that Windows 10 1809, also known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is ready for broad deployment — Microsoft finally is telling business users that Windows 10 1809, originally released last fall, is ready for deployment — just a month before Windows 10 1903 may
Read MoreWashington wants to thwart the Chinese tech giant’s dominance in telecom networks around the world. For now, though, sales at Huawei are booming. Huawei Shrugs Off U.S. Clampdown With a 0 Billion Year Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTwitter introduced a dark theme in its mobile apps in 2016, and for its site the following year. But after a lot of people complained that the social network’s feature is not a true dark mode – as it’s based on a shade of blue instead of black – CEO Jack Dorsey said the company
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei reports ~$8.8B profit in 2018, up 25.1% YoY on revenue of ~$107.13B, up 19.5% YoY, boosted by strong revenue growth of 45.1% YoY in its consumer business — – Huawei reported revenue of 721.2 billion yuan ($107.13 billion) in 2018, a 19.5 percent year-on-year rise. Huawei reports ~.8B profit in
Read MoreWhen programming for modern platforms, the restraints are different to those of 30 years ago. Back in the dawn of the microcomputer age, storage and RAM were measured in kilobytes. It simply wasn’t possible to store large amounts of graphical data, and even code had to be pared back at times. [reeabgo] found out some
Read MoreBill Hader’s excellent comedy series returns on HBO. Barry is back for its second season – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAndy / TorrentFreak: Russia tells ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Kaspersky, Hola, and OpenVPN, to block sites on the country’s blacklist — Ten major VPN providers have been ordered by Russian authorities to begin blocking sites present in the country’s national blacklist. Russia tells ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN,
Read MoreUsually when we hear about someone making contact with astronauts in orbit, it’s an intentional contact between a ham on the ground and one of the licensed radio amateurs on the ISS. We don’t often see someone lucky enough to snag a conversation between ground controllers and a spacecraft en route to the ISS like
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: Study: 5.5% of the top 10K HTTPS websites have exploitable TLS flaws subtle enough that the green SSL certificate padlock still appears in up-to-date browsers — WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks—and corresponding data protection—to the web. Study: 5.5% of the
Read MoreThe ABRACADABRA experiment sounds like magic but it may help uncover an elusive, invisible particle. Physicists build donut-shaped magnet to find 'ghost-like' dark matter particle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon launches Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of templates for employees to create and publish private Alexa skills for their organization, in the US — Use Alexa in your place of work? There’s cause for minor celebration: today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints … Amazon launches Alexa
Read MoreJoel Spolsky / Stack Overflow Blog: Joel Spolsky announces he will step down as CEO of Stack Overflow and become chairman of the board, says the company booked $70M in revenue last year — Big news! We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the
Read MoreThe upgraded Handle robot can lift 30-pound boxes to stack pallets with ease. See Boston Dynamics robot stack warehouse boxes like a Tetris pro – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe two CEOs, as well as other top execs from their companies, Samsung and others, may testify in next month’s battle over Qualcomm’s licensing practices. Apple's Cook, Qualcomm's Mollenkopf make list of possible trial witnesses – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGM will work to make the Bolt affordable at the dealer level, but won’t change the sticker price. Chevrolet won't make the Bolt any cheaper, despite reduced EV tax credit – Roadshow Source: CNet
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