Magic Leap heads to AT&T stores, along with AR Game of Thrones experience – CNET
But no cellular, yet. Magic Leap heads to AT&T stores, along with AR Game of Thrones experience – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBut no cellular, yet. Magic Leap heads to AT&T stores, along with AR Game of Thrones experience – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJulia Fioretti / Reuters: Chinese video streaming service iQIYI raises $1.05B from convertible bond sale, the second such bond sale since its March 2018 IPO on Nasdaq — HONG KONG (Reuters) – Video-streaming firm iQIYI, backed by search engine giant Baidu, returned to the capital markets on Wednesday … Chinese video streaming service iQIYI raises
Read MoreCommentary: Apple hopes to capture something that money can’t buy with its new credit card designed for the digital age. If you get Apple Card, you may never be able to leave your iPhone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe platform may more than double its ad revenues by 2021, according to a market research firm. Reddit may cross the 0 million mark in revenue this year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis thin, lightweight laptop features an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, a 512GB solid-state drive and fingerprint security. Plus: Save $155 on this top-rated housecleaning robot. The Lenovo IdeaPad 720S 13-inch laptop hits an all-time low: 5 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Memo: Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela tells employees not to engage in any public-facing April Fool’s Day pranks because of “unwanted news cycles” — No Clippy pranks this year — Everyone hates April Fools’ Day, and Microsoft is taking a stand against its own corporate pranks. Memo: Microsoft's marketing chief
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. When Huawei announced its P30 Pro, the latest models of its photography-focused phone series, one of its new features was something called a time-of-flight (ToF) camera. This bit of hardware has
Read MoreComputing’s ‘Nobel Prize’ winners Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun helped lead to breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition and robotics. Artificial intelligence pioneers win Turing Award Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese smartwatch and AI startup Mobvoi, backed by Google, is close to raising $100M at a $1B valuation, ahead of an IPO in China — – Mobvoi is said to seek $100 million in funding round — The startup is said to target an IPO on China’s new tech
Read MoreNick Brown / Reuters: US Census Bureau has asked Google, Facebook, and Twitter for help protecting upcoming 2020 count from disinformation campaigns designed to dissuade participants — NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news” … US Census Bureau has
Read MoreMany readers are certainly familiar with the process for home-etching of PCBs: it’s considered very straightforward, if a little involved, today. This was not the case in my youth, when I first acquired an interest in electronics. At that time, etching even single-sided boards was for “advanced” hobbyists. By the time I started etching my
Read MoreA Japanese web designer has been given the right to walk, despite “borrowing” the computing power of unsuspecting users to mine cryptocurrency. The 31-year-old web designer appeared in court today and was acquitted of stealing his user’s computing resources with a Monero mining script called Coinhive, local news outlet The Mainichi reports. The Yokohama District
Read MoreNetworking is a key component of any conference, and despite our “unconference” vibe at TNW2019, we’re definitely all about making new connections. That’s why we have dedicated matchmaking opportunities on May 9 and 10 – especially for startups. As a startup, you can meet countless investors, mentors, corporates, and media to help take your company
Read MoreAt this year’s Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, the mission to change the world through digital experiences was gathering pace. There was something for everyone from empowering people to create and transforming how business compete to giving away one-year subscriptions for Adobe Rush video to all of the 17,000 attendees. Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix
Read MoreSince WiFi has become every home or office’s de facto lifeline to the outside world, you can make sure that tether never wavers with the help of a top-flight site survey tool like NetSpot Home. Right now, you can score lifetime access to NetSpot Home for either Mac or Windows users for just $19, a
Read MoreExperts say the Apple Card is light on perks when compared with other credit card options. Apple Card won't drive Google, Samsung to offer their own credit cards – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHuawei can’t sell its phones in the US but even that can’t topple the world’s second biggest phone maker from being at the top of its game. With P30 Pro, Huawei shows US controversy and trade war aren't stumbling blocks – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe flagship phone tries hard to match what conventional cameras offer. Here’s a guide to the new hardware you’ll want to learn. Get up to speed on Huawei P30 Pro's new camera tech – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreASMR videos are the internet’s weirdest way to relax. Tingle all the way: ASMR videos chill you out one soap curl at a time – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreErin Griffith explains how Silicon Valley’s hot young companies are no longer churning out must-use apps and gadgets on an everyday basis. Tech We’re Using: A Favorite Tool While Reporting on Start-Ups: Paper? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGood luck if you’re a woman or a darker-skinned person. Why facial recognition's racial bias problem is so hard to crack – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Hong Kong-based Qupital, which provides a trade financing platform for SMEs, raises $15M Series A led by CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund — Qupital, a fintech startup that bills itself as Hong Kong’s largest trade financing platform for SMEs, has closed a $15 million Series A led … Hong Kong-based Qupital, which
Read MoreThe operator of New York-based company CabaggeTech has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than $200,000 in cash and cryptocurrency, according to a nine-count indictment unsealed in federal court in New York, on Tuesday. Patrick McDonnell, also known as Jason Flack, is thought to have defrauded at least 10 victims of approximately $194,000, 4.41 Bitcoin ($17,706.11), 206
Read MoreNorth Korean crypto-revolutionary crew Civil Cheollioma Defense (CCD) has issued its 100th “post-liberation blockchain visa” via the Ethereum blockchain. The group says it has been selling its tokenized visas (G-Visas) since Monday morning, after it claimed it necessary to delay sale for roughly 12 hours due to high demand. CCD states the G-Visas allow holders
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: Three pioneers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio win the $1M Turing Award for their work on neural networks — SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network. — It was a way for
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