The Smart car brand has long been a money-loser for parent company Daimler, and now its days may be numbered. Daimler's incoming CEO considering killing Smart, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: If the blockbuster-to-be really runs three hours, an official pause for a snack or bathroom break would be Marvel-ous. Avengers: Endgame proves we should bring back the intermission – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe problem, now resolved, was related to the computer system used for bookings and reservations. Widespread computer outage hit American, JetBlue, leaving passengers grounded – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMozilla’s password manager is more basic than dedicated competitors. But if you’re already in the Firefox world, it’s basically already set up for you. Firefox Lockbox comes to Android to ease password pain – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLet’s break down all of Apple’s big announcements from Monday. Apple goes big on services with TV Plus, Arcade, News Plus: We react (The 3:59, Ep. 538) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is giving customers a new way to run their virtualized workloads on-premises while connecting to Azure. Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI: A new option for running virtualized apps that connect to Azure Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIn 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft is getting closer to launching the first wave of its new Surface Hub 2 devices. More details should be forthcoming at an April 17 event in New York City. Microsoft to talk more about Surface Hub 2S at April event Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIt’s a challenge to navigate the cryptocurrency space. The entire community pretty much resides within the confines of the Twitter hellscape, where differences in investment portfolios often lead to in-fighting and disinformation. This is why one ingenious software developer created a new browser extension to help the general public figure out exactly what’s going on.
Read MoreAs near as we can tell, the popular WS2812 individually addressable RGB LED was released to the world sometime around the last half of 2013. This wasn’t long ago, or maybe it was an eternity; the ESP8266, the WiFi microcontroller we all know and love was only released a year or so later. If you
Read MoreEvery day, groundbreaking ideas are transformed into startups. Their expertise and capabilities can help companies reach new levels of growth – but it can be hard to get their name out there. That’s why we’re shining the spotlight on the most promising tech startups that are innovating the future of work at TNW2019, so companies
Read MorePlayers of Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm noticed something in the latest patch notes: the developers were removing the ability to buy loot boxes with real money. Given the battle that game publishers are fighting with officials across the globe over loot boxes, it’s possible this is an sign of things to come — an
Read MoreWhy do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out. To understand why, let’s go back in time some 13.8 billion
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has bested top players in chess, Go and even StarCraft. But can it fly a drone faster than a pro racer? More than $1 million is on the line to find out. A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGoogle-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum. A Redditor unearthed the issue, noting how the malicious advert was disguised to resemble a real Electrum advertisement. “It even tells you to go the correct link (electrum.org) in the video but when you click on the advertisement it immediately starts downloading the malicious exe file,”
Read MoreAs you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things happen to be interesting pieces of vintage hardware. So the work [ekriirke] put in to get this early 1980’s era Sharp
Read More“We think humans are the best designers, but this is not really true,” a researcher said. Trilobites: What Termites Can Teach Us About Cooling Our Buildings Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Boeing 737 is the most produced commercial airplane in history: over 10,000 have been built since it first flew in 1967, with thousands more on order. Even the UK’s Royal Air Force is to put them into service as the P8a Poseidon. An airplane which flies that much will have accidents. The 737 has
Read MoreHow good are the pictures from Huawei’s new flagship phone? I took it around Paris to find out. Huawei P30 Pro's biggest camera weapons: Night mode, 3D lens and zoom – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’ve seen the phones, now its time to accessorize your heart out. Huawei unveils smart glasses, watches and AirPod rivals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere aren’t enough medium-sized spacesuits ready on the ISS to support two women spacewalkers. NASA scrubs first all-female spacewalk over suit sizing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe autonomous Robocar is now available at 1:64 scale. Hot Wheels' latest die-cast is a Roborace autonomous race car – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe iPhone-linked card is likely to reach non-US customers eventually. Apple Card likely to roll out internationally, Goldman Sachs exec says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreContrary to what was promised last year, semi-professional football team Gibraltar United is still not paying its players in cryptocurrency. In July 2018, The Guardian reported the Gibraltar Premier division team will be the first one to “pay players in cryptocurrency.” Club founder and majority owner, Pablo Dana, said all player contracts will include payment
Read MoreFor most of the history of industrial electronics, solder has been pretty boring. Mix some lead with a little tin, figure out how to wrap it around a thread of rosin, and that’s pretty much it. Sure, flux formulations changed a bit, the ratio of lead to tin was tweaked for certain applications, and sometimes
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