Dami Lee / The Verge: Hands-on with Nintendo’s fourth Labo kit, which allows users to build their own VR games with six Toy-Con creations and will be available April 12 for $79.99 — Nintendo’s latest Labo kit lets you code your own VR games — Nearly one year after the launch of Labo, Nintendo’s DIY
Read MoreNintendo takes a creative — OK, weird — approach to virtual reality. Nintendo Labo VR had us playing with duck butts and foot fans – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOh, and the fingerprint reader might be in the display. Pixel 4 XL leaked photo shows two rear cameras and hole-punch screen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe director of HBO’s The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, plus the whistleblower who brought the wrongdoings to light, talk about the woman at the center of it all. HBO Theranos doc's director: Elizabeth Holmes is like Steve Jobs and Scientology – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJoe Carlson / Star Tribune: DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices — Alert from Medtronic, Homeland Security says 750K defibrillators are at risk. — As many as 750,000 heart devices … DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic
Read MoreQuantum dots certainly sound as if they should be something cool, but carry the hazardous baggage of being sometimes made from cadmium which can be dangerous. What are they? In essence, they are nanometer-scale particles, so small that when high energy light hits them, the photons will be absorbed and re-emitted at a lower energy
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M — Apple has acquired Italian startup Stamplay, which offered an API-based back-end development platform, according to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The report claims Apple paid around five million euros for the company. Report: Apple acquires
Read MoreJulia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline — Company confirms suspicions of separate incident following Washington DC attorney general court filing Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter … Source: Apple has signed
Read MoreMax Chafkin / Bloomberg: Trump to nominate Michael Kratsios to be his first US CTO; Kratsios is currently US deputy CTO and was formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital — For the first time in two years—and for the first time under President Trump—the U.S. is set to have a chief technology officer. Trump
Read MoreFor every three scooters that don’t share GPS data, 10 will. The majority of scooters in LA are going to share your location with the city – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOwners of fifth-generation Explorers are complaining that exhaust is leaking into the cabin of their vehicles and causing carbon monoxide poisoning. Ford Explorer owners getting carbon monoxide poisoning in their cars, report alleges – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreFor nearly five minutes, the cartoon is predictable. Colorful characters with child-like voices act out the types of scenarios capable of reversing even the wildest tantrums, turning screaming toddlers into tiny, submissive humans. It’s the optimal time for a man to enter the frame, telling your small child the proper way to slit their wrists.
Read MoreAs medical insurers and billing companies begin using machine-learning software, they can learn to game the underlying algorithms for profit. A.I. Can Improve Health Care. It Also Can Be Duped. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMaureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April — Pinterest Inc. has sped up the timing of its initial public offering as the image-search company looks to tap
Read MoreEric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq — – Listing is likely to be the biggest public offering this year — Company expected to officially file for its IPO in April — Uber Technologies Inc. has selected the New York Stock
Read MoreOne promotional deal will include a free pair of Galaxy Buds. Galaxy S10 5G looks to cost over ,300 and launch April 5 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Beetle, and yes the bus and the sexiest car ever made, are cars meant for the people. You can pull the engine out with a strong friend, and you can fix anything in an old Volkswagen. VW realized this, because in the 1950s and ’60s, they came up with plans for tools designed
Read MoreKate Clark / TechCrunch: A look at some of Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network — Meet the startups that raised venture capital, or got acquired, before Demo Day — Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco’s Pier 48
Read MoreHe’s barely even part of the X-Men (he’s a trainee!), but he could very well someday be an Avenger. Deadpool is not part of the MCU. Yet – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBecause shooting with professional cameras is just too basic. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus to be used to film entire Tonight Show episode – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAlex Heath / Cheddar: Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram’s head of product who previously ran Instagram’s business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more — Instagram’s new product chief talks about the app’s push into e-commerce, life after the departure of Instagram’s two cofounders … Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of
Read MoreShakespeare had it right: “A sad tale’s best for winter.” If you’ve ever wanted to experience the cold, existential despair of being bored and alone on a winter night, a game that fills that niche recently appeared on Steam — a strange little experience titled “It’s Winter.” Sometimes there comes a Steam game so unusual
Read MoreThe charges came as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed to investigate the role that social media companies played in mosque massacres last week. In New Zealand, Spreading the Mosque Shooting Video Is a Crime Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts and redirecting users to tech support scams using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin — Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts on vulnerable sites and redirecting users to tech support scams. Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts and redirecting users
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