Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made an offering to the cryptocurrency community: he will pay developers to work full-time on Bitcoin Core and other “cryptocurrency ecosystem” projects. Are you currently contributing to bitcoin-core or other crypto ecosystem projects for free in your off-time? We’d like to pay you to do it full-time. If interested, DM
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: Qualcomm says it is developing Snapdragon-powered VR and AR headsets that will double as wireless VR for PCs, with hardware arriving this year — There are just too many VR helmets and goggles out there — getting even one on your face is enough of a struggle. Qualcomm says it is
Read MoreTo find out they completed a two-part study with IIHS employees and Mobileye’s 6 Series retrofittable system. IIHS and Mobileye want to know if ADAS makes us better drivers – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreJessica Conditt / Engadget: Epic says Fortnite has 250M registered players, up from 200M in December, releases a free cross-platform SDK to help developers launch, operate, and scale games — When Tim Sweeney built ZZT in 1991, he didn’t know how to program graphics. Instead of coding actual characters and objects into his game …
Read MoreNunes filed a lawsuit seeking $250 million in damages and to unmask the identity of the users behind @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom. ‘Devin Nunes’ Cow’ Twitter account gained more followers than congressman after he sued it Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreEarlier this month, JetPack Aviation threw down the gauntlet, offering up its futuristic hover bike, dubbed the Speeder, for pre-order. It promised delivery next year. The hovercraft features four turbojet engines capable of 750 pound-feet of thrust, an on-board vehicle stability system, touchscreen navigation, and a 360-degree automatic collision avoidance system. It’ll reach altitudes of
Read MoreThe New York Times and The Washington Post are among the publishers that opted out of the subscription service because of its terms, two people familiar with the plans said. New Paid Apple News Service Said to Feature Wall Street Journal Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe iPad Mini is mighty once again, and updated AirPods give Siri a whole new way to misunderstand what you said. Apple’s big week of tiny product upgrades: Here’s what’s worth your money — and not Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreDeap Ubhi has spent his tech career bouncing around. Now he’s tangled up in a little battle over one of the biggest government I.T. contracts in history. Giant Military Contract Has a Hitch: A Little-Known Entrepreneur Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSnapchat is getting into the game, literally. Rumor has it an in-app gaming platform, along with a handful of games, are coming to the social network. While we don’t yet know which titles Snap has snapped up, there are some games that we think will work best within the app — and a few things
Read MoreYou can finally know exactly what your friends are responding to. Facebook Messenger rolls out threaded replies to help you follow conversations – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAccording to the game’s chief designer, grappling-hooks and white-knuckle fighting will highlight one of the year’s most anticipated releases. ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ Q&A: A glimpse into the stunning world of the one-armed ninja Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreCNBC: Walmart’s CTO Jeremy King is leaving the company to start a “new adventure”, to be replaced by Senior VP of Customer Technology Fiona Tan — Walmart’s chief technology officer Jeremy King is leaving the company, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. Walmart's CTO Jeremy King is leaving the company to start a "new
Read MoreAt its GDC 2019 keynote, Epic announced you’ll be able to buy game keys from the charity-focused Humble Store. Epic, Humble Store partner for game sales, including exclusives – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCaroline Haskins / Motherboard: Interviews detail the ongoing battle on YouTube between children-focused channels making animated videos and those featuring humans — Animated videos dominate the kids YouTube space. Humans are fighting against YouTube’s algorithm to try and compete. — Last month, news feeds were saturated with distressing headlines about Momo. Interviews detail the ongoing
Read MoreHackers absolutely love building clocks. Seriously, there are few other devices for which we’ve seen such an incredible number of variations. But while the clocks that hackers build might blink out the time in binary, or write it out in words, they generally don’t feature hands. Apparently in 2019 it’s more reasonable to read binary
Read MoreThis will really only affect African, Asian and European markets. Toyota will lend Suzuki EV know-how in exchange for compact-car expertise – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThat’s enough danger noodles to make a whole plate of danger spaghetti. See snake catchers remove 45 rattlesnakes under one house – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAmazon today updated its entry-level Kindle, making it at once a bit more useful and a bit more expensive – the starting price has gone from $79.99 to $89.99 . It’s a welcome update, but you should probably buy the Kindle Paperwhite instead. The biggest change is the addition of an adjustable front light, meaning
Read MoreVlad Savov / The Verge: By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube’s dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day — Google’s starting a revolution just to keep things as they are — Yesterday, Google announced plans for a new game-streaming service called Stadia. By integrating Stadia into YouTube,
Read MoreDecentralized betting protocol Augur is dealing with a situation: fraudsters can illegitimately profit by gaming the system, and there’s not much its devs can do about it (for now). Augur co-founder Joey Krug recently addressed community concerns about scammers taking over the platform. They’re alleged to be intentionally creating invalid markets en masse, which fool the
Read MoreBen Fox Rubin / CNET: Case reports shed light on how deputies in the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon are using Amazon’s facial recognition software to investigate crimes — On a Saturday afternoon in late November 2017, a woman walked into a Wilco Farm store in Oregon, stuffed a $130 pair of Georgia Boots
Read MoreAt its 2019 “Cloud Summit” industry conference in Hong Kong, Huawei unveiled a new blockchain-based cloud service. Huawei Cloud now offers blockchain oriented services designed to help Hong Kong-based businesses make use of the decentralized platform’s typical characteristics. These being, decentralization, immutability, and traceability (transparency). Huawei hopes this will aid the Chinese province’s mission to
Read MoreIt turns out that Shanghai is a very long way from my home in Wisconsin. I’ve traveled here for Electronica China, and although it made for an incredibly long travel “day”, it turned out to be quite enjoyable. I hacked some hardware on the plane ride, I took a maglev to my hotel, met up
Read MoreParis Martineau / Wired: Inside Airbnb’s “guerrilla war” against US local governments, which often face a slew of lawsuits from the company when they try to collect occupancy taxes — “READ MY LIPS: We want to pay taxes,” Chris Lehane, Airbnb’s global head of public policy, told the nation’s mayors in 2016. Inside Airbnb's "guerrilla
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