The lingua franca of electronic design is the schematic. I can pick up a datasheet written in Chinese (a language I do not read or speak) and usually get a half-decent idea of what the part is all about from the drawings. Unfortunately, even as my design experience has grown over the years, I haven’t
Read MoreThe loss of digital artifacts highlights the impermanence of the Web, and the ease with which files and posts that helped define Internet culture and history can be so readily discarded. What the huge loss of old Myspace music means for Internet culture Source: Washington Post Tech
Read More{$inline_image}The Game Developers Conference began yesterday, and it got off to an unexpectedly good start by finally revealing footage of a game long-rumored to be in development, System Shock 3. Previously glimpsed only in bits, it’s good to finally see the return of one of the old masters of gaming in full glory. The teaser trailer
Read MoreBinance says cryptocurrency fans in Australia will soon be able to purchase Bitcoin from over 1,300 supported Newsagents across the country. The new service, “Binance Lite,” marks the first time the Malta-based exchange has managed to open a fiat gateway in Australia. While it will only support buying Bitcoin at launch, press materials say more digital
Read MoreThe GravaStar from Zoeao is the weirdest Bluetooth speaker I’ve reviewed, but that’s a good thing. It reminds me of a simpler time – the 1980s – when the characters on TV were often based on popular toys, and not the other way around. Plus, thanks to its Harmon Kardon guts, it sounds great. I
Read MoreThe most iconic parts of computer history come alive next weekend in Seattle during the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest. It’s all happening March 23rd and 24th at the Living Computers Museum+Labs. VCF celebrates the great hardware that has sprung up during the technological march of the last fifty years. The VCF series has been
Read MoreA host of regulatory issues have slowed the progress of drone-delivery companies but they are making some progress and lots of tests are underway. Skies Aren’t Clogged With Drones, but Don’t Rule Them Out Yet Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminum, has shut down several metal extrusion plants as it deals with a ransomware attack — Norway’s Norsk Hydro said a cyber-attack on late Monday night crippled its IT systems. — Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers … Norsk
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Firefox 66 arrives with autoplaying blocked by default, the ability to search through open tabs, and smoother scrolling, even when there are slowly-loading ads — Mozilla today launched Firefox 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release includes autoplaying content (audio and video) … Firefox 66 arrives with autoplaying blocked
Read MoreThis move should add 550 jobs at the Kentucky facility where the two are built. Ford boosting Expedition, Navigator production by 20 percent – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe notebook can simultaneously convert hand-drawn works to digital images and upload it to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Adobe and Moleskine team up, launch digital drawing notebook for creatives – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePlus: Two bonus deals and three chances to win cool prizes! The best Nintendo Switch deal right now: 7 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAxios: Arlan Hamilton’s diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two “anchor investors” pulled out and other deals failed to materialize — Arlan Hamilton seems to be everywhere. Keynote interviews at conferences like SXSW and the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit … Arlan Hamilton's diversity-minded investment fund Backstage Capital falls through, after two "anchor
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: HP Reverb, a lightweight $600 VR headset that’s slated to arrive late April, has ~24 pixels per degree vs. ~14 on the Vive Pro, but pixels are still discernable — Virtual reality headsets are going through a hardware evolution, slowly, with eye tracking, wireless connections, wider fields of view and higher
Read MoreIt’s not a huge discount — but it’s still $25 in your pocket. Apple's new iPads: Save when you preorder – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAmazon wants to provide facial recognition software to law enforcement and businesses. We have questions. Amazon's Rekognition software lets cops track faces: Here's what you need to know – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: In iMac Pro’s build-to-order options Apple now includes a $5,200 option for 256GB RAM and Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics with 16GB dedicated video memory for $700 — Apple has quietly updated the iMac Pro build-to-order options to include new Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics and a 256 GB RAM
Read MoreMicrosoft is adding customized backgrounds, secure private channels, additional camera support and live captions to Teams in the coming months. Microsoft Teams turns two; now has 500,000 organizational users Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreFirefox 66 will automatically prevent autoplay videos with sound from playing unless users want them to. Firefox 66 is out: Block on auto-playing video with sound, Windows Hello support Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreEmma Sandler / Digiday: Instagram adds in-app shopping to let users buy from 20 beauty and fashion brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Nike, and Huda Beauty — Shopping on Instagram is about to change forever. — On March 19, the social platform announced in a blog post it was launching a beta shopping program … Instagram
Read MoreJapan, the home of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, is establishing stricter rules for cryptocurrency margin trading to prevent investors from getting scammed. Margin traders typically use borrowed funds from a broker to trade a financial asset, which in turn, forms the collateral for the loan supplied by the broker. According to a report
Read MoreIn a globalized world, “global languages” have come increasingly to the fore, often at the expense of smaller, regional tongues and dialects. Of all the world’s languages — around 7,000, by best estimates — only a few hundred are represented online, and a very small number predominate. English — long dubbed the “language of business” and latterly known as the lingua franca
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Read MoreReed Hastings revealed that Netflix won’t integrate with Apple’s platform, multiple outlets reported. Netflix boss reportedly says it won't be part of Apple's video streaming service – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreResearchers at Nvidia have developed a deep learning model that can take shitty digital sketches – like the ones you’d create with a trackpad, zero talent, and Microsoft Paint – and generate beautiful photorealistic landscapes in an instant. It’s called GauGAN (named after post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, and Generative Adversarial Networks), and it works like a
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