Dressed in a Captain Marvel tracksuit, Larson visits a New Jersey movie theater and serves fans popcorn. Brie Larson dressed as Captain Marvel surprises moviegoers – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTo quote Mario, “Wahoo!” Mario Day sale includes Nintendo Switch, Mario Kart 8, Odyssey deals starting March 10 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds — Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users’ private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds. Facebook
Read MoreAn essential tool of many sysadmins is a portable terminal ready to plug into an ailing rack-mounted server to administer first aid. At their simplest, they are simply a monitor and keyboard on a trolley, but more often they will be a laptop pre-loaded with tools for the purpose. Sysadmins will hang on tenaciously to
Read MoreThe writing is on the wall for a global economic slowdown, and tech entrepreneurs will be severely impacted. The dot-com crash of 2001 is still etched into my memory, as I had helped launch a game tech company that nearly died when the capital markets seized. We went from five people to 30 and back
Read MoreSupermarket chickens and cheetah colors help visual-effects supervisor Sven Martin and team animate Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion. Game of Thrones dragonmaster reveals the secrets of Daenerys' babies – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSusan Fowler talks at SXSW about the power of a story to bring about change in Silicon Valley. Uber whistleblower: 'I wanted to speak up, share my story and get back to work' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSenator wants the company separated from its App Store. Apple joins list of Elizabeth Warren's tech breakup targets – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChris Ip / Engadget: How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn’t misused — It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech’s data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley … How Foursquare, which tracks the location
Read MoreUber whistleblower Susan Fowler talks at SXSW about the power of a story to bring about change in Silicon Valley. Susan Fowler: 'I wanted to speak up, share my story and get back to work.' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Brie Larson movie claims the second-biggest global opening weekend for a superhero film. Captain Marvel soars to super-powered 5 million at global box office – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA partnership with Google is part of a global effort to build and deploy systems that can detect signs of illness and disease in medical scans. India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From A.I. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreDid you have anything planned for the next hour or so? No? That’s good because if you’re anything like us, watching even one of the restorations performed on [Marty’s Matchbox Makeovers] is likely to send you down a deep dark rabbit hole that you never knew existed. Even if you can’t tell the difference between
Read MoreAt a recent industry gathering, retailers talked of how collecting customer data will help them compete in a landscape dominated by the internet. Stores See a Future Without ‘May I Help You?’ (They’ll Already Have Your Data) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreKalev Aasmae / ZDNet: In this month’s parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44% of about 561K votes counted were cast online using the e-voting system, setting a new digital record — In this month’s Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting. In this month's parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44%
Read MoreI don’t know why it took so long to dawn on me – after 20 years of a scientific career – that what we call the “scientific method” really only refers the second half of any scientific story. It describes how we test and refine the ideas and hypotheses we have about nature through the
Read MoreTova Cohen / Reuters: Report: after Intel reportedly offered $6B for Mellanox in January, Nvidia has now submitted a competing bid for the Israeli chip designer — TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp has submitted an offer to buy Israeli chip designer Mellanox, the Calcalist financial news website said on Sunday. Report: after Intel reportedly
Read MoreThese days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is easy. Cheap displays have proliferated, ready to go on breakout boards with controllers already baked in. Load up the right libraries and you’re up and running in a matter of minutes. However, turn your attention to trying to drive a
Read MoreWe live in an age where customers have more power over their lives than ever before. Users can tap their phone to summon a car, groceries, a Wikipedia page, or even a dog walker. But that doesn’t mean there’s room for everyone. After all, customers are only going to settle on a few tools in
Read MoreManish Singh / VentureBeat: Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition — Google, which already dominates India’s smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children … Google launches Bolo, an Android
Read MoreKnowing how to grow and maintain a system in the Azure environment is becoming an increasingly smart play for web professionals. You can stake your claim to serving this expanding market with the training in the Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 ($29, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals). Microsoft Azure is chasing
Read MoreAnil Nanduri says it’s cheaper to put cars in the air than under cities in tunnels. Flying cars coming in five years, says Intel drone chief – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt should be unveiled in the last quarter of 2019. Aston Martin DBX SUV teased in Swedish snow – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreOf all the retro systems, the Commodore 64 had the best video system. The VIC-II chip in the C64 was the best example of why Commodore was the best, but in terms of video output, the C64 was still a consumer device: the only output was S-video, or composite video, or something like it. The
Read MoreWhat it’s like to go from Southern California to Washington state, 1,377 miles, as slowly as possible. Sleeper to Seattle: 39 hours on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight – CNET Source: CNet
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