By the Coast Starlight: 39 hours from LA to Seattle – CNET
What it’s like to take Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Southern California to Seattle, Washington. By the Coast Starlight: 39 hours from LA to Seattle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhat it’s like to take Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Southern California to Seattle, Washington. By the Coast Starlight: 39 hours from LA to Seattle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics take on a last-gen leader. Nvidia RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080: A next-gen gaming laptop showdown – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. How TikTok Is Rewriting the World Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMars Woo / DealStreetAsia: Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates online stores for social media influencers, files for a $200M IPO on Nasdaq — Ruhnn Holding, an Alibaba-backed Chinese e-commerce platform for social media influencers, has filed for a Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO) … Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates
Read More[Marek Gibney] poses an interesting puzzle. What does the following bash command line print? ( echo red ; echo green 1>&2 ) | echo blue You’d like to think it prints three lines: red, green, and blue. But would you be surprised to find out that it can sometimes output “blue green” and sometimes just
Read MoreKatia Moskvitch / WIRED UK: Inside CERN’s quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it’ll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026 — Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption … Inside
Read More{$inline_image} Hackaday would like to invite you to a Mini Unconference on Saturday 16th of March, hosted by our friends at Cambridge Makespace, UK. One of our most successful engagements with our community over the years here at Hackaday has been the Unconference. A group of you our readers join us for a while and
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: In a summary judgement, court dismisses Paris’ lawsuit against Airbnb for allegedly posting illegal listings, which likely means its case isn’t strong enough — A court in Paris has dismissed a case against Airbnb, as Le Monde reported. Last month, the City of Paris sued Airbnb for 1,010 illegal listings. In
Read MoreIf you don’t live in a former Eastern Bloc country, odds are that you’ve never seen a Lada driving around your neighborhood. This car is ubiquitous in Russia and its neighboring countries, though, and for good reason: price. Lada gave many people access to affordable transportation who otherwise would have been walking, but this low
Read More{$inline_image} Tom Simonite / Wired: A look at NIST’s Facial Recognition Vendor Test program for facial recognition algorithms, which influences purchasing decisions of US agencies and business — LAST YEAR, CHINESE police arrested a man at a pop concert after he was flagged as a criminal suspect by a facial recognition system installed at the
Read MoreOne of the projects at the recent Hacker Hotel hacker camp in the Netherlands appeared to have achieved the impossible. A vertical PCB surface was holding pieces of paper as though they were pinned to it as on a notice board, yet there was no adhesive or fixings in sight. Was Harry Potter among the
Read MoreDuring a Q&A with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nye brings up climate change. Bill Nye crashes AOC's session at SXSW – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn’t compete in the App Store with its own products — Under Warren’s plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be
Read MoreStan Lee’s posthumous cameo is a loving nod to Smith’s 1995 movie Mallrats. Stan Lee's Captain Marvel cameo made Kevin Smith a 'blubbering mess' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSusie Cagle / OneZero: The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a salvation from capitalism, has in fact only ushered in a precarious economic future — ‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future. The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a
Read MoreThe amount of technology in modern cars is truly staggering. Heated seats, keyless entry, and arrays of helpful cameras are all becoming increasingly common in all but the cheapest of models. [mathisox] drives a slightly older Volkswagen van, which has been converted into a camper. Unfortunately, it lacks a proper door ajar display. Nevermind that,
Read MoreThey’ll be at the center of a video series from Quiby, the upcoming streaming service from Hollywood player Jeffrey Katzenberg and tech maven Meg Whitman. Snapchat and co-founder Evan Spiegel to get cinematic treatment – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOur ongoing review of Samsung’s cheapest Galaxy S10 is still uncovering what matters most. Galaxy S10E has the makings of a 0 powerhouse. Here's what we need to know next – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Galaxy S10, S10 Plus and S10E are officially on sale. Here’s everything you need to know. Galaxy S10 phones: How to buy them now, and whether you should – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOscar Schwartz / The Guardian: AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society — Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry AI-based emotion
Read MoreGenerating random data is incredibly hard, and most of the random data around you isn’t truly random, but merely pseudo-random. For really random data, you’ll have to look at something like radioactive decay or *holds up spork* something like this. YouTube commenters will also suffice. The idea of using random data for generating musical notes
Read MoreTimothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech — Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla’s Autopilot webpage might represent … Tesla is dealing
Read MoreCommentary: There’s a big gap in my knowledge of superheroes, and her name is Captain Marvel. Movie spoilers ahead. Captain Marvel and me: I was clueless about Carol Danvers, now I love her – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWonder Woman and Batgirl writer Gail Simone, one of Superheroine HQ’s curators, talks about the importance of female superheroes: “People want these stories, and I want the gates wide open.” Captain Marvel fans: eBay's new all-female comic shop highlights your heroes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWomen on average are still being paid less than men in the workplace and are sadly losing out at the negotiation table. For the first time last year, the gender pay gap between men and women in the UK was exposed. Three-quarters of the 10,000 firms who participated in the report pay men more than
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