Aston’s pint-sized Valkyrie is bringing bleeding-edge tech to an increasingly crowded supercar segment. Aston Martin's AM-RB 003 debuts in Geneva and is gunning for McLaren – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreNew York Times: Amazon’s hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships — SEATTLE — When Texas officials pushed Amazon to pay nearly $270 million in back sales taxes in 2010, Amazon responded by closing … Amazon's hard bargaining helps
Read MoreRoger Cheng / CNET: Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a look at the disaster recovery tech used there, from an array of robots to 3D glasses for remote control — My nose itches. I instinctively reach up, but my fingers, wrapped in three gloves — one made of cloth, two of latex …
Read MoreCryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has said it will let go of Neutrino staff who previously worked at Hacking Team in a seeming bid to appease angry users. The company landed in hot water after it acquired Neutrino, an Italian blockchain analytics startup with ties to Hacking Team, a group known for their selling intrusion and surveillance capabilities
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Roblox tries to make the kid’s game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year — Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin
Read MoreTools are a key part of any maker’s pursuit of their work. For most of us, our tools come from the local hardware store or are purchased online. Some prefer to craft their own, however, and [Uri Tuchman] is just one such person. [Uri] starts at the absolute beginning, with a piece of unfinished rectangular
Read MoreKia’s Geneva Motor Show concept, “Imagine by Kia,” showcases its “holistic and emotional approach” to electric cars. Kia Imagines an electric car with coach doors, silk seats and 21 screens – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAs always, Geneva is chock-full of new cars from around the world. Here’s what to expect. 2019 Geneva Motor Show live coverage: Big debuts from Audi, Bugatti, Ferrari and more – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe production version will debut in Frankfurt later this year. Mercedes-Benz Concept EQV is a versatile, attractive electric van – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’ll be Audi’s fifth production EV when it goes on sale. Audi Q4 E-Tron concept brings electric coupe-over style to Geneva – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreGood news for security nerds (and the rest of us, really): WebAuthn (short for Web Authentication), a standard for authenticating your identity on the internet, has now been ushered in as an official standard by the World Wide Web Consortium and the FIDO Alliance. That means you’ll soon be able to use hardware devices, like
Read MoreThe design isn’t exactly as extreme as some were expecting. Bugatti La Voiture Noir is a .4-million one-off with shades of Atlantic – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreYesterday, USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) – a group that oversees USB standards – announced the USB4 protocol, which is capable of handling data transfer speeds up to 40Gbps – that’s four times more than USB 3.1’s transfer capacity. That’s great if you’ve compatible storage devices, or displays connected to your system. Plus, the USB4 protocol will also support
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. Backdoor.Xoratag Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. Backdoor.Sarhus Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm. SONAR.GandCrab!gen2 Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreA parlor trick with grapes leads to new findings about water and microwaves. ScienceTake: When Plasma Becomes Another Fruit of the Vine Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAshley Carman / The Verge: The servers running social robot Jibo, which had raised ~$76M in total and shipped to the public in 2017 for $899, are being shut down forever — RIP, Jibo — The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing
Read MoreThe Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, receive many donations from which they can enrich their collection and museum displays. Many are interesting but mundane, but the subject of their latest video is far from that. The wire-wrapped prototype board they reveal with a flourish from beneath a folded antistatic mat is no ordinary
Read MoreTom Cardoso / Globe and Mail: Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, says complying with new ad transparency rules required by Bill C-76 would be too challenging — Google is banning political advertising on its platforms ahead of the Canadian federal election because of new ad transparency rules … Google
Read MoreDanish researchers followed children born over a ten year period and found no link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. A study of 657,461 children shows that vaccines do not cause autism – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCharlie Savage / New York Times: Senior GOP congressional aide claims the NSA has shut down a program that collects domestic phone and text records, whose scope was revealed by Snowden in 2013 — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Comedian Miel Bredouw’s fight with Barstool Sports after they posted her video without credit shows how Twitter’s copyright system can hurt creators — “It’s insane to me that the platform is allowing them to do this.” — Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims … Comedian Miel
Read MoreMichael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Google and Facebook, a major presence at CPAC last year, were nowhere to be seen this year amid claims of anti-conservative bias on their platforms — OXON HILL, Md. — A year ago, attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual jamboree of the political right …
Read MoreIt might seem like a paradox, but coal might hold the answer to solving carbon emission problems. The key isn’t burning it, but creating it using carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While this has always been possible in theory, high temperatures make it difficult in practice. However, a recent paper in Nature Communications shows how
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