Listen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. It’s over, OK? You’ve got to admit it and move on. Sure, you could get away with it for a week or two in January, but now it’s just getting weird. No matter how hard you fight it, the facts are the facts: the
Read More{$inline_image} Listen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. It’s over, OK? You’ve got to admit it and move on. Sure, you could get away with it for a week or two in January, but now it’s just getting weird. No matter how hard you fight it, the facts are the facts:
Read MoreNew York Times: How Chinese tech companies are hurriedly rolling out facial and voice recognition tech for pigs, many of which are dying from a deadly swine disease — As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them. How
Read MoreWe like blinky things. We’re moths drawn to the flame of serially-addressable RGB LEDs. If the LEDs are smaller, we want to know. If you can drive more of them, we want to know. That said, the most interesting news out of CES last January was both right up our alley, and immensely disappointing. Corsair,
Read MoreIsobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Sensor Tower: TikTok passed 1B downloads on Android and iOS, excluding Android installs in China; 663M downloads came in 2018, beating Instagram’s 444M — – Chinese short-form video app TikTok has been downloaded 1 billion times across Android and iOS, according to Sensor Tower figures. Sensor Tower: TikTok passed
Read MoreBeing a woman in the male-driven tech industry can be frustrating – so much so that, if you are a woman in tech, I don’t even have to explain what I mean. Yet in the face of adversity, we’ve proven time and time again that we have what it takes to succeed. These stories of
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Boston-based job-seeking platform Jobcase raises $100M in growth equity funding led by Providence Strategic Growth, bringing total raised to $118.9M — Jobcase, a self-described open access platform for jobs seekers and employers, today announced that it has secured $100 million … Boston-based job-seeking platform Jobcase raises 0M in growth equity funding
Read MoreCryptocurrency scams that have been running for years in India are finally getting busted by the local police. Criminal investigation authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat have booked five people for running a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) called Bitstrades. The company’s founder Hardik Zadafiya has been arrested for cheating and criminal breach of trust under the Indian
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Threads, which aims to create a user-friendly asynchronous chat platform for coworkers, comes out of stealth with $10.5M Series A from Sequoia — The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: D-Wave announces its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 qubits in its current system, planned to come to market in mid-2020 — D-Wave, the well-funded quantum computing company, today announced its next-gen quantum computing platform with 5,000 qubits, up from 2,000 in the company’s current system. D-Wave
Read MoreMariella Moon / Engadget: Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 chips for smartphones, with speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s — Samsung’s future phones, including the Galaxy Fold, will have read and write speeds comparable with snappy ultra-fast laptops. Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage
Read MoreYour thermostat is some of the oldest and simplest automation in your home. For years these were one-temperature setting and nothing more. Programmable thermostats brought more control; they’re alarm clocks attached to your furnace. Then Nest came along and added beautiful design and “learning features” that felt like magic compared to the old systems. But
Read MoreThis exclusive coupon knocks an extra $15 off the already discounted price. Plus: Own Bohemian Rhapsody (the movie) for just $10. The Vantrue N1 Pro Mini dash cam hits an all-time low: – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSameDay Bots, roll out! You might see FedEx robots delivering packages this summer – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earthnear modern-dayMexico. That was it, or so we thought.A paper published today in Science further supports an alternative hypothesis: that catastrophic events following the impact could have helped cause the end of the dinosaurs and many other forms of life.
Read MoreGreen Book won best picture, Bohemian Rhapsody took home four statues, and Black Panther and Roma got three each. Here’s the full list of winners. Oscars 2019 winners: Best picture, best director, best actor from Bohemian Rhapsody, Netflix to Green Book and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity chief and a Kaspersky Lab executive lengthy prison sentences after being convicted on treason charges — A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information … Russian court hands former Russian cybersecurity
Read MoreThe Brother HL-L2395DW, normally $170, supports cloud printing, auto-duplexing and more. Our favorite multifunction printer is back on sale for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePolestar’s first EV debuts in Geneva and will go head-to-head with Tesla’s Model 3 packing a 275-mile range estimate. 2021 Polestar 2 heads to Geneva Motor Show with 408 hp, vegan interior – Roadshow Source: CNet
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Read MoreThe RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera highlights how enterprises are spending more on cloud computing, but are getting concerned about optimizing their spending. Microsoft Azure grows workloads, adoption as it closes AWS gap, RightScale survey says Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAndrii Degeler / Tech.eu: UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning to enterprise email security to eliminate threats, raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — The US-based VC firm Sequoia Capital has led a $42 million funding round in Tessian, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in London; Latitude … UK-based Tessian, which applies machine learning
Read MoreThe Slow Ring has become so slow it hasn’t yet received a single preview of Windows 10 19H1. Windows 10 previews grind to halt over GSOD bug that Microsoft can't fix Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAccording to a report by PwC, podcasts made well over $600 million in 2018 — and the golden age is yet to come. PwC further projects the industry‘s revenue will move past the nine-figure benchmark by 2022. As with any promisingly lucrative industry, it’s both interesting and important to see who will take the biggest piece of the
Read MoreSpotify’s just launched in India, and I’m excited to try it out. However, I’ve been an Apple Music subscriber for over three years, andAbhimanyu’s been using Google Play music for what feels like an eternity. Naturally, we have tons of albums, songs, and playlists saved to our libraries, and we want to carry over our
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