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February 22, 2019

A few months after launching Focals smart glasses, North lays off 150 employees; company website says it employed "over 400 people" (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: A few months after launching Focals smart glasses, North lays off 150 employees; company website says it employed “over 400 people” — North Labs, the company behind the Focals smart glasses, laid off 150 employees yesterday. The company employed “over 400 people,” … A few months after launching Focals smart

Supercon: Ruth Grace Wong and Firmware From the Firehose

Firmware and software are both just code, right? How different could the code that runs Internet-scale distributed web stuff be from the code that runs a tiny microcontroller brain inside a personal hydroponics device? Night and day! Ruth Grace Wong works in the former world, but moonlights as a manufacturing engineer with some friends. Their

Twitter grieves as Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aimé retires – CNET

Our bodies were not ready. Twitter grieves as Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aimé retires – CNET Source: CNet

Virgin Galactic flies a surprise passenger to suborbital space – CNET

An unexpected crew member, plus some NASA experiments, ride along for the latest test flight of Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo. Virgin Galactic flies a surprise passenger to suborbital space – CNET Source: CNet

Galaxy Fold outdoes the iPhone XS. Here's why you still won't buy one – CNET

Commentary: Unless you’re crazy rich and have phones to spare, the foldable device may not be for you. Galaxy Fold outdoes the iPhone XS. Here's why you still won't buy one – CNET Source: CNet

Galaxy S10 screen deep dive: Dynamic AMOLED, HDR10+ and more – CNET

Samsung says its new phone screen is the best it’s ever made. We parse the tech that makes it possible. Galaxy S10 screen deep dive: Dynamic AMOLED, HDR10+ and more – CNET Source: CNet

February 22, 2019

Some popular apps send sensitive info like user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed to Facebook through the company's analytics SDK (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Some popular apps send sensitive info like user’s heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed to Facebook through the company’s analytics SDK — Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’

Your honor, it’s an eggplant: Lawyers call for guidance on interpreting emoji

The multiple meanings of emoji are not always readily grasped. Your honor, it’s an eggplant: Lawyers call for guidance on interpreting emoji Source: Washington Post Tech

Hackaday Podcast Ep 007 – Everything Microcontrollers, Deadly Clock Accuracy, CT X-Rays, Mountains Of E-Waste

Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look at all that’s happening in hackerdom. This week we dive deep into super-accurate clock chips, SPI and microcontroller trickery, a new (and cheap) part on the microcontroller block, touch-sensitive cloth, and taking a home X-ray to the third dimension. We’re saying our goodbyes to the magnificent A380, looking with

February 22, 2019

CTRL-labs raises another $28M for its armband and SDK that translate impulses, that go from brain to hand muscles, into digital signals for gesture control (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: CTRL-labs raises another $28M for its armband and SDK that translate impulses, that go from brain to hand muscles, into digital signals for gesture control — Ctrl-labs, a New York startup that’s developing a device capable of translating electrical muscle impulses into digital signals … CTRL-labs raises another M for its

What Happens When You Cross A Brick With a Pixel?

There are a great many technologies we use to display information every day. We’re all familiar with plasma displays and LCDs, and then there’s more esoteric hardware like the split flap displays on municipal buses and around train stations. However, Breakfast have been working on something that turns architectural features into a display at the

February 22, 2019

OpenAI's recent decision to limit the release of its new text generator algorithm has sparked a debate among AI researchers over ethics (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: OpenAI’s recent decision to limit the release of its new text generator algorithm has sparked a debate among AI researchers over ethics — Nonprofit lab OpenAI withheld its latest research, but was criticized by others in the field — A recent decision by research lab OpenAI to limit … OpenAI's

February 22, 2019

5 things you should know about STOs

Last weekend Hard Fork flew Seattle to attend NEO’s second ever developer conference. Besides getting to see and hear from NEO itself, we got to meet a host of developers that are trying to use the NEO platform to bring their dapps to life. While there, I moderated a panel discussion about Security Token Offerings

ExxonMobil aims to use Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 to wring more oil, profit out of Permian Basin

The oil and gas industry is an interesting test bed for big data, analytics, IoT, cloud and high performance computing. ExxonMobil aims to use Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 to wring more oil, profit out of Permian Basin Source: ZDNet Microsoft

Drops of Jupyter Notebooks: How to Keep Notes in the Information Age

Our digital world is so much more interactive than the paper one it has been replacing. That becomes very obvious in the features of Jupyter Notebooks. The point is to make your data beautiful, organized, interactive, and shareable. And you can do all of this with just a bit of simple coding. We already leveraged

February 22, 2019

Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M (Matt Burns/TechCrunch)

Matt Burns / TechCrunch: Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M — Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth. Circle, which makes a screen

February 22, 2019

BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing (Grace Dobush/Fortune)

Grace Dobush / Fortune: BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing — When Daimler and BMW announced a plan to fuse carsharing services Car2Go and DriveNow in March 2018, it was largely … BMW and Daimler merge

Windows 10 tip: How to use the new Snip & Sketch app for smart screenshots

Beginning with version 1809, Windows 10 offers an expanded range of screen capture options. You can save the full screen, the active window, or a rectangular selection to a file or to the Clipboard for reuse in another app. Here’s how the new tools work. Windows 10 tip: How to use the new Snip &

February 22, 2019

This DNA kit goes beyond ancestry — and it’s currently on sale for 30% off

With your Vitagene kit, just swab your cheek, send in your sample, and you’ll get back a complete report explaining your DNA findings and the nutrition path you should follow to lead your healthiest life. This DNA kit goes beyond ancestry — and it’s currently on sale for 30% off Source: The Next Web

Magic Leap and 5G illuminate catwalk fashion designs with lightning and skulls – CNET

Celebrities at London Fashion Week got a whole new view of the latest designs on the runway thanks to mixed reality. Magic Leap and 5G illuminate catwalk fashion designs with lightning and skulls – CNET Source: CNet

Bits: The Week in Tech: Chinese and Iranian Hackers Have Returned

In this week’s newsletter, Nicole Perlroth explains why U.S. companies and government agencies face renewed cybersecurity concerns. Bits: The Week in Tech: Chinese and Iranian Hackers Have Returned Source: NY Times Tech

Lego's 1967 Ford Mustang kit challenges builders with 1,500 pieces – Roadshow

Live out your Gone in 60 Seconds dreams with this $150 Lego muscle car, with adjustable suspension, a supercharger and even swappable license plates. Lego's 1967 Ford Mustang kit challenges builders with 1,500 pieces – Roadshow Source: CNet

Microsoft: You really should bookmark this Windows 10 update history page

The Windows 10 version 1809 update history page alone has over one million page views and counting. Microsoft: You really should bookmark this Windows 10 update history page Source: ZDNet Microsoft

February 22, 2019

Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy — Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don’t have a privacy policy. — More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask

Galaxy S10's serious screen: Dynamic AMOLED, HDR10+, blue light reduction and more – CNET

What do all those technical terms mean? We break it down. Galaxy S10's serious screen: Dynamic AMOLED, HDR10+, blue light reduction and more – CNET Source: CNet

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