A new platform and a huge 11.6-inch Starlink infotainment screen headline the midsize sedan’s changes. 2020 Subaru Legacy gets turbo, big new infotainment screen in Chicago – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s not just a looks package, although aesthetics do factor in. 2020 Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road hits the dirt in Chicago – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMost of the update’s focus on tech, but it does look a little different, too. 2020 Toyota Tacoma is the same ol' truck with much better tech – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe pilots, C.J. Sturckow and Mark “Forger” Stucky, were honored Thursday by the FAA for flying SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of just over 50 miles in December, Two Virgin Galactic pilots who flew Richard Branson’s spaceplane to the edge of space earn astronaut wings Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreSeason 8 is just around the corner and that means it’s crunch time for completing Fortnite challenges as quickly as possible. Fortnite season 7, week 10 challenges and how to complete them – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Toyota details plans to add Android Auto compatibility to its new car lineup — Toyota has historically been a holdout from offering Android Auto in any of its popular vehicles. However, as rumored last year, the Japanese automaker today announced at the Chicago Auto Show that Google’s … Toyota details plans
Read MoreA trio of robotic nurses with glowing red eyes and brown wigs has debuted in a Bangkok hospital. The humanoid robots reveal how androids might be well received in one country, but considered creepy in another, experts say. Friendly nurse or nightmare-inducing machine? How culture programs our taste in robots. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreZac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 with a fix for the Group FaceTime bug, says a security audit of FaceTime revealed a bug in Live Photos on FaceTime, which it has fixed — Apple has turned its Group FaceTime feature back on following the release of iOS 12.1.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod
Read MoreI’m less compelled to recommend flagship phones every year. Smartphone performance has largely crossed a point of diminishing returns, where a well-optimized budget phone might feel as smooth as a $1,000 one. Nowhere has this been truer than with Motorola’s Moto G family. Now Motorola is promising to blur the line between budget and flagship
Read MoreVoja Antonic designed this fantastic retrocomputing badge for Hackaday Belgrade in 2018, and it was so much fun that we wanted to bring it stateside to the Supercon essentially unaltered. And that meant that Voja had some free time to devote to a new hardware giveaway: the Cube. So while his talk at Supercon in
Read MoreAnna Hensel / VentureBeat: Facebook says it has 7M+ advertisers and 90M+ small businesses using its products, will soon allow businesses to respond to Instagram messages from Facebook — Facebook took another step today towards unifying its family of apps by announcing that businesses will now be able to receive … Facebook says it has
Read MoreAt Facebook’s Communities Summit, the social network announced updates to tools for blood donations, nonprofits and mentorships. Facebook wants to show it’s a force for good amid scandals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChicago might not be the biggest event on this year’s auto show calendar, but several automakers are nevertheless bringing a number of important debuts. 2019 Chicago Auto Show: Chevy, Mazda and Subaru headline the Windy City debuts – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s even available as a mild hybrid. 2020 Range Rover Evoque brings top-notch style to Chicago – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe game-changing mid-engined NSX first debuted three decades ago in the Windy City. Acura NSX celebrates 30 years: A history of Acura's supercar – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreExclusive: An experimental process for more cheaply and quickly rolling out speedy fiber internet didn’t pan out, forcing Google Fiber to pull out of Louisville. Google Fiber's secret weapon in its gigabit comeback has failed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJason Hiner / CNET: Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed — Google’s trick to more rapidly and cheaply deploy its super-speedy Google Fiber project has hit a wall … Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 to fix Group FaceTime security flaw — Update your devices right now — Apple is releasing iOS 12.1.4 today to fix a security flaw in the company’s Group FaceTime feature. Discovered last week, the bug allowed anyone to call a phone or Mac and listen in
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Gong.io raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, to enhance CRM tools with its natural language processing tech — With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions. Gong.io raises M Series B led by Battery Ventures,
Read MoreDid you know Britain launched its first satellite after the program had already been given the ax? Me neither, until some stories of my dad’s involvement in aerospace efforts came out and I dug a little deeper into the story. I grew up on a small farm with a workshop next to the house, that
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Google unveils Adiantum, a new form of encryption for data on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power — Google officially unveiled a new form of encryption today, designed to secure data stored on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power. Google unveils Adiantum, a new form
Read MoreKate Clark / TechCrunch: Airbnb hires Fred Reid, formerly the president of Delta Airlines, as its first-ever global head of transportation — Airbnb made it easier for travelers to find a place to crash. Now it wants to make it easier for them to get around. — The $31 billion home-sharing giant has hired Fred
Read MoreThe EU is still plowing ahead with its highly contested Copyright Reform. Trilogue negotiations between the union’s pillars have started again to reach an agreement on the finalized version, and pass the law in March or April this year. A myriad of EU politicians and companies are troubled by parts of the reform, including big
Read MoreLove it or hate it, for many people embedded systems means Arduino. Now Arduino is leveraging its more powerful MKR boards and introducing a cloud service, the Arduino IoT Cloud. The goal is to make it simple for Arduino programs to record data and control actions from the cloud. The program is in beta and
Read MoreBritain’s chief medical officers declined to recommend specific age or time limits, but saw associations between social media use and mental health problems. U.K. Doctors Call for Caution in Children’s Use of Screens and Social Media Source: NY Times Tech
Read More
