Gatwick Airport will test robot valets for parking cars – Roadshow
The robot even has an adorable name — Stan. Gatwick Airport will test robot valets for parking cars – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe robot even has an adorable name — Stan. Gatwick Airport will test robot valets for parking cars – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Big Lebowski might return, Skittles is making a musical, and the Backstreet Boys are auditioning Chance the Rapper. Super Bowl 2019 ads: What we've seen so far – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDami Lee / The Verge: Tinder settles class action about charging users over 30 double the standard Tinder Plus fee, will pay class members $11.5M+ and stop the practice in California — Tinder last week settled a class action lawsuit for $17.3 million over charging users 30 and older double the standard fee for one
Read MoreJessica Guynn / USA Today: How black women founders, long underestimated and overlooked in tech, are now raising millions in venture capital and forcing Silicon Valley to pay attention — SAN FRANCISCO – In the early days of Zume Pizza, visitors to Julia Collins’ robotic food prep company in Silicon Valley … How black women
Read MoreJulia Alexander / The Verge: Responding to reports of a planned streaming video service, T-mobile hints it will just launch a “snackable content app” on its Metro brand next month — What you’d heard was wrong — T-Mobile is gearing up to launch a free mobile TV streaming service … Responding to reports of a
Read MoreThe Hackaday Superconference is all about showcasing the hardware heroics of the Hackaday community. We also have a peer-reviewed journal with the same goal, and for the 2018 Hackaday Superconference we got a taste of the first paper to make it into our fully Open Access Journal. It comes from Ted Yapo, it is indeed a tale
Read MorePeter Kafka / Recode: Sources: BuzzFeed and Group Nine have discussed merger; companies have ties via BuzzFeed’s chairman Ken Lerer and his son Ben Lerer, CEO at Group Nine — BuzzFeed is cutting costs and getting leaner, but it still wants to get bigger — by exploring a deal with Group Nine. Sources: BuzzFeed and
Read MoreThe British company said it would no longer use the Chinese telecommunications giant’s equipment in some parts of its network in Europe because of political factors. Vodafone, One of World’s Largest Cell Carriers, Halts Buying of Huawei Gear Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreScience: Study of registered voters in 2016: ~6% of all news consumed on Twitter was fake news, 1% of users were exposed to 80% of it and 0.1% shared 80% thereof — There was a proliferation of fake news during the 2016 election cycle. Grinberg et al. analyzed Twitter data by matching Twitter accounts …
Read MoreWe are somewhat spoiled because electronics today are very reliable compared to even a few decades ago. Most modern electronics obey the bathtub curve. If they don’t fail right away, they won’t fail for a very long time, in all likelihood. However, there are a few cases where that’s not a good enough answer. One
Read MoreAlexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: How resellers are making money from Amazon returns via liquidation sites, like Liquidity Services, which has 3M+ users and generated $626.4M in sales last year — Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal. — With a couple hundred dollars and a few minutes
Read MoreAn updated iPad Mini 5 and two 10-inch models may be on the horizon. New Apple iPads surface in EEC certification database – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSling TV, DirecTV Now, YouTube TV, Hulu, PlayStation Vue, Philo, AT&T Watch TV and Fubo TV are all vying for your cord-cutting dollar. Here’s how the top 100 channels stack up. DirecTV Now, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu and more: Live TV channels compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company want to make it possible to send messages among the services while keeping the brands separate, according to The New York Times Facebook reportedly to merge WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram messaging – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSean O’Neill / Skift: Airbnb has acquired Denmark-based startup Gaest that helps businesses book off-site spaces for meetings and events — Airbnb’s move to offer more meetings spaces represents an example of one of Skift’s 2019 Megatrends, as many giant online booking companies are looking for their next phases of growth by expanding into new
Read MoreAgence France-Presse: European Commission says that more than 95K complaints have been filed with data regulators since adoption of GDPR in May — More than 95,000 complaints have been filed with EU countries since the bloc’s flagship data protection laws took effect eight months ago, the executive European Commission said Friday. European Commission says that
Read MoreIt’s cold outside! So grab a copy of the Hackaday Podcast, and catch up on what you missed this week. Highlights include a dip into audio processing with sox and FFMPEG, scripting for Gmail, weaving your own carbon fiber tubes, staring into the sharpest color CRT ever, and unlocking the secrets of cheap 433 MHz
Read MoreMichelle Castillo / Cheddar: Source: T-Mobile to launch a free, ad-supported mobile video streaming service through the Layer3 division it acquired last year and using licensed Xumo tech — T-Mobile will join the streaming wars in the next few weeks with a free, ad-supported mobile video service, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Read MoreVenture capitalists (VCs) are a key part of the technology ecosystem. They’re the ones with the money that helps a small company to grow into a larger one. This is why it’s such a massive problem that the industry is so overwhelmingly male and white. When this demographic makeup exists, you generally get individuals at
Read MoreBrexit is infinitely complicated, but it starts to make sense when you think about it as someone reinstalling a computer’s operating system from scratch. All the existing programs and files (or in the case of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, trade deals and international agreements) are gone. In 2016, 52 percent of British voters
Read MoreChiptune is a musical genre built upon the creation of music through the use of chip-based sound synthesizers, found in early game consoles. The Commodore 64’s venerable SID chip and the Game Boy Sound System are the by far the most popular on the scene. However, the Sega Genesis took a different path at the
Read MoreThe new research is raising concerns about how biased results could tarnish the artificial-intelligence technology’s exploding use by police and in public venues, including airports and schools. Amazon facial-identification software used by police falls short on tests for accuracy and bias, new research finds Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreA new software development kit (SDK) for Unity has been released, allowing indie developers to monetize their mobile games from top-to-bottom with KIN cryptocurrency. As of today, mobile games made with the Unity engine can support earning, spending, and tipping KIN in-game, and even reward users with cryptocurrency for interacting with each other. Players can
Read MoreYouTube is retooling a core feature that recommends videos to users in an effort to curb the company’s role in promoting misleading content. YouTube is changing its algorithms to stop recommending conspiracies Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThankfully, Porsche didn’t have to go to extreme lengths to boost future output. Porsche to double Taycan production thanks to overwhelming demand – Roadshow Source: CNet
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