The Chinese telecom giant’s 5G tech sales have come under scrutiny. Canadian ban on Huawei's 5G tech will trigger 'repercussions,' says China – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA federal judge this week ruled Facebook must make public internal documents that reveal the rather unsavory ways the company allegedly profits off of unsuspecting children — as if the company’s history with kids wasn’t dubious enough. The whole shebang started in 2012, with a lawsuit against Facebook in which the plaintiff claimed it’d profited
Read MoreThe same source said an EV variant of the Q2 SUV will head to China. Audi plans Q3-sized EV crossover, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’re certainly no strangers to unique timepieces around these parts. For whatever reason, hackers are obsessed with finding new and interesting ways of displaying the time. Not that we’re complaining, of course. We’re just as excited to see the things as they are to build them. With the assumption that you’re just as enamored with
Read MoreJust a few days after announcing it would stop supporting Windows 7 soon, Microsoft is sounding the death knell for another of its products: Windows 10 Mobile. Starting December 10, 2019 your devices will no longer be able to receive security or software updates on the OS, and Microsoft will no longer provide support should issues
Read MoreThe Amazon chief’s split from his wife raises questions about the disposal of their enormous stake in the company he founded. Investors deserve answers. Common Sense: Why Jeff Bezos’ Divorce Should Worry Amazon Investors Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft will no longer provide free security updates or hotfixes for Windows 10 Mobile after December 10, 2019, and recommends users go with Android or iOS. (Yes, really.) Windows Phone users: Your reminder that support ends in December 2019 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreApproximately one in five Sims under my care will die in a kitchen fire. Those who survive will face an even bigger threat: smart speakers. EA and Maxis recently announced The Sims 4 would arrive on Amazon‘s Alexa smart speakers in the form of a new Alexa skill. And, as art imitates life, your Sims
Read MoreThe phrase “Hindsight is 20/20” is one of those things that we all say from time to time, but rarely have a chance to truly appreciate to the fullest. Taken in the most literal context, it means that once you know the end result of a particular scenario, you can look back and clearly see
Read MoreIn this week’s podcast, editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on favorite hacks and articles from the week. Highlights include a deep dive in barn-door telescope trackers, listening in on mains power, the backstory of a supercomputer inventor, and crazy test practices with new jet engine designs. We discuss some of our favorite
Read More‘Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power platform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company,’ says CEO Satya Nadella. Why Microsoft's 'Power Platform' is one of its biggest bets for 2019 and beyond Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe streaming service is ratcheting up its ambition, aiming beyond video. Netflix: Fortnite is a bigger rival than HBO Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft has continued to waffle around how exactly it plans to position Cortana. But CEO Satya Nadella gave the clearest explanation so far: Cortana will be a skill, not a head-to-head competitor with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. Microsoft CEO Nadella makes it official: Cortana is an app, not a standalone assistant Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA new book argues that Google and Facebook created a new business model that profits off private human behavior. Bits: The Week in Tech: How Google and Facebook Spawned Surveillance Capitalism Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAT&T, one of the biggest advertisers in the U.S., had balked because offensive content too often accompanied its ads. Now it says YouTube has addressed the issue. AT&T to Advertise on YouTube Again After a Nearly 2-Year Holdout Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMen can’t tell the difference between fear and respect. They act accordingly. Work Friend: If You Don’t Think Your Office Is a War Zone You Are Fooling Yourself Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrocontrollers are small, no one is arguing that. On a silicon wafer the size of a grain of rice, you can connect a GPS tracker to the Internet. Put that in a package, and you can put the Internet of Things into something the size of a postage stamp. There’s one microcontroller that’s smaller than
Read MoreAs a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you could begin to recognize individual birds. This intrigued me. I even went so far as to try sketching birds at my own feeders and had found this to be
Read MoreA security flaw may have disabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting. Twitter admits bug exposed some Android users' protected tweets for years – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSAP has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking system to allow drug wholesalers to authenticate pharmaceutical packaging returned by pharmacies and hospitals. That should help them weed out counterfeit drugs from their supply chain. SAP says it hopes to eventually expand the use of distributed ledger technology to cover a broader range of pharmaceutical supply
Read MoreFacebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The accounts in question were masquerading as news organizations and interest pages to spread misinformation. The pages and accounts were linked to employees of defamed Russian state publication Sputnik, which was previously downranked by Google for spreading false information.
Read MoreThe Redmond giant is keenly interested in remote code execution and privilege escalation flaws. Microsoft launches Azure DevOps bug bounty program, ,000 rewards on offer Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreMatthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Hands-on with Nike’s $350 Bluetooth-enabled Adapt BB shoe with automated power-lacing, which will allow basketball players to change shoe tightness via an app — Nike’s Adapt BB shoe has utility for pros, but is also a lens into a connected future — Why does the world need a self-lacing shoe? Hands-on
Read MoreMortal Kombat 11 is pairing its familiar ultraviolence with more character customization. Mortal Kombat 11's first gameplay footage: new fatalities, characters revealed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’ve known for a while now that China has a roadmap to implement a ‘social credit system’ for its citizens in 2020: the plan is to score people based on their interactions and infractions with public and private institutions, such as breaking traffic rules, and spreading misinformation online. This week, China Daily reported that North
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