For many people, Gmail is synonymous with e-mail. Some people like having cloud access to everything and some people hate having any personal data in the cloud. However you feel about it, one thing that was nice about having desktop software is that you could hack it relatively easily. If you didn’t like how your
Read MoreEveryone’s favorite plucky lightweight sports car company is fixing to get a lot bigger. Lotus to move some production to China, expand model lineup – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreGet over here and check out the first gameplay. Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay reveal: How to watch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe founder and chief executive of Code.org, who was born in Iran, says computer science is a “foundational skill,” one that future doctors, lawyers and politicians should all possess. Corner Office: Hadi Partovi Was Raised in a Revolution. Today He Teaches Kids to Code. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreKate Rooney / CNBC: Square launches Square Card, a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to money from sales made on their Square payments system — – The fintech company is launching a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to sales made on the Square payments system.
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Home improvement platform Pro.com raises $33M Series B, bringing the total raised to $60M — Pro.com is basically a general contractor for the age of Uber and Prime Now. While the company started out as a marketplace for hiring home improvement professionals, it has now morphed … Home improvement platform Pro.com
Read MoreIn 2017, a veritable civil war was fought between camps of Bitcoin believers: those who sought to keep its “block size” at 1MB, and those who wanted to increase it. Those looking for bigger blocks found themselves rallying behind a then-new cryptocurrency – a “hard fork” of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – whose premise rested
Read MoreIt’s been an astonishingly busy twelve months for Square, the upstart payments firm founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In March, it launched operations in the UK. Then, last week, it got into the in-app payments game. And today, the company announced the launch of the Square Card — a free debit card aimed at
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7 — The event is an extension of Amazon’s semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Bing Ads is now the exclusive search-ad provider for Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL properties. Microsoft and Verizon Media extend Bing Ads-Yahoo deal Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / CNBC: In an internal post, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook manager who oversaw React, says she quit after being harassed for criticizing Facebook’s lack of diversity — – A Facebook engineering manager who ran an open-source project left earlier this month after being harassed by her colleagues. In an internal post, Sophie Alpert,
Read More…theoretically, anyway. When [Quinn] lucked into a bunch of 5 mm red LEDs and a tube of 74LS164 shift registers, a project sprang to mind: “The Forever Number,” a pseudo-random number generator with a period longer than the age of the universe. Of course, the components used will fail long before the sequence repeats, but
Read MorePlayers are mad at Ubisoft this week in the wake of the latest DLC episode for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The problem? Thanks to a fixed story point in the episode, the game‘s developers have apparently abandoned the player freedom that comprised the backbone of its marketing. I’m gonna drop some major spoils right about now, so
Read MoreA common form of cryptocurrency mining malware has evolved and is now able to switch off security services to continue mining without being detected. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered that the malware used by cryptojacking group “Rocke” is able to gain administrative privileges to Linux-based cloud servers and uninstall vital security
Read MoreI recently came across the most peculiar way to make a color CRT monitor. More than a few oscilloscopes have found their way on to my bench over the years, but I was particularly struck with a find from eBay. A quick look at the display reveals something a little alien. The sharpness is fantastic:
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR and recruiting, raises $40M Series B led by Index Ventures — Personio, the German HR and recruiting platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding. Leading the round is London-based Index Ventures, with participation … Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR
Read MoreAs of the latest preview build of Windows 10 they’re splitting amicably. Microsoft will divorce search from Cortana in Windows 10 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRy Crist / CNET: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s X2 Games announces plans to launch 6 new voice-controlled, Alexa-centric games in 2019, the first of which will arrive in March — Enlarge Image — “Alexa, turn my shoes on.” — A genial old fellow on stage at the Alexa Conference in Chattanooga … Atari founder Nolan
Read MoreThe two automakers also have an unrelated software update to send out. Hyundai adds 100,000 cars to Kia's engine-fire recall – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Alation, which indexes a company’s databases to build a data search catalog, raises $50M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures — Alation, a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build a data search catalogue, announced a $50 million Series C investment today. Alation, which indexes a company's
Read MoreThe resolution will be voted on this spring. Shareholders demand Amazon end facial recognition sales to government – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTwo versions of the productivity tools get their first-ever price increases. Google raises the price of G Suite by 20 percent – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUS academics are working together to create a new and improved cryptocurrency in a bid to rival Bitcoin. According to Bloomberg, professors from seven US colleges (including MIT, University of California, Standford University, and Berkely) are looking to create a digital currency capable of processing thousands of transactions a second without sacrificing the basic principle
Read MoreThe social network said hundreds of pages had originated in Russia, including a network of accounts that touched on regional weather and sports but actually served as a way for Russian state-owned media to secretly reach social media users. Facebook disables hundreds of accounts tied to Russian news agency for hiding their identity Source: Washington
Read MoreKonstantin Stanislavski famously said “there are no small parts, only small actors.” Google Doodle bows to Stanislavski, the man behind method acting – CNET Source: CNet
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