Microsoft wins a five-year services deal with Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and intelligence community. Microsoft's big win: Pentagon signs massive .76bn contract Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreCryptocurrency traders in Denmark will be facing increased scrutiny. It comes after the country’s tax agency was granted permission to begin collecting data relating to cryptocurrency trades made through three exchanges between 2016 and 2018. A statement published on the agency’s website says this is the first time the Tax Authority has been granted access to
Read MoreSteven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: CES 2019 notes: high number of Chinese attendees, massive Google participation, and products that are close to reaching a tipping point of customer satisfaction — Help Wanted, Product Managers Apply — The Consumer Electronics Show is the annual gathering of over 180,000 people … CES 2019 notes: high number
Read MoreLast week, Twitter announced that it’ll launch a new beta program to test out its upcoming features to reshape how conversations take place on the platform. Now, we have our first look at the upcoming features thanks to TechCrunch, and frankly, the interface looks like a multicolor mess. First up is Twitter‘s stacked conversation feature.
Read MoreThe hackers over at Radiona.org, a Zagreb Makerspace, have been hard at work designing the ULX3S, an open-source development board for LATTICE ECP5 FPGAs. This board might help make 2019 the Year of the Hacker FPGA, whose occurrence has been predicted once again after not quite materializing in 2018. Even a quick look at the
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Indiegogo says Chinese entrepreneurs have raised $150M+ on its platform since 2016, with 35 products raising $1M+ — Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, turns 11 this month. In the intervening years, it’s provided the seed capital … Indiegogo says Chinese entrepreneurs have
Read MoreThe report comes less than two weeks after the iPhone sales warning. Apple chipmaker Dialog projects quarterly sales at low end of target – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA squad of cybersecurity firms have tracked a ransomware threat spreading across the internet known as Ryuk, which has collected over 705 BTC in just five months, estimated to be worth the equivalent of $3.7 million. Using email phishing campaigns to inject tens of thousands of victims with a banking Trojan called TrickBot, ransomers later hand-picked infected
Read MoreMicrosoft strongly recommends uninstalling an anti-piracy patch on enterprise Windows 7 PCs. Microsoft: We've fixed Windows 7 'Not genuine' and network share issues Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Malaysian government is regulating initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrency trading. According to a statement issued by Lim Guan Eng, the country’s Minister of Finance, launching unauthorized ICOs or participating in the exchange of digital goods could result in a 10-year jail term and a $2,4 million (RM 10 million fine). The order, which
Read MoreSlap bang in the middle of 2018, Honor released the venerable Honor 10 smartphone, which we were pretty big fans of. Why? For the simple reason that his drop-dead gorgeous handset offered impressive camera performance and near-flagship specifications for the palatable price of £399 (or €449 in the Eurozone). Now, Honor’s followed up with the
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Read MoreSarah Schmid Stevenson / Xconomy: Humatics raises $28M Series A1 for a spatial intelligence platform that lets industrial robots navigate factories and warehouses at a centimeter level precision — Humatics, the Waltham, MA-based startup working on microlocation technology for use in robots and autonomous vehicles … Humatics raises M Series A1 for a spatial intelligence
Read MoreWe’ve seen plenty of phones featuring 2x optical zoom with the help of a secondary camera. But Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is about to set a new standard by unveiling a phone camera with 10x optical lossless zoom. Chinese publication MyDrivers noted that the company is sending out media invites for an event on January
Read MoreMost people are familiar with the idea that machine learning can be used to detect things like objects or people, but for anyone who’s not clear on how that process actually works should check out [Kurokesu]’s example project for detecting pedestrians. It goes into detail on exactly what software is used, how it is configured, and
Read MoreLooking back on the past twelve months, we will all remember cybersecurity scares, revelations of data malpractices, and countless large-scale data breaches. Allegations ranged from Google’s non-consensual tracking of user location data to (unlikely) instances of China covertly installing microscopic spy chips on US tech hardware. It’s clear that data privacy will underpin innovation and
Read MoreBloomberg: How PayPal’s user growth and stock price have risen after teaming up with former foes like Visa; sources: Venmo still loses hundreds of millions annually — In late 1999 a young computer scientist named Max Levchin started receiving emails from strangers about a web demo he’d created to illustrate the workings of an app.
Read MoreThis picture above, of an egg, has racked up the most likes of any single post on Instagram: 24 million and counting. And it beat the last record holder – a photo of model Kylie Jenner’s baby posted last February – by a whopping 6 million in just 10 days. It’s from an account identifying
Read MoreThe OnePlus rumor mill has started early this year, and we have our first leaks of its next device out in the wild. According to images posted by SlashLeaks, the company will ditch the notch for its upcoming OnePlus 7. The image shows an alleged prototype of the device in a tan case with no
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: London-based Scape Technologies exits stealth, says it has raised $8M seed for its camera-based positioning tech that it says is far more accurate than GPS — Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup, is de-cloaking today to announce that it has raised $8 million in seed fund … London-based Scape Technologies
Read MoreAfter playing second fiddle to Chinese rival Xiaomi in India’s burgeoning smartphone market in 2018, Samsung is set to fight back with a new line of budget-friendly handsets. The company will introduce a new M-series of phones on January 28 in India. The company said it’ll launch these devices in India first, and then roll
Read MoreIn an effort to make the RC F truly appealing to buyers with a sporting bent, Lexus trimmed some of the fat from its V8-powered luxo-coupe. 2020 Lexus RC F and Track Edition get their Detroit Auto Show debut – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreTrying to make a hemispherical surface out of a PCB is no easy feat. Trying to do that and make the result a working circuit is even harder. Doing it with one solid piece of FR4 seems impossible, right? Not so much. [brainsmoke] came up with a clever way to make foldable, working PCBs that
Read MoreThe Verge reports that Verizon is the latest company to throw its hat into the game streaming ring, with a trial of its upcoming service that it’s quietly running with some customers on Nvidia Shield set-top boxes. According to the report, Verizon is testing its cloud-based service by sending participants a Shield, an Xbox One
Read MoreThere’s nothing special about the egg. Seems like a fine enough egg. But more than 22 million people have liked it, dethroning Kylie Jenner’s birth-announcement post. An Egg, Just a Regular Egg, Is Instagram’s Most-Liked Post Ever Source: NY Times Tech
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