SpaceX to lay off 10 percent of its workforce – CNET
Company says it needs to be “leaner” to accomplish ambitious goals. SpaceX to lay off 10 percent of its workforce – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCompany says it needs to be “leaner” to accomplish ambitious goals. SpaceX to lay off 10 percent of its workforce – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post: Chinese tech companies at CES say the US-China trade war has adversely impacted their business but, despite the lower margins, the US market remains important — – Times are tough in 2019 thanks to the US-China trade war and an escalating war of words between Washington and Beijing over tech leadership
Read MoreDaria Solovieva / Fast Company: Microsoft has avoided the scrutiny over privacy issues that has ensnared rivals by working with regulators and advocating its own solutions — Quietly but confidently, Microsoft is back. — For the first time in almost a decade, it’s the most valuable company in the world while its archrival Apple stumbles.
Read MoreThe simplest answer to a problem is not necessarily always the best answer. If you ask the question, “How do I get a voice assistance to work on a crowded subway car?”, the simplest answer is to shout into a microphone but we don’t want to ask Siri to put toilet paper on the shopping
Read MoreThere’s nothing wrong with the ‘no license, no chips’ accusation at the heart of the government’s case against the mobile chipmaker, Steve Mollenkopf argues. Qualcomm CEO defends chip-licensing business in FTC trial – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s day 21 of the US government shutdown, and the tech industry is starting to feel the heat. Government shutdown delays launch of new tech products – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: Viacom in talks to acquire Tubi TV, an ad-supported streaming service partly owned by MGM and Lionsgate; one source estimated a cost of around $300M — Nearly every major media company in recent years has launched video streaming services that cost viewers a few dollars a month and don’t carry ads …
Read MoreCommentary: I watched Netflix show Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, but reject her advice to pare down my vast book collection. Trendy quest to declutter, be damned. Marie Kondo, back off! Why this book hoarder refuses to tidy up – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s also faster, going up to 20 mph. Ojo joins electric scooter craze with a new sit-down vehicle – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreProctor & Gamble debuted its newest tool in the fight against aging. At CES this week, the company introduced the world to “Opté,” a handheld device that prints anti-aging product on top of your skin, acting as a real-world Photoshop, essentially. Opté covers up hyperpigmentation, or age spots, by gliding a device the size of
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Variety: Discussing the decline of TV, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish says driverless, 5G-connected cars would add viewing minutes in the same way the bedroom TV did — Viacom CEO Bob Bakish isn’t ready to celebrate victory just yet. “I wouldn’t ever say mission accomplished, and certainly not in the changing world …
Read MoreLindsey O’Donnell / Threatpost: Dozens of government websites rendered insecure or inaccessible due to 80+ expired TLS certificates that haven’t been renewed due to the US government shutdown — As the U.S. federal shutdown continues, dozens of U.S. government websites have been rendered either insecure or inaccessible due … Dozens of government websites rendered insecure
Read MoreDeep in the corners of CES lurk mind-bending products that sharply stand out from a sea of TVs. These are the weirdest products of CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWay back when, before diesel-electric locomotives were a thing, trains weren’t really able to go backwards too well. Also it’s sometimes necessary to turn carriages around in a small space. For that, the railway turntable was invented. If you want to implement one on a model layout, this project from DIY & Digital Railworld is
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Leaked docs: Verizon is alpha testing a game streaming service called Verizon Gaming, currently running on the Nvidia Shield TV, eventually expanding to Android — Verizon Gaming is already running on the Nvidia Shield — and soon Android — Verizon is currently conducting alpha testing … Leaked docs: Verizon is
Read MoreA team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University developed a neural network capable of reading a recipe and generating an image of what the finished, cooked product would look like. As if DeepFakes weren’t bad enough, now we can’t be sure the delicious food we see online is real. The Tel-Aviv team, consisting of researchers Ori
Read MoreGoogle just discontinued one of its best and most underrated products, the Chromecast Audio. On the plus side, the company is offering a great deal as it gets rid of inventory: you can now buy the $35 dongle for just $15 on Google’s website. Launched in 2015, Chromecast Audio was an easy way to add
Read MoreIt’s not often in the video game industry that we get to see a public face-off between two companies, but we got one this week between Unity and Epic, creators of two of the most popular game engines among developers. The conflict began between Unity and Improbable, the developers of a cloud platform called SpatialOS. Improbable
Read MoreThe House Energy and Commerce committee doesn’t want to wait until after the government shutdown for answers. Congress asks FCC for emergency briefing on ending location data sales – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, it appeared that we’d be rid of his half-baked conspiracy theories once and for all. Or, that’s what we thought, anyway. Following multiple “strikes” for content that violated its terms of service, YouTube permanently removed
Read MoreDoing business with the chipmaker means there was “no longer a level playing field,” Apple exec testifies in an FTC trial against Qualcomm. Apple: Qualcomm's hardball tactics squeezed Intel chips out of iPad Mini 2 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival — Hacker knocked an entire country’s internet connection offline. — A UK court sentenced today a 30-year-old man to two years …
Read MoreThe Chinese automaker is also giving the US its first look at its GM6 minivan and GS5 SUV. China's GAC is bringing its Entranze concept to the Detroit Auto Show – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreKit Walsh / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Bird sends dubious DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing over a post explaining how to legally buy an abandoned Bird scooter and convert it to a personal scooter — Every now and then we have to remind someone that it’s not illegal for people to report facts that they
Read MoreCES 2019 came and went, now it’s time to weigh in on your favorites of the show. CNET Asks: What wowed you at CES 2019? – CNET Source: CNet
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