Google stepped up its battle against bad web ads by joining the Coalition for Better Ads and blocking disruptive promos in its Chrome browser across North America and Europe. Today, the folks from the browser’s product team announced that the ad-blocking feature will be available to Chrome users worldwide starting July 9. This announcement comes
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets — Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round, the company is now valued at
Read MoreThere are a lot of side effects of living with medical conditions, and not all of them are obvious. For Parkinson’s disease, one of the conditions is a constant hand tremor. This can obviously lead to frustration with anything that involves fine motor skills, but also includes eating, which can be even more troublesome than
Read MoreThe two-piece attachment will make your bike rides safer thanks to its front and rear cameras. CES 2019: Argon Transform makes any bike helmet smart without a fuss – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Overview of the high-end monitors announced at CES so far, including 49-inch ultrawide offerings from Samsung, Dell, and others — Giant, wide, and sometimes even portable — It’s barely the second week of the year, and we’ve already been treated to an arrangement of weird and wonderful monitors … Overview
Read MoreApple Maps has been available on iPhones in India for years, but it’s historically lacked a crucial feature – turn-by-turn navigation. Now, it looks like Apple’s finally rolling out the feature to iOS users in India. Several Twitter users in India reported that the feature is live on their devices. We tested it on an
Read MoreThis startup aims to make a business out of renting out power banks to charge your phone. CES 2019: Breeze wants to make it easy to charge your phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTechCrunch reports that Instagram is finally introducing an official regram feature to its iOS app, so you can share the same post from multiple accounts that you run. That should make it easy for content creators looking to promote their work on their personal and brand accounts, as well as businesses with multiple profiles for
Read MoreCommentary: Half of Americans say they’re lonely, but Katie Collins finds hope at CES in the promise of Groove X’s Lovot robot. At CES 2019, I met a robot that showed me a future where we're not so lonely – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff” — Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.
Read MoreGrab your pager and get ready to head back to the 1990s for a solo film about a Marvel heroine who just might save the universe. Here’s what we know. Captain Marvel: Samuel L. Jackson reveals a plot-changing detail – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJesus Diaz / Fast Company: IKEA’s battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA’s Trådfri will be broadly available in Europe Feb. 2, in the US Apr. 1 — Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds. Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available … IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds supporting HomeKit, Alexa, Google
Read MoreBut we’re not sure it can keep those promises. Samsung Notebook Flash promises speed and style on a budget at CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAside from being silver, this 13-inch ultraportable doesn’t look at all like last year’s. CES 2019: Samsung unveils redesigned Notebook 9 Pro aimed at creatives – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe typically feature projects from people sharing what they’ve learned while building something for themselves. But our community has a healthy contingent who deploy their skills for the benefit of future generations, developing a child’s natural curiosity for play into interest in understanding the technical world they will grow up in. This field is where
Read MoreWhen towels are not enough there’s always a pet dryer. At CES 2019, a 0 sauna will give your dog the blow dry of his life – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSanDisk, years back, showed off a 1TB SD prototype that never managed to make it to market. Today, at CES, the newly acquired Lexar made a bit of a splash by announcing that you’d soon be able to buy the card we’ve all been wanting since SanDisk first announced it two years ago. “Almost fifteen
Read MoreA stellar meal provides tantalizing new evidence about black hole evolution. NASA telescope spots black hole shrinking after devouring a star – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChanging memory cards is about to become a thing of the past. Lexar unveils mammoth 1TB SD card at CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreZheping Huang / South China Morning Post: Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao — – Bitmain accounts for 75 per cent of the world’s specialised computers used to earn new units of digital money Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan
Read MoreCustom system builders like Origin PC and Maingear offer specialty products to stand out from the big guys. Boutique PC gaming companies think big at CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere’s lots to love at CES each year, but there’s always that one product that’s just to cool to ignore. This year, it’s a $3,000 table that plays Pong. No, really. While it may seem an underwhelming addition to a trade show known to showcase the latest and greatest, this digital representation of the 1972
Read MoreManish Singh / VentureBeat: Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia’s content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages — For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit’s effort has been slow … Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate
Read MoreTom Krazit / GeekWire: AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 — The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project. AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB,
Read MoreTransferwise, the cross-border payments unicorn, has announced it’s in the process of applying for a Belgian license, in order to ensure a continuity of service to its European customers in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The company also plans to open an office in the Belgian capital, although has pledged to keep its London
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