The financial details of the split are sure to be complicated, though the world’s richest man and his wife of 25 years vow to “remain cherished friends.” Jeff Bezos of Amazon and MacKenzie Bezos Plan to Divorce Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft is starting to test a new way that it’s hoping will keep Windows 10 feature updates from failing on PCs with insufficient storage space as part of its latest Windows 10 19H1 Insider build. Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 release adds support for coming reserved storage feature Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreLi Yuan conducts much of her work on the WeChat mobile app, including spotting trends — and prodding sources to get back to her. Tech We’re Using: To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFair warning: next time Microsoft rolls out one of its big semi-annual Windows 10 updates, you’ll probably lose a big chunk of storage. In a blog post, Microsoft announced that “with the next major update,” Windows will set aside about 7GB of disk space for updates, apps, temporary files, and system caches. Though that may
Read MoreKurt Wagner / Recode: From February, Twitter will stream the second-half of some NBA games, with the camera’s focus on an individual player picked by users — Twitter cut a streaming deal with the NBA to show you individual players, not full games. — Twitter doesn’t stream NBA games, but soon it will stream parts
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics — Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, announced the chip makers new graphics processing unit, the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII graphics chip. AMD announces the
Read MoreIf you want to learn Morse code and you don’t have a teacher, you’d probably just head over to a website or download a phone app. Before that, you probably bought a cassette tape or a phonograph record. But how did you learn Morse if you didn’t have any of that and didn’t know anyone
Read MoreSome Samsung devices come with a pre-installed Facebook app that can’t be removed. Facebook literally can’t be deleted on some phones Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreJordan Crook / TechCrunch: Managed by Q, which develops a platform for managing offices, adds $25M to its Series C round, led by RRE and GV, bringing the total for the round to $55M — Managed by Q, the office management platform that launched back in 2013, has today revealed that it raised an additional
Read MoreThis fragrance printing machine aims to keep odors consistent in your home with micron-level consistency. Print a scent at CES 2019: Airia dispenses fragrance via inkjet technology – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePolice are investigating. Heathrow grounds flights after drone sighting – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Future X Smart Store by SK-II scans your face for a beauty retail experienced based on your flaws. The future of makeup counters came to CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Krazit / GeekWire: Square launches an in-app payments SDK for iOS, Android, and the Flutter mobile development platform — Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as well, the company is launching a mobile software development kit Wednesday … Square launches an
Read MoreI got it! I got it! I got it! I don’t got it. SpaceX Mr. Steven ship tries again to catch a rocket fairing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’re keeping a running list of new, Alexa-compatible product announcements from Las Vegas. All the new Alexa products from CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFunding into cryptocurrency and blockchain startups in the UK reached a new record last year. According to data published by Pitchbook and London & Partners, companies in the space raised more than £200m from venture capital investors. Big rounds included the £61M raised by blockchain software firm Bitfury and a Series A closed by London-based
Read MoreSquare, the payments app founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is making it easier for app developers to charge customers within their mobile experiences. Today, the company launched its new Square In-App Payments Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for iOS, Android, and Google’s Flutter framework. The Square In-App Payments SDK lets developers take
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Variety: Sonos says it has begun a private beta test of Google Assistant integration, first announced in 2017, with the aim of rolling it out later this year — Sonos has started a private beta test of Google Assistant on its smart speakers, and is looking to launch the integration to the
Read MoreIt’s a common situation faced by every hard-working American – you get home after a long day at the calcium mines, and find yourself stuck with a pile of colored golf balls that simply aren’t going to sort themselves. Finally, you can put away your sorting funnels and ball-handling gloves – [Anthony] has the solution.
Read MoreWhat happens when you put technology into, well, everything? You might remember the talking toilet from 2018. Could tech top that in 2019? The Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler explores the halls of CES to find out. Just a few weird tech products we saw at CES 2019 Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreKim Zetter / Politico: Sources: Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab helped the US government catch NSA contractor Harold Martin, who was accused of stealing a trove of classified data — The U.S. has accused Kaspersky Lab of working with Russian spies. But sources say the company exposed a massive breach that U.S. authorities missed. Sources:
Read MoreThe holy grail of display technology is to replicate what you see in the real world. This means video playback in 3D — but when it comes to displays, what is 3D anyway? You don’t need me to tell you how far away we are from succeeding in replicating real life in a video display.
Read MoreAugust extends its connected smart lock tech to another Assa Abloy co-brand, the high-end residential lock maker Emtek. August takes its connected smart lock tech to high-end Emtek locks – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBezos made the announcement on Twitter. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he and wife MacKenzie are getting divorced – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at how data brokers identify people and how much personal information they sell as IDC forecasts data vendor sales will triple to $10.1B by 2022 — There are many personal details that Paul-Olivier Dehaye is willing to share online, but the behaviour of his bladder is not one of them. A
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