An ultrasonic knife is a blade that vibrates a tiny amount at a high frequency, giving the knife edge minor superpowers. It gets used much like any other blade, but it becomes far easier to cut through troublesome materials like rubber or hard plastics. I was always curious about them, and recently made my own
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: HERE Mobility, backed by German car makers, debuts a new mobility app called SoMo in 15 cities including London and LA, as a neutral transportation platform — Here Technologies, the digital mapping service purchased for €2.8bn by German carmakers in 2015, launched a new transportation app … HERE Mobility, backed
Read MoreMatthew Hughes / The Next Web: GitHub now gives users of its free plan access to unlimited private repositories, but those repos are limited to three collaborators apiece — Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it
Read MoreWhat’s better than a clean install? How about a clean installation that includes all required drivers and utility programs? Here’s how to locate a free Windows 10, Windows 7, or even Linux recovery image for your Dell, HP, Lenovo, or Surface PC. How to get a free Windows (or Linux) recovery image for your OEM
Read MoreKhari Johnson / VentureBeat: Amazon’s Ring unveils a $199 Door View Cam, which captures peephole video and detects knocks, alongside several new devices for smart outdoor lighting and more — Amazon’s Ring today unveiled a series of new products including the Door View Cam for live video from the peephole of your front door …
Read MoreMegan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Amazon partners with HERE Technologies and Telenav to make Alexa part of both companies’ in-car navigation systems — Amazon today announced a significant partnership with Telenav, a connected car and location-based services provider. As part of the collaboration, Amazon’s voice assistant … Amazon partners with HERE Technologies and Telenav to
Read MoreIn the near future of the Smart Home, you will be able to control anything with your voice. Assuming that everything supports the Smart Home standard you chose, that is. If you have a device that supports one of the other standards, you’ll end up uselessly yelling at it. Unless you use gBridge. As the name
Read MoreWay back in May we reported on what was one of the cleverest gadgets we’d seen in a while: the JBL Link Bar, a soundbar that doubles as an Android TV box. It’s a supremely sensible mash-up, and we were excited to see how it worked out in practice. Problem is, it was supposed to
Read MoreI’ll put this out there, I think treat cameras like the Furbo and Petcube are great. These nifty little devices allow pet owners to keep an eye on (and interact with) their beloved animals. It’s a wonderful idea. But, unless your pet can talk (which would be awesome by the way), I’m not sure why
Read MoreHouse of Marley today announced it was entering the smart speaker space with the Google Assistant-powered Get Together Mini. The assistant, which was announced at the CES event in Las Vegas, looks genuinely gorgeous, and is something that you arguably wouldn’t mind having sat on your kitchen table. According to the manufacturer, it was built
Read MoreWith a highly publicized test firing and pledge by President Vladimir Putin that it will soon be deployed to frontline units, Russia’s Avangard hypersonic weapon has officially gone from a secretive development program to an inevitability. The first weapon of its type to enter into active service, it’s capable of delivering a payload to any spot
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Vizio says it is adding support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to its SmartCast enabled TVs which can now be controlled using Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant — Apple is reportedly gearing up for a new streaming TV service to rival Netflix, Amazon and Google this year, but in the meantime
Read More“What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone,” the billboard says, in a play on the Las Vegas slogan. Apple burns Google in giant billboard touting privacy at CES Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: Google says it expects Google Assistant to be on 1B devices by end of this month, up from 500M in May 2018, while global active users for Assistant grew 4x YoY — Active users have quadrupled since last year, but Google won’t disclose a concrete number — As CES kicks
Read MoreThis Android One Edition comes with a Republic Wireless SIM card, though you can use it with any North American carrier. Plus: Save 25 percent on a seriously nice foot-massager. The top-rated unlocked Moto X4 phone has never been cheaper: 5 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSupermarket chain Kroger is building a suite of retail-as-a-service products on top of Microsoft’s Azure and plans to jointly market them with Microsoft to other retailers. Microsoft and Kroger to jointly market a commercial retail-as-a-service product Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Pandora co-founder Will Glaser’s Grabango raises $12M Series A for its cashier-less store tech — Cashierless stores are fast becoming a reality, thanks to Amazon’s aggressive expansion of its Amazon Go chain and an emergent class of startups looking to nab a slice of the nascent sector. Pandora co-founder Will Glaser's
Read MoreThe new high-end video format will be available on the store later in 2019. CES 2019: Imax Enhanced digital movies to be exclusive to FandangoNow – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis clever little three-axis camera makes it easy for vloggers to get the right shots with an auto director feature that tracks you as you move. CES 2019: Obsbot Tail keeps you in the shot with AI – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJapanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed Nugget Boy’s 2017 plea to Wendy’s. SpaceX moon tourist earns retweet record with 0K giveaway – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft’s preparations for a new Japanese era coming later this year break Excel. Microsoft pulls buggy Office 2010 January updates Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Whirlpool-owned kitchen appliance maker is getting into the smart oven game in 2019. And yes, there are attachments. KitchenAid brings its own smart oven to CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou can still catch up on exactly what blockchaining is and how it’s changing the digital world with the training in The 2019 Blockchain Developer Mastery Bundle. These courses are now over 90 percent off, just $19 from TNW Deals. Become a blockchain developer in 2019 — this course is just Source: The Next Web
Read MoreYou might remember Wong Ching-Kit, the self-styled Bitcoin ‘millionaire’ behind last month’s outlandish publicity stunt, which saw thousands of dollars rain from the sky in one of Hong Kong‘s poorest neighbourhoods. Well, four angry blockchain speculators have accused Wong of cheating them out of HK$3 million ($380K), after purchasing his special (and ultimately worthless) cryptocurrency
Read MoreAmy Nordrum / IEEE Spectrum: Rival technologies emerge for higher-capacity hard drives, heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording, with Seagate betting on HAMR and WD choosing MAMR — Seagate and Western Digital are pursuing rival technologies to push the limits of hard disk drives Rival technologies emerge for higher-capacity hard drives, heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording,
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