This holiday period, Plugged is running a very special advent calendar. Over the course of 12 days, we’ll be sharing a selection of sweet, sweet deals. You can thank us later. You know what? We couldn’t just stop at 12 days of TNW advent — we’re going to take it up to 14. So, on the
Read MoreHe would like you to stop doing them in 2019. This Internet Person Thinks Your ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Memes Are Terrible Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: France, Germany, Italy, and UK secure EU approval to grant €1.75B in state aid to a joint microelectronics project, expecting €6B more from private investors — BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France, Germany, Italy and Britain secured EU approval on Tuesday to grant 1.75 billion euros … France, Germany, Italy, and UK
Read MoreWe’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control
Read MoreHere at TNW every day is a present, so it’s always our birthday. But we understand that the world can be a bit of a bummer for everyone else. After all, we write about the dark underbelly of science and technology: Elon Musk. Kidding, actually there’s a lot more wrong with science and tech than
Read MoreAlex Howard / E Pluribus Unum: Congress passes the Open Government Data Act, which requires public information to be open to the public by default in a machine readable format — On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017 …
Read MoreAnyone who has decorated a Christmas tree knows that the lights are what really make the look. But no matter how many strings you wrap around it, there never seems to be enough. Plus the standard sets either sit there and do nothing, or just blink on and off at regular intervals. Yawn. But hackers
Read MoreWall Street Journal: As Snap hits an all-time low, sources describe Evan Spiegel’s instinctual and imperious management style that can stifle dissent and led to the redesign debacle — Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular As Snap hits an
Read MoreIt credits the success of its P20 and Honor 10 phones, among others. Huawei exceeds 200 million smartphone shipments, setting company record – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEntries into the Circuit Sculpture Contest tend to be pretty minimalist by nature, and this LED candle by [Amal Mathew] is a perfect example. The idea here was to recreate the slim and uncomplicated nature of a real candle but with a digital twist, and we think he’s pulled it off nicely with a bare
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Crew, a chat app targeting businesses that employ shift workers like multi-store retailers and fast-food chains, raises $35M Series C — When it comes to shift workers communicating with each other in the workplace when they are not face-to-face, gone are the days of cork announcement boards. Crew, a chat app
Read MoreBrian Barrett / Wired: How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more — IT’S FAIR TO say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren’t quite
Read MoreFew inventions affected our relationship with technology as much as push notifications have. Before modern-day notifications, most of us felt in charge of deciding when we want to use and interact with technology, but now, technology is largely making that decision for us. It’s easy to blame technology, but it’s important to note that it
Read MoreThe entirety of Silicon Valley is predicated on the ability to ‘move fast and break laws’. Have an idea for a scooter startup? No problem, just throw a bunch of scooters on the curb, littering and e-waste laws be damned. Earlier this year, Swarm Technologies launched four rogue satellites on an Indian rocket. All commercial
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: HQ Trivia to launch HQ Words tonight, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that’s been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO — HQ’s expansion beyond trivia emerges from beta tonight, but the question is whether it’s different and accessible enough to revive the startup’s growth. HQ Trivia
Read MoreScrappy business people are fantastic people to work with — lean, mean, execution machines. But there comes a point where all scrap and no strategy results in a hard working team that are running to stand-still. Many small company CEOs lean too far into the COO role, at the expensive of setting — and ensuring
Read MoreCraig Mod / Wired: Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book — THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. Although the functionality of
Read MoreBuilding a real-life version of the Star Trek tricorder has been the goal of engineers and hackers alike since the first time Dr McCoy complained about being asked to work outside of his job description. But while modern technology has delivered gadgets remarkably similar in function, we’ve still got a long way to go before we replicate
Read MoreKyle Samani / Multicoin Capital: A look at the state of crypto at the end of 2018 and a list of questions to consider as the ecosystem evolves in 2019 and beyond — As 2018 comes to a close, we’ve been thinking about some of the big questions that crypto still needs to answer. —
Read MoreThe end of the year offers a chance to compare the two companies which most strongly symbolize the tech industry through the years. How Microsoft won and Apple didn't lose Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: Uber has offered to pay 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber to drivers who have been in individual arbitration over their employment classification — Uber is reportedly on track to go public in the first quarter next year, and in the lead up to that, it’s sewing up
Read MoreThe launch of the latest Apple Watch in September was accompanied with the customary buzz that comes with every new Apple gadget. What really caught my eye and generated extra curiosity this time was the watch’s new fall detection feature, aimed at both senior citizens and the general public. One news outlet even enlisted a
Read MoreClasses are over at Cornell, and that means one thing: the students in [Bruce Land]’s microcontroller design course have submitted their final projects, many of which, like this flight control system for Google Earth’s flight simulator, find their way to the Hackaday tips line. We actually got this tip several days ago, but since it
Read MoreDeepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: A look at Joel Kaplan’s growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership — Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site’s protector against allegations of political bias A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook
Read MoreAs we count down the hours till Christmas, Google has Santa and his sleigh in mind. Google Doodle has Santa Claus set for holiday deliveries – CNET Source: CNet
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