After a week of delays, Elon Musk’s space company gets its Falcon 9 rocket and navigation payload into orbit. SpaceX rocket launches next-gen GPS satellite at last – CNET Source: CNet
Read More[Paul Gallagher] has spent years separating his tasks into carefully measured out blocks, a method of time management known as the Pomodoro Technique. If that’s not enough proof that he’s considerably more organized and structured than the average hacker, you only need to take a look at this gorgeous Pomodoro Timer he’s entered into the Circuit Sculpture
Read MoreRob Marshall was thrilled and anxious to be asked to direct the sequel to “Mary Poppins,” which was the first movie he ever saw. Mary Poppins: The Peculiar Challenge of Animating Her World Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWe’ve got your step-by-step map to traveling the intricacies of learning and mastering the Tableau 10 environment right here. Right now, you can pick up The Complete Tableau 10 Data Science course bundle, an over $600 value, for only $12 from TNW Deals. Master the tricks of Tableau’s data visualization with this bundle Source: The
Read MoreDanny Crichton / TechCrunch: An overview of the new global and regional satellite navigation systems being built by China, Japan, India, and the EU — Where are you? That’s not just a metaphysical question, but increasingly a geopolitical challenge that is putting tech giants like Apple and Alphabet in a tough position. An overview of
Read MoreThe historic Google walkout showed how powerful tech employees really are. Google workers found voice in protest this year. There will likely be more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWho needs the sun when you’ve got this elaborate machine? Nissan makes sure cars' paint won’t fade with this 4,000-watt light – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe world of glues is wide and varied, and it pays to use the right glue for the job. When [Eric] needed to stick a wide and flat 3D printed mount onto the back of a PCB that had been weatherproofed with an uneven epoxy coating, he needed a gap-filling adhesive that would bond to
Read MoreApple’s 21 iPhones never looked this good. Here's every iPhone ever made from 2007 to today – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe biggest tech show of the year is six days of jam-packed events. Here’s what to expect. CES 2019: The schedule so far – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis 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. Want those sweet, good, lovely deals from day number 11? We’ve got you. On the twelfth day of TNW’s advent, the lovely team gave
Read MoreEarlier in the year I wrote about how much I loved the iPod. And you know what? My feelings haven’t changed – it’s still the best gadget ever released. Herein lies the problem. Apple, if you’re reading this, please listen carefully. I need a new iPod. Notice how I said “need.” Wanting is a childish
Read MoreFans of game consoles from the golden era of TV game appliances have been in for a treat over the past couple of years, and a slew of official reboots of the stars of the past have reached the market. These so-called “classic” consoles closely follow the styling of the originals, but under the hood
Read MoreNEO is the cryptocurrency backing the namesake blockchain platform that supports the digitization of physical assets and their self-management through smart contracts. The project was launched in 2014 in China as AntShares, but didn’t garner significant attention until its rebranding as NEO in 2017. By the time NEO gained any traction, the decentralized application (DApps)
Read MoreKickstarter is always a mixed bag. On the one hand, there are some of the most innovative products on Earth, all in one place. But on the other, we’ve got gadgets for taking better dog selfies, Nike-like trainers for horses, and this odd brush that makes it more fun to lick your cat. But if
Read MoreKate Kelly / New York Times: Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients — The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Profile of
Read MoreWe all maintain this balancing act between the cool things we want, the money we can spend, and our free time. When the pièce de résistance is a couple of orders of magnitude out of our budget, the only question is, “Do I want to spend the time to build my own?” [Nick Charlton] clearly
Read MoreKerry Flynn / Digiday: Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy — In his childhood, Colin Kroll imagined being able to interact with all the TV shows he watched. Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of
Read MoreNaomi Nix / Bloomberg: Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign — A salacious dossier, a mystery client with an alias, dueling allegations of sexual misconduct. Inside the bitter fight over a B Pentagon JEDI cloud
Read MoreWhen in doubt, blame the robots. As Facebook has fallen from grace and struggled to reconcile its role in spreading propaganda and stoking political anger, the company has proposed a familiar solution: If the algorithm has failed, let’s just build a better algorithm. It’s a noble goal for the next hackathon. As a mechanism for
Read MoreIf you have a thing for old game development — things like the Atari 2600 or similar period arcade games — you might already know about the 8bitworkshop IDE. There you can develop code in your browser for those platforms. In a recent blog post, the site announced you can now also do FPGA development
Read MoreMIT Technology Review: How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI — Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing? How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from
Read MoreSince my last trip to Ukraine in 2017, the country’s intoxication with the startup bug has grown, driven by local success stories such as Grammarly and GitLab. I returned to IT Arena in Lviv this year (on the Polish border), where last year conversations typically turned to Ukrainian entrepreneur’s inadequacies. This year was different, with
Read MoreOwen Williams / Charged: As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hangout where you go to talk to friends — I’ve played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much. It’s fun to
Read MoreSometimes a project takes longer than it should to land in the Hackaday in-tray, but when we read about it there’s such gold to be found that it’s worth sharing with you our readers despite its slight lack of freshness. So it is with [Andrew Back]’s refurbishment of his Quad electrostatic speaker system power supply,
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