New York City ride hailing drivers are guaranteed a minimum wage following the a vote by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission Tuesday. The rate — set at $17.22 per hour after expenses — makes New York the first American city to adopt minimum pay for app-based drivers, according to the Independent Drivers Guild. New
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Reuters: Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week …
Read MoreIf you live in the country, chances are you don’t have internet broadband. While the FCC and most major ISPs continue to spin their wheels, three major technology companies are working to bring true broadband to rural areas. Microsoft, SpaceX, and T-Mobile's various plans to bring broadband to rural America Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIt seems a reasonable assumption that anyone who’d be willing to spend a few hundred dollars on a pair of headphones is probably the type of person who has a passion for high quality audio. That, or they work for the government. We’re fairly sure [Daniel Harari] falls into that former category though, given how
Read MoreSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available — There’s now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes. Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group — Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday. Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a .5M Series
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 — Samsung announced yesterday that it’s set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise. Following Verizon, AT&T says it
Read MoreThe fun starts in 2019. Qualcomm plots out 5G future: Everything from its Snapdragon Tech Summit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAnything’s better than trying to revive “Mach 1.” Ford files Mach E trademark, likely for Mustang-inspired EV SUV – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe creator of Leisure Suit Larry has just unearthed the source codes of several games, including the first two games in the series. He’s put the code on eBay, and interested gamers have already driven the bids into five figures. I’ll wager it’s been a long time since most of us have heard the name “Leisure
Read MoreThe hearing was postponed because of the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before the House on Dec. 11 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company, which is hosting a conference this week, is making a big push with the next-generation wireless technology. Qualcomm’s 5G-capable prototype phone teases our mobile future – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePro players respond to early outrage that blitzed the game with more than 1,500 negative reviews, mainly over the price of building the perfect deck. Artifact’s monetization structure is making Valve money and some gamers very angry Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you haven’t bought into the hype around the Instant Pot pressure cooker yet, now’s your chance to get in with some aggressive holiday pricing. The best Instant Pot deals right now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCasey Newton / The Interface: A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend — I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th
Read MoreCasually browsing YouTube for “shop improvements” yields a veritable river of project ideas, objects for cat amusement, and 12 INCREDIBLE SHOP HACKS YOU WON’T BELIEVE, though some of these are of predictably dubious value. So you might imagine that when we found [Henrique]’s adorable disc sander we dismissed it out of hand, how useful could
Read MoreThe streaming service and AT&T struck an agreement that raises the yearly licensing fee for the show by more than three times. Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a 0 Million Agreement Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWalmart is adding even more robots to its stores. This week, the big box retailer announced plans to place 360 autonomous robots — tasked with scrubbing floors — inside stores across the country. Walmart’s latest hire: Robotic janitors that clean floors and collect data Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWe all love to talk about tech and the cloud as if they’ve these things dramatically changed the way we live our lives and work. And don’t get me wrong – they could. They should. But too many of our businesses still operate like it’s 1997 when it comes to asset management. Sure, you may
Read MoreAnna Hensel / VentureBeat: Facebook schedules F8 2019 for April 30-May 1 in San Jose — Developers, mark your calendars: Facebook announced today that its annual F8 conference will be held on April 30 – May 1, 2019 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. — Though Facebook hasn’t released the official schedule
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales — – ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand — Analysts look again for what’s next beyond the iPhone Apple
Read MoreFor most of human history, musical instruments were strictly mechanical devices. The musician either plucked something, blew into or across something, or banged on something to produce the sounds the occasion called for. All musical instruments, the human voice included, worked by vibrating air more or less directly as a result of these mechanical manipulations.
Read MoreResearchers tout smaller electronics that consume lower power in a Nature paper. As chip speeds fizzle, Intel and Berkeley offer spintronics fix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, a key part of Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available — Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning. Microsoft open sources
Read MoreEpic Games, the company behind the wildly successful Fortnite, today revealed it’s opening its own digital game storefront. The new store will offer developers an 88 percent share of revenue, in contrast to Valve’s industry-standard 70 percent. Calling it a “Steam rival” would be more than just a trite comparison, as Epic’s own announcement features a chart
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