Margi Murphy / Telegraph: WhatsApp’s chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company — WhatsApp’s chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped … WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces
Read MoreConnie Loizos / TechCrunch: Amazon says it’s making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS — It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has a one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available …
Read MoreAfter a dramatic touchdown, a new robot on the Red Planet is ready to get down to business. After NASA's intense InSight Mars landing, here's what happens next – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Mississippi Republican faces a Senate runoff election on Tuesday against Democrat Mike Espy. Google requests refund from Cindy Hyde-Smith campaign after ‘hanging’ comments – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLi Yuan / New York Times: How data tagging firms in China are using cheap labor to apply labels to troves of images and surveillance footage to help train AI systems across the country — Some of the most critical work in advancing China’s technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the
Read MoreThis week on the Carfection audio podcast we’re at the track for an epic shoot with every single generation of BMW M3 to see how this aspirational sports car has evolved over the decades. Carfection: For the love of cars Podcast, Ep. 11 – BMW M3 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you’re building a computer, your options are nearly limitless. You can get a motherboard with red LEDs, with blue LEDs, green LEDs, or if you’re feeling spendy, RGB LEDs. You can get custom-milled heat spreaders in any shape you want, as long as it’s angular and screams ‘gamer’. If you want a motherboard that doesn’t
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan. Trojan.Lojax!kmem Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreRisk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Worm. SONAR.Pandker!gen1 Source: Symantec lastest threats
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site’s domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY — Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing
Read MoreLouise Lucas / Financial Times: China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips optimized to run neural networks, is raising up to $1B in a Series B, valuing it between $3B-$4B — Horizon Robotics, one of China’s leading designers of artificial intelligence chips, is raising up to $1bn in a funding round that will value it at
Read MoreToday, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, surpassing Apple for the first time in years. Well, for a few moments anyway. Microsoft briefly overtook Apple’s market value during trading hours, but as of writing, it’s a bit of a wash. Apple closed at 828.64 billion, while Microsoft sat at $822.90 billion, according
Read MoreGoogle is reportedly rescinding a $5,000 donation to US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith over controversial remarks the Mississippi politician recently made. But, apparently, the company is trying to keep it under wraps. Wishy-washy is definitely in this year. In leaked emails obtained by investigative news source Popular Information, it appears Google has officially requested the campaign offices
Read MoreI’m not a particularly vain person. Despite my interest in the beauty industry, I find eye shadow a bit terrifying. I’m convinced contouring is black magic, but that’s a story for another time. That being sad, I do love a good mirror, but I never had owned a smart mirror before. Honestly, I had never
Read MoreYou might be losing potential customers and not even knowing it. How? By using bad copy on Google AdWords. Google AdWords is one of the most trusted and reliable advertising networks on the web. 77.8 percent of US search ad revenue flows through Google, and the search behemoth isn’t slowing down. Google recently made some
Read MorePatrick Kulp / Adweek: NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning tool to help brands place ads around scenes relevant to their product, by analyzing scripts, CC data, visual descriptors — The tool identifies places for brands to buy spots in more opportune times — The next time you see, say … NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning
Read MoreThe latest entry in the fan favorite franchise Pokémon saw release earlier this month alongside a particularly interesting controller. Known as the Poké Ball Plus, this controller is able to control Pokémon games that are available on completely separate platforms, as well as transfer data between them. It rumbles, It talks, it lights up, it’s wireless, and
Read MoreSome offers end today, some will keep going strong into the week. Cyber Monday 2018 Galaxy sales: Free Galaxy S9, 50-inch TV and Galaxy Watch gifts now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA new NASA spacecraft touches down in a wide Mars plain, where it will spend many months and perhaps years studying the inside of our nearest neighbor. NASA InSight lander nails Mars touchdown after scary 6 minutes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNASA’s new eyes on Mars open wide for a fascinating first view of the Red Planet. NASA InSight lander sends back gritty first image from Mars – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBlack Friday sales via phones in US smashed the previous record. Shopping on phones is surging this holiday season – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStephen King, Patricia Highsmith and Neal Stephenson are all on sale. Huge Cyber Monday 2018 Amazon e-book sale happening now: Hundreds of Kindle titles starting at – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let coders develop, test, and deploy their robotics applications using the open source Robot Operating System — Amazon’s kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker. The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed … Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let
Read MorePlans to build a “mega-collider” somewhere in China appear to be moving forward with construction set to begin as early as 2022. Known as the Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), it would be the world’s largest collider. Too bad it’ll be located behind The Great Firewall. The Chinese government seems to have a serious case of wanting
Read MoreA few years ago, a small Romanian headphone company called Meze Audio took audio communities by storm with a gorgeous pair of $309 headphones, the 99 Classics. Here was a headphone clad in wood and aluminum that didn’t make any claims or revolutionary technology, artist collaborations, or gimmicky features – just great design and sound.
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