Black Friday is the best time to buy a new gaming console, and this year’s deals have begun. Black Friday 2018 game console deals: PS4 and Xbox One for 0, Xbox One X for 0 and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUpgrade your cooking game or make laundry day more fun with our favorite deals on kitchen gadgets and large appliances. Black Friday 2018 kitchen and appliance deals: off Instant Pot, 0 off Vitamix products and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShop smarter this holiday season with these deals on Google-Assistant-enabled devices for your home. Black Friday Google Assistant deals: 9 Ecobee Smart Thermostat and 9 Philips Hue starter kit live now, Home Mini speaker coming soon – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Federal Communications Commission will once again tell you if you’re getting what you paid for from your broadband provider. FCC to release broadband speed report on Wednesday – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in this stylish, scathing and surreal assault on modern capitalism. Sorry to Bother You is like Get Out, only weirder and wilder – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Growing trade tensions between US and China could endanger Nvidia’s access to its Chinese customers, who accounted for 20% of the company’s revenue last year — Nvidia sells lots of artificial-intelligence chips in China. That creates a dilemma as the company tries to navigate political and trade tensions. Growing trade tensions between
Read MoreJordan Crook / TechCrunch: PlayVS, which brings esports infrastructure to high schools in the US, raises $30.5M Series B after raising a $15M Series A in June 2018 — PlayVS, the company bringing esports infrastructure to high schools across the country, has today announced the close of a $30.5 million Series B financing. PlayVS, which
Read MoreNow that 3D printers have more or less hit the mass market, hackers need a new “elite” tool to spend their time designing and fiddling with. Judging by the last couple of years, it looks like laser cutters will be taking over as the hacker tool du jour; as we’re starting to see more and more
Read MoreLabor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions. Somali Workers in Minnesota Force Amazon to Negotiate Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: LinkedIn launches Student Voices, its take on Snapchat Stories, for US colleges, and says it plans Stories-like features aimed at other sets of users too — No app is safe from the Stories plague — The social media singularity continues with the arrival of Snapchat Stories-style slideshows … LinkedIn launches Student
Read MoreAt this point we’ve seen a good number of desktop-sized arcade cabinets, and while they’ve naturally all been impressive in their own ways, they do tend to follow a pretty familiar formula. Cut the side panels out of MDF (or just buy a frame kit), stick a Raspberry Pi and an old LCD monitor in
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Microsoft now supports standards-based FIDO2 security key devices, letting Windows 10 users access their Microsoft Account without entering username or password — Passwords aren’t as effective a means as preventing account break-ins as they might seem. Three out of four people use duplicate passwords … Microsoft now supports standards-based FIDO2 security
Read MoreHigh fees and low interest rates have provided an opening for a new generation of finance start-ups to compete with the big banks. The ‘Neo-Banks’ Are Finally Having Their Moment Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Agora, which helps developers integrate voice and video into their apps via APIs, raises $70M Series C led by Coatue Management — Agora, a developer of cloud communication APIs, will create products for new markets and verticals after raising a $70 million Series C led by Coatue Management. Agora, which helps
Read MoreAndrew Ng is best known for his work at Google, where he helped establish the Google Brain program, and as the Chief Scientist at Baidu. But his impact in the field of artificial intelligence is probably most profound through his work at Coursera, an online learning center he co-founded. Ng teaches several free or affordable
Read MoreSee through a whole person in three dimensions. Radical new 3D body scanner delivers first human images – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is working on a problem that prevents multifactor authentication users from logging in. Microsoft Office 365 still locks out people who use multifactor authentication, Azure back – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere’s a list of the top storage deals as they are revealed for the biggest shopping day of the year. Black Friday 2018 deals on storage: Samsung EVO 1TB for 0, 256GB USB drive for and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Throwies occupy a special place in hardware culture — a coin cell battery, LED, and a magnet that can be thrown into an inaccessible place and stick there as a little beacon of colored light. Many of us will fondly remember this as a first project. Alas, time marches inevitably on, and launching cheerful lights
Read MoreThis is the lowest price on Sony’s cool-but-pricey Digital Paper notepads. Sony Digital Paper is 0 off for Black Friday – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: After announcing it four months ago, Facebook is rolling out its “how long do I spend on Facebook” dashboard, but its insights are not very specific — 15 weeks after Facebook announced its “Your Time On Facebook” tool that counts how many minutes you spend on the app, the feature is
Read MoreIt seems there is yet another massive internal strife brewing up in the blockchain space. KodakOne – a cryptocurrency project that promised to bring photographers a new stream of revenue – purportedly owes thousands of dollars in outstanding invoices to contractors the firm recruited to build the platform. In a series of email exchanges reviewed
Read MoreBlack Friday and Cyber Monday may be known for hot gadgets and electronics, but there are great deals on other things, too. Here are a few to watch out for. How to Get the Most Out of Black Friday (Even if You’re Not Into Tech) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf you’re not from Canada, you might be surprised to learn that the capital of the Great White North isn’t Toronto. It’s Ottawa. This is one mistake that any Canadian would tell you they’ve heard more times than they’d like to admit. Yet, in many ways, it could be argued that the same misunderstanding goes
Read MoreFinancial regulators of North Dakota have ordered a dodgy Russian cryptocurrency company to cease and desist operations in the state, after discovering it had impersonated a bank in Liechtenstein to falsely market an initial coin offering (ICO). In a statement released Monday, state securities chairman Karen Tyler explains how the scammers assumed the identity of Union Bank
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