No need to wait: The year’s best deal on a PS4 is available now Black Friday PS4 Spider-Man bundle now available for 0 at Walmart, Target – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGetting a solar array to track the sun has always been an interesting problem, and it has led to some complicated solutions. Controllers that use GPS and servos seem to be much in favor these days, but as this NASA-inspired sun tracker shows, the task needn’t be overly complex. It’s pretty obvious from the video
Read MoreFor those who’d rather face a dentist’s drill than speak to a crowd — or even if you just need some sound public speaking pointers — the Public Speaking Masterclass Bundle ($29, an 89 percent savings, from TNW Deals) might be the answer. Public speaking doesn’t have to make you hyperventilate with this masterclass Source:
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: How hackers are stealing the accounts of Instagram influencers with fake sponsored content deals and phishing links to spam the influencer’s followers — In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks. — In early October, a publicist received an irresistible message via
Read MoreIf you think about it, an operating system kernel is really just a very powerful shared library that offers services to many programs. Of course, it is a very powerful library, but still — its main purpose is to provide services to programs. Your program probably doesn’t use all of the myriad services the kernel
Read MoreHow deep can these phones really go? We took the iPhone XS and XR into 26 foot deep water. Only one survived – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe 1998 teaser for the return of Star Wars wasn’t just a treat for fans: it was a coup for Apple and one of the biggest tests the internet had faced. 20 years ago, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's trailer made web history – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen referring to classic cars, there’s a good reason that “they don’t make ’em like that anymore.” Old cars represented the limits of what could be done in terms of materials and manufacturing methods coupled with the styles of the time and cheap fuel. The result was big, heavy cars that would cost a fortune
Read MoreKelsey D. Atherton / New York Times: A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making — It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol … A
Read MoreIt’s doubtful that the early pioneers of CNC would have been able to imagine the range of the applications the technology would be used for. Once limited to cutting metal, CNC machines can now lance through materials using lasers and high-pressure jets of water, squirt molten plastic to build up 3D objects, and apparently even
Read MoreTony Peng / Synced: Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google’s China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University’s AIMI — Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text
Read MoreThe rise of the digital era has brought with it many wondrous changes to our daily lives, not least of which the fact that we now carry digital assistants with us everywhere we go in the form of smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers. The rapid proliferation of everyday digital devices and the rise of new
Read MoreThe Apollo Guidance Computer is a remarkably important piece of computing history. It’s the computer that guided the Apollo lander to land on the moon. We’ve seen a few replica builds over the years, but [CuriousMarc] got a closer look at one of the real things. In this video, [Marc] gets a look inside as
Read MoreErica X Eisen / Slate: How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs — Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs. — When Kurt Luther walked … How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth,
Read MoreWant the unedited, full deal posts from the biggest retailers? Here they are — along with when each sale starts. Black Friday ads 2018: The full ads from Best Buy, Walmart, Target and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFacebook’s co-founder and other executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, answered employees’ questions after a New York Times investigation of the company. Zuckerberg Defends Company in Friday Meeting With Employees Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe catch? You’ll have to open up a new line and trade in an eligible device. T-Mobile Black Friday deals are live: Free iPhones, LG and Samsung Galaxy phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNASA is famously risk-averse, taking cautious approaches because billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake and each failure receives far more political attention than their many successes. So while moving the final frontier outward requires adopting new ideas, those ideas must first prove themselves through a lengthy process of risk-reduction. Autodesk’s research into generative design
Read MoreUS spy agencies “failed to provide actionable intelligence” on Russian trolls, and “grandstanding” lawmakers also dropped the ball, Stamos says in a Washington Post op-ed. Facebook ex-security boss Alex Stamos: Firm blew it, but so did others – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFrom motherboards to scarves for your mother, Newegg brings it for 2018. Newegg Black Friday 2018 deals: Acer Aspire 5 for 0, Nvidia Shield for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis HP laptop (with a Core i7 CPU and 1TB hard drive) is one of the best computer deals we’ve seen. Black Friday 2018 Office Depot deals: HP laptop for 0, Chromebook for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew York Times: Silicon Valley’s alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT’s Facebook exposé — The alliance between Democrats and Silicon Valley has buckled and bent this year amid revelations that platforms like Facebook … Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained
Read MoreAlex Stamos / Washington Post: Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company’s comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong — Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He previously served as the chief security officer at Facebook until
Read MoreMike Fleming / Deadline: Mythical Games has raised $16M Series A to build out its blockchain-based player-owned economies starting on a EOS blockchain — Next generation game technology studio Mythical Games has secured $16 Million in its Series-A round. The company builds IPs and a digital ecosystem around player-owned economies … Mythical Games has raised
Read More[Patrick McDavid] and his wife had a legitimate work-related reason for writing some Python code that would pull the exact latitude and longitude of the individual locations within a national retain chain from Google’s Geocoding API. But don’t worry about that part of the story. What’s important now is that this simple concept was then
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