You’d be forgiven for not having heard of Hifiman before. The headphone company has flourished almost entirely within the audiophile community, producing everything from value-oriented cans to ludicrously expensive examples of audiophile excess. The product I’m writing about today leans towards the latter. The Hifiman RE2000 are the company’s flagship earbuds – properly known as
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook’s second content moderation report: from April to September, 1.5B fake accounts were closed and 23.3M instances of violent content were removed — Facebook’s latest transparency report shows a big jump in spam and violent content takedowns, some advances in proactively identifying hate speech … Facebook's second content moderation report:
Read MoreCan’t wait for Nov. 23? Here’s a look at what you can get today! Black Friday 2018: The best deals on sale right now – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreArcher fans and residents of Louisiana will already be familiar with the concept of the airboat. Put a powerful engine running an aircraft prop on a flat-bottomed hull, and you’ve got an excellent way to traverse the marshes of the American South. While a fully-fledged airboat might run you the best part of $100,000, this
Read MoreGameStop deals start on Sunday — but most of the same ones will be at Target, too. GameStop Black Friday deals on Xbox One and PS4 start Sunday, Nov. 18 — but so do Target's – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJump-start your holiday shopping with deals on these Google-Assistant-enabled devices. Black Friday 2018 Google Assistant deals: Google Home Mini, Nest Thermostat E, 0 SimpliSafe security system and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg / Facebook: Facebook plans to let users opt-in to borderline content, appeal content decisions to independent body in 2019, work with governments on content regulation — My focus in 2018 has been addressing the most important issues facing Facebook. As the year wraps up, I’m writing a series of notes … Facebook plans
Read MoreKhari Johnson / VentureBeat: Citrix says it acquired Sapho, which makes micro-apps for team collaboration apps like Slack, for $200M in an all cash deal; Sapho has raised $27.9M — Citrix Systems today announced it acquired Sapho in an all-cash $200 million deal, a Citrix spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. Citrix says it acquired
Read MoreMakena Kelly / The Verge: FCC approves an order that will let some US phones access EU’s Galileo satellite system, potentially improving GPS — The commission approved an order that will allow consumer devices to tap into a European satellite system — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) … FCC approves an order that will let
Read MoreResearchers from New York University have created a set of master fingerprint keys that can be used to spoof biometric identification systems. While the database of fingerprints used by the researchers had a chance of falsely matching with a random fingerprint one out of 1000 times, the master prints they generated had the power to
Read MoreGPS World: FCC approves an order that will let some US phones access EU’s Galileo satellite system, potentially improving GPS — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the commission’s rules so that non-federal devices … FCC approves an order that will let some US
Read MoreA report by The New York Times painted an unflattering portrait of how Facebook executives handled a series of scandals. The tech firm is pushing back. Facebook's Zuckerberg denies company ignored signs of Russian meddling – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAlistair Barr / Bloomberg: Facebook’s board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair” — Facebook Inc.’s board defended how Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg have handled mounting problems faced … Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg
Read MoreBut as many vulnerable polar bear packs fight to find enough food, scientists question how long this oasis might last. Polar bears, threatened by climate change, have one safe haven – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou can get an Xbox One S for as low as $199, or include Battlefield 5 for just $30 more. Black Friday 2018: The best Xbox One sales and bundles – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere’s the full list of the Echo, Fire, Kindle and other Amazon gear and their upcoming sale prices! Black Friday 2018 Amazon deals: Sale starts now, Fire tablets tomorrow, Fire TV Sunday – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis year’s Black Friday Nintendo Switch bundle will get net you Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for free. Black Friday 2018: All the best Nintendo Switch, 2DS and Labo deals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOnce upon a time, in the faraway land of Hong Kong, there was a robot named Sophia. It longed for nothing, felt nothing, and was incapable of even the mildest human emotion. But, its creator Geppetto – er, creators David Hanson and Ben Goertzel, I mean – wanted to bring it to life anyway. So
Read More{$inline_image} We hear digital audio, we see digital video, and we feel digital haptic feedback. However, we don’t have an analog for the sense of smell. [Kasun] and his team of researchers from the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia are in the midst of changing that reality. Their project aims to transmit fragrances via electronic stimulation.
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will create an external oversight committee in 2019 to handle some content policy decisions — Facebook doesn’t want to be the arbiter of decency when it comes to content policy decisions, similar to how it looked to third-party fact checkers rather than becoming an arbiter of truth.
Read MoreA job at Facebook is plum. But at a recent university hackathon, some young engineers showed a changing attitude toward working at the social network. ‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFacebook said Thursday it had removed billions of fake accounts and millions of posts, photos and other forms of content that violated its community standards. Facebook says it removed a flood of hate speech, terrorist propaganda and fake accounts from its site Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft has a master plan for trying to get more customers to jump into the AI waters. Here’s an attempt to explain how containers, accelerators and APIs all figure in. Making sense of Microsoft's approach to AI Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreMany in the western hemisphere still view Vietnam through antiquated lenses. But while a visit to a rural area of Vietnam may well seem like a step back in time, younger generations and the powers who be in urban Vietnam have their sights firmly set on the future and the key role which their nation
Read MoreBig tech is getting in on blockchain in a big way. Microsoft has launched a cloud-based blockchain development kit powered by Azure. “This kit extends the capabilities of our blockchain developer templates and Azure Blockchain Workbench, which incorporates Azure services for key management, off-chain identity and data, monitoring, and messaging APIs into a reference architecture that
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