Dexter, a really great robot arm project, just won top honors in the 2018 Hackaday Prize, and walked away with $50,000 toward continuing their project. As a hat tip to Hackaday and the community, Haddington Dynamics, the company behind Dexter, agreed to open-source their newest version of Dexter as well. As James Newton said when
Read More{$inline_image}Following a months-long internal strife in the community, the contentious Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork has finally taken place. The Bitcoin Cash blockchain is now split in three separate networks, each with its own set of rules and governing principles: one developed by Bitcoin-ABC, one developed by Craig Wright’s blockchain research unit nChain, and one
Read MoreBrian Fung / Washington Post: FCC gives SpaceX permission to deploy over 7,000 Starlink internet satellites, as part of a full network of 12,000 — Federal regulators are allowing entrepreneur Elon Musk to use an expanded range of wireless airwaves for his plan to deliver cheap, high-speed Internet access — from space. FCC gives SpaceX
Read MoreThe Firefox Monitor account protection service also is available in 26 languages. Firefox warns if the website you're visiting suffered a data breach – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTobias Buck / Financial Times: Germany says it will invest €3B over six years to improve its AI capabilities and create 100 university chairs focused on the topic — Germany will spend €3bn to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities over the next six years, as part of a belated effort by Berlin to catch …
Read MoreThe latest virtual-reality film from Baobab Studios also puts the voices of John Legend, Diego Luna, and Constance Wu inside Pixar-like animated animals. Meet Oprah, the omnipotent VR bug, in Crow: The Legend on Oculus – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBecause purple is much more exciting than black. You can now buy the OnePlus 6T in Thunder Purple – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe scoured T-Mobile, Best Buy, Amazon, Target and Walmart for the best offers. Black Friday 2018 phone sales: A free OnePlus 6T, LG V30 Plus for 0, Moto G6 for 0 and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFacebook hired a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activists critical of the social network, linking them to the liberal philanthropist, according to a New York Times report. ‘Alarming’: Soros calls for investigation of Facebook after report of a smear campaign Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreJacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Raspberry Pi Foundation announces $25 Pi 3 Model A+, with a quad-core 1.4GHz CPU but less RAM and USB ports than the $35 Model B+ — The $25 Pi 3 Model A+ — The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s goal is to make computing as cheap and accessible as possible, so today,
Read MoreLauren Goode / Wired: Microsoft Surface Studio 2 review: stunning screen and a decent update to the Studio’s internals, except for an outdated CPU and no Thunderbolt 3 — Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2 has everything you ever wanted in a creative desktop, and costs more than you probably ever wanted to spend. Microsoft Surface Studio
Read MoreEager candidates offered name changes, helipads and even cactuses to entice the company into setting up shop. Amazon HQ2: How New York and Virginia Won the Beauty Contest Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIn the wake of a fire, a burn scar appears which takes a long time to heal. This scar is from the Woolsey fire which has taken its toll around Thousand Oaks, California. A Scar That the Woolsey Fire Left Behind Source: NASA
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Lyft will make default tipping widely available in 2019 and will give drivers default five-star ratings from December if users don’t give a rating — Lyft is launching another campaign to improve the experience for its drivers, and at least a few of the changes could affect you as a passenger.
Read MoreIt’s part of a new space race to bring Web access to the entire planet. Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins FCC approval to put 7,000 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe UNIBUS architecture for DEC’s PDPs and Vaxxen was a stroke of genius. If you wanted more memory in your minicomputer, just add another card. Need a drive? Plug it into the backplane. Of course, with all those weird cards, these old UNIBUS PDPs are hard to keep running. The UniBone is the solution to
Read MoreLocated 65 million light-years away ia a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 3938, as shown in this artist’s concept. Finding an Elusive Star Behind a Supernova Source: NASA
Read MoreSo you went to a tradeshow and heard about this cool new idea called the Internet Of Things; now it’s time to build an IoT product of your own. You know that to be IoT, your Widget D’lux® has to have a network connection but which to choose? You could use WiFi or Bluetooth but
Read MoreSteven Bertoni / Forbes: Airtable, which makes a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation, led by Benchmark, Thrive Capital, and Coatue Management — n the frenetic world of tech, where the ruling ethos is to move fast and break things, Howie Liu moves at a glacial pace. Airtable, which makes a
Read MoreThe adorable little ‘bot used to sell for $130 all by himself. The Sphero Special Edition Battle Worn BB-8 and Force Band are just – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLike Netflix and YouTube before it, but this time with a start-up. Comcast will let you watch Tubi TV like a cable channel – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s 10 Days of Deals, Day 9, and we’re feeling fine with this exclusive one-day-only discount. Find out why this prepaid phone plan beats Mint Mobile’s. Get a one-year unlimited Red Pocket Mobile plan for 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large scale, without any public documentation — according to a new report by Privacy Company. The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) was commissioned by the Dutch government to guide its institutions — which includes 300,000 workstations in
Read MoreIn search of a smart thermostat? Here are our favorites. The best smart thermostats out there today – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Spring / Threatpost: Hackers breach iPhone X, Galaxy S9, and Xiaomi Mi6 and earn $325K for exposing 18 exploits at the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest — Three major mobile phone models – the Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone X and the Xiaomi Mi6 – failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s Pwn2Own Tokyo
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