The best PlayStation bundles come from Black Friday sales where you can get the console plus tons of hot games. Black Friday 2018: The best PlayStation 4 console, game deals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThanks to record-setting numbers from China, the alien symbiote is devouring the DC superhero film. Venom chomps its way past Justice League at global box office – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOculus founder left the company last year after it was learned he secretly made a $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group. Facebook reportedly fired Palmer Luckey for political views – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter months of delays, the startup space company sends an Electron rocket carrying six satellites into orbit from New Zealand. Rocket Lab nails first big launch in bid to follow Elon Musk success – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe toothed belt that turns the camshaft in synchronization with the crankshaft on many motor vehicle engines is something of an under-appreciated component. Unless you are unlucky enough to ave had one fail and destroy your engine, it’s probably something you’ve never given a second thought to outside of periodic service intervals. For something to
Read MoreTexas Congressman-elect and Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw got in some good jabs, but made peace with the comic. Veteran mocked by Pete Davidson on SNL mocks the comedian back – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreInfluencers are so 2014. And microinfluencers are so last week. Now advertisers see value in people with as few as 1,000 followers: the nanoinfluencers. The Instagrammers Next Door, Plugging Brands for Peanuts (or Shampoo) Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreScott Derrickson thanks California firefighters for saving the rest of his neighborhood. Doctor Strange director shares photos of home burned in Woolsey Fire – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChina’s biggest online shopping day easily dwarfs Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sets online shopping record with B in sales – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’ve seen all sorts of 3D-printers on these pages before. From the small to the large, Cartesians and deltas, and printers that can squeeze out plastic, metal, and even concrete. But this appears to be the first time we’ve ever featured a paper-pulp extruding 3D-printer. It’s fair to ask why the world would need such
Read MoreScott Derrickson thanks California firefighters for saving the rest of his neighborhood Doctor Strange director shares photos of home destroyed in LA fire – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFive veterans tell real stories of their experiences during and after their service defending our country. Google Doodle highlights vets' stories on Veterans Day – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOver 35m people worldwide now use e-cigarettes, according to one estimate. In the US, this includes 4.5 percent of the adult population. But the rise in vaping has led to a trade in fake e-liquids – the mix of water, glycerol, propylene glycol, flavors and (usually) nicotine used to create the vapor of e-cigarettes. Fake
Read MoreChina’s slowing economic growth and weakening consumer sentiment pose a challenge to an e-commerce giant with its own problematic ambitions. Alibaba Had Another Big Singles Day. The Party May Not Last. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWinamp eat your heart out, because thanks to the Microsoft Kinect in the hands of [Samarth] there’s a new way to make your screen dance along with you. He created a music visualizer demo that takes advantage of the 3D depth camera on Kinect by outputting a fun pixelated silhouette and color changing strobe. When
Read MoreIf you were waiting for massive price drops on LG’s latest OLED TVs, I’ve got some bad news. LG OLED TV Black Friday 2018 sale: No big deal (yet) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePublic art installations can be cool. Adding in audience interactivity bumps up the coolness factor a bit. Throw civic pride, dancing jets of water, music, and lights into the project, and you get this very cool pressure washer powered musical fountain. The exhibit that [Niklas Roy] came up with is called Wasserorgel, or “water organ”, an
Read MoreScientist and engineers get a fair crack at adorning Bank of England notes. Since 1970, Isaac Newton, George Stephenson, Michael Faraday, James Watt, and Charles Darwin have all had their turn sharing a note with the Queen. I’d also argue Florence Nightingale, who gathered and analyzed data to inform her treatments and invented the polar
Read MoreWe have heard bipedal walking referred to as a series of controlled falls, or one continuous fall where we repeatedly catch ourselves, and it is a long way to fall at 9.8m/s2. Some of us are more graceful than others, but most grade-schoolers have gained superior proficiency in comparison to our most advanced bipedal robots.
Read MoreSkynet may be coming, but China could usurp the U.S. as the launchpad for the robot uprising. According to a recent report from TNW, China is set to outpace America in artificial intelligence research spending by the end of this year. But there’s a big hurdle that the worldwide leader in AI — whoever that
Read MoreTexas Congressman-Elect and Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw got in some good jabs, but made peace with the comic. Veteran mocked by Pete Davidson on SNL mocks Pete Davidson on SNL – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe don’t think [bleepbit] will take offense when we say the “poor man’s theremin” looks cheesy — after all, it was built in a cheese container. Actually, it isn’t a bad case for a simple device, as you can see in the picture and the video below. Unlike a traditional theremin, the device uses ultrasonics
Read MoreAll Game of Thrones fans everywhere, say it with us: “DUH.” George R.R. Martin admits to 'struggling' with Winds of Winter – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen using an Arduino, at least once you’ve made it past blinking LEDs, you might start making use of the serial connection to send and receive information from the microcontroller. Communicating with the board while it’s interacting with its environment is a crucial way to get information in real-time. Usually, that’s as far as it
Read MoreThe company aims to complete its first commercial mission to space, a harbinger of a new breed of rocket that is small, cheap and able to be launched frequently. Watch Rocket Lab Try to Launch an Electron Rocket to Orbit From New Zealand Source: NY Times Tech
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