Here’s how to take part in Epic’s next live event, which will bring an end to its Halloween celebration. Fortnite's Fortnitemares event is coming to an end Sunday – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter teasing it back in August, Honor today formally launched its latest flagship phone, the Honor Magic 2, in Beijing, China. The high-end device is remarkable as it boasts one of the highest screen-to-body ratios currently available. The Honor Magic 2 is almost entirely borderless, with wafer-thin bezels that are scarcely visible, and no unsightly
Read MoreWhen you create a Thing for the Internet of Things, you’ve made a little computer that does a simple job and which probably has a minimal interface. But minimal interfaces leave little room for configuration, such as entering WiFi details. Perhaps if you made the Thing yourself you’ve hard-coded your WiFi credentials in your code,
Read MoreNvidia’s recently released graphics cards are reportedly having issues. People are reporting problems with their Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti GPUs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis $1,200 mirror includes a smart speaker with Alexa built in, but don’t expect fancy features. Kohler's first smart mirror puts Alexa in your bathroom – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is continuing to roll out more fixes and incremental features to its spring 2019 Windows 10 feature update, 19H1. Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 test build adds updated sign-in options for Hello, more Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Roomba-maker is collaborating with Google on improving the efficiency of your smart home. iRobot is working with Google to improve smart devices – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook says it will move Workplace by Facebook, its Slack rival, to its own domain in 2019, Workplace.com, to appease businesses’ fears about data security — – Workplace by Facebook, the company’s enterprise business, is moving onto a website domain separate from Facebook.com in an effort … Facebook says it will
Read MoreThe Hackaday Superconference is this weekend and it’s the greatest hardware con on the planet. Tickets are completely sold out, but you can still get in on the fun by watching the livestream and joining Supercon chat. For everyone who will be here in person, the entire Hackaday crew is busy as beavers preparing for
Read MoreRumors. Inflammatory and divisive messages. Doctored photos. Kevin Roose, technology columnist, explains how he has waded into that shadowy world to write about it. Tech Fix: Spotting Disinformation Online Before the Midterm Elections Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMelanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: EU to launch a six-month trial of iBorderCtrl, an AI lie detector that looks for “biomarkers of deceit”, at its external borders in Hungary, Latvia, and Greece — A number of border control checkpoints in the European Union are about to get increasingly—and unsettlingly—futuristic. EU to launch a six-month trial of
Read MoreThirty years ago, we would be lucky if a computer could play audio. Take a computer from twenty years ago, and you’ll be lucky if it can play an MP3 in real-time. Now, computers can handle hundreds of tracks of CD-quality audio, and microcontrollers are several times more powerful than a desktop computer of the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter’s spam reporting tool now lets users specify more details, like if the account is fake, using unrelated hashtags, or sharing malicious links — Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam … Twitter's spam reporting
Read MoreMonica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: Lime pursues car sharing in Seattle, where rentable electric scooters are banned, and says it plans to add electric vehicles as another option to its app “soon” — Lime wants to add cars to its Seattle mobility fleet, expanding beyond the bright green, rentable bikes the company currently operates in the
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Read MoreSony today revealed the first trailer for the new MediEvil game, a full remake of the first game that arrived on the PlayStation 20 years ago. Bony protagonist Sir Dan reappears after nearly a decade of obscurity — and hopefully he’s the first of many of his fellows. MediEvil is one of those franchises that is obviously
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: Ford and Baidu announce a two year partnership to develop self-driving cars with on-road testing slated to start by the end of the year in China — – Ford and Baidu will collaborate on the development and testing of driverless vehicles for two years. — Ford’s autonomous vehicles … Ford and
Read MoreMicrosoft’s ‘Olympia Corp.’ lab for Windows Insider Enterprise testers is getting a V2 refresh. Microsoft provides a new way for business users to test Windows 10 Enterprise features Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M Series C on a $275M valuation after hitting 14M users in the US across 700 universities — LinkedIn has created and — with 562 million users — leads the market in social platforms for people who want to network … Handshake,
Read MoreKahn — perhaps Star Trek’s best-hated villain — said: “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” In fact, a lot of hacking effort goes into doing just that. Your phone has become an extension of your memory, for example. We use glasses, cameras, and hearing
Read MoreThe company also says that it has an augmented form of 4G called LTE Advanced across the nation now. Sprint rolls out Gigabit LTE in more than 225 cities – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSmall pieces of the lunar surface, complete with itty bits of bling, are expected to fetch up to $1 million next month. The only moon rocks available on Earth go up for auction – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: iRobot partners with Google and will share spatial data from Roombas to help improve Google’s smart home experience by mapping rooms — The two companies are working together to leverage spatial data generated by iRobot’s robovacs — Google and iRobot have announced they’re working together … iRobot partners with Google
Read MoreIt will be the first of three different generations of solar-roof tech for the automakers’ future vehicles, electric or otherwise. Hyundai, Kia hope to add solar panel charging tech to cars in 2019 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreNew effort seeks to standardize business associates agreements Source: Search Compliance
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