The brothers put $2.5 million of their own money into the e-commerce site, which will focus on design. HGTV's Property Brothers construct Casaza, a new home furnishings site – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSay what you will about Nintendo’s little purple lunchbox, the Gamecube, but it was home to many delightful experiences from Super Smash Bros. Melee to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. We now know it was also home to one of the very first Nintendo Wii remotes as well thanks to the recent listing from
Read MoreYou may never have heard of Bytedance or used any of its products. But chances are your teenager is already glued to the company’s music video app. China’s King of Internet Fluff Wants to Conquer the World Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA team of scientists may have observed a quantum physics phenomena called entanglement occur within a living organism. Then again, maybe they didn’t. That’s quantum physics for you. Researchers from Oxford published a study earlier this month detailing their examination of an experiment conducted in 2016 by physicist David Cole and other researchers at the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sam’s Club, the Walmart-owned members-only retail store says it will soon open an Amazon Go- like cashier-less store called Sam’s Club Now in Texas — Walmart’s warehouse club, Sam’s Club is preparing to open the doors at a new Dallas area store that will serve as a testbed for the latest
Read MoreBruce Murphy / The Verge: How Foxconn’s initial plans for a heavily taxpayer-subsidized $10B mega plant in Wisconsin have devolved into a more modest factory with a robotic assembly line — Governor Scott Walker promised billions to get a Foxconn factory. Now he’s running away from it How Foxconn's initial plans for a heavily taxpayer-subsidized
Read MoreMicrosoft is beta testing a mixed-reality prototyping tool that works with Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. Microsoft is readying 'Maquette' a mixed-reality prototyping tool Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreSarah Frier / Bloomberg: Sources: Snap’s Evan Spiegel promoted Kristen O’Hara as Chief Business Officer, then changed his mind two days later, hiring an Amazon exec; O’Hara has departed — – Kristen O’Hara was picked first then offer was rescinded — Company has had high level of executive turnover since IPO Sources: Snap's Evan Spiegel
Read MoreThe head of the United Kingdom’s treasury has proposed a new tax targeting tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. UK treasury chief proposes ‘digital services tax’ on tech giants Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says it’s selling Jitsi, its chat and videoconferencing tool, to 8X8, a cloud-based conferencing solutions provider — After announcing earlier this year that it planned to shut down HipChat and Stride and sell the IP of both to Slack … After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says
Read MorePlayStation today revealed the list of games that will come bundled with its retro console, the PS One Classic. While the list does include several (ahem) classics and old favorites, there are still a few rather large holes in the library. For reference, here’s the full list: Battle Arena Toshinden Cool Boarders 2 Destruction Derby
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same — The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech, closes $30M Series A led by Paradigm with Intel Capital, Sequoia, Coinbase Ventures among investors — Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors … StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech,
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK Chancellor announces a new 2% digital services tax that will come into effect in April 2020 for profitable tech companies that generate £500M a year globally — The UK government has announced a new “digital services” tax of two percent that it plans to start levying on the UK revenues
Read MoreThe modified Titan is being used by the American Red Cross in Florida. Nissan SEMA builds include 400-horsepower 370Z, Titan Red Cross truck – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreLow communication latency is why 5G will be radically different from today’s mobile networks. How 5G aims to end network delays that slow everything down – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCompared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light. Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs are more efficient at producing heat, and as the days get shorter, and the nights get colder, somewhere, someone who took the leap to LED
Read MoreSony announces all 20 games that’ll come with the retro mini console. PlayStation Classic full games list: Metal Gear Solid, GTA and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDe Beers, the world’s leading diamond producer by gem value, has just announced a deal with Alrosa, perhaps the most critical partner in its quest to port the entire diamond industry to the blockchain. In a press release, De Beers revealed Alrosa, the Russian diamond-mining conglomerate, will join its blockchain pilot program, Tracr, designed to
Read MoreApple, Samsung, Google. Those are the names most Americans think of when considering a new flagship phone, but OnePlus is vying to become the next household name. The with OnePlus 6T, it might just succeed. It’s the company’s best phone yet – yes, despite the missing headphone jack. But because it’ll be accessible to more buyers,
Read MoreSummon your poultrygeists to haunt Halloween. CDC won't discourage you from dressing chickens in costumes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOnePlus 6T features a fingerprint-on-display reader, a Snapdragon 845 chipset and a 6.41-inch display. It will go on sale Nov. 1. OnePlus 6T launch: In-screen fingerprint scanner, dual-cameras, 9 starting price – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOver the weekend, the last available tickets to the Hackaday Superconference vanished. This will be the fullest, most exciting, hack-packed Supercon ever. We’ve always had a stunning slate of speakers. It’s hard to objectively say we will top previous years, but yes this collection of talks is an insane concentration of hardware speakers that tops
Read MoreOnePlus released its newest flagship, the OnePlus 6T, at an event in New York today. The phone is not a major departure from its predecessor, the OnePlus 6, but it has some interesting upgrades. So what’s new? Under the screen fingerprint sensor OnePlus ditched the rear-mounted capacitive fingerprint sensor in favor of under-the-screen fingerprint sensor.
Read MoreSkydio’s R1 quadcopter is one of the most interesting gadgets of 2018. I spent some time with a review unit and, even after falling in love with it, I’m still not sure what to call it. Describing the R1 as a “drone” is like calling the iPhone a “rectangle.” Both terms are correct, but neither
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