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    • Samsung unveils the mid-range Galaxy A9 with four rear cameras, 6.3-inch display, Snapdragon 660, 128GB storage, and 3,800mAh battery, for €599 in November (Jamie Rigg/Engadget)

    Jamie Rigg / Engadget: Samsung unveils the mid-range Galaxy A9 with four rear cameras, 6.3-inch display, Snapdragon 660, 128GB storage, and 3,800mAh battery, for €599 in November  —  Google’s Pixel 3 reveal came and went earlier this week, bringing us ever closer to the end of new flagship season. Samsung unveils the mid-range Galaxy A9

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    • Pocket improves article listening function with text-to-speech service Amazon Polly with a more human-like voice, on iOS and Android (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Pocket improves article listening function with text-to-speech service Amazon Polly with a more human-like voice, on iOS and Android  —  Pocket is rolling out a handful of updates today, as the Mozilla-owned app reminds users that it’s more than a simple read-it-later service. Pocket improves article listening function with text-to-speech service

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    • Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman say their mobile video startup is called Quibi and will have a two-tiered subscription model targeting 25-35 year olds (Dawn C. Chmielewski/Deadline)

    Dawn C. Chmielewski / Deadline: Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman say their mobile video startup is called Quibi and will have a two-tiered subscription model targeting 25-35 year olds  —  Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and veteran tech executive Meg Whitman used the prominent platform of Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit … Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg

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    • EU Parliament rules that data generated by autonomous cars, including telemetry data, can be copyrighted, likely by car manufacturers to sell to third-parties (Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing)

    Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: EU Parliament rules that data generated by autonomous cars, including telemetry data, can be copyrighted, likely by car manufacturers to sell to third-parties  —  Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened… EU Parliament rules that data generated

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    • Legal chatbot service DoNotPay now helps users lock down privacy settings of social media accounts and help sue companies that expose users' data through hacks (Rob Price/Business Insider)

    Rob Price / Business Insider: Legal chatbot service DoNotPay now helps users lock down privacy settings of social media accounts and help sue companies that expose users’ data through hacks  —  – Automated legal tool DoNotPay is trying to help people lock down their online privacy settings and sue companies that get hacked. Legal chatbot

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    A New Kid On The Mini ARM Block

    The breadboard microcontroller experimenter has a host of platforms to work with that can be had in the familiar DIP format. Old-school people can still find classic 8-bit platforms, the Ardunisti have their ATMegas, and PIC lovers have a pile of chips to choose from. But ARM experimenters? Out of luck, because as we have

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    • Singapore’s financial regulator wants its banks and blockchains to be friends

    Singapore’s financial regulator has revealed it will help local cryptocurrency firms set up traditional bank accounts, to help boost the country’s fintech economy. “What we are trying to do is to bring the banks and cryptocurrency fintech startups together to see if there is some understanding they can reach,” Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director

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    • China’s ‘barrage videos’ are chaotic af — and say a lot about loneliness

    Ideas are mysterious things. Sometimes the worst ones smell like solid gold, sometimes the profit-driving powerhouses masquerade as giant turds. Telling the difference, it seems, takes a certain measure of psychotic genius. Where, for example, is the hazy boundary of brilliance that separates the Slinky from, say, Picnic Pants? Maybe I just have no vision, but if you’d asked

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    • IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy (Roy Trakin/Variety)

    Roy Trakin / Variety: IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy  —  The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the worldwide record business, released its Music Consumer Insight Report … IFPI report: 86%

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    • How some climate scientists use a Fortnite channel on Twitch to discuss and disseminate information about climate change to a young audience (Angela Watercutter/Wired)

    Angela Watercutter / Wired: How some climate scientists use a Fortnite channel on Twitch to discuss and disseminate information about climate change to a young audience  —  I KNOW VERY little about climate change.  I know even less about Fortnite.  And Twitch.  (Yes, I know; I should be fired.) How some climate scientists use a

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    • Pollinating drone bees can’t replace honey bees, ecologists calculate

    The successful demonstration of remote-controlled “drones-bees” by Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has been making news since Tuesday. But the buzz surrounding the drone’s applications could be much hyped, according to at least two independent estimates by biologists. Many popular news websites reported that the university’s drone-bees could successfully replace real bees in

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