If your smartphone didn’t come preloaded with Gboard, you’re missing out. Time for an upgrade.
Source: Wired
Opinion: A democracy shouldn’t leave it to companies to figure out the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Source: Wired
So that flamethrower that Elon Musk teased The Boring Company would start selling after it ran out of its 50,000 hats? Yeah, it’s real – and you can pre-order one now if you want need a ridiculous way to spend $500. Musk revealed the flamethrower on Saturday, after some digging tipped its existence late last week. The Boring Company Flamethrower is functional, too, as you can see… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The historic flight of the Falcon Heavy slipped from January. Mars awaits.
Source: CNET
If hardware is hard, robotics are next to impossible. Even so, Sphero managed an impressive feat over its first five years, growing from a small startup with a glowing, smartphone-controlled ball into the maker of the most talked about piece of merchandise for cinema’s biggest blockbuster franchise. But last week, it became clear that not all was rosy with the company, as they cut 45 jobs. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Facebook Messenger was down for me for about an hour earlier this week. My MacBook Pro randomly kernel panics overnight and restarts. Slack was down, and Github, and AWS. A little more than a year ago, Dyn went down, throwing the DNS layer of the internet into a tailspin. Practically every chip made by Intel has serious security flaws. Equifax leaked 143 million accounts. Tokyo-based… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
SpaceX has set February 6 as the target for its Falcon Heavy launch, the first ever test flight of the new, high-capacity rocket that the company is building to allow it to send nearly three times as much payload per mission into orbit. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted the target date on Saturday, adding that there will be plenty of viewing opportunity for the public from the nearby causeway.… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Powerful and beautifully engineered, the Surface Book 2 looked like a PC that could serve my every need, replacing multiple systems at once. Instead, it left me annoyed and disappointed.
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Source: Digital trends
Elon Musk, a charismatic entrepreneur, is nothing if not audacious. You’d expect the board of Tesla Industries to shape a CEO compensation plan that suits its outsized leader, and boy, did they ever. But a look at Tesla’s newly announced pay plan reveals many elements that should cause shareholders to raise their eyebrows and pause. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Noho Sound & Stereo wants to turn students into audio system lovers.
Source: CNET