A week ago, AWS announced that it would soon move to per-second billing for users of its EC2 service. It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, then, that Google today announced a very similar move. Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc and App Engine’s flexible environment virtual machines will now feature per-second billing. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
No one would use a secure messaging service like Signal if you couldn’t find out who else was on it — but how can you trust Signal and others not to snoop when you submit your contacts for it to check against its list of users? You shouldn’t have to — it should be impossible. That’s the intention of an update to the app that makes contact discovery even more private. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
What happens when you double Twitter’s iconic 140 character limit? A small group of users will find out.
Source: Wired
The league has long avoided politics—and in rebuking the president, it managed to turn protest into a photo op.
Source: Wired
Last month, Softbank, through its massive Vision Fund, led the single biggest private financing round for a health care company ever —  funneling $1.1 billion into the drug holding outfit Roivant Sciences. Today, the Japanese conglomerate might be regretting that decision. The reason: despite hundreds of millions of dollars poured into one of Roivant’s publicly traded… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A beta version lets you test whether Mozilla’s newly named web browser, replete with changes built over more than a year, is a match for Google.
Source: CNET
The parts that makes Apple’s Face ID possible are reportedly running into production problems.
Source: CNET
Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 editor is getting a simpler interface for newbies and more speed for pros.
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Source: Digital trends
Blossom gets all of the basics right, and it’d be a big improvement if you’re still using an old fashioned sprinkler timer, but we still don’t recommend it.
Source: CNET
Social network has repeatedly shown ability to tackle tough problems—when they threaten the bottom line.
Source: Wired