Day: January 11, 2018

The term ‘format war’ can be exciting to use – it denotes some sort of competition between some of the leading tech companies in the world. But it can also carry some … expectations with it, too.  When reporters have covered HDR10+ and compared it […]

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, has issued its 2017 annual report examining NASA’s safety performance over the past year and highlighting accomplishments, issues and concerns to agency and government officials. from NASA http://ift.tt/2D66ysm via IFTTT

Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation Published on January 11, 2018 at 11:10PM An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Hussein K., an Afghan refugee in Freiburg, has been on trial since September for allegedly raping […]

Dogecoin was launched in 2013 as a bitcoin parody, using as its mascot a Japanese shiba inu dog, a popular internet meme. The crypto-currency was never really used, except for tipping online, and one of its founders has called it quits. But recently its price […]

Top U.S. government computers linked to revenge-porn site. http://ift.tt/2APaGbi Submitted January 11, 2018 at 05:10PM by AdamCannon via reddit http://ift.tt/2CS1K6T

This week, Samsung showed off everything from new laptops to a massive microLED wall to a chattier kind of refrigerator. The message couldn’t be any more clear: Samsung would like nothing more than to be the center of your digital world. To dig deeper into […]

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies ‘will come to bad end’, says Warren Buffett http://ift.tt/2FpGlU3 Submitted January 11, 2018 at 03:11PM by DubTeeDub via reddit http://ift.tt/2FoHqM1

Dropbox Files Confidentially For IPO Published on January 11, 2018 at 10:47PM Dropbox, the file-sharing private company valued at $10 billion, has filed confidentially for a U.S. initial public offering. From the report: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will lead the […]

When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind Published on January 11, 2018 at 09:45PM Tom Simonite, writing for Wired: In 2015, a black software developer embarrassed Google by tweeting that the company’s Photos service had labeled photos of him with a black friend […]

Pandora CEO Roger Lynch Wants To Create the Podcast Genome Project Published on January 11, 2018 at 10:25PM Janko Roettgers, reporting for Variety: Pandora’s new CEO Roger Lynch has big plans for podcasts: Lynch told Variety on the sidelines of CES in Las Vegas Thursday […]