|
Navigation
Search
Top: Unavoidable
|
PC / Tech. > Unavoidable
Monday December 10, 2018. 11:07 PM
It's Cyber Monday 2.0 -- or, one of your last chances to get the best deals on tech this holiday season.
A month after Google had already decided to shut down Google+, a new bug made its problems much, much worse.
Plus: Aquaman just made a big splash in China, and Netflix is getting closer to an Oscar.
Google+ may be a punchline in the social-network world, but there’s something seriously wrong with it. For the second time in as many months, Google has announced that Google+ has been hit with another data leak, and this one is way worse than the last.According to a blog...
End-of-year reports show impairment costs running into millions Local health boards in New Zealand have been forced to write down losses running into the millions of Kiwi dollars as a result of a troubled Oracle implementation.…
The Olympic Games regularly add new events, but officials aren't quite ready to embrace eSports. From a report: This weekend, the International Olympic Committee met for the 7th Olympic Summit, where competitive video gaming was among the topics of discussion. The verdict?...
Enlarge / Computer artwork of the nucleus of a helium atom, or an alpha particle given off during radioactive decay. The nucleus consists of two positively charged protons (red) and two neutral neutrons (green) surrounded by a quantum cloud of gluons, a type of subatomic...
The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System. From a report: It was launched 16 days before its twin craft, Voyager 1, but that probe's faster trajectory meant that it was in 'the space between the stars'...
Enlarge / The PlayStation Classic's internal USB, removed and picked at as part of the hacking effort. (credit: Yifan Lu / Twitter) In the days since the PlayStation Classic's official release, hackers have already made great progress in loading other PlayStation games (and ...
As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon draws nigh, vendors can't contain themselves A number of open source types are heading toward Seattle, Washington, on Monday, if they're not already installed there, to attend the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon ...
If improving your heath is part of your new year's resolutions, a fitness tracker needs to be on your holiday wish list. And today's a great day to buy one. Amazon is running a fantastic sale on some of Fitbit's best trackers and smartwatches, most of which are at all-time...
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Four months after receiving a complaint claiming that Verizon 'grossly overstated' its 4G LTE coverage in government filings, the Federal Communications Commission says that at least one carrier is apparently guilty of...
Qualcomm says it has won a ruling in China against Apple that bans the sale of some iPhone models in that country. From a report: The Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court ruled that Apple is infringing two Qualcomm patents and issued injunctions against the sale of the iPhone...
Online marketplace coughs up $100k for selling force-fed birds' livers despite ban Amazon will not sell pate made from the livers of force-fed ducks and geese in California, and has agreed to pay $100,000 in penalties after a civil suit was brought against its brown box...
The UK's NHS will be banned from buying fax machines from next month -- and has been told by the government to phase out the machines entirely by 31 March 2020. From a report: More than 9,000 fax machines are in use by the NHS, a July survey found. All will be replaced by...
If you’ve been following along with the Galaxy S10 rumors, then you know Samsung is planning something very different for its 2019 flagship: A display with a hole in the front rather than a notch. And we may have just gotten our first look at it.Samsung has taken the wraps ...
Long time reader theodp writes: At Monday's kickoff event with Melinda Gates for Computer Science Education Week 2018, Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed how a 2013 driveway encounter led to Microsoft's decision to commit $25 million to Code.org, whose CEO Hadi Partovi...
Enlarge (credit: CBS) If anyone thought that Elon Musk had turned over a new leaf following a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over illegally manipulating Tesla's stock price, think again. On Sunday, CBS' 60 Minutes interviewed the Tesla CEO, which...
All the better to lock customers into its fluffy white services So desperate keen is SAP to lure more developers to write apps using its cloud tools that it is promising them a year's worth of platform access for free.…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings loves to identify sleep as the biggest competition of its service. 'Sometimes employees at Netflix think, 'Oh my god, we're competing with FX, HBO, or Amazon, but think about it. If you didn't watch Netflix last night: What did you do? There's such...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Dec, Tue 11 - 13:05 CET
|
