Send your own response to “Alexa, who’s the best dad in the world?” …read more Source:: CNet

You could ask the browser, which boasts tremendous accessibility potential, to load a website, and it could read it to you. …read more Source:: CNet

More Brexit fallout as Europe plays hardball with positioning It’s official: the UK is going to be booted off the Galileo satellite GPS program as a result of Brexit, despite furious protestations from Britain that it’s a special case.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: Another week, another cyberattack. This time around, it’s the Dixons Carphone group which says it has fallen victim to not one but two major breaches. The bank card details of 5.9 million customers have been accessed by hackers in the first breach. In the second, the personal records…

Thousands of television set-top boxes aren’t protected with a password. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Add some Nvidia support, and everyone else is on catch-up Cisco and Lenovo have shoved Intel’s Optane caching drives in their hyperconverged systems, and Switchzilla has also added Nvidia GPU support to grant AI/ML apps hyperconverged system access.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Commentary: It’s all about the convenience. …read more Source:: CNet

The Note 9 is rumored to get a 4,000mAh battery, and a faster wireless charger to go with it. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Brace yourself for laptops with 128GB of RAM because they’re coming. Today, Lenovo announced its ThinkPad P52, which, along with that massive amount of memory, also features up to 6TB of storage, up to a 4K, 15.6-inch display, an eighth-gen Intel hexacore processor, and an Nvidia…

Connecting your shiny new ESP8266 to WiFi can be as simple or as complicated as you please. Most people decide to manually add it. Some people find clever ways to make the bloody thing connect itself. [Eduardo Zola] transfers his WiFi password using the flashing light of a smartphone screen. A simple photo-resistor and a…