An anonymous reader shares a report: When Anand Kalelkar started a new job at a large insurance company, colleagues flooded him with instant messages and emails and rushed to introduce themselves in the cafeteria. He soon learned his newfound popularity came with strings attached. Strings of code. Many of Mr. Kalelkar’s co-workers had heard he…

Dead-bug circuit building is not a pretty affair, but hey, function over form. We usually make them because we don’t have a copper circuit board available or the duty of making one at home is not worth the efforts and chemical stains. [Robert Melville and Alaina G. Levine] bring to light a compromise for high-frequency…

The company remains the regional leader despite competition from the likes of Amazon. …read more Source:: ZDNet

They want mandatory opt-in on data collection and strong net neutrality protections to be the law of the land in 2019. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s hard to imagine Apple without Steve Jobs. …read more Source:: CNet

They aren’t working together, but both automakers have the same goals in mind. …read more Source:: CNet

In less than two years, anything that can connect to the internet will come with a unique password — that is, if it’s produced or sold in California. From a report: The “Information Privacy: Connected Devices” bill that comes into effect on January 1, 2020, effectively bans pre-installed and hard-coded default passwords. It only took…

For the last seven months, we’ve been running the world’s greatest hardware competition. The Hackaday Prize is the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, and a competition where thousands of hardware hackers compete to build a better future. The results have already been phenomenal, but all good things must come to an end: we’re wrapping up…

Now Apple’s Safari is the only major holdout. …read more Source:: CNet

According to user reports, the latest Windows 1809 feature update is resulting in permanently deleted personal files. …read more Source:: CNet