Day: November 5, 2018

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules – CNET

Net neutrality is already dead, but the Supreme Court has left in place a lower court ruling that preserves the FCC’s authority to adopt the controversial rules. …read more Source:: CNet


Toyota to experiment with car subscription program in Japan – Roadshow

Think of it as Care by Volvo, but from one of the largest automakers on the planet. …read more Source:: CNet


2020 Porsche 911 teasers offer our best look yet – Roadshow

The teasers show the latest Neunelfer tackling all the weather. All of it. …read more Source:: CNet


Samsung teases foldable phone with logo warp – CNET

Samsung’s logo goes round the bend. …read more Source:: CNet


How the Sony PlayStation Was Hacked

Playgrounds were the comment sections of their day. Every weekday from exactly 1:17 PM until 1:43 PM there were swings to be swung, rumors to be spread, and debates to be settled by whomever was the loudest (some things never change). Allegiances were formed and battle lines were drawn based solely on what video game…


Yes, I bought a 2018 Mac mini (and here’s how I spec’d it out)

Apple finally updated its long-ignored Mac mini. With all the pro specs David Gewirtz has been asking for, lo these many years, he bought one. Here’s what it’s got under the hood. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Australian Intelligence Knows Huawei Was Used in Espionage, Report Says

According to a report in The Australian, Australia received intelligence reports that Huawei personnel provided Chinese spies passwords to hack a “foreign network.” From a report: Though there are many broad allegations that telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE sabotage products so that spies can conduct espionage, the public is largely in the dark about…


Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier

Is Emmental? Probably a bit One Swiss chap hopes to get his rock and rollright by playing music to cheese to see if that makes it taste better.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Hyundai invests in Allegro.ai to bring deep learning to our cars

The startup is researching ways for vehicle vision to tackle real-world problems. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Daylight Saving Time is Super Unpopular. Here Are the Countries Trying To Ditch It.

Daylight Saving Time ended in the United States on Sunday, bumping the clocks back an hour. The change happened in Europe a week earlier, meaning the time difference between the continents was momentarily smaller. It’s another confusing wrinkle in a confusing temporal process that confounds the world. From a story: Today, 70 countries change their…