Cryptocurrency scammers are promoting tweets through ads after they take over verified accounts. …read more Source:: CNet

From a clueless security guard to a FedEx driver looking for Tony STANK, late Marvel legend Stan Lee was always a star. …read more Source:: CNet

AI will displace many workers, says tech exec and investor Kai-Fu Lee. But it’s got limits. …read more Source:: CNet

While announcing new pilot project with Facebook French president Emmanuel Macron has insisted that new laws are needed to limit and protect online content and the internet itself.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Leaf blowers, the main instrument of the suburban Saturday symphony, are one of the most useful nuisances. It doesn’t take much work with a rake to convince even the most noise-averse homeowner to head to the Big Box Store to pick one up to speed lawn chores. Once you do buy one, and feel the…

Those inspired by his work offer condolences and commemoration on Twitter. …read more Source:: CNet

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has again hit out at proposed new European Union copyright rules which she claims is impossible for a platform like YouTube to comply with, and if done so, could harm the creative industries. Wojcicki said the European Parliament’s vote in favor of an overhaul to copyright law two months ago is…

Editorial oversight contemplated by article 13 creates too much financial risk YouTube, a company “completely sustained by pirated content” according to Google executives prior to its 2006 acquisition, is warning that a proposed revision of Europe’s copyright directive could spell the end of online video sharing as we know it.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

It’s a decade in the making… and still counting. …read more Source:: CNet

Freshly Exhumed writes: A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent physical limitations that have been slowing progress in this area until now. Researchers at MIT and…