Day: December 13, 2018

NASA spots Mars InSight lander from space – CNET

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the newest machine on Mars. You can even see the solar panels. …read more Source:: CNet


Google vows not to sell its facial recognition technology for now – CNET

The search giant says it needs to work through “important technology and policy questions” first. …read more Source:: CNet


Get Full Throttle Remastered and LEGO The Hobbit free! – CNET

These games would normally cost you $35. What’s the catch? Sorry, no catch! …read more Source:: CNet


A robot might deliver your Postmates orders in the future – CNET

Serve robots could make deliveries by traveling on sidewalks. …read more Source:: CNet


The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods — and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again

Buyers return a huge number of packages they buy from Amazon and other e-commerce sites, so much so that retailers are sometimes left with little choice but to get rid of large swaths of inventory at a cost. Last year, customers in the U.S. returned about $351 billion worth of items that they had purchased…


Grammarly Launches Public Bug Bounty Program

The online spell check platform is taking its private bounty program public in hopes of outing more threats. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Best holiday gift 2018 drone deals: $100 off DJI Mavic 2 Pro or Zoom, $600 Parrot Anafi, $79 Ryze Tello and more – CNET

Pick up a GPS-enabled camera drone for less than $70 or a great selfie drone for $80. …read more Source:: CNet


Virgin Galactic plane skims space in historic human test flight – CNET

NASA congratulates Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic for a major milestone in the commercial space tourism race. …read more Source:: CNet


Ranks of Crypto Users Swelled in 2018 Even as Bitcoin Tumbled

It turns out that cryptocurrency enthusiasts were committed well beyond the HODL rallying call that urged them to hold on during this year’s digital-asset market collapse. From a report: The number of verified users of cryptocurrencies almost doubled in the first three quarters of the year even as the market bellwether Bitcoin tumbled almost 80…


Jeremy Hong: Weaponizing the Radio Spectrum

Jeremy Hong knows a secret or two about things you shouldn’t do with radio frequency (RF), but he’s not sharing. That seems an odd foundation upon which to build one’s 2018 Hackaday Superconference talk, but it’s for good reason. Jeremy knows how to do things like build GPS and radar jammers, which are federal crimes….