Month: May 2019

Comcast reportedly not interested in spectrum from T-Mobile, Sprint – CNET

The company doesn’t seem interested in Boost Mobile either. …read more Source:: CNet


‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming For Your Job’ — Management Is

merbs writes: If the robots are simply “coming,” if they just show up and relieve a helpless lot of humans of their livelihoods, then no one is to blame for this techno-elemental phenomenon, and little is to be done about it beyond bracing for impact. Not the executives swayed by consulting firms who insist the…


Chromebook sale: Save $200 on Pixel Slate and other deals – CNET

Attention back-to-school shoppers: Chromebooks from HP, Dell, Google and Samsung are on sale. …read more Source:: CNet


Microsoft doles out PowerShell 7 preview. It works. People like it. We can’t find a reason to be sarcastic about it

Popular admin tool shifts to .Net Core 3.0 amid talk of future features Microsoft on Thursday released a preview version of PowerShell 7, its command-line shell and scripting language for administrators. The software was once was limited to Windows but opened up to Linux (including arm64) and macOS three years ago.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Rocketman: The ‘secret weapon’ that makes the Elton John movie sing – CNET

Music director Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin, reveals how the biopic has a bit of Fab Four spirit. …read more Source:: CNet


Oh, the massive sky dong? Contrails from ‘standard’ F-35 training, US Air Force insists

Nothing to see here pervs – it is all in your mind Attempts by the US Air Force to keep up with its Navy pilot rivals in the fine art of contrail cock drawing is nothing of the sort, according to service flacks.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Hulu Has 82M Viewers, and Most of Them Are Seeing Ads

Hulu has broken out some new total audience figures and revealed just how many of those total viewers are watching the company’s ad-supported streaming service. From a report: Peter Naylor, senior vice president and head of advertising sales at Hulu, said that his company counts 82 million overall viewers, and added that nearly 70% of…


Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer shows Stealth Suit, Mysterio mentorship – CNET

The Chinese trailer for the next Spider-Man heavily features Peter Parker getting advice from Mysterio. …read more Source:: CNet


Verizon 5G versus Sprint: Battle of the next-gen data networks – CNET

US 5G networks could be a case of the tortoise and the hare, depending on how carriers play their cards. …read more Source:: CNet


A Work Light For Hacker Events

If you’ve ever attended a hacker camp, you’ll know the problem of a field of tents lit only by the glow of laser illumination through the haze and set to the distant thump of electronic dance music. You need to complete that project, but the sun’s gone down and you didn’t have space in your…