Day: July 8, 2019

Toyota and Geely partner with Baidu’s Apollo self-driving car program – Roadshow

The companies are working together to further develop the open-source autonomous car technology platform and the artificial intelligence necessary to run it. …read more Source:: CNet


Snowball the dancing cockatoo gets serious scrutiny from science – CNET

A parrot that grooves to Queen and Cyndi Lauper shows humans aren’t the only creatures that get creative by shaking their tail feathers. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon Minnesota warehouse workers planning Prime Day strike – CNET

Workers in the Minneapolis area have already been pushing for better working conditions. …read more Source:: CNet


Mozilla is Funding a Way To Support Julia in Firefox

Mozilla is funding a project for bringing the Julia programming language to Firefox and the general browser environment. From a report: The project received funding part of the Mozilla Research Grants for the first half of 2019, which the browser maker announced on Friday. In April, when Mozilla opened this year’s submissions period for research…


Teardown: VeriFone MX 925CTLS Payment Terminal

Regular Hackaday readers may recall that a little less than a year ago, I had the opportunity to explore a shuttered Toys “R” Us before the new owners gutted the building. Despite playing host to the customary fixture liquidation sale that takes place during the last death throes of such an establishment, this particular location…


$10,000 could nab you an Apple-1… manual at auction. Sorry, it’s more like $375k for real thing

Impeccable history swapped for a CD packed with code An Apple-1 Operation Manual is up for auction this week, having been traded to a database programmer in exchange for code 20 years ago.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Nearly every Google Home and Nest product is on sale – CNET

Walmart has slashed prices on just about everything, and you don’t need an Amazon Prime membership or anything. …read more Source:: CNet


Stranger Things time-warps PCs with Windows 1.11 app – CNET

Here’s something to do after you binged the third season over the long weekend. …read more Source:: CNet


More Than 1,000 Android Apps Harvest Data Even After You Deny Permissions

An anonymous reader shares a report: Permissions on Android apps are intended to be gatekeepers for how much data your device gives up. If you don’t want a flashlight app to be able to read through your call logs, you should be able to deny that access. But even when you say no, many apps…


Manufacturing in China Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at noon Pacific for the Manufacturing in China Hack Chat with Jesse Vincent! It started out where many great stories start: as a procrastination project. Open source developer Jesse Vincent decided that messing around with a new keyboard design was a better thing to spend time on than…