Day: September 29, 2019

Pixel 4 and 4 XL rumors and specs: Launching Oct. 15 with Face ID-type gesture controls and orange color – CNET

Google’s next flagship is definitely on its way. Keep tabs on the other rumors about the Pixel 4 and 4 XL. …read more Source:: CNet


Google’s DNS-Over-TLS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress

Google’s plans to implement DNS over TLS in Chrome are being investigated by a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, while the Justice Department has “recently received complaints” about the practice, according to the Wall Street Journal. An anonymous reader quotes Engadget: While Google says it’s pushing for adoption of the technology to prevent…


Google’s DNS-Over-HTTPS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress

Google’s plans to implement DNS over TLS in Chrome are being investigated by a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, while the Justice Department has “recently received complaints” about the practice, according to the Wall Street Journal. An anonymous reader quotes Engadget: While Google says it’s pushing for adoption of the technology to prevent…


Google reportedly under antitrust scrutiny for new internet encryption protocol – CNET

New standard aims to improve security and privacy by encrypting internet traffic. …read more Source:: CNet


Liberal Arts Majors Eventually Earn More Than STEM Majors

The conventional wisdom that liberal arts majors earn less than compsci majors may be true for the first job, but not necessarily for an entire career, reports the New York Times, in an article shared by jds91md (and republished by Indiana State’s College of Arts and Sciences). “By age 40 the earnings of people who…


Upgrading a MIDI Controller with an FPGA

While the “M” in MIDI stands for “musical”, it’s possible to use this standard for other things as well. [s-ol] has been working on a VJ setup (mixing video instead of music) using various potentiometer-based hardware and MIDI to interface everything together. After becoming frustrated with drift in the potentiometers, he set out to outfit…


Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks Grants For Ambitious Expansion

The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the “open internet”. Now the open source Libre RISC-V hybrid CPU/GPU is applying for eight additional grants from the NLNet Foundation, according to this update from the project’s Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (Slashdot reader #517,947): Details on each Grant Application are on the newly-opened RISC-V…


Samsung Galaxy Fold and iPhone 11 Pro hands-on, Vivoactive 4, OnePlus 7T, Pixelbook Go (MobileTechRoundup show #482)

After an 8-hour drive, I have a Samsung Galaxy Fold in hand so much of the podcast was spent discussing this new device and the Apple iPhone 11 Pro devices that both of us purchased. We also covered another new phone, a wearable, and some Chromebook news. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Both Apple and Amazon Are Quietly Building Networks That Know the Location of Everything

Wired reports on both Sidewalk, Amazon’s new low-bandwidth long-range wireless networking protocol, and Apple’s new position- and distance-measuring U1 chip (mentioned in a recent keynote). Apple’s U1 chip — which allows precise, indoor positional tracking via the latest iPhones and will power, at the very least, directional AirDrop file-sharing — popped up on screen but…


Strata Data 2019: Vendors focus on implementation success

The data industry, even in its renewed form, has matured. It’s moved on from obsession with mere capabilities and is focused on success of implementation. The news out of last week’s Strata Data conference in New York reflects the change. …read more Source:: ZDNet