Day: January 16, 2020

Google Will Wind Down Chrome Apps Starting in June

Google said this week that it will begin to phase out traditional Chrome apps starting in June, and winding down slowly over two years’ time. Chrome extensions, though, will live on. From a report: Google said Tuesday in a blog post that it would stop accepting new Chrome apps in March. Existing apps could continue…


A Strange Display Gives Up Its Secrets

Providing a display for a project in 2020 is something of a done deal. Standard interfaces and off-the-shelf libraries for easily available and cheap modules mean that the hardest choice you’ll have to make about a display will probably relate to its colour. Three decades ago though this was not such a straightforward matter though,…


Oculus Go price cut permanently to $149 – CNET

Facebook says the discount on the 32GB version of the VR headset is here to stay. …read more Source:: CNet


Marvel star Robert Downey Jr. on Iron Man’s possible return: ‘We’ll see’ – CNET

Don’t get too excited, Tony Stark fans, but the actor keeps leaving the door open. …read more Source:: CNet


AI and human soft skills will drive leadership priorities in 2020s, LinkedIn survey finds

The survey found that a purpose driven and caring mindset was the number one quality leaders should strive for, followed by an ability to embrace technology. …read more Source:: ZDNet


These Living Bricks Use Bacteria To Build Themselves

A new living substance can transform from a wet sand mixture into a solid brick, and even help to reproduce copies of itself. From a report: Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder, used a type of photosynthetic bacteria that absorbs carbon dioxide, sunlight, and nutrients and produces calcium carbonate — a rigid compound found…


Satan Ransomware Reborn to Torment Businesses

A hellish mix of features shows the 5ss5c ransomware to be the son of Satan. …read more Source:: Threatpost


NASA’s Mars habitats could be made from a surprising material: fungi – CNET

Please step into my humble Mars mushroom room. …read more Source:: CNet


Pelosi: Facebook cares about money, not the truth – CNET

The House Speaker appeared to criticized Facebook’s policy on political ads. …read more Source:: CNet


Browser Benchmark Battle: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge Vs. Brave

An anonymous reader writes: It’s been some 18 months since VentureBeat’s last browser benchmark battle. What better time to get the latest results than the start of a new year? Over the past year and a half, Google Chrome has continued to dominate market share, Mozilla Firefox has doubled down on privacy, Microsoft Edge has…