Day: February 14, 2020

Best smart displays for 2020 – CNET

We’ve rounded up options from Amazon, Google, Lenovo and more so you can pick the best smart display for your needs. …read more Source:: CNet


A Crash Course In Thermodynamics For Electrical Engineers

It’s a simple fact that, in this universe at least, energy is always conserved. For the typical electronic system, this means that the energy put into the system must eventually leave the system. Typically, much of this energy will leave a system as heat, and managing this properly is key to building devices that don’t…


Lucid Air could reach 400 miles of range at highway speeds – Roadshow

Not with a gigantic battery, but by squeezing out every last drop of driving efficiency. …read more Source:: CNet


An Anonymous Group Claims it Took DNA From Global Elites — And is Auctioning It Off

An anonymous organization called the Earnest Project is offering the chance to own DNA samples of a handful of world leaders and celebrities. The group claims it has surreptitiously collected items discarded by attendees of the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that may contain their DNA. President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, German…


Plastic Surgery Images and Invoices Leak From Unsecured Database

Thousands of images, videos and records pertaining to plastic surgery patients were left on an unsecured database where they could be viewed by anyone with the right IP address, researchers said Friday. From a report: The data included about 900,000 records, which researchers say could belong to thousands of different patients. The data was generated…


YouTube TV to quit Apple in-app payments, in latest spurning of Apple system – CNET

Your YouTube TV subscription will be automatically canceled (and you lose your DVR) after March 13 if you pay through Apple. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple iPhone Users Targeted with Bogus Dating App for Valentine’s Day

The scam uses a range of themes, including tech-support scares and slot machines. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Windows Terminal and Azure Data Studio both get a tickle from the Microsoft update fairy

Also: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 eyes its operating system shackles Microsoft flung out fresh updates to its cross-platform data wrangler Azure Data Studio, the Windows Terminal and continued to tease a standalone Windows Subsystem for Linux last night.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


POS vendor Toast raises $400 million at $4.9 billion valuation

The Boston-based company said the valuation is representative of its growth over the last year, during which revenue increased 109%. …read more Source:: ZDNet


‘Pale Blue Dot’ Revisited

cusco shares a report: For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is publishing a new version of the image known as the “Pale Blue Dot.” The updated image uses modern image-processing software and techniques while respecting the intent of those…