Day: February 27, 2020

Amazon Plans To Enter India’s Food Delivery Market

Weeks after Uber exited India’s food delivery market, conceding defeat to local giants Swiggy and Zomato, a new player is gearing up to challenge the heavily-backed duopoly: Amazon. From a report: The e-commerce giant plans to enter the Indian food delivery market in the coming weeks, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The…


Watch Harvard’s wild octopus-inspired tentacle robot grab a live crab – CNET

Suckers. …read more Source:: CNet


Disney Plus bringing back The Proud Family with original voice cast – CNET

Grandma Suga Mama is coming back. …read more Source:: CNet


Raspberry Pi 4 Offers Up 2 GB for the Price of One

The Raspberry Pi 4 represents a significant performance increase over previous generations, unlocking potential applications that were simply beyond the abilities of these diminutive Single Board Computers (SBCs) in the past. Some would even argue that the Pi 4, with a quad-core Cortex-A72 running at 1.5 GHz, now holds its own as a lightweight ARM…


How We Enabled Ransomware to Become a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

As an industry, we must move beyond one-dimensional approaches to assessing ransomware exposures. Asking these four questions will help. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Due To Coronavirus Concerns

Facebook has canceled the in-person portion of F8, the company’s annual developer conference, due to coronavirus concerns. F8 was originally scheduled to take place on May 5th and May 6th later this year. From a report: Instead, Facebook says that it will replace the main F8 conference with “locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content.”…


Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm

Blockstack’s proof-of-transfer (PoX) uses the proof-of-work cryptocurrency of an established blockchain to secure a new blockchain, allowing network participants to earn a reward in a base cryptocurrency by actively participating in the consensus algorithm. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Best Apple Watch deals for 2020: Walmart has the Series 3 for $189 – CNET

Deals are scarce — but some are still out there. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook cancels F8 developer conference due to coronavirus

Facebook said it still intends to hold some smaller F8-related events locally, though it sounds like these will be limited. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hands-On: Smarty Cat is Junior’s First Slide Rule

You may remember that I collect slide rules. If you don’t, it probably doesn’t surprise you. I have a large number of what I think of as normal slide rules. I also have the less common circular and cylindrical slide rules. But I recently picked up a real oddity that I had to share: the…