He didn’t give much in the way of details, but given the money that Hyundai and Kia have been pouring into performance, it seems plausible. …read more Source:: CNet

When it first appeared, critics railed against the notch. Now, more phones are adopting it. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Mercury News’ report on Facebook’s annual shareholder’s meeting: On Thursday in Menlo Park, one investor compared the social network’s poor stewardship of user data to a human rights violation. Another warned that scandal is not good for Facebook’s bottom line. And one advised Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to emulate…

Modern display and solar cell technologies are built with a material called Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). ITO has excellent optical transparency and electrical conductivity, and the material properties needed for integration in large-scale manufacturing. However, we’re not content with just merely “good enough” nowadays, and need better materials to build ever better devices. Graphene and…

Everything a cord cutter needs to know about free over-the-air 4K HDR broadcasts. …read more Source:: CNet

Despite the general public’s hijacking of the word “hacker,” we don’t advocate doing disruptive things. However, studying code exploits can often be useful both as an academic exercise and to understand what kind of things your systems might experience in the wild. [Code Explainer] takes apart a compiler bomb in a recent blog post. If…

“The tech industry has reached a maximum saturation point for conferences, summits and forums,” writes CNN’s senior media reporter, sharing his general disillusionment after Recode’s recent Code Conference: But even at their best, these events fail to generate truly significant news because executives have been media-trained to the point of impenetrability… [S]peakers like Facebook COO…

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was to most Brits the computer to own in the early 1980s, it might not have had all the hardware features of its more expensive competitors but it had the software library that they lacked. Games came out for the Spectrum first, and then other platforms got them later. If you…

An anonymous reader quotes the Los Angeles Times: Mayor Michael Tubbs, a Stockton native and Stanford graduate who is all of 27 years old, wants to give at least $500 a month to a select group of residents. They’ll be able to spend it as they wish, for 18 months, in a pilot program to…

Star Trek has its universal language translator and now researchers from Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) has developed a universal music translator. Much of it is based on Google’s WaveNet, a version of which was also used in the recently announced Google Duplex AI. The inspiration for it came from the human ability to hear…