Day: June 9, 2018

NBA Finals Game 4 memes: Where will LeBron James play next? – CNET

The Golden State Warriors took the trophy, but all the buzz was about King James possibly leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers. …read more Source:: CNet


Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Investors For New Company

There’s a new surprise from the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou (author of the Theranos expose Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup). An anonymous reader shares Vanity Fair’s summary of their newest podcast interview: According to Carreyrou, Holmes is currently waltzing around Silicon Valley, meeting with investors, hoping to raise money…


Telsa Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion

An anonymous reader quotes CNBC: A bullish call from a Wall Street analyst capped off a rough week for Tesla short sellers, with Nomura Instinet advising clients that the electric car maker’s shares could rally 42 percent over the next year. The stock rose 1.7 percent Friday and is now up 10 percent on the…


Survey: JavaScript is the Most-Used Language, But Java is the Most Popular

An anonymous reader quotes SD Times Java remains the most popular primary programming language, but JavaScript is the most used programming language overall. That is according to a recently released report from JetBrains on the State of the Developer Ecosystem in 2018. The report surveyed more than 6,000 developers from 17 countries to reveal the…


Google goes peacenik, chip wizardry and AI gets into art and drugs

It’s the week’s other AI news While we’ve already covered a lot of AI stories this week a few slipped under the radar so, as is traditional, here’s the roundup of some news you may have missed.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Monotron Gets All the Mods

[Harry Axten] turned the diminutive Korn Monotron into a playable analog synthesizer, complete with a full-sized keyboard spanning two octaves and a MIDI interface. Korg Introduced the Monotron analog mini-synthesizer back in 2010. They also dropped the schematics for the synth. Hackers wasted no time modifying and improving the Monotron. [Harry] incorporated several of these…


What is Advanced HDR by Technicolor? – CNET

Seriously, another HDR format? Technicolor’s foray into the HDR world is already in some TVs. Here’s what makes it different. …read more Source:: CNet


I used Color Studio to design the most obnoxious Nissan Kicks ever – Roadshow

Nissan’s configurator can add accessories in five different colors, and if you work at it like me, the results can be amusingly disastrous. …read more Source:: CNet


Magna Steyr to start BMW Z4 production in Graz this year – Roadshow

That’s the same place the Mercedes G-Class is assembled. …read more Source:: CNet


Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition

The Linux Foundation has endorsed Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. In a blog post, Jim Zemlin, the executive director at the Linux Foundation, said: “This is pretty good news for the world of Open Source and we should celebrate Microsoft’s smart move.” The Verge reports: 10 years ago, Zemlin was calling for Microsoft to stop secretly…