Will Google play catch-up — or leapfrog the iPhone X? …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: Whiskey-sponsored immersive theater. Snickers escape rooms. Immersive branding is just getting started. …read more Source:: CNet

The top iPhone headlines this week. …read more Source:: CNet

If you were an Amiga enthusiast back in the day, the chances are you had an Amiga 500, and lusted after a 2000 or maybe later a 3000. Later still perhaps you had a 600 or a 1200, and your object of desire became the 4000. The amusingly inept Commodore marketing department repackaged what was…

The blockchain gaming company Lucid Sight is partnering with Major League Baseball to launch MLB Crypto Baseball. Engadget’s Daniel Roberts explains: Ethereum, launched in 2015, is a decentralized platform for “smart contracts,” which are automated agreements for an exchange of value. It runs on a blockchain, the same peer-to-peer, immutable, public ledger technology that bitcoin…

Also, make sure you update your Juniper kit quickly Roundup This week, when we weren’t watching the football and sobbing uncontrollably, we saw security headaches at NPM and Ticketmaster, and a priest in hot water with cybercrime charges.… …read more Source:: Register

A bandpass allows a certain electrical signal to pass while filtering out undesirable frequencies. In a speaker bandpass, the mid-range speaker doesn’t receive tones meant for the tweeter or woofer. Most of the time, this filtering is done with capacitors to remove low frequencies and inductors to remove high frequencies. In radio, the same concept…

A wonderful week in machine learning Roundup Hello, here are some quick AI announcements from this week. A researcher reminds us to be wary of the hype around Montezuma’s Revenge, there are some new framework updates from Google and Microsoft, and a new Google Brain office in Amsterdam.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Find out which dehumidifier you should buy — and why. …read more Source:: CNet

New numbers from researchers at eMarketer reveal that Amazon is set to clear $258.22 billion in U.S. retail sales in 2018, “which will work out to 49.1 percent of all online retail spend in the country, and 5 percent of all retail sales,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: It started as an online bookstore, but…