The Cafe line of appliances come in matte-black or matte-white, a first for GE Appliances. Plus, you can pick from four hardware finishes. …read more Source:: CNet

A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords, Reddit said Wednesday. From the announcement: Since then we’ve been conducting a painstaking investigation to figure out just what was accessed, and to…

The majority of the Silicon Valley VC community is male and white and has changed very little, according to a new analysis. …read more Source:: ZDNet

We delve into Apple’s quarterly results, Facebook’s effort to fight influence campaigns, and a move to curb phone addiction. …read more Source:: CNet

But they’ll throw in copy of Excel to work out when space’ll run out Microsoft is emitting a raft of tweaks to its OneDrive offering this month, but has yet to address the elephant in the room. Or rather, the lack of elephantine storage in the room.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Deepa Seetharaman, writing for WSJ: Four years after Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 billion, it is formally starting the messaging app on a new mission: bringing in revenue. WhatsApp on Wednesday detailed plans to sell advertisements and charge big companies that want to reach their customers through its service [Editor’s note: the link may be…

Of course, what looks reasonable is in the wallet of the beholder. …read more Source:: CNet

The Kubrick classic hits Imax in select cities in August. …read more Source:: CNet

We now know the price and release date of the Google’s next smart speaker with a screen. …read more Source:: CNet

When it comes to training robots, you could grab a joystick or carefully program movements in code. The better way, though, is to move the robot yourself, and have the robot play back all those movements ad infinitum. This is training robots by touch, and it’s the subject of this week’s Hack Chat over on…