There’s wealth of activities at the Hackaday Superconference but we’ve saved a few for today’s announcement that will inspire you to take on something new and different. Check out the eight talks below that will push you to try the unexpected, to look at old things in a new way, and to propel your hardware…

Jason Momoa is ready to rule the Seven Seas. …read more Source:: CNet

Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story on Thursday which claimed that data center equipments run by Amazon Web Services and Apple were subject to surveillance from the Chinese government via a tiny microchip inserted during the equipment manufacturing process. Both Amazon and Apple have vehemently refuted Bloomberg’s reporting. Bloomberg’s reporters, who have spent more than a…

At least that narrows things down a bit for a bizarre hole in the ground in Arkansas. …read more Source:: CNet

The deals available this weekend include several Cheapskate exclusives! …read more Source:: CNet

Shoes may seem simple at face value, but are actually rather complex. To create a comfortable shoe that can handle a full day of wear without causing blisters, as well as deal with the stresses of running and jumping and so on, is quite difficult. Is it possible to create a shoe that can handle…

Users report disappearing docs. What will day four bring? Folk keen as mustard to get their hands on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update have reported files being mysteriously deleted by the upgrade.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Only a third of its revenues at most come from ‘growth areas’ IBM’s profits are in a “likely irreversible structural decline”, according to a house of analysts that isn’t convinced the company is in a position to grow anytime soon.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of Facebook employees have reportedly expressed anger that an executive attended Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s public hearing last week to support him, The Wall Street Journal reports. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s head of global policy, was at Kavanaugh’s hearing because he is reportedly close friends with the Supreme Court…

…read more Source:: DarkReading