Day: October 17, 2018

Crucial P1 minicard flash drive? Not if you grabbed Intel’s 660p

They don’t *seem* so different if you check digits (though your real world results may vary) Micron’s consumer SSD brand Crucial has pushed out an NVMe minicard flash drive that looks almost identical to Intel’s 600p.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Spotify for Wear OS lets you play music from your wrist – CNET

Spotify is now available on Google Wear OS-supported smartwatches. …read more Source:: CNet


NASA sees rare ‘glacial flour’ dust streaming over Greenland – CNET

You won’t find glacial flour at a bakery. …read more Source:: CNet


Startup Spun Out of Securosis Secures $2.5 Million Seed Investment

DistruptOps officially rolls out its SaaS for automating control of cloud operations and security. …read more Source:: DarkReading


The Supercon Badge is a Freakin’ Computer

It hangs around your neck, comes with the cost of admission, and would blow away a desktop computer from the 1980’s. This is the Hackaday Superconference badge and you can get your hands on one for the price of admission to the ultimate hardware conference. Everyone through the door gets one of these badges featuring…


Twilio tweaks twicky twalkative bot toows to dewight devewopers: It’s Autopilot for chat apps

Cloud comms upstart touts more authentic engagement through artificial intelligence At its Signal show in San Francisco, California, today, cloud comms biz Twilio intends to debut a chatbot platform called Autopilot for creating chatty software agents suitable for integration with a variety of services, including interactive voice response (IVR) systems, SMS, chat, Alexa, Slack, and…


Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server

A Seattle-area startup is aiming to take on giants such as Google and change the way we do email with a new physical personal email server. From a report: Helm today unveiled its $499 device that lets consumers send and receive email from their own domain, in addition to saving contacts and calendar events. It’s…


For the Pixel 3, Google is betting on a chip to bring Android security – CNET

The chip is a variation of what Google uses to protect its data centers. …read more Source:: CNet


Key Facebook investors join push to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman – CNET

This latest proposal comes after Facebook revealed hackers stole personal info from 29 million people. …read more Source:: CNet


The Results of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That Can Change.

Laboratories frequently “reclassify” genetic mutations. But there is no reliable system for telling patients or doctors that the results of their genetic tests are no longer valid. From a report: The results of a genetic test may seem final — after all, a gene mutation is present or it is not. That mutation increases the…