Day: October 21, 2018

These new kitchen gadgets will change how you cook, store and dispose of your food – CNET

We got a look at the latest in food tech at the 2018 Smart Kitchen Summit. …read more Source:: CNet


Keegan-Michael Key and the most ridiculous 5G interview ever – CNET

Has the 5G hype gotten out of hand? Just wait until comedic actor Keegan-Michael Key weighs in. …read more Source:: CNet


I thought Comcast had improved, then I called customer service

The company formerly known as the world in the America still isn’t easy on customers. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Dollar Store Helping Hands for Soldering

Although [I Love To Make] appears to have text in Chinese, their recent video (see below) is like a wordless workshop so it won’t matter if you are up on your Mandarin or not. The soldering vise looks like it mostly came from a dollar store (or perhaps a yaun store). As far as we…


iPhone XR early presale demand and the next Apple event is almost here – CNET

Which iPhone XR models are showing shipment delays and what we’re expecting at Apple’s next launch event. Catch up on all your iPhone news for the week. …read more Source:: CNet


Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs. iPhone XS, Pixel 3, Galaxy S9: Every spec, compared – CNET

Huawei is bringing interesting new features to its latest phones, so we broke down the numbers for how the Mates compare to the hottest handsets right now. …read more Source:: CNet


Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue

An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo: When it was discovered earlier this month that the 1809 build of Windows 10 was deleting user files just because, Microsoft halted the update until the problem was fixed. Shame, then, that another not-as-bad-but-still-bad file overwriting bug has now reared its head. in 1809, overwriting files by extracting from an…


Finally, An Open Source MIDI Foot Controller

MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, and there are a host of tools and applications to give MIDI control to a live performance. That…


Trolls Are Still Actively Trying to Influence Brexit and US Elections

TechCrunch reports: A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. ‘Leave’ voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the U.K., according to new research. The source of the campaign is so far unknown, and will be embarrassing to Facebook, which only this week claimed…


You’ll Flip for This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix

We often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local repairman — assuming you had the knowledge and tools. But today, everything is built to be…