Dexter, a really great robot arm project, just won top honors in the 2018 Hackaday Prize, and walked away with $50,000 toward continuing their project. As a hat tip to Hackaday and the community, Haddington Dynamics, the company behind Dexter, agreed to open-source their newest version of Dexter as well. As James Newton said when…

The cryptocurrency was worth more $17,000 last December. On Thursday, it fell below $6,000. …read more Source:: CNet

Two winners among 10 finalists will get $2 million each, access to tech resources and mentoring. …read more Source:: CNet

SpaceX won permission to deploy more than 7,000 satellites, far more than all operating spacecraft currently aloft, from U.S. regulators who also moved to reduce a growing risk from space debris as skies grow more crowded. From a report: Space Exploration Technologies has two test satellites aloft, and it earlier won permission for a separate…

“Our advice is to stop using this watch” as mitigations are not available, researchers told Threatpost. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Jason McGee, IBM fellow, VP and CTO, IBM cloud platform, talks about how IBM continues to grow within the open-source community. [Cloud TV] …read more Source:: ZDNet

Sean Harley, CIO of business information company Ascential, talks about the role cloud computing plays for his organisation. [Cloud TV] …read more Source:: ZDNet

It’s all about hyperconverged – no we’re not breaking out those numbers With one eye on uncertain currency movements and the developing US/ China trade war, NetApp reported a solid set of Q2 numbers, albeit figures that highlighted a slowdown in its monumental all-flash array sales growth.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Yoshitaka Sakurada, who recently took on the role after a cabinet shuffling, says it’s up to the government to deal with it. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader shares a report: Podcasting has offered advertisers a new means of reaching demographically targeted consumers. Many podcasts feature extended endorsements, read by the host, that often include a discount code for a product or service. For listeners accustomed to a separation between advertising and editorial, the blurring of lines can be disconcerting…