Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company — and the Internet. An anonymous reader writes: The New Yorker has profiled Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, two of Google’s most storied developers and to date, the company’s only Senior Fellows, the highest level Google awards to…

Salts that de-ice roads, parking lots and sidewalks keep people safe in winter. But new research shows they are contributing to a sharp and widely rising problem across the U.S. From a report: At least a third of the rivers and streams in the country have gotten saltier in the past 25 years. And by…

Dead characters Hodor, Joffrey, High Sparrow and more show up in Saturday Night Live talk show parody “Khal Drogo’s Ghost Dojo.” …read more Source:: CNet

Get $80 off at Target on the 32GB or 128GB versions. …read more Source:: CNet

We’ll see how it all shakes out in 2019. …read more Source:: CNet

With providers like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, and more creative risks, network leaders are placing bets on how audience experience will evolve [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]. From a report: “What might we see coming down the road?” says Beau Willimon, creator of The First, Hulu’s sci-fi drama starring Sean Penn and Natascha…

It is three weeks after the apocalypse. No zombies yet. But you do need to charge your cell phone. How do you quickly make a wind turbine? If you’ve read this project, you might reach for a few empty water bottles. This educational project might not charge your phone without some extra work, but it…

Get the Xbox One S with games like Battlefield V and NBA 2K19 at prices better than Black Friday. …read more Source:: CNet

The Toyota Prius racecar will participate in Japan’s Super GT racing series in 2019. …read more Source:: CNet

SwiftOnSecurity, regarding Microsoft’s switch to Chromium as Windows’s built-in rendering engine: This isn’t about Chrome. This is about ElectronJS. Microsoft thinks EdgeHTML cannot get to drop-in feature-parity with Chromium to replace it in Electron apps, whose duplication is becoming a significant performance drain. They want to single-instance Electron with their own fork. Electron is a…