The world of glues is wide and varied, and it pays to use the right glue for the job. When [Eric] needed to stick a wide and flat 3D printed mount onto the back of a PCB that had been weatherproofed with an uneven epoxy coating, he needed a gap-filling adhesive that would bond to…

Apple’s 21 iPhones never looked this good. …read more Source:: CNet

The biggest tech show of the year is six days of jam-packed events. Here’s what to expect. …read more Source:: CNet

Fans of game consoles from the golden era of TV game appliances have been in for a treat over the past couple of years, and a slew of official reboots of the stars of the past have reached the market. These so-called “classic” consoles closely follow the styling of the originals, but under the hood…

An anonymous reader quotes CBS News: Parents are realizing that it’s not just Santa who’s keeping tabs on their kids. Many popular high-tech gadgets that may end up being given as holiday presents can actually track, monitor and record children. Because of that, there are some gifts Felicity and Alden Eute won’t have under their…

We all maintain this balancing act between the cool things we want, the money we can spend, and our free time. When the pièce de résistance is a couple of orders of magnitude out of our budget, the only question is, “Do I want to spend the time to build my own?” [Nick Charlton] clearly…

An anonymous reader quotes Newsweek: The makers of PUBG sent down the banhammer Thursday afternoon in a ban wave believed to iimpact more than 30,000 fraudulent player accounts. What PUBG Corp likely didn’t expect, however, was that its new security measures would also implicate several of the game’s pro players. Like ban waves in most…

An anonymous reader writes: An updated version of the singing “Big Mouth Billy Bass” plastic fish toy now speaks (with synchronized lip movements) with the voice of Alexa. “Your humdrum life will be totally uprooted because you hung a talking fish on your wall,” jokes Fast Company. “Just imagine setting an alarm and being woken…

An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: An Amazon customer got a grim message last year from Alexa, the virtual assistant in the company’s smart speaker device: “Kill your foster parents.” The user who heard the message from his Echo device wrote a harsh review on Amazon’s website, Reuters reported — calling Alexa’s utterance “a whole…

“The working poor are spilling into Bay Area streets for lack of safe, affordable shelter,” report two Silicon Valley newspapers describing a “pop-up neighborhood” that’s now banding together, “a small community of blue collar RV dwellers…fighting for the only place they can call home.” The beautifully-illustrated article begins with an interview with a grey-haired woman…