The great irony of the social media revolution is that it’s not very social at all. Users browse through people’s pictures in the middle of the night while laying in bed, and tap out their approval with all the emotion of clearing their spam folder. Many boast of hundreds or thousands of “friends”, but if…

Vast storage savings…er, tragic loss attributed to a data migration gone awry MySpace, the Norma Desmond of social networking platforms, appears to have lost all the music uploaded to the site since its founding in 2003 through 2015, a blunder the company reportedly attributes to a failed server migration.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

IBM is taking its banking clients a step closer to cryptocurrency. From a report: Announced Monday, six international banks have signed letters of intent to issue stablecoins, or tokens backed by fiat currency, on World Wire, an IBM payment network that uses the Stellar public blockchain. The network promises to let regulated institutions move value…

Well, that Knights Hill 2018 dream didn’t work out, so let’s shoot for 2021 instead Intel will, as expected, provide the processors for the US government’s exascale-grade Aurora supercomputer, due to be deployed in 2021.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Seven cars built on the same Beetle platform present a beautiful celebration of differences. …read more Source:: CNet

Reader samleecole writes: Recently I was looking around at the state of modern image editors and discovered something really disappointing. The issue? Well, even with the rise of modern Photoshop alternatives such as Affinity Photo and Pixelmator, these image editors are not designed to handle animated GIFs. Which means that, despite the fact that I’d…

We also talk facial recognition and Google at GDC. …read more Source:: CNet

You’ll be able to get special skins and extra rewards. …read more Source:: CNet

Maybe now when you scream at the screen “DO NOT DRINK YOUR PEE,” Grylls must obey. (Probably not though.) …read more Source:: CNet

Its bigger brother, the XC60, earned the second-best accolade, as well. …read more Source:: CNet