I found the real heart of motorcycle culture in America during a snowstorm in Portland, Oregon. …read more Source:: CNet

Low-buck, low-stress racing is alive and well all over America with Roland Sands Design’s Super Hooligan series. …read more Source:: CNet

Citing new warnings from several analysts, Fortune reports that Facebook’s business model now faces threats from “a growing array of bi-partisan criticism and fresh regulatory issues.” Analysts are now flagging an opinion piece in The New York Times, by Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat who’s chairman of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial…

Getting into the weeds of operating systems is daunting work. Especially when the operating system involved is a fully featured modern PC operating system with millions of lines of code all working together to integrate hardware and software seamlessly. One such operating system “weed” is figuring out how to handle simultaneous tasks when the processor…

Plus, two crooks craft a veritable fraudocopia Roundup This week we got freaked out about heart implant hacks, welcomed a new Microsoft security tool, and endured yet another Facebook fsck up.… …read more Source:: Register

If you are a certain age, you probably remember the promise of supersonic transports. The Concorde took less than 4 hours to go across the Atlantic, but it stopped flying in 2003 and ended commercial supersonic passenger flights But back in the 1970s, we thought the Concorde would give way not to older technology, but…

Some of the same podcasters who first extolled AirPods are now complaining about them, reports the Atlantic: The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in…

The Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS, doesn’t get a lot of love from the average person anymore. Perhaps once in a while a payphone will be of use when a phone battery has died, but by and large many people simply don’t have hardwired phones anymore. However, that doesn’t mean that the old landline…

Court documents unsealed Tuesday showed just how much information America’s FBI was able to gather on Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen — from both Google and Apple products. An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Notably, the FBI made use of Cohen’s use of Touch ID and Face ID on his Apple devices, which allow users to…

As the final season approaches, you can bring Westeros home with everything from autographed books to a Hodor doorstop and a Hand of the King bottle opener. …read more Source:: CNet