schwit1 quotes the maritime industry news site gCaptain: A private equity investor from Dallas, Texas and his team of explorers have completed a series of record-breaking dives to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, commonly known as the deepest place on earth. The initial record-setting dive took took place on April 28 when American, Victor…

Despite little coverage and early hiccups, the 5G rollout is chugging along. …read more Source:: CNet

Making a programming jig becomes exponentially more difficult after two pins and who would even consider building one if they were not setting up more than twenty boards? If it were easy for novices to construct jigs, we might all have a quiver of them on the shelf next to our microprocessors. Honestly, a tackle…

Commentary: I love barbecue from Traeger pellet smokers, and they’re so expensive I hate them for it. …read more Source:: CNet

With unique designs and a quirky imagination of engineering, Seymour Cray, built the unusual and spectacular supercomputer. …read more Source:: CNet

“The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor,” reports the Associated Press: Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology highlighted the April 2017 episode in “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” a report on what it…

Google “officially declared Kotlin the go-to language for Android development last week at its Google I/O developer conference,” reports Mike Melanson’s “This Week in Programming” column, “and the company is backing that up with a couple of initiatives around making it easier (and free) to learn the language now used by a majority of Android…

With three in five enterprises now going or planning to go serverless, the attack surface widens. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Today’s 4K TVs are all marketed with “motion,” “action” and “clear” numbers from 60 to 240 and higher. They’re mostly made up. Here’s the real story. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: Venky Ganesan, a partner at technology investor Menlo Ventures, told The Washington Post that the White House’s new survey about bias on social media is “pure kabuki theatre” and an attempt to curry political points with conservatives. He said the Trump administration’s repeated accusations that tech companies censor…