Step aside, SpotMini. SpaceBok is the cheerfully jumpy robot built for the moon, Mars and asteroids. …read more Source:: CNet

Electronics giant likely hurting from smartphone market slowdown and US-China trade war tensions. …read more Source:: CNet

From a report: Google’s Chrome now reigns as the biggest browser on the block, and the company is facing challenges similar to Microsoft’s from competitors, as well as government scrutiny. But Google faces a new wrinkle — a growing realization among consumers that their every digital move is tracked. “I think Cambridge Analytica acted as…

K.K. Rebecca Lai, Jin Wu and Lingdong Huang, writing for the Times: Crowd estimates for Hong Kong’s large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates. This year’s annual pro-democracy protest on Monday, July 1, was no different. Organizers announced 550,000 people attended;…

Chalk that up as a third quarter of consecutive decline Samsung Electronics has estimated that operating profit for its second calendar quarter of 2019 will fall by a whopping 56 per cent due to continued crappy demand for memory chips.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader shares a report: China’s war on garbage is as digitally savvy as the country itself. Think QR codes attached to trash bags that allow a municipal government to trace exactly where its trash comes from. On July 1, the world’s most populated city Shanghai began a compulsory garbage sorting program. Under the…

It was a game of two halves The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed it suffered a security breach of its payroll systems, which was discovered last month, saying no staff data had been compromised.… …read more Source:: Register

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, is not happy with how the internet has evolved in the nearly two decades since then. From a report: “It’s appalling frankly,” he said in an interview with CNBC this week. Sanger’s main gripe is with big social media platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter. These companies, he says,…

Government agencies targeted with never before seen malware payload — named SilentTrinity. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Whether a downturn arrives or not, becoming an adaptive enterprise will drive customer obsession and better business results. …read more Source:: ZDNet