Day: September 1, 2019

Note 10 specs vs. Note 10 Plus and Note 9: How to choose – CNET

Breaking down what’s new and different with Samsung’s Note 10 phones and last year’s Note 9. …read more Source:: CNet


Should We Be Allowed To Kick Robots?

“Seen in the wild, robots often appear cute and nonthreatening. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be hostile,” argues a new article in Wired, reporting on what appears to be a pre-meditated kicking of a Knightscope K5 patrol robot in a parking lot in California: K5’s siblings, it turns out, don’t fare much better. In 2017…


7 phones with the best battery life: iPhone XR, Note 10 Plus and more – CNET

We round up the phones with the longest battery life. Did yours make the list? …read more Source:: CNet


Google planning big changes to the way Chrome tabs work, but you might not notice

The change is either going to annoy you in a big way, or you won’t notice. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Force Sensitive Resistor Takes the Pain Out Of Bed Leveling

How do you know if your 3D printer bed is levelled? Oh, don’t worry – you’ll know. Without a level bed, filament won’t stick properly to the build surface and you’ll run into all sorts of other problems. Knowing how tricky it can be to get the bed just right, [Antzy] built a tool to…


An Alternative for ‘Less Relevant’ Agile: the Studio Model

Last week Forbes ran an article by writer/data scientist Kurt Cagle arguing that Agile software development “was becoming less and less relevant.” Within five days it had racked up 300,000 hits, and “I’m still digging out from the deluge of email, Tweets and Linked In messages,” he wrote this week. But in a new follow-up,…


Double 3: Your Instant Physical Presence Anywhere, No Matter Where You Are

Telepresence is one of those futuristic buzzwords that’s popped up a few times over the decades; promising the ability to attend a meeting in New York City and another in Tokyo an hour later, all without having to leave the comfort of your home or office. This is the premise of Double Robotics’ Double 3,…


Is Silicon Valley Building a Chinese-Style Social Credit System?

schwit1 shared this thought-provoking article from Fast Company: Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in…


China’s lunar rover discovers strange substance on far side of the moon – CNET

The Yutu-2 rover found something weird inside a crater. …read more Source:: CNet


New Ram 1500 packages, Ram HD tweaks underpin 2020 updates – Roadshow

The trucks themselves were both recently refreshed, so the changes are minimal. …read more Source:: CNet