The Sony Walkman is back. The electronics maker will release a new version of its revolutionary portable music player, it announced Friday at IFA 2019, a leading annual consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. From a report: First released in 1979, the Sony TPS-L2 Walkman was the first truly portable personal cassette player and changed…

Vodafone’s UK 5G still has a ton of work to do before fulfilling the promises of a next-generation network. …read more Source:: CNet

Great things happen when we challenge ourselves. But when someone else says ‘I bet you can’t’ and you manage to pull it off, the reward is even greater. After [WilkoL] successfully made a tuning fork oscillator, his brother challenged him to make one out of a wine glass. We’ll drink to that! First, [WilkoL] needed…

DoH tests haven’t found any issues. Mozilla to start rolling out DoH to a small set of US users, then gradually roll it out for to more users. …read more Source:: ZDNet

We’re headed home from Berlin. Here’s everything that mattered from IFA 2019. …read more Source:: CNet

An IKEA hide-and-seek game with 3,000 people was scheduled to take place in Glasglow, Scotland on Saturday, August 31, but police managed to put a stop to it before it even got started. From a report: The one-stop shop for everything home-related and also the ideal place for a 3,000-person hide-and-seek game. After all, the…

Home games consoles have occupied a special space in the marketplace over the last 3 decades. The crowning jewels of their respective companies, they inspired legions of diehard fans and bitter enmities against followers of alternative hardware. For some, a mere handheld is a watered down experience that simply won’t do. Nay, the console itself…

Commentary: Every time I watch a major space effort like the one out of India Friday, I feel an intense rush of stress — and hope for humanity. …read more Source:: CNet

Event marks Apple’s first live product keynote on Google’s video-sharing site. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using a precision vascular robot developed by Corindus. The results of the surgeries, which were successful, have just…