Day: October 14, 2019

Audi puts flying taxi development on hold with Airbus – Roadshow

Curiously, it comes after Porsche announced a partnership with Boeing for a premium flying taxi vehicle. …read more Source:: CNet


Her Majesty opens UK Parliament with fantastic tales of gigabit-capable broadband for everyone

But without a majority, it’s more likely to form basis of Tory manifesto than law The UK government has promised to roll out new legislation to achieve nationwide “gigabit-capable broadband” among 26 bills set out in Parliament’s State Opening today.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


How to watch Nationals vs. Cardinals NLCS Game 3 live tonight without cable – CNET

Cord cutters can watch the National League Championship Series on TBS. …read more Source:: CNet


Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

Apple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet’s CTO has a… notepad.exe tattoo? Roundup In a week that left the Windows Insider team facing a leadership vacuum after its Ninjacat-in-chief jumped ship, Microsoft’s army of gnomes continued to toil ahead of the company’s impending Ignite shindig.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Disney Plus unleashed an epic Twitter list of movies we’ve all forgotten about – CNET

Classics like Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Mr. Boogedy and Johnny Tsunami. …read more Source:: CNet


One month with the Fitbit Versa 2: Comfortable, affordable, and motivating

I’ve now worn the Fitbit Versa 2 as my primary wearable for a month and it served as a solid motivational tool, but had limited use as a smartwatch. It’s the best Fitbit available today, but that may not be enough with older Apple Watch models at the same price. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Tearoff of Nottingham: Uni to lose chunk of IT to outsourcing

Cos that’s always gone really well… Exclusive The University of Nottingham has announced it will outsource some of its IT operations in a long-awaited shakeup of the department.… …read more Source:: Register


University of São Paulo wins tender for Brazil’s largest AI research center

The facility will be jointly run by the university alongside IBM and São Paulo research foundation FAPESP …read more Source:: ZDNet


Told you so: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is a bad idea (and now its partners know it, too)

Opinion: Is Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency experiencing an extinction-level event? It’s not like we (and many others) didn’t predict something like this might happen. Here’s what’s going wrong as the Land of the Like tries to expand its reach into your wallet. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Mozilla to Firefox users: Here’s how we’re protecting you from code injection attacks

Mozilla cleans up Firefox to cut risk of code injection attacks and deter use of a dangerous JavaScript function. …read more Source:: ZDNet