Day: December 8, 2019

Holiday Xbox deals this weekend: three-game Xbox One S bundle for $160, Crackdown 3 for $15 and more – CNET

The ghost of Cyber Monday has continued some hot Xbox deals at Walmart and elsewhere, so you can still get Cyber Monday prices right now. …read more Source:: CNet


Will Robots Wipe Out Wall Street’s Highest-Paying Jobs?

An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Robots have replaced thousands of routine jobs on Wall Street. Now, they’re coming for higher-ups. That’s the contention of Marcos Lopez de Prado, a Cornell University professor and the former head of machine learning at AQR Capital Management LLC, who testified in Washington on Friday about the impact of artificial…


81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks

In 1962, 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming — and 57 years later, he’s still working on it. But he’s finally released The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links. An anonymous reader writes: On his personal site at Stanford, 81-year-old Donald…


The next generation of user experience is artificially intelligent

The CEO of enterprise integration provider Dell Boomi has seen the emphasis shift to the front end. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Tesla Wants To Clean Windshields With Laser Beams

Tesla “may be keen on replacing the humble windshield wiper with lasers,” reports CNET. In a patent application filed this past May and published with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 21, Tesla describes a “pulsed laser cleaning” for “debris accumulated” on glass, specifically for automotive application. It also mentions this could…


Controlling Tremors As They Happen

Some neurological disorders, like Parkinson’s disease, can cause muscle tremors which can get worse as time goes along. In the beginning it may not be too difficult to manage, but as the disease progresses the tremors get worse and worse, until day-to-day movements are extremely difficult. Even picking up a fork or pouring a glass…


Microsoft is dropping some of its Dynamics 365 HR apps in favor of LinkedIn alternative

Microsoft is preparing to retire some of its existing human resources apps, while simultaneously gearing up to launch a new Dynamics 365 Human Resources offering in February 2020. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Uber Loses $1.4 Billion in Value After Acknowledging Thousands of Sexual Assaults

“Uber’s stock market value fell by $1.4 billion Friday, on the heels of the company’s release of a safety report revealing that 3,000 incidents of sexual assaults took place during its U.S. rides in 2018,” reports the Bay Area News Group: On Thursday evening, Uber released its long-awaited safety study, which revealed that the company…


Crisis on Infinite Earths is the perfect cure for Avengers crossover withdrawal – CNET

Commentary: The CW’s comics and TV crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths is unlike anything done before. …read more Source:: CNet


iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, 2 months later: The ultra-wide camera is still our favorite thing – CNET

Here’s which one we think you should buy. …read more Source:: CNet