Department of Fun straps on a holster, strides into the wild west of online gadget users The British government has finally woken up to the relatively lax security of IoT devices, and is lurching forward with legislation to make gadgets connected to the web more secure.… …read more Source:: Register

A camo’d prototype met up with the concept car in California, where it has been undergoing testing. …read more Source:: CNet

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Lead-free solder alloys have been around for as long as people have done soldering, with sources dating back about 5,000 years. Most of these alloys were combinations like copper-silver or silver-gold and used with so-called hard soldering. That’s a technique still used today to join precious and semi-precious metals together. A much more recent development…

Britain will allow Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to play a limited role in its next generation 5G mobile networks. From a report: The U.K. government said that Huawei will be restricted from being involved in “sensitive functions” in a network of features labeled as “core.” There is also a limit in place on how much…

‘Magical,’ says Steven Sinofsky on 10th birthday of Apple’s fondleslab Former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has spoken his mind about the launch of Apple’s iPad (now celebrating 10 years) and its impact on Microsoft.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

If this is the result of bringing artificial intelligence to the electric SUV of the future, count me out. …read more Source:: CNet

The UK has snubbed the US and given Huawei a green light, so 5G needs to live up to its promise – fast. …read more Source:: ZDNet

CES didn’t have an overarching tech, like 3D or huge flat screens, of past years. As I’ve reflected on what I saw at the show, what emerged is a new trend: a tech inflection point that will define much of the coming decade’s challenges and opportunities. That trend is onboarding Artificial Intelligence. …read more Source::…