Month: January 2020

Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft’s benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe

Fight! Fight! Fight! The cloudy database world was plunged into drama at the close of this week, as Amazon Web Services locked horns with Microsoft in a spat over benchmarks.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Apple Arcade’s ‘Secret Oops!’ is a new AR game for silly spies – CNET

Not everyone can be James Bond. …read more Source:: CNet


Owen Wilson joins Marvel’s Loki series on Disney Plus – CNET

Wilson will be playing a major role in the series starring Tom Hiddleston. …read more Source:: CNet


Companion Bots Definitely Are the Droids You’re Looking For

Companion robots are a breed that, heretofore, we’ve primarily seen in cinema. Free from the limits of real-world technology, they manage to be charismatic, cute, and capable in ways that endear them to audiences the world over. Jorvon Moss and Alex Glow decided that this charming technology shouldn’t just live on the silver screen, and…


Name That Toon: Private (Button) Eye

Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Super Bowl movie trailers: Studios are getting stingy with the new stuff – CNET

Hoping for Dune, Black Widow or James Bond footage? The big game may not deliver a touchdown for movie fans. …read more Source:: CNet


F-35’s Gun That Can’t Shoot Straight Adds To Its Roster of Flaws

Add a gun that can’t shoot straight to the problems that dog Lockheed Martin’s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws. From a report: The 25mm gun on Air Force models of the Joint Strike Fighter has “unacceptable” accuracy in hitting ground targets and is mounted in housing that’s cracking, the Pentagon’s…


Ransomware hits TV & radio news monitoring service TVEyes

Newsrooms, political campaigns, and PR agencies panic as they lose access to one of their crucial media monitoring tools. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Amarey A980 robot vacuum hands-on: Quiet and powerful, but only optimized for US

The Amarey A980 performs well, operates to a cleaning schedule in the app, and can be controlled by voice. All you will need to remember is to empty the dustbin from time to time. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows

The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market Apple was the biggest mobile phone seller on the block in Q4 – which is about the only positive thing that could be said for iPhone’s trading in 2019.… …read more Source:: TheRegister