Month: February 2020

iPhone 9 rumors: Launch date, specs and Touch ID predictions – CNET

All the latest, hottest rumors about a potential successor to the iPhone SE, aka the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2. …read more Source:: CNet


A Mini USB Keyboard That Isn’t A Keyboard

A useful add-on for any computer is a plug-in macro keyboard, a little peripheral that adds those extra useful buttons to automate tasks. [Sayantan Pal] has made one, a handy board with nine programmable keys and a USB connector, but the surprise is that at its heart lies only the ubiquitous ATmega328 that you might…


Meet the white-hat group fighting Emotet, the world’s most dangerous malware

A private group of 20+ security researchers and system administrators have been waging a silent war against Emotet, today’s most dangerous malware operation. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft’s Cortana Drops Consumer Skills as it Refocuses on Business Users

With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around music and connected homes, as well as some third-party skills. From a report: That’s very much in line with Microsoft’s new focus for Cortana, but it may still come as a surprise to…


Casual Tetris Comes In At $9

[Michael Pick] calls himself the casual engineer, though we don’t know whether he is referring to his work clothes or his laid back attitude. However, he does like to show quick and easy projects. His latest? A little portable Tetris game for $9 worth of parts. There is an Arduino Pro Mini and a tiny…


When AI Can’t Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead

Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it. From a report: When Tony Huffman stepped away from the production line at the Denso auto part factory in Battle Creek, Michigan, to talk with WIRED earlier this month, the workers he supervised were…


Xiaomi’s Mi 10 Pro 5G: Release date, specs, price, features and a 108-megapixel camera – CNET

Xiaomi’s 5G promise in 2020 starts with the Mi 10 series. Starting at approximately $570, you get a Snapdragon 865 chipset, 90Hz refresh rate, and a 108-megapixel main camera. …read more Source:: CNet


LG refreshes slim Gram laptop lineup

The four new models each weigh under three pounds and come with 10th-generation Intel Core processors and bigger batteries than their predecessors, but retain their premium price tags. …read more Source:: ZDNet


The best 3D printers in 2020 for beginners and budget creators – CNET

From Flashforge to Monoprice, these printers will get you started making all kinds of cool stuff. …read more Source:: CNet


OpenSource GUI Tool For OpenCV And DeepLearning

AI and Deep Learning for computer vision projects has come to the masses. This can be attributed partly to the community projects that help ease the pain for newbies. [Abhishek] contributes one such project called Monk AI which comes with a GUI for transfer learning. Monk AI is essentially a wrapper for Computer Vision and…