If we asked you to rattle off all the tools at your own personal disposal, you’d probably leave your timepieces off the list. But we say clocks are definitely tools — cool tools that come in countless forms and give meaning to endless days. A clock form we hadn’t considered was that of an actual…

…read more Source:: CNet

The Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo T8 Aivi uses a camera and sensors to actively avoid cords, shoes and other household traps. …read more Source:: CNet

schwit1 writes: Georgia lost a close U.S. Supreme Court case over the state’s ability to copyright its annotated legal code, in a ruling that dissenting justices said would shock states with similar arrangements. Copyright protection doesn’t extend to the annotations in the state’s official annotated code, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a 5-4 majority…

The flaws exist in Autodesk’s FBX Software Development Kit, which is supported in Microsoft Office 2019 and Office 365 ProPlus. …read more Source:: DarkReading

In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University. From a report: Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university’s Jenner Institute had a running start on a vaccine,…

We think it’s pretty safe to assume that most of the electrical connections our readers are making out there involve solder or solder paste. But we’ve all made a crimp connection or two in our lifetimes. Maybe you’ve squeezed a butt connector here and there, or made an Ethernet cable. Beyond getting the wiring order…

Two lucky winners will each win a $599 gift certificate to spend at Tire Rack. *Open to US, Puerto Rico, and Canada (excluding Quebec). …read more Source:: CNet

The UK’s coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance. From a report: The NHS says it has a way to make the software work “sufficiently well” on iPhones without users having to keep it active and on-screen….

HBO Max is coming May 27 but not every HBO subscriber gets the upgrade automatically. Here’s what we know so far. …read more Source:: CNet