Day: August 8, 2020

3D printing during COVID-19 shows potential, but financial realities bite

Stratasys and 3D Systems show the promise of 3D printing as well as the perils of a technology that’s still emerging to revamp manufacturing. …read more Source:: ZDNet


4 best phones you can get for $300 or less: Galaxy A50, Moto G Power and more – CNET

If you’re looking for a phone on a budget, check out CNET’s top seven picks for 2020 so far. …read more Source:: CNet


Why Buy The Newer Model, When You Can Just Replicate Its User Interface?

Every now and then, along comes an awesome hack from years past that we missed at the time. We kick ourselves for somehow missing such amazing work, and since it’s that good, we share it with you with apologies. Such is the case with [Andrei Anatska]’s faithful replication of the Pioneer CDJ-2000 user interface as…


This Apple product used to be terrible, but I now highly recommend it

Let’s talk about an Apple product that used to be so terrible that I suggest people avoid them like the plague, but have now become so good that I highly recommend them. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Atlassian Tells Employees They Can Work From Home Forever

Software company Atlassian is telling employees that they don’t have to return to its offices, unless they want to use them. CNBC reports: “We will seek out amazing, diverse talent unbounded by the physical footprint of our offices,” the company said in an internal blog post published on Wednesday. “We will continue to compete for…


Are refurbished eBay phones worth it? $650 later, I have some advice – CNET

I got an iPhone, two Samsung Galaxy phones and more for just $650 total. …read more Source:: CNet


Whoops, our bad, we just may have ‘accidentally’ left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry

Plus: Microsoft to dump support for Cortana on iOS, Android phones In brief Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Galaxy Note 20 Ultra ongoing review: Everything good and not-so-good so far – CNET

I’ve gotten to know the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra better, but so many questions about the camera, battery life and stylus remain. …read more Source:: CNet


iPhone SE: I’m actually glad that Apple’s smallest iPhone isn’t really that small – CNET

Commentary: With the iPhone SE 2020, Apple had a chance to bring a 4-inch iPhone back to market again. But it passed on that opportunity, and there’s a reason for that. …read more Source:: CNet


An Amiga Sampler 30 Years Later

There was a magic moment for a few years around the end of the 1980s, when home computers were better than professional ones. That’s a mighty grand pronouncement, but it refers to the crop of 16-bit home computers that genuinely were far better than nearly all PCs at the time for multimedia tasks. You could…