Day: October 10, 2020

Disney Plus will premiere Pixar’s Soul on Dec. 25, skipping theaters – CNET

Disney Plus subscribers will get the movie free with their regular membership, after Disney Plus’ release of Mulan in September required an extra $30 fee to watch. …read more Source:: CNet


The best portable power stations for 2020 – CNET

Get power wherever you are with a portable generator that runs on batteries. …read more Source:: CNet


Save 15% on a Raptic Titan XL and be ready for your next power failure or camping trip – CNET

This 497 watt-hour power station can recharge your laptop 10 times or keep your phone running for a month. …read more Source:: CNet


Report: Google Plans to Relinquish Control of Open-Source Project Knative

“Google LLC is reportedly planning to relinquish direct control over its open-source Knative project to a five-seat steering committee that will have rules to prevent any single organization from having more than two seats,” reports SiliconANGLE. “The plan is designed to stymie criticism that Google is secretly planning to retain control over key open-source projects…


What Happens When Researchers Give Thousands of Dollars to Homeless People?

CNN reports on “The New Leaf Project,” an initiative in which the University of British Columbia partnered with a Vancouver-based charity called Foundations for Social Change: Researchers gave 50 recently homeless people a lump sum of 7,500 Canadian dollars (nearly $5,700). They followed the cash recipients’ life over 12-18 months and compared their outcomes to…


Hardware vs Software: Fight!

It’s one of the great cliches in the hacker world: the hardware type and the software type. You can tell which of these two you are quite easily. When a project is actually 20% done, but you think it’s 90% done, and you say to yourself “And the rest is a simple matter of software”,…


Prime Day preview: Kindle Paperwhite will be $50 off – CNET

Amazon’s Paperwhite e-reader will drop to $80 for Prime Day, its lowest price. The Kindle Kids Edition will be $75, which is $35 off. …read more Source:: CNet


Early Prime Day laptop 2020 deals: Save on these Asus, Dell and Samsung models now – CNET

These are the best laptop deals available right now from Amazon as well as Best Buy and Newegg. …read more Source:: CNet


What’s that Lt Lassie? Three terrorists have fallen down a well? Strap on these AR goggles and we’ll find ’em

US military sticks techno-specs on crack canines in command experiment The US Army will give military dogs augmented-reality goggles and walkie-talkies to work out whether the technology can help them better assist soldiers on the battlefield.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Prime Day 2020 deals you can score right now: $25 Blink Mini, $20 Echo Auto, $300 Toshiba 55-inch TV – CNET

Don’t miss the Echo Show 5 and Blink Mini bundle for $50. And learn how you can score “free” cash to spend on Prime Day. …read more Source:: CNet