The New York Times reports: Not long ago Volkswagen was a global pariah after pleading guilty to the biggest emissions fraud in automotive history. Now it is the toast of the stock market, with its shares worth twice as much as they were a year ago. What happened? Ironically, Volkswagen’s misdeeds helped pave the way…

Flip-dot displays look and sound awesome. At least to all of us electronics geeks who dumpster dive for second-hand panels to add to our collections of esoteric display technology. But there are people thinking beyond the yellow/white dots on a black background. [BreakfastNY] have produced a new take on what a flip-dot display can be…

Reigns vs. Bryan headlines the last pay-per-view on the WWE Network. …read more Source:: CNet

An old joke from the Linux community about its prevalence in computing quips that Linux will run on anything, including some animals. While the joke is a little dated, it is true that Linux can run on just about any computing platform with a certain amount of elbow grease. The current exception is the new…

It all started when a 42-year-old German man named Sebastian saw a mysterious tweet that he thought was from Elon Musk, reports Entrepreneur: “Musk tweeted ‘Dojo 4 Doge’ and I wondered what it meant,” the man recounted. “There was a link to a new event below, so I clicked on it and saw that it…

Making unobtainium graphics cards even more unobtainable, [VIK-on] has swapped out the RAM chips on an Nvidia RTX 3070. This makes it the only 3070 the world to work with 16 GB. If this sounds familiar, it’s because he tried the same trick with the RTX 2070 back in January but couldn’t get it working….

This week Protocol.com’s “Source Code” newsletter described how startup founders could now bypass venture capitalists: Last fall, the the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission passed a new set of rules for “exempt offerings,” which allow startups to raise funds by selling securities. The SEC acknowledged that its exempt offering rules had become “overly complex” and…

It’s flying by closer than the moon and could be the size of a building. …read more Source:: CNet

The rover’s cameras caught sight of the whirling wind action. …read more Source:: CNet

Sam and Bucky try to figure out where they belong in Marvel’s post-Avengers: Endgame world, but baddies are gonna make that more complicated. …read more Source:: CNet