Month: November 2021

Cyber Monday hits sales high for 2021, with one in three shoppers buying online – CNET

It was still the largest shopping day of 2021, according to Adobe. Amazon also reported a “record breaking” day. …read more Source:: CNet


Cyber Monday’s top-selling deals are still available at Amazon right now – CNET

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, but it’s not too late to buy our CNET readers’ favorite deals. …read more Source:: CNet


Giving Flip Dots the Oil Treatment to Shut Them Up

Flip dot displays are awesome — too bad it’s so hard to find large panels to play around with, but that’s for another article. [Pierre Muth] has been working to find different and interesting things to do with these flip dots, and he recently explored how you can flip them very very gently. Now you…


Facebook whistleblower to testify before Congress again: How to watch – CNET

Frances Haugen will weigh in on potential changes to a federal law that shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content. …read more Source:: CNet


Barbados, Formally Casting Off the Queen, Becomes a Republic

In the early hours of Tuesday, at a ceremony attended by hundreds of masked officials, a prince and at least one pop star, the Caribbean island of Barbados became a republic, cutting ties with Queen Elizabeth II and casting off the last major vestige of its colonial past. The New York Times: The nation swore…


AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

Assemblers unite Ruby developer and internet japester Aaron Patterson has published a REPL for 64-bit x86 assembly language, enabling interactive coding in the lowest-level language of all.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Amazon Launches Preview of New ‘AWS Private 5G’ Managed Service

At Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service that aims to make it easy to deploy and manage your own private global network. From a report: The launch is meant to address the challenges companies are facing with leveraging 5G. AWS CEO…


AWS goes all in on serverless, on-demand solutions with quartet of launches

Amazon’s new slate of cloud-based offerings use serverless and on-demand versions of existing solutions to entice cost-hesitant users and increase agility for businesses requiring rapid scalability. …read more Source:: ZDNet


AWS ups its industry ground game at re:Invent 2021

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky: “There’s no industry that hasn’t been touched by the cloud…we’re tailoring services to industry specific use cases.” …read more Source:: ZDNet


Pokemon Go December 2021 events: Raids, Christmas event and more – CNET

Here are all the biggest events happening in the Pokemon mobile game next month. …read more Source:: CNet