Gadget News
Samsung Galaxy phone with AMD Radeon GPU coming next year
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 05:09
Samsung and AMD announced a partnership last year that was unsurprisingly filled with generic “forward-looking” statements and nothing to show for. It was pretty much presumed that Samsung would be licensing AMD’s ...
Microsoft Build 2020 dev conference will do more than just go virtual
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 06:07
The first months of this year have been marked by sudden cancellations of events and conferences as the world tried to come to grips with the COVID-19 threat. By this time, however, many companies have already adjusted t...
Reddit Start Chatting feature rolled back after a flood of complaints
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 05:31
A lot of social networking services have rolled out new or upgraded features to address the new living conditions that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed on all of us. Many involve increasing group size limits or opening ...
NASA space laser mapped ice loss over the last 16 years
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 15:57
NASA has been making observations of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets for the last 16 years. The tool NASA has been using is the most advanced earth-observing laser instrument it’s ever placed in space known as t...
Disney live-action Hercules movie tipped in early development
Slash Gear - 2 May 2020 00:43
Hercules will be the latest animated Disney film to get a live-action makeover, according to a new report. The upcoming movie is said to be in the early stages of development at this time; it will follow other Disney liv...
Galaxy M31 brings four cameras and a giant battery to the UK
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 06:49
Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note premium phones often take the spotlight but they are hardly Samsung’s only smartphones. Most of the time, you only hear about devices from its Galaxy M family only in association wi...
Netflix removes a 'Designated Survivor' episode in Turkey
Engadget - 1 May 2020 06:31
Netflix has removed an episode of the political thriller Designated Survivor from its streaming service in Turkey following a demand from a regulator. It did so to comply with local law, it told Variety in a statement.Th...
Walmart takes on Amazon with new two-hour Express Delivery option
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 04:29
Walmart has announced its launch of Express Delivery, a new shipping option that gets customers their goods within two hours. According to Walmart, it boosted its development and launch of this new option in light of the...
LinkedIn Now Has an AI to Help With Your Interview Game
Gizmodo - 1 May 2020 03:19
As a record number of Americans grapple with unemployment in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, LinkedIn's rolled out some AI-powered tools to help job seekers prepare for the nightmare fuel that is the intervie...
Research Casts Doubt on Elliptical Galaxies Being Cradles of Intelligent Life
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 01:34
We live inside a spiral galaxy, but one school of thought suggests oval-shaped elliptical galaxies are most likely to host intelligent civilizations. A new paper tries to overturn this assumption by applying a classic ph...
Evo 2020 is canceled, but organizers are planning an online event
Engadget - 2 May 2020 01:32
The "world's biggest fighting game tournament" has joined the list of events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers announced in a tweet that the annual battle in Las Vegas is off for 2020, but "to keep the...
Latest Coronavirus Science: Pinning Down the True Fatality Rate
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 01:10
Every day brings new scientific insights into covid-19 and the coronavirus that causes it. Here are some of the latest studies and developments, including research into the virus's fatality rate and impacts on children.
We Should Bail Out Fossil Fuel Workers, Not the Industry
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 01:00
This May Day, workers in pretty much every sector are struggling. In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. is almost surely facing Depression-era levels of unemployment. Fossil fuel workers are no exception.
$1.1 Billion Sale of .Org Registry to Private Equity Leeches Voted Down by ICANN
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 00:34
Something good has happened for once: The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers voted to block its partner organization, the Internet Society, from selling off control over the .org domain registry to private equi...
Coronavirus drug remdesivir gets FDA emergency use authorization
Slash Gear - 2 May 2020 00:17
Experimental drug remdesivir has been given authorization by the FDA for COVID-19 treatment in the US, following promising early results in Phase 3 trials last month. The drug, initially developed by Gilead for ebola and...
India's Mandated Contact Tracing App Is An Invasive, Insecure Mess
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 00:11
No matter how you feel about contact tracing, it's been openly embraced by federal authorities around the world, from the UK, to Germany, to, well, you name it, as a way to curb the spread of the current pandemic. And wh...
The 10 Best Deals of May 1, 2020
Gizmodo - 2 May 2020 00:00
You've heard of our deals of the day, but now, in rare form, we're bringing back a classic (at least for today): our pick of the 10 BEST deals after sifting through ALL the options ourselves. Opinions may vary on what is...
Virgin Galactic's spaceship flies from its new home base for the first time
Engadget - 1 May 2020 23:55
The pieces are finally starting to come together for Virgin Galactic's space tourism -- the company has flown SpaceShipTwo from Spaceport America for the first time. It was just a glide test from 50,000 feet up, but the ...
OnePlus crowdsourced Beta features revealed
Slash Gear - 1 May 2020 23:51
A release from OnePlus just revealed 5 user-recommended/suggested features that’ve been adopted as official updates for the future of OnePlus devices. This release builds on the previously-announced OnePlus Ideas progr...
Intel's 10th generation desktop CPUs have arrived--still on 14nm
Ars Technica - 1 May 2020 23:45
Once again, Intel's banking on a high clock speed to drum up excitement.
Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments
Gizmodo - 1 May 2020 23:43
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled the Federal Communications Commission must provide two reporters access to server logs that may provide new insight into the allegations of fraud stemming from agency's 2017 net neutra...
Raspberry Pi launches camera with interchangeable lens system for $50
Ars Technica - 1 May 2020 23:40
The "High Quality Camera" unlocks a world of photography options for the Pi.