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• Hitting the Books: A brief history of industrial espionage and corn

  Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and...

  02-23 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• 'Minecraft Earth' gets a bit more physical thanks to new NFC-enabled minis

  When the mobile-based Minecraft Earth was announced last year, it immediately drew comparisons to Pokémon Go because of its use of augmented reality and location-based activities. But it was very different (as senior editor Jess Conditt will a...

  02-22 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• Google fully explains why its apps aren't on new Huawei phones

  Since last spring, the government's entity list ban against Huawei (and ZTE) has largely prevented US companies from working with them. Despite legal wrangling and trade negotiations between the two countries the ban is still in place, and in the cas...

  02-22 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• WSJ: Comcast's NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire Vudu

  Comcast-owned media company NBCUniversal is in "advanced talks" to acquire Vudu from Walmart, according to The Wall Street Journal. We're just a couple of months away from the launch of NBCUniversal's new streaming platform called Peacock, so the com...

  02-22 HotNews 1人瀏覽

• Amazon is removing listings for products that claim to cure coronavirus

  Amazon is removing listings for any products that claim to prevent, treat or cure the coronavirus, CNBC reports. The company began notifying third-party merchants of the change this week, and it says it will consider reinstating flagged listings if s...

  02-21 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• Tesla receives permission to continue working on its German Gigafactory

  Work on Tesla's German Gigafactory is back on. The company received permission from the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg to continue clearing 91 hectares of forest in preparation for its fourth factory, where it plans to build batter...

  02-21 HotNews 1人瀏覽

• 'PUBG' cross party play capability for PS4 and Xbox One has arrived

  Last year, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds started allowing PS4 and Xbox One players to square off against one another. Which was a welcome addition, unless what they really wanted was to play with each other. Now, the online multiplayer battle royale...

  02-21 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• Facebook will pay for user recordings to improve speech recognition

  Facebook may have stopped listening to and transcribing Messenger voice chats, but it still needs voice recordings to improve its speech recognition technology. So the company is going to pay select users to record snippets of audio through a new pro...

  02-21 HotNews 1人瀏覽

• Honda’s latest app helps Civic Type R drivers become better racers

  Honda has launched a new data-logging app designed to give drivers a ton of information about their skills on the track. Exclusive to the new 2020 Civic Type R, LogR provides information on 15 data points, including lap times, acceleration, braking a...

  02-20 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• HTC's Project Proton is a preview of its next-gen VR headsets

  While HTC is betting its VR future on the modular Vive Cosmos for now, it's also been working on next-gen lightweight headsets, under the title "Project Proton," that CEO Yves Maitre said will resemble "really, really close to normal glasses." Well,...

  02-20 HotNews 0人瀏覽

• HTC's expanded Vive Cosmos family may help lure more VR users

  HTC's Vive Cosmos is positioned as a high-end VR kit that's easier to use, and we liked it, but one concern we had was its $699 price -- a notable jump from Oculus' $400 offerings, tethered or otherwise. The good news is that according to Engadget Ch...

  02-20 HotNews 3人瀏覽

• PS4 Pro gets a $100 price cut on Amazon to just under $300

  Yes, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series Whatever are coming your way by the end of the year. But if you can't wait until then for a 4K or VR gaming upgrade, then at least you can save a little money on the most powerful PlayStation console available....

  02-20 HotNews 1人瀏覽

• Adobe brings more desktop-quality Photoshop tools to the iPad

  Photoshop turns 30 today, and Adobe is celebrating with some worthwhile updates to the photo-editing app on both the desktop and iPad. The company has been focused on improving that tablet app as quickly as possible since it launched in November. Aft...

  02-19 HotNews 1人瀏覽

• CCP cancels one 'Eve Online' shooter, announces another

  CCP Games has given up on its EVE Online-inspired shooter Project Nova, but don't worry, it's now working on... another Eve Online-inspired shooter. In a statement on Reddit, CCP's George Kellion said that the long-awaited Project Nova was getting th...

  02-19 HotNews 2人瀏覽

• Alphabet quits work on its energy-generating kites

  Alphabet's years-long involvement with energy-making kites is no more. The Google parent is ending its work on Makani's wind power technology, with X's Moonshot lead Astro Teller warning that the path to a viable business was "much longer and riskie...

  02-19 HotNews 3人瀏覽

• Blue Apron considers selling itself as it bleeds customers

  Blue Apron has been struggling in recent years, and that's leading the company to consider some extreme options. The online meal kit service has revealed that it's looking at "strategic alternatives" that include a merger, raising funds, offloading...

  02-19 HotNews 4人瀏覽

• Google pulls alleged UAE spying app ToTok from the Play Store, again

  From TikTok to FaceApp, it can be hard to tell when an app has nefarious intentions hidden behind its useful or buzzworthy features. The same goes for ToTok. The New York Times reported in December that the app is being used by the government of the...

  02-18 HotNews 4人瀏覽

• You can make your own rotary cellphone

  As convenient as modern cellphones are, there's a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call -- and now, there's a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven National Lab engineer Justine Haupt has developed a rot...

  02-18 HotNews 4人瀏覽

• The Morning After: The Galaxy Z Flip's glass screen isn't as tough as we thought

  Welcome back to the week. You might have noticed the return of the durability test. Thanks to a new phone form-factor (hello, foldables!), there's never been a better time to ruin a thousand-dollar purchase. The Galaxy Z Flip, which we've had for a d...

  02-17 HotNews 3人瀏覽

• Rumors resurface about 'Diablo' and 'Overwatch' animated series

  Rumors of a Diablo anime and Overwatch cartoon have been floating around for a while now. Uber Gizmo reported on a potential Diablo series back in 2018, while Activision Blizzard director Jeff Kaplan gave an interview last year where he touched on hi...

  02-17 HotNews 3人瀏覽