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Google Employees Who Organized Mass Walkout Say They’re Being Retaliated Against
Hi all, This was a hard email to write. Google is retaliating against several organizers. We are among them and here is what’s happening to us: Meredith Just after Google announced that it would disband its AI ethics council, I was informed my role would be changed dramatically. I’m told that to remain at the […]
Hawaiian botanists’ drone discovers a plant thought to be lost forever
[embedded content] A drone has helped botanists in Hawaii to find a flower that they thought was extinct. Hibiscadelphus woodii, to give it its official name, was recently rediscovered growing on a vertical cliff face in a remote part of Kalalau Valley on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Inaccessible on foot because of its challenging […]
Bonfire Studios is not ‘gonna suddenly go out and make Candy Crush’
Indie studio Bonfire Games has been quiet about what it’s been up to since its founding in 2016. But at the 2019 GamesBeat Summit, the Irvine, California-based company offered a few new details about its debut project, saying that it’ll be an online multiplayer game for targeting core gamers. “We’re not gonna suddenly go out […]
Samsung Delays Galaxy Fold Rollout Amid Malfunctions
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Crap artists rejoice! MS Paint is getting a last-minute reprieve
Enlarge / Who needs Aurich’s artistic talents, anyway? Peter Bright Long, long ago, Microsoft quietly announced that it was going to remove the venerable mspaint.exe from Windows 10. The app was listed as deprecated, indicating intent to remove it in a future Windows 10 update, and the app itself was even updated to warn users […]
The best mouse you can buy in 2019
Whether you’re a gamer or an office worker, there’s a great mouse out there for you which will make your day-to-day PC usage much more enjoyable. From programmable buttons, to adjustable sensitivities, to RGB lighting, the best mice in the world have something for everyone. To help you pick the right one for you, we’ve […]
Election interference is ‘online harm’, MPs hear
Adverts using disinformation to influence elections is a “significant online harm” needing urgent action from the government, MPs have been told. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham spoke to a parliamentary committee looking at disinformation. She said that she was surprised that a recent government White Paper on online harms had failed to address the issue of […]
Alphabet’s Wing drones now have FAA approval to deliver packages in the U.S.
Alphabet Wing, the drone delivery startup owned by Google’s parent company, announced that it has become the first company to receive Air Carrier Certification from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This lets Wing begin commercial deliveries from local businesses to homes in the U.S. — including the crucial ability to fly over civilians […]
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1650 GPUs Coming to Dozens of Laptops
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Samsung Wants All the Galaxy Fold Review Units Back
Samsung has already delayed the launch of the Galaxy Fold smartphone after review units started breaking from just two days of use. Now Samsung wants all of the review units back. As Reuters reports, Samsung is apparently searching out and retrieving all Galaxy Fold handsets it sent out to reviewers. It follows multiple reports of […]
Earn more likes on your photos with the best cameras for Instagram
Phone cameras have gotten very good, but if you really want to take your Instagram account to the next level, a dedicated camera is the way to go. There isn’t a single formula that makes one camera better suited to social media than another, but throughout our testing — we’ve reviewed nearly 25 cameras in […]
Intel puts 8 cores, 16 threads, and a 5GHz turbo option in a laptop processor
Enlarge / An eight-core/16-thread Coffee Lake die. Intel The first processors to include Intel’s ninth-generation Core branding came out last year with a limited line-up: just a handful of high-end desktop processors in the Coffee Lake family. Today, the company has unveiled a bumper crop of new ninth-gen chips. There’s a set of H-series processors […]
The latest Apple iPad Pros get steep discounts on Amazon
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends The iPad Pro is now in its third generation, and the 2018 refresh of this premium tablet is, hands down, Apple’s best one yet. It’s on sale right now for a good discount, which is a nice treat, considering Apple hardware – particularly the shiny new stuff – doesn’t get discounted too […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold won’t launch this week after all
Samsung announced Monday that it would delay the release of its $ 2,000 flagship Galaxy Fold phone after reports of product defects affecting the screen, which folds like a taco, a major setback for what was the most highly anticipated new mobile device in years. The phone was due to arrive in stores Friday. But […]