Business Insider/Jessica Tyler Amazon was still trying to hammer out a deal with New York officials and union representatives, just the day before the company officially canceled plans for its proposed HQ2 headquarters in NYC, Bloomberg reports. Amazon executives, city officials, and union heads reportedly met Wednesday to address “outstanding issues” related to the proposal. […]
[embedded content] Ubisoft’s Commit-Assistant In a bid to cut the number of coding errors made in its Firefox browser, Mozilla is deploying Clever-Commit, a machine-learning-driven coding assistant developed in conjunction with game developer Ubisoft. Clever-Commit analyzes code changes as developers commit them to the Firefox codebase. It compares them to all the code it has […]
Arterra/UIG via Getty Images Scientists working at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have reunited a photo-filled USB stick with its owner after discovering it in a lump of seal feces. To say the USB stick had been on an incredible journey is putting it mildly, as it had apparently not […]
Please note that an update has been added to the end of this article. A newly discovered FaceTime bug lets you listen to the audio of the person you’re calling before they’ve even answered. The troubling flaw came to light today and has been replicated numerous times by iPhone owners, many posting their results on […]
Enlarge / Apple demonstrates Group Facetime at WWDC 2018. Valentina Palladino Users have discovered a bug in Apple’s FaceTime video-calling application that allows you to hear audio from a person you’re calling before they accept the call—a critical bug that could potentially be used as a tool by malicious users to invade the privacy of […]
Before a Deal, Amazon Had to Know: Could Cuomo and De Blasio Get Along? ImageA former General Services Administration building is surrounded by residential and office high-rises in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Va.CreditCreditTing Shen for The New York Times By Karen Weise and J. David Goodman Nov. 13, 2018 On a late October […]
Enlarge / The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Palace Museum Edition. Xiaomi In the last few years, we’ve witnessed a big change to the way the smartphone market works. China has become both the biggest smartphone market on Earth and home to some of the most interesting smartphone companies. Lately, all the cool and crazy smartphones […]
Getting your holiday shopping done early can reduce stress, but if you wait a few weeks, you can also nab a great deal on a number of popular tech products. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Year after year, the holidays arrive […]
[embedded content] What’s the difference between a National Park and a National Forest? Drones. The National Park Service banned drones several years ago after tourists proved time and time again that they couldn’t be trusted with them. But no such ban exists in the National Forests — at least, not yet — which gives filmmakers […]
[embedded content] We’ve written about one-legged, two-legged, four-legged and even six-legged robots, but researchers from Japan’s Keio University and the University of Tokyo have gone way, way further with their latest project: A 32-legged robot. Called Mochibot, the spherical robot moves by telescoping its individual legs, thereby pushing it wherever it needs to go. When […]
Matt Reed / Redpepper Add another name to the list of games machines have dominated: Where’s Waldo. Few things fill us with angst growing up quite as much as trying to find that candy cane man amid a scene of chaos. Most games get easier with practice, but lanky ol’ Wally just got harder to find […]
Twitter won’t ban far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, but it is going after another group of extremists for its hate speech: Proud Boys. The company on Friday suspended both the group’s main account, @ProudBoysUSA, and the group’s founder Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Media, from its platform and its video-streaming network Periscope. Other Proud […]