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Netflix Just Canceled 'Jessica Jones' and 'The Punisher'

The final two shows of the streaming service's Marvel partnership got the axe.

2 hours ago

Wired

Netflix Just Canceled 'Jessica Jones' and 'The Punisher'

Wired

Is That Dagobah? No, Just a Real-Life Magical Forest

Neil Burnell's photographs of Wistman's Wood in Devon, England evoke comparisons to 'Star Wars' and 'The Lord of the Rings'.

3 hours ago

Wired

Is That Dagobah? No, Just a Real-Life Magical Forest

Wired

Would You Pay $6,000 For Vision-Quality VR?

The VR-1, from Finnish company Varjo, isn't exactly chump change, but its resolution is so high that companies in multiple industries await it eagerly.

4 hours ago

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Would You Pay $6,000 For Vision-Quality VR?

Wired

The Government's New Weather Model Faces a Storm of Protest

The National Weather Service will soon introduce a new forecasting model, but meteorologists are saying it's worse than its predecessor.

5 hours ago

Wired

The Government's New Weather Model Faces a Storm of Protest

Wired

Evenflo Gold Smart Convertible Car Seat Review: Safety First

We know you would never leave your child unattended in the car. But if you did, this seat would tell you?over and over again.

5 hours ago

Wired

Evenflo Gold Smart Convertible Car Seat Review: Safety First

Wired

Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question

We should not be creating conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates.

6 hours ago

Wired

Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question

Techcrunch

Why can't we build anything?

Last week, California governor Gavin Newsom announced that he was intending to aggressively scale back plans for the state's high-speed rail system, which in its most ambitious routing would have connected Sacramento to San Diego. The immediate cause was ballooning costs, which have risen from $33 billion ...

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Techcrunch

Why can't we build anything?

Techcrunch

You can now register .dev domains

Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. At the time, Google acquired gTLD’s like .app, .page and .dev (for some reason, Google also owns .soy). ...

17 minutes ago

Techcrunch

You can now register .dev domains

Techcrunch

Deeply discounted student tickets for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019

Are you a student within striking distance of Berkeley, California" Do you have a burning passion for robots and artificial intelligence" We have great news for you. We're offering deeply discounted student tickets to TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019, which takes place at UC Berkeley on April ...

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Deeply discounted student tickets for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019

Techcrunch

YouTube revamps its strike system to include a one-time warning, consistent penalties

YouTube today announced a significant change to its strike system – the penalty system used when YouTube’s reviewers identify a video has violated the site’s Community Guidelines. These strikes could be issued against videos containing nudity or sexual content, violent or graphic content, ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

YouTube revamps its strike system to include a one-time warning, consistent penalties

Techcrunch

Daily Crunch: Huawei founder remains defiant

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. "There's no way the U.S. can crush us," Huawei founder claims In a rare interview with the BBC, ...

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Daily Crunch: Huawei founder remains defiant

Techcrunch

Nauto, a Softbank-backed mobility startup, brings on team from Newton

Nauto, the transportation company that aims to make human drivers safer and train autonomous vehicles for all types of scenarios, has scooped up the team from Newton Technologies, following the company’s ceasing of operations.* Newton Technologies aims to reduce the number of driving-related deaths ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

Nauto, a Softbank-backed mobility startup, brings on team from Newton

Readwrite

Is Your Parental Leave Policy Stuck in the "90s"

In recent years, paid parental leave has become a hot-button issue. It's no wonder that news on this topic is making headlines: The United States is ranked last in the world, one of only three countries that doesn't guarantee paid parental leave. The nation's policy is 25 years old, which is why California ...

2 hours ago

Readwrite

Is Your Parental Leave Policy Stuck in the "90s"

Readwrite

Trying to Make Your Company the Best It Can Be? Stop Overlooking Culture

Unicorns aren't exactly a dime a dozen, but they're not quite as rare as they once were. Today, private companies with a valuation in excess of $1 billion number more than 300, prompting some analysts to look for a more precise indicator of unicorn potential. According to a report from Comparably, that ...

2 hours ago

Readwrite

Trying to Make Your Company the Best It Can Be? Stop Overlooking Culture

Readwrite

Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.

While critics and proponents trade jabs, cryptocurrency continues its steady march forward. Individual cryptocurrency coins will remain volatile in 2019. The individual cryptocurrencies will remain volatile in 2019 and beyond, but the game-changing power of the technology as a whole can’t be denied. ...

2 hours ago

Readwrite

Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.

Readwrite

Rapid Experiments are Key to Making AI Technology Buy vs Build Decisions

As enterprises embrace AI and work towards integrating it increasingly into their business processes, one of the key decisions they are all having to make is whether to buy or build the AI components that will drive their enterprises into the future. More than 61 percent of businesses said they have ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

Rapid Experiments are Key to Making AI Technology Buy vs Build Decisions

Fast Company

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke on how Amazon is zigging where Netflix is zagging

A year into her tenure at Amazon, and on the heels of a record-breaking spending spree at the Sundance Film Festival, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke finally gave a peek behind the curtain at Amazon’s film strategy. The key message: We’re zigging where Netflix is zagging. In ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke on how Amazon is zigging where Netflix is zagging

Fast Company

5 tips to help you convert your company to a four-day workweek

Last April, a company in New Zealand launched an experiment: For eight weeks, employees would work only four days each week, but would keep getting full-time salaries. Not surprisingly, university researchers who studied the trial found that workers reported less stress and more satisfaction with their ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

5 tips to help you convert your company to a four-day workweek

Fast Company

Trump is signing Space Force into reality. The cost is still TBD

Space Force is creeping one step closer to reality. While it sounds like the title of the next Justice League movie or a crossover with Space Ghost or a reboot of Space Jam, instead it is a sixth branch of the military with the mission of protecting the United States from space attacks. President Donald ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Trump is signing Space Force into reality. The cost is still TBD

Fast Company

This grantmaker wants to break white men’s stranglehold on philanthropic donations

Of the billions of philanthropic dollars that foundations give to nonprofits, virtually all of it–an estimated 95%–goes to organizations run by men. Up to 80% of those men are white. That imbalance is reflected both in grantmaking as a whole and in the realm of funding for climate change, ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

This grantmaker wants to break white men’s stranglehold on philanthropic donations

Fast Company

Why the Trolley Dilemma is a terrible model for trying to make self-driving cars safer

The flowers and stuffed teddy bears of the makeshift memorial may be gone, but grief and trauma still haunt the intersection of 5th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. It was the scene of a horrific tragedy last year, in which a seizure-prone woman ran a red light and ran over and ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

Why the Trolley Dilemma is a terrible model for trying to make self-driving cars safer

Fast Company

The Fyre Festival’s terrible pitch deck is now lorem ipsum

The Fyre Festival was a disaster by any measure. It brought hundreds of young influencer hopefuls to a party in the Bahamian island of Great Exuma, who were then trapped without shelter, food, or water–a scam that would earn cofounder Billy McFarland a six-year jail sentence. But it was also a ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

The Fyre Festival’s terrible pitch deck is now lorem ipsum

Engadget

Logitech resurrects its classic MX518 gaming mouse

Long-time PC gamers have fond memories of the MX518 for a reason: the 2005-era mouse combined a comfortable shape, convenient buttons and brisk performance at a fairly reasonable price. Even its 2011 replacement was ultimately a spin on a successful...

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Engadget

Logitech resurrects its classic MX518 gaming mouse

Engadget

Germany may use Huawei hardware for its 5G networks

The UK isn't the only country skeptical of American hostility toward Huawei over spying fears. German officials talking to the Wall Street Journal say the country has made a "preliminary decision" to let Huawei bid on contracts for 5G networking desp...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Germany may use Huawei hardware for its 5G networks

Engadget

Latest Samsung leak shows new watch and earbuds from every angle

With all the leaks in advance of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event tomorrow, we can practically forecast the whole launch. The company started taking S10 reservations in the US earlier this month, and it seemed all but certain earbuds and a smartwatch...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Latest Samsung leak shows new watch and earbuds from every angle

Engadget

Google teases a big gaming announcement for March 19th

Google isn't normally the sort to break news at big video game events, but it's making an exception to that rule this year. The company plans to unveil a mysterious gaming project at a Game Developers Conference presentation on March 19th at 1PM East...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Google teases a big gaming announcement for March 19th

Engadget

Netflix has an all-star cast for 'Green Eggs and Ham' animated series

Netflix would really like for you to try some Green Eggs and Ham. The company has secured the rights to the classic Dr. Seuss tale and is turning it into a star-studded animated series that will be packed with familiar voices. The show, which is bein...

2 hours ago

Engadget

Netflix has an all-star cast for 'Green Eggs and Ham' animated series

Engadget

SoundCloud lets artists distribute music to Spotify and Apple Music

SoundCloud is helping artists distribute uploaded music to other services, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Instagram, Pandora and even Napster. The Premier distribution tool will be available in open beta at no ext...

2 hours ago

Engadget

SoundCloud lets artists distribute music to Spotify and Apple Music

Venturebeat

"History of the Future" book chronicles Palmer Luckey, Oculus, and the rebirth of VR

'The History of the Future' is a new book by Blake Harris that chronicles the life of Palmer Luckey, the creation of the Oculus Rift, and the revival of VR.

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Venturebeat

"History of the Future" book chronicles Palmer Luckey, Oculus, and the rebirth of VR

Venturebeat

Google schedules GDC event, reportedly for cloud gaming service

Google has scheduled an event for March 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific time at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where it may unveil Project Stream.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

Google schedules GDC event, reportedly for cloud gaming service

Venturebeat

GitHub expands bug bounty program and removes maximum award limit

GitHub today beefed up its bug bounty program by expanding its scope, increasing the reward amounts, and adding Legal Safe Harbor terms to its policy.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

GitHub expands bug bounty program and removes maximum award limit

Venturebeat

AI predicts smartphone transportation modality from Wi-Fi signals

Researchers describe in a paper an AI system that can predict from Wi-Fi alone whether smartphone users are walking, driving, or biking.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

AI predicts smartphone transportation modality from Wi-Fi signals

Venturebeat

T-Mobile launches 5G website to hype Sprint merger and rural broadband

With regulatory approvals taking longer than expected, T-Mobile hopes consumers will contact the FCC to support its Sprint merger and get faster 5G service.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

T-Mobile launches 5G website to hype Sprint merger and rural broadband

Venturebeat

PUBG Mobile launches its Resident Evil 2 crossover event

PUBG Mobile has launched its Resident Evil 2 crossover event, the first time Capcom's zombies-based franchise has had a promotion with a mobile game.

2 hours ago

Venturebeat

PUBG Mobile launches its Resident Evil 2 crossover event

Ars Technica

Anthem review: BioWare's sky-high gaming ambition crashes back to Earth

It's out, finally. But maybe it shouldn't be.

1 hour ago

Ars Technica

Anthem review: BioWare's sky-high gaming ambition crashes back to Earth

Ars Technica

Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge's bad PC build advice

We talked to a copyright expert about The Verge's anti-fair use stance.

1 hour ago

Ars Technica

Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge's bad PC build advice

Ars Technica

Mandatory update coming to Windows 7, 2008 to kill off weak update hashes

Microsoft is phasing out SHA-1 hashes on its patches.

1 hour ago

Ars Technica

Mandatory update coming to Windows 7, 2008 to kill off weak update hashes

Ars Technica

After nearly $50 billion, NASA's deep-space plans remain grounded

"As far as I'm concerned, SLS and Orion are doing their jobs of providing work."

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

After nearly $50 billion, NASA's deep-space plans remain grounded

Ars Technica

Gene editing still has a few bugs in the system

Gene editing to treat genetic diseases in mice highlights some considerable problems.

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

Gene editing still has a few bugs in the system

Ars Technica

New carbon capture solvent is another stab at optimism in a stagnant industry

Tax credits could spur investment; so far there's little movement to capture carbon.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

New carbon capture solvent is another stab at optimism in a stagnant industry