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The Morning After: Tesla's $25,000 EV, and its 200 MPH-capable Model S

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 04:28 AM PDT

Judging by the standard of last week's NVIDIA 3080 and PS5 rollouts, the start of Xbox Series X and S pre-orders was only a slight disaster. Not all of the sale pages went live exactly as scheduled (I'm looking at you, Best Buy and Amazon), and Micro...

Garmin's Venu Sq is another Apple Watch lookalike

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT

Garmin is the latest company to join the ranks of smartwatch makers who have their own Apple Watch clone. It's announcing the new Venu Sq and Venu Sq Music Edition today, which promise up to six days of battery life as well as built-in GPS for a star...

Microsoft licenses the breakthrough natural language AI GPT-3

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:05 AM PDT

Microsoft announced that it has "exclusively licensed" OpenAI's sophisticated GPT-3 language model that can generate disturbingly human-like text in applications ranging from commercial bots to creative writing. After investing $1 billion in the San...

Amazon says it has nothing to do with the Echelon 'Prime Bike'

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:35 AM PDT

Amazon has moved to put clear distance between it and Echelon Fitness, a company that produces connected exercise equipment. Yesterday, the company announced that it was making the "Prime Bike," a stripped-down version of its Peloton-esque Connect Sp...

179 arrested in 'Operation DisrupTor' dark web drug takedown

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:45 AM PDT

A massive international law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of 179 dark web drug traffickers who sold opioids and other illicit goods and services across Europe and the US. The investigators part of JCODE, an FBI-led multi—agency Departm...

Opera update uses QR codes to sync data between PC and Android browsers

Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:42 AM PDT

The Opera browser is making it easier to sync between desktop and Android devices. The latest updates (version 71 on desktop and version 60 on Android) include a new feature called Sync that doesn't require the use of an email and password. You just...

1Password team-up with Privacy.com lets you create burner cards

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 11:21 PM PDT

1Password has announced its partnership with Privacy.com, which is a service you can use to create virtual credit cards to make shopping online a lot safer. The team-up integrates Privacy.com's capabilities into 1Password, giving you a way to generat...

Shopify reports 'rogue' employees stole some customer data

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 08:58 PM PDT

We've seen all kinds of data breaches from outside hackers, and occasionally, as happened with Twitter, breaches that occurred as outsiders phished employeee credentials for access, but for Shopify, the threat came from inside. The company's software...

Tesla lays out 'Battery Day' plans that lead to a $25,000 electric car

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 04:13 PM PDT

The Tesla Battery Day presentation is under way, and CEO Elon Musk has shown off a number of changes the company is making that he says can halve the cost per kWh of building electric vehicle battery cells. Just before showing off the $140,000~ Model...

Tesla's 1,100HP 'Plaid' Model S sport sedan will arrive in late 2021

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 03:52 PM PDT

To cap off the Battery Day unveiling, Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed video of the long-hinted-at Plaid version of a Model S sedan. Back in 2019 Tesla showed video of a triple-motor equipped Plaid prototype lapping Laguna Seca in 1:36, and according to Mu...

Arlo's Essential XL Spotlight camera can go a full year on a single battery charge

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 03:32 PM PDT

Arlo is adding two new models to its affordable Essential series of security cameras, the Essential XL Spotlight Camera and Essential Camera. The highlight of the former is a battery that can power the device for 12 months on a single charge. It also...

YouTube's AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 02:22 PM PDT

YouTube already uses machine learning to flag inappropriate content for its Trust and Safety team to review, but moving forward, the company plans to expand the use of the technology. Starting later this year, YouTube will use machine learning to add...

Facebook takes down Chinese-run accounts that posted about US elections

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 01:30 PM PDT

Facebook has taken down a network of fake accounts that were run out of China and posted about US politics, the company disclosed Tuesday.As CNET points out, Facebook has found fake accounts from China in the past, but the latest takedowns are the fi...

SXSW will host an online festival in 2021

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 12:40 PM PDT

As part of its 2021 plans, SXSW will host an online festival that will attempt to replicate the best features of its annual conference in Austin, Texas. SXSW Online will run from March 16th to March 20th, 2021. SXSW's organizers say the event will al...

Microsoft expands App Assure to bring better compatibility to Snapdragon PCs

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 12:01 PM PDT

Qualcomm and Microsoft are teaming up to encourage more developers to make their apps compatible with Windows on Snapdragon. The companies announced a new App Assure program that will help software makers address the compatibility issues that have pl...

Amazon Prime Day will reportedly start on October 13th

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 11:25 AM PDT

After it was delayed earlier in the year, Prime Day 2020 will kick off partway through next month, according to The Verge. The website says it obtained an internal Amazon email that states the two-day shopping event will start on October 13th. The co...

Walmart's latest drone trial delivers at-home COVID-19 tests

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 11:07 AM PDT

Walmart is starting to deliver at-home COVID-19 tests by drone. A trial got underway in North Las Vegas today and the deliveries will expand to Cheektowaga, New York early next month.It's delivering the kits to qualifying patients who live within a m...

Google will no longer let developers charge for Chrome extensions

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 11:04 AM PDT

Google will soon discontinue paid extensions for its Chrome browser. The company had previously temporarily disabled the feature but now plans to make the change permanent, as spotted by 9to5Google. With the change, developers who want to charge user...

Facebook prepares for a potentially 'chaotic' election aftermath

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 10:25 AM PDT

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to say its executives are planning for some of the worst case scenarios after the 2020 presidential election. During an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company's head of global affairs, sa...

Fortnite's Battle Bus is dropping into 'Rocket League'

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:56 AM PDT

Rocket League is going free-to-play on Wednesday, and Psyonix and Epic Games are marking the occasion with a crossover with the publisher's other big free-to-play title, Fortnite. Llama-Rama is Rocket League's first in-game event after the switch, an...

Twitter makes its ‘biggest push ever’ to encourage voter registration

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT

As part of National Voter Registration Day, Twitter is rolling out new tools to connect US users with voter registration resources. The platform says this is "its biggest push ever" to encourage people to register.Today, every person with a Twitter a...

Microsoft gives Outlook for Mac a facelift for Big Sur

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:24 AM PDT

Microsoft's big changes to Outlook don't end with an updated iOS app — Outlook's Mac version will also get a major facelift in October, just in time for Apple's macOS Big Sur release. Announced as part of Microsoft's Ignite developer conference, the...

Microsoft Teams will add breakout rooms and automated meeting recaps

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:17 AM PDT

Microsoft announced a slew of updates for Microsoft Teams meetings at Ignite, including more Together Mode scenes, custom layouts, breakout rooms and automated recaps. The maximum number of people who can attend a meeting is also expanding to 1,000 p...

Microsoft Edge on Linux preview is coming in October

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:09 AM PDT

Microsoft's revamped, Chromium-powered Edge browser will finally arrive on Linux next month — but only as a developer preview, the company announced today. You'll be able to snag it on the Edge Insider site once it's available, or on the Linux packag...

Microsoft says its $22,000 85-inch Surface Hub S2 can help with social distancing

Posted: 22 Sep 2020 09:04 AM PDT

Microsoft's 85-inch Surface Hub 2S will begin shipping in January, the company announced today. Pre-orders for the giant, $22,000 "collaborative display" are now open in the US.Microsoft unveiled the Surface Hub 2S in April 2019. Now, the company is...
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