5G Wait, why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race?The Verge - Nilay PatelI have a dumb question that no one seems capable of answering directly: Why is 5G a race? Everyone — the wireless industry, Democrats, Republicans, the major media, you name it — frames the building of
Politics Trump's infrastructure tantrum backfires immediately — and Senate Republicans know itSalon - Sophia TesfayePresident Donald Trump holds up a stat sheet having to do with the Mueller Report as he speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP/Andrew Harnik) The day Republicans
Opinion Don’t Ban Facial-Recognition Technology. Regulate It.Bloomberg - Editorial Board San Francisco, long a vanguard of digital enlightenment, has just made a regressive mistake. This week, it became the first major city to prohibit …
Technology Why Breaking Up Big Tech Won't Fix the Real Problem With Silicon ValleyInc Magazine - Jeff BercoviciAcross many popular product categories, from batteries to baby food, the retail behemoth quietly discontinued aggressive promotions for its private-label brands, which compete with--and in truth are near-clones
Windows 10 The new Windows 10 update brings a massive boost for PC gamerstrustedreviews.com - Chris Smith The Windows 10 May 2019 Update began its rollout yesterday and brings with it a major new feature designed to make life much more convenient for PC …
Play buttonElectronic Arts Frosbite next-generation hair rendering demonstratedgeeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey Electronic Arts and DICE have this week released a first glimpse at their next generation hair renderings using the latest Frostbite games engine. …
Nintendo Switch E3 2019 Rumor RoundupGameSpot - Jordan RaméeWith the approach of E3 2019, the rumor mill is abuzz with the possible announcements, trailers, and reveals that will come out of the show. Quite a few aren't very likely--they're more pipe dreams than
Technology Las Vegas approves a $48.6 billion contract with Elon Musk’s Boring CompanyThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoThe Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority held a vote today, where it approved a $48.6 million contract with the Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture. The Boring Company’s underground “people
Play buttonTechnology Scientist Says Just 30 Minutes Of Your Time Twice A Year Could Help Cure Alzheimer'sForbes - Robin Seaton Jefferson“If you want to do something to hasten a cure for Alzheimer’s, join the Brain Health Registry,” said Michael W. Weiner, M.D. A professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, medicine, psychiatry and
Esketamine Now there’s a nasal spray that rapidly crushes depressionbgr.com - Mike Wehner Depression affects the lives of a great many people and, while there are plenty of options on the table as far as treatment, many are slow-acting and …
Windows 10 Windows 10 zero-day exploit code released onlineZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu A security researcher has published today demo exploit code on GitHub for a Windows 10 zero-day vulnerability. The zero-day is what security …
Technology Portland becomes first US city to offer Apple Pay Express Transit integrationappleinsider.com - Mikey Campbell For the first time in the U.S., Apple iPhone and Apple Watch owners can use their devices' Express Transit functionality to board the …
Apple Apple sells refreshed version of LG's UltraFine 4K displayEngadget - Jon FingasJust because Apple has stopped selling the UltraFine 5K doesn't mean it has given up on LG's monitors altogether. In sync with the launch of the eight-core MacBook Pro, the company has quietly started
Apple Watch How The New Apple Watch Could Prove To Be An Actual LifesaverForbes - Ben SinApple has a tendency to pitch its products and services as either industry-changing or even life-changing. That may well be true given how the iPhone helped revolutionize the way we use the internet. Apple
Tech Industry Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Pays Out 6,567% ReturnBloomberg - Alastair Marsh Billionaire moneymen Peter Thiel, Alan Howard and Louis Bacon have seen plenty of big paydays—but probably none as unusual as this one. A buyback by …
Startups TransferWise now valued at $3.5B following a new $292M secondary roundTechCrunch - Steve O'HearTransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion. That’s more than double
PlayStation 5 Near-instant PlayStation 5 load times showcased in new videoandroidcentral.com - Jennifer Locke • Video surfaces showcasing projected PS5 load times. • The PlayStation 5 is set to have a custom SSD. • Load times are nearly instantaneous. PlayStation …
U.S. Politics Some Democratic Candidates Back Regulation To Stop White Nationalism On Facebook, Other Platformsbuzzfeednews.com - Ryan C. Brooks A swath of 2020 presidential candidates told BuzzFeed News that social media companies like Facebook have some responsibility for the rise of white …
U.S. Politics Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeksVox - Emily StewartThirteen bitcoins are standing between the city of Baltimore and many of the services and processes its citizens rely on after hackers seized thousands of government computers at the start of the month.
Xbox One X Darksiders II now runs at native 4K resolution on Xbox One Xwindowscentral.com - Asher Madan • Darksiders II finally received its Xbox One X patch. • The game renders at native 4K resolution after the download. • Some performance issues also appear …
Xbox 360 Some of the best Xbox 360 games are dirt cheap in Xbox's backward compatibility mega saledestructoid.com - by Brett Makedonski "Better late than never," some people might say as a flimsy excuse for belatedly getting around to stuff. Thanks to backward compatibility on Xbox …
PlayStation 4 Fourth installment of GRID racing game series launches this SeptemberAutoblog - Joel StocksdaleAfter a nearly five-year hiatus, Codemasters is bringing back the GRID racing video game series. The company announced the fourth installment of the series will launch this September, though confusingly,
Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 DLC character Ribrianne first screenshotsgematsu.com - Sal Romano Bandai Namco has released the first screenshots of newly announced Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 downloadable content character Ribrianne. Ribrianne is due …
Jack Black E3 Coliseum 2019 adds Psychonauts 2 panelgematsu.com - Sal Romano E3 Coliseum 2019 will host a panel with Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer and actor Jack Black featuring an exclusive gameplay …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoXbox One Your Toy And Dying: Reborn Horror Game Bundle Is Now Available For Xbox Onemajornelson.com - Larry Hryb, Xbox Live's Major Nelson Buy now and save 30% – limited time offer Product Info:Developer: Viva Games / NEKCOM Publisher: E-Home Entertainment Development Website: Your Toy / …
North Sumatra Until Dawn developers’ new horror game Man of Medan arriving in Augustflickeringmyth.com - Liam Waddington Supermassive Games, the developers behind Until Dawn, have announced their latest horror title, Man of Medan, is releasing on 30th August. Pre-orders …
Technology How computing's first 'killer app' changed everythingbbc.co.uk - By Tim Harford In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard.
Sony Sony just laid out everything there is to know about the PS5Engadget - Mariella MoonExpect the PlayStation 4 to stick around for at least three more years. Sony's next-generation console isn't due to launch anytime this year, but the tech giant has been surprisingly generous with details.
Long-form Journalism Facebook’s A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears.The New York Times - By CADE METZ and MIKE ISAACMENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was tearing up. For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference room at Facebook’s headquarters, surrounded by whiteboards
Long-form Journalism This startup provides health insurance against online harassmentFast Company - Sean CaptainLeigh Honeywell and Logan Dean have raised a million dollars for a new business, Tall Poppy, that helps companies protect employees against trolls and hackers. Anyone who’s spent some time on Twitter that
