Real Estate Foreign purchases of American homes plunge 36% as Chinese buyers flee the marketCNBC - Diana Olick Challenging conditions in the U.S. housing market, along with tighter currency controls by the Chinese government, caused a stunning drop in foreign …
Mobile Technology Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert themThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoElon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. The goal is to eventually begin
Technology FaceApp responds to privacy concernsTechCrunch - Natasha LomasFaceApp, the AI-powered selfie-editing app that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we covered earlier here. We’ve pasted the company’s full statement
Anger Want to Raise Financially Successful Children? A 30-Year Study Says Teach Them This 1 ThingInc Magazine - Scott MautzWe all worry to some extent about how financially successful we'll be. But if you're a parent, there's an extension of that financial concern that gets talked about less often, which is the financial of
Amazon Amazon sells over 175M items during Prime Day 2019, more than Black Friday & Cyber Monday combinedTechCrunch - Sarah PerezAmid worker protests and antitrust investigations, Amazon’s Prime Day sales event carried on as usual — and that means it again set new records for the online retailer. This time, Amazon says Prime Day
Apple Card Is the Apple Card any better than a regular credit card? We asked an expertDigital Trends - Simon Hill While surprise unveilings are not uncommon for Apple, the announcement of a new credit card at its March event was unexpected. The Apple Card …
Tesla Roadster Lotus’ all-electric hypercar fully charges in nine minutesEngadget - Mat SmithLotus decided to make its latest hypercar not only all-electric but also incredibly powerful. The Evija is the company's first car with an electrified powertrain, which translates into a disgusting amount
Elon Musk How to watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain control interface startup presentation liveTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonOne of Elon Musk’s stealthier endeavors is set to become a lot less stealthy tonight, with a presentation set for 8 PM PT (11 PM ET) streaming live from its website in which we’ll learn a lot more about
Mumbai Italian nurse booked for using satellite phone at Mumbai airporthindustantimes.com - Faizan Haidar & Farhan Shaikh Satellite phones have been banned in India after the 2008 Mumbai attack as terrorists were found using them. Mumbai police had received a satellite …
Amazon For Amazon Prime Day, consider cancelling your Prime accountQuartz - Alison GriswoldIn the beginning, I signed up for Prime, Amazon’s signature membership program, to get access to the Washington Post. At the time in 2017, a one-year subscription to the Post cost $99. For the same price,
Amazon Web Services Microsoft could win JEDI deal, thanks to Oracle's failed legal fightBusiness Insider - Benjamin PimentelThe Pentagon beat back Oracle's challenge to the $10 billion DoD cloud contract, but experts say the real winner in the legal brawl may turn out to be Amazon's rival, Microsoft. Even though Oracle lost
Facebook Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing jokeThe Verge - Nilay PatelFacebook’s stock went up after news of a record-breaking $5 billion FTC fine for various privacy violations broke today. That, as The New York Times’ Mike Isaac points out, is the real story here: the
Tiny House Movement This Exquisite Berkshires Prefab Was Assembled in Just 24 Hoursdwell - Lauren JonesFor Mount Washington Residence, McBride Architects use prefabrication to save on costs while going big on functionality and style. The four-bed, four-bath home of Peter and Sarah Diamond and their two
Amazon Don’t deny it. Amazon’s Prime Day has changed how you shopCNET - by Ben Fox Rubin It’s the Black Friday of summer.
Technology Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook's Libra, demands they face banking regulationsReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies seek a banking charter make
Google to acquire Elastifile | Google Cloud Bloggoogle.com We are very excited to announce that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Elastifile, a provider of scalable, enterprise file …
Amazon Music Amazon's Prime Day: Sales Could Top $6 Billion as Event Keeps EvolvingTheStreet - Annie Gaus Prime Day is just around the corner and -- no surprise -- it's shaping up to be the biggest yet. But that's not all that's growing about the …
Disloyalty is the New Blacknielsen.com If you’re one of those marketers who’s always relied on the 80/20 rule as a benchmark for sales success, you might want to adjust your strategy. …
Commodities How to bring AI to industries that have no dataVentureBeat - Tess TownsendWith open source and third-party tools to guide them, businesses should be able to incorporate artificial intelligence into their work without having to start from scratch, right? Not if the industry question
Tesla Former Tesla employee admits uploading Autopilot source code to his iCloudThe Verge - Sean O'KaneGuangzhi Cao, a former engineer at Tesla, admitted in a court filing this week that he uploaded zip files containing Autopilot source code to his personal iCloud account in late 2018 while still working
Dialysis Trump Orders Overhaul of Long-Standing Approach to Kidney CareBloomberg - Robert Langreth Three times a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage kidney disease trudge to dialysis centers to get the treatment that keeps them …
Wear OS Google shuts down Nest app for Apple Watch and Wear OSThe Verge - Chris WelchPeople take control of their smart thermostat from their wrist so infrequently that Google has decided to completely scrap its Nest app for both Apple Watch and the company’s own Wear OS platform. The
iMac How I kept my iMac running for a decadeCult of Mac - Charlie SorrelYesterday, I wrote about the massive conceptual difference between Mac and iPad, and mentioned that I still use a 2010 iMac. Today, I thought I’d explain how I managed to keep it going for so long. Spoiler:
Business S&P 500 hits 3,000 points for first time everCNN - By Anneken Tappe, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — The Nasdaq Composite finished at a fresh record high on Wednesday as stocks rallied across the board. It was quite a session for equities, which were driven higher after Federal
Snapchat Snapchat announces new shows from Serena Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger and othersTechCrunch - Anthony HaSnapchat just announced that it’s making shows with big names like Serena Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Hart, as well as online stars like Emma Chamberlain, Loren Gray, Rickey Thompson, Baby
Nintendo Switch Lite Nintendo Switch Lite is smaller, cheaper, and handheld onlyCNET - by Scott Stein The $200 console arrives September 20, and here's how it plays.
India News ‘Filth Like Dhoni Won’t Stay Forever’: Yograj Singh Attacks MSthequint.com - IANS Former India pacer Yograj Singh, father of 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj, has asked Ambati Rayudu to come out of retirement and prove a point, adding …
Amazon Web Services Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon's 'war cloud'Associated Press - By MATT O'BRIEN, AP Technology WriterAmazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system. But Amazon's early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping
