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Motherboard & VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network Motherboard & VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network To protect net neutrality, we need internet infrastructure that isn't owned by big telecom. Jason Koebler Dec 14 2017, 3:33pm Image: Lara Heintz The net neutrality...

A reporter goes on the Amazon diet, to find out how much life one person can live through Amazon products and services Amazon’s reach is greater than any other U.S. company, so WSJ’s Katherine Bindley decided to go on an Amazon diet, using its products and services whenever and wherever she...

New version of Messenger service will let parents decide with whom children communicate Facebook is launching a messaging app for kids as young as six, as it looks to woo parents who want their children to have a safer space on the internet to talk. Facebook Messenger for kids, which will...

Wal-Mart is planning to test Tesla's electric semitractor-trailer and has preordered 15, the retailer says. The pilot is planned for the U.S. and Canada. J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced earlier on Friday it has reserved "multiple" new electric semis just unveiled by Elon Musk. Tesla...

ON OCTOBER 23, Doppler Labs founder Noah Kraft got a Facebook notification. One of those "On This Day" pop-ups, resurfacing a post from exactly two years ago, when Kraft had appeared on CNBC to make the case for his company. "We want to put a computer, speaker, and mic in everyone's ear," Kraft...

How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber. Yes...

Not since the time of the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts at the turn of the 20th century was so much owned by so few. A gold Ferrari parked in Sloane Street in London, UK. Billionaires often spend on extravagant super cars and yachts The world’s super-rich hold the greatest...

Uber introduces a credit card by Jonathan Shieber (@jshieber) Uber is getting into the credit card business. Announced today in partnership with Barclays and Visa at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, the new card gives Uber yet another point of access to incredibly valuable customer...

Google is the first major tech company to build the Babel fish. The search company, which is now making a slew of its own hardware products, announced the Google Pixel Buds at a San Francisco event today (Oct. 4). The earbuds connect wirelessly with Google’s latest smartphones, but more...

HP Enterprise said to Cut 5,000 Jobs Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planning to cut about 10 percent of its staff, or at least 5,000 workers, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to pare expenses as competition mounts. The reductions are expected to start...

So the new drop from Johnny Applescammer and co. had me thinking.. the gimmicks aside there's probably a pretty good machine in there. After accounting for all the iOs bloatware its probably on par with the Samsung offerings from a few years ago. If you took most of these latest gen phones back...

An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions It’s easy to imagine spouses using the technology on partners they suspect are closeted, or teenagers using the algorithm on themselves or their peers. More...

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By: Mawuna KOUTONIN of SiliconAfrica.com Femi Akomolafe is a computer engineer with a successful movie production studio in Accra. He is also a well known essayist and writer, passionate panafricanist, who recently published two books, which compile the best of his thoughts and articles...

There is more than irony in the fact that Nobel Laureate Liu Xiobao’s death coincided with Beijing’s massive effort to clamp down on internet communication. It’s the end of an era. HONG KONG—A close friend in Hangzhou tried to send a photo to me via WhatsApp. All pure-text messages came...

Unlike anything I've experienced. Me and five other players were in a basketball court sized room with all the gear on. As soon as it started, it put us in an abandoned space craft. We had an handheld gun that could be switched between a shotgun, railgun, beam, and pulse. After a few rounds of...

:banderas: This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while.:krs: My brother and I need to get up on some of this stuff. He's CS, I'm SWE and this looks easily doable. Would y'all cop? :wow:Man I was just thinking about having a person sized one like a V.I. from Mass Effect. The future is here...

When it comes to producing beats, everybody talks about drum packs and kits and which sounds are hot right now, but what i wanna know is how to create my own synthetic drum sounds from scratch. tryna stay ahead of tha curve:myman: any ideas?

:picard: This is a strange battle that pits Apple and John deere against Farmers and Iphone hackers :sas1: Looks like a whole new property rights battlefront is opening...is the equipment really yours if you cannot undertake the repairs yourself? With self driving cars and smarthomes on the...