NASA's Mars rover is really good at laser-blasting rocks without human input

German police raided 36 homes over hateful Facebook posts

Amazon will start selling Nike shoes directly for the first time

American Gods and The Handmaid’s Tale are both about the same thing

Sega wants to turn its classic catalogue into 'the Netflix of retro gaming'

Watch former Apple engineers and Scott Forstall discuss the creation of the iPhone

 Last night at the Computer History Museum, former New York Times reporter John Markoff interviewed some of the original engineers who work on the first iPhone that was unveiled in January 2007. Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra, and Scott Herz all talked…

PlayStation 4-versie van Cities: Skylines komt uit op 15 augustus

Paradox Interactive heeft bekendgemaakt dat Cities: Skylines op 15 augustus uitkomt voor de PlayStation 4. De pc-game uit 2015 verscheen in april al voor de Xbox One. De PS4-versie bevat net als de Xbox One-versie ook de After Dark-uitbreiding.

AMD brengt Radeon Instinct-accelerator met Vega-gpu in derde kwartaal uit

AMD heeft tijdens de presentatie van zijn Epyc-serverprocessors ook meer bekendgemaakt over de Radeon Instinct-accelerators voor deep learning-toepassingen. De drie modellen, waarvan de duurste is uitgerust met een Vega-gpu, komen in het derde kwart…

Want to learn machine learning in 15 minutes? Start here...

A guide to seeing the wood for the decision trees How To:  If you’ve heard the excitement about machine learning, but aren’t quite sure how it could apply to your business, the best way forward is to rip off the cover and see it working for yourself…

Honda plant in Japan briefly stops making cars after fresh WannaCrypt outbreak

No minivans or sedans rolled out of plant for 24 hours Honda said today that it had briefly halted operations at a car plant in Sayama, Japan earlier this week because of the infamous WannaCrypt ransomware.…

WDC wants in on Japan-backed consortium to buy Toshiba's chip biz

Legal headache still hangs over foundry joint venture agreement WDC may have a way back into Toshiba's memory business auction although Toshiba has selected the Japanese state-backed INCJ consortium's ¥2tn ($18bn) bid group, which excluded WDC.…

WDC wants in on Japan-backed consortium to buy Toshiba's chip biz

Legal headache still hangs over foundry joint venture agreement WDC may have a way back into Toshiba's memory business auction although Toshiba has selected the Japanese state-backed INCJ consortium's ¥2tn ($18bn) bid group, which excluded WDC.…

HitMan comes to the Mac

Feral Interactive (www.feralinteractive.com) has released HitMan for the Mac. You can buy the game on the Feral Store for $59.99, or from Steam where HITMAN is currently 66% off. As Agent 47 …

Publicspace releases Rest Time 1.0 for the Mac

Publicspace has launched Rest Time for macOS. It’s a break reminder written completely in Swift and using Apple's latest platform technologies. Rest Time schedules breaks “intelligently,” ta…

Hej Stylus! for macOS gets new pressure mapping function

Eilert Janssen has announced Hej Stylus! 2.0 (https://hejstylus.com), an update to his macOS menubar application designed to make it easy for designers, illustrators and digital artists to co…

Nintendo’s most important new games have nothing to do with Mario

HBO isn’t done trolling Lady Stoneheart fans

Virgin Mobile goes iPhone-exclusive, offering first year of unlimited service for $1

OnePlus haalt methode voor cheaten benchmarks uit OP5

Fabrikant OnePlus heeft naar alle waarschijnlijkheid een benchmarkcheat uit de software van zijn nieuwe smartphone OnePlus5 gehaald. De site XDA-Developers constateerde dat de fabrikant valsspeelde, maar Tweakers kan dat niet meer reproduceren.

Ad 'urgently' seeks company to build national e-ID system

People Per Hours alert does not specify which government An intriguing, and slightly concerning, job ad has appeared on freelancing website People Per Hour, entitled: "URGENT!!! Delivery of a National e-ID System".…

Queen's speech announces laws to protect personal data

Tories dump a number of manifesto pledges The government is to pass new laws to protect personal data and create a commission for countering extremism on the internet, the Queen announced in the annual state opening of Parliament today.…