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The best cheap AT&T phone deals for March 2021

If you're a current or new AT&T customer in need of a device, we've got the best AT&T phone deals right here.
Tags: Apple, Deals, Android, Mobile, Trends, AT&T, Phones, Commerce 2020, Evergreen Deals

Bye Bye iMac Pro. It’s Been Good Knowing Ya

Apple is discontinuing the iMac Pro and will sell the ones it has left “while supplies last,” according to a new message added to the desktop’s product page Friday. Read more...
Tags: Apple, Science, Steve Jobs, Intel, Macintosh, Computers, iMac, Apple Inc, Imac G3, Mac Pro, EMAC, Imac Pro, Macintosh Computers, Technology Internet, Imac G4

Mozilla Urges 'Remain Calm: the Fox is Still in the Firefox Logo'

Last week Firefox's official blog responded to some viral misinformation about the Firefox logo. "People were up in arms because they thought we had scrubbed fox imagery from our browser. Rest easy knowing nothing could be further from the truth..." Sure, it's stressful to have hundreds of thousands of people shouting things like "justice for the fox" in all-caps in your mentions for three days straight, but ultimately that means people are thinking about the brand in a way they might not have ...
Tags: Firefox, Instagram, Tech, Fox, Reddit

JavaScript- (Not Python-) Defined Neutral Networks? Deno 1.8 Supports WebGPU

InfoQ reports: Deno 1.8 recently shipped with plenty of new features, including WebGPU support, internationalization APIs, stabilized import maps, support for fetching private modules, and more. The Deno permissions API is now stable. Deno 1.8 additionally ships with TypeScript 4.2. The release note explained the motivation behind the support for the WebGPU APIs as follows: These days, most neural networks are defined in Python with the computation offloaded to GPUs. We believe JavaScript, in...
Tags: Apple, Python, Tech, Gpu, Tensorflow, Deno

Can Users Poison the Data Big Tech Uses to Surveil Them? (slashdot)

"Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change," argues a new article in MIT's Technology Review (shared by long-time Slashdot reader mspohr): Data is fed into machine-learning algorithms to target you with ads and recommendations. Google cashes your data in for over $120 billion a year of ad revenue. Increasingly, we can no longer opt out of this arrangement... Now researchers at Northwestern University are suggesting new ways to redress this power ...
Tags: Google, Facebook, News, Northwestern University, MIT s Technology Review, EditorDavid, Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li

Torvalds Warns the World: Don't Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel

"In a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List Wednesday, founding developer Linus Torvalds warned the world not to use the 5.12-rc1 kernel in his public git tree..." writes Ars Technica: As it turns out, when Linus Torvalds flags some code dontuse, he really means it — the problem with this 5.12 release candidate broke swapfile handling in a very unpleasant way. Specifically, the updated code would lose the proper offset pointing to the beginning of the swapfile. Again, in Torvalds' own words,...
Tags: Tech, Ars Technica, Linus Torvalds, Don, Torvalds, Torvalds Warns the World

Investors still love software more than life

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Despite some recent market volatility, the valuations that software companies have generally been able to command in recent quarters have been impressive. On Friday, we took a look into w...
Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, MetroMile, Tech, SaaS, Bigcommerce, Nasdaq, Consumption, Shopify, Battery Ventures, SPAC, ARR, Matt Calkins, Hippo, Bixby

Elon Musk Plans New City in Texas - Called Starbase and Led by 'The Doge'

schwit1 shares an article from Entrepreneur: If anyone has the ability to surprise the world with his ambitious projects, it is Elon Musk . The billionaire announced that he is building a new city in Texas to be called Starbase, around the rocket launch site of his company SpaceX... Later, he alluded to his project to colonize the red planet, hinting that Starbase would be just the beginning to go further. "From there to Mars. And hence the Stars," detailed the CEO of Tesla. The tycoon, who ...
Tags: Spacex, Elon Musk, Texas, Wikipedia, Tech, Mars, Musk, Boca Chica, Starship, Cameron County Texas, Starbase, Elon Musk Plans New City, The Doge, Wootiez

‘The Requin’ Will Pit Alicia Silverstone Against Great White Sharks

Alicia Silverstone is back and she’s ready to fight some sharks in The Requin. Saban Films just hooked themselves the U.S. rights to the pic, which stars Silverstone and James Tupper (Big Little Lies) as a couple on a romantic getaway to Vietnam. A tropical storm blows away their seaside villa and leaves them stranded and injured. And if that weren’t bad enough, a bunch of hungry great white sharks has them surrounded. Deadline has the scoop on The Requin, a new shark movie starring Alicia S...
Tags: Horror, Thriller, Alicia Silverstone, James Tupper, The Requin

The Product Manager asterisk

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. However, as a company progresses and the team grows, there comes a time when a founder needs to carve out dedicated roles. Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Ken Norton, who recently left his job as director of product at Figma to consult rising PMs, thinks it’s easier to start with defining what they aren’t: the CEO of the product. “Product managers need to reali...
Tags: Startups, TC, Justice, Obama, Jay Z, China, Ipo, Softbank, US, Barack Obama, Tech, Sydney, Mitt Romney, Square, Jack Dorsey, Equity

Apple's iMac Pro to be discontinued

The base model can still be had on Apple's site, but only while inventory's available.
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America's Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts of Its Own Stealth Bomber

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Drive: In a surprising turn of events, the United States government is calling upon its country's industry to reverse engineer components for the Air Force's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. An official call for this highly unusual kind of assistance was put out today on the U.S. government's contracting website beta.SAM.gov. Mark Thompson, a national-security analyst at the Project On Government Oversight, brought our attention to the notice...
Tags: America, Tech, United States, Air Force, Mark Thompson, Slashdot, Air Force Magazine, Project on Government Oversight

Best cheap Apple deals for March 2021

Apple fans know how fleeting deals can be, but we've rounded up some great Apple deals for you right here.
Tags: Apple, Deals, Mobile, Wearables, Trends, Computing, Ipad Mini, MacBook Air, Ipad Pro, Macbook Pro, AirPods, iPhone 11, Iphone 11 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5, AirPods Pro, Commerce 2020

The One-Week Hijacking of Perl.com - Explained

"For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain," a long-running site offering news and articles about the programming language, writes the site's senior editor, brian d foy. "Now that the incident has died down, we can explain some of what happened and how we handled it." This incident only affected the domain ownership of Perl.com and there was no other compromise of community resources. This website was still there, but DNS was handing out different IP numbers... Recovering the domain ...
Tags: Tech, Tom, PERL, Network Solutions, John Berryhill, Tom Christiansen, Key Systems GmbH, Afternic

A New Motherboard For Amiga, The Platform That Refuses To Die

Hackaday writes: In the early years of personal computing there were a slew of serious contenders. A PC, a Mac, an Atari ST, an Amiga, and several more that all demanded serious consideration on the general purpose desktop computer market. Of all these platforms, the Amiga somehow stubbornly refuses to die. The Amiga 1200+ from [Jeroen Vandezande] is the latest in a long procession of post-Commodore Amigas, and as its name suggests it provides an upgrade for the popular early-1990s all-in-one A...
Tags: Tech, Aros, Amiga, Hackaday, Mike Bouma Slashdot, Jeroen Vandezande, Hyperion Entertainment

Best cheap Apple iPhone deals for March 2021

Apple devices can get pricey, but don't despair: Here's an up-to-date list of the best iPhone deals available.
Tags: Apple, Deals, Mobile, Trends, Iphone 6, Iphone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, Evergreen Deals

Sony has filed a patent for a system that could turn bananas and other household items into PlayStation controllers

An illustration of Sony's patent. United States Patent and Trademark Office Sony Interactive Inc. has filed a patent to convert inanimate objects into game controllers.  The system could potentially work with anything from coffee mugs to pens. It would also be equipped with a camera that will allow players to press virtual buttons.  Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published a bizarre request from video game ...
Tags: Gaming, Trends, Tech, Sony, Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tech Insider, Weekend BI UK, Zahra Tayeb, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc

3 ways technology can help close the education gap between rural and urban students

There can be a wide education gap between rural and urban school students. Marko Geber/Getty Images Kellogg School professor Nicola Bianchi says technology can help close the education gap between rural and urban students. A computer-assisted learning program tested in rural China showed students moving away from agriculture jobs to cognitive-skilled jobs. Technology-based education that's supervised in person is most likely to yield positive results. Visit the Business section of Insider ...
Tags: Technology, Students, Education, China, Trends, Strategy, Beijing, Shanghai, Nordic, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Kellogg School, Bianchi, Katie Gilbert, Contributor, Chinese Ministry of Education

How CRISPR Can Create More Ethical Eggs

Slashdot reader wooloohoo shares a new article from Cornell's Alliance for Science, a group who gives its mission as correcting misinformation and countering conspiracy theories slowing progress on issues including synthetic biology and agricultural innovations: There are two types of chickens: the broilers that we eat and the layers that produce the eggs. The layers don't have enough meat to make them useful for human consumption and since only hens can lay eggs, that leaves the male layers u...
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Saturday's Best Deals: Hunter Boots, Teccpo Tools, Apeman Dashcam, Sony 55" 4K TV, Pixel Art Bluetooth Speakers, and More

Hunter boots and a sale on Teccpo tools lead Saturday’s best deals.Read more...
Tags: Iphone, Apple, Google, Amazon, Ipad, Motorola, Facebook, Science, Asus, Newegg, Macys, Samsung, Nike, Walmart, Best Buy, Cuisinart

Dispo is the buzzy, invite-only photo app that's being called both the 'new Instagram' and the 'anti-Instagram'

Dispo offers users a more authentic approach to taking photos. JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images Dispo, the new invite-only photo-taking app is becoming increasingly popular. According to Axios, the app has been valued at $200 million.  The app's creator, David Dobrik, wants users to have a more authentic experience when taking photos Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. For the last 10 years, Instagram has dominated the photo app scene, but now its potential rival has arrive...
Tags: Google, Photos, Apps, Instagram, Trends, Social Media, Tech, New York Times, Cnbc, Tech Insider, Dispo, David Dobrik, Weekend BI UK, Zahra Tayeb, Jamie Grill Getty Images Dispo, Terry O Neal

Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued When Supplies Run Out, Recommends 27-Inch iMac

Apple on late Friday evening added a "while supplies last" notice to its iMac Pro product page worldwide, and removed all upgrade options for the computer, leaving only the standard configuration available to order for now. We've since confirmed with Apple that when supplies run out, the iMac Pro will no longer be available whatsoever. Apple says the latest 27-inch iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast majority of pro iMac users, and said customers who need even more ...
Tags: Apple, Featured, Intel, Amd, Intel Core, Don, Imac Pro

Why the 'Small Internet' Movement Wants to Revive Gopher

Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares a new article from Linux magazine: The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher network and the new Gemini protocol have emerged as building blocks for this new "small Internet." Anyone who has used the World Wide Web (WWW) lately knows that something bad is happening to it. It does not resemble the WWW of the early years, with enthusiastic amateurs freely shar...
Tags: Tech, Slashdot, Gopher, Small Internet Movement Wants to Revive Gopher

Phone-seeking search-and-rescue drone is like Find My iPhone with wings

With the help of some clever smartphone-sniffing technology, this innovative new search-and-rescue drone could help first responders save lives.
Tags: Trends, Features, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Machine Learning, Ai

Apple will stop selling the iMac Pro

Apple will stop selling the iMac Pro, and is limiting sales to one configuration 'while supplies last.'
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Can Users Poison the Data Big Tech Uses to Surveil Them?

"Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change," argues a new article in MIT's Technology Review (shared by long-time Slashdot reader mspohr): Data is fed into machine-learning algorithms to target you with ads and recommendations. Google cashes your data in for over $120 billion a year of ad revenue. Increasingly, we can no longer opt out of this arrangement... Now researchers at Northwestern University are suggesting new ways to redress this power ...
Tags: Google, Facebook, Tech, Northwestern University, MIT s Technology Review, Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li

Bring Some Flair To Your Desk With up To 32% off a Divoom Customizable Pixel Art Speaker

Divoom Tivoo Max Bluetooth LED Speaker (Red) | $120 | AmazonDivoom Tivoo Max Bluetooth LED Speaker (Black) | $128 | AmazonDivoom Tivoo Max Bluetooth LED Speaker (White) | $190 | AmazonRead more...
Tags: Amazon, Science, Technology, Bluetooth, Wireless, Pixel, Google Pixel, Telecommunications Engineering, Technology Internet, Divoom Tivoo Max Bluetooth LED, AmazonDivoom Tivoo Max Bluetooth LED Speaker Black

The next MacBook Pro better not have a measly 720p webcam

Apple’s MacBook Pro is due for a huge refresh soon, but it needs to come with an improved webcam. These days, 720p resolution is just not good enough.
Tags: Apple, Trends, Computing, MacBook Air, iMac, Macs, Macbook Pro, M1, Apple Silicon

8 Tips To Choosing The Perfect Security Camera For Your House

To select the right security camera, you need to consider the location, the type of camera, audio &… The post 8 Tips To Choosing The Perfect Security Camera For Your House appeared first on Gadget Advisor.
Tags: Security, Gadgets, Security Cameras

Top Stories: iPhone 13 Leaks, OLED iPads and Macs, New AirTags Evidence

iPhone rumors are heating up, with noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo this week releasing a wide-ranging report outlining his expectations for the iPhone lineup over the next three years. This week also saw rumors about OLED displays potentially coming to iPad and Mac starting next year, increasing signs of AirTags functionality in iOS 14.5 betas, and more, so check out all of the details below! iPhone 13 Rumors: Smaller Notch and Larger Batteries, 120Hz Display for Pro Models, and More Well-know...
Tags: Apple, Featured, Mac, Steve Jobs, Samsung, Nasa, Top Stories, Logitech, Lightning, Mars, Qualcomm, Jony Ive, Beta, Belkin, Magsafe, Ming Chi Kuo