Walmart partners with Postmates on grocery delivery

Walmart is expanding its grocery delivering business with the help from new partner, Postmates, the retailer announced this morning. Postmates will initially begin Walmart Online Grocery Delivery in Charlotte, North Carolina with plans to reach other markets in the months ahead. Postmates joins Walmart’s existing delivery partners Uber and Deliv, who have been helping Walmart […]

Backgrounder : Canada and Nova Scotia to make significant investments that will improve the lives of Canadians

Under the $180 billion Investing in Canada infrastructure plan, the Government of Canada is signing new bilateral agreements with all provinces and territories, which will see more than $33 billion in federal investment in infrastructure projects across the country. The objective of these investments is to transform the way Canadians live, move and work in four priority areas:

This Radio Hacker Could Hijack Emergency Sirens to Play Any Sound

Balint Seeber found that cities around the US are leaving their emergency siren radio communication systems unencrypted, and vulnerable to spoofing.

Tanzania imposes strict social media regulations to stop ‘moral decadence’

Tanzania has finally signed into law their eyebrow-raising new regulation that will govern social media and blogging. The regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, was initially published by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and came into effect during March 2018. Among some interesting laws as stated in the regulation is a license fee to be charged to Tanzanians operating online radio stations and video (TV) websites. Registration fees don’t only apply to online radio and TV websites operated by anyone in Tanzania. Bloggers are also required to apply for a license (to blog) from the TCRA. Just…

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Vizio’s new P-series TV is its brightest yet

Today, Vizio announced a new flagship display, the 65-inch 2018 P-Series Quantum 4K HDR Smart TV. It has up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness and is billed as Vizio's brightest TV so far. The bezel-less display also has an Active Full Array Max backli...

Google and Netflix team up to launch a new open source canary analysis tool

Google and Netflix today announced the launch of Kayenta, a new open source project that aims bring the canary analysis tools Netflix developed internally to a wider audience. Kayenta is integrated into the Netflix-incubated Spinnaker continuous delivery platform, which works across virtually every public and private cloud. While Spinnaker is the focus of this release, though, […]

Hired spent $2 million to fix its wage gap

The pay gap is real, my friends. Hired, the career marketplace that produces studies about pay inequality, spent $2 million in 2016 to close its wage gap across gender, race and sexual identity. Since then, Hired says it reassessed pay six months later, and followed the same methodology in 2017. The company says it plans […]

Canon's How-To Series - PRISMAsync Technologies: CMYK Curve Correction for Personal Taste

This video will teach you the purpose of the color correction is to establish an editorialized or preferred color response. To learn more about Canon's Production Solutions, please visit: http://Canon.us/sspu

Canon's How-To Series - PRISMAsync Technologies: CMYK Curve Correction for Color Balance

"This video will teach you how to launch the Pixel Precise Viewer either with a press control panel or using PRISMAsync remote manager. You will also gain the skills needed to evaluate the onscreen job display against a printed proof sheet to determine if fine tuning of CMYK values will be beneficial. To learn more about Canon's Production Solutions, please visit: http://Canon.us/sspu"

Lurking Much? | Circle with Disney

Learn more about Circle with Disney, now available on NETGEAR routers: https://ift.tt/2mskuWR Are you managing screen time the old way? Try Circle with Disney. The smartest way to manage your family's Internet usage. Now available on NETGEAR routers. The Circle with Disney app makes it easier than ever before to manage screen time for your kids. With the Circle app, you can easily set filter levels for each family member and create daily time limits on apps and popular sites like Facebook and YouTube. You can also pause the Internet at the press of a button or set up a BedTime for weekdays. So if the kids are getting too much screen time, it's easier to keep them in check with the Circle app. Be sure to subscribe for more videos! http://bit.ly/1JsK6Ej

Gemini (Planet Computers) Review

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iPhone 8 (PRODUCT)RED™ Special Edition — Apple

Introducing the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Now in red. Buy now: https://apple.co/2HnKoSq Song: “That’s It (I’m Crazy)” by Sofi Tukker https://apple.co/2H94hyW

Intel’s Hades Canyon NUC is a tiny gaming powerhouse

We called Intel's last NUC the future of tiny desktops. And with this latest model, the Hades Canyon NUC, that's truer than ever. It has just about everything you'd want in a desktop, thanks to a single chip that houses Intel's eighth-generation Core...

The Morning After: Zuckerberg is going to DC

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to Tuesday! Facebook's CEO goes to Washington, Apple launches its latest limited-edition Product RED phones and we check out whether those newly discovered human organs are really just that.

Join me at the amazing Blue Lacuna space in Chicago

Some folks I met in Chicago are holding an amazing event at a great place on South Canalport Avenue. This former macaroni factory now builds startups and I’ll be helping judge their pitch-off alongside some Chicago luminaries. You can RSVP here and sign up for a spot to pitch here. We’ll choose eight startups to […]

A brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony

The Facebook founder will be questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees later today — in a session entitled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.” Mark Zuckerberg is also due to testify before Congress on Wednesday — to be asked about the company’s use and protection of user […]

Splunk turns data processing chops to Industrial IoT

Splunk has always been known as a company that can sift through oodles of log or security data and help customers surface the important bits. Today, it announced it was going to try to apply that same skill set to Industrial Internet of Things data. IIoT is data found in manufacturing settings, typically come from […]

YouTube hackers deface and unlist tons of popular music videos

Something fishy is going on with YouTube. It appears the Google subsidiary has been hit by hackers as a number of popular music videos have been defaced – or have suddenly disappeared. Indeed, the platform’s most viewed video ever – Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankeee – was temporarily unavailable on YouTube. It remains unclear what the source of the attack is, but most of the affected videos were uploaded from Vevo accounts. Someone just owned a LOT of VEVO accounts @YouTube. pic.twitter.com/dlGTFrypW8 — Melvin Lammerts (@showthread) April 10, 2018 While social media chatter suggested the attackers had initially…

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Backgrounder: Student Work Placement Program

The Student Work Placement Program will provide post-secondary students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and business more quality student work placements and improved partnerships between employers and post-secondary education (PSE) institutions.

Amazon reshuffles its TV team in fight against Netflix

Amazon's new studio chief Jennifer Salke has made her first mark on the entertainment division since taking up the role in February. Amazon COO Albert Cheng has been named co-head of television, having previously served as interim head of the studio...

Helix Takes Clinical Genetic Testing Straight to Consumers

Soon, anyone curious about their health will be able to request a clinical DNA test—not just doctors.

Check right now if Cambridge Analytica used your Facebook data

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, you're probably wondering: Was I actually affected? After all, the company obtained data on 87 million users (that's the current estimate, anyway.) Facebook has, thankfully, started sending News Fe...

Fleetsmith secures $7.7M investment to manage Apple devices

Fleetsmith, a startup that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their Apple devices, announced a $7.7 million Series A round today led by Upfront Ventures. Seed investors Index Ventures and Harrison Meta also participated in the round. The company has raised a total of $11 million. They also announced that Luke Kanies, […]

Mark Zuckerberg Answers to Congress For Facebook's Troubles

Tensions around Facebook's privacy and ad practices have escalated dramatically since the last time the company sat before Congress.

Ford's new Focus pulls in Co-Pilot360 driver assists

Ford is taking the wraps off of its new 'global' Focus, and besides the new styling, we're interested because as usual, the car will help introduce a hefty suite of driver-assist technology. Last month Ford pledged to put assists in more cars with it...

TPH raises a Seed round to ride the vintage clothing wave

A report by US reseller ThredUP estimates that second-hand fashion will soon overtake “fast fashion”, with an expected market worth of $41 billion USD by 2022. According to the site, in 2017 resale equated to six percent of the fashion market, with fast fashion at nine percent. By 2027 however, it’s projected to sit at […]

Google’s Home smart speakers arrive in India at last

Roughly a year and a half since their launch, Google’s Assistant-powered Home and Home Mini smart speakers have finally made their way to India. The voice-activated speakers, which can play music, answer questions, and control your connected home gadgets, works with Indian accents; it offers content from a range of local sources and publishers, including Times of India, NDTV, Dainik Bhaskar, India Today, and Aaj Tak. The company says that Hindi support for Assistant is coming soon. Google is also sweetening the deal for customers in India by bundling a JioFi router from Reliance’s mobile carrier; both speakers also come…

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Policemen in India arrested for extorting 200 Bitcoin from a businessman

Police in India have a bad reputation for extortion and bribery, but in a first, the policemen have gone rather tech-savvy in their approach — they are ditching fiat for Bitcoin. Eight policemen have been arrested by the criminal investigation department (CID) in the Indian state of Gujarat for allegedly extorting 200 BTC from a businessmen, reported Indian national daily Hindustan Times. Shailesh Bhatt, a local businessman, had filed a complaint against the policemen alleging abduction and extortion. The accused comprised three more people other than the policemen including a lawyer and an ‘agent’, who acted as a fixer between…

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