Author: Bilal

The state of New York voted this week to pause any implementation of facial recognition technology in schools for two years. The moratorium, approved by the New York Assembly and Senate Wednesday, comes after an upstate school district adopted the technology earlier this year, prompting a lawsuit in June from the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of parents. If New York Governor Andrew … Continue reading New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years Continue Reading →

The Not Company, Latin America’s leading contender in the plant-based meat and dairy substitute market, is about to close on an $85 million round of funding that would value it at $250 million, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The latest round of funding comes on the heels of a series of successes … Continue reading The Not Company, a maker of plant-based meat and dairy substitutes in Chile, will soon be worth $250M Continue Reading →

Apple’s  contract manufacturing partner Foxconn has started to assemble the current generation of iPhone units — the iPhone 11 lineup — in its plant near southern city of Chennai, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. A small batch of locally manufactured iPhone 11 units has already shipped to retail stores, but the production yield … Continue reading Apple begins assembling iPhone 11 in India Continue Reading →

NASA’s latest mission won’t actually reach space – but it will come very close, with a massive observation craft made up of a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon, along with a special stratospheric telescope instrument that can observe wavelengths of light blocked by Earth’s atmosphere, cast from newly-formed stars. The mission is called the ‘Astrophysics Stratospheric … Continue reading NASA to fly a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon to study light from newborn stars Continue Reading →

Who will buy one of the world’s most widespread chip designers? Hey, you! Do you want to control the future of basically every mobile device on Earth, and even some laptops and desktops? Have I got a deal for you! ARM Limited is for sale, the company in charge of the ubiquitous ARM CPU architecture … Continue reading Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t Continue Reading →

Dealmaster also has deals on Amazon devices, PS4 games, and more. Today’s Dealmaster is headlined by a nice discount on Bose’s Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which are down to $299 on Amazon. The deal only applies to the white “Soapstone” model, but the deal matches the lowest price we’ve seen for the wireless noise-cancelling headphones to … Continue reading Bose’s latest noise-cancelling headphones are back down to their lowest price Continue Reading →

Stone tools from a cave in Mexico date from before the Last Glacial Maximum. In Chiquihuite Cave, archaeologists found 240 stone tools buried in 30,000-year-old layers of muddy sediment. Archaeologist Ciprian Ardelean and his colleagues collected 46 radiocarbon dates from bone, charcoal, and sediment near the tools. According to a statistical model—which used those dates … Continue reading People may have lived in North America by 30,000 years ago Continue Reading →

AT&T had 25.5M TV users in June 2018, is down to 18.4M after latest loss. AT&T lost nearly 1 million TV customers in Q2 2020, continuing a rapid exodus of users from DirecTV and other AT&T-operated video services. In the three months ending June 30, AT&T reported a net loss of 954,000 video customers in earnings results released today. That includes an 886,000-customer … Continue reading AT&T’s epic DirecTV losses mount as another 954,000 video customers flee Continue Reading →

Pegg and Frost also co-wrote the series with James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders. JENNIFER OUELLETTE – 7/24/2020, 4:55 AM Amazon’s new supernatural comedy series Truth Seekers reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. A group of part-time paranormal investigators team up to uncover a deadly conspiracy in the first teaser for Truth Seekers, a forthcoming sci-fi/horror comedy series from Amazon starring … Continue reading Simon Pegg, Nick Frost return to horror-comedy roots with Truth Seekers teaser Continue Reading →

“People are afraid of things they don’t understand.” HBO’s His Dark Materials season 2 trailer. The trailers and sneak peeks just keep coming from the virtual San Diego Comic Con@Home, running all this weekend. HBO dropped the first trailer for the second season of His Dark Materials, an adaptation of the best-selling fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman. While … Continue reading HBO debuts first His Dark Materials S2 trailer at San Diego Comic-Con@Home Continue Reading →