Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial | ReutersSkip to main contentThe logo of Google is seen at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes Purchase…

It's going to be an exciting year for Canon fans, with the EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1 expected to be fully announced. And to hold you over until the EOS R5 Mark II is announced, here are some rumored s

Here is some additional information on the upcoming Canon EOS R1 flagship camera: The camera combines cutting-edge technology with durability and reliability to exceed the high expectations of profess

Before joining CNET, all I cared about was my Wi-Fi. But when I joined the broadband team, I realized I'd thrown the term Wi-Fi around, but didn't really understand it. What is it, and is it better th

Home Software and Services By Published 1 hour ago Long story short, Proxmox has become my favorite tool to experiment with (and break) containers and virtual machines Key Takeaways Proxmox is ideal f

EagerEyes is 15 years old today! Rather than look back at 15 years of visualization and blogging (though I will do a little of that too), I want to reflect a bit on what blogging means today and where things are going. It would be easy to think that blogs are old-school and nobody pays attention to…

I grew up in Silicon Valley two decades before it was cool enough to be the title of a show on HBO. My parents were conventional hippies who drove Volvos donned with "Save Tibet" and "Question Authori

Hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function is a scrambly function that turns a datastructure into an integer. We anticipate that hash functions will have collisions. They have to. Good hash f

In its August 1930 issue, Vogue introduced “Miss Elsa Maxwell” as “one of the world’s most brilliant party-givers”, adding delightedly that “her mystery dinner party was a sensation of the London seas

How do I capture a specific protocol or port, such as 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS), using the TCPDump tool under Linux/UNIX? How do I record traffic with TCPDump and find problems later on with my network

Welcome back, in relatively short order, to the Convivial Society. This is an uncharacteristic installment in that it follow so quickly on the previous one and has, to my mind, a rather blog-ish feel

Welcome to the Convivial Society. This is a newsletter about technology and culture, or, to borrow the title of my friend Lee Vinsel’s excellent podcast, peoples and things. The general idea is to thi

Tech pundits are fond of using the term “inflection points” to describe those rare moments when new technology wipes the board clean, opening up new threats and opportunities. But one might argue that

An excerpt from Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood,” an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. Christian Le Blon, frontispiece to the third edition of Richard Burton, “The

The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and re

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Most, if not all, of the commandeered ISP servers were shared among multiple users for hosting websites, with a total of more than 1.5 million accounts. Since the compromised infrastructure ran mostly

It was October 2011. Seven months earlier, Aster Data — the big data pioneer where I was employee #1 — was acquired by Teradata. The acquisition left a halo around everyone involved and, with big data

Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny play photojournalists in the new movie Civil War (Image credit: A24) The new movie Civil War is not just an adrenaline-fuelled blockbuster, but an ode to photojournalis

Adjust Share Phone service was down—a fuse had blown in the cell tower during a recent storm—and even though my arrival had been cleared with the government of Cherán in advance, the armed guard manni

The Italian electrical system has a fairly complicated history; from different voltages and frequencies to the type of plugs used, almost everything about it has changed over the last century, or is i

algorithms Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count May 16, 2024 By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in

As technology in photography continues to evolve at a rapid pace, many photographers find themselves grappling with the implications of these advancements. While some embrace the new tools and possibi

Right now, from a society-wide perspective, the healthcare I’ve been getting to keep me temporarily alive against a squamous cell carcinoma onslaught probably fails the cost-benefit test.[1] In the sh

The details are scant right now but between the rumors and what seems to have been confirmed and what we can see from the EOS R1 objectively, we can probably make some good assumptions about what we d

Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness. By: Daniel Dennett BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. When Dani

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later How we did this Pew Research Center conducted the analysis to examine how often online content that once existed becomes in

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the