Last minute geek

1. Samsung unveils Bixby 2.0; SDK available in private beta
(English/Neowin)

After a short seven months, Samsung is announcing an update to its personal digital assistant, Bixby. Bixby 2.0 made its debut at the firm's developer conference offering lots of promise. Read more... ...

2. Baidu wants to launch a self-driving bus in China next year
(English/engadget)

Baidu, China's search giant, is planning to release a fully self-driving bus in China next year, said CEO Robin Li in an interview at Wall Street Journal's D.Live conference. The bus will run ...

3. Internet Week Guyana Advances Caribbean Tech Development Agenda
(English/CircleID)

... and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC). The five-day conference focused on building human resource capacity in cyber security and other key technology-related areas. "The government of ...

4. HP unveils $1,749+ ZBook x2 2-in-1 workstation with 14-inch 4K display, 7th and 8th generation i7, up to 32GB RAM, optimized for Adobe apps, shipping in Dec. (Joe Shields/AnandTech)
(English/Techmeme)

... Today at the Adobe MAX conference in Las Vegas, HP will showcase their new HP ZBook x2.  The ZBook x2 will be HP's … Read all  ...

5. Teaching Math Through Paper Folding
(English/instructables)

Years and years ago, when I was still in college studying to become a math teacher, I had a professor who said we could attend the Detroil Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference instead of ...

6. Adobe turns Lightroom CC into a new cloud photography service, providing 1TB of storage with support for RAW images, and introduces new pricing plans (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
(English/Techmeme)

... annual Adobe MAX conference kicks off today, and the company is introducing a whole slew of updates to its Creative Cloud platform. Read all  ...

7. Adobe announces five new apps coming to Creative Cloud
(English/Neowin)

Today at its MAX conference, Adobe announced that it's launching five new applications: XD, Dimension, Spark, Character Animator, and Lightroom. The existing Lightroom will be rebranded. Read more... ...

8. Docker Accelerates App Migration to Containers with IBM Partnership
(English/Linuxtoday)

eWEEK: At the DockerCon EU conference, container vendor outlines successes and launches new partnership with IBM to help organizations move from legacy architectures to the microservices future. Read ...

9. HP announces the ZBook x2, the world's first detachable workstation
(English/Neowin)

Today at the Adobe MAX conference, HP announced the ZBook x2, which it says is the world's first detachable workstation, including a quad-core processor, Nvidia Quadro graphics, and more. Read more... ...

10. HP ZBook X2 hands-on: A hulking tablet for a niche audience
(English/engadget)

HP claims to have made the "world's most powerful detachable." The company is unveiling its ZBook X2 convertible at the Adobe Max conference today, which is appropriate since this device ...

11. Levi’s is already working with Google on a second smart jacket
(English/engadget)

Levi's connected denim jacket went on sale three weeks ago, but CEO Chip Bergh said it's already working with Google on a version 2.0. At Wall Street Journal's D. Live conference, Bergh ...

12. What's New in Docker 17.09?
(English/Linuxtoday)

ServerWatch:  In a session at the DockerCon EU conference in Copenhagen Vivek Saraswat, senior product manager at Docker detailed some of the new features in recently released versions of both Docker ...

13. Clothing : Darth Vader Chestplate Polo
(English/ThinkGeek)

Impressive. Most impressive Make your adversaries tremble with fear when you enter the conference room. Featuring a mini version of Lord Vader's chest computer embroidered on the left chest and the Imperial ...

14. Docker Opens Up To Support Kubernetes Container Orchestration
(English/Linuxtoday)

eWEEK: At the DockerCon EU conference, container vendor makes big announcement, embracing the one-time rival Kubernetes container orchestrator. Read all  ...

15. Kubernetes has won. Docker Enterprise Edition to support rival container-wrangling tech
(English/TheRegister)

Blue bit-box hawker submits to rival code flocker shocker Container darling Docker plans to make peace with its orchestration rival, Kubernetes, at its European conference this week.… Read all  ...

16. WPA2 security in trouble as Belgian boffins tease key reinstallation bug
(English/TheRegister)

Strap yourselves in readers, WiFi may be cooked Updated  A promo for the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery security conference has set infosec types all a-Twitter over the apparent cryptographic ...

17. The Darkening Web: Is there Light at the end of the Tunnel?
(English/CircleID)

... of the middle ages are reappearing in the 21st century. And Jeff Moss recognized at the BlackHat Conference in Las Vegas in July 2017 that the past is back. 25 years ago, he said, the technical people ...

18. How do you dump the firmware from a "secure" voting machine? With a $15 open source hardware board
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

One of the highlights of this year's Defcon conference in Vegas was the Voting Machine Hacking Village, where security researchers tore apart the "secure" voting machines America trusts its democracy ...

19. Nvidia announces Drive PX Pegasus AI system for self-driving cars
(English/Betanews)

Smart self-driving cars could become a reality sooner than predicted after Nvidia revealed its most powerful AI hardware platform to date. At the company’s GTC Europe conference in Munich this week, Nvidia ...

20. Facebook debuts $900 Oculus for Business with Rift, Touch controllers, three room sensors, Oculus remote, three Rift Fits, expanded warranty, commercial license (Nick Statt/The Verge)
(English/Techmeme)

... Oculus VR now plans on selling its high-end Rift headset to businesses, the company announced today at the Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, California. Read all  ...

21. Facebook plans Venues app for '18 to let users experience events with thousands of others, shows prototype that brings inside-out tracking to standalone headset (Facebook)
(English/Techmeme)

... its fourth developer conference in San Jose, Oculus announced its newest and most affordable VR headset, called Oculus Go. Read all  ...

22. Celebrating 117 Years of Public International Law for Cyber Security
(English/CircleID)

... use such as the OSI Datagram and DARPA TCP/IP platforms, resulted in the ITU convening a conference to legalize transnational public internets for commercial offerings. The late Secretary-General Richard ...

23. Will October Be Our Biggest Month Yet for .brand TLDs?
(English/CircleID)

... the last week or two, could we be set for October to be the biggest month in .brands we've ever seen? Here's just a taste of the headlines: Brands and Domains The Brands and Domains conference ...

24. Facebook's 'StarCraft' AI was defeated by hobbyists
(English/engadget)

... held at the AIIDE conference that explores the inter... Read all  ...

25. Calm down, Elon. Deep learning won't make AI generally intelligent
(English/TheRegister)

... at Goldsmiths, University of London, celebrated the successes of deep learning during a lecture at the Minds Mastering Machines conference on Monday, but stressed the limits of modern AI.… Read all  ...