The 2021 Lexus LC 500 drops its top and people's jaws at the LA Auto Show - Roadshow

The production version of the concept we saw earlier this year lost little in the translation.

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A Bill Gates-backed startup wants to fix a huge carbon emissions problem - CNET

Heliogen's new technology could make the heavily polluting manufacturing industry cleaner.

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DoorDash hit with lawsuit alleging it misled customers over driver tips - CNET

The attorney general of Washington, DC, says the food-delivery company's tipping model was "deceptive."

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AirTrunk to open second Sydney data centre

It will be the Australian company's third facility down under.

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Next 'Star Trek' movie will be written and directed by Noah Hawley

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Disney+ crashed on launch day because its software wasn’t ready for the demand

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On Disney+’s first day, its initial 10 million subscribers were hit with a series of outages. The company says this was because of high demand and the way engineers “architected the app.”

Ahead of the launch, Disney executives thought they would be ok. Michael Paull, head of Disney Streaming Services, told The Verge in August that years of handling big streams (like Game of Thrones premieres and finales) prepared the team for a launch of this size. It didn’t.

New subscribers couldn’t log in to the app; if they managed to get in, streaming was nearly impossible. People thought it might be issues with Amazon or third-party platforms carrying the app, but Kevin Mayer, head of Disney’s direct to consumer division, denied those rumors.

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Star Trek 4 eyes Fargo, Legion creator Noah Hawley to direct

After a three-year silence, there has been news on the fourth film in rebooted Star Trek film series: Noah Hawley, best known for creating FX’s Legion and Fargo TV series, is in final talks to write and direct it, according to reports from The Wrap and Deadline.

The most recent Star Trek film was 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. Unlike the original two films in the modern iteration of the franchise, Star Trek Beyond was directed by Justin Lin; 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness were directed by J.J. Abrams. Abrams was a producer on Star Trek Beyond, and will be reprising the role in the as-yet-untitled fourth film.

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Christmas dinners you can make in your Crock-Pot - CNET

'Tis the season to be slow cooking, and these festive holiday meals help lower your seasonal stress.

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Verizon finally has 5G maps showing where the network has launched - CNET

5G is coming next for Cincinnati, Kansas City, Charlotte, Little Rock, Cleveland, Memphis, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Des Moines and San Diego.

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Amazon, Apple Facebook, Google push back against antitrust concerns - CNET

Responses come amid increasing pressure on tech companies.

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The best Wi-Fi routers in 2019 - CNET

Your router is the unsung hero holding your smart home together. From mesh to gaming to Wi-Fi 6, here are the best we've tested, for every budget.

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Xbox One X and Xbox One S Black Friday deals and bundles 2019 - CNET

The Black Friday deals on Xbox One X and Xbox One S are heating up. For all things consoles, controllers and games check out our best deals below.

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Feds Pin Uber Crash on Human Operator, Call for Better Rules

For starters, self-driving car companies should be required to submit safety evaluation letters—and those letters should be formally assessed.

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Macy's says its website leaked credit card info to hackers for a week

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Google outlines plans for mainline Linux kernel support in Android

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  Google's eventual plan for Android, one kernel for every device, instead of the device-specific kernels that exist now. [credit: Saravana Kannan ]

It seems like Google is working hard to update and upstream the Linux kernel that sits at the heart of every Android phone. The company was a big participant in this year's Linux Plumbers Conference, a yearly meeting of the top Linux developers, and Google spent a lot of time talking about getting Android to work with a generic Linux kernel instead of the highly-customized version it uses now. It even showed an Android phone running a mainline Linux kernel.

But first, some background on Android's current kernel mess.Currently, three major forks happen in between the "mainline" Linux kernel and a shipping Android device (note that "mainline" here has no relation to Google's own "Project Mainline"). First, Google takes the an LTS (Long Term Support) Linux kernel and turns it into the "Android Common kernel"—the Linux kernel with all the Android OS-specific patches applied. Android Common is shipped to the SoC vendor (usually Qualcomm) where it gets its first round of hardware-specific additions, first focusing on a particular model of SoC. This "SoC Kernel" then gets sent to a device manufacturer for even more hardware-specific code that supports every other piece of hardware, like the display, camera, speakers, usb ports, and any extra hardware. This is the "Device Kernel," and it's what actually ships on a device.

This is an extremely long journey that results in every device shipping millions of lines of out-of-tree kernel code. Every shipping device kernel is different and device specific—basically no device kernel from one phone will work on another phone. The mainline kernel version for a device is locked in at the beginning of an SoC's initial development, so it's typical for a brand-new device to ship with a Linux kernel that is two years old. Even Google's latest and, uh, greatest device, the Pixel 4, shipped in October 2019 with Linux kernel 4.14, an LTS release from November 2017. It will be stuck on kernel 4.14 forever, too. Android devices do not get kernel updates, probably thanks to the incredible amount of work needed to produce just a single device kernel, and the chain of companies that would need to cooperate to do it. Thanks to kernel updates never happening, this means every new release of Android usually has to support the last three years of LTS kernel releases (the minimum for Android 10 is 4.9, a 2016 release). Google's commitments to support older versions of Android with security patches means the company is still supporting kernel 3.18, which is five years old now. Google's band-aid solution for this so far has been to team up with the Linux community and support mainline Linux LTS releases for longer, and they're now up to six years of support.

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Scientist claims to spot insects on Mars, but I think they're just rocks - CNET

An entomologist believes he found evidence of alien life on the Red Planet. I'm not buying it.

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Karma SC2 concept car has 1,100 hp, 10,500 lb-ft of torque - Roadshow

Seriously, how is this even possible?

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Karma SC2 concept backs sharp design with bold 1,100 horsepower claim - Roadshow

That's not even the craziest detail. The electric concept car is also said to produce around 10,500 pound-feet of torque. You read right: TEN THOUSAND.

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Tim Cook's dream: Every enterprise run on an iPhone

Meanwhile Marc Benioff doesn't even know where his computer is anymore as he's running Salesforce from the palm of his hand.

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US student was allegedly building a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS

Chicago student now faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

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Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology

Lucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine startup that develops non-invasive tests for cancer screening, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A led by IHH Healthcare, one of the world’s largest integrated private healthcare groups. Other participants included SGInnovate and returning investors Heliconia Capital (a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings), Lim Kaling and Koh Boon Hwee.

The round will be used for scaling Lucence’s labs, hiring and making its products commercially available to more patients in Asia and North America.

The funding will also support two prospective clinical trials. One will focus on its technology’s sensitivity to actionable variables in late-stage cancer patients, while the other will evaluate its use for early-stage detection in several types of cancer, including lung, colorectal, breast and pancreatic. Lucence is currently designing a study that will involve 100,000 participants to validate its early-stage detection test. It will recruit its first patient in the middle of next year and launch in the United States and Asia.

Together with its seed funding, this round brings Lucence’s total raised so far to $29.2 million.

Lucence’s tests are currently used by physicians in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, and it plans to expand further in North America and East Asia. Its lab in Singapore has received both CLIA certification and CAP accreditation, which means its tests can be used by doctors and patients in the United States. It is also currently building a lab in the Bay Area to decrease turnaround times for patients.

Headquartered in Singapore, with offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Suzhou, China, Lucence was founded by CEO Dr. Min-Han Tan, an oncologist, and spun out from Singapore’s Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in 2016. Two years later, it launched LiquidHALLMARK, which the company describes as “the first and only clinical sequencing blood test that detects both cancer-related genetic mutations and cancer-causing viruses with a single assay” and looks for signs of fourteen types of cancer. The company says LiquidHALLMARK has been used by oncologists for 1,000 patients in Asia so far.

Other genomic sequencing startups that have developed tests that screen for cancer risks and signs include Sanomics, Prenetics, Guardant and Grail. Lucence’s differentiators include its proprietary amplicon-sequencing, which examines specific genomic regions for variations, including mutations linked to cancer. The company describes its tests as a “Swiss Army knife,” because it can be used for cancer screening, diagnoses, treatment selections and monitoring.

In a statement, Dr. Kelvin Loh, the CEO-designate of IHH Healthcare, said “liquid biopsy is a game-changer in our endeavor to provide cancer treatments with better, value-driven outcomes through precise treatment selections and more affordable care. Our investment in Lucence will provide IHH patients with better access to this advanced technology.”

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Apple looks to build 'next generation of media apps for Windows'

Could Apple Music, TV, and more be on the way?

What you need to know

• Apple is looking to build the "next generation of media apps for Windows."
• The effort was disclosed through a job listing on LinkedIn.
• This might indicate Apple will bring separate Music and TV apps to Windows 10, but it's too early to tell.

Apple appears to be working on a set of media apps for Windows 10 that could replace iTunes, as it did on macOS earlier this year. The news comes by way of a job listing, initially discovered by Neowin, which seeks a software engineer to help build "next generation of media apps for Windows."

Apple's iTunes app is still available on Windows 10, despite it being retired in favor of separate Apple Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts apps on macOS earlier in 2019. It could be that Apple is working to pull the same maneuver on Windows 10, but it's too early to tell. For iTunes users who find the app to be bloated and slow, breaking it out into separate apps would be a big deal.

This would mark a shift for Apple, which hasn't been the most supportive of Windows users over the years. Though it would make sense with the company's current trajectory, as it shifts focus to services like Apple Music and Apple TV Plus, which it seemingly wants to be available everywhere. While Windows users can use the web versions of these services, dedicated apps would complete the experience.

It's worth noting that Apple calls out experience with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) as a plus in the qualifications for this role. Forthcoming apps build on the UWP platform would make it easier for Apple to bring them to all of Microsoft's platforms, ranging from Windows 10 PCs to Xbox One.

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Disney+ is available right now on Amazon Fire TV

Best Answer: Disney Plus (Disney+) is available on Amazon Fire TV devices and Amazon Fire tablets right now, after a few months of uncertainty. Shortly before the launch. Disney confirmed that Amazon devices would be supported.

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So I will be able to access Disney+ on my Amazon Fire devices?

Previously, Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire tablets were not included in the list of launch day devices. However, it was recently announced that an agreement was reached between Disney and Amazon, so Amazon Fire TV devices and Amazon Fire tablets are able to download Disney+ directly.

As part of that deal, subscribers also get the opportunity to pay through Amazon. Customers can try out Disney+ for seven days free. If they decide to opt in, they can continue paying for the service through Amazon. If you've subscribed elsewhere, you can log-in with your Disney+ credentials on Amazon devices. Disney+ TV shows and movies will also be integrated into the Fire TV's universal search.

I'm getting some connection or playback issues while watching

Disney+ is a streaming service, and like the rest, you will encounter occasional hiccups with the service while you use and watch it. This involves connectivity issues with your internet connection, the Disney+ servers, or other playback issues. Usually, any issues you have can be easily resolved by restarting devices, quitting the app and launching it again, or just checking to make sure your Internet is working. If you're having issues, make sure to check out our troubleshooting guides.

What is Disney+?

Disney+ is an entertainment streaming service from Disney. Users can access pretty much all of Disney's original and classic family-friendly content, including offerings from Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Fox, and National Geographic. A lot of existing Disney content has been pulled or will be removed from competing streaming services (such as Netflix) so that it's all in one place.

The Disney+ service includes Disney classics, but will also have exclusive Disney+ movies and television shows, especially from the Star Wars and Marvel universes. For Marvel, there is the upcoming Loki and Wanda Vision series, and Star Wars fans are getting The Mandalorian and a new series about Obi-Wan Kenobi.

How much does Disney+ cost?

Disney+ starts at a mere $7 a month, or $70 annually. There is also a bundle deal available, where you can get Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu (with ads) for just $13 a month. It is unknown if there will be other bundles with ad-free Hulu.

When is Disney+ available?

Disney+ launched on Nov. 12, 2019 in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands. Austraila and New Zealand also got Disney+ on Nov. 19. It'll release on March 31, 2020 in the U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Ireland.

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Disney+ has all of your classic Disney favorites, along with some brand new exclusives that won't be available anywhere else. Considering the content you'll get, the price is a no-brainer.

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