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Boy Genius Report |
No, it’s not just you: Half of the internet is down, including Google, Amazon, and Reddit
What better way to start off the week than by not being able to use virtually any online service or access half of the internet's most popular sites? That seems to be the case, as DownDetector (and many tweets) suggest that Google, Amazon, Reddit, and Spectrum -- just to name a few -- are experiencing issues this morning. Those issues appear to have begun around 6 or 7 AM ET, just as the East Coast was starting its day.
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Reuters: Technology News |
Car trash to cash: U.S. firm aims to power European stadiums with old car batteries
U.S. industrial conglomerate Eaton, which uses second-hand Nissan electric vehicle batteries to power buildings, is in talks with up to six European football stadiums to help power their facilities, according to a senior executive.
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The Next Web |
Jabra’s Elite 85h ANC headphones can drown out noise for days
Working for TNW is awesome, but, sadly, they don’t have an office in India. So I work from home, cafes, or coworking spaces. That means there’s a lot of noise around me And while I prefer Bluetooth earbuds like OnePlus’s Bullet Wireless, I often think it’d be nice to have a pair of noise-canceling cans. And that’s where Jabra’s Elite 85h wireless headphones come in. Announced at CES, these premium active noise cancelation (ANC) headphones are comfortable and long lasting. Plus, they...
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CNET News |
Bill Gates says Microsoft losing to Android was his 'greatest mistake' - CNET
Microsoft's co-founder said his company missed out on $400 billion after letting Google create the "standard non-Apple phone platform."
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Hacker News |
Google spent ten years researching what makes the 'perfect' manager
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Resources | ZDNet |
Could a Raspberry Pi be your next desktop PC?
The new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is a powerhouse that has features you'd expect to find in an entry-level desktop PC. Could this be the future of PCs?
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Boy Genius Report |
This top-rated fast wireless charger is somehow only $6.99 right now on Amazon
I don't care what smartphone you use... if it supports wireless charging, there's a deal on Amazon right now that you definitely need to take advantage of. The PeohZarr Qi-Certified 10W Fast Wireless Charger is one of the best-rated wireless chargers on Amazon. It supports three different wireless charging speeds — standard 5W charging, 7.5W fast wireless charging for iPhones, and 10W fast wireless charging for Samsung and other Android phones — and it also has a nifty feature that s...
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Techradar - All the la... |
The best iPhone games to play in 2019
The very best games for your iPhone, from the iPhone XS to the iPhone SE.
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MSPoweruser |
Microsoft promises ongoing support for Huawei laptops
Microsoft has been rather cagey about their response to Huawei being placed on the banned entity list of the US Government. The company’s initial response was to remove their devices from its online store, only to return them last week, saying: “We have been evaluating, and will continue to respond to, the many business, technical […]
Read More: Microsoft promises ongoing support for Huawei laptops
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SlashGear |
Researchers create an artificial circulatory system for robots
Researchers have been working on ways to power robots for extended duration use. Long duration power for robots is a challenge because there is limited space inside most robots for batteries and other hardware. Scientists at Cornell have created a new synthetic vascular system for robots that can pump an energy-dense hydraulic liquid that stores energy, transmits force, and operates … Continue reading
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Ars Technica |
Late night launch: SpaceX preps Falcon Heavy for “most difficult” flight
Mission critical to demonstrating several capabilities for the US Air Force.
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Digg Top Stories |
Should I Talk To My Son About His Pokémon Fetish, And Other Advice Column Questions
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
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Digg Top Stories |
How Nine People Built An Illegal Airbnb Empire In New York
The shoddily assembled living spaces were described with appealing titles like "Newly Renovated Apt Next to East River, NYC View!" ($195 per night); or "Clean and Comfy Room With Balcony, 15min to NYC!" ($100 per night). However, in reviews some guests described them as “packed with garbage,” “broken furniture” and plagued by ants, centipedes, and black mold.
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MSPoweruser |
Steam will no longer be officially supporting Ubuntu for future updates
Valve‘s video game megastore Steam will no longer be supported for Linux operating systems after October of this year. Announced by Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter, the company will officially be dropping support for future versions of the Linux distro. Those who frequently use Ubuntu will have until the OS’ next update, 19.10, to move […]
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Engadget |
Daimler forced to recall more Mercedes cars in emissions cheat probe
Things are getting worse for German auto manufacturer Daimler after local newspaper Bild reported that the company is recalling a further 60,000 Mercedes cars.
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Hacker News |
A Message from the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us
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The Verge - All Posts |
Discord was down due to Cloudflare outage affecting parts of the web
Popular chat service Discord experienced issues today due to network problems at Cloudflare and a wider internet issue. The app was inaccessible for its millions of users, and even Discord’s website and status pages were struggling. Discord’s problems could be traced to an outage at Cloudflare, a content delivery network. Cloudflare started experiencing issues at 7:43AM ET, and this caused Discord, Feedly, Crunchyroll, and many other sites that rely on its services to have partial outages.
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CNET News |
The Ring Video Doorbell 2 hits an all-time low: $125 - CNET
That's $75 less than the current Amazon price and the best deal I've seen.
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BleepingComputer.com |
Cloudflare and Amazon AWS Outages Affecting Sites Everywhere
Cloudflare is currently suffering an outage this morning that is affecting web sites around the world. This outage is not affecting all regions and only certain domains, including BleepingComputer, so some of you will be able to see this article and others won't until the issue is resolved. [...]
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BleepingComputer.com |
BGP Route Leak Causes Cloudflare and Amazon AWS Problems
Cloudflare is currently suffering an outage this morning that is affecting web sites around the world. This outage is not affecting all regions and only certain domains, including BleepingComputer, so some of you will be able to see this article and others won't until the issue is resolved. [...]
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BleepingComputer.com |
Cloudflare is Having an Outage Affecting Sites Everywhere
Cloudflare is currently suffering an outage this morning that is affecting web sites around the world. This outage is not affecting all regions and only certain domains, including BleepignComputer, so some of you will be able to see this article and others won't until the issue is resolved. [...]
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Digg Top Stories |
This Is The Best US Women's Soccer Team Ever
And yet: It still may not win the World Cup.
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Digg Top Stories |
The New Science Of Building Baseball Superstars
"Sabermetrics" changed the national pastime. Now another technological revolution is transforming the game, for good or ill.
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AppleInsider |
'That's iPhone' ads released to Apple Australia YouTube channel
Apple released three new "That's iPhone" advertisements to their Australian YouTube channel regarding material recycling, iMessage, and privacy in the App Store.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Big bad Libra: Do we really need (or want) Facebook to reinvent money?
Facebook's cryptocurrency scheme will undoubtedly generate value and a following. But if the hairs on the back of your neck start to raise up, you're not alone.
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Business Insider |
Ad-tech companies are moving full speed ahead to chase OTT ad dollars. Here are the 13 companies poised to win the most.
A growing number of ad-tech companies are moving into over-the-top advertising as ad dollars shift from TV to streaming video.
While ad-tech companies are clamoring to get a share of the OTT ad market that's coming from the $70 billion in TV advertising, not all ad-tech companies will actually be able to deliver.
Business Insider polled a handful of ad buyers and compiled a list of 13 ad-tech companies that are at the forefront of shaping the future of OTT advertising.
More people are cutting t...
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Hacker News |
Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs
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Hacker News |
A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island
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Hacker News |
This Is How Google Will Collapse
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TG Daily |
9 Important Things to Consider When Selling Trucks and Heavy Equipment
Everyone looking to sell their heavy equipment or trucks have one common goal; they all want to sell at the best price as much as possible. Because most trucks and heavy equipment require a huge sum of money to purchase and also to maintain, everyone that wants to sell used ones always want to recoup […]The post 9 Important Things to Consider When Selling Trucks and Heavy Equipment appeared first on TGDaily.
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Techradar - All the la... |
RHA T20 Wireless audiophile buds now available in India for Rs 22,999
The neckband earphones come with 12 hours of battery life and digital assistant integration.
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Boy Genius Report |
Fresh Pixel 4 leak gives us another look at Google’s unreleased flagship
Google's upcoming new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are the worst-kept secret in all of tech right now because, well, they're really not a secret at all anymore. Once a set of Pixel 4 design files was stolen from the factory where Google's new Pixel phones will be manufactured, renders showing the phone's new design were posted on the web. Rather than just sit idly by while it's new smartphone design is tossed around the internet like every other smartphone maker does, Google bizarrely decided to offic...
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The Next Web |
CHEAP: Spit in the face of cleaning with 20% off iRobot’s Roomba 690 vacuum
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Although there are a few oddballs out there, very few of us like cleaning. Yes, the aftermath can be hugely pleasurable, but could you imagine how much better life would be if stuff just got magically clean? Well, that’s the experience you can get with the famous Roomba series of robotic vacuums from iRobot. And — surprise, surprise, surprise — there’s a great deal running on one of these excellent ...
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9to5Mac |
Microsoft missed out on $400B by letting Android take on Apple – Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says that Microsoft missed out on a $400B market by letting Google turn Android into the only real alternative to the iPhone.
Gates confessed that his mismanagement of Microsoft’s mobile efforts was his ‘greatest mistake’ …
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Hacker News |
Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]
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Techradar - All the la... |
UAE data protection law, similar to GDPR, likely landing this year
UAE data protection law likely landing this year as National Cybersecurity Strategy is executed in a three-year timeframe with 60 initiatives
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Resources | ZDNet |
Anonymous hacker exposed after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail
Anonymous Belgium hacker sentenced to 18 months in prison for past cyber-crimes.
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TechPowerUp |
(PR) SilentiumPC Presents New 120 and 140 mm Case Fans With RGB and ARGB Lighting
The European PC case and cooling manufacturer SilentiumPC, adds the new Stella HP fan series both as an RGB-enabled and ARGB-enabled product line to its portfolio. The new lines are based on the same PWM-enabled fan, which feature the HBS (Hydraulic) bearing, excellent efficiency, high static pressure and built-in anti-vibration rubber grommets. The Stella HP RGB as well as the Stella HP ARGB series are available in the mainstream fan sizes 120 mm and 140 mm.
Stella HP ARGB PWM
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Boing Boing |
Raspberry Pi 4
The fourth incarnation of the wonderful Raspberry Pi is upon us. A faster quard-core CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet and dual HDMI outputs are the upgrades; there's USB-C too, but just for power. The CPU boost is a big deal, say early users, but dual-4k displays and 4x the RAM bring it squarely into the realm of everyday desktop computing. Still $35; the 4GB model is $55.
Seriously look at this. True Gigabit Ethernet speed on Raspberry Pi 4.
Raspberry Pi 3B: 94MB/sRaspberry Pi 3B+: 28...
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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
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Presidential warnings 'easy' to spoof
Fake messages could cause widespread panic, the researchers who uncovered the flaws say.
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Engadget |
Bill Gates claims his ‘greatest mistake’ was not beating Android
Bill Gates has spoken candidly about his regrets as the leader of Microsoft, most particularly the company's attempts to build a dominant mobile OS. As reported by The Verge, during an interview at venture capital firm Village Global, Gates said "the...
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Boing Boing |
Mickey and Minnie speak Thai in retro cartoon short "Our Floating Dreams"
If you haven't seen them already, do check out Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. They're delightfully retro and great under-five-minute escapes. The latest one, Our Floating Dreams, has Mickey and Minnie speaking Thai!
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Boing Boing |
Enter to win an iPad Pro or save big on refurbished iPads
Looking for a new tablet? If you haven't upgraded in a while, it might be time to check out the latest iPad Pro for two very good reasons. First, the 2018 model is a real workhorse. The 12X Bionic chip processor means it can handle any task you set out for it, and still have plenty of speed left over for gaming or streaming video (which both look great on the liquid retina display). Not to mention great new features like Face ID and a magnetic Apple Pencil mount which also charges up that periph...
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AnandTech |
An Interview with AMD’s Forrest Norrod: Naples, Rome, Milan, & Genoa
There’s no getting away from the fact that AMD’s big revenue potential exists in the server space. While the glitz and the glamor is all about the Ryzen, the big money is with EPYC. Heading up AMD’s EPYC efforts, as well as their extended collaborations in the embedded and semi-custom segments, is Forrest Norrod, the SVP and GM of the Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group at AMD. We spent some time at Computex talking with Forrest about the upcoming premise of Rome, and how A...
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MakeUseOf |
The 6 Best Game Launchers to Launch and Organize Your PC Games
When Valve’s Steam launcher took off, we briefly enjoyed being able to launch nearly every PC game from one place. Then every company seemed to introduce its own launcher. Now there are too many game launchers to keep track of, and you probably own games across all of them. If you own a sizable collection of PC games, it can be tough to remember which game is installed on which launcher. Fortunately, there are a few different ways that you can launch all of your PC games without hopping be...
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Mashable! |
Chernobyl Blu-ray announced and available for pre-order now
TL;DR: The hit television five-part miniseries Chernobyl is now available for pre-order from Amazon, releasing on July 29, 2019.
The massive television phenomenon Chernobyl will be hitting Blu-ray and DVD on 29 July, 2019. Pre-orders are live from today and you can pick up the unmissable series for £14.99 on DVD or £19.99 on Blu-ray from Amazon.
Created by Craig Martin, the show explores the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in 1986, and stars Jessie Buckley, Jared H...
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The Next Web |
ING Bank: Bullish cryptocurrency markets are negatively impacting the US dollar
The cryptocurrency markets are on fire and major financial institution ING has taken notice, going as far as predicting the latest bull run could negatively impact the value of the US dollar. “Strong commodity (and cryptocurrency) prices, plus sharply falling US dollar hedging costs should keep the dollar on the soft side this week,” warned ING‘s global head of strategy Chris Turner in his latest foreign exchange analysis. Turner’s right: the price of the DXY index – which measures...
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Boy Genius Report |
You’re crazy if you pass up SanDisk 200GB microSD cards at an all-time low of $24, today only
Don't walk, RUN over to Amazon right now because there's a killer sale on digital storage that you're definitely not going to want to miss. Just about every available size of SanDisk's "Ultra" line of microSD cards are on sale right now, and prices start at just $5.79 for a 16GB card. That's not the big story today, however. On Monday, for one day only, Amazon is blowing out SanDisk 200GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Memory Cards for just $24. That's a new all-time low price, and you're crazy if you pa...
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Techradar - All the la... |
God of War on PS5? Job postings suggest next-gen sequel
Santa Monica hirings point to a sequel to 2018's God of War.
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Boing Boing |
Busta Rhymes vs. Banjo Kazooie
In the vein of Biggie the Tank Engine, but significantly worse. Read the rest
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Digg Top Stories |
This DIY Retro Gaming Console Kit Is Worth The Effort
Officially licensed miniature consoles are commonplace now, but the game libraries on offer are tiny. If you want a device that can handle huge swaths of your retro library, this Raspberry Pi-based solution has you covered.
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Digg Top Stories |
Pack It Up: Store All Your Gear Comfortably In One Backpack
With two expansion zips, this incredibly handy backpack can expand to store up to 65 liters. And with high-quality shoulder and waist straps in play, you can schlep all of your important stuff without too much strain.
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Digg Top Stories |
Botched Spanish Statue That Went Viral Is Lovingly Unrestored
After a year's exile and hundreds of hours of painstaking work, a 16th-century polychrome statue of Saint George and the dragon from northern Spain that made the news for all the wrong reasons has been lovingly and carefully unrestored.
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Digg Top Stories |
How Your Looks Shape Your Personality
We tend to think of our looks as separate from who we are. But it turns out that physical traits like height or attractiveness may shape our personalities, behaviors, even politics.
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Digg Top Stories |
An Insane Credit Card Offering 0% Interest Until Nearly 2021
This jaw-dropping card is offering 0% APR for 14 Months and 5% back in rotating categories. Pay no interest until nearly 2021 and double your cash back.
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Digg Top Stories |
This $85 Million New York City Penthouse Comes With Tickets To Outer Space
To put this impossible number into context, $85 million is near twice the GDP of the nation of Tuvalu.
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Digg Top Stories |
Inside The Beat Hotel Of Paris
"I lay there on the floor, he makes love to Nanette all night, as she whimpers," wrote Jack Kerouac, recalling the night he slept in Room 41 of a Parisian "fleabag" in the Latin Quarter that his friend and fellow poet had christened "The Beat Hotel."
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Digg Top Stories |
She Wants The Workers Off Her Land. They Say It's Their Socialist Right
A standoff at the top of a hill between a once-wealthy landowner and some impoverished farmers has been going on for 10 years. Neither side is backing down.
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Digg Top Stories |
This Travel-Friendly Electric Toothbrush Removes 10x More Plaque
Invest in your oral health with this AquaSonic Vibe Toothbrush & 8 DuPont Brush Heads + Carrying Case. It cleans your teeth by scrubbing them at 40,000 vibrations per minute, using four operation modes and smart vibration timers. Right now, it's 76% off — just $39.99.
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CNET News |
Microsoft may have foldable Surface that runs Android apps in works - CNET
It'll reportedly have a pair of 9-inch screens and come out in early 2020.
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Mashable! |
Samsung 4K TVs, De'Longhi coffee machines, Bosch power tools, Philips Hue systems, and more on sale for June 24 in the UK
Another week, another set of amazing deals. With the heat set to soar in the coming days, now couldn't be a better time to kit out your garden, and we've got the deals to help.
Get your garden looking its best with a robust mower, or a powerful pressure washer.
If you're still sceptical about the British summer, we've also lined up a great selection of deals to keep you happy at home. Highlights include a sharp set of Morphy Richards knives, down to £24.99 from £79.99, and ...
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Digital Trends |
Nokia 4.2 review
The Nokia 4.2 has good battery life, uncluttered Android One software that delivers fast updates, and a design and build that doesn’t match its $189 price tag. But performance throws the phone under the bus.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Old Linus Torvalds is back: Linux page caching sparks 'bulls**t' outburst
The real Linus Torvalds stands up.
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Boing Boing |
Breaching humpback whale surprises rowers
One minute you're rowing, the next you stop and a humpback whale is breaching right in front of you! That's what happened off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last week. Anyone speak Portuguese? I think I heard a "Ai meu Deus!" (Oh my God!) which sounds about right.
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Hacker News |
Microsoft Bans Employees from Using Slack, Has AWS and Google Docs
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Boing Boing |
Flickr offers the best social media experience going
On the whole, technology has been good to me.
In the mid-1990s, I was able to connect with a music magazine in Ireland--my first paying writing gig--via Hotmail. Over two decades later, I'm still writing for them. in 2009, Twitter connected me with folks who became good friends, online and face-to-face. Through them, I was able to shift out of a career that was slowly killing me with stress to begin a decade-long stretch of freelancing. Working remotely during that time, I found that I had a lu...
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Boy Genius Report |
16-inch MacBook Pro tipped to launch in September alongside Retina MacBook Air refresh
Apple is making a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a few reports said earlier this year, and a new rumor offers us an actual launch date for the new MacBook: September 2019. This would be an original screen size for MacBooks, which go from 12-inch to 15-inch currently. Apple did make 17-inch MacBook Pro in previous years but discontinued the size a long time ago.
One way to increase the size of the screen without increasing the overall size of the laptop is to reduce bezels further if that’s possible...
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The Next Web |
Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton on building a computer for industrial users
The Raspberry Pi foundation today announced the launch of its latest model – the Raspberry Pi 4. This pocket-sized computer isn’t an iterative improvement on previous devices, but rather a radical re-imagining that sees the company transcend its spiritual homeland, the education market. My colleague Ivan Mehta covered the announcement earlier today, but here’s the Cliff Notes: it comes with a more powerful quad-core Broadcom processor, which can power up to two 4K displays via its dual mi...
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The Next Web |
Bitcoin price rises past $11,000 following Facebook’s Libra announcement
Bitcoin’s price continues to rally surpassing the $11,000 mark over the weekend for the first time in 15 months. At the time of writing, Bitcoin‘s price had decreased by approximately 1.15 percent, with each coin being worth $10,873.04, according to Coinmarketcap. Bitcoin’s rise in value comes after Facebook announced the launch of Libra its contentious ‘cryptocurrency.’ In fact, Google Trends data shows that interest in the cryptocurrency increased after the tech giant’s announce...
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Hacker News |
Stewart Butterfield wanted to quit and give the money back to investors
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9to5Mac |
Latest Apple ads carry message of caring for consumers and the planet [Video]
The latest Apple ads carry messages aimed to showing the company caring for both consumers and the planet.
There are three short video ads, each just 16 seconds long, and you can watch each of them below …
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SlashGear |
Raspberry Pi 4 launches with more modern capabilities and features
The Raspberry Pi single board computer or SBC was originally designed to be used in education. That purpose formed its features and, most importantly, its price. Seven years later, however, the Raspberry Pi has grown to become one of the most popular and most loved computer by educators, hackers, and makers but it has more or less retained its relatively … Continue reading
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Hacker News |
Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950
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AfterDawn.com |
Raspberry Pi 4 released - everything changes, but the price remains the same
The true love of the geeks, the miniature computer Raspberry Pi, has been upgraded to a new major version. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B changes pretty much everything there was in the previous version - and to the better.
Previous flagship model, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ sold for $35 and the same base price remains for the new model, too. But the components, connectors and everything else have gone through a major revamp.
First of all, the system chip has been updated. Raspberry Pi 4 now uses Cortex...
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Hacker News |
The US Island That Speaks Elizabethan English
Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Amazon robotics VIP joins microlocation tech company
The opportunity in automation is in providing the tools that make robots indispensable.
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Hacker News |
Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone
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News Tom's Guide US |
First Photo from Samsung's 64-Megapixel Sensor Is Very Impressive
The new Samsung photo sensor will reportedly be incorporated in the Samsung Galaxy S11 flagship.
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The Verge - All Posts |
The Meizu 16s is a no-notch, no-nonsense flagship phone
A Snapdragon 855 and an uninterrupted screen for around $500
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Business Insider |
Elon Musk tweeted an 'Occupy Mars' meme, but he was mocked because it featured a picture of the moon
Elon Musk mistook the moon for Mars in a tweet — and the internet is calling him out.
The SpaceX CEO tweeted a picture of the moon with the caption "Occupy Mars" and other Twitter users were quick to correct him.
Musk's tweet came within hours of him saying that he is accelerating the development of Starship, a rocket that is designed to go to Mars.
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The internet is mocking Elon Musk after he mixed up the moon and Mars.
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Techradar - All the la... |
Best domain registrars in 2019
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AppleInsider |
16-inch MacBook Pro release, MacBook Air updates predicted for September
Apple could ship the rumored 16-inch version of the MacBook Pro this fall, analysts at IHS Markit believe, with the upgraded size tipped to have a high-resolution 3072-by-1920 pixel display, though not one that uses OLED technology.
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Hacker News |
Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare
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News Tom's Guide US |
Galaxy Note 10 Will Reportedly Kill Two Key Features
Only the Galaxy Note 10 Pro will reportedly get microSD expansion and both the Note 10 and Note 10 Pro will lose a headphone jack.
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Stuff.TV RSS feed - Th... |
Drop everything and download: Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Witches get snitches
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MSPoweruser |
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 updated with new features
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 received an update today. Taking the app to version 1.7.9, the update introduces several new features and performance improvements and bug fixes. The update is now available in the Microsoft Store with the following changelog. What’s New Easier to add contacts – Now you can add any user to your […]
Read More: Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 updated with new features
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Engadget |
The Morning After: US 'launched cyber-attack' on Iranian weapons systems
Good morning, there! If you've been waiting on making your own media hub, a new 4K-ready Raspberry Pi model might be exactly what you're after. Elsewhere, the US used a cyberattack to take down an Iranian missile control base.
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Extremetech |
US Bans AMD’s Chinese Joint Venture From Developing, Selling Hardware
The US government added another five companies to its export blacklist on Friday -- and nuked AMD's THATIC server partnership in the process.
The post US Bans AMD’s Chinese Joint Venture From Developing, Selling Hardware appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Hacker News |
Ask HN: Do you use automated tools to create APIs, or do you code them manually?
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Reuters: Technology News |
Logistics unit of JD raises 1.5 billion yuan investment fund
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com's logistics division has raised a 1.5 billion yuan ($218 million) fund to invest in companies and technologies specializing in logistics, the company said on Monday.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Fake Google Maps listings weaponized to kill real businesses, confuse you
For as long as Google Maps (and other digital mapping services) have existed, there have been fake listings. The most notable example was a scam where a centralized operation would mass-produce fake locksmith listings advertising low rates, then jacking up prices as poor sods left out of house or car get desperate. These days, the directory battlefield has expanded across different high-cost industries with devastating tactics deployed against businesses and the public while placing livelihoods ...
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TechCrunch |
Creandum closes $300M fund for early-stage investments out of Europe
As one European VC raises a fund to double down on bigger growth rounds in Europe, another has closed a fund to continue focusing on early-stage investments. Stocklhom-founded Creandum, an early backer of companies like Spotify and iZettle, has closed a fifth fund €265 million ($300 million). The plan is to use the money to […]
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Resources | ZDNet |
How China, Brexit, and the US derailed global 5G Wireless
With old trade wars reigniting and new ones being invented, telecommunications is faced with an existential crisis. To survive, it must establish a global standard for a globe that no longer seems to want one.
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Business Insider |
An executive at one of the largest electronic marketplaces for bonds compared the future of trading to Tesla's autopilot and believes 90% of trading will be automated in 4 years
Richard Schiffman, the head of open trading at electronic marketplace MarketAxess, said the corporate bond market should aim to be automated much in the same way Tesla's auto-pilot function works.
Schiffman said he believes 90% of trades done at MarketAxess under $5 million will be automated within four years.
Currently, only 10% of trading done on MarketAxess is automated.
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The corporate bond market is looking to take a page out of Elon Musk's play...
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Macworld |
Apple Watch Series 5: Rumors, price, features, and release date
Let's be clear: Apple has not yet even acknowledged the existence of an Apple Watch Series 5, much less told us anything about it. We've gotten the lowdown on watchOS 6, but that's all.This is not unusual, of course, Apple very rarely talks about future products until they're ready for their official on-stage announcement. This is a collection of our expectations and the internet's most probable rumors. We'll update it as more concrete info comes in.Release date
Every Apple Watch so far has be...
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Macworld |
WatchOS 6: Everything you need to know about the new feature, faces, and functions
Apple has unveiled watchOS 6, and it makes the Apple Watch more independent than ever.
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Mashable! |
The best place to discover new music? Instagram.
When 19-year-old pop artist Maude Latour released her summer 2019 song "Superfruit," her fans quickly posted it to their Instagram stories.
She encouraged it. “My audience is my publicity team, and when people share songs on Instagram, it helps so much,” she says. “With 'Superfruit,' over 100 people shared it on their stories. That’s a network of maybe 100,000 people. Not all of them look, but even if a few people do, that’s amazing,” Latour says. "Super...
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MakeUseOf |
6 Ways to Take Screenshots You Can Search Quickly
Screenshots come to the rescue when copy and paste don’t work. But these screenshots can pile up quickly over time and there’s no good way to search the text within them like you would with a collection of text files. Then, with similarly named files and thumbnails, it can be a chore to organize them. The solution? Use an app that not only takes screenshots but uses OCR technology to recognize the text in the screenshots. Here are some brilliant apps that recognize the text within a ...
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The Next Web |
Excel knowledge can make or break your next job interview; master it for $39
Excel ability is one of the most requested tech skills needed from a prospective employee. So get and stay hireable with instruction like The A to Z Microsoft Excel Certification Training Bundle. It’s on sale now at a very attractive $39, all thanks to a new $10 price drop from TNW Deals.
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