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Business Insider |
Tesla is ending its popular referral program that rewarded owners with a load of free perks because it's getting too expensive (TSLA)
Tesla's customer referral program will end February 1, Elon Musk said on Twitter.
The program was adding too much cost to vehicle production, especially the Model 3, he added.
Tesla owners participating in the referral program can receive rewards such as the opportunity to send a laser-etched photo into "deep space orbit," as well as a signature black wall connector for charging, a miniature Model S for kids, and even upgraded wheels.
Tesla will end its customer referral program on Februa...
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Digital Trends |
Bose QuietComfort wireless headphones are more than $80 off for a limited time
The Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II is one of our favorite wireless headphones. Its noise-canceling and Bluetooth capabilities make it an excellent pair of over-ear headphones. If you've been wanting the high-quality headphones, it is now discounted for a limited time.
The post Bose QuietComfort wireless headphones are more than $80 off for a limited time appeared first on Digital Trends.
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Store all the things with SanDisk's gargantuan 400GB microSD card for just $84
Boosting your storage is always a good idea, and today, gobbling up a lot of gigabytes doesn’t have to be expensive. You can grab the 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC card for just $83.98 on Amazon, down from a list price of $250 and a crazy low price for such a substantial amount of storage.This card will bring a whole lot more space to your Android device, PC, or even your Nintendo Switch on the cheap. With transfer speeds up to 100MB/s, you’ll be able to move up to 1,200 photos in a minute, ...
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Hacker News |
Masculinity Isn’t a Sickness
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Verizon Says It Won’t Increase Fees on Education App After All
The telecom company responded to criticism from teachers and parents saying it will waive the new text message fees for this specific use.
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Engadget |
Spotify's Car View helps cut the distractions for drivers
Following Spotify's integration with Google Maps and Waze, the music streaming service is rolling out some in-car controls within its own app. 9to5Google has spotted a "Car View" mode inside Spotify for Android, which automatically enables a driver-f...
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Neowin |
They are Billions and seven more games join EA's Origin Access subscription program
A host of new games joined the Origin Access subscription program, bringing in They Are Billions to Premier members along with several classic Star Wars games and more to Basic tier subscribers. Read more...
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SlashGear |
Pixel 3 Lite leaks again, this time in hands-on video
In the months since the Pixel 3 and 3 XL launched, a third phone in the line called the Pixel 3 Lite has leaked a considerable number of times. At this point, most of us are convinced that the Pixel 3 Lite is a phone that Google plans to release in the near future, but if you still need more … Continue reading
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Digital Trends |
Swatchpay: Everything you need to know
Swatch has announced its Swatchpay technology is now available in Switzerland, enabling mobile payments from your Swatch watch. It works in a similar way to Apple Pay and Google Pay. Here's everything about it.
The post Swatchpay: Everything you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Model Home
After the Big One brings it all down, what lives might we try building out of the rubble?
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9to5Mac |
Louis Vuitton wants you to pay them $700 for putting their logo on in-ear wireless headphones
Got $700 to waste? Louis Vuitton can help – the fashion company is offering some admittedly excellent in-ear true wireless headphones for $995. Which is $299 for the headphones and $696 for the logo …
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Business Insider |
The Henn na Hotel in Japan is firing most of its robotic workforce and hiring humans instead — highlighting the limits of automation
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers hours before it appeared on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here.
The Henn na Hotel in Japan, which from 2015 has employed almost 250 robots to meet guests’ needs, is cutting back on automation after its experiment failed to reduce costs or workload for employees, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The hotel will reduce its robotic workforce by more than half and return to more traditiona...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Would a cheaper iPad encourage you to upgrade?
A report claims that Apple is gearing up to release a new entry-level iPad, along with an updated iPad. Will this help give sales a much-needed boost?
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The Huffington Post |
Mosaic Artist Fills Potholes With An Anti-Trump Jolt
Jim Bachor is known for playful pothole mosaic art. He made an exception for President Donald Trump.
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Boy Genius Report |
Today’s top deals: $18 wireless charger, $17 Bluetooth headphones, rare Apple Watch S4 sale, 4K TVs, more
We've got some truly terrific daily deals in Thursday's roundup, so we'll get straight to it. Highlights include the king of fast wireless chargers for just $17.99, excellent Aukey Bluetooth earbuds for just $16.89 when you use the coupon code AUKEY4EP at checkout, a rare chance to save on four different Apple Watch Series 4 models, a deep $117 discount on the best-selling surround sound system on all of Amazon, a 128GB SanDisk microSD card for $21.99, a 16.4-foot LED light strip you can control...
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CNET News |
Jeff Bezos' favorite things get their own Vegas conference - CNET
Think robots, space and machines that get smarter on their own.
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Slashdot |
Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms
Tourism operators in Australia claim inaccuracies in Google Maps are deterring potential visitors, by making remote attractions appear further away than they actually are. From a report: The Queensland government in north-east Australia has complained to Google, which says it will look into the issue. Firms looking to promote their small towns as remote tourist destinations say Google Maps inflates travel times. Outback businesses say errors in the map app can add hours to a journey. "People are...
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MSPoweruser |
Sea of Thieves’ February update will redownload the game but there are benefits
Sea of Thieves’ upcoming February update will see players re-download the entire game. The newest update comes due to a change in the game’s file structure, allowing Rare to keep the game’s total file size lower than it previously was. Xbox One X owners will have to download a total of 25GB with base system […]
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TechCrunch |
Prisma’s style transfer tech creeps into kids’ books
The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds for several months, as we reported at the time, before the rapacious, face-snapping hoards shifted their attention toward fresh spectacles. But that’s not the end of the story. The same tech […]
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The Next Web |
Cryptocurrency mining malware has become self-aware (kinda)
A common form of cryptocurrency mining malware has evolved and is now able to switch off security services to continue mining without being detected. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered that the malware used by cryptojacking group “Rocke” is able to gain administrative privileges to Linux-based cloud servers and uninstall vital security programs. This means the malware can go on illicitly mining coins undetected. Typically, if a piece of malware were to uninstall...
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Business Insider |
Nearly 773 million email accounts have been exposed in a massive data breach. Here's how to check if you were affected.
A massive collection of email address and passwords was leaked online in a data breach known as "Collection #1."
It appears the data didn't come from a single source, site, or company but is an aggregation that includes cracked passwords.
You can check whether you've been affected on the website Have I Been Pwned.
A massive database containing 772,904,991 unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords was recently posted to an online hacking forum, according to Wired.
The hack...
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AppleInsider |
Apple Watch could get more hands-free tilt controls in future watchOS update
The Apple Watch could include more gestures similar to Raise to Speak in the future, after the revelation Apple has explored the possibility of producing more hands-free ways to interact with wearable devices and other hardware.
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Mashable! |
Xbox One X, PlayStation Classic, Cuisinart, Instant Pot, KitchenAid, and more great deals for Jan. 17
We're almost to the (long) weekend! Hang in there, just one more day until some much needed time off of work. But in the meantime, take a look at the best deals we found on Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Macy's.
So what did we find? We rounded up deals on video games, home products like coffeemakers and multi-cookers from Instant Pot, and Amazon devices and tablets for video streaming and home security. Want to snag an Xbox One S at a discount, or KitchenAid stand mixer for cheap? Scroll down an...
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Hacker News |
Ghostery Plus makes money while blocking publishers from doing the same
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CNET News |
Sony invests in What3words for better voice-controlled navigation - CNET
The digital addressing startup already is built into Mercedes car mapping systems.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Chrome OS to require authentication to view saved passwords
Google talks a big game about Chrome OS's security versus other operating systems. One area where it falls short, though, is keeping your passwords safe from the prying eyes of those around you. On competing operating systems like Windows and macOS, viewing saved passwords requires first entering your device password; not so on Chrome OS. That could soon be changing, though, according to a recent commit on the Chromium Gerrit.
Currently, you can view saved passwords on an unlocked Chrome OS dev...
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Digg Top Stories |
The Economics Of Streaming Is Making Songs Shorter
From 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Six percent of hit songs were 2 minutes 30 seconds or shorter in 2018, up from just 1% five years before.
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Digg Top Stories |
Sounding Out The Brain
Ultrasound isn't just for images. Sonogenetics and other promising technologies let researchers use focused sound waves to control genes and entire cells deep in the tissues of living animals, without surgery.
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Digg Top Stories |
Talking To The Photographer Behind Those Paul Ryan Workout Pictures
Gregg Segal tells us what it was like to take these absolutely bananas photos.
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Digg Top Stories |
World's Worst Driver Enters A Parking Garage And Gets Irreversibly Stuck
It's easy to be a bad driver, but it takes a rare level of bad to achieve this result.
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MSPoweruser |
Privacy coalition targets Microsoft, others for sharing ‘Minority Report’ technology with US Government
There is a certain tension among the private companies and the government when it comes to the sharing of data. While companies openly claim that they never share data with anyone including the government, we don’t always know if that’s true. We have seen companies like Apple and Google refuse to comply with the government […]
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CNET News |
Hyundai adds 100,000 cars to Kia's engine-fire recall - Roadshow
The two automakers also have an unrelated software update to send out.
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9to5Mac |
Report: 2019 iPhone XR to improve LTE with 4×4 MIMO antenna like current iPhone XS
A new report from Barclays today predicts that this year’s iPhone XR will bring better cellular connectivity with a new LTE 4×4 MIMO antenna. This could bring the entry-level flagship more in line with the features and performance of the current iPhone XS and iPhone 11.
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Hacker News |
The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)
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News - THE INQUIRER |
Microsoft HoloLens 2 looks set to debut at MWC next month
Redmond is returning to Barcelona
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CNET News |
Apple's Tim Cook calls for new regulations to protect your personal data - CNET
The CEO highlights "invisible" privacy violations and the "shadow economy" they've created.
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
This 43-inch 4K HDR television with Amazon Fire TV built-in is on sale for $200
If you haven’t upgraded to the glorious 4K HDR life yet, now’s the perfect time to see what you’re missing for cheap. Best Buy is selling a 43-inch 4K HDR Toshiba Smart TV with Amazon’s Fire TV built-in for $200Remove non-product link. That price beats Amazon’s all-time historical low by $50 and the current Amazon price by $100.To read this article in full, please click here
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Macworld |
This 43-inch 4K HDR television with Amazon Fire TV built-in is on sale for $200
If you haven’t upgraded to the glorious 4K HDR life yet, now’s the perfect time to see what you’re missing for cheap. Best Buy is selling a 43-inch 4K HDR Toshiba Smart TV with Amazon’s Fire TV built-in for $200Remove non-product link. That price beats Amazon’s all-time historical low by $50 and the current Amazon price by $100.To read this article in full, please click here
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Engadget |
Researchers train robot dog to pick itself back up after a fall
Researchers have taught a robot dog to overcome one of the toughest challenges for a four-legged droid: how to get back up after a fall. In a paper published in the Science Robotics journal, its Swiss creators describe how they trained a neural netwo...
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VentureBeat |
What3words entices investment from Sony’s Innovation Fund
London-based What3words has attracted a sizeable investment from Sony's Innovation Fund, the addressing system startup announced.
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TechCrunch |
Backblaze updates its backup service
Backblaze started as a backup solution for consumers, but over the course of the last few years, it also added cloud storage and other services to its lineup. Today, however, the company is going back to its roots with the launch of Backblaze Cloud Backup version 6.0, its flagship service that offers unlimited storage and […]
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GeekWire |
Female Founders Alliance raises cash from angel investors, inks deal with WeWork
It’s already been a busy year for the Female Founders Alliance. The Seattle-based organization continues to march toward its mission of helping women entrepreneurs land funding and it’s getting support from key partners to do so. FFA today announced a new partnership with WeWork Labs, the startup incubator concept from WeWork that opened in Seattle last month. FFA will house the second cohort of its accelerator, Ready Set Raise, at the incubator this summer. It will also host events...
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The Information |
‘Non-Amazon’ Online Retail Strategies Attract Venture Funding
Amazon may be the Goliath of online retail. But venture capitalists last year poured more money into startups that are hoping to carve out niches in areas where they feel they can build businesses around the e-commerce giant’s edges, data show.U.S. venture capitalists put about $5 billion into internet retail startups last year, according to data from Pitchbook. That’s up from $3.8 billion in 2017 and $2.9 billion in 2016 (and the highest amount it has recorded, going back to 2002). ...
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GeekWire |
Another Pioneer Square Labs spinout: Remarkably targets commercial real estate with marketing tech
When Erina Malarkey looks at how commercial real estate stakeholders are spending money on marketing efforts, she’s in disbelief. “You have the largest asset class in the world and it currently has one of the most unsophisticated marketing and analytics functions,” she said in an interview this week. “People are literally managing billions of dollars of assets with sticky notes, emails, spreadsheets, and whiteboards. It’s pretty mind boggling.” Malarkey sees a...
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MSPoweruser |
Review: The Shrouded Isle puts the “fun” in “dysfunctional cult”
Reviewed on Nintendo Switch. The Shrouded Isle, developed and published by Kitfox Games, is a game where you take on the role of a high priest in a doomsday cult on an isolated island, counting down the days until your God returns. Each season, you must appoint an advisor from each house in your village, […]
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The Verge - All Posts |
Houseparty adds Heads Up in a new push into gaming and revenue
Houseparty, the group video chat that has carved out a niche among a segment of young people who use it to hang out virtually, is making its first effort to generate revenue. The company said today that Heads Up, the popular mobile game, will now be available inside Houseparty’s mobile app. Users will be able to play the game, which has one player guessing a word that only the other players can see, for free. But some “packs” of words will cost $0.99 or more, with revenue split between Hou...
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News Tom's Guide US |
Most Americans Still Don't Know Facebook Tracks Them
Facebook lets advertisers see your politics, hometowns, ethnicity, marital status and more -- but most American users have no idea.
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Wired Top Stories |
In This Brutal 'Titan Games' Event, Friction Is The Real Winner
Sure, you need big muscles to win the Lunar Impact event in Dwayne Johnson's new reality show. But you won't get anywhere without friction.
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MakeUseOf |
Spotify vs. Apple Music vs. Amazon Music Unlimited: Which Is Best?
There has never been a better time to introduce yourself to paid music streaming services. Although Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple Music, and Spotify all offer similar features, each includes unique characteristics worth considering. In this article, you’ll learn more about Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, and discover how to subscribe to each of them. We’ll also give you some invaluable advice to help you decide which one would be best for you to subscribe to personally. Amazo...
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AnandTech |
CES 2019: GIGABYTE’s High-Performance Aorus PCIe and M.2 SSDs
Last year when GIGABYTE introduced its first SSDs, the company took a cautious approach only released entry-level drives. At this year’s CES the company finally unveiled its high-performance SSDs aimed at high-end PCs, which like other high-end GIGABYTE parts will be sold under the Aorus brand. Traditional and typical for GIGABYTE, the drives are based on controllers and reference designs developed by Phison.
GIGABYTE’s Aorus family of SSDs will include 512 GB and 1 TB models in bot...
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Hacker News |
Brexit: France activates no-deal plan
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Boy Genius Report |
iPad 7 and iPad mini 5 reportedly set to launch in the first half of 2019
Following up on a flurry of reports late last year, DigiTimes is citing industry sources this week who claim that Apple is preparing to launch "two entry-level tablets in the first half of 2019, including a fifth-generation iPad mini and another entry-level iPad model." This would mark the first new tablet in the iPad mini line since 2015's iPad mini 4, while the second entry-level iPad would presumably follow up last year's $329 6th-generation iPad.
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Thurrott.com |
New Pixel 3 Lite Leak Reveals More Details
The latest Google Pixel 3 Lite leak reveals some new details, including a plastic body. And yes, a headphone jack.
The post New Pixel 3 Lite Leak Reveals More Details appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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AppleInsider |
China lambastes Apple, others for 'incorrect' references to Hong Kong & Taiwan
A think tank linked to the Chinese government is criticizing Apple, Amazon, Nike and other foreign companies for using "incorrect labels" in reference to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Mashable! |
NYT honors record number of women in Congress with stunning special section
If you picked up a print copy of the New York Times on Thursday, you were greeted with a special cover highlighting the record number of women (131) who are part of the 116th Congress.
But they're not all featured on one cover. There are 27 different covers featuring both new and continuing members of Congress, one for each of the 27 regions where the Times delivers print editions.
A gif with all 27 covers of the @nytimes special section coming Thursday of the record number of wome...
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VentureBeat |
Johnson & Johnson partners with Apple to see if Watch can prevent strokes
Field testing is required before marketing medical devices as capable of performing given functions, so the Apple Watch will be tested as a stroke detector.
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9to5Mac |
9to5Mac Daily: January 17, 2019
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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Hacker News |
Facebook Open-sources Spectrum 1.0.0 for better mobile image processing
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Hacker News |
Hiring Is Broken
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9to5Mac |
PSA: 773M email addresses and 21M passwords exposed by hackers, check yours here
Some 773M email addresses have been exposed by hackers in what is the largest ever breach. Alongside the email addresses are 21M passwords …
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Future of airport security on show in London
A shoe scanner that works on passengers queuing at airport security is on show in London.
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Business Insider |
Ford is working on an all-electric version of its F-150 pickup truck (F)
Ford has revealed plans to make a fully electric version of its F-150 pickup truck, the best-selling vehicle in the US for decades.
Ford previously announced plans to market a hybrid gas-electric version of the pickup.
Ford didn't provide a timeline for the electric F-150's arrival, but the hybrid is scheduled for 2020.
Ford took the occasion of the Detroit auto show kicking off this week in Motown to announce an all-electric version of its best-selling F-150 pickup.
The automaker has previousl...
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Hacker News |
US academics say their shardy blockchain will be 10X faster than Visa
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Stuff.TV RSS feed - Th... |
Novus electric bike makes you look like a time traveller
But there’s not a flux capacitor in sight
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Extremetech |
Nvidia May Be Working on GTX 1660 Ti Positioned Between GTX 1060, RTX 2060
Nvidia's GTX 1660 Ti has tipped up again, with an overall configuration between the GTX 1060 and the RTX 2060.
The post Nvidia May Be Working on GTX 1660 Ti Positioned Between GTX 1060, RTX 2060 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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VentureBeat |
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is finally coming to North America
NIS America announced today that the Japanese role-playing game The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is coming to North America.
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News Tom's Hardware US |
PCIe 5.0 Ready For Prime Time
PCI-SIG announced that it ratified Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 specification, signaling that end devices will come to market soon.
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CNET News |
Microsoft will divorce search from Cortana in Windows 10 - CNET
Looks like they're splitting amicably based on the latest preview build of Windows 10.
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The Huffington Post |
Can Britain’s Brexit Be Reversed?
A fresh referendum to stay in the EU is being pushed like never before.
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News - THE INQUIRER |
Google announces first ever price hikes for G Suite
And it's not exactly small
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WSJ.com: Technology |
Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift
Ford, Boeing, Toyota and others are equipping workers with wearable devices that enhance strength and endurance. “Iron Man”-style powered suits could be next.
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Slashdot |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Laws To Tackle 'Shadow Economy' of Data Firms
Apple's chief executive has called for regulation to tackle the "shadow economy" of data brokers -- intermediaries who trade in the personal information of largely unsuspecting consumers -- as the company continues its push to be seen as supportive of privacy. Tim Cook, in an op-ed for Time Magazine published on Thursday, said: One of the biggest challenges in protecting privacy is that many of the violations are invisible. For example, you might have bought a product from an online retailer -- ...
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Hacker News |
Professional programming resources
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Fighter jet technology to help transportation of competition horses
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TechCrunch |
Index has backed Immersive Games Lab, a new startup from founder of Tough Mudder
Immersive Games Lab, a new venture from Tough Mudder co-founder and Chairman Will Dean, has picked up around £2.5 million in seed funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to sources, London-based Index Ventures has led the round. In a call confirming the close, Dean told me Sweet Capital, and JamJar Investments (the VC fund set up […]
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Hacker News |
Egos and Experiments
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Thurrott.com |
Microsoft Pledges $500 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle Area
Acknowledging the devastating effect that its growth has had on the Seattle area, Microsoft announced that it will do something to help.
The post Microsoft Pledges $500 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle Area appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Macworld |
You Can Get A Lifetime Of Zoog VPN For Just $35
It's 2019, and by now most of us understand how important it is to surf the Web with a VPN watching our backs. Yet, so many of us refuse to do so, mainly because too many VPN providers deliver their protection at the expense of our browsing speeds. Zoog VPN is one of the few VPN solutions that safeguards your browsing while letting you surf at blazing speeds, and lifetime subscriptions are on sale for only $35 today.To read this article in full, please click here
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The Register |
Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo
Hipsters choke on pumpkin spice latte as the beloved original is tipped into a dumpster
Hipster laptop lids are in for a scraping as messaging-for-millennials platform, Slack, has taken a beating with the rebranding stick.…
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Digg Top Stories |
Mailman Figures Out A Smart Way To Defeat Package Thieves
A conscientious mailman + a smart doorbell + a recycling bin = packages that won't get stolen.
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Business Insider |
A company that makes 'smart pills' that track when you take your medicine and how active you are is now expanding into cancer
A digital medicine company called Proteus makes 'smart pills' embedded with sensors that tell your doctor when you've taken your medication. The pills also track activity levels.
Backed by big name investors like Novartis, Proteus debuted the first medication made with the technology — a form of the depression and schizophrenia drug Abilify — in 2017.
Now, Proteus is expanding into cancer.
Still, the research on whether the pills actually help patients take their medications when the...
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TechCrunch |
Amazon is holding a public version of its secretive MARS conference
All most of us will see from Jeff Bezos’s secretive MARS conference are a few photo shoots of the world’s richest man attempting to look as cool as possible around some very cool robotics. This summer, however, Amazon will be spinning the event out into a more public facing conference. Re:MARS retains the original event’s […]
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Boy Genius Report |
Get the new version of Aukey’s best Bluetooth earbuds for $16.89
If you've been looking for a great pair of Bluetooth earbuds that don't cost an arm and a leg, don't worry because we've got you covered. Aukey's Latitude buds have long been among the most popular model on Amazon, and now there's a new "lite" version available. The AUKEY Latitude Lite Wireless Earbuds pack terrific sound and 8-hour battery life, and they only cost $26 on Amazon. But if you use the coupon code AUKEY4EP at checkout, you'll only pay $16.89.
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Digg Top Stories |
Inside The Strange Yet Profitable World Of Retail Arbitrage
Turns out, clearing out a Target or Walmart, then reselling it all on Amazon, can make you enough money to pay off your house.
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Engadget |
Tim Cook calls for a regulatory body to oversee data brokers
Apple chief Tim Cook has always been a vocal champion of privacy, even going so far as to publicly criticize other tech giants' data practices. Back in 2018, he called for GDPR-like laws in the US -- now he's calling for a regulatory body to oversee...
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CNET News |
Shareholders demand Amazon end facial recognition sales to government - CNET
The resolution will be voted on this spring.
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Techdirt |
FCC Wants Delay In Net Neutrality Trial Due To Government Shutdown, But Isn't Likely To Get It
The FCC is requesting a delay in the opening arguments in the looming lawsuit over the agency's repeal of net neutrality rules, citing the government shutdown as justification. Oral arguments are slated to begin February 1 in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, beginning what should be a fairly insightful battle over the Ajit Pai FCC's historically unpopular move, and some of the dubious behavior it engaged in to try and downplay public opposition.The court noted thi...
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Techradar - All the la... |
Best free Android apps of 2019: 100 you must download
There are way too many free apps out there - so we've trawled through and found the top free ones to download.
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BetaNews |
Enterprise IT continues to move to the cloud
Cloud adoption in enterprises is already very high and growth is likely to continue in 2019 according to the latest cloud adoption survey from NetEnrich. The study of IT decision makers in businesses with 500 or more employees shows 85 percent of respondents report either moderate or extensive production use of cloud infrastructure, while 80 percent say their companies have moved at least a quarter of all their applications and workloads to the public cloud. In addition 86 percent of respondents...
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The Next Web |
US academics say their shardy blockchain will be 10X faster than Visa
US academics are working together to create a new and improved cryptocurrency in a bid to rival Bitcoin. According to Bloomberg, professors from seven US colleges (including MIT, University of California, Standford University, and Berkely) are looking to create a digital currency capable of processing thousands of transactions a second without sacrificing the basic principle of decentralization. The project is run by Distributed Technology Research (DTR), a non-profit organization established by...
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Macworld |
Save 90% On Next FlipBook Maker Pro For Mac ($29)
PDF is one of the most versatile document formats in use today, and it’s often the format of choice for resumes, college papers, brochures, and more. However, if you have the right software, you can turn your PDFs into so much more. With Next FlipBook Maker Pro, your PDFs can be brought to life for just $29.Next FlipBook Maker Pro is an app that allows you to create digital books and magazines out of PDFs and images. Each flip-book can be converted into Flash or HTML5, allowing your viewers to...
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Techradar - All the la... |
Windows 10 users are baffled as rereleased patch fails to install
There are reports online that a rereleased patch, KB4023057, is causing problems on some Windows 10 PCs.
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Reuters: Technology News |
Germany considers barring Huawei from 5G networks
The German government is debating whether to follow the United States and allies like Australia in restricting China's Huawei Technologies from accessing its next-generation mobile networks on national-security grounds.
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Digg Top Stories |
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Challenges Jimmy Fallon To Lug A 250-Pound Rock In His Honor
Fallon confessed that he wanted to get in the best shape of his life this year and, so, Johnson decided to help him out in that endeavor.
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Reuters: Technology News |
Facebook blocks accounts linked to Russian state-owned Sputnik
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had removed hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts, which it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on its platforms, including some linked to state-owned news agency Sputnik.
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Thurrott.com |
Windows 10 version 1809 Enters its Final Deployment Phase
Microsoft’s ongoing slow (re)rollout of the October 2018 Update hit a major new milestone this week.
The post Windows 10 version 1809 Enters its Final Deployment Phase appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Digg Top Stories |
There's Absolutely No Evidence This Boxer Destroyed A Pillow. Nope, None At All
Dozer is a good boy who would not destroy his owner's pillow. Any down feathers found in the vicinity of his mouth and body are purely coincidental.
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TechCrunch |
Google’s Pixel 3 Lite could bring back the headphone jack
Word about the next member of the Pixel family started leaking out just after Christmas. Now the rumored Pixel 3 Lite is getting some more time to shine, courtesy of a three minute YouTube video that highlights what appears to be a budget addition to Google’s flagship hardware line. Perhaps most interesting here (aside from […]
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Cyberscoop |
Nearly 773 million email addresses leaked, spelling trouble for people who re-use passwords
The numbers just seem to keep getting bigger. Nearly 773 million email addresses and almost 22 million unique passwords were discovered on the cloud storage service MEGA, researcher Troy Hunt announced in a blog post Thursday. The 87-gigabyte database is spread across 12,000 files and appears to have originated from many different sources dating back to 2008, Hunt said. Some 140 million email addresses and 10 million passwords are new to Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website, the free service that ...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Some Android GPS apps are just showing ads on top of Google Maps
Apps have been downloaded over 50 million times. Google has failed to removed them, even if they blatantly break their own license.
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