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Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Tho... Oct 14 2018 20:10:46	Hacker News
Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought Read the full article on Hacker News »
Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful Oct 14 2018 20:10:00	Slashdot
Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful According to the Henley Passport Index, compiled by global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & PartnersCitizens, Japan now has the most powerful passport on the planet. From a report: Having gained visa-free access to Myanmar earlier this month, Japanese citizens can now enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to a whopping 190 destinations around the world -- knocking Singapore, with 189 destinations, into second place. Germany, which began 2018 in the top spot, is now in thi... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Netflix's 'BoJack Horseman' is coming to international ... Oct 14 2018 20:01:00	Engadget
Netflix's 'BoJack Horseman' is coming to international TV networks At this rate, BoJack Horseman is so ubiquitous that it might be harder to avoid the Netflix show than to watch it. Hot on the heels of the Comedy Central deal, Variety has learned that Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury has secured the rights to sell the fir... Read the full article on Engadget »
Hands On With the Onyx Boox 7.8″ Nova, 6″ Poke, and 13... Oct 14 2018 20:00:33	The Digital Reader
Hands On With the Onyx Boox 7.8″ Nova, 6″ Poke, and 13.3″ Max2 Pro Charbax caught up with Onyx at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they showed off several of their ereaders. The Onyx Boox Nova is a 7.8" E-ink ereader with edge-to-edge glass front and a brand new design. Onyx showed off two different models, one with a frontlight and capacitive touch and the other with Wacom stylus touch, capacitive touch but no front light. The basic one with frontlight is hitting the market around November 2018 while the one with the Wacom stylus touch input comes early 2019 (... Read the full article on The Digital Reader »
Trump's USA Today Op-Ed Demonstrates Why It's Time To U... Oct 14 2018 20:00:18	Digg Top Stories
Trump's USA Today Op-Ed Demonstrates Why It's Time To Unbundle News And Opinion Content At a time when both the public and algorithms are trying to understand what journalism means and how to distinguish between news and opinion, publishers should make it more clear what makes journalism special. Read the full article on Digg Top Stories »
Anjuna Security is hiring a senior software engineer Oct 14 2018 19:59:51	Hacker News
Anjuna Security is hiring a senior software engineer Read the full article on Hacker News »
Blackout pushes Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 to best day o... Oct 14 2018 19:54:25	VentureBeat
Blackout pushes Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 to best day one digital sales ever Game publisher Activision and developer Treyarch announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has set a new launch day record as the biggest day one digital release in Activision history. You can probably credit the enormous positive reaction to the Blackout battle royale mode in this year’s game. You’ll notice that it doesn’t […] Read the full article on VentureBeat »
Peugeot says self-driving cars like its e-Legend can be... Oct 14 2018 19:51:32	Mashable!
Peugeot says self-driving cars like its e-Legend can be more than sci-fi pods French car maker Peugeot doesn't think the future of self-driving cars has to look like sci-fi-inspired pods.  Instead, a design executive said this week he thinks car design could even be pleasant and alluring, since "there’s a danger the future might be very robotic and might lack soul." SEE ALSO: Here's the electric Jaguar that Waymo wants to turn into a self-driving car Peugeot introduced its own vision of future car design at the Paris Auto Show, which wraps up Sunday. The e-Lege... Read the full article on Mashable! »
Inferno v6 released Oct 14 2018 19:40:50	Hacker News
Inferno v6 released Read the full article on Hacker News »
WallpaperHub now has all the cool wallpapers from Micro... Oct 14 2018 19:39:51	MSPoweruser
WallpaperHub now has all the cool wallpapers from Microsoft’s recent Surface event Due to the persistent efforts of Microsoft MVP Michael Gillett, the WallpaperHub now has the official wallpapers for each of the cool Surface devices Microsoft announced at their recent Surface event, available to download for free in a number of resolutions. This includes the official wallpapers for the Surface Laptop 2, Surface Pro 6, Surface Studio 2 and […] Read More: WallpaperHub now has all the cool wallpapers from Microsoft’s recent Surface event Read the full article on MSPoweruser »
Can a vegan keto diet work? Oct 14 2018 19:37:35	Hacker News
Can a vegan keto diet work? Read the full article on Hacker News »
‘SNL’ Terrifies Us With ‘Frightening Tale’ About An Asp... Oct 14 2018 19:31:33	The Huffington Post
‘SNL’ Terrifies Us With ‘Frightening Tale’ About An Aspiring Filmmaker Seth Meyers tried to listen to a an idealistic young man, and it cursed him forever. Read the full article on The Huffington Post »
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Rese... Oct 14 2018 19:30:29	Hacker News
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research Read the full article on Hacker News »
Angela Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Suffer Worst Election R... Oct 14 2018 19:19:40	The Huffington Post
Angela Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Suffer Worst Election Results Since 1950 The Christian Social Union acquired only about 36 percent of the vote, losing its absolute majority. Read the full article on The Huffington Post »
Serological response to H. pylori proteins linked to ri... Oct 14 2018 19:12:30	Hacker News
Serological response to H. pylori proteins linked to risk of colorectal cancer Read the full article on Hacker News »
How to get your hardware product to market on schedule Oct 14 2018 19:10:31	VentureBeat
How to get your hardware product to market on schedule GUEST: You’ve probably heard this before: Hardware is hard. How hard? According to CB Insights, 97 percent of hardware startups will fail or become “zombies” — and it’s little wonder when even behemoths like Apple encounter regular difficulties bringing their products to market on time. Angel investor Benjamin Joffe wrote an article discussing why such a […] Read the full article on VentureBeat »
The Magic Leap Con Oct 14 2018 19:10:00	Slashdot
The Magic Leap Con Reader merbs shares a report about Magic Leap, a US-based startup valued at north of $6 billion and which counts Google, Alibaba, Warner Bros, AT&T, and several top Silicon Valley venture capital firms as its investors. The company, which held its first developer conference this week, announced that it is making its $2,295 AR headset available in more states in the United States. Journalist Brian Merchant attended the conference and shares the other part of the story. From a story: After spe... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Meet @lunumbra, the internet’s coolest Pokémon card artist Oct 14 2018 19:00:02	The Verge - All Posts
Meet @lunumbra, the internet’s coolest Pokémon card artist By now it’s obvious the internet is a chaotic place. The world has been connected, and now that a global population has come online — via cheap broadband and cheaper cellular data — there is so much more noise online than ever. That, combined with the proliferation of instant global news and social media, has made online a uniquely exhausting place to be. It’s hard to find a quiet place in the din. Recently, I ran across one of those quiet spaces where I least expected it: on Instagram,... Read the full article on The Verge - All Posts »
Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs: Everything you need to know Oct 14 2018 19:00:01	Digital Trends
Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs: Everything you need to know Nvidia's new RTX 2000 series graphics cards are impressive pieces of hardware, with some amazing advancements and some rather high price tags to match. Here's everything you need to know about Nvidia's new top-tier cards. The post Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs: Everything you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends. Read the full article on Digital Trends »
The Power of Horror Is Best Explained by Stephen King i... Oct 14 2018 19:00:00	Gizmodo
The Power of Horror Is Best Explained by Stephen King in This Interesting Clip From Eli Roth's History of Horror Why do we like horror, anyway? Stephen King knows better than most.Read more... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt Oct 14 2018 19:00:00	Techdirt
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Gary with a response to the Texas cops who seized an anti-GOP sign from a homeowner's lawn:Makes senseBecause the people who shout "Snowflake" the loudest are the most easily offended.Some people, however, oddly presumed that the sign — which is uncomfortable to say the least, but intentionally so to make a point — must somehow violate some law, and our second place winner comes from Will B. in response to that id... Read the full article on Techdirt »
A New Ikea Report Is An Unsettling Look At Life In The ... Oct 14 2018 18:59:53	Digg Top Stories
A New Ikea Report Is An Unsettling Look At Life In The 21st Century Two years ago, the company asked thousands of people about where they felt "most at home." At the time, 20% of subjects said it wasn't the space in which they lived. Two years later, they asked again, and found the number has risen by 15% among people who live in cities. Read the full article on Digg Top Stories »
Lacrosse Team Pulls Off A Perfectly-Executed Hidden Bal... Oct 14 2018 18:59:53	Digg Top Stories
Lacrosse Team Pulls Off A Perfectly-Executed Hidden Ball Trick, Scores An Easy Goal ​The opposing team thinks they completed the pass. But did they? Read the full article on Digg Top Stories »
Samin Nosrat Wants Everybody To Cook Oct 14 2018 18:59:53	Digg Top Stories
Samin Nosrat Wants Everybody To Cook The Bay Area chef believes that great food can be both beautiful and accessible. Her new Netflix series, based on her celebrated cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, might just help her deliver that message. Read the full article on Digg Top Stories »
The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime Oct 14 2018 18:57:38	Hacker News
The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime Read the full article on Hacker News »
Idaho Fish And Game Official Under Fire Over African Hu... Oct 14 2018 18:56:09	The Huffington Post
Idaho Fish And Game Official Under Fire Over African Hunting Trip Commissioner Blake Fischer bragged of killing at least 14 animals, including "a whole family of baboons." Read the full article on The Huffington Post »
I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017) Oct 14 2018 18:35:18	Hacker News
I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017) Read the full article on Hacker News »
'Fortnite' creator Epic Games sues YouTuber for selling... Oct 14 2018 18:27:00	Engadget
'Fortnite' creator Epic Games sues YouTuber for selling cheats Epic Games is no stranger to suing Fortnite cheaters, but now it's aiming at a particularly high-profile target. The developer has filed a lawsuit against YouTube personality Brandon Lucas (aka "Golden Modz") and his frequent partner Colton Conter ("... Read the full article on Engadget »
Explicit Music Piracy Warnings are Seen As Most Effective Oct 14 2018 18:25:15	TorrentFreak
Explicit Music Piracy Warnings are Seen As Most Effective Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, conducted a study to find out which piracy warnings are seen as most effective by the general public. As it turns out, more explicit variants tend to be favored. "STOP. This is illegal. You may be monitored and you may be fined," paired with an appropriate warning icon, is seen as relatively most effective. Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coup... Read the full article on TorrentFreak »
Employees Protest Microsoft Bid for Huge Military Contr... Oct 14 2018 18:20:00	Gizmodo
Employees Protest Microsoft Bid for Huge Military Contract, Saying It Could Cause 'Human Suffering' Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud computing contract potentially worth up to $10 billion, amid employee backlash and concern the project could violate their “AI principles.” Now an open letter claiming to be from an unspecified number of…Read more... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Kudlow Dismisses Horrifying Climate Change Report: No N... Oct 14 2018 18:09:38	The Huffington Post
Kudlow Dismisses Horrifying Climate Change Report: No Need To ‘Panic’ Larry Kudlow threw cold water on the warnings of cataclysmic planetary changes by 2040. Read the full article on The Huffington Post »
Trolling Nazis (And The World) With Forged Art Oct 14 2018 18:06:44	Digg Top Stories
Trolling Nazis (And The World) With Forged Art Han van Meegeren was so good at forging the great masters that he narrowly escaped the death penalty in a sensational trial to prove his innocence as a Nazi art plunderer of cultural treasures. Read the full article on Digg Top Stories »
Now there’s something wrong with NASA’s Chandra spacecr... Oct 14 2018 18:06:38	Boy Genius Report
Now there’s something wrong with NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, too It's been something of a rough week for NASA. First, news broke that the legendary Hubble space telescope has been forced to enter a safe mode in order to diagnose an issue with its gyroscopes. Then, Russia's Soyuz rocket failed on its way to the International Space Station, delaying the trip of a NASA astronaut who thankfully escaped with his life. Now, to wrap up the week, NASA has announced that its Chandra X-Ray Observatory has also entered safe mode do to an unexplained issue that has yet ... Read the full article on Boy Genius Report »
You can now ask an Assistant speaker to play Netflix on... Oct 14 2018 18:03:47	Android Police - Andro...
You can now ask an Assistant speaker to play Netflix on Android TV Android TV devices are supposed to have all the functionality of a Chromecast, since they also act as Cast targets. However, there are still some quirks that remained unresolved. Netflix integration with Google Assistant went live nearly two years ago, allowing users to say "Hey Google, play The Office on Netflix" (or something to that effect) to an Assistant speaker, and the content will start playing on your default TV. Read MoreYou can now ask an Assistant speaker to play Netflix on Android T... Read the full article on Android Police - Android News, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets »
Tesla's been in 'production hell,' but it finally hit 1... Oct 14 2018 18:03:35	Mashable!
Tesla's been in 'production hell,' but it finally hit 100,000 Model 3s sold — and in record time Tesla is catching up. The electric car maker has been long struggling to keep up with car orders for its newest electric sedan, the Model 3, but this week it hit a major milestone: 100,000 of the cars produced. That number came in after barely a year and a half after Tesla started producing the car. Its sedan Model S and SUV Model X didn't come close to that type of production number in that amount of time. SEE ALSO: Tesla's first safety report claims drivers on Autopilot are safer, but lacks de... Read the full article on Mashable! »
Patent Filings Reveal New Details About Microsoft's Vis... Oct 14 2018 18:02:00	Slashdot
Patent Filings Reveal New Details About Microsoft's Vision For a Foldable, Dual-Screen Surface Device A patent application published this week by Microsoft adds more fuel to the fire about the possibility of a new hybrid dual-screen Microsoft Surface device that blurs the lines between phone and tablet. From a report: The patent filing is for a "hinged device" with a "first and second portion" that includes a "flexible display." It would sport a hinge in the middle, similar in appearance to the one on the Surface Book, as well as familiar smartphone components like a bezel and camera. The invent... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Google says Pixel camera app will soon support external... Oct 14 2018 18:00:02	The Verge - All Posts
Google says Pixel camera app will soon support external mics Google will update the camera app on its Pixel smartphones to work with external microphones when shooting video, an employee from the app’s engineering team has confirmed. Android Police reported on the upcoming feature on Friday. The Pixel is known for producing terrific still photos, and Google developed impressive stabilization for the video end of things. But the Pixel’s microphones only capture so-so audio. External mics that plug into the USB-C port (or headphone jack in the case of t... Read the full article on The Verge - All Posts »
Foo Fighters deeply impressed by 10-year-old's Metallic... Oct 14 2018 17:53:08	Mashable!
Foo Fighters deeply impressed by 10-year-old's Metallica riffs Dave Grohl and friends are up to their usual tricks and treats, this time inviting 10-year-old Collier Cash Rule on stage in Kansas City, Missouri to jam out with the band and, whatdoyaknow, Collier just so happens to be a Metallica expert. Answering Grohl's challenge, Collier jumps into the familiar riff that opens Metallica's "Enter Sandman." After some chit-chat with Grohl, Collier than ripped out the opening lines of “Welcome Home (Sanitarium).”  SEE ALSO: Dave Grohl trolls ... Read the full article on Mashable! »
Messages with unrecognized characters are breaking Play... Oct 14 2018 17:42:55	Mashable!
Messages with unrecognized characters are breaking PlayStation 4 consoles Hey, PlayStation 4 people. Lock down messaging on your account, pronto. A new kind of malicious message is reportedly floating around on the PlayStation Network that makes the whole console crash. Recovery is possible, but it's not as simple as power cycling the machine. There are steps that need to be taken. SEE ALSO: 12 years later, PlayStation Network finally lets you change your online name Word of the problematic message appears to have surfaced first on Reddit. In a post titled "WARNING: S... Read the full article on Mashable! »
An ex-Googler who was part of a Noble Peace Prize-nomin... Oct 14 2018 17:38:47	Business Insider
An ex-Googler who was part of a Noble Peace Prize-nominated project wants to reinvent the photography market Patrick Ip, an ex-Googler who was involved in a Nobel Peace Prize nominated project, has a new startup called Catalog. Ip and his co-founder Jacobo Lumberas hope Catalog can create steady work and full-time jobs for independent photographers around the country.  Ip's project at Google — One Billion Acts of Peace — didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, but has documented 53 million so-called acts of peace thus far.  When Patrick Ip joined Google in 2014... Read the full article on Business Insider »
How Argodesign will help Magic Leap design the look and... Oct 14 2018 17:25:07	VentureBeat
How Argodesign will help Magic Leap design the look and feel of spatial computing One of the interesting talks during Magic Leap’s laborious three-hour keynote presentation last week was by Jared Ficklin, creative technologist and partner at Argodesign, a product design consultancy. Ficklin’s company signed on to help Magic Leap, the creator of cool new augmented reality glasses, in the creation of the next generation user interface for something […] Read the full article on VentureBeat »
Jeff Weiner on How Technology Accentuates Tribalism Oct 14 2018 17:21:23	Wired Top Stories
Jeff Weiner on How Technology Accentuates Tribalism LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Talks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about the future of work, and finding jobs. Read the full article on Wired Top Stories »
Red Bull set up the world’s largest step sequencer outs... Oct 14 2018 17:00:01	The Verge - All Posts
Red Bull set up the world’s largest step sequencer outside a Berlin nightclub It’s 33 feet long and weighs over 1,300 pounds Read the full article on The Verge - All Posts »
Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem Oct 14 2018 17:00:00	Slashdot
Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem An anonymous reader shares a report: Somewhere in the United States, someone is getting into an Uber en route to a WeWork co-working space. Their dog is with a walker whom they hired through the app Wag. They will eat a lunch delivered by DoorDash, while participating in several chat conversations on Slack. And, for all of it, they have an unlikely benefactor to thank: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Long before the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished, the kingdom has sought influen... Read the full article on Slashdot »
The best Internet security: Layers of protection and go... Oct 14 2018 17:00:00	Engadget
The best Internet security: Layers of protection and good habits By Kevin Purdy This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and Engadget may earn affiliate commission. Read the full blog here. After interviewing infor... Read the full article on Engadget »
There May Still Be Hope for NASA’s Sleeping Opportunity... Oct 14 2018 16:59:00	Gizmodo
There May Still Be Hope for NASA’s Sleeping Opportunity Rover It’s been months since NASA engineers have heard from the sleeping Opportunity rover, which powered down after getting caught in a massive dust storm on Mars that obscured its surface from the Sun. But all hope isn’t yet lost, as the space agency said in an update Thursday that a coming windy season on the Red Planet…Read more... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Human Retinas Grown in a Dish Reveal Origin of Color Vi... Oct 14 2018 16:56:07	Hacker News
Human Retinas Grown in a Dish Reveal Origin of Color Vision Read the full article on Hacker News »

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