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The Huffington Post |
Let HBO’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Turn You Into A Socialist
Consciousness can be raised through any medium, including one that can cost over $100 a month.
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Macworld |
How to free up storage by deleting iTunes backups of iOS devices
If you use iTunes to backup your iPhone, the actual backed-up data starts to pile up. Backups often run from gigabytes to tens of gigabytes, retaining anything unique on an iOS device that isn’t synced via iCloud or available from the App Store. For example, if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled, the iTunes backup doesn’t include the Camera Roll.Apple oddly doesn’t have an automatic “garbage cleaning” routine, or prompt to delete, or ask you if you want to delete these backups.You c...
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Business Insider |
I swapped my 4-year-old iPhone 5S for a coral iPhone XR — and it's been a massive adjustment (AAPL)
I'd been putting it off.
Before October 26, I hadn't gotten a new phone since Christmas Eve 2014. I'd resisted the temptation of the new phones that my colleagues were reviewing, coveting the cameras their phones carry but telling myself that my iPhone 5S was still kicking, and therefore should be fine.
But in July, things started going awry. Sure, I'd been losing battery much faster than I'd like for a while now, but then my Touch ID stopped working, and my phone stopped taking calls. I got g...
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Macworld |
Wi-Charge harnesses light to free Amazon Echo Dot and Google Home Mini smart speakers from power cords
Wi-Charge’s technology can eliminate power adapters and cords and keep the batteries in devices such as smart locks, smartphones, security cameras, and sensors permanently topped off.
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Wired Top Stories |
FilmStruck Is Shutting Down: Stream These 10 Movies Now
Get a little more art-house in your house with a final binge of the streaming platform’s gems.
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Wired Top Stories |
Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data
Crime investigators are gleaning a host of personal information from a recovered drone, such as where its owner lives, credit card numbers and email addresses.
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Wired Top Stories |
What Is a Bot?
Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology.
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Slashdot |
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) paved the way for improved GPS and location accuracy today, approving an order that will allow U.S. phones to access a European satellite system. The order allows non-federal consumer devices to access the European Union's version of GPS, which is also known as Galileo. The system is available globally, and it officially went live in 2016. By opening up access, devices that can retrieve a signal from ...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Most antivirus programs fail to detect this cryptocurrency-stealing malware
Traditional antivirus software has a tough time detecting malware used in the campaign.
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V3 |
Intel puts AI smarts into a USB stick
Intel's neural network USB stick could bring AI to the masses
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Resources | ZDNet |
Marketing efficiencies top of mind for CXOs in 2019
Today's consumers have shorter attention spans across a variety of media, so how do brands cope with these changing habits to keep their customers?
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Ars Technica |
“Wolf’s jaw” star cluster may have inspired parts of Ragnarok myth
Passing comets and eclipses may have stoked fears of pending apocalypse
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SlashGear |
2019 Honda Passport SUV teaser touts offroad chops
This is a good time for off-road fans around the world as there are a bunch of capable off-roaders for fans to choose from, including the Gladiator truck from Jeep expected to debut this month in LA. Jeep won’t be the only automaker with something brand new and aimed at the off-road market to show off at the LA Auto … Continue reading
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News Tom's Guide US |
PS4 Pro vs. PS4 Slim: Which PlayStation is Right For You?
With the PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro, Sony has made two major additions to the PlayStation family. Which one is right for you?
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Business Insider |
Analyst says Nordstrom has become a 'victim of its own success' as customers ditch stores to shop on its website (JWN)
Nordstrom's online business is thriving, but at least one analyst says it's happening at the expense of its physical stores.
The online store has been driving growth for Nordstrom in recent years.
Digital sales now represent 30% of the retailer's total sales.
Nordstrom's online business is thriving, but at least one analyst says it's happening at the expense of its physical stores.
The department-store chain reported third-quarter earnings after market close on Thursday...
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News Tom's Guide US |
Google Working On VR Shoes That Let You Walk Forever In Your Living Room
I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more.
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TG Daily |
Make Extra Money From These iPhone Apps
Ready to make some extra money? Using these apps allows you to grow your side business as much or as little as you want. It’s totally up to you!
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Mashable! |
Amazon has cut the price of Audible by 50% as part of its Black Friday UK sale
Black Friday has officially begun. Well, it has if you subscribe to Amazon's timeline, anyway. No more pre-Black Friday sale teasing. It's the full on Amazon Black Friday sale, and the deals are flooding in. Time to batten down the hatches and brace yourself for the onslaught.
Amazon's Black Friday sale is running from Nov. 16 to Nov. 25 and promises new deals every day. Not wanting to ease into the sale gently, Amazon has kicked things off with a massive offer on Audible and Amazon Music ...
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Gizmodo |
Block Out the World With These Sony Noise Canceling Headphones For Just $113
If you’ve been meaning to buy yourself some noise canceling headphones, there’s no time like the present. These Sony XB950s are all the way down to $113 today, a match for the best price we’ve ever seen. They would also make a great gift for anyone that spends a lot of time on planes or trains.Read more...
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Hacker News |
Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
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Hacker News |
In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education
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The Register |
Dell melts in face of investor dissent, ups offer for Class V stock
Guess what happens? Stockholders thaw to idea of cashing in
Dell Technologies has upped the buy price for Class V stock to win support from shareholders that threatened to block the proposed transaction and hinder the company’s return to the US stock market.…
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Resources | ZDNet |
These AI-generated fake fingerprints can fool smartphone security
Attackers no longer need your actual fingerprint to unlock your phone.
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
License Plate Scanners Track Millions of Drivers to Catch a Handful of Criminals
A new collection of data from MuckRock and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has shown that law enforcement agencies only have an average hit rate of 0.5 percent for automated license plate readers.
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Ars Technica |
Pokemon Let’s Go: Well, I guess my adult ass is going to collect them all
Review also explores whether Poké Ball Plus is worth an extra $40. (Answer: maybe.)
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers'
We asked a bunch of hackers why they love the over-the-top, cult 90s movie 'Hackers.'
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
The Internet Needs More Friction
Tech companies’ obsession with moving data across the internet as fast as possible has made it less safe.
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Patching Is Failing as a Security Paradigm
Many of the most damaging hacks in recent history were only possible because someone failed to update software.
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Resources | ZDNet |
BlackBerry is buying AI-powered security company Cylance for $1.4bn
The security and IoT software maker will use AI and machine learning capabilities across the BlackBerry portfolio.
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TG Daily |
What to Do When You Lose Your iPhone
iPhones come equipped with some nifty features to help you when you’ve lost your phone, but they require some advance preparation.
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The Huffington Post |
Michelle Obama Says Things She ‘Couldn’t Say As First Lady’ On ‘Kimmel’
The "Becoming" author revealed more than she should in a late-night comedy bit.
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Boy Genius Report |
Amazon’s massive Black Friday sale officially starts right now
Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've been waiting for has finally arrived: Amazon's huge Black Friday 2018 sale has begun! Amazon is offering thousands upon thousands of killer Black Friday deals starting right now, and we're actually quite impressed with the sales we're seeing right out of the gate. Some examples of today's top Black Friday deals include $250 Sony noise cancelling headphones as good as Bose for just $113, SanDisk's Ultra 128GB microSD card for under $22 (an all-time low!), B...
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Digital Trends |
Comedian Craig Conant discusses sobriety, comedy, and throwing fireworks at cops
From throwing firecrackers at mounted police to doing stand-up gigs in Los Angeles' biggest clubs, Chris Conant has lived an interesting life. He talked to DT Daily host Greg Nibler about all that and more.
The post Comedian Craig Conant discusses sobriety, comedy, and throwing fireworks at cops appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Mashable! |
Prince William thinks social media companies have 'a great deal' to learn about responsibility
The Duke of Cambridge thinks social media companies should be owning up to the responsibilities that come with the massive impact they have on our lives.
Speaking at the BBC on Thursday, Prince William first praised social media companies for their "extraordinary" inventions, but urged them to wake up to the responsibilities that come with their "significant power."
SEE ALSO: Prince William says online anonymity is 'really, really dangerous' in deeply moving video
"As [the] list of uninten...
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News Tom's Guide US |
Best Argos Deals for Black Friday
Argos has just unveiled its Black Friday deals, and they’ve have an impressive variety of products on offer in its online catalogue.
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SlashGear |
FCC greenlights SpaceX to launch 7,000 satellites for broadband services
A couple years back SpaceX was talking up a plan that would see it put 4,425 satellites into orbit to roll out global broadband connectivity. That promise is closer to reality today with the FCC announcing that it has approved the requests of four different companies to roll out new and expanded broadband services using satellites. The four companies include … Continue reading
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Resources | ZDNet |
For CBD products, legal questions linger
CBD can be extracted using marijuana strains, or marijuana's non-psychoactive cousin, industrial hemp. But its legal status is still uncertain.
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Resources | ZDNet |
How the marijuana industry is organized in legal states
NIMBY-ism is not a problem only in vertically integrated states like Florida; even highly permissive, horizontally integrated states like California have these challenges.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Marijuana means business: Everything you need to know about the cannabis industry
With the legal status of medical and recreational marijuana in constant flux, and varying wildly from state to state, the opportunities and risks of this market are mind-alteringly complex. Here are the basics.
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The Next Web |
India’s plans to censor streaming services like Netflix are a mess
While India is home to the world’s largest film industry and one of the planet’s largest audiences for cinema, it’s also constantly struggling with the challenge of censoring movies. Things have gotten more complicated in the past few years with the rise of international streaming video platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Streaming content produced locally and overseas isn’t regulated in India, which means they appeal to citizens looking for uncensored shows and movies. But ma...
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: Deals page is live, sales start 11/22] These are the Google Store's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
Update 1: 2018/11/16 4:19am PST
Take a closer look at Google's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
Couldn't afford a Pixel 3 when it first came out? Google's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals significantly reduce the overall price of Google's latest smartphone in the US. Beginning with pre-Black Friday offers, Google has shared several new deals on its latest smartphone and other Made by Google products.
Pre-Black Friday and ...
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The Telegraph - Techno... |
Tinder releases new 'Swipe Surge' feature to increase your chance of a date
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The Digital Reader |
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Held Steady While the Funding Pool Grew in October 2018
Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.5 million (plus bonuses)in October 2018 , up from $23.4 million in September 2018. At the same time theContinue reading
You just finished reading Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Held Steady While the Funding Pool Grew in October 2018 which was published on The Digital Reader.
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MSPoweruser |
Microsoft Translator brings cutting-edge research advances into production
Early this year, Microsoft Research announced that its new machine translation system can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. It was the first time a machine translation system had achieved human parity. Yesterday, Microsoft Translator announced that it is bringing some of these […]
Read More: Microsoft Translator brings cutting-edge research advances into production
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Engadget |
Nintendo won't release an N64 Classic anytime soon
The NES and SNES Classic consoles served as bellwethers for the retro gaming revival that's currently in full swing. Naturally, everyone thought the N64 Classic was next (with both an earlier trademark filing and controller patent adding fuel to the...
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News - THE INQUIRER |
BlackBerry buys AI cybersecurity outfit Cylance in 'biggest ever' acquisition
Firm moves to bolster its Spark EoT and QNX platforms
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AnandTech |
The Mate 20 & Mate 20 Pro Review: Kirin 980 Powering Two Contrasting Devices
As far as handset vendors go, Huawei holds special importance to me. Their devices were among the first that I ever reviewed here on AnandTech, and the Mate series has been one that I’ve personally watched while it has evolved over the years. There’s been ups and downs in their products, but Huawei always showed a consistent amount of progress with each generation, raising the quality of the product, inching ever closer to making themselves a household name among ...
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The Verge - All Posts |
Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead
A recent data breach has exposed a database of around 26 million text messages containing private customer information, reports TechCrunch. In addition to the privacy concerns, the breach also highlights the dangers of relying on SMS messages for receiving two-factor authentication codes or account reset links, which sees sensitive information sent over an unencrypted communications platform.
The breach was brought to light by a Berlin-based security researcher named Sébastien Kaul, who discov...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Hacking group returns, switches attacks from ransomware to trojan malware
TA505 used to spam out ransomware - now it's returned with a focus on data-stealing remote access trojan malware attacks.
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Extremetech |
Researchers Create ‘Master Fingerprints’ to Unlock Phones
The team managed to create so-called "DeepMasterPrints" that can fool a sensor without a sample of the real user's fingerprints.
The post Researchers Create ‘Master Fingerprints’ to Unlock Phones appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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9to5Mac |
FCC allows iPhones and other devices to receive European GPS data for the first time
A new FCC order will allow US smartphones to receive European GPS data for the first time …
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The post FCC allows iPhones and other devices to receive European GPS data for the first time appeared first on 9to5Mac.
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The Register |
Bloke fined £460 after his drone screwed up police chopper search for missing woman
First UK conviction for reckless UAV flying
A Russian-speaking man from Cambridgeshire has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of illegally flying a drone beneath a police helicopter during a search operation.…
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Neowin |
EE and Virgin Media have been fined for overcharging customers
The U.K. regulator, Ofcom, has announced that it has fined EE and Virgin Media a total of £13.3 million because they were found to be overcharging customers for leaving their contracts early. Read more...
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Mashable! |
Use this Walmart promo code to save $10 thanks to Ellen DeGeneres
We kinda miss those crazy giveaways Oprah used to do on her show. There was something equally heartwarming and hilarious about the sheer insanity that broke out when she gave her entire audience new cars.
If anyone has tried to fill that gap, it's been Ellen DeGeneres. The comedian and talk show host has tried to give back to her fans and audiences when she can, and she's looking to do the same ahead of Black Friday. (More like Ellen DeGenerous, right?!)
If you're a new Walmart online shopper, y...
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CNET News |
Get a Tile Pro four-pack and Echo Dot for $100 - CNET
It's the end of our 10 Days of Deals, and we leave you with Tile's best trackers and Amazon's latest smart speaker for a great price.
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Ars Technica |
Rocket Report: SpaceX gets top clearance, Europe job cuts, Russian plans
"It would be a waste of scientific time to devote the resources to look at it."
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The Guardian |
Gaming as a force for good: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber meets the academics disproving the unsociable gamer stereotype and discovers how one game is helping scientists learn more about dementiaVideo games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, but they also get a lot of hate. Violence, antisocial behaviour, loneliness – these are just some of the things that people blame on games.So what does the research say? Well, according to some academics, video games can be a force for good. Continue reading...
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Wired Top Stories |
These DNA Startups Want to Put Your Whole Genome on the Blockchain
Two different marketplaces for genetic data, Nebula and EncrypGen, recently launched with the promise of better protections for their users.
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Wired Top Stories |
Gifts Ideas for Travelers 2017: Luggage, Bags, Sleep Aids, Entertainment
Make somebody's trip a little easier with these suitcases, headphones, cameras—even a Land Cruiser.
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Mashable! |
Rise of the terpenes: The next wave of weed innovation focuses on a little-known compound
This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows.
Chicken and waffles. Moscow Mule. Gingerbread cookies. Plum.
Joe Edwards says he's made cannabis flower taste like all of the above and then some, using a high-tech curing unit produced by Colorado startup Yofumo.
The plum was made specially for his grandma who uses c...
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Macworld |
2018 iPad Pro review: A fantastic tablet, if not a fantastic laptop
Apple really wants us to believe a tablet can take the place of a MacBook, and it’s spared few resources in its quest to proselytize us with the 2018 iPad Pro. The iPad Pro a beast, one that can hold its own alongside powerful laptops. It’s a stunner, especially with a redesigned Apple Pencil and Smart Folio Keyboard that feel more like essentials than peripherals. It’s versatile, thanks to the new support for USB-C, and it achieves all this while looking both familiar and futuristic.Oh, h...
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AnandTech |
PCI-SIG Warns Of Incompatibilities Between M.2 And Samsung's NGSFF/NF1
PCI-SIG, the standards committee behind PCI Express and related standards, has issued a warning about incompatibilities between their M.2 standard and Samsung's NGSFF/NF1 SSD form factor. The notice from PCI-SIG does not refer to Samsung by name, but does indirectly call them out for basing a new form factor on a mechanically identical M.2 connector without introducing a new keying option to prevent improper insertion of M.2 drives into NGSFF slots or vice versa.
Samsung's NGSFF form fa...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Winter Olympic Games hackers are back with an updated arsenal
The group behind Olympic Destroyer are back with an evolved toolkit and malware droppers.
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Techradar - All the la... |
EE and Virgin Media fined millions for overcharging customers
Ofcom investigation dishes multi-million pound fines to two of the UK's biggest telcos
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The Telegraph - Techno... |
Tens of millions of private text messages and security codes exposed
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Boy Genius Report |
Samsung teases its exciting all-screen Galaxy S10 design again
Samsung is supposed to launch three Galaxy S10-branded phones early next year, and at least two of them are now expected to feature a design that’s not available on any other phone. Samsung teased the all-screen notchless display a few days before unveiling several types of Infinity display screens, including the foldable version, at SDC18 last week. Before and after the event, a slew of reports kept saying that the premium Galaxy S10 phones will feature a screen that will occupy almost the en...
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The Huffington Post |
Bette Midler Ripped For #FLOTITS Tweet About Melania Trump
"Women deserve better than this," one person wrote in response to the singer's controversial tweet about the first lady.
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Stuff.TV RSS feed - Th... |
Apple iPhone XR vs Huawei Mate 20 Lite: Which is best?
Apple's expensive "budget" model battles a phone half its price
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Techradar - All the la... |
Tidal has arrived on Amazon Echo speakers
It's the first streaming service to use Amazon's Music Skill API to add in Alexa support.
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Ars Technica |
Whales are stressed out by climate change, and it shows in their earwax
Earwax tracks the rise and fall of cortisol alongside whaling, war, and warming.
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The Huffington Post |
Prosecutors Mistakenly Reveal Criminal Charges Against Julian Assange
A U.S. attorney had asked to keep the charges sealed until Assange was arrested.
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News Tom's Guide US |
This Is the Galaxy S10 According to the Most Reliable Samsung Expert
In the immortal words of Han Solo: “Punch it.”
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Engadget |
The Morning After: Wait, how many notches?
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.
It's not Black Friday yet, but we're preparing for discounts from Google, Xbox and Amazon. Also, Facebook is still trying to figure out a way through its latest blow-up, and Sony is taking a hard pass on E3.
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Stuff.TV RSS feed - Th... |
The emit smartwatch removes clutter and provides razor-sharp focus for succeeding at life
If you could turn back time
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Business Insider |
'I predict one day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt': Jeff Bezos makes surprise admission about Amazon's life span
Jeff Bezos predicted to Amazon employees last week that "one day Amazon will fail," according to a recording of an internal meeting heard by CNBC.
Bezos added that Amazon's job was to delay failure for as long as possible by focusing on its customers.
Amazon staffers told CNBC that issues such as government regulation and potential antitrust violations worried them.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a stunning acknowledgment last week in an all-hands meeting, a recording of which was heard by CNBC.
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Techradar - All the la... |
Singles’ Day: a $30 billion opportunity still missed by many
Your business could be missing out on major returns from Singles Day.
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
AMS slashes forecast
Blames poor iPhone salesAustria’s AMS which makes facial recognition technology became the latest Apple supplier to cut its revenue forecast due to the fruity cargo cult’s flagging iPhone sales.
The Swiss-listed group cut its fourth-quarter revenue outlook by 15 percent and pushed back its medium-term targets, blaming “recent demand changes from a major customer”.AMS is forbidden to mention who the customer is but everyone knows it is talking about Apple which makes up 40 percent ...
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Techdirt |
Not Even Hiding It Any More: EU Council Explicitly Pushing For Mandatory Upload Filters
One of the key talking points for supporters of Article 13 in the EU Copyright Directive is to absolutely deny that it requires mandatory upload filters. Of course, as soon as you ask them how an internet platform could possibly abide by the rules of Article 13 without implementing mandatory upload filters, they suddenly change the conversation. Usually to something about how YouTube is ripping off all musicians. This is... weird. First of all, YouTube already has its giant upload filter in the ...
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
Nvidia hit by crypto hangover
Shares plummetThe chipmaker names after a Roman vengeance demon has warned of dark times ahead.
Nvidia is expecting disappointing sales for the holiday quarter, pinning the blame on unsold chips piling up with distributors and retailers after the evaporation of the cryptocurrency mining boom.Nvidia posted sales that missed expectations for its third quarter. Shares plunged 17 percent in late trading to $168.32.Recently Nvidia has been making piles of dosh supplying cryptocurrency miners.Chief E...
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CNET News |
EE, Virgin Media hit with combined £13.3M fine for overcharging customers - CNET
People were hit with excessive charges for ending their contracts early, the regulator said.
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The Register |
EE, Virgin Media hit with £13.3m fine: Squeezing users for fees for early contract termination not OK
EE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate!
The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contracts before they were due to expire.…
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
Japanese cybersecurity tsar does not touch computers
Claims he does not need themJapanese lawmakers were shocked to discover that its Cybersecurity tsar does not touch computers and claims he has no need for them.
Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, the minister who heads the government's cybersecurity office got befuddled when fellow politicians asked him some basic cybersecurity questions.
Asked by a lawmaker if nuclear power plants allowed the use of USB drives, a common technology widely considered to be a security risk, Sakurada did not seem to understa...
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Engadget |
Ford's future includes self-driving deliveries and taxi services
Ford CEO Sherif Marakby has posted a detailed overview of the automaker's self-driving strategy, perhaps in an effort to show that the company will push through with its plans under his leadership. Marakby, who took over as CEO in July 2018, talks ab...
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News - THE INQUIRER |
Microsoft's Windows Store gets a shot in the ARM
And updates Visual Studio to match
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The Next Web |
Cryptocurrency fraudster faces 5 years in prison for selling fake ICOs
A Brooklyn-based businessman turned cryptocurrency huckster faces up to five years in prison for orchestrating two monstrously phony initial coin offerings (ICOs) last year. Maksim Zaslavskiy, a former institutional developer and “businessman,” plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before a New York district court yesterday, reports FinanceFeeds. Zaslavskiy confessed to defrauding “around” 1,000 investors with a cryptocurrency called RECoin, marketed as th...
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TechUK slammed over support for Brexit deal
Jimmy Wales and Martha Lane Fox among UK tech giants calling out lobby group following support for Brexit deal.
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O'Grady's PowerPage |
Apple currently hiring former Qualcomm engineers to work on wireless modem hardware, focusing on San Diego area
Per an article published on Thursday by Bloomberg, Apple has begun aggressively hiring engineers in San Diego, the headquarters of Qualcomm. The company is said to be looking for designers in San Diego who will help develop wireless components and processors for its iPhones, a move that would further weaken Qualcomm. Apple has posted 10 […]
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
F-35s can be taken over by hackers
Who needs rocketsF-35 is more likely to be bought down by an enemy hacker than a rocket or enemy plane.
According to Popular Mechanics, while the aircraft itself is pretty secure, much of the F-35's strength lies in its ability to connect to the wider military and harness big data about the mission. Every F-35 squadron, no matter the country, has a 13-server ALIS package that is connected to the worldwide ALIS network. Individual jets send logistical data back to their nation's Central Point of...
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Logitech G502 Hero review: A slight improvement on an old standard
Rarely does a piece of hardware have the sticking power of Logitech’s G502 mouse. We originally reviewed the G502 back in 2014 in its first iteration, the Proteus Core, and both it and the later RGB-equipped Proteus Spectrum revision have been top mouse picks ever since. Now Logitech’s back with its third refresh, the G502 Hero. No, it’s not the long-awaited wireless version, but it does pack Logitech’s new and proprietary Hero sensor. Hence the name. And given that Hero was originally ...
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Google Schafts disaster robot unit
Human Robots not working for GoogleGoogle’s Schaft, which develops bipedal robots to helping in disaster efforts, is being shut down.
The search engine outfit said it is helping staff find new roles, most of which will be outside of Google.
It is not the only robot business Google is flogging off.
Boston Dynamics was flogged to Softbank and Schaft was supposed to go with it. But it looks like that never happened and Google was stuck with the company.
Google is more interested in n...
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Neowin |
11 more games join EA's Origin Access program on PC
Hyper Light Drifter, Dungeons III, Hand of Fate 2, and a whole lot more have joined the Origin Access subscription program of EA. The games are available to both standard and Premier subscribers. Read more...
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MSPoweruser |
Microsoft launches “Microsoft Area” in Sloane Square
While we all continue to wait for Microsoft to eventually open their Oxford Street flagship store in London, Microsoft has in the meantime announced a new Surface Area Microsoft Area in Sloane Square in Chelsea, London. Installed in the John Lewis Store there, the mini-Microsoft Store appears to offer the usual trappings including displaying Microsoft’s […]
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Reuters: Technology News |
EU executive poised to propose tariffs on Chinese e-bikes
The European Commission is set to propose final duties to curb cheap imports of Chinese electric bicycles that European producers say are benefiting from unfair subsidies and flooding the European Union market.
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Trumpsters create game to kill minorities
While defending TrumpA new computer game that allows you to slaughter gay men, Jews, minorities and journalists while protecting Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump is out..
Bnow.acked by Christopher Cantwell, the white supremacist infamous for his role in last year's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Angry Goy II, available to download on the website for Cantwell's Radical Agenda podcast.
The game allows users to play as Cantwell or fellow alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer itosave President D...
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News - THE INQUIRER |
Nvidia admits some RTX 2080 Ti FE cards are borked
Firm says some GPUs 'limited text escapes' is causing issues
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Award for wartime flight trainer returned to service
Tens of thousands of pilots trained in a tiny, mechanical flight simulator which has been restored.
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Digital Trends |
Mobvoi Ticpods Free review
With silicone eartips, water resistance, and a more palatable price tag, Mobvoi’s Ticpods Free are impressive AirPod doppelgangers. But for all the great things they have going for them, there’s one flaw holding them back.
The post Mobvoi Ticpods Free review appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Business Insider |
Sheryl Sandberg says she also didn't know about a Facebook smear campaign, as Mark Zuckerberg throws the firm's comms team under a bus
Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has responded to the bombshell New York Times report on mismanagement at the company.
In a Facebook post, Sandberg said she had no idea Facebook hired a public-relations firm to smear the company's critics, including the billionaire George Soros.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's communications team was to blame.
Sandberg also denied suggestions that she blocked internal investigations into Russian election interference.
Facebook's chief op...
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Techradar - All the la... |
Should you buy a gaming PC or build it?
Pre-built gaming PCs are great, but building one can be much more rewarding.
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Resources | ZDNet |
VR, AR and the NHS: How virtual and augmented reality will change healthcare
Against a background of growing enterprise adoption of virtual reality, mixed reality and similar technologies are beginning to gain a foothold in the NHS.
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