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The Register |
Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover
Now, about those parachutes...
While ESA continues to grapple with balky parachutes ahead of the ExoMars 2020 mission, the cameras for the Rosalind Franklin rover have been fitted to the British-built trundlebot.…
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MSPoweruser |
Amazon Music makes its way to Garmin smartwatches
Amazon has released its first app for Amazon Music and it’s currently available for Garmin smartwatches. The app will allow users to download and stream music directly from the smartwatch. The app will give access to 2 million songs if you have a Prime Membership while Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers get access 50 million songs. […]
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Gizmodo |
Instagram Chief Debunks Copyright Apocalypse Hoax as Spread Reaches Top Levels of Government
If you follow a boomer on Instagram you’ve probably seen the latest viral hoax going around warning about the incoming copyright apocalypse.Read more...
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Mashable! |
10 easy tips to take better photos on your smartphone
The next time you're on vacation, out with friends, or at a fancy restaurant without a DSLR, use these tips to take your phone pics to the next level.Read more here. Read more...More about Tech, Photography, Smartphones, Mashable Video, and Camera
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Hacker News |
WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company
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Digg Top Stories |
An Oral History Of The AIM Away Message (By The People Who Were There)
It might have started out as something purely functional — a live out-of-office, if you will — but the away message was much more than that.
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Digg Top Stories |
Minor Leaguer Takes Off Like A Rocket After A Bunt To Score An Inside-The-Park Home Run
Reece Hampton showed off his impressive speed to score a home run off a bunt.
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Ars Technica |
Dealmaster: Get an Amazon Fire TV Stick for $30, or the 4K model for $40
Plus deals on iPads, laptops, gaming accessories, wireless chargers, and more.
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9to5Mac |
Apple releasing iOS 13 developer beta 8 today
Update: iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6 beta 8 are now available. No updates to macOS Catalina beta 6 or tvOS 13 beta 7.
Apple is releasing iOS 13 and iPad OS 13 beta 8 to developers (possibly alongside new seeds of watchOS 6, tvOS 13, and macOS Catalina) today. The release comes just under one week since the last round of releases — save for macOS Catalina which was just updated this week.
Apple’s public beta builds should follow at a later date after the latest developer beta has be...
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Business Insider |
How to turn off 'Restricted Mode' on YouTube to watch any video without filters
The Restricted Mode on YouTube can be helpful to filter out unwanted videos from your account, but you may eventually want to turn it off.
For those looking to turn off Restricted Mode on YouTube, doing so is relatively quick and easy using a personal computer or phone, as long as you have your login information handy.
Here's what you'll need to do to turn off YouTube's Restricted Mode on a desktop computer, or via the iPhone or Android mobile app.
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MSPoweruser |
Cerebras unveils world’s largest chip, 56x larger than Nvidia’s best
Until this week, Cerebras remained a stealth mode startup backed by premier venture capitalists. This week Cerebras revealed its first product, a new computer chip built on Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) optimized entirely for deep learning. Cerebras mentioned that it is the world’s largest (46,225 square millimeters) chip containing more than 1.2 Trillion transistors […]
Read More: Cerebras unveils world’s largest chip, 56x larger than Nvidia’s best
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The Verge - All Posts |
YouTube pressured to ban Chinese state media ads that spread misinformation about protesters
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YouTube is being pressured to remove ads from China Central Television, a state media channel that’s allegedly spreading misinformation about protesters in Hong Kong.
Users on Twitter and Reddit have posted a number of screenshots of the ads, many of which paint the Hong Kong protests as an illegitimate product of foreign influence. The users accuse YouTube and parent company Google of enabling an “infestation of ads” that “tries to sow political...
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Boy Genius Report |
Get the most important feature missing from the Apple Watch with this gadget on Amazon
The Apple Watch is excellent, but there’s one key feature that it’s definitely missing: sleep tracking. The problem is even if it had sleep tracking, it would be a pain to use because nighttime is the only logical time to recharge your watch. The Withings Under-Mattress Sleep Tracking Pad is a great solution to add sleep monitoring to your bed, and you never have to worry about recharging it or even repositioning it. It slips right under your mattress and feeds all the data wirelessl...
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Boing Boing |
Debullshitifying Trump's get-out-of-jail statement for Medicaid scammer Ted Suhl
Ted Suhl was serving his third year of a seven-year sentence for bribery and Medicaid fraud when Trump commuted his sentence and sprung him, at the request of Mike Huckabee; the White House released a statement explaining Trump's reasoning for the commutation, and, as Propublica documents, it is full of "half-truths and omissions" about Trump's new grifter pal. Propublica did the hard work of annotating the Trump statement to remove the bullshit and tell the true tale.
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CNET News |
Porsche buys stake in Israeli self-driving tech startup - Roadshow
Porsche's impressed with the technology TriEye has developed so far.
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TechCrunch |
Apple exec Susan Prescott is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise
Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of markets, apps and services, has been at Apple since 2003. She worked with the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs, and has witnessed such milestones as the launch of the iPhone and the iPad. Prescott will be coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco on September 5 to discuss Apple’s […]
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
AMD RDNA graphics architecture whitepaper reveals the Radeon RX 5700's deepest secrets
The Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards kicked off a new era for AMD, and not just because they're great cards. The “Navi” graphics processors beating in their heart are the first GPUs built using the cutting-edge 7nm manufacturing process, and more importantly for AMD, they mark the debut of the company’s new underlying “RDNA” architecture, which replaces the “Graphics Core Next” architecture that has powered Radeon GPUs since 2012. On Wednesday, AMD brought a treat for graphics ...
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Slashdot |
T-Mobile 'Put My Life in Danger' Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Ruth Johnson didn't know exactly who rang her phone and threatened her around 20 times in 2014. The person on the other end said he was John Edens from the U.S. Marshals with a warrant for her arrest for stealing a car. She was behind on her payments. It later turned out John Edens didn't have a warrant, nor was he from law enforcement at all. Instead, he was a debt collector with a history of stalking and domestic violence who had managed to get hold of Jo...
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VentureBeat |
Why financial services companies need to invest in voice and chat (VB Live)
Financial services companies are using conversational assistants to drive digital engagement, streamline customer communications, build revenue. and more.
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AppleInsider |
AliveCor pulls KardiaBand ECG smart band for Apple Watch from sale
AliveCor has ceased sales of the KardiaBand, an ECG smart band for the Apple Watch that added the heart-monitoring functionality to the wearable device, but while there is no explanation for the withdrawal of the product from purchase, it may be due to the introduction of the ECG-equipped Apple Watch Series 4.
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Neowin |
MSI announces new laptops with hexa-core Comet Lake processors and GTX 1650 graphics
MSI today announced two Prestige and one Modern laptop, all of which include Intel's new Comet Lake processors. The two Prestige laptops also include an option for Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics. Read more...
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Digital Trends |
Watch a Porsche Cayenne set a lap ‘record’ on an unfinished racetrack
A 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid just set a lap record at Sweden's Gotland Ring. There's just one problem: The track wasn't finished. More than half of the circuit was unpaved gravel, but that didn't stop Porsche.
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News Tom's Hardware US |
Xilinx Introduces World’s Largest FPGA With 35 Billion Transistors
Xilinx today announced the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. With 35 billion transistors and consisting of four individual dies on an interposer, it is the industry's largest FPGA.
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SlashGear |
Amazon Music app gives Garmin smartwatches an edge
If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber and you happen to have a Garmin smartwatch on your wrist, then here’s some good news: Amazon Music is landing on Garmin’s smartwatch lineup today. In its announcement today, Garmin boasts that it’s the “first wearable company to offer Amazon Music,” so if you’ve been looking for a way to access your library on … Continue reading
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Trump Revives Anti-Semitic Attack On Jewish Democrats: ‘Very Disloyal To Israel’
Democrats and Jewish leaders railed against Trump's use of the "dual loyalty" trope.
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The Telegraph - Techno... |
EU regulators probe Facebook's Libra coin amid antitrust concerns
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
One Of Thousands Who Cast A Provisional Ballot — But The Only One Prosecuted
Mason was one of nearly 4,000 people who had a provisional ballot rejected in her county during the 2016 election.
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Mashable! |
Drone racing an ambulance shows how drones could speed up medical care
The drone and ambulance raced through a busy city to determine which would deliver medical supplies faster.Read more here. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Culture, Drone, Ambulance, and Medical Care
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: Builds live] LineageOS 16 Pie arrives on the Zenfone 6, Razer Phone, and other devices
Update 1: 2019/08/21 9:42am PDT
The first nightly builds for the Zenfone 6 and Razer Phone are live. Grab 'em while they're hot.
The LineageOS project just keeps on trucking. Since the last time we covered the most popular custom ROM around, it has added six more phones to the device roster, including the original Razer Phone and the Asus Zenfone 6.
Without further ado, here are all the newly-supported phones, all of which have...
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SlashGear |
2020 Honda Civic Si sharpens style, acceleration and tech
Honda has polished up its popular Civic Si, with both the 2020 Civic Si Coupe and 2020 Civic Si Sedan getting style and performance updates while keeping the purist features. From the front, both body styles look more aggressive, with a revamped “wing” grille crossbar and new styling to the lower bumper. That includes gloss black surrounding trim to the … Continue reading
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GeekWire |
Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group
A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces in a new effort to boost cloud security by protecting data when it’s especially vulnerable. The Confidential Computing Consortium, announced this morning by the Linux Foundation, will work to establish standards, frameworks and tools to encrypt data when it’s in use by applications, devices and online services. Current techniques focus on data at rest, ...
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Hacker News |
Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
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Hacker News |
WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Why This Queer, Middle-Aged Burlesque Dancer Wants You To ‘Be Shameless’ Too
"Remember, there's going to be more people that like you and appreciate you than people that hate you," Jo Weldon said.
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Digg Top Stories |
Plague-Infested Prairie Dogs Have Thrown A Phish Concert Into Chaos
For Phish fans, the longstanding jam band's Labor Day weekend concerts at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado have been a welcome tradition returning for eight years. But now, what should be a weekend of camping, body odor and too-long guitar solos has been thrown into chaos by a plague outbreak.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Collapse Of A Hospital Empire — And Towns Left In The Wreckage
Jorge A. Perez styled himself as a savior of rural hospitals. "My only fault is I tried everything in the world to save them," he told Kaiser Health News. But for the townspeople left in the wreckage, the reality feels more sinister.
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Digg Top Stories |
Soccer Team Scores 13 Seconds Into The Game — Without Touching The Ball
Sporting Clube de Portugal's U-17 team got off to a dream start in its match against União Almeirim.
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Digg Top Stories |
Delivery Man Dodges A Runaway Truck Hurtling Towards Him By A Very, Very Close Margin
We have no idea how he managed to survive this, other than through quick reflexes and sheer fortuity.
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Digg Top Stories |
How HBO's 'Chernobyl' Reminds Me Of Working In Tech
Exploring the lie of infallible systems and human progress.
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Digg Top Stories |
Man Records His Every Treadmill Run As He Loses 42 Pounds Over The Course Of Eight Months
His progress is heartening, and now if you'll excuse us, we have to go hit the gym.
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
T-Mobile ‘Put My Life in Danger’ Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data
Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim.
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Engadget |
Online sneaker reseller StockX faces lawsuit over data breach
StockX is now facing legal action over a data breach that led to the theft of more than 6.8 million customer records. A class-action lawsuit filed in US District Court this week alleged that the online sneaker marketplace compromised the data of mino...
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Boing Boing |
The "sitting and smiling" guy sat and smiled for 8 hours straight yesterday
Benjamin Bennett has a YouTube channel of 300 videos where he silently sits in a corner for four hours and smiles into the camera without taking a break. Yesterday he made an 8-hour video of sitting and smiling.
He also has a newer video series called "Walking and Talking" where he rubber bands a camera to a stick and delivers stream of consciousness philosophical musings for four hours per episode.
Image: YouTube Read the rest
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Boing Boing |
How flight crew exhaustion almost led to America's worst airline disaster
Air Canada flight 759's captain and co-pilot had been awake all day and were coming into San Francisco in the early hours of the morning, at the lowest point of their circadian cycle. A runway was closed for resurfacing, but they forgot or missed the note, and as a result almost landed on a taxiway full of planes getting ready to take off. It could well have been the worst airline disaster in American history. [via MeFi]
At that point he noticed that the position of Air Canada flight 759 looked...
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MacRumors |
Case Maker Expecting Smaller Apple Pencil for Upcoming 2019 iPhones
At least one case maker is expecting Apple Pencil support for the upcoming 2019 iPhones, despite no solid rumors suggesting the new devices will work with the Apple Pencil.Case site Mobile Fun is, as of this morning, stocking an "iPhone 11 Pro" case from Olixar with a built-in mini Apple Pencil holder. The case maker seems to believe Apple is designing a smaller version of the Apple Pencil that will work with at least the larger 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max successor.
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Mashable! |
Tense 'Bombshell' trailer takes on the Fox News scandal and Roger Ailes
Not for the first time in 2019, Hollywood will turn its focus on the sexual harassment allegations that led to Roger Ailes resigning from Fox News – this time in the form of Bombshell, a feature film starring Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, and Margot Robbie.
The trailer features all three women standing tensely in an elevator, barely speaking but acting hard enough to break a sweat. You can practically see the secret looming between them as they weigh the consequences it could reap.
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Hacker News |
Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure
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MSPoweruser |
Gears 5 can and will run on Windows 7 if you do it right
The PC requirements for Gears 5 were revealed the other day and it was assumed that, seeing as the Windows Store had Windows 10 as a minimum requirement, Steam would too. However, eagle-eyed Twitter user @ProGears360 spotted that the requirements for the game on its Steam store page actually had Windows 7 (SP1 64-bit) listed […]
Read More: Gears 5 can and will run on Windows 7 if you do it right
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Hacker News |
Dengue fever cases have surged in the Americas this year, says health agency
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MSPoweruser |
LinkedIn blocked 19.5 million fake accounts from being created
LinkedIn currently has 645 million members. As the community continues to grow, controlling fake profiles is essential to maintain LinkedIn as a safe place for professionals around the world. LinkedIn yesterday revealed that it took action on 21.6 million fake accounts this year. LinkedIn blocked 19.5 million fake accounts from being created at registration. This is […]
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Boy Genius Report |
After Sony ruined ‘Endgame,’ Avengers 5 might be better off without Spider-Man
Sony just pulled what may be the worst move in movie history, shutting out Disney and Marvel from the Spider-Man franchise for the foreseeable future. While the two studios might kiss and make up well before the next massive Avengers and Spider-Man adventures, I can’t help but remind fans that Sony’s Spider-Man ruined Endgame, so maybe the Avengers 5 movie we're all waiting for would better off without Peter Parker.
Sony probably thinks it can make Spider-Man movies without Marvel and D...
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Neowin |
Microsoft launches Web Template Studio 2.0 with support for Angular, Vue, and more
Microsoft has updated its Web Template Studio extension for Visual Studio Code, adding support for additional web frameworks and redesigning many parts of the app creation experience. Read more...
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Business Insider |
How to put your iPad in DFU mode to restore a totally unresponsive device, as a last resort
You can put an iPad in DFU mode – Device Firmware Update mode – to restore an iPad that seems to have malfunctioned beyond all use.
DFU mode will allow you to use your iPad again, but in so doing you will lose all your files, pictures, and everything else in its memory.
Apple makes using DFU mode intentionally complicated so you don't do it accidentally, and it can be a frustrating process to complete, but it may be your only option to salvage an iPad.
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Business Insider |
Don't ask your voice assistant for a customer service number — it might supply you with a scammer's number instead
Scammers are getting potential victims to call them instead of them calling you with a new scam that uses smart voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.
The scammers put out fake customer support numbers for smart voice assistants to find when you ask for it, according to the Better Business Bureau.
Your guard against phone scams is likely down, as you're the one making the call. And the number was found by your smart assistant, which many might assume is accurate.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Britney Spears Says She Doesn’t ‘Know Who To Trust,’ Opens Up About Loneliness
The pop star got candid about "clever haters" and her "small circle" in a post on Instagram.
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SlashGear |
New 10th Gen Intel Core ‘Comet Lake’ processors detailed: i3 to i7
A new collection of 10th Gen Intel Core processors were detailed with units from Core i3 all the way up to Core i7. Included this morning in the release from Intel were the Intel Core i7-10710U, i7-10510U, i5-10210U, and i3-10110U all in the “U-Series.” Also included were the Y-Series processors Intel Core i3-10110Y, i5-10210Y, i5-10310Y, and i7-10510Y. The Y-Series processors … Continue reading
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Boing Boing |
"The Stab": a forgotten nearly-was Haunted Mansion changing portrait
The queue area at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland features a row of changing portraits wherein paintings everyday scenes are revealed as sinister and haunted (originally the effect was done with crossfading slide-projectors; now it's done with an amazing, crisp electroluminiscent effect).
There were a lot of potential gags designed for the hallway (for example, the miser who spontaneously combusts!), and while the paintings the Imagineers settled are part of the best queue in theme-park hist...
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9to5Mac |
iPhone 11 case maker planning for Apple Pencil support
We haven’t heard hardly any rumors about Apple Pencil support arriving with this year’s iPhones but one case manufacturer has created a sketchy listing for an iPhone 11 Pro case with an Apple Pencil slot on the back.
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The post iPhone 11 case maker planning for Apple Pencil support appeared first on 9to5Mac.
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Digital Trends |
The five-camera LG V40 ThinQ is now available for $150 less on Amazon
The LG V40 ThinQ may be on the pricier end of the spectrum, but its robust array of specs and features makes it a worthwhile investment. Get the 64GB unlocked version today for only $800 instead of $950 on Amazon.
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Mashable! |
Trump just looked up to the sky and told reporters 'I am the chosen one'
Donald Trump apparently thinks even more highly of himself than we thought.
On Wednesday, he told a group of reporters outside the White House that he is "the chosen one." Not a normal thing that people usually say unless they are Superman or Harry Potter, or like, a complete narcissist, but sure.
The context makes the statement only a bit less bizarre. Trump was reportedly talking about the trade war with China and how he is the one tasked with taking on the country's unfair trading practices....
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TechCrunch |
BuzzFeed’s new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you’re feeling
BuzzFeed is offering readers a new approach to finding content that fits the way they’re feeling right now. It’s not the boring old approach of following a link on social media or search, or of typing BuzzFeed.com into your browser. Instead, on MoodFeed, readers can identify their mood, then they’ll get a list of articles […]
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Business Insider |
Apple CEO Tim Cook mourns the death of Europe's top data cop Giovanni Buttarelli
Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor, has died at the age of 62.
Buttarelli was instrumental in overseeing the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was among those who mourned his death. "Giovanni was a great man, and we are forever in his debt," Cook said.
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Hacker News |
New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices
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9to5Mac |
9to5Mac Daily: August 21, 2019 – iPhone 11 fast charging, IKEA smart blinds
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Boing Boing |
Trailer: Take a peek at Barack and Michelle Obama's first film, American Factory
The Obamas released their first film with Netflix, which started streaming today — a documentary called American Factory.
From Fast Company:
Called American Factory, the documentary follows the events of when a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in an abandoned General Motors plant in Ohio and hires 2,000 blue-collar American workers to work alongside Chinese immigrants. As France24 explains:
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TechCrunch |
Deadline extended one week: apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen
Whether you’re a time-crunched procrastinator or a last-minute decision-maker, we have great news for early-stage hardware startup founders! You get one more week to apply to compete in Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen on November 11-12 in China. Did we just hear a collective sigh of relief? Take advantage of the reprieve and grab this […]
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The Verge - All Posts |
AT&T restores service to Breitbart after buying out upstart ad company
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
In 2016, the ad tech company AppNexus took a stand against hate speech. Just two weeks after the election of Donald Trump, CEO Brian O’Kelley announced he was dropping service to Breitbart. A string of articles on Muslim immigrants and female genital mutilation had been beyond the pale, O’Kelley said, leaving him no choice but to cut ties with the then-prominent right-wing site.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Why Planned Parenthood Can’t Totally Write Off Susan Collins
PP is under pressure to cut ties, but she still remains a much-needed ally in the fight against the abortion "gag rule."
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Hacker News |
Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data Within Milliseconds
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VentureBeat |
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds adds dynamic weather
PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds is getting dynamic weather in a new update. This enables rain or even hail to roll in suddenly on the Erangel map.
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Neowin |
Vivaldi 2.7 available with better sound controls and improved macOS stability
Vivaldi 2.7 has been released today, bringing with it more powerful tab muting options and improved macOS stability. The update also brings faster profile switching and optional Flash support. Read more...
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Business Insider |
How to verify your YouTube account, so you can upload videos longer than 15 minutes and customize thumbnails
It's easy to verify your YouTube account, which allows you to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes and change your video thumbnail to a custom image.
Going through the verification process, however, isn't the same thing as getting a verification badge – those are reserved for channels with more than 100,000 subscribers.
Regardless of your subscriber count, here's how to get your YouTube account verified and enable you to take advantage of useful features on the video p...
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Techdirt |
Lawsuit Filed By Victims Of ICE's Fake College Sting Revived By Appeals Court
An elaborate scheme involving a fake college set up in New Jersey by ICE has, unsurprisingly, resulted in a lawsuit by some of the foreign students swept up in the sting operation. Apparently having given up on rooting out the worst of the worst non-citizens, ICE is contenting itself with arresting and charging foreigners for attempting to stay in the country legally by continuing their education.The fake university looked pretty real to applicants. It had a website, a Facebook page, and -- m...
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SlashGear |
Waze adds YouTube Music controls for a safer dashboard
Waze is getting YouTube Music integration, bringing more streamlined access to streaming music to the navigation app without having to jump between the two. The update pulls everything from albums and playlists, through personalized mixes, into Waze’s new app. You’ll need to be a YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium subscriber in order to do so, unsurprisingly, though you can … Continue reading
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CNET News |
Jon Favreau: The Mandalorian will be Star Wars meets Mad Max - CNET
Executive producer loves the "darker, freakier side of Star Wars."
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Ars Technica |
Color-changing metal may provide early sign of illness
Light, metal, quantum mechanics combine for binary answer to disease, in theory.
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9to5Mac |
Mac mini hits Amazon all-time low at $699, Anker Summer Sale is now live from $10, more
Apple’s entry-level Mac mini hits an Amazon all-time low today, plus fresh deals in the Anker Summer Sale. Best of the year pricing on Apple’s previous generation iMac 21-inch Retina 4K is also available at B&H. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Nevada Town Near Area 51 Braces Itself For Hordes Of Alien Hunters
More than 2 million Facebook users have said they plan to storm Area 51 on Sept. 20.
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Business Insider |
He was only 35 when he became CEO of Cray, the 47-year-old supercomputing pioneer. 14 years later, he explains why it was time to sell to HPE for $1.3 billion. (HPE, CRAY)
Peter Ungaro, the CEO of Cray, was only 35 when he took over the supercomputer maker in 2005.
He does not have a tech background, but he fell in love with supercomputers and came to master the market.
He led the company through a difficult period and presided over its transformation into a stronger player in supercomputers — and ultimately, to a $1.3 billion sale to HPE, announced earlier this year.
Analysts say selling Cray to HPE is a pragmatic move, and praised the ...
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Business Insider |
Apple is expected to launch 3 new iPhones this year — here's everything we know so far (AAPL)
Apple is expected to release three iPhones again this fall.
One of the most notable changes expected is a new three-lens camera system.
Other potential updates could include the ability to use the iPhone as a charging pad for other products, and a frosted-glass design.
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Apple typically introduces new iPhones each September, and it looks as though 2019 is shaping up to be no different.
Keeping with the pattern in 2017 and 2018, Apple is widely e...
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Android Police - Andro... |
Oops: Google listed the wrong phone number to its product advice hotline for months
Back in May, Google rolled out a new product consultation service to help folks in their smart home deliberations — and maybe point them at a few Google/Nest products. While you could arrange for an in-home appointment in parts of southern California, most of us had to make do with the toll-free hotline. There was just one catch: Google had the wrong number for that hotline listed on product pages for months.
This number goes nowhere, you'll need to call (855) 224-6378. Read MoreOo...
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Engadget |
SiriusXM's student plan only costs $4 per month
SiriusXM thinks it has a simple way to get the back-to-school crowd listening to radio: offer it at an extremely steep discount. The satellite radio pioneer has introduced a Student Premier subscription that offers all the 200-plus music channels (pl...
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Digital Trends |
Stay on pace with the Garmin Forerunner 235, now $100 less on Amazon
Whether you’re a casual runner or working to become a marathon athlete, you need a GPS running watch to help you track, record, and analyze your stats. A solid option is Garmin's Forerunner 235, and it's discounted on Amazon.
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Intel reveals more about its Lakefield stacked CPU, due to ship in late 2019
Intel executives said Tuesday that its hybrid Lakefield architecture will ship late in the fourth quarter, followed by future revisions that will shrink the design further.Previously, Intel has said only that Lakefield will ship in 2019. Intel
Lakefield is one of the more technically interesting chips that Intel has on its roadmap, made up of a split between an undisclosed Sunny Cove CPU (the same CPU architecture that forms the heart of its Ice Lake chip) and several Tremont Atom cores. At the ...
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IT Pro - Microsoft Win... |
Amazon’s Cloud-Computing Empire Faces Threat From Edge of the Network
With so many mobile devices and sensors now connected to the internet — and relying on artificial intelligence — more people and companies need their computing power close to them. That’s going to hand a huge opportunity to wireless carriers, which are building fast 5G networks to handle the task. And create a threat for the dominant cloud-computing players.
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CNET News |
The Vizio P-Series Quantum 65-inch TV gets a $400 price cut - CNET
On sale for $998, this is one of the best non-OLED TVs you can buy. Plus: Save 25% on a powerful pressure washer.
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Boing Boing |
Kitty: a wonderful early computer animation from Russia (1968)
From Etudes.ru (Google translation):
More than 40 years ago in 1968 ... A team led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov creates a mathematical model of the motion of the animal (cat). The BESM-4 machine, executing a written program for solving ordinary (in the mathematical sense of the word) differential equations, draws a cartoon "Kitty" containing even by modern standards an amazing animation of cat movements created by a computer.
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Slashdot |
Gmail in G Suite Now Uses AI For Inline Spelling and Grammar Suggestions
Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling and grammar correction tools in Gmail that offer corrections as you type. From a report: Starting August 20 for rapid release domains and September 12 for scheduled release domains across all G Suite editions, Google will begin applying AI to make real-time spell-check suggestions while detecting potential grammar issues. For some ...
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Mashable! |
Pilot films the aftermath of his plane crashing into the ocean
Forget posting a photoshoot of your motorcycle crash — why not whip out the ol' phone and record the aftermath of a plane crash while you wait for rescue?
David Lesh and his friend Kayla were in that exact predicament when their plane's engine failed off the coast of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon. They were in the the middle of an air-to-air photoshoot, getting shots of Lesh's new plane, when it lost all power outside Half Moon Bay.
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Mashable! |
Colin Kaepernick brings together celebrities and activists in powerful video about rights
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned social justice activist Colin Kaepernick unites heavy hitters like Dr. Angela Davis, actress and activist Yara Shahidi, transgender actor Indya Moore, and others in an impactful video highlighting Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp, which he started in 2016.
The camp empowers black and brown youth communities across the United States by teaching them their rights when interacting with law enforcement as well as providing opportunities to trade storie...
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Android Police - Andro... |
Nokia 7.2 and its 48MP camera surfaces ahead of HMD Global IFA event
Out of all the Android phones HMD Global has released under its Nokia brand license in the past few years, the Nokia 7.1 seems to have made the best impression in certain western markets like the United States. We're now coming close to a year since its announcement and there's a swell of excitement for an update. Fortunately, we do have some tacit confirmation that the Nokia 7.2 is a thing, thanks to optics supplier ZEISS. Read MoreNokia 7.2 and its 48MP camera surfaces ahead of HMD Global IFA ...
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Boy Genius Report |
Amazon’s upgraded Blink XT2 security cameras with 2-year battery life are discounted for the first time
Battery-powered home security cameras like Arlo camera are fantastic because they can easily be mounted anywhere without having to worry about cables or power cords. That said, they have two big drawbacks. First, they're very expensive. And second, having to recharge the batteries every 2 or 3 months is a pain in the butt. The All-new Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera solves both of those issues, with wonderfully affordable pricing and incredible 2-year battery life. And right now, ...
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Kim Kardashian Roasted Over Photoshop Fail In Picture With Kylie Jenner
Eagle-eyed fans said it looked like the reality star had six toes in one photo.
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TechCrunch |
Workspace provider Knotel secures $400M, putting it in WeWork’s rear-view mirror
While some analysts are calling WeWork’s IPO filing a “masterpiece of obfuscation,” the esteemed tech observer Professor Scott Galloway simply calls it “WeWTF.” There is another company that is coming up fast in the “WeViewMirror” — if you will — and that’s Knotel. Also a “flexible workspace provider,” Knotel has reversed the WeWork model and […]
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WSJ.com: WSJD |
Schools Brace for Cyberattacks
As hacks against schools wreak more damage, state governments are moving to help school districts recover from attacks and prevent new ones.
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TechCrunch |
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: We Are Off The Record
Unlike most agencies, We Are Off The Record’s (WAOTR) mission is to advise and train in-house growth teams to scale their business. CEO and founder Bas Prass prides his team’s “train and transfer method” because it has allowed them to work with tech startups and giant corporations from all around the world. WAOTR is based […]
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The Register |
A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet
Portable Linux with fully open-source hardware in the CutiePi
A team of Taiwanese engineers is planning to release an eight-inch tablet based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+.…
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CNET News |
Ford dives into esports with Fordzilla racing team - Roadshow
Recruitment for the team is already underway.
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PCMag.com Latest Articles |
Steam for China Is Called 'Zhengqi Pingtai'
The digital games service will be run almost entirely independent of Steam and by Valve's Chinese partner company Perfect World.
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The Verge - All Posts |
Extreme heat and humidity are putting athletes at greater health risk
Photo by Judy Griesdieck / Star Tribune
A combination of extreme heat and high humidity levels — commonly referred to as the “heat index” or the “feels like” temperature you see on your weather app — is increasingly placing athletes at risk as global average temperatures rise, according to a report released on August 21st by environmental science and news organization Climate Central. It studied data from 239 US cities and found that 83 percent of them have experienced an increase...
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Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as c...
