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MSPoweruser |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to the Fast Ring
Microsoft has released Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to the Insiders in the Fast ring. Build 18941 doesn’t have any exciting new features to talk about. However, it comes with plenty of bug fixes and performance improvements. You can see the official changelog below. What’s new Updating the Korean IME Earlier in this […]
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Hacker News |
A plan to mine the world’s research papers
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GeekWire |
Univ. of Washington names longtime professor François Baneyx to lead CoMotion innovation center
The University of Washington named longtime professor François Baneyx to lead its CoMotion innovation center. Baneyx is currently the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering; director of the Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales; and an adjunct professor of bioengineering. He has held several leadership positions across campus since arriving in 1992, including: Site director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (2004-2012) Director of the Center for ...
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TechCrunch |
The climate is our biggest threat. Carl Pope is fighting to change our fate
Michael Bloomberg is an unrepentant capitalist who, as he says in his 2017 book A Climate of Hope, is “not exactly your stereotypical environmentalist.” Yet over the past decade, Bloomberg has become arguably the biggest environmental philanthropist in the world — especially given the $500 million investment Bloomberg announced last month that he would soon […]
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: Download] OnePlus 6/6T get screen recorder and June security patch in latest OxygenOS update
Update 1: 2019/07/18 10:22am PDT
For those of you who haven't received the OTA for this OxygenOS update, manual download links are now available from OnePlus. It's a good idea to backup your phone before
The OnePlus 6 and 6T may be last year's devices, but the company still seems to be hard at work on pushing out timely updates for them, including the much-anticipated screen recorder feature. This, along with a new security pa...
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Business Insider |
'Can you shower with an Apple Watch?': You can in theory, but it may damage the device — here's what you need to know
While you can shower with an Apple Watch on in theory, it's not recommended.
Your Apple Watch is water-resistant – not waterproof – and the full act of showering (specifically applying soaps, soapy water, and shampoo) can damage the device and negatively impact an Apple Watch's water resistance.
Make sure to turn on the Water Lock feature on your Apple Watch before activities involving water.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
As a piece of wearable tech that's mean...
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BleepingComputer.com |
Windows 10 20H1 Build 18936 Fixes for OneDrive search Crashes
Microsoft has released Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to Insiders in the Fast ring. This build includes various fixes, such as for a crash when searching the OneDrive folder, and a new Korean IME. [...]
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BleepingComputer.com |
Windows 10 20H1 Build 18941 Fixes for OneDrive Search Crashes
Microsoft has released Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to Insiders in the Fast ring. This build includes various fixes, such as for a crash when searching the OneDrive folder, and a new Korean IME. [...]
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BleepingComputer.com |
Windows 10 20H1 Build 18941 Fixes OneDrive Search Crashes
Microsoft has released Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Build 18941 to Insiders in the Fast ring. This build includes various fixes, such as for a crash when searching the OneDrive folder, and a new Korean IME. [...]
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TechCrunch |
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith joins Disrupt SF to talk about bringing the Moon within reach
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has its sights set on the Moon, and in May unveiled a new lander to help it get there. This October, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith will join us onstage at Disrupt SF 2019 to talk about how the company plans to get to the Moon, and beyond — and […]
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TorrentFreak |
Pirate Bay Overblocking Hits EZTV Due to Shared Cloudflare IP Address
Dutch Internet provider Ziggo has mistakenly blocked access to the popular torrent site EZTV. The overblocking started when The Pirate Bay and EZTV were put on the same Cloudflare IP-address. The issue was eventually resolved after anti-piracy group BREIN asked Cloudflare to put EZTV on a different IP-address.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Top cloud providers 2019: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud; IBM makes hybrid move; Salesforce dominates SaaS
The cloud computing race in 2019 will have a definite multi-cloud spin. Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves.
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Digg Top Stories |
'Tokyo Drift' But With A Guy Making All The Car Noises Is A Perfect Internet Video
According to the video's maker, it contains 314 different voice recordings and took him about two weeks to complete. That's dedication.
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AppleInsider |
Apple releases third public beta of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, tvOS 13, macOS 10.15 [u]
Apple is giving iPhone and iPad owners another set of builds of its milestone operating systems, with the third public beta versions of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, tvOS 13 and macOS 10.15 now available to try out.
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Neowin |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 18941 to the Fast Ring
Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 18941 to Insiders in the Fast ring, and it comes with little in the way of new features. The only notable change is an improved Korean Input Method Editor. Read more...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Bulgaria's hacked database is now available on hacking forums
Half of the database, to be exact, the half the hacker released to local reporters over the last weekend.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Google's ambitions for China search engine are over, at least for now
Google hasn't had much of a presence in China for roughly a decade, but last year, news broke that the company was working on versions of Search and News that complied with local censorship laws. After months of pressure, both internal and external, Google confirmed to U.S. officials that the project is over.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Google VP of public policy Karan Bhatia told officials, "We have terminated Project Dragonfly." Project Dragonfly was the codename for the censo...
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Neowin |
These are the fixes, improvements, and known issues in Windows 10 build 18941
Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 18941 to the Fast ring. But as always, it also includes a long list of fixes, improvements, and known issues to be aware of. Read more...
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Engadget |
Barsys $1,500 robot bartender promises cocktails with AI precision
The "Keurig of cocktails" concept isn't exactly new, but that's not stopping companies like Barsys from perfecting the robotic bartender. Next week, Barsys is launching its robotic cocktail mixer 2.0. Like the original, the next iteration offers auto...
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Boing Boing |
Arson attack on Kyoto animation studio leaves at least 33 dead, dozens injured
Japan and much of the world is in shock after an arsonist entered a Kyoto animation studio, doused the interior with gasoline and set it on fire, killing at least 33 people and injuring dozens of other people who were in the building.
Kyoto Animation Company (KyoAni), where the attack took place, creates anime and manga, much of it about teenage school life. They are known for paying their animation staff a regular salary, unlike other anime houses that pay a stress-inducing per-frame rate. It's...
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Business Insider |
KKR is creating a new role overseeing its data strategy as private equity giants bet high-tech analysis will give them an investing edge
Private equity giant KKR has hired Emilia Sherifova, the top technology officer at Northwestern Mutual, to develop a data-driven approach she says will play a "central role" in KKR's next stage of evolution.
Private equity executives are seeing data strategy as a way to analyze investments and juice returns.
Blackstone said last February it had created a data platform to support decision-making. Matt Katz, hired from Point72 Asset Management in 2015, heads up data scientists who work with ...
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9to5Mac |
Instagram will now warn you before deleting your account
Instagram has made some changes to how it handles deleting accounts for things like hate speech, bullying, nudity, and other inappropriate content. Along with the policy update, users who are close to having their accounts removed will now get a warning notification.
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Boy Genius Report |
iOS 13 public beta 3 is now available to download on your iPhone
Apple rollout of iOS 13 beta 3 was a bit rocky, with the subsequent public beta not dropping until a full week later, but the rollout of the latest beta appears to be going more smoothly. iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 public beta 3 arrived on time this week, without any mysterious delays or waves of bug reports from users with developer accounts.
Some of the improvements in the latest iOS beta release include a new icon for voice messages in the Messages app, smaller app menus on the Home screen, a new ...
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Reuters: Technology News |
Transport app FlixMobility gets Germany's biggest tech funding round to drive growth
Transport app FlixMobility has raised around 500 million euros ($561 million) in Germany's biggest tech funding round to date to back investments in its expansion, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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MacRumors |
Apple Releases Third Public Betas of iOS 13 and iPadOS
Apple today released the third public betas of iOS 13 and iPadOS to its public beta testing group, 10 days after seeding the second public betas and a day after the fourth developer beta. The public beta gives non-developers a chance to test out iOS 13 ahead of its upcoming fall launch date.Beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program will receive the iOS 13 beta update over-the-air after installing the proper certificate on an iOS device.
Those who want to join the ...
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MSPoweruser |
Check out this amazing demo of Minecraft Earth
Last month, Microsoft announced Minecraft Earth, its first mobile AR game. Minecraft Earth allows you to craft beautiful Minecraft creations in your phone, and harness the power of augmented reality to bring them to life. Last week, Microsoft opened up the beta registration process for Minecraft Earth. During the keynote at Inspire partner conference yesterday, […]
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The Verge - All Posts |
The new trailer for It: Chapter Two gets intense fast
Photo: New Line Cinema
A new trailer for Andy Muschietti’s upcoming horror film It: Chapter Two has arrived, and unlike the first trailer, which focused mostly on a slow, increasingly uncomfortable confrontation, the new one ramps up the pace, intensity, and reveals.
It: Chapter Two continues with the second half of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It, an 1,169-page monster of a book that covers two periods in the lives of a handful of people from one of King’s favorite fictional settings: Der...
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VentureBeat |
Stop thinking you can hire enough people to fix your cybersecurity problems
Compute and algorithms processing mountains of data is more efficacious than trying to hire cybersecurity professionals when there aren’t enough of them.
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The Information |
This Startup Wants to be Beyond Meat of Brazil
In the U.S., investors are salivating over plant-based burgers. Beyond Meat has seen its market capitalization more than double to $10 billion since it went public in May. Now, the meatless meat mania is starting to spread to other parts of the world. And that’s what Brazilian entrepreneur Marcos Leta is betting on.Mr. Leta’s startup, Fazenda Futuro—“future farm” in Portuguese—is trying to be the Beyond Meat of Latin America. The 3-month-old company, based in ...
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9to5Mac |
Apple releasing third public beta of iOS 13 to users today
Apple today is releasing the third public beta of iOS 13 to users. This update comes following the release of the fourth developer beta yesterday. Apple is also releasing the third public betas of macOS Catalina and tvOS 13 today.
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SlashGear |
IT Chapter Two Final Trailer released: Balloons and blood!
When you watch the IT Chapter Two final trailer in a moment, make sure you’re sitting down. Also make sure you’ve not just eaten something that’s likely to come back up if you see anything less-than-appetizing. “For 27 years, I’ve dreamt of you,” said Pennywise the Dancing Clown. “I craved you. I’ve missed you.” This next trailer is gruesome. It’s … Continue reading
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TechCrunch |
Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a foundational technology for enterprise software development and startups have begun addressing a variety of issues around using AI to make software and processes much more efficient. To that end, we are delighted to announce that Jocelyn Goldfein, a Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners will be joining on us […]
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Digg Top Stories |
Guy Electrifies His Carpet To Train His Roommate To Walk More Quietly
The original sponsor behind this video pulled out because they "didn't like it" and all we can say is that they were very wrong and this is a piece of art.
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Digg Top Stories |
Someone Paid $14.3 Million For This Custom License Place
Wendover Productions explains the insane amounts of money people are willing to pay in the vanity license plate market.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted Of Domestic Violence
Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
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AnandTech |
Patriot Launches P200 SSDs with Maxio and Silicon Motion Controllers: From $31.99
Patriot has introduced its new family of entry-level SATA SSDs offering capacities from 256 GB to 2 TB. The P200-series drives use controllers from Maxio Technology and Silicon Motion, the first time in years that Patriot uses controllers not from Phison.
Available in a 2.5-inch/7 mm form-factor, the Patriot P200 drives feature 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB configurations and are based on Silicon Motion’s SM2258XT controllers, whereas the top-of-the-line 2 TB model is powered by Maxio Tec...
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Business Insider |
Here’s the pitch deck that convinced investors to pour $6 million into a startup trying to take on Slack and Asana despite entering the market years late (WORK)
Swit offers collaboration software that incorporates both messaging and task management.
The app, which launched in March, is designed to replace both Slack and collaboration programs such as Jira and Asana. Since it's lost the first-mover advantage, the company boasts that it's taking a more thoughtful tack that sets it apart from its better-funded competitors.
It's also designed to be used company-wide, unlike some collaboration apps, which have been adopted only by certain departments.
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MakeUseOf |
3 Apple Watch Security Tips: Everything You Need to Know
With each generation since its debut in 2015, the Apple Watch continues to become more powerful. It can accomplish a growing number of tasks without the help of an iPhone. Apple’s wearable can control a smart home, pay for purchases, track exercise, and much more. But while the many security measures Apple uses to protect your information on iOS devices is well-known, the issue is not always so clear when using the Apple Watch. Here are some key Apple Watch security tips and how to protect...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Google Cloud gains in Gartner's 2019 cloud infrastructure Magic Quadrant
Gartner's ranking of IaaS providers didn't change much from 2018, but there are some nuances worth noting as Google Cloud closes some gaps on Microsoft Azure and AWS.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Does net neutrality still matter in our post-web world?
What we think the public Internet is has already been replaced with a vision of the digital marketplace that’s more reflective of our society. So why are we trying to resuscitate a framework from another era?
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MSPoweruser |
YouTube Music app now allows you to switch easily between audio and music videos
Google today announced a new update for YouTube Music app with a neat little feature. This new feature will allow you to switch easily between music and music videos. If you are listening to a new song in the YouTube Music app, in a single tap, you can switch over to watch the music video […]
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: Out now, and it's awful] The Gang Sells Out: 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' is getting a mobile game
Update 1: 2018/09/18 8:49am PDT
You can now pre-register for It’s Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile
Update 2: 2019/07/18 9:56am PDT
It’s Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile is officially available
That's right, a TV show that has in the past ridiculed the addictiveness of online video games is actually jumping on the mobile...
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Slashdot |
iOS and iPadOS 13 Beta 4 Signals Death of 3D Touch, Rise of Context Menu
Back in 2015, Apple introduced pressure-sensitive iPhone screens alongside 3D Touch as a potentially major hardware-software innovation, but barely supported the feature, leading to informed speculation that all of 2019's iPhones would lose their pressure-sensing hardware. This week's release of the fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 developer betas appears to put the final nail in 3D Touch's coffin, tightening up the responsiveness of its replacement: Context Menus. From a report: If you aren't alread...
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SlashGear |
Watch SpaceX’s Starhopper rocket test get a fireball finish
SpaceX’s Starhopper rocket test was supposed to be a simple trial of the rockets that will one day power the SpaceX Starship. Instead, it turned into a dramatic fireball. The test on Wednesday evening this week was going smoothly, but after around five seconds something unexpected happened. It’s a static-fire test – which means the spacecraft isn’t intended to take … Continue reading
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Boy Genius Report |
The kitchen gadget that cooks perfect eggs with the push of a button is still down to $14.99
One of the basolute best Prime Day deals of 2019 is still available on Amazon's site, and you might be crazy if you pass it up. It's a killer deal that slashes the Dash Rapid Egg Cooker down to just $14.99 in five different colors. Don't know what a Dash Rapid Egg Cooker is? Well allow us to enlighten you. This puppy cooks perfect eggs every single time with the push of one button. And we're not just talking about hard-boiled eggs like you see in the image above... it can do scrambled eggs, omel...
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Engadget |
Toyota unveils electric shuttles for 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Toyota's first dedicated vehicle for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo isn't a flying car, but it shows promise. The automaker today unveiled the APM (Accessible People Mover), an all-electric vehicle it designed especially for next summ...
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Boing Boing |
Interactive map of public facial recognition systems in America
Evan Greer from Fight for the Future writes, "Facial recognition might be the most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance tech ever invented. While it's been in the headlines lately, most of us still don't know whether it's happening in our area. My organization Fight for the Future has compiled an interactive map that shows everywhere in the US (that we know of) facial recognition being used -- but also where there are local efforts to ban it, like has already happened in San Francisco, Oa...
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Techradar - All the la... |
Gears 5 is the 'largest Gears to date', according to The Coalition
Gears 5 boasts the largest campaign, PvE and Versus modes the series has seen so far.
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GeekWire |
Workday buys Trusted Key in first exit for Seattle’s Kernel Labs, and a proof point for startup studios
Business cloud software giant Workday has acquired Seattle-based Trusted Key in a deal that shows how the startup studio model is gaining traction. Founded in 2016 by former executives at Microsoft and Oracle, Trusted Key developed a digital identity platform based on blockchain technology. The company spun out of Kernel Labs, a Seattle startup studio that creates new companies from scratch with a support system of financial, technical and administrative expertise. Kernel has quietly launched se...
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Digg Top Stories |
A Beautiful Visualization Of All The Roads In The United States
There are many regions where the networks of roads are incredibly long and dense. Turns out a great part of the west is not one of them.
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Boing Boing |
Anti-vaxxer escalates from wishing children dead to threatening to kill adult lawmakers
A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor threatened to murder Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) if she advanced a bill to vaccinate children in public schools, The Daily Beast reports today. Yes, we are in a dystopian hellscape.
The feds charged Darryl Varnum in late June after he told the Congresswoman he was ‘gonna kill your ass if you do that bill,’ report The Beast's Jackie Kucinich and Lachlan Markay.
Varnum's LinkedIn says he's “a senior cyber systems engineer.”
In his threats, the man tol...
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Business Insider |
Facebook's Stories feature is becoming a quiet hit, and could help reverse a troubling trend for the social network (FB)
The number of people using Facebook's Stories feature is steadily increasing, according to new data from Cowen.
This trend could will likely help boost the average time users spend on Facebook — a figure that has been in decline for years.
In doing so it could help rejuvenate Facebook after two years of constant scandals.
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Facebook's Stories product is becoming a quiet hit.
People's usage of the ephemeral sharing feature, which lets you share photos an...
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Boing Boing |
Amazon accidentally sold a $13,000 camera lens for $95 on Prime Day
Amazon dun goofed on Prime Day by listing high-end camera gear that usually sells for thousands of dollars at the fire-sale price of $95. Petapixel has an article with screenshots of gleeful shutterbugs' bargain purchases.
“Literally everything is $94.48,” one member writes. “I have bought like 10k worth of stuff that was like 900 dollars total.”
“I got a $13,000 lens for $94,” another member writes regarding their Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS order. “LOL waiting for the cancellation b...
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The Verge - All Posts |
How to stop those annoying website notification prompts
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Browsing the web on a desktop computer can sometimes feel like a carefully crafted test of your sanity. You’ve got ads and auto-playing videos popping up left and right, and you’ve even got pop-ups from sites asking you for permission to send more pop-ups in the form of notifications. It’s enough to make anyone crazy.
I don’t know about you, but I almost never want a website to send me notifications — not while I’m actively looking at the si...
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Boing Boing |
Sony's copyright bots remove a band's own release of its new video
The Sheffield-based experimental music act 65daysofstatic has a new album coming out in September, called "Replicr, 2019." Today, the band began its launch publicity by releasing a video from the album, only to have the video blocked on multiple services by copyright bots working on behalf of Sony, which distributed the band's label, Superball.
It's an important example of the kinds of problems created by automated filtering systems, like the one that the EU turned into a continent-wide obliga...
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VentureBeat |
YouTube now lets premium subscribers toggle between audio music tracks and their official videos
YouTube is introducing a new feature that allows premium subscribers to toggle between audio tracks and artists' official videos.
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Hacker News |
Don't be yourself. Be better
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TechCrunch |
YouTube Music now lets you seamlessly switch between songs and music videos
Google today announced an update to YouTube Music on iOS and Android that will make it easier to seamlessly switch between merely listening to the audio and watching a song’s music video. To do so, you only have to tap a button at the top of the screen. This should work for almost every song […]
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Mashable! |
The last 'It Chapter Two' trailer is the most terrifying one yet
The final trailer for It Chapter Two has arrived and it really leans in on the supernatural terror that is Pennywise the clown.
The cosmic clown/child murderer isn't finished with the kids he terrorized in the first It movie, now haunting them in their adulthoods as they continue to struggle with their past. Between the child trapped in the hall of mirrors, the insane amount of blood, Pennywise's reality-bending horror, and a look at Pennywise without all of his makeup, this trailer is really ge...
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Hacker News |
How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf]
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Business Insider |
The viral app that makes you look old with shocking precision may be quietly keeping all your data — but so is Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and everything else you're already using
FaceApp has exploded in popularity in the last week, largely due to its ability to make users look old with eerie precision.
Celebrities, influencers, and tens of millions of other people are suddenly using the app — and in the process, those users are allowing FaceApp to access their photo libraries and camera.
The app is facing scrutiny from critics and politicians, who say people should be wary of its origins in Russia.
This may be true, but it's missing a much bigger point: If you're us...
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Techradar - All the la... |
.cloud domains: a name that’s made for fame
Global fame might not be the end goal for all of us, but when it comes to naming your company or product, and choosing your domain name, there’s pressure to get it right.
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Ars Technica |
Dropbox silently installs new file manager app on users’ systems [Updated]
Dropbox ambushes its users with a radically different version of its sync app.
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Engadget |
Time says its AR depiction of Apollo 11 is the 'most accurate' yet
Time is joining Google in marking Apollo 11's 50th anniversary using augmented reality, although this one is decidedly different -- and may be particularly valuable if you're a history buff. The magazine has introduced a Landing on the Moon AR exper...
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TechCrunch |
The FTC looks to change children’s privacy law following complaints about YouTube
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering an update to the laws governing children’s privacy online, known as the COPPA Rule (or, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). The rule first went into effect in 2000 and was amended in 2013 to address changes in how children use mobile devices and social networking sites. Now […]
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News Tom's Hardware US |
Corsair Radically Expands 32GB DDR4 Desktop DIMM Availability
Getting 64GB into consumer Mini-ITX is just the beginning!
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MSPoweruser |
Tim Willits announces departure from id Software
Today, Tim Willits, studio director at id Software, officially announced his departure from the company after 24 years of service. Willits broke the news by posting on Twitter. After 24 years, I’ve decided to leave id Software after QuakeCon. I’ve been extremely lucky to work with the best people in the industry on truly amazing […]
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Digital Trends |
These 6 popular browser extensions are selling your data
Some popular browser extensions are collecting and selling your data, according to a a new investigation. The extensions in question are Hover Zoom, SpeakIt!, SuperZoom, SaveFrom.net Helper, FairShare Unlock and PanelMeasurement.
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TechCrunch |
iOS 13: Here are the new security and privacy features you might’ve missed
In just a few weeks Apple’s new iOS 13, the thirteenth major iteration of its popular iPhone software, will be out — along with new iPhones and a new iPad version, the aptly named iPadOS. We’ve taken iOS 13 for a spin over the past few weeks — with a focus on the new security […]
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TechCrunch |
InCountry raises $15M for its cloud-based private data storage-as-a-service solution
The rise of data breaches, along with an expanding raft of regulations (now numbering 80 different regional regimes, and growing) have thrust data protection — having legal and compliant ways of handling personal user information — to the top of the list of things that an organization needs to consider when building and operating their […]
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CNET News |
Best cheap true wireless earbuds: Top AirPods alternatives for $100 or less - CNET
Looking for an AirPods alternative that costs a lot less? Here are some top budget truly wireless models worth considering.
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Techdirt |
Drug Prices Are So Insane That The NY Times Is Recommending The US Gov't Just 'Seize The Patents'
Drug prices are sky high. This is not news. A bunch of incredibly dumb policy decisions have been stacked up for decades and brought us to this place where drug prices -- especially for life-saving drugs -- would bankrupt most people. A huge part of the problem is our patent system and how we literally grant monopolies to companies over these drugs. Combine "life saving" with "monopoly" and, uh, you don't have to have a PhD in economics to know what happens to the price. Add into that our fucked...
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: Downloads] Android 9 Pie now rolling out to OnePlus 3 and 3T
Update 1: 2019/07/18 9:37am PDT
Following the original Android 9 Pie release, OnePlus recently pushed out an update with June 2019's security patches. Unfortunately, folks looking to pull down the full image for more
As unfortunate as it sounds, it's rare for an Android phone to get major updates two years after release. Google and Samsung have done it on occasion, but it's far from the norm. OnePlus received plenty of praise ...
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The Verge - All Posts |
Fortnite players can now earn loot from watching YouTube videos
Fortnite and YouTube exist hand-in-hand, and now Epic Games is rolling out a new feature that gives players free cosmetics for watching matches on YouTube.
The new initiative is called “Drops,” and allows players to receive special Fortnite cosmetics when they link their YouTube and Epic Games account to watch certain Fortnite events. Epic has done similar things in the past on Twitch. Considering how popular Fortnite content is on YouTube, the partnership makes a lot of sense — especiall...
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CNET News |
Get 15% to 20% off select items with Amazon's Prime Rewards credit card - CNET
Plus: $80 off on a 50-inch Fire TV. And still more Prime Day deals that just won't die.
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Techradar - All the la... |
BT sells iconic London HQ
BT Centre sold for £210m as company continues restructure
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TechCrunch |
Google creates massive-scale tribute to Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton
Google has a number of different celebrations of the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing going on right now, but one organized by the Maps team might be the most grandiose in terms of scale and effect. At the Ivanpah solar facility in the Mojave Desert, Google set about creating a huge portrait […]
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The Register |
Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County
'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak
Google has identified a parcel of land for its second bit barn in Ellis County, Texas, even though the first one is still months away from completion.…
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Boing Boing |
Five cool mechanisms made from simple materials
The Q makes whimsical mechanisms mainly from wood and cardboard, using basic hand tools. In this video, he shows how he made a "fully working gearbox made out of cardboard, Rock 'em Sock 'em board game, a skateboard from newspapers, incredible miniature railway with train track changes, and, last but not least, a semi-auto coin sorting machine from plywood!"
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BleepingComputer.com |
New Malware Framework Uses Browser Extension for Ad Fraud
Researchers unearthed a new and highly prolific malware framework used by its creators to generate over one billion fraudulent ad impressions over a time span of just three months. [...]
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Boing Boing |
This map shows where local police departments partner with Amazon's Ring
“For the first time ever, there's a comprehensive map on where local police departments have partnered with Amazon's Ring,” CNet's Alfred Ng writes.
“Amazon and police have been working closely together with Ring partnerships, sometimes using taxpayer money to buy video doorbells and offer them to residents at a discount.”
The technology rights nonprofit Fight For the Future just released its ' Read the rest
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Boy Genius Report |
Red wine may hold a secret that will keep Mars travelers fit
As NASA slowly inches towards the day when it can finally send human travelers to Mars, scientists are doing their best to make sure those first adventurers are prepared for the journey. One of the biggest challenges is ensuring that astronauts who spend the better part of a year on their way to the Red Planet are in good shape when they arrive, and a new study suggests that red wine may hold the key.
The research, which was published in Frontiers in Physiology, focuses on resveratrol, a compou...
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Neowin |
This Complete .NET & C# Developer Certification Bundle only costs $31
With today's highlighted and heavily discounted deal, you can bag this comprehensive, 58-hour guide to becoming a professional-quality software developer for next to nothing with Neowin Deals! Read more...
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Business Insider |
China is ‘mostly world class’ in artificial intelligence software, but still relies on America for the processors to run it, say Wall Street analysts (INTC, NVDA, AMD)
China is mostly world-class in AI, but it's still dependent on US chipmakers, Wall Street analysts who recently toured the country said.
China has a huge leads the US and Europe in user data access due largely to more restrictive data collection rule in the west.
But China will likely depend on US processors at least in the next 5 years, although the analysts cited efforts to close that gap long-term.
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China is fast emerging as a powerhouse in artificial int...
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SlashGear |
Toys R Us re-opens with the future of retail in play
At less than a third of the size of previously standard Toys ‘R’ Us store, the new locations might feel unfamiliar. It won’t feel particularly familiar to the original customers of the mega-massive toy store chain, anyway. But what the new, more compact locations lack in size will be more than made up for with a modern retail cool factor. … Continue reading
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MSPoweruser |
The Diamond Casino & Resort opens in GTA Online next week
Grand Theft Auto Online’s casino, The Diamond Casino & Resort, opens to all players next week on July 23rd. All are welcome inside to play, or just to stay, in one of the most luxurious buildings in the entire Los Santos region. Along with a beautiful new building, players will also be able to access […]
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Digital Trends |
Sony WF-1000XM3 vs. Sennheiser Momentum vs. Klipsch T5 True Wireless headphones
We've been testing three of the most popular premium true wireless earbuds against each other. In our comparison of the Sony Wf-1000XM3, Sennheiser Momentum, and Klipsch T5 True Wireless, we compare sound, comfort, and style.
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CNET News |
Nissan recalls 91,000 Titan pickup trucks for potential electrical issues - Roadshow
The problem might even cause the engine to stall.
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Engadget |
'Plants vs. Zombies 3' is on the way and you can test it now
Six years after Plants vs. Zombies 2 staggered into the world, the next entry in the series is on the way. PopCap Games is hard at work on Plants vs. Zombies 3, and it's already offering you the chance to pit flora against undead fauna once again.
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Hacker News |
The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice
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Hacker News |
What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community
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GeekWire |
Startup casting call: GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition returns for a second season
Some startups go up, others go down. We’re back for another season of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch video series, where entrepreneurs compete for startup glory … on the 48-second ride to the top of Seattle’s landmark Smith Tower. GeekWire is thrilled to be partnering with PACCAR as the title sponsor of season two of our Elevator Pitch. The Bellevue, Wash.-based truck maker, known for iconic brands such as Kenworth and Peterbilt, is infusing innovation into its operations, and...
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Techradar - All the la... |
Best waterproof speakers 2019: 10 outdoor speakers for any budget
These are our top choices for the best rugged, waterproof and outdoor-ready speakers you can buy.
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Digital Trends |
Cadillac’s new 2020 CT5 sedan lets you Super Cruise across America
The 2020 Cadillac CT5 proves the General Motors-owned luxury brand still cares about sedans. Introduced at the 2019 New York Auto Show, it's optionally available with Cadillac's Super Cruise technology and a lineup of turbocharged engines.
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The Digital Reader |
Brian Staveley’s “The Emperor’s Blades” is Tr.com’s Free eBook of the Month
Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away one free SF or fantasy ebook. For July 2019, the eBook Club pick is The Emperor’s Blades, the first volume of BrianContinue reading
You just finished reading Brian Staveley’s “The Emperor’s Blades” is Tr.com’s Free eBook of the Month which was published on The Digital Reader.
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TechPowerUp |
(PR) EK Releases Classic Lineup Water Cooling Kits
EK-KIT Classic products are value-oriented, RGB liquid cooling kits with low noise emissions that offer efficient cooling of any mainstream Intel or AMD CPU on the market. Ready to be expanded with a GPU water block, some of the new kit models also open up the door for overclocking. Designed with case compatibility in mind, these kits are a great way to enter the world of custom liquid cooling with easy installation.
They contain everything you need to assemble your first custom liquid cooling ...
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Business Insider |
Netflix explains how it approaches marketing partnerships with brands like Coca-Cola and Nike, and the type of deals it's interested in (NFLX)
Netflix is using its brand partnerships, like its deals with Coca-Cola and Nike to promote "Stranger Things," to bring new subscribers to the service, the company said on Wednesday.
CEO Reed Hastings said Netflix is monetizing these deals today through membership growth, which the company expects to add $5 billion in incremental subscription revenue this year.
Netflix is also being careful about how its partnerships fit in with its originals creatively.
"In the case of 'Stranger Things' 3, you s...
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Android Police - Andro... |
[Update: More photos, specs] ASUS ROG Phone 2 confirmed to have 120Hz display, Snapdragon 855 Plus
Update 1: 2019/07/16 1:42am PDT
ASUS has also revealed that the upcoming ROG Phone II will be using Qualcomm's just-announced Snapdragon 855 Plus, like we speculated. The gaming-centric device should benefit from the
Update 2: 2019/07/16 11:00am PDT
A pair of real-world photos claiming to be of the upcoming phone has leaked on Weibo:
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CNET News |
Southwest Airlines gave away free Nintendo Switches to passengers - CNET
Jealous?
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Techradar - All the la... |
Cyberpunk 2077: release date, trailer and news
If you thought CD Projekt Red’s upcoming FPS RPG looked incredible before E3 2019, just wait until you see Keanu Reeves.
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