Month: June 2020

HP’s latest gaming accessories focus on simplicity and value

HP’s new Omen Vector mouse comes with an 25g worth of weights that you can add for a custom feel. HP has announced a fleet of new gaming accessories, including new gaming mice and HP’s very first wireless 2.4GHz gaming headset. Even though all of today’s announcements have features that are geared primarily toward gamers,

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The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Google Translate supports only 109 languages, Bing 71, and Wikipedia 309 (Gretchen McCulloch/Wired)

{$inline_image} Gretchen McCulloch / Wired: The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Google Translate supports only 109 languages, Bing 71, and Wikipedia 309  —  Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take.  What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis?

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Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is crediting a developer after he accused the company of copying the core mechanics of its new Windows Package Manager. AppGet developer Keivan Beigi provided a detailed account of Microsoft reaching out with interest about his package manager, inviting him for interviews, and then ghosting him for

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Blackout Tuesday posts are drowning out vital information shared under the BLM hashtag

Instagram’s #BLM hashtag is now full of posts of black squares. | Image: The Verge As part of a Blackout Tuesday protest originally organized by workers in the music industry, users on social media, particularly Instagram, are sharing images of black squares in solidarity with black victims of police violence. But many are tagging their

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Report: Polestar to build more Chinese showrooms to compete with Tesla

{$inline_image}China is, and has been for a while, the world’s leader in electric vehicle (EV) manufacture and consumption. To better compete in this market, Polestar’s parent company Geely is going to build more showrooms. Presently, Polestar has just one showroom in mainland China, Channel News Asia reports. However, according to sources close to the matter,

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Cisco says it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event that was scheduled to start Tuesday, amid ongoing protests across the US (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Cisco says it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event that was scheduled to start Tuesday, amid ongoing protests across the US  —  Cisco said Monday night that it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event, amid the ongoing protests …

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Trump's fury at Twitter might end up being good for the service by increasing engagement, and thus ad sales, while highlighting its anti-misinformation efforts (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: Trump’s fury at Twitter might end up being good for the service by increasing engagement, and thus ad sales, while highlighting its anti-misinformation efforts  —  – User engagement could get a boost from tussle with president  — A bigger audience, more tweets mean more slots for advertisers Trump’s fury at Twitter

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In leaked audio from an internal meeting, Mark Zuckerberg says they will re-examine policies around politicians discussing the use of state force on Facebook (Casey Newton/The Verge)

Casey Newton / The Verge: In leaked audio from an internal meeting, Mark Zuckerberg says they will re-examine policies around politicians discussing the use of state force on Facebook  —  The company is treating a moral issue as if it’s a legal one  —  I. The CEO  —  On Friday afternoon, Facebook … In leaked

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YouTube and YouTube TV have more than 100M people in the US watching on TV screens each month, rising 80% YoY in March, according to the company (Sahil Patel/Wall Street Journal)

Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: YouTube and YouTube TV have more than 100M people in the US watching on TV screens each month, rising 80% YoY in March, according to the company  —  Usage of YouTube on TV screens is growing, but it remains primarily a mobile channel for advertisers  —  YouTube wants advertisers

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Twitter suspended the account of a white nationalist group claiming to be an Antifa organization that pushed violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests (NBC News)

NBC News: Twitter suspended the account of a white nationalist group claiming to be an Antifa organization that pushed violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests  —  Two hashtags that trended worldwide on Twitter falsely claimed that there was a “cover-up” or a “blackout” of protests in Washington, D.C., overnight. Twitter suspended the account of a

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