Earlier this month, the calls, many from swing states, started coming in to the Election Protection hotline, a service administered by the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. From Florida, callers said the voter registration website had collapsed, locking them out just as the
Read MoreThis article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Bogotá, Paris, Hong Kong, and London are
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amazon opens a dedicated website for Sweden at amazon.se — Amazon is the biggest online retailer in Europe, and today it took the next step in making that effort more localized. The company has launched a dedicated portal for Sweden at Amazon.se — giving Swedish shoppers, third-party merchants … Amazon opens
Read MoreQAnon accounts are multiplying on sites such as Parler and Telegram that have little content moderation. Merchants selling QAnon-themed t-shirts appear to be thriving, including on major online retailers such as Amazon. And even on Twitter, one of the tech companies that recently has worked to curb the conspiracy content, accounts openly touting QAnon remain
Read MoreRepublicans and Democrats have similar goals. They will make different arguments. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Watch Dogs franchise always held a weird little spot in Ubisoft’s vast stable of open world games. The series was first introduced back in 2012, during Ubisoft’s annual E3 press conference. The reveal trailer for the series’ first instalment blew the gaming audience away. Graphically the first trailer was miles ahead of its competition,
Read MoreA good smartphone now will have about 500 pixels per inch (PPI) on its screen. Even the best phones we could find clock in at just over 800 PPI. But Stanford researchers have a way to make displays with more than 10,000 pixels per inch using technology borrowed from solar panel research. Of course, that
Read MoreBetween January and August this year, many consumers preferred to connect with businesses via video chat services. Video chatting rapidly replacing SMS for businesses, reports find Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreGoogle Drive will now open Microsoft Office documents in editing mode by default. Google Drive’s most annoying problem has finally been fixed Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreTom Simonite / Wired: A study of ~57,000 kidney disease patients in the Boston area finds that an algorithm used to decide priority for transplants was biased against Black patients — A formula for assessing the gravity of kidney disease is one of many that is adjusted for race. The practice can exacerbate health disparities.
Read MoreHyperX HyperX has announced the $50 Pulsefire Haste wired gaming mouse. Its highlight feature is its 59-gram weight, which the company accomplished by drilling many hexagonal-shaped holes all around it — arguably, another feature worth mentioning. It’s the latest mouse to adopt the honeycomb design popularized by brands like Finalmouse, Glorious PC Gaming Race, and
Read MoreThe Bolide packs a power-to-weight ratio of 0.67 hp per pound, and it will lap the Le Mans racetrack faster than any car in history. Bugatti Bolide is an insane track-only hypercar with morphing skin – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt all comes down to driver attention monitoring. Cadillac's Super Cruise performs better than Tesla's Autopilot, says Consumer Reports – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreBugatti’s latest creation maximizes the potential of its quad-turbo W16 engine. Track-only Bugatti Bolide laughs in the face of Formula 1 cars – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMay 2020 Update is finally king – but it’s set for an unimpressively short reign. Windows 10 May 2020 Update finally becomes the most-used version – but it’s too little, too late Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreFreshworks CRM combines features from both Freshsales and Freshmarketer to support businesses with their customer engagement. Freshworks relaunches its CRM platform Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreDonald Trump’s campaign website was hacked to show a fake FBI notice. | Screenshot: DonaldJTrump.com (via: Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler) President Trump’s campaign website was hacked Tuesday afternoon in an apparent cryptocurrency scam, the New York Times reports. “This site was seized,” the fake FBI notice read, before claiming without proof to have gained access to
Read MoreFor the first time ever, astronomers were able to see the effects of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of the innermost large moon of Jupiter. Io is the most volcanically-active body in the Solar System apart from the Earth. Astronomers know of more than 400 volcanoes strewn across the surface of Io. These eruptions release
Read MorePower banks may be unsexy, but they still get me all stirred up in the loins. What? No, I don’t want to see therapist again. Stop saying that. Anyway, it’s tough to make external battery packs stand out, so I always appreciate it when I see someone putting in a little bit of effort —
Read MoreThe Friendship Time Capsule lets friends envision traveling to different destinations together using AR. Snapchat creates lens to help users reconnect with friends amid COVID-19 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOften called the law that “created the Internet,” the legal section is under fire again. So what is it? Section 230: The little law that defined how the Internet works Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreCoinbase, Expensify, Soylent, Clubhouse and others are embroiled in a culture war over politics and the workplace. To Do Politics or Not Do Politics? Tech Start-Ups Are Divided Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe later game consoles of the 8-bit era such as Nintendo’s NES or Sega’s Master System produced graphics that went beyond what owners of early 1980s home computers had come to expect from machines with the same processors, but they did so only with the help of powerful custom chipsets for their day that took
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s gaming division is continuing to drive major profits for the company even as the PlayStation 4 era winds down. The company announced PlayStation-related revenue of 507 billion yen (~$4.9 billion) and an operating profit of 105 billion yen (~$1 billion) for its July-September quarter, respective improvements of
Read MoreAshley Carman / The Verge: Audible adds 100K free podcasts to its catalog, available through the app for all listeners with or without a subscription — It’s adding 100,000 podcasts to its catalog — Audible is turning into more of a podcast app. The company announced today that its catalog now contains 100,000 free podcasts
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