TLDR: The Complete Entertainment Bundle ft. PlayStation Plus brings together a dozen services, apps and streaming options so there’s always something good to watch. For years, consumers railed against cable providers, screaming that their monthly cable bills were ridiculously high. So when the streaming age finally dawned about a decade ago, many users were all
Read MoreMicrosoft has just announced a way to disable JScript in Internet Explorer. This would have been very useful a few years ago, to proactively prevent problems found in the now-ancient JScript engine, which ran their own slightly different version of standard JavaScript. Even though IE is no longer under active development, it still receives security
Read MoreWith excellent, eerie atmosphere and a new way to ward off enemies, “Little Nightmares II” shows a lot of promise. 30 minutes with ‘Little Nightmares II’: Building upon the scares of the original Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreHuawei Docs will contain document, spreadsheet and presentation tools, with more than 50 document formats suported. Huawei wants to kill off Microsoft Office and Google Docs for good Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify debuts its first daily morning show, The Get Up, a combination of pre-recorded news, pop culture, and personalized music, available as a playlist — Spotify’s streaming music service is starting to resemble terrestrial radio with today’s launch of the company’s first daily morning show, “The Get Up.” Spotify debuts its
Read MoreA new AI model can predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease more accurately than standard clinical techniques by analyzing how people describe a picture of a cookie theft, according to a new study. Researchers from IBM and Pfizer trained the model to detect signs of speech impairment in written descriptions of the image, which is frequently
Read MoreIn this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799 (on the left) is seemingly being pulled into the center of the galaxy NGC 2798 (on the right). Hubble Views a Galactic Waterfall Source: NASA
Read MoreSaplings being planted in the Willamette River Basin. | Image: Arbor Day Foundation A year after YouTubers launched a campaign to raise enough money to plant 20 million trees, the campaign is in a critical phase: planting the trees and ensuring their survival. Even though fundraising was a resounding success, making sure the planet gets
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Instacart will start accepting food stamps as a form of payment in coming weeks, beginning with a pilot program with Aldi in Georgia — Grocery delivery service Instacart will soon begin accepting food stamps as a form of payment within its app. The company announced that “in the coming weeks …
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams will soon boast a new, streamlined file sharing interface. Sharing files over Microsoft Teams is about to become a whole lot easier Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreEarlier today, here on SHIFT, we looked at the results of a survey from UK consumer magazine Which?, which showed battery degradation in EVs is really nothing to worry about. There is an issue, though. It seems that battery degradation is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that the power packs will outlive
Read MoreWe can’t get enough of our mobile apps. There were 204 billion apps downloads last year, and that number is rising in 2020. When app stores entered the mainstream tech culture, they exposed developers to an audience of millions who were keen to adopt the innovative capabilities of their devices through the creations of third-party
Read MoreWe took Amazon and Google out of the running (just this once) to see what other great smart home products are out there. Best smart home devices of 2020 that aren't made by Amazon or Google – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreClipDrop, a new app that lets your phone’s camera quickly grab objects from your environment and place them into desktop apps, is now available to try. It’s a neat twist on AR, that makes the physical world digital, instead of projecting digital images onto the world around you. Promotional videos of the beta app show
Read MoreThe partnership will produce an entire line of co-branded clothes as well as 150 cars. BMW partners with NYC fashion legends Kith for limited M4 Competition – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe presidential election is getting close, and this fringe movement continues to grow. QAnon: Here's what you need to know about this crazy, pro-Trump conspiracy theory – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHow clean is your phone? Spoiler alert: not very. Kill almost all the germs with a sanitizer. Keep your phone clean enough to eat off of with UV light for 25% off – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe tested the most popular juicers on the market today to find out if the juice is really worth the squeeze. Best juicers of 2020: Breville, Hamilton Beach, Oster and more for your kitchen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft confirms Windows 10 ‘Reset This PC’ feature problems on some hardware running Windows 10 version 2004. Windows 10: Microsoft details workaround for 'Reset This PC' failures in 2004 update Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Nordic digital challenger bank Lunar raises €40M Series C from existing investors, bringing its total raised to €104M — Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019 … Nordic digital challenger bank Lunar raises €40M
Read MoreHartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPad Air 4 are now available in stores and arriving to customers around the world — The iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and fourth-generation iPad Air are now available in stores and arriving to customers around the world. — Apple has shared a Newsroom
Read MoreThe promise of faster downloads isn’t a good reason to buy the new iPhone. But if you haven’t upgraded in years, the camera might be. 5G is the least compelling thing about the iPhone 12 Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIt’s often said that one of the advantages of owning an electric vehicle is reduced maintenance costs, and for the most part, that’s true. That is, until the vehicle’s battery pack starts to show its age. Then you might be on the hook for a repair bill comparable to swapping out the engine on your
Read MoreThe October update is playing havoc with some PCs and breaking parts of the interface including File Explorer. Windows 10’s interface is reportedly falling apart for some users after latest update Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreMozilla is testing Site Isolation, which runs each web page in its own sandboxed environment. Firefox is finally catching up to Chrome with this important new security feature Source: Tech Radar Software
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