{$inline_image} Before the days of GPS and smartphones, the American Automobile Association (AAA)’s TripTik was the way to plan and navigate your road trip. In fact, it’s been a travel staple for more than a century. There are updated, digital versions of TripTiks available through their app, but those resources are only for their… Read
Read MoreBefore the days of GPS and smartphones, the American Automobile Association (AAA)’s TripTik was the way to plan and navigate your road trip. In fact, it’s been a travel staple for more than a century. There are updated, digital versions of TripTiks available through their app, but those resources are only for their… Read more…
Read MoreEver since Disney+, the company’s streaming service, launched in November 2019, it has quickly become a *family favorite (*including families of one). Although there were a few glitches in its first few weeks, those appear to be fixed, and users have since been able to focus on features like recommendation lists. But… Read more… How
Read MoreIllustration by James Bareham / The Verge After launching a dark mode for its desktop interface, Facebook reportedly is testing a dark mode for its mobile apps as well. It’s only available for “a small percentage of users globally right now,” according to SocialMedia Today. Facebook introduced a dark mode as part of its desktop
Read MoreQuibi is a mobile-first streaming service for short-form video packed with stars, now widening itself to be watched on TVs. Here’s everything to know. Quibi: Everything to know about the short-form video service – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreI am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. My great-grandfather was a slave in Claiborne, Alabama, who used primitive tools to work the land. My father was born in Alabama before the Wright brothers made mankind’s first flight. He lived to see
Read MoreApple’s new iPhone SE is $300 cheaper than the baseline iPhone 11. Here’s exactly what you get by spending almost double. iPhone SE vs. iPhone 11: Almost doubling the price gets you what, exactly? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTLDR: The Ultimate Artificial Intelligence Scientist Certification Bundle is your ticket to understanding — and maybe even working with — AI and machine learning systems. Artificial intelligence has seeped into literally every facet of human life — and examples are in front of us every day. Like how AI advances just led to a new
Read MoreAre you a fan of science TV shows and documentaries? Though they’ve been around in some version since 1903, one 13-part series on PBS that aired in 1980 really captured the country’s attention. It was called “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” and was created and written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter, with Sagan…
Read MoreWant to buy Huawei’s P40 Pro? Here’s what you should know before you splash your cash. Before you buy that Huawei P40 Pro, you should know these 5 things – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTLDR: Whether you want to drive trains or design and manage an entire railway system, the Trainz Railroad Simulator can make those dreams real. In an age of supersonic jet travel and Cannonball Run records, there’s still an allure for a time-honored method of travel that stands as a distinct polar opposite. Even today, trains
Read MoreSome Chrome and Firefox users are unhappy that Microsoft’s new browser appears to help itself to their current default browser data. Microsoft Edge is stealing Chrome users' data? I asked Microsoft if it's true Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreRussia’s surrender to Telegram’s Pavel Durov shows the increasing challenges for states seeking to control social media. How the founder of the Telegram messaging app stood up to the Kremlin — and won Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreOnePlus returns to its super affordable roots. OnePlus Z 'Thing' is a thing. Here are the features it needs (and doesn't need) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOn some 2011 Macbook Pro models, there is a tendency for the Radeon GPU to fail. This should mean game over for the computer, but surprisingly salvation is offered by its having not one but two GPUs on board. The Intel processor also has a GPU, and Apple use a pile of logic in an
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice — Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. — In March, researchers uncovered … Researchers who flagged TikTok and
Read MoreTwo researchers have studied political expression on the app since the Musical.ly era. Here’s what they found. TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAstronomers once believed that most solar systems would be much like our own, with small rocky planets near their sun, accompanied by gas giants orbiting the star at greater distances. Beginning in 1992, researchers began to find worlds orbiting alien stars, and soon found solar systems came in a wide variety of formations. Today, astronomers
Read MoreUSB-C has brought the world much more powerful charging options in a slimline connector. With laptop chargers and portable battery packs using the standard, many with older hardware are converting their devices over to work with USB-C. [victorc] was trying to do just that, purchasing an adapter cable to charge a ThinkPad. Things didn’t quite
Read MoreLauren Goode / Wired: Virtual labs at WWDC and Microsoft Build lowered barriers to entry and for some felt more personal than live labs, but the conferences lacked communal elements — The end of WWDC marks the end of Big Tech’s conference season. What did this virtual experiment reveal about the meaning of community? Virtual
Read MoreAlong with the substantial rise in bread baking over the last few months, many people have been whipped into a frenzy over this tasty-looking frothy coffee beverage called Dalgona. It’s like a caffeinated meringue made from instant coffee, sugar, boiling water, and a whole lot of air that is then spooned onto milk or milk
Read MorePhoto by Bobby Quillard What you’ve probably heard: three months after he signed an exclusive two-year contract with Twitch for a “life-changing” amount of money, Twitch has nonetheless “permanently banned” Guy Beahm, aka Dr Disrespect, for something he did in violation of the company’s rules. What you might be thinking: it’s too much of a
Read MoreRussell Flannery / Forbes: Agora, which helps app developers embed real-time voice and video communication, closed up 153% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $350M in its IPO at $20/share — Grocery chain Albertsons might have been the best-known IPO in the U.S. this week among American investors … Agora, which helps app developers embed
Read MoreRobin Wauters / Tech.eu: France-based startup ubble, which prompts users to capture a live video of their face and an official ID to verify identity, raises €10M seed round — A fledgling French identity verification tech startup that goes by the name of ubble has raised seed funding from Partech and Breega … France-based startup
Read MoreCheap 433 MHz wireless switches are a tempting way to enter the world of home automation, but without dedicated hardware, they can be less easy to control from a PC. That’s the position [TheStaticTurtle] was in, so the solution was obvious. Build a USB 433 MHz transceiver. At the computer end is a CH340 USB-to-serial
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