2020 is going to be a bonkers year for US politics, but while the presidential debates and President Trump’s lingering impeachment might be the biggest topics of conversation (so far), we all know where the true political discourse happens: Facebook. Read more… Block Misleading Political Ads on Facebook With This Browser Extension Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe wedge salad is often dismissed as nothing more than a vehicle for blue cheese and crispy bits of cured pork. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I think a delivery system for cheese and bacon is what lettuce should strive to be, but you can make your wedge just a
Read MoreThree engineering faculty members at the University of Michigan — all female — who have co-taught an Introduction to Engineering course have come up with a new tool at the institution to help students learn how to work in teams. U Michigan Tool Helps Students Learn How to Work in Teams Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreIf I look up from my office computer in southeast Portland I see a patchwork of brick buildings interspersed by evergreen patches of forest, all pushing up against a lead-colored sky. It’s winter in the Pacific Northwest, and we’re a couple months into a rainy season that will probably last until April. Lucky me, I…
Read MoreImage: Twitch Hype is important on Twitch. That’s why the company is gamifying it with a new feature called Hype Train, launching on Thursday. If you donate enough to a partnered or affiliate channel, you’ll see a bar pop up above chat, which will give donators rewards as it fills. Hype is what powers the
Read MoreThe Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has received $2.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide “capacity-building services” that will support “student-centered university transformation” at its member institutions. APLU Efforts to Scale Student Success Win Gates Foundation Dollars Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreJeopardy! is holding a tournament this week between three of its greatest players: Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhaur. The event, called Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time, officially kicked off Wednesday evening on ABC, but will also air at 8pm ET Thursday and Friday evening. Read more… How to Stream Jeopardy's 'The Greatest
Read MoreIt’s been a few years since I walked over to the drone section of the CES show floor, but Autel Robotics gave me a good reason to finally revisit it this year. The company announced a total of three drones — the EVO II, the EVO II Pro, and the EVO II Dual — but
Read MoreAmong amateur radio enthusiasts, there’s a subset of users who climb mountainous areas to use their gear from elevated positions. Anyone looking to take part in what’s known as Summits on the Air (SOTA) will obviously want to keep their equipment as light and small as possible. For [Stuart Thomas], that meant a collapsible yagi
Read MoreThere’s this thing that happens when a person sees a brand new human. Their hands, which just moments before they had complete control over, turn into large magnets that pull straight up and out with a primal need to touch that baby. It’s bad enough to endure months of randoms rubbing your pregnant stomach; now
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Reddit updated its policies about impersonation to no longer allow impersonation of an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner. That means the new policies won’t just affect things like misleadingly altered videos (like deepfakes), but could implicate simple lies made by people impersonating others
Read MorePhoto by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s moving away from his annual self-reflection challenges to take a longer-term focus on what he sees as important over the next decade. “Rather than having year-to-year challenges, I’ve tried to think about what I hope the world and my life will look
Read MoreJapan’s DAMD has come up with one heck of a kit to turn the Jimny into a Bronco lookalike. Ford Bronco? Nope, this is a cleverly disguised Suzuki Jimny – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePhone-makers came to CES to prep us for the trends and designs ahead. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. Phones at CES 2020 so far: Cheap, shiny, 5G and concepts – CNET Source: CNet
Read More2020 is off to an incredibly shitty start—what with the destructive bushfires in Australia, ramped-up tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and ongoing earthquakes in Puerto Rico. If you’re someone who enjoys staying on top of world events, keeping up with the news has likely become a full-time job. Read more… How to Watch the
Read MoreiRobot, the maker of the popular robot vacuum Roomba, said it’s working on a version of the disc-shaped household helper that has arms. The company envisions a limbed version of the Roomba that’s able to help out with more complex tasks, like laundry, dishwashing, and food serving. Colin Angle, CEO of the Massachusetts-based company, revealed
Read MoreTracking the tektites may have lead scientists to solve a century-old mystery. 800,000 years ago a huge meteorite struck earth, and we might have just found its crater – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft suffered a serious setback during a test last month, the space agency has to decide whether to require the company to repeat the uncrewed test flight or allow the next planned flight to proceed with astronauts aboard. After mishap with Boeing spacecraft, NASA faces a dilemma Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreDozens of people are suffering from a pneumonia outbreak now attributed to a virus related to deadly SARS. Mystery illness in China traced to new SARS-family coronavirus – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe workers are embedded in different teams, instead of being one formal team. Google says 2,000 people across the company work on inclusion and diversity in products – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs much fun as vacations can be, actually planning your travel can be tedious and anxiety-inducing. Sure, an all-inclusive package or a travel agent might make the process easier, but that’s going to get pricey, and anyway, some of us prefer to make all the arrangements ourselves—even if we have to rely on a… Read
Read MoreThe Farewell director Lulu Wang said something during a recent roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter that neatly sums up the biggest problem facing the streaming revolution: there’s too much stuff. Wang had been offered more money by a major streaming platform for her film, but opted to go with A24, a smaller, more traditional studio.
Read MoreEven though you probably just updated your Firefox desktop browser to version 72 (released Tuesday), make sure you run one more update to nab a special patch that Mozilla released yesterday. It fixes a zero-day vulnerability that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to “take control of an affected system,” as the… Read more… Update
Read MoreHaving a baby is a pricey endeavor. Health care costs and the expense of getting prepared for a baby’s first year of life take a hefty bit of coin. As babies grow, their needs change, too. There’s no way to anticipate how quickly your child will transition through the stages, which could bring on a
Read MoreNintendo revealed during a special Direct today that Pokémon Sword & Shield is going to get even bigger. Developer Game Freak is releasing two major story expansions, each of which will come complete with new and returning monsters, along with free updates. It’s kind of a big deal. The two expansions are Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra. The
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