Sexy stalker-murderer Joe Goldberg is back in the second season of You, which debuts Thursday, the day after Christmas. You’re sprawled on your couch, hungover from interactions with the very real psychopaths with whom you’ve been forced to contend this holiday season, and who better to spend the final days of the… Read more… What's
Read More$100 iTunes Gift Card | $85 | eBay Read more… Need a Stocking Stuffer? Get Off a 0 iTunes Gift Card Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreSamsung’s next flagship phone is shaping up to be a powerhouse, if all these features and specs come to be. Galaxy S11 rumors and leaks: Feb. release date, massive battery, 108 megapixels – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCritics say Uber’s survivor-centric policies shield it from responsibility when it comes to rape and sexual assault on the platform. Uber knows more about its rape problem than anyone else. What should it do with that data? Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWhen the Skynet baseball bot swarms attack, we’ll be throwing [Carl Bugeja] some dirty looks for getting them started. He’s been working on 4B, a little quadruped robot that can transform itself into a sphere almost perfectly. Before [Carl] was distracted by the wonders of PCB actuators more than a year ago, he started working
Read MoreVerizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One of the biggest barriers for 5G adoption is simply getting customers access to the new network. Carriers are racing to roll out 5G, and Verizon announced today that it’s reached its goal of launching the service in more than 30 US cities
Read MoreBiswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: Applied AI and big data startup Quantiphi raises $20M from private equity firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management — Renuka Ramnath-led private equity firm says scouting for more deep-technology bets — Multiples Alternate Asset Management has invested $20 million (about Rs 142 crore) … Applied AI and big data startup
Read MoreIt’s almost New Year’s, but there’s still room for one more Moonday Mornings — Hard Fork’s roundup of weekend cryptocurrency news that you might’ve missed. While I’ve got you here, props for sticking it out this year, faithful cryptocurrency fan. It hasn’t been easy: Bitcoin sure has copped it this year, and so has pretty much every
Read MoreSupporters of Snopes’ campaign will get swag like tote bags and T-shirts. | Image: Snopes Fact-checking operation Snopes has launched a crowdfunding campaign ahead of 2020, likely to be a bumper year for online misinformation due to the US presidential election. Snopes launched in 1994 and has funded its work through advertising and the occasional
Read MoreRumored Galaxy S10 Lite. | @Onleaks Specs for Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite have coalesced ahead of its imminent European launch. WinFuture.de posted details based upon a data sheet they’ve seen that match up nicely with previous rumors and FCC filings. Specs include a 6.7-inch Infinity-O hole-punch display with 2400 x 1080 pixels and 20:9 aspect
Read MoreShared responsibility model transparency boosts cloud security Source: Search Compliance
Read MoreDemocratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As far as crimes of vanity go, editing your own Wikipedia page is an extremely relatable one. After all, who doesn’t want some control over their public image? But if you’re hoping to be president of the USA, what
Read MoreAs far as cryptocurrency scams go, OneCoin is probably the one that rules them all. US prosecutors have alleged that the Ponzi scheme raked in approximately $4 billion, defrauding investors from all over the globe. In China alone, law enforcement agents recovered 1.7 billion yuan (US$267.5 million) and prosecuted 98 people. Dr Ruja Ignatova, the
Read MoreIgnition interlock devices are becoming ubiquitous. They can distract drivers and cause crashes. The Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Ana Kova for The Verge A report from The New York Times has revealed that messaging app ToTok, popular in the United Arab Emirates, is in fact a government spy tool, created for the benefit of UAE intelligence officials and used to track citizens’ conversations and movements. ToTok launched earlier this year and
Read MoreWe’ve all seen plenty of impressive free-form soldering in these pages, maybe some of us have even had a go ourselves. Using nothing but bare conductors, electronic components, and solder, complex and beautiful electronic sculptures can be created. But the latest free-form project from [Jiří Praus] takes the medium to a new level, as he’s
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, isn’t quite what it seems on the surface. While it promises “FREE, fast, and secure calling and messaging,” it’s reportedly being used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track users’ chats and listen in on their calls. The news
Read MoreReuters reports that last week, the US Navy banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices, as it represented a “cybersecurity threat,” and employees were ordered to remove the app “to safeguard their personal information.” The bulletin noted that devices that had the short video sharing app installed would be blocked from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet.
Read MorePhoto: Warner Bros. Theaters are receiving a new version of Cats with “some improved visual effects,” just days after it premiered to dismal reviews. The update to the CGI-heavy movie was available to download on Sunday night, with hard drives otherwise ready to ship by Tuesday, according to a memo reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter.
Read MoreJack Wellborn / Worms and Viruses: iOS and macOS are so fundamentally different that the whole notion of getting a cohesive UX with minimal effort by using Catalyst to port an iPad app, is absurd — If there is one word I would use to describe what makes an Apple-like experience, it’s “cohesion”. iOS and
Read MoreIt’s a well-known fact in capitalist societies that any product or service, if being used in a wedding, instantly triples in cost. Wanting to avoid shelling out big money for a simple photo booth for a friend’s big day, [Lewis] decided to build his own. Wanting a quality photo output, a Canon DSLR was selected
Read MoreGabriel J.X. Dance / New York Times: Inside the seven-year-long fight by a number of non-profits that took down three websites hosting child exploitation images — Several websites popular with sexual predators were thwarted last month after a determined campaign by groups dedicated to eliminating the content. It was a rare victory in an unending
Read MoreWe’re late to this by a bit, but I still think it’s important to share: Last Friday, English rockers Radiohead have made their entire discography, dating back to 1993, available to stream on YouTube. That includes every record from the band’s debut, titled Pablo Honey, to 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool — as well a
Read MoreWe know at least one person who ought to make Santa’s ‘nice’ list this year. [Fran] was probably near the top of it already, but sending Santa a handmade greeting card with a fully-functioning guitar amp inside will probably make him rewrite her name in glitter, or silver Sharpie. This stocking stuffer-sized amp is based
Read MorePicture yourself driving down a city street. You go around a curve, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ahead. What should you do? Of course, the answer depends on what that ‘something’ is. A torn paper bag, a lost shoe, or a tumbleweed? You can drive right over it without a
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