The numbers don’t lie: Tons of people are ditching their desktops and laptops, and watching porn straight from their phones, or so suggest the figures from the internet‘s most visited adult entertainment platform, Pornhub. The site’s annual data review reveals that 76.6 percent of users consume smut via their phones. That’s a 5-percent increase compared to 2018’s
Read MoreAh, the holidays—a time for celebration, family, and garbage. Lots of garbage. Lots of decorative garbage that lasts for up to a month or a day before meeting its end in the trash. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans churned through over five million Christmas trees in 2017 alone. And Earth911… Read more…
Read MoreImage: Marvel Studios Dread it, run from it — destiny arrives all the same Continue reading… Like it or not, the Marvel empire redefined cinema this decade Source: New feed
Read MoreIn this image from December 2000, the Expedition One crew–the first to permanently inhabit the International Space Station–are about to eat a treat of fresh oranges. A Treat for the International Space Station's First Crew Source: NASA
Read MoreSix example images that fool AI from the ObjectNet dataset. | Image: MIT Machine vision has been one of the biggest success stories of the AI boom, enabling everything from automated medical scans to self-driving cars. But while the accuracy of all-seeing algorithms has improved massively, these systems can still be confused by images that
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Robocalls have become unavoidable, flooding phone networks with spam so thoroughly that most people have stopped picking up calls from unknown numbers. It’s a massive and embarrassing technological failure, but the causes behind the problem are more complex than you might think. The biggest problems are baked into
Read MoreGlitch wants to do for web apps what YouTube did for videos, Flickr and Imgur did for pictures, and Twitter did for bad opinions: make them easy to create, share, and embed, and give them the chance to reach the right audience or even go viral. I talked to CEO Anil Dash about Glitch, his
Read MoreFacebook provides 100,000 AI-manipulated videos for researchers to develop better deepfake detection systems. Facebook, Microsoft, AWS: We want you to take up the deepfake detection challenge Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Your Phone app is not just for Samsung Galaxy phones and Windows Insiders anymore. Windows 10 Your Phone app: Now all Android users can make calls from their PC Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHere’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big brain and your long life. Courtesy of our primate ancestors that invented cooking over a million years ago, you are a member of the one species able to afford so many cortical neurons in
Read MoreThe New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) wants to update its contentious BitLicense, which regulates cryptocurrency businesses based in or serving customers in the Big Apple. Proposed changes include publishing a list of approved assets on the NYDFS website. Any licensed digital asset provider would be allowed to offer these as long as it
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Are you tired of cords, but too stingy to shell out the big bucks for good wireless headphones? No worries, we’ve got just the deal for you. JBL’s wireless T450BT cans are now only $24.95 — a massive 58-percent discount
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today we’re going to talk about Jack Dorsey’s surprise tweetstorm about potentially decentralizing the service — but first, some history. Death came to the Twitter developer community on August 12th, 2012. In an infamous memo, the company’s head of product divided potential uses of the Twitter API into
Read MoreHackers will do anything to get their hands on Bitcoin. In Texas, US, extortionists managed to breach home security cameras to demand cryptocurrency from an unsuspecting couple. Tania Amador, a 28-year-old who lives in Grand Prarie just outside Dallas, gave a video to local news which reportedly showed that her Ring security system had been
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire … Profile
Read MoreIf you want a four-door sedan with Toyota reliability but are turned off by more-mainstream Camrys, check out the TRD model. Thanks to chassis and appearance enhancements it looks and feels like a different car entirely. Is the 2020 Toyota Camry TRD actually sporty? – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe GLE53 Coupe takes an already-great mild-hybrid powertrain and shrouds it in a stylish wrapper. 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE53 Coupe first drive review: A familiar formula – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is enabling the new Quick Searches feature for Windows 10 users in 11 markets outside the US. Windows 10 2004: New 20H1 build shows off Quick Searches feature coming to all Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHave you ever wondered whether it’s worth the time and expense to install threaded inserts into your 3D-printed projects? [Stefan] from CNC Kitchen did, and decided to answer the question once and for all, with science. If this sounds familiar, it’s with good reason: we covered [Stefan]’s last stab at assessing threaded inserts back in March.
Read MoreAfter TikTok’s massive success on its home turf in China (where it’s known as Doyuin), its local competitors are gearing up to rival it by launching apps designed for specific audiences. A report from South China Morning Post suggests that TikTok challenger Kuaishou has launched a short video creation app aimed at children, called Kuaishou Qingchunji. The app
Read MoreAlexander George / Popular Mechanics: The Mac Pro uses three axial fans and a centrifugal fan to keep it cool, with blade design drawn from vehicle tires to make them sound pleasant even when loud — Spend a few tens of thousands on optional upgrades, and the new Mac Pro becomes a list of superlative
Read MoreHowever, Mississippi wasn’t so smitten with the Child, according to this state-by-state breakdown. Baby Yoda loved most by Utah, New Hampshire, Rhode Island – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen his makerspace was gifted a pair of Luminator LED signs of the sort you might see on the front of a bus, [PWalsh] decided to pull one apart to see what made it tick. Along the way, he managed to reverse engineer its control protocol and replace its original control board with a WiFi-connected
Read MoreTikTok owner ByteDance has just started testing its music streaming app, Resso, in India and Indonesia. The TikTok-styled app was quietly released at the end of the last month. A report from Bloomberg suggests the app was initially launched six months ago and has garnered over 27,000 users. Now, it’s available on the Google Play Store
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