If you’ve always wanted an iPod click wheel on your iPhone, a new app is helping to bring Apple’s iconic music player back into the modern touchscreen era. Rewound is a basic music player app that’s available in Apple’s App Store. It uses downloadable skins to transform the app into an iPod or more, and
Read MoreAt $249, Apple’s noise-canceling wireless earbuds are a strong contender in the high-end earphones market. Apple AirPods Pro Review: The ‘Hearable’ at Its Best Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter is funding a small team of researchers to build an “open and decentralized standard for social media,” with the goal of making Twitter a client for that standard. CEO Jack Dorsey announced the news and laid out his reasoning in a tweet thread this morning, although
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge BMW is finally going to start integrating Android Auto into its cars starting in July 2020, the automaker announced Wednesday. And not only that, but it will be wireless Android Auto, making BMW one of the few automakers to offer Google’s smartphone-powered in-car infotainment option without requiring
Read MoreI came across an advice column in The Guardian recently that weighed on my heart. A mother wrote in to ask for advice because her 10-year-old son had been talking about how nobody cared about him, he wished he’d never been born and his life wasn’t worth living. He had also, she said, mentioned suicide
Read MoreThis image of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Source: NASA
Read MoreMark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, will remove some Steven Crowder’s videos targeting Vox’s Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian’s homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist. YouTube bans videos that "maliciously insult" people based
Read MoreA $100 discount on the 2019 iPad Air, now available at its lowest price ever. On sale today at Best Buy: The 10.2-inch iPad for 0 plus deals on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One S – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s massive video site says it will also ratchet up its treatment of veiled threats and repeat offenders. YouTube new harassment policies bans racial, gender or LGBTQ insults – CNET Source: CNet
Read More@jack: Twitter to fund bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter using it as a client — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social
Read MoreAt 16, Thunberg is the youngest person to be named Time’s Person of the Year. Time names climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreiOS 13.3 is here. While you wait for it to download and install onto your device, you have two options. You can scan through Apple’s list of fixes and changes—which only eat up a fraction of the time it takes to just download iOS 13.3—or you can stick with us, and we’ll show you how
Read MoreAnnie Musgrove / Tech.eu: Secure Code Warrior, which offers gamified coding security training for developers, raises $47.6M led by Goldman Sachs — Secure Code Warrior, the global cybersecurity training company with a base in Belgium, has raised a Series B funding round of $47.6 million led by Goldman Sachs. Secure Code Warrior, which offers gamified
Read MoreThe company says it’s developing other ways to detect abuse on its platform. The Technology 202: Facebook defends encryption push as lawmakers raise child exploitation concerns Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe online seller will let last-minute shoppers use its stores, same-day deliveries and grocery shipments on Dec. 24. Amazon extends its holiday shopping window with one-day shipping and new stores – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA new policy is a response to criticism that the video service hasn’t done enough to curb bad behavior by users. YouTube Takes Tougher Stance on Harassment Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreVirtual reality may be starting to grab people’s attention. VR sales on the upswing, thanks to Facebook's Oculus Quest – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGrowing up in Australia in the late 1970s, brothers Matt and Pete Hill first had the idea of creating a skateboard that was more than just a skateboard. Lacking access to reliable transportation, the brothers — already fixtures in Melbourne’s underground skateboard scene — decided to take their vehicle of choice, a skateboard, and retrofit
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube today announced an expansion of its anti-harassment policy that will ban video creators from insulting one another on the basis of their race, gender expression, or sexual orientation — even if the person they are insulting is a popular creator, celebrity, politician, or other public figure. The
Read MorePresident Trump’s long trumpeted pet project, the creation of a new branch of the military called the Space Force, is now finally on the cusp of becoming a reality, thanks to a new bill that may be voted on today by Congress. If it does go into effect, the bill will stand up a Space
Read MoreLast week, we discussed the ins and outs of buying a second seat on a flight just because you feel like it, damn it. This week, in other ways airlines get you to spend your money, former NBA player for the Golden State Warriors, Festus Ezeli, tweeted his experience on a recent Alaska Airlines flight—when
Read MoreYou’ve just upgraded to the most recent version of Windows 10. Before you get back to work, use this checklist to ensure that your privacy and security settings are correct and that you’ve cut annoyances to a bare minimum. After Windows 10 upgrade, do these seven things immediately Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreEcho Dot + 1-Month of Amazon Music Unlimited | $11 | Amazon | $9 for Prime members Read more… Get a Month of Amazon Music Unlimited and an Echo Dot for as Little as Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreJuli Clover / MacRumors: Apple’s support document says the Pro Display XDR with the optional nano-texture glass can only be cleaned with a special Apple-provided cloth — Apple’s new Pro Display XDR comes with an optional nano-texture glass, which is etched at the nanometer level to cut down on reflectivity and glare for a matte
Read MoreYahoo Groups forums are shutting down. Digital preservationists insist that we will one day wish we had been better record keepers of a world increasingly lived online. These crusaders want to preserve ‘human culture’ online. Their latest target: Yahoo Groups. Source: Washington Post Tech
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