After all these years, someone might have figured out exactly how much Shakespeare worked on one of his last plays. It’s long been suspected that Shakespeare didn’t write the whole of Henry VIII, but now, thanks to machine learning, we could know just how much he outsourced to a playwright friend. For those of you who
Read MoreImage: Artiphon Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba. The Orba is a small, handheld device that’s a synth, looper, and controller all in one. It’s shaped like a halved grapefruit, and mimics the gestures used on smartphones and trackpads to let you make beats and
Read MoreFrom games to social media to dating: These 25 apps had the most impact on our lives in the last 10 years. Instagram, Angry Birds and more: These were the apps that defined the decade – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDon’t wait until after Turkey day to take advantage of the massive savings at Costco. Black Friday has come early and we’ve pulled some of the best options for your holiday saving pleasure. Black Friday Costco deals come early on Vizio, Xbox, Lenovo and more (updated) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter confirms it is testing threaded conversations features from its prototype twttr app on Twitter.com, ahead of the official rollout next year — Twttr, the prototype app Twitter launched earlier this year, has been testing new ways to display conversations, including through the use of threaded replies and other visual cues.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced an updated drone policy, intended to take the place of a 2015 policy guidance. The new policy maintains a lot of the same language and regulations, with a few key additions addressing concerns about cybersecurity and privacy. The new version of the
Read MoreAndrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Huawei Mate 30 Pro review: impressive hardware and camera but the lack of inbuilt Google services is a deal breaker, making it hard to justify the €1,099 price — It’s been roughly 2 months now since Huawei announced the new Mate 30 Pro as well as the Kirin 990 chipsets. Huawei
Read MoreYesterday, news broke that Twitter would begin to get rid of accounts that hadn’t been used in over six months, starting on December 11. While it makes some sense to purge Twitter of perfectly good usernames that are going unused, some users wondered what would happen with the accounts of the deceased. At the time,
Read MoreWhat should we make of videos that seem to show Tesla drivers napping while their cars zip along on Autopilot? ‘I Think This Guy Is, Like, Passed Out in His Tesla’ Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes the wacky idea that we’re living in a computer simulation and mashes it up with the mind-boggling “many worlds” theory to say that, essentially, our entire universe is part of
Read MoreThe economies of scale generally dictate that anything produced in large enough numbers will eventually become cheap. But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine jet engines are still expensive to produce compared to other forms of propulsion. The United
Read MoreDeals for PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One games and systems are live already, and more are coming soon. Best Black Friday deals 2019: Xbox, Switch and PS4 discounts available now and coming soon – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe president’s head on Sylvester Stallone’s body? Go ahead, meme-makers, knock yourself out. Trump tweets photo of his head atop shirtless Rocky body, jokes fly – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHint: It’s not a gigantic space battle scene. J.J. Abrams reveals his favorite scene in the Star Wars prequels – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere are all the PS console and bundle discounts available now — and the ones coming up. Black Friday 2019 PlayStation deals: PS4 Pro with Call of Duty for 9, PSVR for 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has followed up with more details surrounding its plan to remove inactive accounts over the coming months. First, the company says the process “impacts accounts in the EU only, for now.” That important tidbit wasn’t made clear when the news broke on November 26th. But far more
Read MorePhoto by Tom Warren / The Verge The Department of Justice has decided not to do anything about wireless carriers’ attempts to turn eSIMs into a way to keep customers locked to their network. It doesn’t entirely rule out taking action against anticompetitive behavior in the future. But for now, the DOJ says it’s going
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Twitter pauses its plan to delete inactive accounts, after concerns were raised about deceased users, until it creates a way to memorialize accounts — Twitter said Wednesday it was putting on hold a plan to delete inactive accounts amid concerns that accounts from deceased users would be swept up in the
Read MoreI don’t know if you can tell or not, but I recently purchased a waffle maker, and have been testing the limits of what can be waffled. (Prosciutto waffles very well, as it turns out.) I already had plans to waffle any and all leftover stuffing, and mashed potatoes seemed like the rational next step.
Read MoreFor many of us, the term “wearable technology” conjures up mental images of the Borg from Star Trek: harsh mechanical shapes and exposed wiring grafted haphazardly onto a human form that’s left with a range of motion just north of the pre-oilcan Tin Man. It’s simply a projection of the sort of hardware we’re used to.
Read MoreGoogle’s Nest Hello doorbells can now ring with a little seasonal cheer, thanks to new holiday-themed doorbell chimes. There are currently four doorbell themes to pick from in the Nest app: Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve, and Winter. Each of the four themes has 10 different chimes that will play when someone… Read more… Enable
Read MoreA well-gifted gadget isn’t just a futuristic toy. A good piece of tech can make someone’s life easier, or even save them money in the long run. Here’s the best tech you can give this year. Read more… The Inventory's 2019 Gadget Gift Guide Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When used within Russia, Apple’s Maps and Weather apps now list Crimea as being a Russian territory. The move, reported by BBC News, is the latest example of Apple kowtowing to a government’s demands to keep its devices and services in good standing. The company faced significant criticism
Read MoreA recent Reddit post details the danger of using a popular built-in tool in the iOS image editing menu. The tool, commonly referred to as the highlighter (it’s actually a chisel-shaped marker, don’t @ me) is often used to cover sensitive information in screenshots or photographs — such as credit card numbers or the address
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Trouva, an online marketplace for independent boutiques selling hard-to-find homeware, raises $21.8M led by Octopus Ventures — Amazon helped pioneer and now dominates the online marketplace business model, where a variety of merchants post items for sale on its platform for billions of consumers to discover and buy them. London-based
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