If your Twitter feed keeps scrolling and jumping around for no reason, here’s how to fix it. Comms professional Evan Sutton points to the answer in Twitter’s settings menu. This works on both mobile and desktop. Read more… Stop Twitter From Randomly Refreshing Your Feed Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers, raises $30M Series A led by Global Founders Capital — Kovi, a fast-growing 17-month-old Brazilian mobility startup, has raised a $30 million Series A led by Global Founders Capital. Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers,
Read MoreMakena Kelly / The Verge: FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency’s 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about “unlimited” data plans that it throttled — Unlimited should mean unlimited! — On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Toronto-based Untether AI raises $20M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to develop machine learning inferencing hardware — Untether AI, a Toronto-based startup that’s developing high-efficiency, high-performance chips for AI inferencing workloads … Toronto-based Untether AI raises M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to
Read MoreOn Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency. It alleges that the company lied to customers about its “unlimited” data plans because it throttled their data if they ever went over a certain threshold. The settlement requires AT&T to deposit that $60 million
Read MoreRight now, my oven looks clean—but when I turn off the overhead lights, it looks like it’s covered in tiny filaments of dust. My kitchen counters, which also looked clean two seconds ago, reveal a spattering of crumbs that I must have missed during the last wipe-down. Every surface in my home, from my desk
Read MoreEach year, while developing new and exciting Thanksgiving content, I try to walk the line between “wow, this uniquely delicious” and “she is a mad woman who must be stopped.” This results in praise (from people who are already onboard with my bullshit), but it also brings a lot of festive shouting. Read more… Just
Read MoreImage: Tile Tile’s latest Bluetooth trackers, including the new Sticker and the improved Mate and Slim, are part of a great pre-Black Friday deal that you can get in on right now through the Tile site or Best Buy. At Tile, you can get an eight-pack of Stickers, along with a free Google Nest Mini,
Read MorePhoto: Team Hong Kong Amid controversy, one team fights to prove they belong Continue reading… Team Hong Kong’s unlikely journey to the Overwatch World Cup Source: New feed
Read MoreIf you’ve ever purchased a domain name from Network Solutions, Register.com, or Web.com, you’ll want to change your password ASAP. The domain registrars have announced that they experienced a data breach in August 2019. Read more… Update Your Network Solutions, Register.com. or Web.com Password Now Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe tensions inside TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company highlight a growing challenge for the American Internet as Chinese tech giants race to expand and compete more directly with social-media firms in the West. Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you haven’t yet seen Saturday Night Live’s “Duolingo for Talking to Children” sketch, we highly recommend it. It’s funny because it’s true: Talking to kids can be surprisingly intimidating. Should I ask them about school? Doesn’t everyone ask them about school? Wait, are they even old enough to be in school? Read more… If
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative unit, about his story that was published recently regarding the fake comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s online net neutrality debate. If you haven’t read the piece,
Read MoreImage: Control4 Smart home platform vendor Control4 is launching a new way to interact with its system called the Neeo. The Neeo is a touchscreen remote control that lets Control4 customers access their smart home devices and adjust settings, schedules, music playback, and more. It’s available in either black or silver through Control4 dealers starting
Read MoreHere at The Verge, we’ve already established our button bona fides. We’ve got a Button of the Month column and a podcast called Why’d You Push That Button?. We track button development, we mourn their passing into oblivion, and we write ballads to the weirdest buttons that humans have invented. So it really stings when
Read MoreIgnite 2019: Microsoft says its latest collaboration with Warner Bros could help store data for generations to come. Microsoft: Here's why we just stored the whole Superman movie inside a bit of glass Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreJust last month, we wrote about a couple that was swindled out of nearly $12,000 on Airbnb because of a phony listing. But according to a report by senior staff writer Allie Conti for Vice—who fell victim to a scam played on Airbnb users in several major cities—scammers on the platform are becoming a hell
Read MoreImage: Xiaomi Xiaomi has been teasing the idea for a few months now, and it’s finally here: the CC9 Pro, the company’s first smartphone with a 108-megapixel camera. Before you get too excited, this isn’t the mind-blowing wraparound-screen Mi Mix Alpha that the company showed off earlier this year, which Xiaomi promises will also feature
Read MoreActivists are hopeful they’re getting through to the Facebook chief. The Technology 202: Mark Zuckerberg just dined with civil rights leaders hoping to change his mind on political ads Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreiOS/Android: Junk mail is a human misery, a failure of capitalism, a way to lose an important bill in a stack of trash. To stop getting so much junk mail, use the PaperKarma app. Take a picture of the offending mail, and PaperKarma will tell the sender to remove you from their mailing list. PaperKarma
Read MoreI’m going to go ahead and pat myself on the back for setting up a Google Alert for the words “Qnap” and “malware.” I use one of the company’s NAS boxes, as do many others, and now I have a chance to inoculate my device against a nasty new strain of malware that’s making the
Read MoreXiaomi’s Mi Watch will go on sale later this month for $185. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Mi Watch: an Apple Watch lookalike that runs a skinned version of Google Wear OS with prices starting at $185 (CNY 1,299). We first saw a glimpse of the Mi Watch last week when we
Read MoreThis top-rated model costs less than the same-size Instant Pot and includes 13 automated cooking modes. Instant Pot alternative: Grab a 6-quart Gourmia pressure cooker for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOrson John helps prepare Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Delta II payload fairing on Sept. 4, 2018, at Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Orson John: A NASA Pathways Student Becomes a Reliability Engineer Source: NASA
Read MoreMasahiro Sakurai will give us an in-depth look at Fatal Fury pugilist Terry Bogard in 45-minute livestream on Wednesday. How to watch: Smash Bros. Ultimate director will show off next DLC fighter Wednesday – CNET Source: CNet
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