Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture
What’s cancel culture really like? Ask a teenager. They know. Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhat’s cancel culture really like? Ask a teenager. They know. Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg doubled down on free speech. The Technology 202: Twitter placed the political ad ball in Facebook’s court Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreGuilty pleas to charges of hacking and an extortion conspiracy cap a legal saga that ensnared the tech companies in data breach scandals. 2 Plead Guilty in 2016 Uber and Lynda.com Hacks Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft has partnered with a Regional Transport Office in the northern city of Dehradun India to roll out a smartphone-based system for driving license tests. The company’s Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) uses AI to monitor drivers and their driving. To use the AI, the driver has to place a phone on a holder on the dashboard of
Read MoreBehind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV Continue reading… In the hot seat Source: New feed
Read MoreBusinesses are turning to multi-cloud solutions – and the most successful providers will be those that can use channel partners to help customers manage their platforms. Can AWS be caught? Here's how its cloud computing rivals can improve their chances Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHere’s a breakdown of how the saga of the controversial Chinese telecom giant and phone maker has unfolded. Huawei ban: Full timeline as FCC says it'll cut off carriers using Chinese company's gear – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreScreenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge One of Medium’s biggest strengths is its sleek design, which can give anything published on the platform an air of legitimacy, regardless of whether it deserves it or not. Now, one Twitter user has released a script that breaks this illusion, which gives every Medium post a gaudy
Read MoreThe general election has caused the government to hold off again, according to Bloomberg. Decision on giving Huawei access to UK's 5G network apparently delayed again – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: Nintendo beats estimates in Q2 with sales of 4.8M Switch consoles, up 50% YoY, and operating income of ~$615M on revenue of ~$2.5B — – Switch sales climb 50% from a year ago to 4.8 million units — Nintendo sticks with conservative full-year earnings outlook Nintendo beats estimates in Q2 with
Read MoreSarah Emerson / OneZero: An investigation into the supply chain of AmazonBasics batteries shows how Amazon masks its private label operations through a discreet network of outsourcing — One of Amazon’s smallest and most popular products has a surprisingly large footprint — heard the “pop!” from my living room … An investigation into the supply
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Gaming will always be there for you. No matter how bad the weather is, how you’re feeling, or whatever else is going on in your life, you can always find some respite in video games. They let you explore
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Apple Watch has become the standard by which all other smartwatches are measured. It provides you with information about your fitness, heart rate, and general health; lets you listen to your favorite music and other audio streams; notifies your friends or family in case of emergency; lets
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve ever wondered about the value of having multiple social networks competing to develop the best products and policies, Wednesday offered us a clear example. Facebook is now three weeks into a controversy over whether (and how) it ought to regulate political ads, and the lies
Read MoreButterflies are rather like Goldilocks, preferring conditions to be neither too hot nor too cold, but “just right.” Under climate change, the temperature at any given time of summer is, on average, getting warmer, leaving butterflies (and their nocturnal cousins, the moths) with the challenge of how to remain in their optimal temperature window. One
Read MoreFacebook, once an innocent tool to share ‘what’s on your mind’ has increasingly been weaponized by governments to spread disinformation and manipulate elections — something hundreds of the tech giants’ employees outlined in an open letter this week that urged the company to rethink its stance on political ads. As reported by The New York
Read MoreImage: iFixit iFixit has completed its traditional teardown of Apple’s latest AirPods and, just as Apple promised, it’s bad news for repairs. The organization awarded the noise-canceling buds a big fat zero repairability score, noting that their “non-modular, glued-together design and lack of replacement parts makes repair both impractical and uneconomical.” That’s the same score
Read MoreKevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: Report: 21M stolen credentials from global Fortune 500 organizations were found for sale on the dark web, 16M of which were compromised in the last 12 months — There have been many studies and investigations into the number of stolen credentials available on the dark web. Report: 21M stolen credentials from
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 Marcus Aurelius used to say: Let’s make it rock! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 30 2019, at
Read MoreFrom the vantage point of space aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan captured this image of a California wildfire. Observing California's Wildfires from the Space Station Source: NASA
Read MoreIn the market for a low-poly change to your look? Hate the idea of showing up for a costume party only to find out someone is wearing the same mask as you? Then this face changing front-projection mask may be just the thing for you. To be honest, we’re not sure just how much [Sean Hodgins]’
Read MoreIf you are still holding on dearly to your iPhone 5 (we salute you), you need to upgrade its software immediately to keep GPS, web, and email working. According to an Apple support page, you’ll need to update your device to iOS 10.3.4 before November 3. This is due to the GPS rollover problem that had
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo’s third-quarter earnings are out, and they reveal that the company sold 4.8 million Switch consoles between July and September, a year-on-year increase of just over 50 percent. 41.67 million units have been shipped in total as of September 30th, meaning the Switch will almost certainly overtake
Read MoreWhatsApp has revealed that at least two dozen academics, lawyers, Dalit activists and journalists in India were the target of surveillance by threat operators using security firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The revelations, reported by news outlet Indian Express, come as the Facebook-owned messaging service filed a lawsuit against the Israeli company for helping government
Read MoreDropbox Blog: Dropbox says Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving the company after six and a half years and heading into retirement — After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement. From the beginning, we knew Guido would be a
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