Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has a hardware event lined up for Wednesday, and if last year’s showcase was any indication, we might see multiple new devices from the company. CNBC has just published a report saying that Amazon is working on wireless earbuds with health-tracking features and “a new, bulkier Echo
Read More“This is Earth, not planet Mars.” Indonesia fires turn sky a horrifying blood red – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEugene Kim / CNBC: Sources: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds with an accelerometer that monitors things like calories burned and the pace and distance of runs — – Amazon is working on wireless earbuds that can track things like the distance run, calories burned, and pace of running, CNBC has learned. Sources: Amazon is
Read MoreWith the latest iOS update, the Apple health app can now tell you about the noise levels you’ve been exposed to—both from the environment around you, and from your headphones. Here’s how to set it up, and what to do with that information once you have it. Read more… How to Get iOS 13 to
Read MorePhoto: Epic Games Epic is making a big change to the way matchmaking works in Fortnite. With the game’s next major update, v10.40, the developer will be introducing skill-based matchmaking to the battle royale. “Since battle royale launched, the matchmaking strategy for our core modes has remained mostly unchanged,” Epic explained in a blog post
Read MorePresident Trump has been pushing Apple, which makes the vast majority of its products in China, to build them in the United States. Apple’s most expensive computer will be U.S.-made after tariff exemption Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe next time you get pegged with a Nerf dart, it might be from an incredible 120 feet away — because Hasbro’s new Ultra One blaster, coming October 1st for $49.99, is boasting ranges we’ve never seen from an unmodified blaster thanks to a completely redesigned dart with new stabilizing fins. It could be the
Read MoreThe persistence of vision (POV) optical illusion is pretty common in cheap toys nowadays, but how cool would it be to have your own programmable POV message board? German electronics grad student [Matej] has luckily created an open source fidget spinner with a fully customizable POV display that lets you share whatever thoughts you’d like
Read MoreAlexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange launches long-awaited bitcoin futures as part of its Bakkt venture — Intercontinental Exchange bets consumers, businesses and Wall Street will embrace cryptocurrencies — The owner of the New York Stock Exchange launched its long-delayed market … NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange launches long-awaited bitcoin futures as
Read MoreWe used to think of “The Talk” as that one intensely awkward conversation where your parent sits you down to tell you about sex (you already know what it is) and to strongly suggest you not have it (maybe you already are). But now we know that The Talk is actually a whole series of
Read MoreMicrosoft publishes rare out-of-band security update to address CVE-2019-1367 and CVE-2019-1255. Microsoft releases out-of-band security update to fix IE zero-day & Defender bug Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreOne of the highlights of House House’s Untitled Goose Game, the “slapstick-stealth-sandbox” game in which you play a terrible goose wreaking havoc in a lovely English village, is the adaptive soundtrack of Debussy’s Preludes. The playful piano music almost provides a kind of insight into the goose’s mind — the melody plays in quiet, short
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Drum, a marketplace connecting businesses to customers through an on-demand network of salespeople, raises $11M seed round — It’s often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they are more high-maintenance than consumers … Drum, a marketplace connecting businesses to customers
Read MorePurdue University recently announced a major learning management system change: By the start of the fall 2020 semester, the entire university system will move from Blackboard Learn to D2L Brightspace. Purdue Begins Transition to D2L Brightspace Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreIt’ll be a cleaner future for gaming. Sony's PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox join the fight against climate change – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA new Show and Tell feature on Echo Show devices can recognize some objects. Alexa can now recognize objects – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePopular Information: Facebook page with 1.1M followers called “I Love America” is one of many Ukrainian-run pages now pushing pro-Trump propaganda and recycling 2016-era IRA memes — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week. Facebook page with 1.1M followers called "I
Read MoreEmergency rooms aren’t always for life-or-death emergencies: sometimes you have enough time that you can make a choice about where to go. (If your child is the one who needs care, for example, you should know where to find the nearest pediatric-ready ER.) Read more… Find the Closest and Safest Emergency Room With ER Inspector
Read MoreSony today revealed a new feature of its in-development PlayStation console: a power-saving mode which will reduce the amount of energy used in each home. This is apparently an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the general population of gamers. Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke of the new feature in the
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew contracts with ICE and CBP, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code leading to customer downtime — Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract. Code deployment toolmaker Chef
Read MoreThe product recommendations program has been criticized for potentially steering customers to buy inferior goods. Amazon reveals more on Amazon's Choice picks, but senator unimpressed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreReuters: Hyundai Motor Group to invest $1.6B in cash and $400M in R&D in a $4B self-driving vehicle joint venture with Dublin-based Aptiv, with both owning 50% stakes — SEOUL (Reuters) – Hyundai Motor Group will invest $1.6 billion in a joint venture to develop self-driving vehicle technologies with Aptiv … Hyundai Motor Group to
Read MoreWe’ve all seen cheap welders for sale from the usual online sources, small inverter stick welders for a very tempting price. But are they any good? When my local supermarket had one in its offers aisle, I took the plunge and placed it in my cart alongside the usual week’s supply of Marmite. That was
Read MoreYour first few years after college are like getting thrown into a bad game show. You need to balance a new career, a bevy of new living expenses, an eventual retirement to start saving for, and student loans with a grace period that’s far too short. And don’t forget: You need to build credit, so
Read MoreROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Last night’s Emmy Awards was nothing new. HBO, Amazon, and Netflix took home many awards at TV’s most prestigious event. Yet the most interesting part of the evening wasn’t necessarily who won, but the commercials for major streaming services that played between acceptance speeches, a signal of how stretched out TV is
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