Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is demanding that Facebook, Twitter, and Google more aggressively counter disinformation on their platforms. In letters addressed to the companies Friday, O’Rourke’s team outlines how they believe each of them could address the issue after his campaign was falsely linked to a suspected shooter on social media last weekend.
Read MoreAt the dawn of the Internet era, developers on the Windows Shell team created some nifty utilities and shared them with power users in the Windows community. A quarter-century later, PowerToys are back, and this time they’re open source. In nostalgic move, Microsoft brings back PowerToys for Windows 10 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA scene from India’s mission control room, after communication with the lander was lost | Image: ISRO What was supposed to be India’s first soft landing on the Moon today appeared to end in failure when the country’s robotic Vikram lander seemingly crashed into the lunar surface during its powered descent to the ground. If
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Philadelphia news anchor has sued Facebook, Reddit, and other web platforms after a convenience store photo started showing up in dating and erectile dysfunction ads. Karen Hepp, who works for Fox 29 News, filed the suit earlier this week. She alleges that the sites violated her right
Read MoreI’ve been doing Instagram all wrong. Read more… How to Skip All of a Person's Instagram Stories in One Swoop Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIndia’s attempt to become only the fourth country to successfully soft-land on the moon doesn’t look good. India's Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander status a mystery – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Huawei launches PocketVision, an AI-powered app to help those with visual impairments read documents, menus, or any other text using their smartphone camera — Huawei’s Honor subsidiary today launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app called PocketVision, which is designed … Huawei launches PocketVision, an AI-powered app to help those with
Read MoreThey’re not coming to America, though. Smart Fortwo, Forfour debut with chiseled looks – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: YouTube Seems like modifying the Apple Cards, with their titanium build and all-white finish, is becoming a thing. We spoke with one person who etched the design from the back of a Bicycle playing card onto his Apple Card. Another is going a step further and has sharpened the Apple Card into an actual
Read MoreWhen you think about locking your car doors, in most cases your biggest concern is keeping people from stealing items in your car—or the car itself. While that’s certainly a valid concern, one Reddit user brought up another important reason to keep doors locked: to keep kids out. Read more… Keep Kids Safer by Always
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about buying cars from far away, custom orders from Japanese luxury brands, and how to ethically off-load a lemon. Read more… If
Read MoreTile doesn’t want people to forget about it, especially if Apple debuts its own item tracker. Today, Tile announced a minor update to its Google Assistant integration that’ll allow Assistant to directly ring a Tile. The functionality isn’t launching until later this year, but clearly, Tile wants to get its news out ahead of Apple.
Read MoreImage: Google, re-stitched by @atn1988 Fresh off our best look at the Pixel 4’s hardware, another batch of rumors has cropped up regarding what might be the most important part of the phone: the camera. A pair of leaks claims that the upcoming smartphone will offer 8x zoom, an improved Night Sight feature, and a
Read MoreThe line between an advertisement and entertaining content is blurry on YouTube, and a children’s rights watchdog group is asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step in. The group Truth in Advertising has filed a complaint with the FTC over one specific YouTube creator’s channel — Ryan ToysReview. Hosted by seven-year-old Ryan Kaji (but
Read MoreIt was just last week that we covered a report by Google‘s Project Zero security researchers claiming they’d identified a malware campaign targeting iPhones for “at least two years.” When successful, the exploit chain allowed iPhones to be compromised with no interaction from the user beyond visiting a malicious website. Now Apple is disputing some
Read MoreIn our info-obsessed culture, hackers are increasingly interested in ways to quantify the world around them. One popular project is to collect data about their home energy or water consumption to try and identify any trends or potential inefficiencies. For safety and potentially legal reasons, this usually has to be done in a minimally invasive
Read MoreProcreate is getting some major new brush customization tools to make the go-to iPad illustration app even better for professional artists. Its developer, Savage Interactive, revealed that the features will be part of the upcoming Procreate 5 update slated for later this year. As part of the update, the app is getting a new graphics
Read MoreIn this week’s technology-advice column from Lifehacker, we’re going back to our favorite topic: wireless networking. This time around, a reader is having some issues getting an important piece of older gear to work with an important piece of newer gear. If you’ve ever upgraded your router, or are planning to, this… Read more… How
Read More$3,900 buys you additional sunlight in the cabin. Let the light in with the 2020 Bentley Continental GT's glass roof – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft will be hosting a community conference on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and related technologies in March 2020. Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThomas Brewster / Forbes: Court filing: ICE seeks a warrant to compel Apple and Google to provide info on users of Obsidian 4 gun scope app, which has been downloaded 10K+ times — Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and
Read MoreAmericans suck at taking time off work—even when it’s offered, and even when it’s paid for. And then when we do go, most of us find it hard to fully unplug while we’re supposedly “away.” Read more… Do You Use All Your Vacation Days? Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreArtificial-intelligence specialists say the competition will likely hasten the arms race between the malicious actors using AI to create increasingly realistic videos and the technology companies struggling to detect them. ‘Deepfakes,’ deep pockets: Facebook spends million on contest for detecting ‘constantly evolving’ videos Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWhen it comes to home theater, video enthusiasts are usually divided into two camps: those who love their big TVs, and those who need their even bigger projectors. But while setting up a traditional long-throw projector is typically a time-consuming, inflexible affair, increasingly popular ultra-short-throw projectors seek to provide big screen sizes with ample placement
Read MoreThe Global Positioning System (GPS) is so ingrained into our modern life that it’s easy to forget the system was created for, and is still operated by, the United States military. While there are competing technologies, such as GLONASS and Galileo, they are still operated by the governments of their respective countries. So what do
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