The idea of throwing a party for a gaggle of your kid’s friends sounds great in theory, but dealing with an additional five (six? Eight? A dozen?) children requires a special set of skills—the very kind a teacher has, in spades. Read more… How to Calm Rowdy Kids, According to Teachers Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreJOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images While I paged through Ninja’s first book — with its few words sandwiched between high-gloss promotional photos and charts — I got the distinct feeling that I was consuming something from the future. The book, Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, is itself gamified; it has a progress bar, for example,
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Facebook’s conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data — Neither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy. Facebook's conservative bias "audit" draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data (Cat
Read MoreFamous actors and musicians, the head of the US Department of Energy, and regular Instagram users have been spreading a hoax memo that claims the company will soon have permission to make deleted photos and messages public and use those posts against them in court. The claims are fake, and the assertions don’t make a
Read MoreThere’s good news for Americans saving for retirement: We’re getting better and better at actually doing it, according to a new survey from Bankrate.com. The percentage of people who have increased their contributions in the past year has almost doubled since 2011, with 29% increasing their contributions. Forty-six… Read more… You Should Increase Your Retirement
Read MoreThe ramifications of Instagram’s supposed new “rule where they can use your photos” weren’t totally clear. This viral Instagram hoax duped A-listers — and the man overseeing our nuclear arsenal Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreStandard LED headlights and safety systems are among the tweaks for 2020. 2020 Honda Civic Si piles on the value – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAt just $25,000, the 2020 Civic Si looks to be a pretty sweet performance bargain. 2020 Honda Civic Si gets a big tech upgrade for only 0 more – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreWe’ve rounded up the best prices on every model. The best Apple AirPods and Beats wireless earbuds deals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe PC maker’s Inspiron line, including the new ultralightweight Inspiron 14 7000, will also get Intel’s latest mobile processors. Dell's award-winning XPS laptop gets 6-core Intel Comet Lake chip ahead of IFA 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA member of the audience takes a picture with their phone as Vice President Mike Pence is introduced during the sixth meeting of the National Space Council. A View of the National Space Council Source: NASA
Read MoreSpace is very much the final frontier for humanity, at least as far as our current understanding of the universe takes us. Only a handful of countries and corporations on Earth have the hardware to readily get there, and even fewer are capable of reaching orbit. For these reasons, working in this field can seem
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized loans in emerging markets, raises $100M Series D led by RPS Ventures to expand into India — Tala, a Santa Monica, California-headquartered startup that creates a credit profile to provide uncollateralized loans to millions of people … Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized
Read MoreThe quantum internet is coming sooner than you think—even sooner than quantum computing itself. When things change over, you might not even notice. But when they do, new rules will protect your data against attacks from computers that don’t even exist yet. Read more… You Won't See Quantum Internet Coming Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreRyan Smith / AnandTech: Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process — Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power
Read More{$inline_image}Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. One of today’s greatest technology mysteries is not how Bitcoin works, but who created it. On October 31, 2008, someone, somewhere, published Bitcoin‘s white paper on a cryptography mailing list
Read MoreWhen macOS Catalina finally drops, you’re going to notice a number of big changes. One of the more memorable ones is Apple’s grand transformation of iTunes into standalone Music, Video, and Podcast apps. We love the move, but it does lead to a few questions, like “How do you share media around your house?” Read
Read MoreThe liquidator overseeing the slow death of New Zealand-based shitcoin factory Cryptopia has issued its latest update and states progress is “pleasing.” However, it’s not all been plain sailing for liquidators Grant Thornton. It took several months for the liquidator to obtain Cryptopia‘s data from the exchange’s third-party data servers. What’s more, the data appears
Read MoreNeither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy. The Technology 202: Facebook attracts swift blowback from report on anti-conservative bias Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The data collected by self-driving cars used to be a closely guarded secret. But recently, many companies developing autonomous driving systems have begun to release their data to the research community in dribs and drabs. The latest to do so is Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, which
Read MoreSo many opportunities for improvement, too few taken Continue reading… The Origin EVO 16-S’s 16-inch display doesn’t make for a better laptop Source: New feed
Read MoreAmrita Khalid / Engadget: Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox — Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan’s efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens. Google and Mozilla
Read MoreImage: Garmin Amazon has released its first smartwatch app for its music streaming service. Starting today, Amazon Music is available on select Garmin smartwatches, allowing subscribers to download and play music from their wrist. If you have a Prime subscription, then you can access 2 million tracks from Amazon Music, while Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers
Read MoreAmazon woos members of Congress to its warehouses even as President Trump and his would-be democrat rivals rip the retailer for its treatment of the people who work there. Amazon’s strategy to win over congressional critics: tours of its giant warehouses Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIn documents sent to police in Illinois, Ring informed officers what “should not be shared with the public.” Amazon's Ring wants police to keep these surveillance details from you – CNET Source: CNet
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