Facebook has had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed, view stories on Instagram, or send messages in WhatsApp. Facebook says it is aware of the issues and “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Read MoreEthereum might feature more decentralized apps (dapps) than any other blockchain, but its rivals are enjoying significantly higher usage. In fact, TRON dapps attracted more active users than any other network over the past three months, reports Dapp.com with new research. “484 new dapps were added to the market this quarter, and Ethereum is still the
Read MoreUltimate Ears’ Blast speaker is $69.99 for a limited time at Dell as part of its Black Friday in July event. The Blast supports Bluetooth connections, but unlike its Boom series of speakers, this one also has far-field microphones and Alexa integration so you can think of it as an Amazon Echo speaker but with
Read MoreIf you’re reading this at work, you are probably worried that something you’re doing right now is slowly killing you. The accumulated years of slouched spinal posture, squinting at a screen and sitting (“the new smoking”) are sources of health paranoia for the 80 percent of the workforce whose jobs do not regularly… Read more…
Read MoreIt’ll debut on Hyundai’s Smartstream engine family, starting with a 1.6-liter I4. Hyundai's new Continuously Variable Valve Duration tech boosts both power and efficiency – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s the fourth car to carry the Inspiration Series trim level. Lexus LS 500 Inspiration Series brings special color palette to sedans for the first time – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read More‘Hey Google’ now works in the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, France, and the Netherlands. Sonos expands Google Assistant support to six additional countries – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEighty requests came from around the world. Apple says governments asked for 634 apps to be removed last year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has issued a solicitation for a tiny, “self-contained and free flying orbital outpost” that can host experiments and equipment in orbit and could eventually be scaled up for human habitation. The Orbital Outpost that’s being solicited would be small: it needs to have at least a cubic meter of
Read MoreMicrosoft is rolling out an update to its Your Phone app on Windows 10 that will allow it to mirror notifications from your Android phone onto your PC. This makes good on a promise from August 2018 when Microsoft said that notifications would be coming. The core concept of Your Phone hasn’t changed. Once you
Read MoreI don’t think of myself as a competitive person, but give me a video game, and it’s like I’m in an Olympic final and I’m not going home without a gold medal. Today’s video game happens to be a Google Doodle baseball game where your opponents are peanuts, your entire team is made of food,
Read MoreIf you find “Fight the Power” more patriotic than “God Bless the U.S.A.,” if you think it’s one thing to love America but it’s another to act like its obsessive boyfriend, then we have an Independence Day playlist for you. We have easy barbecue jams like “Party in the U.S.A.” and “Young Americans,” and songs
Read MoreThis 8-image mosaic of the Sojourner rover on the surface of Mars was acquired during the late afternoon on Sol 2. Sojourner arrived aboard the Mars Pathfinder on July 4, 1997. NASA's First Rover on the Red Planet Source: NASA
Read MoreOn AirbnbHell.com—a website devoted to nightmare experiences on Airbnb—guests share their stories of staying in rentals with ant and cockroach infestations, units with “fake” seaside views, and apartments that don’t even exist. Read more… How to Critique an Airbnb Rental Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreA 1962 Type 2 gets updated for 2019 Continue reading… VW’s Type 20 is an electrified dream of its iconic campervan Source: New feed
Read MoreIt’s a sneak peek of the self-driving car future. The Technology 202: I drove a Tesla Model 3 and here’s what I learned: Trust but verify Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreNicholas Fandos covers the Capitol, where “a lot of energy goes into being in the right place at the right time.” Some in-house resources help. Two Voice Recorders on Hand, Because Congress Does Talk Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA lot of personal finance advice gets caught up in the little things—the cup of coffee you buy in the morning for $3. The streaming music subscription for $9.99 per month. Cut out these small expenses and clutch those dollar bills and you’ll save thousands of dollars each year. But of course it’s not that
Read MoreRESCUE Disposable Non-Toxic Fly Trap | $5 | Amazon Read more… Don't Let Flies Annoy You This Summer, Get a Trap For Only Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreAndroid founder, Andy Rubin, may have left Google long back in 2014, but his departure is beginning to attract more unsavory attention as more information is released. According to documents made public by a California superior court, Rubin left the company after having an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate, and allegedly concealed payments about his
Read MoreWe round up the phones with the longest battery life. Did yours make the list? 6 phones with the best battery life – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €12M Series B led by DN Capital — Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised €12 million in new funding. Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €12M
Read MoreWhat has our obsession with air-conditioning made us? And what comes next? The Endlessly Frosty American Indoors Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNot only is LinkedIn painfully boring, but it often feels like a sausage party filled with senior level white men. And research backs this up: in 2017, a study by LinkedIn revealed how sexist norms infiltrate the way men and women present themselves on LinkedIn. By analyzing over 141 million profiles in the US, it
Read MoreBTC.com, the flagship mining pool of cryptocurrency firm Bitmain Technologies, appears to have started mining the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) blockchain once again – a likely controversial move. According to multiple blockchain explorers, BTC.com has mined roughly one percent of BSV blocks over the past 24 hours, and is currently contributing a relatively small hash rate
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