For years, I trudged my way to the gym at 5am, before the sun even rose or the garbage trucks of New York City began their daily commute. Eventually, and out of necessity for sleep, I changed my routine to nightly workouts—and suddenly felt stronger and faster. Read more… Does It Matter When I Work
Read MoreSome sites were reverted to default themes. WordPress outage floods premium blogs with images of succulents – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA spooky Luigi’s Mansion (complete with GOOIGI) was a highlight. Inside Nintendo's E3 2019 booth – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere were no huge surprises, and no new update for the Nintendo Switch either — but we did get Banjo Kazooie for Smash! And new footage of some incredible looking games. E3 Nintendo Direct Recap: Breath of the Wild sequel, Banjo-Kazooie, Animal Crossing, Link's Awakening, and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe digital assistant has been around for a bit, but it’s finding its way into Chinese-market cars from an increasing list of manufacturers. Alibaba is bringing its Alexa-like Tmall Genie Auto tech to Audi, Honda and Renault – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe latest update for Apple’s iMovie for iOS gives the video-editing app a green screen feature, 80 new soundtracks, ClassKit support, and more. Plenty of other video-editing apps offer green screen functionality, but it’s nice to have the option available within iMovie. The feature lets you remove anything in the background that’s green or blue,
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first podcast monetization platform that lets podcasters turn listeners into subscribers — It’s a common problem for podcasters: you’ve got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show … Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first
Read MoreKraft has a new product for kids: Salad “frosting.” It’s ranch dressing in a squeeze pouch. The plug (if it isn’t obvious): Kids don’t like salad but they do enjoy sugar, so trick ‘em into eating more greens with this special label, you sneaky parent, you. Read more… Should You Give Your Kid 'Salad Frosting'?
Read MoreToday at about 10:00 AM Pacific time, Hackaday’s site host had an outage. All websites on the WordPress VIP Go platform were down, and that includes Hackaday. For about 45 minutes you couldn’t load any content, and for a bit more than two hours after that all we could display was a default WordPress theme
Read MoreAmazon Restaurants, which was available in nearly 200 American cities, will officially close on June 24. The company says it will focus on grocery delivery. Amazon to End Its Restaurant Delivery Service Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreYouTube creators have long bemoaned the company’s irregular and untrustworthy notification delivery system, but new product changes are looking to address those frustrations. Notifications are now automatically set to personalized, according to a new blog post from the product team. That means that not everyone who subscribes is going to get the same videos delivered
Read MoreNintendo showed off a sneak peek this year of an upcoming game — and not just its usual in the glut of “latest installments” in the Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Mario franchises. No, we’re getting a sequel — an actual sequel — to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The reveal came at the end of
Read MoreInjection molding is an industrial process used the world over for the quick and economical production of plastic parts. [Nikodem Bartnik] wanted to experiment with this at home, so whipped up some molds and got to work (Youtube link, embedded below). [Nikodem] produced aluminium molds, using a Dremel-based CNC platform. This allowed for the design
Read MoreGoogle’s presence at the video game industry’s largest annual convention can be felt everywhere. The company doesn’t have a physical presence at E3 here in Los Angeles, not in the way large game publishers like Microsoft, EA, and Nintendo do. But its all-new cloud gaming platform Stadia is top of mind for attendees and companies
Read MoreMicrosoft patches four of five zero-days published by SandboxEscaper. Microsoft's June 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes many of SandboxEscaper's zero-days Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe concept of FIRE—Financial Independence, Retire Early— is pretty straightforward. If you can save up enough money when you’re young(er), you can have a ton more flexibility later in life. You might choose to quit your job and start a business, or unload your house to travel the world. If you can save, you can…
Read MoreMedia executives are expected to tell lawmakers that big tech platforms have decimated the news industry. House Opens Tech Antitrust Inquiry With Look at News Media Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLike its competitors, Dropbox used to be a simple concept — a folder on your computer that seamlessly syncs with the cloud, meaning you always have a backup of your files and an easy way to share with others across the net. But the company’s ambitions are much bigger, as it has slowly shown: it
Read MoreA 20-year-old college student used Snapchat’s gender swap filter to catch a police officer looking to hook up with an underage teen girl, NBC Bay Area reports. The student told NBC Bay Area that he was motivated by a friend, who told him she was sexually assaulted as a child, to catch possible predators on
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers unveil the RAMBleed technique, showing it’s possible to use Rowhammer-style side-channel attacks to read protected memory, even with ECC enabled — RAMBleed side-channel attack works even when DRAM is protected by error-correcting code. — The Rowhammer exploit … Researchers unveil the RAMBleed technique, showing it's possible to use Rowhammer-style
Read MoreOne of a parent’s first major decisions is how—or what—to feed their baby. For those who formula feed, the pressure to find a high-quality product that is as nutritious as possible can be daunting. And that may be why some parents are turning to European brands like HiPP, Holle, Lebenswert and Töpfer, which some… Read
Read MoreA common complaint about open hardware and software is that the aesthetic aspects of the projects often leave something to be desired. This isn’t wholly surprising, as the type of hackers who are building these things tend to be more concerned with how well they work than what they look like. But there’s certainly nothing
Read More{$inline_image} Will Oremus / OneZero: Tech platforms are poor arbitrators of acceptable speech, altering enforcement of already-uneven rules when controversies flare up, but there’s no clear fix — For YouTube, Facebook and the rest, if a decision becomes too controversial, change it — acing pressure to ban a hatemonger … Tech platforms are poor arbitrators
Read MoreYou have to play video games with your children. It isn’t optional anymore. It’s your parental responsibility. Your child is growing up in an electronically mediated world, where the line between “virtual” and “real” life is becoming more and more blurred. Read more… Get Over Yourself and Play Video Games With Your Kid Source: Life
Read MoreFacebook will once again begin paying people to monitor how they use their phone through a new app called Study. The app will monitor which apps are installed on a person’s phone, the time spent using those apps, the country you’re in, and additional app data that could reveal specific features you’re using, among other
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