League of Legends teams in the U.S. lag behind their competitors in Asia, so they recruit the world’s best players by offering huge salaries. They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWall Street’s massive bets against GameStop turned sour when users from a Reddit forum put their money on its success instead. Now billions of dollars are at stake. How Reddit's GameStop stock battle with Wall Street became an 'insane' war – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 84M in Q4 2020 and shipments for 2020 fell 11% YoY to 330M, as iPhone’s share jumped from 15% to 18% YoY — The impact of United States government sanctions on Huawei is continuing to hurt the company and dampen overall smartphone
Read MoreHackers love their ThinkPads. They’re easy to work on, well documented, and offer plenty of potential for upgrades. For the more daring, there’s also a wide array of community-developed modifications available. For example, [Berry Berry Sneaky] has recently put together a step-by-step guide on swapping the common ThinkPad rectangular charging port (also used on ThinkBooks
Read MoreChloe Sorvino / Forbes: Profile of Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta, who since the pandemic started has overseen three consecutive quarters of positive cash flow, a first for the company — The Business of What We Eat and How It’s Made — The pandemic transformed Apoorva Mehta’s grocery delivery service into an essential—and booming—business. Profile of
Read MoreMake the move to a split keyboard and the first thing you’ll notice is that you have all this real estate between the two halves. (Well, as long as you’re doing it right). This is the perfect place to keep your cat, your coffee cup, or in [Jacek]’s case, your fantastic DIY trackball mouse. Don’t
Read MoreUnder the Hood: Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold — With the extraordinary market activity this week, and the temporary restrictions we put in place on certain securities … Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the
Read MoreLooking for the perfect sports bra? Start here. The best sports bras to buy in 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: Xiaomi has sued US Defense and Treasury departments, after the DOD blacklisted the company thereby blocking US investors from buying Xiaomi’s securities — – Pentagon had called it a ‘Communist Chinese military company’ — The move prohibits U.S. investors from buying Xiaomi’s shares Filing: Xiaomi has sued US Defense and Treasury departments, after
Read MoreAbstraction is the core of nearly all progress in computing. Unless you are fabricating your own semiconductors and drawing wire, we all create with building blocks ranging from components like CPUs, to operating system functions, to specialized libraries. Just as you wouldn’t want to spend your time deblocking disk records or rendering fonts for output
Read MoreJohn Herrman / New York Times: Reddit’s uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may explain why r/WallStreetBets’ growth feels reminiscent of r/The_Donald — Reddit communities grow powerful in plain sight. Why do they keep taking the world by surprise? Reddit's uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may
Read MoreIt comes after Nvidia added Safari support in November. GeForce Now cloud gaming now available on Chrome browser – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHave you ever binged on a TV show so much that you fell asleep mid-episode? The last you want is for the show to keep on playing indefinitely, potentially exposing you to spoilers once you wake up and resume the show later (yes, this has happened to me before, and it sucked). Fret no more:
Read MoreI’ve started riding longboards during this pandemic. I’ve got the ripped-up pants to prove it, and I don’t think I’ll ever stop. Here’s why. Why I ride longboards — and maybe you should, too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by NASA/Robert Markowitz via Getty Images NASA will make another attempt next month to test-fire its massive Space Launch System rocket after its first try was cut short, the agency said Friday night. The rocket’s 212-foot-tall core stage will try to fire its four engines for eight minutes at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in
Read MoreImage: Nvidia Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service has launched for the Chrome web browser and M1 Macs in beta (via XDA-Developers), bringing resource intensive games to laptops and other devices that might not have been powerful to run them on their own. We just tested out the Chrome browser version on a Mac and
Read MoreReduce friction that can mess with your hair and skin at night with a soft, silk pillowcase. The best silk pillowcases for 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft has released a new 64-bit version of OneDrive that can take full advantage of Windows 10. OneDrive is finally getting a much-needed 64-bit version Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Clearsky researchers say Hezbollah’s cyber unit Lebanese Cedar hacked 250+ unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers at telecoms and ISPs in US, UK, Israel, more — Security firm Clearsky said they identified at least 250 servers hacked by Lebanese Cedar, a hacking group linked to the Hezbollah militant group. Clearsky researchers say
Read MoreIt also gives us plenty more questions and one truly horrifying image. WandaVision episode 4 recap: The Marvel show gives us the answers we want – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBig names like Budweiser and Coke are passing on the usual ads, but plenty of others are getting in on the action. Super Bowl 2021 ads so far: Bud Light and Tide commercials lead the pack – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share — The company is giving us numbers for what ‘limited buys’ really means — Robinhood only wants users to have a limited number of
Read MoreMost of us make do with the VRAM that came with our graphics cards. We can just wait until the next one comes out and get a little more memory. After all, it’d be madness to try and delicately solder on new components of something so timing-sensitive as RAM chips, right? [VIK-on] took it upon
Read MoreEvery carmaker is trying to figure out how to make the leap before governments force it and Tesla and other start-ups lure away drivers. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars Got a Jolt From G.M. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAdam Satariano / New York Times: Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim — A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation. Graphika: Huawei officials
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