Even under normal circumstances, people tend to get lonely during the holidays, but buying a pet to fill an emotional void is especially in vogue this year as we enter a festive season while in the throes of a raging pandemic. Unfortunately, thousands of lonely Americans scanning the internet for a quarantine pet are… Read
Read MoreSenate lawmakers voted on Tuesday to confirm Nathan Simington as a new Republican member on the Federal Communications Commission, a move that threatens to saddle the nation’s foremost telecom regulator with political deadlock at the start of the Biden administration. Senate confirms Trump nominee for FCC, threatening deadlock under Biden Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe stigma of “selling out to the man” might seem like a quaint Gen-X concept if you’re feeling a pandemic cash crunch—so if you’re short on money and own a car, why not plaster your ride with ads as a way to make some extra bank? Read more… Make Money By Putting Ads On Your
Read MoreIf you, like a vast swath of the gaming community, are looking forward to the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 (now that it appears to finally, mercifully be dropping out of the figurative womb this week), you might want to be careful if you also suffer from epilepsy or a seizure disorder with photosensitive triggers. The game’s developers
Read MoreCreating a special look for your home can be daunting if you’re not a designer, but you don’t have to be a professional to make your place stylish. There are small things you can do to give your home character—putting up a picture, adding throw pillows, buying a new coffee table—but one easy way to
Read MoreMany people require the aid of specialized speech devices to communicate with their family, friends, and caregivers. Some of these machines are operated through eye-tracking, which allows the users to quickly “type” sentences or select phrases without touch or voice controls—but not everyone has access to such devices. Read more… Use Google's 'Look to Speak'
Read MoreJonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for machine learning including SageMaker Clarify, which allegedly provides bias detection — Nearly three years after it was first launched, Amazon Web Services’ SageMaker platform has gotten a significant upgrade in the form … AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for
Read MoreA day after handing its autonomous car project to a Silicon Valley start-up, Uber is ridding itself of another expensive operation. Uber Jettisons Flying Car Project Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world. FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhat makes a cyberdeck? Looking as though it came from an alternate reality version of the 1980s is a good start, but certainly isn’t required. If you’re really trying to adhere to the cyberpunk ethos, any good deck should be modular enough that it can be easily repaired and upgraded over time. In fact, if
Read MoreTuesday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals Read more… The 10 Best Deals of December 8, 2020 Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIf you search for “stuffed mushrooms” on this wide web of the world, you will find many recipes. That’s great for those of us who love recipes, but stuffed mushrooms are one of the easiest appetizers to make without a recipe. You just stuff things in a mushroom hollowed-out mushroom, then roast those mushrooms that…
Read MoreThe town is mad about the studio’s decision to put movies on HBO Max and in theaters at the same time. But with a telecom giant running an entertainment company, things were bound to get weird. Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreImage: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red has announced that it’s working on adding a new epilepsy warning to Cyberpunk 2077, in response to a recent article by Game Informer that raised the issue. The studio says that it’s also working on “a more permanent solution” for the game’s epilepsy issues “as soon as possible.”
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Read MoreIf your holiday plans were going to take you to our nation’s most populous state, it’s past time to cancel. Roughly the whole southern half of California is under a lockdown order that prohibits nonessential travel, and it will likely remain in effect for the rest of the year. Read more… What California's Lockdown Means
Read MoreMichael Larabel / Phoronix: CentOS, a free Linux distro functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, says it’s ending support for recently announced CentOS 8 — Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux … CentOS, a free Linux
Read MoreMicrosoft is adding a new Teams Public Preview testing ring to its Teams Insider program, as well as changing the name of the testing channels for Teams. Microsoft to change how users can test Teams features Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk has joined one-fifth of Americans who have done a “pandemic move.” After spending most of his life in California, Musk has relocated to Texas. The Tesla CEO let that news slip during an interview for The Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council summit. He cited the construction of a new Tesla
Read MoreThe top GIFs of the year focus around peace, love and gratitude. And garbage. GIPHY's most viewed GIFs of 2020 only include one dumpster fire – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCreators can now make the picture quality much nicer on their live content. YouTube adds HDR support for livestreams – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: BlockWorks Minecraft’s blocky aesthetic was massively spruced up with the introduction of ray tracing enabled by Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards earlier this year. And now, that feature is coming out of beta, and path-traced ray tracing is available to all Windows 10 Minecraft players with the GPUs that support it, Nvidia announced in a
Read MorePhoto by Tom Warren / The Verge AMD has released the newest member of its Radeon RX 6000 series: the Radeon RX 6900 XT. The card is based on the same Navi 21 silicon as the rest of the RX 6000 series so far and is being billed as the fastest Radeon card yet. According
Read MoreTimes are tough but good snacks help. The best snack subscription boxes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen it comes to video games, I don’t pay much attention to previews (or pre-release controversy), so all the online drama surrounding Cyberpunk 2077—the incredibly hyped action RPG that drops Wednesday at 4 p.m. PT—has blissfully passed me by. However, there’s one problematic part of the game that’s worth knowing… Read more… How to Keep
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