Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is adding a new feature that will help people who have epilepsy to avoid potentially dangerous photosensitive content. The short video platform already warns creators if their uploads contain effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy, but now anyone who encounters an example in their feed will get
Read MoreAre you running out of ways to entertain yourself and your family? If you’ve read all the books and watched all the movies, it might be time to explore the psychic abilities of silicon. [Hari Wiguna] has just the trick to keep them guessing for a good long time. This trick doesn’t take much, just
Read MoreIn the Indian smartphone market, the ₹10,000-₹20,000 ($135-270) price bracket is extremely popular. Many folks get their first or second handset in that range. However, when they are upgrading, they might have to look for devices beyond the ₹35,000 ($470) mark to get a good value for money products. However this year, because of plenty of
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A: CEO Jensen Huang on the antitrust environment as Nvidia attempts to acquire Arm, PC vs. next-gen consoles, and Nvidia’s gaming and datacenter businesses — Nvidia had another stellar quarter, reporting revenues of $4.73 billion for its third fiscal quarter ended October 25, up 57% from a year earlier. Q&A: CEO
Read MoreThe latest Windows Insiders preview for Windows 10 version 20H2 will become the final optional update in 2020. New Windows 10 Insider preview brings bug fixes and more ahead of Microsoft's December break Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MorePhoto by Maja Hitij/Getty Images Elon Musk has passed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the world’s second richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Tesla CEO’s net worth now sits at around $128 billion, after increasing by $100 billion this year. There is a sizable gap between Musk and the number one
Read MoreEmployees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line. Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePatrick Moorhead / Forbes: Apple’s M1 Macs are impressive but some may want to pass on them for now due to incompatibility or stability issues with apps like Matlab, Parallels, and Docker — I’ve read the first batch of Apple MacBook Pro 13″ M1 reviews from the Apple-chosen first reviewers and you’d be hard to
Read MoreRegulators in California have given the go ahead for self-driving taxis to charge riders for their services. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved two programs: the Drivered Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Program and the Driverless Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Program, The Verge reports. According to the report, these programs now permit self-driving taxi operators to
Read MoreDespite Facebook’s efforts to tamp down on the fringe conspiracy QAnon movement, its backers are still finding ways to push its message on the platform — even paying Facebook to do so. Just days after announcing last month that it would ban QAnon theories from the site, Facebook allowed an advertisement featuring a cartoon Pepe
Read MoreIt’s the holidays for Windows 10 updates too, you know. There may be no further Windows 10 updates this year Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreA few months ago, I wrote an article on web speech recognition using TensorflowJS. Even though it was super interesting to implement, it was cumbersome for many of you to extend. The reason was pretty simple: it required a deep learning model to be trained if you wanted to detect more words than the model I
Read MoreThe Cullinan, Dawn and Wraith Black Badge get a little wild with the new Neon Nights series, and only three of them will be sold in the US. You should definitely get a neon Rolls-Royce – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreHave you ever pulled a piece of electronics from the trash that looked like nothing was wrong with it, only to take it home and find out it really is dead? Since you’re reading Hackaday, we already know the answer. Trash picking is an honored hacker tradition, and we all know it’s a gamble every
Read MoreApple Silicon has taken the tech world by storm. Whether it’s people learning about the architecture of the new M1 chip, its performance benchmarks, or even Linus Torvalds wanting to run Linux on the machines, Apple’s new hardware is the talk of the town. Despite things going as smoothly as in Apple’s wildest dreams most users
Read MoreBusiness continuity vendors bolster offerings during a pandemic Source: Search Compliance
Read MoreTrawling ancient history with neural nets. How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs. My Name Is GPT-3 and I Approved This Article Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Times asked GPT-3 to tell us a little about itself and its romantic life. When A.I. Falls in Love Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreRachel Monroe / The Atlantic: Behind the rise of TikTok’s teen stars, content houses, and the D’Amelios, who this year have focused on establishing themselves as the first family of TikTok — Collab day at Clubhouse Beverly Hills was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but that time came and went and the mansion was
Read MoreThe app will let users complete simple tasks and will pay the users real money that can be withdrawn to a mobile wallet. Google beta testing Task Mate app in India; lets you earn money against simple tasks Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreGoogle is set to remove ‘pay.google.com’, its peer-to-peer payments facility on its web app, from January 2021. Also, it is set to add a fee for instant money transfers. Google Pay to kill its web app feature Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreThree years ago, Kevin, a life-long friend of mine, and I left our jobs and decided to start our own bootstrapped SaaS at the tender age of 25. It was a dream we’d be nursing for a long time as bootstrappers like Rob Wailing or Pieter Levels, and communities such as IndieHackers by the Courtland
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to work for Google, now’s your best chance. The company has a new app called Task Mate that lets you earn money by completing tasks such as taking pictures of storefronts or recording short voice clips. At the moment, the app is live only for users in India. Plus, you’ll need an
Read MoreWe see a lot of discrete-logic computer builds these days, and we love them all. But after a while, they kind of all blend in with each other. So what’s the discrete logic aficionado to do if they want to stand out from the pack? Perhaps this CPU-less computer with a single NOR-gate instead of
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