Of all the things that need to be cleaned in your home, your mattress is probably the one you think about the least. As long as you use a mattress cover and change the sheets regularly you should be fine right? Maybe not. Outside of sweat, skin flakes, and other bodily fluids, the EHSO says
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has added support for the 988 emergency mental health services number more than a year and a half ahead of the Federal Communications Commission’s deadline, the company announced on Friday. T-Mobile customers who dial 988 will be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) and its
Read MoreA major Super Smash Bros. tournament is canceling plans to move online amid the coronavirus pandemic, following a legal order by Nintendo. As Polygon reports, The Big House — typically one of the year’s biggest Smash competitions — announced yesterday that it’s shutting down its early December event and offering refunds. “The Big House is
Read MoreHackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys traverse the hackerscape looking for the best the internet had to offer last week. Nintendo has released the new Game & Watch handheld and it’s already been hacked to run custom code. Heading into the darkness of winter, this artificial sun build is one not to miss… and
Read MoreEarlier this week I received a package from Taco Bell. Within this package, chaos reigned. There were Taco Bell-branded mini pumpkins, a Taco Bell Jenga-style game, a Taco Bell Friendsgiving wreath, a very flattering hot sauce packet track suit, and a bunch of plates and glasses (all Taco Bell-themed). It was a… Read more… Make
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last week on The Vergecast, the crew spent some time discussing Apple’s announcement of new Mac computers with its own Arm-based processor chip, which Apple is calling the M1. This week, Vergecast co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn got their hands on the new MacBook Air and MacBook
Read MoreIn rural India and other places where tuberculosis is rampant, A.I. that scans lung X-rays might eliminate the scourge. These Algorithms Could End the Scourge of Tuberculosis Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTesla finally enters the S&P 500 next month, an event Goldman Sachs says could spark an $8 billion rally for the electric vehicle wunderstock. News of its S&P 500 nod has already pushed Tesla’s share price up 22% to eclipse the index’s top performers CARR and ETSY by more than 200%. Indeed, if Tesla was in the
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Snap has reportedly acquired Voisey, a UK startup that lets users create short music tracks and videos using their own voice overlayed on custom instrumentals — Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations … Snap has reportedly
Read MoreWe should all by now be used to microcontrollers with wireless hardware on board, with Espressif or Nordic Labs dominating the hacker scene. There have been several other contenders in this arena over the years that haven’t really caught the attention of our community, usually because of the opacity of their available information. A new
Read MorePhoto by ANKUR DHOLAKIA/AFP via Getty Images A few weeks ago, Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative. The measure eliminates criminal penalties for the possession of small quantities of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. It was one of several drug reform victories on Election Day, but
Read MoreHere’s a question I ask my 10-year-old son on frequent occasion: “How many LEGO could one child possibly need?” (I know, I know, you’re going to scroll down right now and tell me that no amount of LEGO is too much LEGO, and I’ll be honest with you: I’m only typing “LEGO” to keep you
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, the smartphone entry in the long-running Nintendo franchise, has been updated with a pair of new augmented reality features. The first, AR Camera, lets you place characters and furniture from the game in the real world and photograph them. Meanwhile, the AR Cabin feature lets players decorate a virtual
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: Apple’s AR execs on how iPhones and iPads are becoming world-mapping, object-scanning tools that are laying the groundwork for the arrival of AR headsets — Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn’t discussed any headgear yet. Apple's AR execs on how iPhones
Read MoreA sale on PlayStation 4 games and a MAC frosted lipstick gift set lead Friday’s best deals. Read more… Friday's Best Deals: PS4 Games Sale, MAC Lipstick Gift Set, ASUS Gaming Laptop, Inflatable Dinosaur Costume, Just Dance 2021, Roomba i3, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just a few weeks after Facebook removed a huge “Stop the Steal” group for spreading election disinformation, others have sprung up in its place and appear to be continuing the push to delegitimize the US presidential election. OneZero discovered two large groups with a total of more than
Read MoreRemember that old curse about living in “interesting times?” Well, we’re there, but I had no idea that interesting times would be so damn boring, though. While history-defining events are unfolding daily, I’m over here getting into making homemade pickles and bingeing entire seasons of 60 Days In. If I wasn’t eight… Read more… Out-of-Touch
Read MoreAlex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: ContextLogic, owner of mobile commerce app Wish, files for an IPO, says Wish had 108M MAUs and revenue of $1.75B for the first nine months of 2020, up 32% YoY — This morning Wish, a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm, Airbnb, and Roblox in filing
Read MoreOne of the big stories from the past few days is the return of DNS cache poisoning. The new attack has been dubbed SADDNS, and the full PDF whitepaper is now available. When you lookup a website’s IP address in a poisoned cache, you get the wrong IP address. This can send you somewhere malicious,
Read MoreThe who’s who includes the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Jim Holt of Gateway Pundit, Eric Trump — and the president himself. Trump allies are among the frequent purveyors of election misinformation. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIn the annals of video games, there are an uncountable number of products — canceled games, scrapped hardware — that feel as though they’re lost to time. But most of the time they’re only forgotten, not lost. And that’s where the Video Game History Foundation steps in. As the name suggests, the foundation is an
Read MoreA full year since it launched, Google Stadia finally has its first publicly-available free-to-play game, and it’s a good one: Destiny 2. Read more… Try Cloud Gaming With Stadia's Free-to-Play 'Destiny 2' Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreObserved with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the faint galaxy featured in this image is known as UGC 12588. Hubble Captures Cosmic Cinnamon Bun Source: NASA
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Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Filing: Facebook files a lawsuit against a Turkish national who operated a network of Instagram clone sites that allegedly scraped 100K accounts — Facebook has today filed another lawsuit against a company acting in violations of its terms of service. In this case, the company … Filing: Facebook files a lawsuit
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