Image: Roblox Lil Nas X performed to an audience of millions across two days and four shows this weekend, playing in a setting that literally made him larger than life: the hit kids game Roblox. The shows gathered 33 million views in total across the performances, which started on Saturday afternoon and wrapped up with
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu says it will buy Joyy’s Chinese livestreaming business, YY Live, which touts 4M paying users who can tip their favorite performers, for ~$3.6B — Baidu Inc. agreed to buy Joyy Inc.’s livestreaming business for China, a deal that will mark the search engine giant’s biggest foray into the fastest-growing arena
Read MorePeeing in the shower is gross. However, peeing in the shower will not harm anyone or anything. Thus, one cannot take a stance on whether peeing in the shower is acceptable until one comes to terms with this contradiction. Read more… Yes, You May Pee in the Shower Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreLearning to do your own hair is a precious skill these days. Many salons continue to remain closed around the country, and those hairdresser who are taking appointments could be booked for months to come. But twisting your own locs can be like trying to wax your own back: You can’t see what you’re doing,
Read MoreLast month, the GitHub repository for the popular program youtube-dl was taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The crux of the RIAA complaint was that the tool could be used to download local copies of music streamed from various platforms, a claim they
Read MoreHBO Max is a pretty sweet streaming service, rolling up shows and movies from HBO, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Turner Classic Movies with tons of other Warner Bros. content into a single app. Unfortunately, it still isn’t available everywhere—or on Roku, anyway. Today the streamer announced it will, at long last,… Read more… How
Read MoreThe holiday season is finally here. I mean, yes, this year has been a combination of monotonous, fleeting moments mixed with neurotic horror over our and our loved ones’ health. But we can all take a breather and celebrate by gifting each other thoughtful things, even if it might not make sense to gather as
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY — – Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, is in talks to raise ~$300M at a valuation of $2.5B+, bringing its total raised to $700M+ — – Funding round includes Altimeter, Silver Lake and T. Rowe — Boston-based company has raised more than $700 million to date Sources: DataRobot, which helps companies
Read MoreA pre-pandemic survey revealed that nearly half of Americans thought they were underpaid, and that’s been made worse by COVID, as nearly a third of Americans have lost their job or had their wages cut, according to Redfin. Do you feel underpaid? Here’s some tips on how to make your case for a raise. Read
Read MoreJeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: Barack Obama says today’s online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” — Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. Barack Obama says today's online information
Read MoreIt’s a cliche that the only machine tool that can make copies of itself is the lathe. It’s not exactly true, but it’s a useful adage in that it points out that the ability to make big round things into smaller round things, and to make unround things into round things, is a critical process
Read MoreMonday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals Read more… The 10 Best Deals of November 16, 2020 Source: Life Hacker
Read More{$inline_image} Artificial intelligence is as important as electricity, indoor plumbing, and the internet to modern society. In short: it would be extremely difficult to live without it now. But it’s also, arguably, the most over hyped and misrepresented technology in history — and if you remove cryptocurrency from the argument there’s no debate. We’ve been
Read MoreAs I type these words, I am eating a pile of fries that taste like the last Thursday in November. They’re fries with a stuffing vibe—a great vibe—and they came into being without any help from a certain trader named Joe. Read more… I Could Not Find the Trader Joe's Thanksgiving Seasoning So I Made
Read MoreHulu with Live TV is the latest virtual TV bundle to get a price hike — this time to $64.99 a month. Hulu with Live TV currently costs $54.99 a month, marking a $10 monthly increase for current customers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s also on par with YouTube TV, a competing virtual live
Read MoreBuzzFeed News: Sources: Facebook’s 3rd-party content mods were never instructed to enforce its “call to arms policy” from 2019, meant to prevent real world armed intimidation — “What we learned after Kenosha is that Facebook’s call to arms policy didn’t just fail. It was never designed to function properly in the first place.” Sources: Facebook's
Read MoreZoom is letting you use its video chat service for free on Thanksgiving Day. Better yet, Zoom is going to lift all video chat restrictions that day, too, so you can talk to your loved ones—remotely—all day if you want to. Of course, you’ll still need to not blow past your ISP’s data cap if
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Reuters: Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches … Twitter names Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google,
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge The majority of Black Friday deals will launch the day after Thanksgiving (November 26th) in the US as usual, but the pandemic has shaken things up in yet another way. The best deals will be happening online, with fewer in-person sales for the sake of safety. Better yet,
Read More“There’s only one Chadwick, and he’s no longer with us,” the producer of the blockbuster says. Black Panther 2 won't reproduce Chadwick Boseman digitally: 'Our king has died' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreApple will now let anyone embed podcasts from Apple Podcasts on the web. This means that you might see more of Apple Podcasts online, and Apple is setting itself up to compete with other podcast players for coveted embed recognition. Anyone can embed a podcast from Apple Podcasts. To do so, find your desired podcasts
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks — The new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” Zoom feature scans the internet and alerts conference organizers when a link to their Zoom meeting has been posted online. Zoom
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple Podcasts now lets anyone create an embeddable web player for shows or individual episodes — Apple is making it easier to discover and listen to podcasts via the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player is now available, allowing anyone — including creators … Apple Podcasts
Read MoreThe company is expecting a supply shortage into next year. Microsoft says Xbox Series X, Series S could be hard to get until April 2021, report says – CNET Source: CNet
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