Lucasfilm Ltd. I thought a lot about Rey’s bread while I was watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The weird green food is a completely extraneous detail from Rey’s life as a desperate scavenger on the desert planet Jakku, where she began her journey in The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams’ first entry in
Read MoreSpoiler-free review: J.J. Abrams ticks all the boxes for a spectacular farewell, but there’s just too much going on. Rise of Skywalker has everything you want from Star Wars, except heart – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSpoilers: Every cameo we found, plus what to know about the new characters after you watch the final Skywalker Saga film. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker cameos and new characters explained – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFind out if The Child shows up alongside Rey, Finn and Poe. Is Baby Yoda in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMajor spoiler alert: Don’t even go near this if you haven’t seen the film. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's ending, explained – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSome are fixes and some are more nods, depending on how much you liked or disliked the previous two Star Wars films. Warning: So many spoilers. How Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker addresses Force Awakens and Last Jedi – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMotherboard found that the Amazon-owned home security hardware company Ring’s offerings lacked basic features to help protect customers from being snooped on by people who gained unauthorized access to their accounts. Ring sells indoor and outdoor security cameras that you can monitor from anywhere via a cloud-based interface, which means you can see what’s going
Read MoreWe imagine most of the people reading Hackaday have an old Raspberry Pi or two laying around. It’s somewhat less likely you’ve still got an 8-bit Commodore in working condition, but we’d wager there’s more than a few in the audience that can count themselves among both groups. So why not introduce them? [RhinoDevel] writes
Read MoreSeveral major news organizations and outlets, from AFP to CNBC to The Hill, are reporting that Facebook told US senators that it continues to track users’ location even after they’ve turned those settings off within the app. Don’t be shocked — we learned about this exactly one year ago. Yesterday, Facebook‘s deputy chief privacy officer,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The percentage of 12th graders who said they’d vaped marijuana at least once in the past 30 days nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019, according to new data from the Monitoring the Future survey. The increase, from 7.5 percent to 14 percent, was the second-largest jump in the
Read MoreFollow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope, which will search for habitable worlds. Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Try to Launch Again Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe update didn’t delete data, but made accessing it impossible. Google Chrome update fixes Android data loss problem – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Email cleanup service Unroll.me settles with FTC for misleading users about how it shared users’ email data, will have to delete personal info it collected — The settlement forces Unroll.me to delete all the email receipts it collected — Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal … Email cleanup service Unroll.me
Read MoreBloomberg Law: NLRB rules that employers can ban workers from using company email for union and other organizing purposes, overturning the Board’s ruling from 2014 — Businesses can ban workers from using company email for union and other organizing purposes, the National Labor Relations Board decided in a Dec. 17 decision. NLRB rules that employers
Read MoreNow is an amazing time to be involved in the hobby electronics scene. There are robots to build, cheap microcontrollers which are easy to program, and computers themselves are able to be found for very low prices. That wasn’t the case in the 1960s though, where anyone interested in “electronics” might have had a few
Read MoreThe authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world’s biggest spying networks is aimed at regular people, and nobody can stop it. A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCommentary: Fan reaction to The Last Jedi was scary. We don’t need a repeat. Star Wars fans, let's not be jerks about The Rise of Skywalker – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCNN: The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint against 30+ unidentified Twitter users for coordinated attack of seizure-inducing videos to its feed last month — (CNN)Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint
Read MoreMarriage Story leads the nominations, followed by The Irishman and Joker. Golden Globes 2020: Where to watch, date, start time and nominations – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s been a big week for investigations here at The Interface. On Monday, we published my investigation into the mental health woes of content moderators for Google and YouTube who remove terrorist content from the web. And on Tuesday, Zoe published a follow-up investigation into the high-flying luggage company Away. There’s a lot in there:
Read MoreThese are the best and hottest toys that will be on letters to Santa this year. The hottest Christmas toys 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Korean brand has a history of actually naming its cars, but that could change. Kia may be planning to ditch car names for alphanumerics in the US – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreQuantum physics! Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about sex. Cultural norms would have us believe that human sexuality is divided up into a series of categories. We’re all supposedly somewhere between totally heterosexual and entirely homosexual on the Kinsey Scale, and everyone’s either male, female, in-between, both, or neither. From a quantum
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal, in which the email app maker was caught providing a non-consensual read receipt feature to its users, there was the Unroll.me controversy. It erupted two years ago, when it was discovered the popular email cleanup tool was collecting information on user purchases
Read MoreAnalytics firm App Annie revealed data about the most-downloaded apps and games of the past ten years. Most of it is about what you’d expect: microtransaction games dominated, as did social media and telecommunications. But there is one small detail that’s a bit galling: Facebook, quite literally, owned this decade. On App Annie’s list of
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