Our quest to explain every weird thing at the gym has now landed on Fat Gripz, the heavy rubber handles, often blue, that you can wrap around barbells and dumbbells. Their main job is to make the bar harder to hold onto, which can be a good thing. Read more… What Are Fat Gripz Good
Read MoreNext time you want to have a conversation with someone who speaks a different language, you might be able to do it using just your phone. Read more… Use Google Assistant's Interpreter Mode to Talk to Someone in Their Language Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreSamsung’s first folding phone may have been fraught with a stumbled launch, reliability woes, and a nearly $2,000 price tag, but that hasn’t stopped the company from finding a million people to buy the Galaxy Fold, according to Samsung Electronic’s president Young Sohn. Sohn revealed the stat onstage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in Berlin, stating
Read MorePeople search websites are convenient for finding nearly anyone’s personal information—but not so much if you don’t want your own information, including addresses, family members, and known associates, available for all to see. Many of these services are free or cost very little, and they provide a really detailed… Read more… How to Opt Out
Read MoreThe Canadarm2 robotic arm with the Dextre robotic hand attached seemingly protrudes from the side of the International Space Station. The Canadarm2 robotic arm with the Dextre robotic hand Source: NASA
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a self-contained platform and start delivering content from a decentralized system, changing social media as we know it. He kicked off the plan by announcing a project called Bluesky, which will fund
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources describe how ISPs like AT&T and Cox push the FCC to omit unflattering data, among other tactics, to improve scores on FCC’s internet speeds report — AT&T, Cox, Comcast and other broadband companies successfully push the FCC to omit unflattering data on speed tests, among other tactics, to improve their scores
Read MoreNext year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows which part of the space rock it’s going to steal from. Today, the space agency announced that one of its spacecraft will attempt to grab some
Read MoreSoftware Defined Radio (SDR) is a great technology, but there’s something so satisfying about spinning a physical knob to cruise the airwaves. Wanting to restore that tactile experience, [Tysonpower] purchased a cheap USB volume knob and set out to get it working with his software. Unfortunately, getting it up and running took a lot more
Read MoreI was writing a sentence the other day that included the sentiment that something was of “the utmost importance.” And I paused. Was it utmost? Or was it upmost? I was pretty sure it was “utmost,” but I was also pretty sure I’d seen/heard “upmost” at some point in my life. What’s the difference? Read
Read MoreI’m an inveterate chatter. I miss the days of AIM and Gchat; I regularly reread n+1’s fantastic essay on the history and rise of chatting. So when I saw Yap — a new chat application built by Postlight, a digital product studio — I was immediately curious. When I booted it up, I immediately got
Read MoreWith esports evolving into an alternative to the school football team, student housing needs to address both casual and avid gamers’ needs. Higher Ed Architect: Residence Halls Should Add Gaming Spaces Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreWhether he’s a son, a brother, a cousin or a friend, finding a gift for the ‘tweenager’ in your life can be difficult, but with our list of best gifts for 12 year old boys you’re sure to find something perfect. Best gifts for 12 year old boys in 2019: 10, 11 and 12 year
Read MoreFor just 99 cents, he’ll be answering all your questions. Nick Fury can tell your kids to go to bed thanks to Alexa's new Samuel L. Jackson voice – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe FTC is investigating Facebook over antitrust concerns. FTC reportedly considering a way to prevent Facebook from integrating messaging services – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s release is just a week away, bringing the end of both Disney’s modern sequel trilogy and the overarching episodic Skywalker Saga. But if you can’t wait that long, Disney has released a clip from the new movie that reveals an extremely unexpected actor returning to the franchise. Mild spoilers
Read MoreThere’s a lot of junk in the Pacific Ocean, and an organization dedicated to cleaning it up tells us what it plans to do with all that garbage. Watch The Ocean Cleanup show off its horrifying plastic trash haul – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSean O’Kane / The Verge: Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit, starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it’s launching
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’ve all started a movie only to realize it’s not quite what we were expecting going in, and now Vudu is offering customers a way to bail out and instantly get a refund credit toward another pick. The Walmart-owned video service has launched a new feature
Read MoreNetflix’s big-budget TV series adaptation of The Witcher (based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of fantasy novels, and not the popular video game series that, confusingly, is also based on Sapkowski’s books) has gotten one final trailer to hype up the show before its December 20th release date. And it looks… pretty great? It’s no secret
Read MoreMeetMe says it checks users to ensure they aren’t convicted sex offenders. But the success of one streamer came within weeks of his release from prison. This social network app says it screens for sex offenders. It gave one VIP status. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft accidentally pushed yet another unnecessary Windows 10 update. This week’s “KB4532441" update went out to regular users of Windows 10, even though the update was meant for those using Windows Autopilot—a way for IT departments to set up and manage new computers. Microsoft even let loose with a number of… Read more… How to
Read MoreOculus this week revealed it’s rolling out a batch of new social features tied to Facebook. While the features themselves seem innocuous enough, they come with the caveat that you have to allow Facebook access to your Oculus data. Oculus‘s new features include chats with friends, Events and Groups that let you arrange multiplayer sessions
Read MoreThis hacker has been wanting to design an Enigma machine simulator for a while, but didn’t take the leap until they realized there was a compact Arduino with a surplus of I/O. The logs go through all sort of variations on the machine. Everything from a plug board variation similar to the original to a
Read MoreChuck E. Cheese is a cacophony for the senses—buzzes and bells and screeches, crowds and music and overstimulated kids (and parents), colors and lights every which way. It’s a lot for those who don’t have sensory-processing challenges. But for people who are sensory sensitive it can be Way. Too. Much. Read more… How to Find
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