TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device. TikTok admits error after penalizing 17-year-old user who posted political videos Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIf you’re not quite ready to sign up for a full-fledged cloud gaming service like Google Stadia — and who could blame you? — there are plenty of ways to dip your toe in the streaming game waters for free or cheap. The latest is exclusive to Samsung Galaxy phones, and it’s called PlayGalaxy Link.
Read MoreAn NES cartridge in its most basic form is a surprisingly simple device, it contains two ROMs hosting all the code and assets of its game, and a Nintendo code chip that provided what was a state-of-the-art consumer DRM system for the 1980s. Decades later its inner workings have been extensively reverse-engineered, and there have
Read MoreThe president tweeted a photo of himself with Sylvester Stallone’s body, and here we are. A short journey into the MAGA Internet’s obsession with Swole Trump Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreOne of South Korea‘s most celebrated professional Go players, master Lee Se-dol, has retired, citing the futility of raging against the machines as a motivating factor. Speaking to reporters from the Yonhap News Agency in Seoul earlier this week, Se-dol said: With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realized that I’m not at
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: Court allows class action related to Facebook’s 2018 breach to proceed; says the 29M users, as a group, can ask for better security procedures, but not damages — (Reuters) – A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc (FB.O) users whose personal information was stolen … Court allows class
Read MoreHigh-end Apple gear, like the MacBook Pro, AirPods, the iPad and the iPhone 11 are already on sale for Black Friday 2019. Apple Black Friday 2019: Best deals available now (just updated) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s going to be a big December on Amazon Prime Video. Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel arrives on Amazon Prime on December 6th. Season 4 of The Expanse starts on December 13th, and a number of popular movies and television shows will make their debut on the streaming service this month. Read more…
Read MoreA Black Friday steal you need to jump on while supplies last… What's better than a cast iron set? A cast iron set – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter all these years, someone might have figured out exactly how much Shakespeare worked on one of his last plays. It’s long been suspected that Shakespeare didn’t write the whole of Henry VIII, but now, thanks to machine learning, we could know just how much he outsourced to a playwright friend. For those of you who
Read MoreImage: Artiphon Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba. The Orba is a small, handheld device that’s a synth, looper, and controller all in one. It’s shaped like a halved grapefruit, and mimics the gestures used on smartphones and trackpads to let you make beats and
Read MoreFrom games to social media to dating: These 25 apps had the most impact on our lives in the last 10 years. Instagram, Angry Birds and more: These were the apps that defined the decade – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDon’t wait until after Turkey day to take advantage of the massive savings at Costco. Black Friday has come early and we’ve pulled some of the best options for your holiday saving pleasure. Black Friday Costco deals come early on Vizio, Xbox, Lenovo and more (updated) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter confirms it is testing threaded conversations features from its prototype twttr app on Twitter.com, ahead of the official rollout next year — Twttr, the prototype app Twitter launched earlier this year, has been testing new ways to display conversations, including through the use of threaded replies and other visual cues.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced an updated drone policy, intended to take the place of a 2015 policy guidance. The new policy maintains a lot of the same language and regulations, with a few key additions addressing concerns about cybersecurity and privacy. The new version of the
Read MoreAndrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Huawei Mate 30 Pro review: impressive hardware and camera but the lack of inbuilt Google services is a deal breaker, making it hard to justify the €1,099 price — It’s been roughly 2 months now since Huawei announced the new Mate 30 Pro as well as the Kirin 990 chipsets. Huawei
Read MoreYesterday, news broke that Twitter would begin to get rid of accounts that hadn’t been used in over six months, starting on December 11. While it makes some sense to purge Twitter of perfectly good usernames that are going unused, some users wondered what would happen with the accounts of the deceased. At the time,
Read MoreWhat should we make of videos that seem to show Tesla drivers napping while their cars zip along on Autopilot? ‘I Think This Guy Is, Like, Passed Out in His Tesla’ Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes the wacky idea that we’re living in a computer simulation and mashes it up with the mind-boggling “many worlds” theory to say that, essentially, our entire universe is part of
Read MoreThe economies of scale generally dictate that anything produced in large enough numbers will eventually become cheap. But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine jet engines are still expensive to produce compared to other forms of propulsion. The United
Read MoreDeals for PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One games and systems are live already, and more are coming soon. Best Black Friday deals 2019: Xbox, Switch and PS4 discounts available now and coming soon – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe president’s head on Sylvester Stallone’s body? Go ahead, meme-makers, knock yourself out. Trump tweets photo of his head atop shirtless Rocky body, jokes fly – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHint: It’s not a gigantic space battle scene. J.J. Abrams reveals his favorite scene in the Star Wars prequels – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere are all the PS console and bundle discounts available now — and the ones coming up. Black Friday 2019 PlayStation deals: PS4 Pro with Call of Duty for 9, PSVR for 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has followed up with more details surrounding its plan to remove inactive accounts over the coming months. First, the company says the process “impacts accounts in the EU only, for now.” That important tidbit wasn’t made clear when the news broke on November 26th. But far more
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