Shell out $75 for Wizarding World Gold, which gets you ebooks, behind-the-scenes videos and event discounts. New Harry Potter subscription service puts a spell on fans' wallets – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou might not have realised this, but there’s a group of hackers out there without whom you wouldn’t be able to put food on the table. They hack under the blazing sun and pouring rain, and have been doing it for thousands of years. Known more commonly as farmers, their creative problem solving skills with
Read MoreThe Nationals go for the sweep, and a spot in the World Series, tonight on TBS. How to watch Nationals vs. Cardinals NLCS Game 4 live tonight without cable – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA comprehensive annual study from Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. looks at five years of progress and stagnation. For women in the workplace, good news and bad – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: CrowdStrike report details a multi-year China-linked hacking campaign against Western companies like GE that supplied components for China’s Comac C919 airplane — One of China’s most brazen hacking sprees involved intelligence officers, hackers, security researchers, and company insiders. CrowdStrike report details a multi-year China-linked hacking campaign against Western companies like GE
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge San Francisco announced recently that it was expanding its permit program to include Uber’s Jump, Ford’s Spin, and Lime — companies that previously were barred from operating scooters in the city. But the expansion of the city’s scooter operators isn’t all good news: Skip, one of the companies
Read MoreTwitter: World Leaders on Twitter: principles & approach — There continues to be meaningful public conversation about how we think about Tweets from world leaders on our service. We welcome the conversation and want to share more context on our principles and process for reviewing reported Tweets from these accounts. World Leaders on Twitter: principles
Read MorePhoto by Loren Grush / The Verge Today, NASA unveiled its designs for future spacesuits that astronauts will wear during trips to the lunar surface. The suits are still in development, but NASA claims they’ll be ready to keep astronauts alive in space by 2024 — the space agency’s deadline to return humans to the
Read MoreAfter a “painful” earnings report, the advertising company Publicis trotted out what it knows about consumers in its “most important pitch of the year.” Ad Giant Wins Over Disney With Big Data Pitch Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL are here at last, after a mountain of leaks. Preorders are beginning today, and the actual phones ship in just over a week. So let’s assume your heart is set on a new Pixel phone, and you’re not willing to wait for
Read MoreImage: Meetup Meetup, an online platform that lets you find events and meet people offline that have similar interests, has announced it is testing out a new payment structure that will charge users to RSVP for an event. The company tells The Verge it began this test last month, and it’s been charging a subset
Read MoreTwitter said it would keep President Trump’s account live, despite pressure from Democrats to delete it. Twitter Stands by Trump Amid Calls to Terminate His Account Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJoe Uchill / Axios: MIT researchers show ML models aren’t yet capable of effectively distinguishing false news reports and reveal flaws in a commonly used database in the field — Current machine learning models aren’t yet up to the task of distinguishing false news reports, two new papers by MIT researchers show. MIT researchers show
Read More{$inline_image} Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders’ tweets that violate its rules, will let users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, or share — Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules. Twitter to restrict user interactions with world
Read MoreRecently, a stalker found and attacked a Japanese pop star, in part by using an eye reflection to figure out what train station she uses. (He then waited for her at the train station and followed her home.) This got us wondering: how easy is it to get clues about somebody’s location from their selfies?
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google claims that ~80% of the top “several hundred” Android apps are now optimized for ARC++, the compatibility layer that enables them to run atop Chrome OS — Google’s freshly unveiled Chrome OS clamshell, the Pixelbook Go, won’t ship with much new software. Google claims that ~80% of the top "several
Read MoreTune in later this week to witness two women stepping out into space together for the first time. How to watch the first all-female spacewalk with NASA on the ISS – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSo you went and did the thing you swore you’d never do: you cheated on your partner. You probably have a lot of questions, including about what happens next. If your partner decides to end the relationship, there’s not much for you to do, but if they want to stay together, you have some work
Read MoreLandlords usually have one big question when you inquire about a rental: Do you have enough money to pay for it? Coughing up your last pay stub is often enough to convince the powers that be that you’re responsible enough to pay the rent each month, and some landlords even spell out the minimum monthly
Read MoreIt’s a whole new world to explore. Fortnite Chapter 2 has a new map and other major changes following the black hole event – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhere’s Cap? Disney Plus will only have 7 Marvel movies at launch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHe’ll star alongside Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, according to Variety. Neil Patrick Harris will reportedly join Matrix 4 cast – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe key is designed to keep attackers at bay, even if they have your username and password. Google's USB-C Titan hardware security key works on Android phones too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you’ve purchased a piece of consumer electronics in the last few years, there’s an excellent chance that you were forced to use some proprietary application (likely on a mobile device) to unlock its full functionality. It’s a depressing reality of modern technology, and unless you’re willing to roll your own hardware, it can be
Read MoreBesides forcing society to examine what comedy really is, TikTok drives all sorts of discourse, both political and not. But after one user posted a behind-the-scenes look, it has people talking about Panera’s macaroni and cheese, which is reheated from a frozen state to a servile temperature in—horror of… Read more… There's Nothing Wrong With
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