Booking.com is offering a scary stay. Get a witch’s shawl on and a broomstick you can crawl on. Addams Family fans can book 'creepy, kooky' night in replica mansion – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Thin White Duke wanted the role of the masked vigilante for himself. David Bowie could have been Rorschach in Zack Synder's Watchmen movie – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNicole Carpenter / Polygon: Gamers upset with Blizzard are protesting by turning Mei, a Chinese Overwatch character, into a pro-democracy symbol, to get Blizzard’s games banned in China — Overwatch hero Mei is being turned into a symbol of resistance — People are furious after Blizzard Entertainment suspended … Gamers upset with Blizzard are protesting
Read MoreHoly guacamole. World's heaviest avocado sets record, makes a boatload of guac – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA few years ago my boyfriend and I purchased WOW Airlines tickets to Scotland. They were super cheap and came with a 17-hour layover in Iceland. Read more… Find Out How Much Cabs, Food, and Beer Will Cost For Your Next Trip Using This Site Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreMark AR / Twitter Imagine a world that’s filled with invisible graffiti. Open an app, point your phone at a wall, and blank brick or cement becomes a canvas. Create art with digital spraypaint and stencils, and an augmented reality system will permanently store its location and placement, creating the illusion of real street art.
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Marketing docs for Pixel 4 and 4 XL confirm 5.7″ and 6.3″ displays, with 90Hz “Smooth Display”, 12MP and 16MP rear cameras, and Snapdragon 855 with 6GB of RAM — Despite the official announcement being on Tuesday, Best Buy in Canada has already listed the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL
Read MoreSave on sleep. The best Columbus Day 2019 mattress sales: DreamCloud, Nectar, Nest and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe propaganda app — mandatory in some workplaces — can give the Communist Party a powerful new surveillance tool. Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to 100 million users’ phones, report says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreBlindsided by missing pin allocations? Perhaps you’re working on a piece of hardware and you notice that the documentation is entirely wrong. How can you get your device to work? [Dani Eichhorn]’s troubles began when running an IoT workshop using a camera module. Prior to the work, no one had through to check if all
Read MorePhoto: Bloomberg Businessweek Last year, the CEO of Quintillion, an Alaskan company trying to build a trans-Arctic undersea cable, was charged with wire fraud after forging contracts to help raise more than $250 million from investors. This week, Bloomberg posted a captivating feature about how that CEO nearly pulled off the scam of a lifetime.
Read MoreAn Amazon men’s shirt sale, eufy smart doorbell, Washington Post digital subscription, and a Beard Club box lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Saturday's Best Deals: Woot Gaming Sale, Sealy Mattresses, ANC Headphones, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Profile of PewDiePie covering his relationships with YouTube and mainstream media, as he tries to shed his reputation as a far-right sympathizer — The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding.
Read MoreChrome OS isn’t the most option-packed operating system around, but there are some things you can do to make your Chromebook’s desktop look and work the way you want. Ready? Customize your Chromebook’s wallpaper First, let’s tackle your desktop’s basic appearance: Right-click anywhere on your Chromebook’s desktop and select “Set wallpaper” from the menu that
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Gaming is cool. You get to lose yourself in finely crafted worlds, tax your brain solving complex puzzles, or just spend your time blasting the shit out of computerized chumps. But as fun as playing video games by yourself
Read MoreWe’ve got double rainbows, water-bottle flipping, a rainbow-farting cat and those songs you’ll never get out of your head, especially on Friday, Friday. From Gangnam Style to Pizza Rat, here are the decade's 17 top viral videos – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere’s a look at our most important stories of the week ending Oct. 12, 2019. 2020 Hyundai Sonata, BMW M8 and more: Roadshow's week in review – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreBy 2021, digital marketing spends worldwide are expected to top $375 billion. You can join the short, but growing roster of professionals who both understand and can utilize those kind of resources in messaging online with the training in The Complete 2020 Google SEO & Growth Hacking Bundle ($25, over 90 percent off from TNW
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s latest Mac update, macOS Catalina, was released earlier this week, and with it came a flurry of complications both minor and major. For one, this update is the first for Apple to drop 32-bit application support, which is causing all sorts of headaches for users of
Read MoreTyler Hall / tyler.io: Apple’s insistence on unnecessarily tying software releases to yearly hardware upgrades is a broken cycle for a services company; it needs to be more agile — This isn’t the blog post intended to write. In fact, last night I drafted up one about my problems sending background push notifications with Amazon
Read MoreThe discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or at least hoped, it seems that planets are ubiquitous in stellar systems and there are probably more planets than stars
Read MoreOf all the tools that exist, there aren’t many more futuristic than the plasma cutter, if a modern Star Wars cosplay if your idea of futuristic. That being said, plasma cutters are a powerful tool capable of making neat cuts through practically any material, and there are certainly worst ways to play with high voltage.
Read MoreAirPods 3 rumors abound after clues spotted in iOS 13.2 beta point to a new in-ear design, plus Apple’s AR glasses might get a 2020 release date. Noise-canceling AirPods 3 and Apple’s AR glasses could be here sooner than we thought – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Let’s get this bread! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 11 2019, at a
Read MoreThese six things are on pretty much on everyone’s phone wish list, so Google better step up to the plate. Dear Google: We expect these Pixel 4 upgrades if you want to compete with Apple and Samsung – CNET Source: CNet
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