Aftermarket glass company Hyperformance is offering Gorilla Glass windshields in partnership with Corning. You can now get a Gorilla Glass windshield for your F-150 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCroatian engineers [Slaven Damjanovic] and [Marko Čalić] have developed a wireless system for farmers to monitor plant conditions and weather along their agricultural fields. The system uses an RFM95W module for LoRa communication, and devices are designed to be plug-and-play, battery-powered, and have long-range communication (up to 10km from the gateway). It uses an ATMega328 microprocessor,
Read MoreWelp, there seems to be another reason to hold off on updating to iOS 13: Users have discovered that the “Location” privacy setting—which requests access to your device’s geographical location data—is being automatically reset from “Never” to “Ask Next Time” in certain apps. Read more… How to Fix iOS 13's Location Privacy Bug Source: Life
Read MoreTwitter is now letting users add up to five lists as alternative timelines in the main Twitter app, allowing you to quickly swipe between different groups of accounts directly from your home screen. The company tested the feature back in June, but it’s rolling it out to everyone on iOS starting today. Check the tweet
Read MoreIt’s more than nicotine that keeps you coming back for more. Why vaping is so addictive, according to doctors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s not concrete evidence, but boy, does this seem like it’s intended for a sports car. Mazda patent application suggests it may have RX-9 in mind – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter says it is expanding its policies to explicitly prohibit financial scams on the platform and details the kind of scams it’s banning — Twitter today says it’s expanding its policies to prohibit financial scams on its platform — something you’d think would have already been banned … Twitter says it
Read MoreLinguist and Because Internet author Gretchen McCulloch asked her Twitter followers to share the words that they can’t actually spell without relying on spellcheck. The answers she got will comfort and edify you. Read more… These Are the Words Smart People Can't Spell Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreJoe Fedewa / XDA Developers: Samsung Galaxy S10 gets the Galaxy Note 10’s camera features like AR Doodle and DeX for PC support with an update — Some companies can be stingy with what new features they bring to older devices. Samsung is generally good about this, launching devices with features that eventually trickle down
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has a hardware event lined up for Wednesday, and if last year’s showcase was any indication, we might see multiple new devices from the company. CNBC has just published a report saying that Amazon is working on wireless earbuds with health-tracking features and “a new, bulkier Echo
Read More“This is Earth, not planet Mars.” Indonesia fires turn sky a horrifying blood red – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEugene Kim / CNBC: Sources: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds with an accelerometer that monitors things like calories burned and the pace and distance of runs — – Amazon is working on wireless earbuds that can track things like the distance run, calories burned, and pace of running, CNBC has learned. Sources: Amazon is
Read MoreWith the latest iOS update, the Apple health app can now tell you about the noise levels you’ve been exposed to—both from the environment around you, and from your headphones. Here’s how to set it up, and what to do with that information once you have it. Read more… How to Get iOS 13 to
Read MorePhoto: Epic Games Epic is making a big change to the way matchmaking works in Fortnite. With the game’s next major update, v10.40, the developer will be introducing skill-based matchmaking to the battle royale. “Since battle royale launched, the matchmaking strategy for our core modes has remained mostly unchanged,” Epic explained in a blog post
Read MorePresident Trump has been pushing Apple, which makes the vast majority of its products in China, to build them in the United States. Apple’s most expensive computer will be U.S.-made after tariff exemption Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe next time you get pegged with a Nerf dart, it might be from an incredible 120 feet away — because Hasbro’s new Ultra One blaster, coming October 1st for $49.99, is boasting ranges we’ve never seen from an unmodified blaster thanks to a completely redesigned dart with new stabilizing fins. It could be the
Read MoreThe persistence of vision (POV) optical illusion is pretty common in cheap toys nowadays, but how cool would it be to have your own programmable POV message board? German electronics grad student [Matej] has luckily created an open source fidget spinner with a fully customizable POV display that lets you share whatever thoughts you’d like
Read MoreAlexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange launches long-awaited bitcoin futures as part of its Bakkt venture — Intercontinental Exchange bets consumers, businesses and Wall Street will embrace cryptocurrencies — The owner of the New York Stock Exchange launched its long-delayed market … NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange launches long-awaited bitcoin futures as
Read MoreMicrosoft publishes rare out-of-band security update to address CVE-2019-1367 and CVE-2019-1255. Microsoft releases out-of-band security update to fix IE zero-day & Defender bug Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWe used to think of “The Talk” as that one intensely awkward conversation where your parent sits you down to tell you about sex (you already know what it is) and to strongly suggest you not have it (maybe you already are). But now we know that The Talk is actually a whole series of
Read MoreOne of the highlights of House House’s Untitled Goose Game, the “slapstick-stealth-sandbox” game in which you play a terrible goose wreaking havoc in a lovely English village, is the adaptive soundtrack of Debussy’s Preludes. The playful piano music almost provides a kind of insight into the goose’s mind — the melody plays in quiet, short
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Drum, a marketplace connecting businesses to customers through an on-demand network of salespeople, raises $11M seed round — It’s often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they are more high-maintenance than consumers … Drum, a marketplace connecting businesses to customers
Read MorePurdue University recently announced a major learning management system change: By the start of the fall 2020 semester, the entire university system will move from Blackboard Learn to D2L Brightspace. Purdue Begins Transition to D2L Brightspace Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreIt’ll be a cleaner future for gaming. Sony's PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox join the fight against climate change – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA new Show and Tell feature on Echo Show devices can recognize some objects. Alexa can now recognize objects – CNET Source: CNet
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