PC gamers have plenty of launchers they can install to play all their games—including Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net, and GOG Galaxy, to name a few. The Rockstar Games Launcher is the latest app to join the club, and downloading it today (whether you need it or not) can score you a free copy of Grand
Read MoreGoogle’s mesh Wi-Fi router — Google Wifi — is nearly three years old, but it may be getting a radically different design next month. 9to5Google is reporting that the company is prepping a new “Nest Wifi” that pairs a single new hub router with two new “beacons” that will double as Google Assistant smart speakers,
Read MoreImage: Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz is known for being a pioneer in the world of automobiles, but until now, it hadn’t ventured into the world of two-wheeled electric scooters. That will change, though, as the company very quietly announced a two-wheeler at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show last week. Stuffed inside a press release between news
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe — KEY POINTS — Facebook has partnered with Luxottica to develop augmented-reality Ray-Ban glasses, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to
Read More{$inline_image} Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team’s structure to curb white supremacist violence — In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it’s made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups … Facebook says it has updated its definition of "terrorist
Read MoreMicrosoft is working to make meeting-scheduling more simple and seamless with its Calendar.help bot, which soon will be renamed Scheduler. Microsoft inches closer to releasing its AI-powered Scheduler bot Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreLike many hackers, [Tom Szolyga] has soft spot for the venerable Z80. The number of instructions and registers made it relatively easy to program in ASM, and he still has fond memories of the refreshingly straightforward CP/M operating system he used to run on them back in the day. In fact, he loves Z80 computers
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: President Trump is visiting Silicon Valley for the first time since 2016 for a fundraiser, but its location is a mystery, even to the donors — Location of president’s fundraiser in the Bay Area is being kept under wraps — Three years ago, an uproar among company employees forced … Sources:
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators — Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page … Google will start surfacing
Read MoreIf you have trouble writing and replying to emails, here’s a simple trick: Set a timer for three minutes. Now write that whole email before the time runs out. Read more… Before You Start an Email, Set a Timer Source: Life Hacker
Read MorePunk band The Offspring are going to be performing a gig in … a mobile game? Yep, they join the ranks of the growing number of performers choosing to perform in games. As for the venue, Offspring will be performing inside World of Tanks. That’s right, the free-to-play mobile World War 2 war machine game. It
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month — Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO
Read MorePhoto: Francois Duhamel / Twentieth Century Fox Director James Gray’s lush new space opera Ad Astra is essentially two parallel films. One is a visually inventive science fiction odyssey that imagines near-future space travel as the new Wild West frontier. The other is a tepid father / son drama that Gray and his co-writer, Ethan
Read MoreThe Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden that would recover all proceeds of his recently released memoir, the department announced on Tuesday. The charges coincide with the official publication of the book, which is titled Permanent Record. Snowden’s memoir was allegedly not submitted to the CIA or NSA for pre-publication review,
Read MoreX-rays and other medical images are supposed to be private, since they are part of your medical records. But a recent ProPublica investigation found patients’ images just sitting around on the internet for anybody to view. Read more… Your Private Medical Images May Online for Anyone to See Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn begins the global roll out of Skills Assessments, multiple-choice tests for users to verify their expertise across ~75 skills like coding — LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users … LinkedIn begins the global roll
Read MoreThe change was one of several Facebook announced ahead of a hearing with federal lawmakers on Wednesday. Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations to Limit Extremism Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAn explosion that appeared to be the size of a planet comes from a surprisingly small space rock. A small asteroid makes a huge flash slamming into Jupiter – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFashion a first-rate customer experience management program Source: Search Compliance
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder may be expanding from matchmaking into original video content. According to Variety, Tinder has developed a lengthy Choose Your Own Adventure-style series about a group of characters facing the end of the world. It’ll be controlled by swipes, of course, and it’ll reportedly include more than two
Read MoreAt first glance, it might not seem to make sense to write shell scripts in C/C++. After all, the whole point to a shell script is to knock out something quick and dirty. However, there are cases where you might want to write a quick C program to do something that would be hard to
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon has knocked hundreds off of the cost of Apple’s 11-inch iPad Pro (Wi-Fi) with 1TB of storage. It’s currently $1,149, matching the best deal that we’ve seen yet for this high-end tablet. Last week, Apple officially dropped the price of this model from $1,549 to $1,349,
Read MoreSmarter options for car upholstery move into the mainstream. Will your next car have a vegan interior? – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreYou may have heard that college is expensive. There’s the tuition, of course, the room and board, the textbooks, the ridiculous amount of food consumed. But it can also be pricey just to try to get to college. Before you ever even go dorm-room decor shopping, junior has to be accepted to the school of
Read MorePhoto by Ryan “Rhondo” Manning for The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel talks to Dani Deahl, music reporter and host of The Verge’s video series Future of Music. Dani walks Nilay through two episodes of Future of Music season 2 — one about how music sampling has changed the way people are
Read More
