In 2015, developer Sam Barlow broke away from his work on games like Silent Hill: Homecoming to release a live-action whodunnit called Her Story. It was an instant hit, praised for its true crime flair and atypical gameplay, where players unravel the story at their own pace by searching terms on a fictional police database.
Read MoreThe social network’s latest privacy feature at least lets us imagine how we could better control our data in the future. The Week in Tech: Facebook’s First Step Toward Treating Our Data Better Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCryptocurrency exchanges are reportedly experiencing some disruption – how the tables have turned – after an outage at Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud. Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is reportedly experiencing 500 error messages on its APIs. It says some withdrawal processing has been affected. AWS is having an issue, mostly with caching services,
Read MoreEarlier this week, The Madras High Court in India ruled against any possibility of linking Aadhaar or any government ID with social media accounts. Justice S. Manikumar, said linking Aadhaar to emails or accounts would violate the original ruling from the Supreme Court which allows the IDs use only for government welfare schemes. The high court
Read MoreThis Hubble image shows a dark, gloomy scene in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). The subject of this image confused astronomers when it was first studied — rather than being classified as a single object, it was instead recorded as two objects, owing to its symmetrical lobed structure. Hubble Captures Dynamic Dying Star Source:
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: at least three of Facebook’s Libra backers are discussing how to distance themselves from the project amid increasing regulatory scrutiny — Intensifying regulatory scrutiny of Facebook’s Libra digital currency has spooked some of the project’s early backers, with at least three privately discussing … Sources: at least three of Facebook's Libra backers
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Read MoreFacebook‘s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra may be in even deeper trouble than we thought if a recent report is anything to go by. According to the Financial Times, it seems that some of Facebook‘s early backers have been spooked by increasing regulatory scrutiny. It’s being reported that at least three of Facebook‘s supporters have privately discussed ways
Read MoreYou can play around 10 hours and you can carry your progress over to the full game. The free Dragon Quest XI demo on Nintendo Switch is pretty darn long – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google Photos can now search for text that appears in user images with its optical character recognition filter — Google Lens has a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) filter that can pull text from any image. Available in Google Photos, the backup service this month is adding the ability to search
Read MoreSave big on the Surface Book 2, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6. Save up to 0 on Microsoft Surface laptops and tablets – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Have you ever spotted one of these people walking around town with a speaker in their backpack, obnoxiously bumping tunes nobody else in their vicinity likes? Well, for $20 bucks, you, too, can be that person. Amazon is currently
Read MoreOne of the latest updates to the Apple Watch included FDA-approved ECG monitoring, and it made waves in both the consumer and medical communities. Many people thought this was impossible. Some were worried about false positives. But most were excited about the potential good that a widely used device with an ECG monitor might be
Read MoreFor lugging a laptop and other tech gear, the choice is more contentious than we thought. Backpacks vs. shoulder bags: Laptop commuters take sides – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHeading back to school this fall? Consider bringing a couple of these handy smart devices with you. 11 great gadgets that can smarten up a dumb dorm room – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSamsung’s new Note phones pack in new features with style. Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus look incredible – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt seems a bit unfair to pile on a product that has already been roundly criticized for its security vulnerabilities. But when that product is a device that is ostensibly deployed to keep one’s family and belongings safe, it’s plenty fair. And when that device is an alarm system that can be defeated by a
Read MoreErrors in cellphone location data have prompted authorities in Denmark to review 10,700 court cases to see if flawed evidence lead to incorrect convictions. The New York Times reports that the issues date back in 2012, and consist of two bugs. The first relates to how raw data from phone companies is converted into evidence
Read MoreBitcoin and gold have been compared many times, but while the precious metal is reportedly set to suffer its worst week in almost five months, the cryptocurrency’s price recovered from a drop earlier this week and is now hovering well above the $10,000 mark. According to CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin started the month of August trading below
Read MoreLauren Debter / Forbes: A look at the life of Patrick Byrne, whose interests in blockchain and transforming Africa, among others, often overshadowed those of Overstock.com shareholders — On Thursday, Patrick Byrne, the founder and longtime CEO of former e-tailing giant Overstock.com, resigned … A look at the life of Patrick Byrne, whose interests in
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When Instagram first hit the news this week, it was over a hoax. A host of celebrities had posted to their timelines a battered image declaring that Instagram would soon make our deleted photos and messages public, and use them against us in court, unless we created
Read MorePolice offers in one district will be given Samsung smartphones which can be docked in their cars. | Image: Samsung Police in Chicago’s West Side 11th district are piloting Samsung DeX as a replacement for their existing in-car computer systems, the Chicago Police Department and Samsung announced this week. Officers will have a Samsung Galaxy
Read MoreWithout the proper precautions in place during storm season, businesses, especially smaller ones, that are hit by bad weather can potentially face massive data loss if their sites are compromised. Companies can spend months working to reconstruct documents, billing information and records — especially if that information only existed in one location. Planning for how to
Read MoreSnap changed social media — and Venice, Calif. — for good. What’s next? Snapchat’s Disappearing Act Leaves Venice Beach Searching for Its Future Source: NY Times Tech
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 Faraday used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 22
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