Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook and Instagram appear to be experiencing an outage in some parts of the world, with users complaining that they were unable to log in, upload pictures, or update their status. According to DownDetector, the outage appears to have begun just before 10:00AM ET, and the problems
Read MoreI’m a big fan of buying gift cards for myself. Read more… Get Free If You Buy Your First Amazon Gift Card Today Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreImage: The CW The CW’s Arrowverse franchise is getting some new members: characters from its superhero series Black Lightning will be part of a major crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths, which will see its other DC superhero shows Arrow, Batwoman, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl team up this fall. The CW
Read MoreLongform articles can be a great way to do a deep dive on a particular topic. That said, sometimes you don’t have the ability (or perhaps the desire) to read through a 5,000 article on a topic right this second, but you still want to get the gist of what is said, that’s where TLDR
Read MoreImage: The CW The CW’s long-running science fiction series The 100 will come to an end with its seventh season, the network announced today during its presentation before the Television Critics Association. The series is the latest of its long-running shows to be canceled, after Arrow, which will come to an end after eight seasons,
Read MoreThe site is a venue for extremists to test out ideas, share violent literature, and cheer on the perpetrators of mass killings. 8chan Is a Megaphone for Shooters. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe research and development of neural networks is flourishing thanks to recent advancements in computational power, the discovery of new algorithms, and an increase in labelled data. Before the current explosion of activity in the space, the practical applications of neural networks were limited. Much of the recent research has allowed for broad application, the heavy computational
Read MoreThere are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rocket from past space expeditions. If you include all the equipment dropped by astronauts while floating in space and the debris from colliding satellites down to around 1cm in size, there are about one million bits of
Read MoreWhile the rest of the world has by and large forgotten the Atari Jaguar, the generously marketed console still has a fan base, and even some dedicated hackers prodding away at it. [Cyrano Jones] is one of them, and he managed something many considered unthinkable: restoring in-game music to the Jaguar port of Doom. The
Read More{$inline_image} While the rest of the world has by and large forgotten the Atari Jaguar, the generously marketed console still has a fan base, and even some dedicated hackers prodding away at it. [Cyrano Jones] is one of them, and he managed something many considered unthinkable: restoring in-game music to the Jaguar port of Doom.
Read MoreUsers of the social networks complain of not being able to share status updates or photos. Facebook, Instagram hit by apparent global outage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Liptak / The Verge If you’re a fan of film history, the benchmark for behind-the-scene film books has been the work of J.W. Rinzler and his series of massive “The Making Of” tomes. Over the last decade, he’s written definitive histories behind the productions for the original Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana
Read MoreThe suspected El Paso killer posted a racist manifesto to the anonymous extremist site. Now experts are worried that “targeted violence will become a meme itself.” Three mass shootings this year began with a hateful screed on 8chan. Its founder calls it a terrorist refuge in plain sight. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFranky Zapata drew comparisons to Spider-Man’s archnemesis as he flew a hoverboard through Paris last month. French 'Green Goblin' crosses English Channel on hoverboard – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreInfinity Games It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. In a city builder like SimCity or Cities: Skylines, traffic
Read MoreNASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, and unreliable. None of which are good qualities for spaceflight. The agency’s decision to ultimately trust the success of the Apollo
Read MoreA Kindle Bestseller sale, stainless steel steak knives, Captain Toad: Treasure Hunter, and Owlee Speakers lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Sunday's Best Deals: Razer Keyboard Eufy Robovacs, TP-Link Smart Plugs, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreOne of my favorite memes is spun off a line from an essay: “to receive the rewards of being loved, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” The format is simpler than it sounds: on one side, being loved; on the other, being known. Sometimes the mortifying ordeal is a pane of
Read MoreDrug tests don’t screen for CBD, but that doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. Can CBD make you fail a drug test? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images After a failed attempt at the end of July, French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crossed the English Channel early this morning on his Flyboard Air, a jet-powered hoverboard. Zapata departed from Sangatte, France and arrived in Dover, England 22 minutes later, reaching speeds of up to 106 miles per hour
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. In this day and age, we’ve been blessed with several tools that allow us to create simple to-do lists to help us keep our lives on track. I appreciate that
Read MoreCybersecurity stock images are predictable at this point: a hooded man with a shadowy face in front of a keyboard or a mysterious person in front of binary code. A design firm called OpenIDEO thinks these images can be better, so it’s hosting a contest to entice visual creators to make images that are eye-catching,
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! It could just be me, but I love having a cheap second computer. Of course, I couldn’t live without a high-end machine to do complex, resource-intensive work on. But sometimes I just want a little device I can take
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Gmail‘s pretty much the first choice of email service for over a billion people on this planet (miss you, Inbox). But up until recently, a key functionality was missing from
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