What makes for a great password? Something long, something randomized with all kinds of characters—numbers, symbols, and letters of all cases—and, ideally, something backed up by a secondary authentication method. In other words, the easier it is for you to remember your password, the easier it is for someone else to… Read more… Instead of
Read MoreIf you live in earthquake country, this week’s 6.9 and 7.1 earthquakes in California probably have you a bit on edge. Put that nervous energy to good use and get your two emergency kits ready. Read more… How to Pack an Emergency Kit for the Next Earthquake Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Desktop Analytics service, now in public preview, is designed to help business users check their app-compatibility levels and mitigate issues involving the latest Windows 10 feature updates. Microsoft releases preview of its Desktop Analytics app-compatibility assessment service Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreGet over your FOMO. Plan, but be ready to pivot. Here are insider tips from the pros as Comic-Con 2019 approaches. Comic-Con: Adam Savage, Jim Lee and more SDCC stars on how to have your best con – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe event is set for Thursday. Facebook, Twitter may be excluded from White House social media summit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe companies are working together to further develop the open-source autonomous car technology platform and the artificial intelligence necessary to run it. Toyota and Geely partner with Baidu's Apollo self-driving car program – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreA parrot that grooves to Queen and Cyndi Lauper shows humans aren’t the only creatures that get creative by shaking their tail feathers. Snowball the dancing cockatoo gets serious scrutiny from science – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBuying airfare at the airport is, at best, a relic of our past, like getting dressed up to fly or smoking while at cruising altitude. At worst, it’s a great way to get yourself into the special screening line at security. But Melissa Yeager of the Arizona Republic found that if you’re patient and like
Read MoreWorkers in the Minneapolis area have already been pushing for better working conditions. Amazon Minnesota warehouse workers planning Prime Day strike – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEduventures’ latest ed tech landscape map covers everything from advancement constituent relationship management and application development tools to social media and web content management programs, including six new product segments. Latest Ed Tech Landscape Map Adds 6 Product Categories Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreNASDAQ.com: Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, sets IPO range at $15 to $17/share, will raise $125M at a valuation of $658M at mid-point — Phreesia, which provides a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform for healthcare providers, sets IPO range
Read MoreRegular Hackaday readers may recall that a little less than a year ago, I had the opportunity to explore a shuttered Toys “R” Us before the new owners gutted the building. Despite playing host to the customary fixture liquidation sale that takes place during the last death throes of such an establishment, this particular location
Read MoreThe talk coming from the back seat of my car was starting to make me uncomfortable. Read more… How to Teach Your Kids to Think for Themselves Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIf you’ve finally gotten that job (or that raise), it can be easy to assume that you don’t have to worry about money anymore. You’ve got that steady paycheck, after all. Read more… Treat Your Salary Like It's Temporary Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreA mid-June data breach at Oregon State University exposed personally identifiable information of 636 students and their families. E-mail Hack Exposes Student Data at Oregon State Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreAlfred Ng / CNET: Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location data even when permission was denied; Google says it will address the issue in Android Q later this year — Permissions on Android apps are intended to be gatekeepers for how much data your device gives up. Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at noon Pacific for the Manufacturing in China Hack Chat with Jesse Vincent! It started out where many great stories start: as a procrastination project. Open source developer Jesse Vincent decided that messing around with a new keyboard design was a better thing to spend time on than whatever he was
Read MoreMicrosoft is celebrating Stranger Things season 3 in true Windows 1.0 style today. The software giant has created a Windows 1.11 app for a tie-in with Stranger Things, and it includes nostalgic apps like Paint, Write, and the original Windows cmd prompt. While the app is supposed to be set in the summer of 1985
Read MoreChrome OS will soon be able to tether to an iPhone over USB, allowing Apple’s phones to share a mobile data connection without the battery drain of doing it wirelessly. News of the feature was first reported by Chrome Unboxed, which spotted it in a commit to Chromium’s source code. Along with consuming less battery
Read MoreMore than $8 million worth of Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Binance has suddenly moved. Earlier today, a combined 707.1 BTC was sent from one of the hacker‘s Bitcoin wallets to a separate pair of addresses. The two transfers, for 706.1 BTC ($8 million) and 1 BTC ($11,384) respectively, were detected by Twitter-based transaction monitor
Read MoreAngel Au-Yeung / Forbes: Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev’s other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble — Even for an afternoon business meeting, Andrey Andreev, the world’s top online dating tycoon, dresses like he’s headed to a nightclub … Sources describe a
Read MoreTucked away in an estate in Buckinghamshire, England, is a 19th-century mansion. You wouldn’t be able to tell from the outside, but this mansion, named Bletchley Park, was the central home to Alan Turing’s team of WWII codebreakers, the team of cryptographers who were able to decipher the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The intelligence
Read MoreThis article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between sex and technology in a non-explicit, as close to a ‘safe for work’ way as possible – including app reviews, adult VR info, sextech devices, privacy, security issues, and much more. It was founded by ex-TNW European Editor Ben Woods,
Read MoreThe company’s chairman said he’s “surprised and disappointed” by the proposed penalty. British Airways faces 0 million fine for customer data theft Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreOn July 2, 2019, skywatchers in the beach city of La Serena, Chile, looked up at 4:38 p.m. local time to see a black circle in the sky. Total Solar Eclipse Darkens the South Pacific Source: NASA
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