Divorce is hilarious! That’s why HBO made a whole show named after it (season 3 just started, SJP fans represent). It’s also why there’s a funny subreddit called r/DivorcedBirds. It explores tropes you didn’t even realize you had stored in the back of your mind about divorce, breakups, mid-life crises, and the… Read more… Enjoy
Read MoreAmazon has selected a director for its upcoming Lord of the Rings TV series: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s J.A. Bayona, reports Deadline. Bayona will direct the first two episodes of the series and will serve as executive producer along with producer Belén Atienza. The announcement doesn’t reveal when the series will debut on Amazon Prime
Read MoreMark Sweney / The Guardian: UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they’ve abused their power to dominate the ad market — Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data — The UK competition watchdog has launched … UK competition
Read More{$inline_image} Mark Sweney / The Guardian: UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they’ve abused their power to dominate the ad market — Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data — The UK competition watchdog has launched … UK
Read MoreOnce something has been shared online, it never truly goes away. This adage is particularly relevant for DeepNude, software that uses AI to create fake nude images of women. The app came to public attention last week after a report from Motherboard highlighted its existence. Shortly afterward, the app’s creator pulled it from the web,
Read MoreMoment Pro Camera, the camera app originally designed for Moment’s range of aftermarket smartphone lenses, is getting support for long-exposure photography on iOS. The feature is technically blending together a number of shorter exposures rather than creating a long single exposure like a traditional camera would, but it can be used to create a couple
Read MoreMicrosoft also is rolling out to non-Insider testers Notification support with Your Phone for select Android phones this week. New Windows 10 20H1 test build adds new notification-settings options Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreLife can be hard for a pup. You finally get one day where your humans are home and bringing strangers to pet you and feeding you leftover barbecue, and then all evening there are terrifyingly loud noises. Here’s how to comfort your doggo on the fourth. Read more… How to Calm Your Dog When There
Read MoreWhen President Trump announced plans over the weekend to ease trade restrictions on Huawei, it seemed to upend America’s crackdown on the Chinese tech giant. “At the request of our High Tech companies, and President Xi, I agreed to allow Chinese company Huawei to buy product from them which will not impact our National Security,”
Read MoreFacebook has had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed, view stories on Instagram, or send messages in WhatsApp. Facebook says it is aware of the issues and “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Read MoreEthereum might feature more decentralized apps (dapps) than any other blockchain, but its rivals are enjoying significantly higher usage. In fact, TRON dapps attracted more active users than any other network over the past three months, reports Dapp.com with new research. “484 new dapps were added to the market this quarter, and Ethereum is still the
Read MoreUltimate Ears’ Blast speaker is $69.99 for a limited time at Dell as part of its Black Friday in July event. The Blast supports Bluetooth connections, but unlike its Boom series of speakers, this one also has far-field microphones and Alexa integration so you can think of it as an Amazon Echo speaker but with
Read MoreIf you’re reading this at work, you are probably worried that something you’re doing right now is slowly killing you. The accumulated years of slouched spinal posture, squinting at a screen and sitting (“the new smoking”) are sources of health paranoia for the 80 percent of the workforce whose jobs do not regularly… Read more…
Read MoreIt’ll debut on Hyundai’s Smartstream engine family, starting with a 1.6-liter I4. Hyundai's new Continuously Variable Valve Duration tech boosts both power and efficiency – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s the fourth car to carry the Inspiration Series trim level. Lexus LS 500 Inspiration Series brings special color palette to sedans for the first time – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read More‘Hey Google’ now works in the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, France, and the Netherlands. Sonos expands Google Assistant support to six additional countries – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEighty requests came from around the world. Apple says governments asked for 634 apps to be removed last year – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has issued a solicitation for a tiny, “self-contained and free flying orbital outpost” that can host experiments and equipment in orbit and could eventually be scaled up for human habitation. The Orbital Outpost that’s being solicited would be small: it needs to have at least a cubic meter of
Read MoreMicrosoft is rolling out an update to its Your Phone app on Windows 10 that will allow it to mirror notifications from your Android phone onto your PC. This makes good on a promise from August 2018 when Microsoft said that notifications would be coming. The core concept of Your Phone hasn’t changed. Once you
Read MoreI don’t think of myself as a competitive person, but give me a video game, and it’s like I’m in an Olympic final and I’m not going home without a gold medal. Today’s video game happens to be a Google Doodle baseball game where your opponents are peanuts, your entire team is made of food,
Read MoreIf you find “Fight the Power” more patriotic than “God Bless the U.S.A.,” if you think it’s one thing to love America but it’s another to act like its obsessive boyfriend, then we have an Independence Day playlist for you. We have easy barbecue jams like “Party in the U.S.A.” and “Young Americans,” and songs
Read MoreThis 8-image mosaic of the Sojourner rover on the surface of Mars was acquired during the late afternoon on Sol 2. Sojourner arrived aboard the Mars Pathfinder on July 4, 1997. NASA's First Rover on the Red Planet Source: NASA
Read MoreOn AirbnbHell.com—a website devoted to nightmare experiences on Airbnb—guests share their stories of staying in rentals with ant and cockroach infestations, units with “fake” seaside views, and apartments that don’t even exist. Read more… How to Critique an Airbnb Rental Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreA 1962 Type 2 gets updated for 2019 Continue reading… VW’s Type 20 is an electrified dream of its iconic campervan Source: New feed
Read MoreIt’s a sneak peek of the self-driving car future. The Technology 202: I drove a Tesla Model 3 and here’s what I learned: Trust but verify Source: Washington Post Tech
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