In case you hadn’t noticed, Google got a facelift. Yep, the tech giant’s search page received some rather fancy new icons. Slap your peepers on this: While before there were just words, now there are words and images. Truly, we live in exalted times. Now these have been rolled out globally, we knew what we had to,
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Read MoreYesterday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) unveiled legislation called “Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act,” which would shake up the legal foundation of the internet in an effort to root out online bias. Under the proposed law, companies like Facebook and Twitter would be required to obtain a government certification that they are not making politically
Read MoreBeginning Thursday, June 27, you can book your stay at the tastiest hotel of the summer. The Taco Bell hotel is really real and soon you'll be able to reserve a room – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor a beautiful few years, you have near-complete control over what your child plays. You decide what’s allowed and when, what to play together, which gems from the past to share with an excited five-year-old. Then a little more time passes, and suddenly the situation is completely different. Read more… What Happens When Your Kids
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, which makes Hue-branded smart lights, announces new Li-Fi lights called Truelifi with data transfer speeds of up to 150 Mbps — Signify’s Truelifi can be retrofitted into existing Philips lights — Signify, the company formerly known as Philips Lighting … Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, which makes
Read MoreAn exclusive deal on Japanese chef’s knives, a Roav dash cam, Amazon activewear, and a Kindle Oasis discount lead off a Thursday’s best deals. Read more… Thursday's Best Deals: AirPods, Logitech Gold Box, Roku Streaming Stick+, BAGGU, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreIf you unfollow someone on Twitter right now, Twitter might send them a notification. Thanks to the bug, which has been active for over a week now, user X might get a “Y followed you” notification when Y actually unfollowed X. Twitter has told multiple news outlets that it’s working on a fix. In the
Read MoreLast week, Twitch banned one of its top streamers — Guy Beahm, better known as Dr Disrespect — for broadcasting from a public bathroom at E3. The ban now puts Twitch in a tricky position: Twitch needs to show that violating the company’s guidelines comes with real punishment, but a lengthy suspension means losing one
Read MoreBitcoin‘s hash rate is skyrocketing, setting a new all-time-high and flying in the face of Facebook’s ambitious Libra cryptocurrency — a remarkably healthy sign for the world’s most popular blockchain. Bitcoin‘s “hash rate” measures the total processing power of the network at any one time. As more miners join the network, the hash rate increases. A strong hash rate
Read MoreHow should companies decide which objectionable content should stay online or get the ax? Answering that question has presented a tremendous challenge in recent years for companies such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Americans lack trust in social networks’ judgment to remove offensive posts, Pew finds Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreAt 5:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 20, 2019, a 40-foot tall rocket carrying 28 student experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. RockOn! and RockSat-C: Launching Student Experiments to Space Source: NASA
Read More{$inline_image} By and large, automakers have spent much of the last century trying to make cars quieter and more comfortable. Noise from vehicles can be disruptive and just generally annoying, so it makes sense to minimise it where possible. However, the noise from the average motor vehicle can serve a useful purpose. A running engine
Read MoreWe’ve seen cryptocurrency hungry hackers hiding mining malware in Adobe Flash updates, and even in legitimate Windows updates, but now hackers are hiding it in cracked audio production software. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered a Monero cryptocurrency mining bot called LoudMiner. Hackers have been distributing it since August 2018, but in the past month
Read MoreIn the cult 2004 role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, vampires love to dance. Your protagonist can show up at a nightclub and jump into the center of the action, throwing their limbs wildly with an enthusiasm that’s not generally credited to the undead. And in a demo of Bloodlines’ upcoming sequel from Hardsuit
Read MoreAlan Ohnsman / Forbes: Waymo partners with Renault and Nissan to explore creating driverless mobility services in France and Japan — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving vehicle unit, is preparing to expand the scope of its autonomous tech efforts beyond the U.S. in a new partnership with the Renault-Nissan Alliance aimed … Waymo partners with Renault
Read MoreLast year, the Yakuza series wrapped up with its sixth and final entry, which bid farewell to lovable hero Kazuma Kiryu. Given the strong attachment fans had to the character, the team behind the series realized they had to go in a different direction for their next game. Judgment, which launches next week on the
Read MoreRules requiring users to prove they are over 18 were postponed because officials failed to adequately notify the European Commission about the changes. U.K. Age Checks for Online Porn Sites Are Delayed Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Variety: Instead of moving kids content to YouTube Kids, where existing problems could be replicated, YouTube Kids should invest in curation and product development — Facing mounting pressure over failures to protect children from inappropriate content, Google is reportedly considering a number of changes to its video sharing site YouTube. Instead of
Read MoreThey’re clapping back at proposals in Washington. The Technology 202: Silicon Valley warns changes to key legal shield could unleash harmful content online Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft is turning its Immersive Learning tool into an Azure Cognitive Service and partnering with do-it-yourself computer-building kit maker Kano to develop a $300 Windows 10 S Mode PC kit. Microsoft gives Immersive Reader the AI treatment Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAt the start of the spring 2020 semester this January, Penn State World Campus will have a new artificial intelligence tool for answering the most common requests from its undergraduate students. Penn State World Campus Taps Google Cloud to Build Virtual Advising Assistant Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is asking suppliers to study feasibility of shifting final assembly of some products out of China amid trade tensions — iPhone maker is asking suppliers to study moving final assembly of some products out of the country — Apple Inc. AAPL -.29% is asking suppliers … Sources: Apple is asking
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Druva, which provides a SaaS platform for data protection and management, raises $130M round led by Viking Global Investors at a $1B+ valuation — As businesses continue to move more of their computing and data to the cloud, one of the startups that has made a name for itself as a
Read MoreKnown as “My Special Aflac Duck,” the robot merging play with tools that help doctors do their jobs. Children battling cancer can’t always express their feelings. Now a robotic duck is doing it for them. Source: Washington Post Tech
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