I’ve worked from home for the better part of the last decade, which means I’ve read pretty much every article there is out there on how you can make your home office a more productive space. Heck, I even wrote an entire book on how to be more productive at work. Read more… Make Your
Read MoreLyft has offered the ability to earn miles on Delta for taking rides with the service for a while now. Now it’s offering a new travel perk: Hilton Honors rewards points. The program officially kicked off this week. Read more… How to Earn Hilton Reward Points For Taking Lyft Rides Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreArduino has announced a new line of Nano boards that will begin shipping next month. From the design, to the chips and features on the board, to the price, there’s a lot that is new here. I stopped by their booth at Maker Faire Bay Area for a look at the hardware. Immediately noticeable is
Read MoreFollowing the US crackdown on Chinese technology companies, Reuters reports that Google has cut off Huawei’s Android license, which would represent a huge blow to the besieged phonemaker. Reuters is reporting the news from a single anonymous source; The Verge requested comment from Google and Huawei about the suspension, but did not hear back from
Read MoreThe great hope for people without a bachelor’s degree hasn’t yet spread beyond small-scale success stories. Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class. Just Not for the Masses. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhich of these novel adaptations will be your new TV or movie obsession? Your next Game of Thrones: Epic books coming to the screen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn its fourth weekend at the box office, the Avengers have defeated the Na’vi in the US and Canada. Avengers: Endgame hurtles past Avatar in US, now No. 2 movie of all time here – CNET Source: CNet
Read More“Take your sniper, aim and start shooting your enemies,” the game description reads. In this popular mobile game, you kill a journalist. ‘Make him famous in a different way.’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreAhmed Best, Ian McDiarmid, Ray Park, Anthony Daniels and Warwick Davis joined crew members from 1999’s Episode 1 at Star Wars Celebration Chicago. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace cast and crew reunited ahead of 20th anniversary – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBeauty YouTuber Tati Westbrook posted a video that lost fellow YouTuber James Charles three million subscribers, and then asked fans to stop unfollowing him. They listened — and showcased a cycle that defines fan culture on YouTube. After Westbrook’s plea, fans started re-following Charles in droves, with more than 45,000 people hitting subscribe just one
Read MoreIf you’re a Game of Thrones fan and can’t watch the final episode tonight, the struggle to avoid spoilers will be inevitably quite hard come tomorrow morning. Read more… Avoid Game of Thrones Spoilers With This Chrome Extension Source: Life Hacker
Read More[Mirko Pavleski] has put together a little weather station for himself that combines Internet-sourced forecasts with physical sensor data to give him a complete view of his local conditions. There’s no shortage of weather applications for our smartphones and computers that will show us the current local conditions and the forecast for the next couple
Read MoreOn May 19th, 1999, George Lucas changed movies forever. The long-anticipated Star Wars prequel Episode I: The Phantom Menace hit theaters, returning to a world that fans had thought they’d never see again. For some, excitement turned to confusion, puzzlement, and outright anger by the time the credits rolled, and Lucas’s grand cinematic experiment was
Read MoreHBO’s cultural phenomenon is coming to end, but will it also be the last show we all watch together? Why Game of Thrones ruled our lives, and what will take up our time next – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreForget Daenerys and Jon Snow, it’s all about Grace and Frankie. Game of Thrones' Grey Worm pops up in Pete Davidson's SNL rap – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDo not — repeat, do NOT — schedule anything else for the evening of May 19. Game of Thrones season 8 finale trailer: Who will end up on the throne? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAn exciting trend is emerging in the US workforce: over half a million workers are using apprenticeships to acquire valuable experience and a pathway to a steady job. They’re earning money while learning critical, in-demand skills. In spite of this progress, a stigma remains. For generations, common wisdom has held that a college degree is
Read MoreAs fans prepare for the longest night — a world without Game of Thrones — many are still hanging on for dear life. A petition to remake the controversial final season has crossed a million signatures on Change.org, and is currently featured on the site’s front page above real causes, like asking CVS to donate
Read MoreTime waits for no one, but occasionally, it does get stuck in a loop. So goes the premise of Alt-Frequencies, a new audio mystery in which players skim radio stations to uncover a government conspiracy. Alt-Frequencies is the latest game from Accidental Queens, creator of A Normal Lost Phone and Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story.
Read MoreA $55 Instant Pot, GreenWorks Gold Box, and an air fryer lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Sunday's Best Deals: Instant Pot, GreenWorks Gold Box, an Air Fryer, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThere can be few of us who haven’t gazed with fascination upon the work of IC decappers, whether they are showing us classic devices from the early years of mass semiconductor manufacture, or reverse-engineering the latest and greatest. But so often their work appears to require some hardcore scientific equipment or particularly dangerous chemicals. We’ve
Read MoreBerg’s Little Printer, an adorable internet-connected box that printed out tiny snippets of news, Instagram photos, and to-do lists, stopped working when the studio and its servers shut down in 2014. Now, design consultancy firm Nord Projects has brought it back to life with a brand-new app, and it added the ability to send messages
Read MoreThe collection features a dozen courses packed with over 200 hours of training. From networking basics and security procedures to mobile and cloud environments, each course will get you prepped for a different CompTIA certification exam. Prep to ace a dozen prized CompTIA certification exams with this bundle Source: The Next Web
Read MoreWelcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. We’re in a dark moment for the tech industry: a time when some new technologies have been adopted recklessly and backfired terribly, and others have developed far more
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Oh yeah we’ve got something you’re going to like today: a 4TB external hard drive from Western Digital for only $94! Normally, the 4TB My Passport (which is portable btw) retails for $160, but this deal takes 41 percent off and
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