Writing is 1% writing, 1% staring into space, and 98% doing little errands to “prepare” for writing. My favorite method of not writing is to compose a very specific playlist to “soundtrack” the thing that I’m writing. If you go hunting for the right music to write to, sorry, I’ve just ruined your excuse: here
Read MoreMicrosoft offers a new snapshot of the data that feeds into its Intelligence Security Graph. Microsoft: 'We're detecting 5 billion cybersecurity threats on devices a month' Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreWith your smartphone, inexpensive software and a bit of cloth or paper, you can make your own “green screen” movies. Tech Tip: How to Add Hollywood Special Effects to Your Videos Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreStreaming services have revolutionized the discovery of songs, but here’s why Ben Sisario, who covers the music industry, still likes to listen to compact discs. Tech We’re Using: Why Play a Music CD? ‘No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms’ Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf you pay any total at all (even just $1), you’ll receive access to one of the bundle’s most engaging courses, HTML5 Game Development for Beginners with Phaser. It’s a fun primer on how to use the Phaser 3 game framework hand in hand with HTML5 to create a “Frogger” style game that’s playable across
Read MoreYesterday, HP announced its new Omen X 2S laptop, which the company says is the world’s first dual-screen gaming portable. In addition to a 15-inch primary display, the machine comes with a petite 6-inch 1080p touchscreen panel located just slightly above the keyboard. While you can’t use this to extend the gaming experience, as you
Read MoreYahoo Finance: Alibaba beats estimates with Q4 profit of $3.84B on revenue of $13.9B, up 51% YoY, says annual active consumers reached 654M, mobile MAUs 721M — BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2019. — “More and more, Alibaba is becoming synonymous … Alibaba beats estimates
Read MoreEditor’s note: This article was originally published in the buildup to the launch of Google and OnePlus’ latest devices, as the nature of their pre-launch leaks was so comprehensive that we were able to do the analysis of what each phone means in advance. The language has since been amended to reflect the official status
Read MoreOpera will soon be adding native support for the TRON blockchain in its cryptocurrency-focused browser. Among other things, the new integration will make it possible to natively use TRON-powered dapps and tokens within the browser. Opera will also add support for TRON‘s TRX and other TRC-standard tokens in its built-in cryptocurrency wallet for desktop and mobile
Read MoreWindows 10 users report latest cumulative update installs twice, but updates have different build numbers. Windows 10 1809 May 14 update: So good, it's installing twice? Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreDouglas Soltys / BetaKit: Canadian digital alternative banking startup Koho raises $42M Series B led by Portag3 Ventures, sources say at $100M+ valuation, bringing total raised to $52.6M — Toronto-based FinTech startup Koho announced the close of a $42 million Series B round today, led by Portag3 Ventures … Canadian digital alternative banking startup Koho
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Tencent beats estimates with Q1 profit of $3.95B, up 17% YoY, on revenue of $12.42B, up 16% YoY; WeChat had 1.11B MAUs, up 6.9% YoY — Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s quarterly earnings beat estimates, boosted by gains on investments, giving shareholders much-needed assurance the Chinese gaming behemoth is bound for a
Read MoreThe three episodes, coming June 5, will also include actors from Avengers: Endgame and Aquaman. Black Mirror season 5 trailer showcases Miley Cyrus, reveals Netflix release date – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe often hear that artificial intelligence is important for economic growth, and while that claim makes intuitive sense, there isn’t a lot of hard data to back it up. A recent study from economists at MIT and Washington University in St. Louis offers some proof, though, showing how AI tools boost trade by allowing sellers
Read MoreKaitlyn Tiffany / Vox: An examination of the opaque data collection practices in mobile games, which have largely escaped the level of scrutiny applied to social media companies — Seemingly simple mobile games made us all way too comfortable with giving away our personal information. — Angry Birds is so 2009, you might say. An
Read MoreGoogle is betting big on ecommerce with the latest update to its search engine. The company is unveiling a redesigned personalized Google Shopping experience, along with introducing the idea of a universal shopping cart across its platform of services, including Search, Shopping, Images and even YouTube. You can now discover and compare products from various parts
Read MoreRedditors from the /r/Freefolk subreddit, angry at how Game of Thrones’ final season has played out, briefly succeeded is getting a picture of its showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff to rank for the search term “bad writers.” Both Metro and Business Insider were able to verify the success of the campaign, although searching for
Read MoreSeason five of Black Mirror is coming to Netflix on June 5th, and you can watch the first trailer for the show right now. As ever, the anthology series will focus on questions regarding technology, society, and our understanding of ourselves. (Themes best encapsulated — and parodied — by the phrase “what if phones, but
Read MoreNew Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia is officially gone. All trade has been ceased, and authorized liquidators have been appointed. A message posted Wednesday confirmed the business had failed to recover from January’s crippling hack. Attackers are thought to have stolen $16 million worth of cryptocurrency directly from the exchange’s wallets. “Despite the efforts of management to reduce cost
Read MoreIn March, in the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting, I tried to distinguish between internet problems and platform problems. Internet problems arise from the existence of a free and open network that connects most of the world; platform problems arise from features native to the platform. The fact that anti-vaccination zealots can meet online is
Read MoreJonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Some theories around why Bitcoin has surged above $8,000, from increased adoption and technological advances to good old-fashioned price manipulation — Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period. Some theories around why Bitcoin has
Read MoreAlmost two months after a horrific terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook‘s finally taking some concrete steps to stop the abuse of its live streaming feature. Today, the social network introduced a new ‘one strike’ policy to ban users who violate its community guidelines. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, said in a blog post
Read MoreWhile Skype is now a Microsoft-owned behemoth, its early days were very different. Skype‘s heritage goes back to KaZaa, a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing application that was one of the pillars of the early internet. And while the spirit of those times petered in Skype itself, the country of its origin, Estonia, has fulfilled the promise of P2P.
Read MoreA new one-strike policy comes after the livestreamed massacre in Christchurch. Facebook to ban users from Live streaming if they violate community rules – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs the trade war with the U.S. threatens to decouple the world’s two largest economies, some in China argue that the two sides benefit from the relationship more than they admit. The New New World: In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’ Source: NY Times Tech
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