Mark Murray / NBC News: Poll: 69% of Americans use social media at least once a day, 82% believe it wastes their time, 55% think it spreads lies and falsehoods, 57% say “it divides us” — A sizable majority say social media does more to divide the country than unite it, according to the latest
Read MoreSeems like everyone, even Jon Snow’s co-stars, want to know how the HBO hit ends. Real Game of Thrones stars crash SNL when Kit Harington hosts – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJason Schreier / Kotaku: Following Anthem’s rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA’s Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare … Following Anthem's rough launch,
Read MoreWe are fantastically lucky not only in the parts that are easily available to us at reasonable cost, but also for the affordable test equipment that we can have on our benches. It was not always this way though, and [NFM] treats us to an extensive teardown and upgrade of a piece of test equipment
Read MoreThe Galaxy S10 5G and launch of Verizon’s 5G data network are the first drops in a 5G flood. Thanks to Samsung and Verizon, 5G is about to all get up in your face – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn the Valley, there’s a perception that serial entrepreneurship is just a glamorized way of saying “serial failure.” And while ‘serial entrepreneur’ has a nice ring to it, just because you’ve been successful once doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be successful again. After all, not all lessons in one industry are applicable to different business models
Read MoreYou can train in the ways of the seasoned data masters with the Excel Data Analyst Certification School, a collection of instruction available now for just $49, a savings of over 90 percent off the regular price. Earn an accredited Excel certification with this data analyst training Source: The Next Web
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you’re still using an ageing, decrepit iPhone, but don’t really wanna pay an absolute shit ton for an Xs, Xs Max, an Xr, listen up. We’ve got an option for you: an unlocked 64GB iPhone X for only
Read MoreArielle Pardes / Wired: Founder of Change My View subreddit, which has 700K+ subscribers, launches Change A View site, with paid moderators and some funding from Alphabet’s Jigsaw — A FEW MONTHS shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken. Founder of Change My View
Read MoreHave you ever wondered how switchable magnets work? Not electromagnets, but those permanent magnet fixtures like the ones that hold dial indicators to machine tools, or the big, powerful chucks for surface grinders that can be mysteriously demagnetized at the flick of a lever. It seems like magic. Thanks to [Andrew Klein] and this video on
Read MoreMoto didn’t share its plans, but I bet this is the last 5G Mod we see. Motorola says Moto Z3's Mod is the 'best' 5G platform. I disagree – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWWE Wrestlemania 35 is on this Sunday, April 7! Here’s every confirmed match and participant. WWE Wrestlemania 35: 2019 Start time, how to watch, date, full match card, location, lineup and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSee how Apple’s new 2018 iPhones compare with last year’s iPhone X, spec by spec. iPhone XS specs vs. XS Max, XR, X: What is the same and different – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreForeign Policy: How Huawei, once an upstart using licensed and sometimes stolen tech to undercut rivals, became a telecom infrastructure juggernaut during the 4G upgrade cycle — The same year, Huawei landed an even bigger and more unexpected contract to completely rebuild and replace Norway’s mobile phone network … How Huawei, once an upstart using
Read MoreThey say that necessity is the “Mother of Invention”, but over the years we’ve started to suspect that her cousin might be an underutilized microcontroller. How else can you explain projects like the latest from [MN Maker], which takes the relatively simple concept of a contact lens holder and manages to turn it into an
Read MoreThe demand for data scientists is at an all time high. In fact, a recent LinkedIn study found that US-based business need more than 150,000 data scientist jobs filled. And they need them right now. The reason for this demand lies in the massive amounts of data that businesses in every industry are now able
Read MoreKevin Carey / The Huffington Post: A look at “OPMs”, companies which manage online courses for universities like Harvard and Yale, and take a 60% cut typically from tuition fees — The price of college is breaking America. At a moment when Hollywood celebrities and private equity titans have allegedly … A look at "OPMs",
Read MoreMike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: VCs invested $334M in blockchain startups in Q1 2019, well below the 2018 levels when $5.5B was raised, but in line with 2017 levels according to PitchBook data — Was cryptocurrency a flash in the pan? Less than two years ago, Bitcoin’s skyrocketing price was making people crypto-millionaires overnight.
Read MoreEngineers create something out of nothing, and no where is this more apparent than in the creation of customized computer hardware. To make a simple MIDI controller, you need knowledge of firmware design and computer architecture, you need knowledge of mechanical design, and you need to know electronic design. And then you need the actual
Read MoreYogita Khatri / CoinDesk: Cryptocurrency payments startup Celo says a16z crypto and Polychain Capital have purchased $15M and $10M respectively in the project’s Celo Gold tokens — Andreessen Horowitz’s cryptocurrency fund A16z Crypto and venture capital firm Polychain Capital have invested $25 million in cryptocurrency payments startup Celo. Cryptocurrency payments startup Celo says a16z crypto
Read MoreJulia Alexander / The Verge: TikTok is becoming a new platform for a song to find an audience, as shown by the viral hit “Old Time Road”, which now has more than 65M streams on Spotify — ‘TikTok helped me change my life,’ says Lil Nas X — Montero “Lil Nas X” Hill’s parents were
Read MoreIf you want to play around with high altitudes, weather balloons are the way to go. With a bit of latex and some helium, it’s possible to scrape up against the edge of space without having to start your own rocketry program. [Blake] was interested in doing just this, and decided to build a near
Read MoreCharlie Warzel / New York Times: Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad posting highly popular pro-Trump memes and blurring the lines between viral trolling and the business of politics — A stay-at-home dad in Kansas reveals how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics. Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad
Read MoreThat April 18 preorder day for Samsung’s 5G phone is looking much more likely. Galaxy S10 5G and Verizon's 5G launch get up in your face with next-gen speeds – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA breadboard is a great prototyping tool for verifying the sanity of a circuit design before taking the painstaking effort of soldering it all together permanently. After all, a mistake in this stage can cost a lot of time and possibly material, so it’s important to get it right. [daverowntree] wasn’t fully satisfied with the
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