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January 15, 2019

YouTube updates its policies, says it prohibits harmful and dangerous challenges and pranks following stunts like the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

Julia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube updates its policies, says it prohibits harmful and dangerous challenges and pranks following stunts like the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges — YouTube to creators: don’t — YouTube has a new message for creators looking to participate in dangerous or potentially harmful stunts … YouTube updates its policies,

January 15, 2019

AWS acquired TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup that helps customers determine how much it would cost to run their workloads in the cloud, on Dec. 22, 2018 (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)

Tom Krazit / GeekWire: AWS acquired TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup that helps customers determine how much it would cost to run their workloads in the cloud, on Dec. 22, 2018 — It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase Vancouver’s TSO Logic

January 15, 2019

Forza axes emotes after Fortnite controversy

The publisher of Forza Horizon 4, our pick for the best racing game of 2018, recently updated the game. In addition to adding several new cars, it also removed two emotes. While this wouldn’t seem like a big deal in and of itself, you begin to see what a bullet it’s trying to dodge when you

Verizon waiving some fees for fed workers hurt by shutdown – CNET

Furloughed and unpaid workers won’t have to pony up fees for late payments or agent assistance. Verizon waiving some fees for fed workers hurt by shutdown – CNET Source: CNet

Broadway icon Carol Channing dies: 'One-of-a-kind inspiration to us all' – CNET

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barbra Streisand, George Takei, Pee-wee Herman, Bernadette Peters and more take to Twitter to honor the Hello Dolly star. Broadway icon Carol Channing dies: 'One-of-a-kind inspiration to us all' – CNET Source: CNet

January 15, 2019

Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople fork has been delayed after an audit firm discovered a critical flaw in one of the planned changes (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Ethereum’s long-anticipated Constantinople fork has been delayed after an audit firm discovered a critical flaw in one of the planned changes — Ethereum’s long-anticipated Constantinople upgrade has just been delayed after a critical vulnerability was discovered in one of the planned changes. Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople fork has been delayed after an audit firm discovered

January 15, 2019

Polk’s Alexa-enabled soundbar now supports multi-room music

Polk Audio today announced its Command Bar, an Alexa-enabled soundbar, will receive a software update adding Amazon‘s multi-room music (MRM) protocol. It’s the first third-party smart speaker to do so. The Command Bar is among the best sounding speakers featuring Alexa support, but it suffers from a lack of features when compared to Amazon‘s first-party products.

January 15, 2019

SEC filing: Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined from Amazon in May 2018, will resign, but his last day has not been determined; Snap's stock down 7%+ after hours (CNBC)

CNBC: SEC filing: Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined from Amazon in May 2018, will resign, but his last day has not been determined; Snap’s stock down 7%+ after hours — nap chief financial officer Tim Stone is resigning, the company said in a new filing. The stock dropped more than 5 percent after hours

January 15, 2019

The 2019 iPhone might not be so ugly after all

We’ve only just started 2019 but the rumor mill for this year’s iPhone is already churning at a comfortable pace. It was just last week that @OnLeaks alarmed people with a supposed render of an iPhone 11 prototype with a hideous triple camera setup. Back from September 2019, I bring you the very 1st and very early

January 15, 2019

Google says it has started rolling out Material Design to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on the web (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says it has started rolling out Material Design to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on the web — Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update … Google says it

January 15, 2019

WordPress announces a toolkit to kickstart small to mid-sized newsrooms

WordPress, the open source CMS that powers nearly one-third of the web, is now looking to streamline newsrooms around the world. In 2019, we’ll see a new commitment to small and medium-sized publishers with a toolkit called Newspack. Born of a partnership between WordPress and News Revenue Hub — an organization to support sustainable, and

January 15, 2019

Hollywood’s making ‘Just Dance’ and DDR movies, but why?

Somewhere deep in the bowels of Skull Mountain, where Hollywood‘s evil studio bosses come up with all of the movies and TV shows Tinsel-town will produce, things are amiss. The well, as they say, has run dry. Otherwise there wouldn’t be two upcoming films adapted from dancing-based video games. Screen Gems, the company responsible for

January 15, 2019

5 lessons we forgot we learned from our year-long newsletter experiment

Last week was our beloved/behated daily newsletter‘s first birthday. We published an article looking back at the seven things we learned from Big Spam’s first year. In it, we talked about how people hate change, our Las Vegas casino aesthetic, and our favorite subject lines. As soon as we hit publish, we realized we’d made

Arduino RC Transmitter For Homebrew Projects

The field of radio control has benefited much from the onward march of technology. Where a basic 2-channel setup would once have cost hundreds of dollars, it’s now possible to get a high-end 2.4GHz 9-channel rig for well under $100, shipped to your door. However, the vast majority of these systems are closed-source and built

January 15, 2019

Vinyl made a surprise but welcome resurgence at CES

For a show all about the technology of tomorrow, CES sure had a lot of turntables – decidedly the technology of yesterday. If you ask the audiophiles, vinyl never really went away. But it’s certainly seen a resurgence the past few years – growth ironically aided by streaming services. It’s easier than ever to discover

Polk will have the first sound bar to support Alexa multiroom – CNET

Polk’s Command Bar arrives early to the whole-home Alexa party. Polk will have the first sound bar to support Alexa multiroom – CNET Source: CNet

Avengers: Endgame comes out in 100 days, so here are some theories – CNET

After Infinity War was released, we made some guesses about what might happen next. Avengers: Endgame comes out in 100 days, so here are some theories – CNET Source: CNet

German court dismisses latest Qualcomm patent suit against Apple – CNET

But a separate ban on iPhones in Germany still stands. German court dismisses latest Qualcomm patent suit against Apple – CNET Source: CNet

First artificial meteor shower might outshine natural 'shooting stars' – CNET

The sky gets lit! Japanese company Astro Live Experiences is sending a satellite to orbit capable of creating a phenomenal light show. First artificial meteor shower might outshine natural 'shooting stars' – CNET Source: CNet

2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class Sedan starts at $32,500 – Roadshow

Adding all-wheel drive will cost an extra $2,000. 2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class Sedan starts at ,500 – Roadshow Source: CNet

Microsoft says all U.S. government customers are sanctioned to use Outlook Mobile

Microsoft’s Outlook Mobile app for iOS and Android is ready for download and use by US Government Community Cloud and Department of Defense customers. Microsoft says all U.S. government customers are sanctioned to use Outlook Mobile Source: ZDNet Microsoft

January 15, 2019

London and Stockholm-based workforce management platform Quinyx raises $25M from Battery Ventures and others, says it has nearly 500,000 staff using it (Robin Wauters/Tech.eu)

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: London and Stockholm-based workforce management platform Quinyx raises $25M from Battery Ventures and others, says it has nearly 500,000 staff using it — Quinyx, a London/Stockholm-based provider of workforce management solutions, has raised a $25 million funding round … London and Stockholm-based workforce management platform Quinyx raises M from Battery Ventures

January 15, 2019

Kano to launch Star Wars programming kit later this year

Disney: if it can get stick a logo on something and then train an army of Chinese teenagers to manufacture it en-masse, it’ll do so. This has been to the dismay of Star Wars fans, who have seen their once-beloved franchise diluted with a plethora of plastic tat which, no doubt, will eventually find its

Cheap Muon Detectors Go Aloft on High-Altitude Balloon Mission

There’s something compelling about high-altitude ballooning. For not very much money, you can release a helium-filled bag and let it carry a small payload aloft, and with any luck graze the edge of space. But once you retrieve your payload package – if you ever do – and look at the pretty pictures, you’ll probably be

January 15, 2019

Investigation finds ads on Instagram for several services selling fake followers or automated notification spam for luring in followers (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Investigation finds ads on Instagram for several services selling fake followers or automated notification spam for luring in followers — Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space … Investigation finds ads on Instagram for several services selling

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