The Upshot’s Amanda Cox and Nate Cohn answer questions about the midterm election polls The Times is sharing in real time, a first for any news organization. understanding the times: How We Cover Elections: Live Polling Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNeed some protection for your new iPhone XR? Here’s a bunch of top cases to check out, all of them compatible with wireless charging. Best iPhone XR cases – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe automated accounts were quickly caught, Twitter said. Twitter removes over 10k accounts discouraging voting in midterm elections, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWith the 2018 midterms just days away, Facebook and Twitter are scrambling to stop falsehoods about how, when and where to vote from spreading wildly online. How Facebook and Twitter are rushing to stop voter suppression online for the midterm elections Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreYou’ll be playing the next game in the Diablo series on your phone. Diablo Immortal brings Blizzard's dungeon crawler to mobile – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShe sports a lever-action rifle, hatred for Jesse McCree and an ultimate named Bob. Overwatch's new hero is Ashe, gunslinger and leader of the Deadlock gang – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: EDO, a startup that uses consumer behavioral data from search engines and shopping sites to measure effectiveness of TV ads, raises $12M in Series A funding — EDO, co-founded by actor and entrepreneur Edward Norton, has banked $12 million in Series A funding to fuel its buildout … EDO, a startup
Read MoreWith the release of Smash Ultimate fast approaching for the Nintendo Switch, [Patrick Hess] wanted to get ahead of the game and make sure his squad had the equipment they’d need. Namely, support for the GameCube controllers that serious Smash Bros players demand. But it wasn’t enough to have one or two of them hooked up,
Read MoreMany New Yorkers awoke to a bit of a surprise when “Kill all Jews” briefly made an appearance in their Twitter sidebar. On a social network with a hate speech problem, it’s not unusual to see this type of content. Twitter has been locked in a perpetual grappling match with hate groups clinging to the
Read MoreSam Biddle / The Intercept: After The Intercept’s inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race … After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes "white genocide conspiracy
Read MoreTwitter is one of the most open social media platforms on the web, which is why it might be easier to ignore the privacy settings. Admittedly, Twitter doesn’t offer the level of granular control as, for example, Facebook. But it does have some decent options for controlling what other users can see and what level
Read MoreFor as long as I’ve been reading and writing about headphones, one thing has remained true: the very best cans have an open back. They leak music out to the world and let noise in, a necessary compromise to reduce reflections and resonances that could distort the sound. Closed-back headphones can be great, but they
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Serverless search and analytics startup Rockset comes out of stealth, says it has raised $3M in seed funding and $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia and Greylock — Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform …
Read MorePeter Cao / 9to5Mac: Apple starts rolling out App Store Connect API, which lets developers automate TestFlight tasks like creating groups and adding and removing testers — Apple has today started rolling out the App Store Connect API to developers. Promised back in June of this year, the new API will allow developers … Apple
Read MoreThe Hackaday Prize is the greatest hardware competition on the planet. It’s the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, and over the last few years we’ve been doing it, we’ve seen literally tens of projects that have gone from an idea to a prototype to a finished project to a saleable product. It’s the greatest success
Read MoreRita Liao / TechCrunch: Tencent unveils Spectacles-like Weishi smart glasses, available in China from November 11 and named after its own short video sharing app Weishi — Some were surprised to see Snap release a second version of its ‘face-camera’ Spectacles gadget, since the original version failed to convert hype into sales. Tencent unveils Spectacles-like
Read MoreAmazon’s New Release Notifications are compatible with the Amazon Music app and Echo devices. Alexa will let you know when your favorite artist drops new music – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTransport your feet off this planet with the Vans x NASA fashion line. Vans shoes kick out the space jams with NASA-themed collection – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBuzzFeed News: Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers’ local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, Twitter featured the trending topic “Kill all Jews” in its New York local trend feed. Twitter apologizes after "Kill all Jews" appeared as a trending
Read MoreThe deal ends Dec. 26 online and Jan. 10 in-store. AT&T promo saves you on its prepaid unlimited data plan – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou could win $10,000 by helping name the two new bikes. GM wants your help naming its new e-bike brand – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Report: viewing on live-streaming TV services grew 212% YoY; connected TVs, such as those using devices like Roku or Apple TV, account for 56% of time spent — Live streaming TV services, like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV, and others, are gaining steam in the U.S. as more
Read MorePop quiz time: What’s estimated to be worth between 5 and 10 billion dollars by 2020 and is (at least, in my humble opinion) largely bullshit? Answer: Influencer marketing. Okay, let me clarify something. The idea of paying people with huge amounts of reach to advertise your products isn’t dumb. Celebrity endorsements are a thing,
Read MoreIt is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community seems evenly divided. In an online poll, 52% of people responding says FT8 is damaging ham radio. But ham operator [K5SDR] has an excellent
Read MoreIt’s “unacceptable” that the new tool isn’t properly checking people’s identity and is thus subject to abuse, they tell Facebook’s CEO in a letter. Senators demand Zuckerberg fix Facebook's ad transparency tool – CNET Source: CNet
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