My YouTube recommendations are weird — usually ranging from videos like “How to cut your own bangs” to “Princess Diana’s death conspiracy theories.” A new suggestion hit my algorithm this week, “✂️Sleep-inducing Haircut💇.” And I regret clicking. The video begins with a blond-haired girl seemingly whispering directly at me: “Hello, welcome to my hair salon. I’m going
Read MoreHas the 5G hype gotten out of hand? Just wait until comedic actor Keegan-Michael Key weighs in. Keegan-Michael Key and the most ridiculous 5G interview ever – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn April, a 25-year-old black woman named Chikesia Clemons was violently arrested by police at a Waffle House restaurant in Alabama. A video of the arrest that went viral shows police pulling Clemons from her chair and throwing her to the floor. In the process, her breasts are exposed and her dress rides up in
Read MoreAlthough [I Love To Make] appears to have text in Chinese, their recent video (see below) is like a wordless workshop so it won’t matter if you are up on your Mandarin or not. The soldering vise looks like it mostly came from a dollar store (or perhaps a yaun store). As far as we
Read MoreWhich iPhone XR models are showing shipment delays and what we’re expecting at Apple’s next launch event. Catch up on all your iPhone news for the week. iPhone XR early presale demand and the next Apple event is almost here – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHuawei is bringing interesting new features to its latest phones, so we broke down the numbers for how the Mates compare to the hottest handsets right now. Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs. iPhone XS, Pixel 3, Galaxy S9: Every spec, compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIan Allison / CoinDesk: South Africa-based Adhara, a startup that builds private blockchains for banks using privacy centric Ethereum fork Quorum, raises $15M from Consensys — Blockchain startup Adhara, which boasts a stellar line-up of former banking innovators, has secured $15 million in new funding from Consensys, the ethereum design studio. South Africa-based Adhara, a
Read MoreDami Lee / The Verge: OnePlus 6T launch event in NYC moved up by a day to avoid overlap with Apple’s October 30 event; OnePlus event is a ticketed event for fans as well as press — OnePlus is moving up the launch of its OnePlus 6T by a day in order to avoid colliding
Read MoreMIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, and there are a host of tools and applications to give MIDI control to a live performance. That
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at traditional auto makers’ attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo — As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology. A
Read MoreWe often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local repairman — assuming you had the knowledge and tools. But today, everything is built to be
Read MoreSue Halpern / New Republic: How political data firms continue to vacuum up psychological and personal data on people in order to sway voters, even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — In April, when the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington … How political data firms continue to vacuum
Read MoreIntelligence officials alerted the social network in 2015, and it fired the worker, reports The New York Times. Twitter employee may have spied on users for Saudis, says report – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTriplebyte Blog: Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more — On Becoming a Programmer … One moment I remember really getting into programming came while playing a fantasy RPG video game. Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about
Read MorePlaying the drums is pretty hard, especially for the uncoordinated. Doing four things at the same time, all while keeping an even tempo, isn’t reasonable for most of us. Rather than hiring a drummer for your band who is well versed in this art, though, you might opt instead to outsource this job to a
Read MoreJake Swearingen / New York Magazine: Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo’s mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown — As told to , Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen — Joshua Schachter’s groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us, founded in 2003 … Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks,
Read MoreFast Company: Many of the economists who testified at FTC hearings this week and dismissed or criticized the idea of tech monopolies, received money from big tech in the past — Amid growing concern over the power of such behemoths as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants … Many of the economists who testified
Read MoreTraffic lights! Kids love them, hackers love them, and they’re useful in industrial contexts to see if the giant machine is currently working or having a bad day. While the real deal are unwieldy and hard to come by, there’s nothing stopping you tackling a fun cardboard build at home. It’s a great way to
Read MoreTwo of the country’s largest e-scooter companies have been accused of gross negligence and a series of assaults stemming from hit-and-run incidents involving pedestrians, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Class-action lawsuit accuses e-scooter companies of ‘gross negligence’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreLindsey O’Donnell / Threatpost: Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in open source IoT OS FreeRTOS and Amazon’s AWS secure connectivity modules using the OS — Researchers have found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities. Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A. and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook — Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. — You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people …
Read MoreIan Cutress / AnandTech: Review of Intel 9th Gen CPUs: best gaming CPUs if money is no object, but for tasks where GPU is the bottleneck, older Intel or AMD chips are a wiser choice — Intel’s newest line of desktop processors bring with them a number of changes designed to sway favor with performance
Read MoreToys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days, but the truth is that it’s never been easier to lay down a beat. Just press the buttons on a pocket-sized computer.
Read MoreIt’s a dream job for an engineer. Rob Stevens tells us how he brings out the best in John Lennon’s solo work. Mixing John Lennon's Imagine: We meet engineer Rob Stevens – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIssie Lapowsky / Wired: Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate — AT ONE POINT this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. — Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote … Interview with Brian
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