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California will require zero-emissions buses by 2040
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 04:06
California isn't just interested in taking fossil fuel cars off the streets -- it wants to clean up buses, too. The state's Air Resources Board has voted to require that all buses are emissions-free by 2040. The transiti...
SQLite "Magellan" bug affects Chrome-based browsers, thousands of apps
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 03:15
With the Internet being people's primary gateway to today's services, web browsers have often been the target of hackers and security researchers trying to discover potential vulnerabilities. One such vulnerability has b...
Scientists from New Mexico discover and name new dinosaur
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 16:37
A new species of dinosaur was discovered and named by a group of scientists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. The bones were found 20-years-ago in Southern Arizona and are a new sp...
Senate report details Russia's online meddling in 2016 election
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 02:34
The US Senate is about to receive a report detailing Russia's online manipulation attempts during and after the 2016 Presidential election, and it promises to shed new light on the subject... including a lack of evidence...
Amazon Is Reportedly Sick of Hawking You Cheap 'Crap' That Doesn't Make It Any Money
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 01:00
Amazon, a company valued at $1 trillion earlier this year, is reportedly sick of selling you cheap shit that isn't making it more money.
FCC Official Wanted 'Veto' Power Over Video Featuring Ajit Pai and Pizzagate Pusher
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 23:55
Of all the controversies surrounding the FCC this year, Chairman Ajit Pai's appearance in a Daily Caller video dancing alongside a woman who had pushed Pizzagate conspiracy theories was perhaps the easiest to avoid.
The Women of Netflix's GLOW Are Getting a New Comic Book Series
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 23:45
It's a good time to be a fan of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
NAACP encourages people to #LogOutFacebook after Senate report
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 23:29
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has returned a donation to Facebook and encouraged its partners and supporters to log out of the social network, Instagram and WhatsApp for one week in the w...
Google Assistant will now predict delayed flights
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 23:14
We’re fast approaching a time when a lot of people will be traveling around the country, and it isn’t holiday travel without delays. Google today announced that it’s rolling out new functionality to Google Assistan...
Study warns teenage vape use skyrocketed in 2018
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 23:02
A new survey warns that teenage use of vaping devices has increased substantially in a single year. According to the 2018 Monitoring the Future (MTF) report, 37.3-percent of high school-aged teenagers reported having vap...
Alfonso Ribiero sues Epic for using the Carlton dance in 'Fortnite'
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 23:01
It's no secret that Epic has patterned many of Fortnite's dance emotes on real-world moves, but that's increasingly landing the game studio in hot water. Mere weeks after rapper 2 Milly sued Epic (and 2K) for allegedly d...
Hackers hit The Wall Street Journal in support of PewDiePie
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 22:38
Hackers targeted The Wall Street Journal earlier today, posting a fake apology in support of PewDiePie. In a sponsored post, the hackers published a note that said the publication wanted to apologize to the YouTuber and ...
New HTC Desire 12s is not OCD-friendly
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 22:18
There’s a new smartphone on the market from HTC, and it has a back-facing camera setup that’s a little off-center. Instead of planting the entire camera array in the middle of the phone, they’ve decided to place th...
Sling TV, ESPN and Fox Now arrive on Oculus Go
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 22:05
Back in June, Oculus launched Oculus TV, a way for you to watch shows and movies from a string of partners on a virtual 180-inch display. Now, Sling TV, ESPN and Fox Now are joining the fray, so you'll have more ways to ...
Oculus Go gets Sling TV, ESPN, FOX NOW and a new holiday promo
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 21:56
The standalone virtual reality headset Oculus Go has been on the receiving end of three new apps for video content: ESPN, Sling TV, and FOX NOW. The latest additions join a number of existing video options, including Plu...
U.S. Gun Deaths Reached a Record High in 2017
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 21:53
The number of Americans who were killed by firearms in 2017 reached a record high, according to a recent CNN analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were almost 40,000 gun-related deat...
Facebook Messenger gets a selfie portrait mode and Boomerang support
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 21:47
Facebook Messenger’s camera is getting a pretty significant update today. This update adds a handful of new features to the app, including a new selfie mode and support for AR stickers. Messenger is also adding native ...
Facebook's 'Clear History' tool won't arrive until spring 2019
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 21:34
When Facebook introduced its Clear History feature in May, it expected to offer the privacy-oriented controls in the space of a few months. Well... it's going to take decidedly longer than that. The company's David Baser...
Ryan Zinke's Replacement Is a Fresh Nightmare for Public Lands
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 21:20
Noted oil and gas lover Ryan Zinke is on his way out the door at the Department of Interior. And like fellow grifter Scott Pruitt who also left us too soon, Zinke's temporary (for now) replacement is much less scandal-pl...
Netflix's 'Dark Crystal' prequel casts Mark Hamill, Natalie Dormer
Engadget - 17 Dec 2018 21:03
Last year, Netflix and The Jim Henson Company announced that a series based on Jim Henson's 1982 film The Dark Crystal was in the works, and now Netflix has revealed the series' impressive voice cast. Called The Dark Cry...
New dinosaur feathers discovered on pterosaurs
Slash Gear - 17 Dec 2018 20:56
New evidence was discovered that suggests feathers started appearing on animals around 70 million years earlier than previously suspected. Two anurognathid pterosaurs were studied by a group of paleontologists and resear...
The Great Barrier Reef's Secret Climate Change Weapon Is This Switzerland-Sized Meadow of Seagrass
Gizmodo - 17 Dec 2018 20:50
Tourists frequently flock to Lizard Island, off the northeastern coast of Australia, to marvel the Great Barrier Reef. Among the dugongs, sea turtles, and jewel-toned corals, though, there's another organism that doesn't...