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Samsung Galaxy S10 leak hints at cryptocurrency wallet
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 05:11
Samsung' Galaxy S10 appears to have leaked again, but this time the big deal is what's on screen. Gregory Blake and Ben Geskin claim to have leaked images of a Samsung Blockchain KeyStore that would serve as a cryptocurr...
Olympus FL-700WR flash, FC-WR Commander, FR-WR Receiver add wireless capabilities
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 08:00
Professional photography has changed quite a lot in the past years. More than just powerful cameras, photographers need just as capable accessories like flashes. More than that, however, they also need ones that they can...
Microsoft Bing search engine blocked in China, report says
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 05:03
The Chinese government seems to be working to further strengthen its notorious Great Firewall of censorship. Or at least that's the growing suspicion behind the still unexplained outage of Microsoft Bing in China. While ...
Fortnite Sneaky Snowman sweepstakes offers NVIDIA GeForce prize
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 00:59
Epic Games added a new snowman item to Fortnite with its version 7.20 update, enabling players to wear a snow suit as a fun, wintery alternative to the bush camouflage. Though the bush wasn’t terribly popular with play...
Blackmagic's Pocket Cinema Camera 4K Shoots Incredibly Beautiful, Incredibly Versatile Video
Gizmodo - 24 Jan 2019 17:31
Blackmagic isn't a household name like Canon or Sony, but it's well-established within the film community. It's long had a reputation for making cinema cameras built to compete with cameras that cost tens of thousands of...
Scientists Turned a Regular Fidget Spinner Into a Centrifuge That Separates Blood
Gizmodo - 24 Jan 2019 17:10
Kids are already over fidget spinners after adults rapidly made them uncool, but a team of scientists in Taiwan has found a nifty way to repurpose these small toys. They turned them into inexpensive centrifuges that coul...
Excuse Me, Sir. Sir! I Am the Original Tweeter
Gizmodo - 24 Jan 2019 06:40
Excuse me, sir. Sir! If you would put down your newspaper forthwith, and grant me your fullest attention for a situation most dire.
Blue Origin's latest New Shepard test flight hauled NASA experiments
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 03:29
Private aerospace company Blue Origin successfully carried out an uncrewed test flight today, marking the tenth time the Jeff Bezos-backed company has managed to send its reusable New Shepard rocket to space and recover ...
SpaceX Starship prototype nosecone topples in high Texas winds
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 02:04
Part of SpaceX’s Starship prototype toppled over due to recent strong winds in Texas, causing damage that will take weeks to repair. The prototype spaceship is being built in southern Texas, where a storm recently caus...
Dungeons and Dragons disease supplement written by med students
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 23:56
A brand new Dungeons and Dragons supplement was written by a pair of medical students over the past few months, and released this week. This book goes by the name “The Malady Workshop,” and it’s full of fantastical...
Twitter tests Original Tweeter flair to stop conversation confusion
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 23:44
If you’ve ever been to Twitter, then you know that one tweet can quickly grow into a confusing mass of posts from both the person who published the original tweet and other users who have decided to add their two cents...
Senators demand investigation into carrier location-selling scandal
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 23:39
Several senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how carriers share customers' real-time phone location data, following a Motherboard report this month...
MoviePass Is Bringing Back the Unlimited Plan, But You're Probably Not Going to Like It
Gizmodo - 24 Jan 2019 23:33
In a little over a year, MoviePass has burned through the goodwill of its customers almost as fast as it's burned through investor cash. But on Thursday, the company claimed it will be bringing back the one feature that ...
Dropbox adds time-based comment support for videos and audio
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 23:05
Dropbox has added time-based commenting for audio and video files, the company has announced. This new support makes it possible to leave comments at specific times on both content types, eliminating the need to put the ...
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Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 23:00
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Brian Bendis and David Walker Talk About How Their Friendship Created DC Comics' Newest Superhero
Gizmodo - 24 Jan 2019 22:45
For two decades, even after becoming friends, Brian Michael Bendis and David Walker worked in parallel spaces. This week, with the release of their new comic Naomi, the world gets to see what happens when two comics writ...
US charges 'Call of Duty' swatter's alleged co-conspirators
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 22:42
Now that Call of Duty swatter Tyler Bariss has pleaded guilty, law enforcement is pursuing the people allegedly linked to his crimes. Federal agents have charged Neal Patel, Logan Patten and Tyler Stewart for reportedly ...
DeepMind AI AlphaStar goes 10-1 against top 'StarCraft II' pros
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 22:21
After laying waste to the best Go players in the world, DeepMind has moved on to computer games. The Google-owned artificial intelligence company has been fine-tuning its AI to take on StarCraft II and today showed off i...
Facebook Moments is being killed off next month
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 22:08
Facebook has announced that it’ll be shutting down its Moments app next month. Facebook Moments was first launched way back in 2015, but since then, we haven’t heard a whole lot from it. The app fell into relative ob...
KFC vows to reduce plastic packaging waste by 2025
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 22:04
KFC is the latest franchise to announce plans regarding plastic waste, stating that it will eliminate non-reusable/recoverable plastic packaging by 2025. Following Nestle earlier this week and Starbucks before it, KFC wi...
First 5G Galaxy Fold release details spilled
Slash Gear - 24 Jan 2019 22:01
The 5G version of the Samsung Galaxy Fold were leaked this morning for the largest of the Galaxy S10 family. It’s not clear whether Samsung will stick with the Samsung Galaxy Fold name, but the code-name is out – it�...
Share your thoughts about Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2!
Engadget - 24 Jan 2019 22:00
Microsoft's sequel to the Surface Laptop didn't just impress our reviewer last year -- the Surface Laptop 2 earned a strong score of 90, largely owing to its stunning design and fast performance. The keyboard and trackpa...