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Twitter removes precise location sharing, but there's an exception
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 04:25
Back in 2009, Twitter added a feature that we now know wouldn’t prove very popular: precise geotagging. With this feature, users could enable the platform to share their precise location with tweets, something Twitter ...
Microsoft's reworked Edge browser is available to try on Windows 7
Engadget - 20 Jun 2019 04:02
Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser to one of its most important audiences: namely, people who have to (or want to) use older versions of Windows. The company has released Canary channel p...
Galaxy Note 10 Sound on Display could be its next big feature
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 03:50
The Galaxy Note 10 will be breaking away from its predecessors in more ways than one. While it will thankfully still keep its iconic S Pen stylus, Samsung will be throwing out the headphone jack and possibly some other f...
The 3D-Printed Gun Threat Is Getting Weird and Scary
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 20:19
A London student was just convicted for using a 3D printer to make a gun--but not just something that looks like a gun. On Wednesday, Tendai Muswere pleaded guilty to manufacturing a lethal firearm with a 3D printer. The...
Adobe bites the bullet and puts Lightroom in the Mac App Store
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 17:10
Adobe’s Lightroom has found its way into the Mac App Store, offering subscription access to the popular photo editing and organization tool. It’s the first software from Adobe’s full-featured Photoshop family to fi...
Florida city gives in to $600,000 bitcoin ransomware demand
Engadget - 20 Jun 2019 16:42
Riviera Beach, a city in Florida, is set to pay hackers $600,000 in bitcoin with the hope of having its systems restored. Hackers took over the systems several weeks ago, when a police department employee opened a malici...
Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration
Ars Technica - 20 Jun 2019 12:45
The best open filesystem just keeps getting better.
Movie sanitizing service ordered to pay $62 million in piracy suit
Engadget - 20 Jun 2019 05:21
A jury has ordered "family-friendly" movie service VidAngel to pay $62.4 million to Hollywood studios for pirating their content. Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. sued the company over copyright infringement. Vi...
YouTube may be planning to hide the comment section by default
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 03:00
The comment section on YouTube is notorious for its generally low-quality and otherwise awful content. Users get into fights with strangers, the occasional scammer peddles their garbage, desperate creators beg for viewer...
Pixar's Next Big Project Gets a Title and Some Curious First Details
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 02:30
With Toy Story 4's premiere upon us, now's as good a time as any to start thinking about Pixar's future projects, and not just ones like Onward that we've already seen glimpses of. Today, Disney and Pixar announced the t...
After Nearly Perfecting It, Google Is Abandoning the Tablet
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 23:50
Google isn't killing all tablets, but it will no longer be making its own tablets. It's a crying shame as Google's merging of Android and Chrome OS for last years abysmally reviewed Pixel Slate was perhaps the perfect ta...
The Gay Character in Avengers: Endgame Was Not Supposed to Be a Big Deal
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 23:30
After 11 years and almost two dozen movies, it was a bit of a shock: a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was openly gay. How it was handled, however, was arguably more shocking.
The European Space Agency Has a Plan to Intercept a 'Pristine' Comet
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 23:30
With the historic Rosetta mission now firmly in the rear view mirror, the European Space Agency has set its sights on a different kind of comet, that is, a comet that's never visited the inner reaches of the solar system...
Google kills tablet development
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 23:20WSJ: Google Maps is flooded with 'millions' of fake business listings (updated)
Engadget - 20 Jun 2019 23:12
If you've ever tried to find a locksmith on Google in a pinch, this may not surprise you. Turns out Google Maps is filled with millions of scam operations that are impersonating real businesses, according to a new report...
Slack's success means the Remote Worker is here to stay
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 23:04
Today Slack hit Wall Street and closed at over 48% in its first day of trading. If you do not know what Slack is, chances are you work with people that you see five days a week. Slack is a chat system with which business...
Taking multiple vacations per year has surprising effect on heart health
Slash Gear - 20 Jun 2019 22:58
Going on vacation is good for your heart, a new study reveals, highlighting another reason to treasure time away from the office. According to the researchers, going on vacation offers benefits related to metabolic healt...
Wirecutter's best deals: Save $15 on a Brother Laser Printer
Engadget - 20 Jun 2019 22:29
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Slack's Direct Listing Makes Uber and Lyft Look Like Absolute Chumps
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 22:25
In its first day on the New York Stock Exchange, workplace messaging company Slack leapt over 50-percent above its reference price of $26 per share despite employing an unusual, less costly strategy to debut on the marke...
I Reset the Dumb GE Smart Lightbulb
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 22:13
I've spent most of my day thinking about the video going around describing the absurd, 12-part process that's required to reset GE C-Life smart bulbs. So I bought some and performed the Sisyphean ritual myself.
Exploration of 'Lost City' in Honduras Uncovers Trove of Rare Life Forms
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 22:03
Trond Larsen was night-searching for rare frogs and insects in the Lost City recently discovered within Honduras' Mosquitia Rainforest when his headlamp illuminated something surprising: a curious black puma. Larsen, a r...
A Brief History of Doctor Who's Missing Episodes
Gizmodo - 20 Jun 2019 22:00
It's hard to imagine that a franchise with such an important history as Doctor Who doesn't have a complete archive of its journeys across time and space. But that's been the case for Who since the '70s, and the impact of...