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Facebook's Viewpoints research app pays you to take surveys
Engadget - 25 Nov 2019 21:52
Facebook is once again offering a market research app, but this one appears to avoid some of the privacy concerns from before. The social media behemoth has introduced a Viewpoints app that pays you for completing survey...
8bitdo Zero 2 controller finally goes up for pre-order
Slash Gear - 26 Nov 2019 01:19
It’s been a long time coming, but 8bitdo’s teeny tiny Zero 2 controller is now up for pre-order. We were first introduced to this controller in June of 2018, and in the year-and-a-half since then, the 8bitdo faithful...
Microsoft cleared to export mass-market software to Huawei temporarily
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 05:18
It seems that Huawei may be able to breathe a bit easier even if it keeps on showing an unaffected and nonchalant public face. The company was recently granted another 90-day reprieve and the US Department of Commerce ha...
eBay is selling StubHub to Viagogo for $4.05 billion
Engadget - 25 Nov 2019 19:10
StubHub will soon have a new owner if all goes to plan. Viagogo, another ticket resaler, has agreed to buy it from eBay for $4.05 billion. The sale should close by the end of March, pending regulators' approval and custo...
Pokemon GO now lets you store up to 3,000 Pokemon
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 06:07
“Gotta Catch ’em All” has always been the slogan of the Pokemon franchise but, truth be told, the games have been as much about organization and management as they are about collection and competition. For a game t...
Galaxy S11e renders close the gap with premium Galaxy S11
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 04:35
Just last week, we got a glimpse of what the Galaxy S11 could look like thanks to a few choice 3D renders based on insider information. Both front and back had notable changes, particularly in the design and location of ...
The creator of the web has a plan to save the web
Engadget - 26 Nov 2019 01:40
One of the fiercest critics of the modern internet is the man who created it, Tim Berners-Lee. As the father of the web he has been vocally critical about the current state of the internet and how it is dominated by a sm...
Intel and MediaTek partner to make 5G modems for PCs
Slash Gear - 26 Nov 2019 01:38
Intel and MediaTek have teamed up to develop 5G modems for computers, Intel has announced. The two companies will work on the development, certification, and support of these ‘solutions,’ with Intel focusing on the 5...
Thieves Start Fire to Disarm Security in Billion-Dollar Heist at German Castle
Gizmodo - 26 Nov 2019 01:10
Thieves swiped hundreds of artifacts from some of the largest collections of art in Europe early Monday morning.
Orba is a tiny instrument that you shake, tap and twist
Engadget - 26 Nov 2019 00:59
Artiphon first made a splash back in 2013 when it started showing off a rather rough prototype of a device that would eventually become the Instrument 1. By the time it hit Kickstarter in 2015 it had undergone a serious ...
This huge Alexa change could see Amazon's assistant spread everywhere
Slash Gear - 26 Nov 2019 00:52
Amazon has announced a major change to its Alexa Voice Service: it is now available to manufacturers for devices that feature as little as a single megabyte (1MB) of RAM. The new minimum requirement, which is considerabl...
First Measurements of a Blue Whale's Heart Rate Is a Glimpse Into the Biology of Extremes
Gizmodo - 26 Nov 2019 00:35
For the first time ever, marine biologists have recorded the heart rate of a blue whale in the wild--the results of which even surprised the scientists.
Save $80 on a Sonos Beam this Black Friday
Engadget - 26 Nov 2019 00:26
With just a couple of days before the official start of Black Friday, Sonos has detailed what you can expect from its sale. Later this week, you'll be able to save on the company's Beam, Playbar, Playbase and Sub speaker...
NASA's mid-size lander concept can deliver a big rover to the Moon
Slash Gear - 26 Nov 2019 00:08
NASA has published its new mid-size lunar lander concept, explaining that the robotic vehicle — or one like it — may soon be used to conduct missions on the Moon. The lander concept was designed to deliver a 660lbs r...
Texas backs out of the lawsuit to stop the T-Mobile and Sprint merger
Engadget - 26 Nov 2019 00:07
Texas no longer stands in the way of the T-Mobile and Sprint merger. The state has reached a settlement with T-Mobile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today. In exchange for T-Mobile's commitment to build a 5...
Even Good News Comes With Bad News
Gizmodo - 26 Nov 2019 00:00
We're long past the era of having nice things, and that's doubly true when it comes to the climate. So it's fitting that even on a day when there's a bit of good news about coal's decline, we also learned that greenhouse...
Dizzy man accidentally sells US$1.4 million game character for $500
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 23:52
It’s a classic story of selling a multi-million-dollar video game character on a digital sale site for $500 – we’ve all heard it. This particular story takes place in China, and starts with a video game “whale”...
Monopoly has officially gone off the deep end
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 23:45
There have been a lot of Monopoly variants throughout the years, but this newest one definitely takes the cake. Hasbro has taken to heart all of the complaints about Monopoly being too long and turned them into a new var...
Behringer's Poly D stacks four Moog clones in one synth
Engadget - 25 Nov 2019 23:43
Behringer has a reputation for producing clones of classic synthesizers that are a little too similar to the originals. While these low-priced units help musicians get faithful, analogue reproductions of prohibitively ex...
Some apps used Twitter and Facebook logins to steal personal information
Engadget - 25 Nov 2019 23:23
If you've used your Twitter or Facebook account to log in to another app on your phone, some of your personal information could have been accessed by shady developers. On Monday, Twitter published a notice on its website...
Nokia Beacon 1 Review: The mesh network basics
Slash Gear - 25 Nov 2019 23:20Deborah Chow Explains Why the New Obi-Wan Story Is Way Better as a TV Show
Gizmodo - 25 Nov 2019 23:15
It feels like we've been discussing rumors of Ewan McGregor's return to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for as long as Disney has owned Star Wars at this point--but until earlier this year, for much of that time the idea was ...