How to use the iNaturalist app to record weird animal behavior during the eclipse

In 2012, Elise Ricard was on an Australian beach, watching the Moon obscure the Sun in a total solar eclipse, when she noticed something weird: the birds in the rainforest behind her had fallen silent. “It was a great feeling of unity with the other forms of life on this planet,” … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Complete Guide to Amazon Vendor Express

In this post, our Director of Amazon, Shawn Green walks us through everything you need to know about Vendor Express. Whether you’re just beginning to sell on Amazon or have an established presence on the platform, there’s still one option you may not be as familiar with: Vendor E … | Continue reading


@ignitevisibility.com | 7 years ago

Google Launching Android O During Solar Eclipse, Will Probably Call It ‘Oreo’

Google has added a countdown timer to the Android O landing page, confirming that Android O's release will coincide with the total solar eclipse in the US.The post Google Launching Android O During Solar Eclipse, Will Probably Call It ‘Oreo’ appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

American Marketing Casts Its Shadow

Earlier this month, cylinder-shaped packages containing posters depicting a solar eclipse arrived at the desks of several journalists. In the illustration, the black disk of the moon obscures most of the sun, leaving a curved slice of sunlight shining against the darkness. There, … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

AMD users: It’s safe to play Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice now

Hellblade is one of the sleeper hits of 2017. It’s a psychological action-thriller that explores the mental health of its hero, but PC players who use AMD graphics cards were having issues enjoying Hellblade. In the later stages, players with these GPUs were seeing severe perform … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

ProBeat: Google Allo’s web app is laughable

OPINION: Google this week launched Allo for web. Ugh, that’s not right. Let me try again. Google this week launched Allo for Chrome. Hmm, still not quite accurate. Google this week launched Allo for Chrome for Android. Gah, for the love of god, I’ve only made it worse. Google thi … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Clocky is an alarm clock on wheels that will roll away from your sleepy head

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Sleepyheads around the world have developed a host of tricks to wake themselves up. Some use extra loud alarm clocks or set a handful of different devices to go off at once. And … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Make Your Own iPhone Case

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@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Photos of the Week: 8/12–8/18

The removal of Confederate statues in Baltimore, big waves in Brazil,  the World Jousting Championships in Australia, violent demonstrations and counter-protests in Charlottesville, daily exercise at a pig farm in China, a newborn mandrill in France, and much more. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Postcard from Dresden and India's Pilgrims: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing

Postcard From Dresden: What It's Like to Be a Refugee in Germany's Conservative StrongholdJacob Kushner | Pacific Standard“‘Someone told me that, in Germany, it's very safe for people who are underage,’ Romeo says. But Germany turned out to be no utopia for an African refugee. ‘H … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

VIBEHub Blends Virtual and Augmented Reality with Blockchain

Blockchain, the underlying technology supporting Bitcoin network has grown beyond everyone’s imagination. The technology has gained widespread adoption across industries and the limits of which is being pushed further by the likes of VIBEHub. The platform is implementing the bloc … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Google Home’s Bluetooth support is here. For real this time

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me, right? But it looks like Google Home is really getting Bluetooth pairing support this time. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

How Facebook prioritizes privacy when you die

 Should your parents be able to read your Facebook messages if you die? Facebook explained why it won’t let them in a post in its Hard Questions series today about social networking after death. Facebook admits it doesn’t have all the answers, but has come up with some decent sol … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Spying on penguins is as simple as taping a camera to their backs

By capturing penguins and strapping them with video cameras, scientists created their own “penguin cam” to learn more about how birds communicate in the open ocean.Gentoo penguins live in the islands around Antarctica and spend a lot of time in the water foraging for food, which … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Billionaire Mark Cuban is Finally Considering Bitcoin

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@cryptocoinsnews.com | 7 years ago

GamesBeat Weekly roundup: Nintendo surges as Microsoft runs out of games

Welcome to another GamesBeat roundup! This time, we played the retro and excellent Sonic Mania, Dota 2 and Call of Duty crowned esports champions, and role-playing game sales are seeing a big surge. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: 3 Paki … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google Home now works with Spotify free accounts

 For all of the talk of how voice assistants could be the future of IoT or computing in general, the only consistently engaging use of home assistants like Echo or Google Home seems to be audio playback. Today, Google is making it a bit easier for the cheapos to get in on the act … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Atari and Nestle are fighting over a 40-year-old video game

Atari has accused Nestle of copyright infringement after a British Kit-Kat ad bore a suspicious resemblance to an old-yet-familiar game. Anyone remember Breakout? Even if you don’t remember the name, you’d likely recognize the game if you saw it. You control a paddle at the botto … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

NASA is using Intel’s deep learning to find better landing sites on the moon

 NASA collects a lot of data. It’s one of the main things it does when it’s not landing things on other things. But actually deriving useful information from all the data it collects is another issue entirely, so the space agency has begun enlisting some big tech names like Intel … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Digital Summit Minneapolis: A Look Back at What We Learned

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Your energy is high, your brain is full and you feel the love of other like-minded marketers. Sometimes however, it’s hard to keep that drive alive once the closing keynote has commenced and you resume your normal routine. But what if instead of goin … | Continue reading


@toprankblog.com | 7 years ago

Google leak may have just confirmed Android Oreo

It’s been a long, confusing road, but a file attached to a Google+ post announcing the newly announced Android O eclipse teaser may have finally revealed that Android O will in fact be called Android Oreo. The file’s name was caught by Android Police, who noted that the (now dele … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google to livestream Android O launch event timed for total solar eclipse

 Google is using a astronomical event to debut its newest Android operating system update: Android O is set to arrive on August 21, with a livestreamed unveiling event timed for 2:40 PM ET in NYC – which is roughly when the maximum solar eclipse is set to occur for New York. Andr … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Aftermath Of BTC Fork – What’s Next?

The bulls are back and all is well in the land of cryptocurrencies. Traders are hard at work to carefully trade their coins to make profits and it is safe | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Valve's upcoming Knuckles VR controllers look like a dream in action

Valve's innovative new virtual reality controllers, called Knuckles, are still a ways away from hitting the public. Fortunately, YouTube channel Tested got their hands on them early and they look like they deliver on everything they promise to.Will Smith of Foo VR — not the Holly … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Radio Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yoni Appelbaum on Charlottesville's Aftermath

August 17, 2017—As President Trump continues to decry the removal of “beautiful” confederate statues and defend white supremacists, a new episode of Radio Atlantic grapples with these events as both unprecedented and, as podcast co-host and editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, descr … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon unveils a new evolution, player avatars, and a mystery

Nintendo revealed new details about Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon today, the next installments in the hit series. Both games are coming out for the 3DS portable on November 17. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are the sequels to Pokémon Sun and Moon, which came out last year and sold … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google Home owners can now access free Spotify accounts

The Google Home connected speaker is rolling out support for accessing music from free Spotify accounts, after previously adding premium Spotify support. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Corporate Analyst Fisco Tests Issuance of Bitcoin Bond in Japan

A financial data provider and bitcoin exchange operator in Japan is testing a digital bond denominated in the cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Doom 2 reimagined as Diablo 2 is trippy as hell

Doom 2 left a huge impression on me. One of my earliest memories was sitting in front of my family’s gigantic desktop computer and (at a wildly inappropriate age) gleefully blasting away cacodemons with a BFG, watching them descend into a formless pool of gloop. Even today I reme … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Apple and Hollywood said to continue talks around early digital movie rentals

 Movie studios including Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures continue to hold talks with Apple and Comcast about plans to introduce premium digital rentals for new movies only a few weeks after their theatrical debut, Bloomberg reports. The talks continue even though powerful pla … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Alibaba hits record high as markets weigh promise vs. problems

Three years after Alibaba went public in the biggest IPO on U.S. markets to date, investors are finally warming to the stock. During Alibaba’s high-profile IPO, investors weighed the promise of the company’s business model against its risk factors. On the one hand, Alibaba was la … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google Home will now work with free Spotify accounts

For all the people out there who love Spotify but refuse to pay for the premium version of the service, today's your lucky day. Google Home is finally supporting free Spotify accounts.SEE ALSO: Google Home now has an Australian accentIf you're they type of person who wants to try … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 18th, 2017

Sorry about missing last week, but my birthday won out over working: Ouch! @john_overhol... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 7 years ago

The Revealing Myth of Pershing and the Pigs' Blood

Another day, another sputtering orgy of confusion following a cryptic Donald Trump tweet. This one came Thursday, a few hours after a van plowed into a crowd on the Barcelona pedestrian mall of Las Ramblas, an attack claimed by the reeling Islamic State. The president replied, vi … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

All the Sixes

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@nos.twnsnd.co | 7 years ago

Darmiyan’s software detects early stages of Alzheimer’s

EXCLUSIVE: The brain is a complex beast. It has 100 billion nerve cells — called neurons — that connect to form the communication networks involved in thinking, learning, and remembering, among other things. Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disrupt the normal functioni … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google and ProPublica launch machine learning tool to track hate crime in America

Documenting hate crimes in America has long presented a challenge to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. Record keeping in this area has been patchy at best, with data either woefully incomplete or non-existent. Yet, it’s never been more important that we understand … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

'Let Us Eat Cake': The Tina Fey Effect in 2017

In a 2012 article published in the Public Opinion Quarterly, a group of researchers shared the results of a study they had done in the aftermath of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The researchers, based on panels with young voters, found that the impression of Sarah Palin th … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Bitcoin Price Dips to $4,273 as Bitcoin Cash Becomes More Profitable to Mine

[…]The post Bitcoin Price Dips to $4,273 as Bitcoin Cash Becomes More Profitable to Mine appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 7 years ago

Airbnb is offering free housing in Barcelona for people affected by the attack

 Airbnb has activated its disaster response tool to help people affected by the recent attacks in Barcelona. Airbnb’s tool offers free housing to anyone who urgently needs a place to stay. At the time of publication, over 80 people have opened up their homes free of charge.“Airbn … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Netflix’s new trailer for ‘The Punisher’ depicts a concrete killer

 With the release of ‘The Defenders’ today, Netflix has also released a new trailer for ‘The Punisher,’ the spin-off focused on Daredevil villain/ally Frank Castle, portrayed by The Walking Dead’s Joe Bernthal. The trailer is only available via the streaming service right now, bu … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Your guide to using your DSLR camera correctly (finally)

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.For everyday selfies, your iPhone's camera is great. It's always with you, you point it, you shoot it, you upload your shots to Instagram — it doesn’t get much simpler than that. … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Elgato's Cam Link is a cheaper way to turn your HDMI camera into a webcam

Elgato has made a nice business for itself helping people capture game footage with its HD60 line of capture devices, which ingest video from HDMI input, while offering an HDMI passthrough so you can keep playing without latency. But the $179 price tag on the HD60 S is a little h … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Showdown at Camp David

Erik Prince thinks he can turn around the war in Afghanistan, and he’s got a PowerPoint deck to explain the whole thing. The Blackwater founder brought it with him to the Corner Bakery on North Capitol Street in Washington last Thursday, printed out and placed in a presentation b … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Nokia's #bothie will never take off because it's just not Instagram-friendly

Nokia is trying to make a new kind of selfie happen. The "bothie." But does the world really need another type of selfie? Is the concept really cool enough to take off in the social media world? I'm not convinced. SEE ALSO: Nokia wants you to be less selfie and more 'bothie' with … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

TCL has canceled the 50- and 65-inch models of its amazing budget 4K TV

When we reviewed TCL’s P-Series TV earlier this year, we said it was the best budget 4K set money could buy. For only $650, you get everything you need: solid image quality, HDR support, and a built-in Roku streaming system — all without breaking the bank.We were testing out the … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Australia Weighs Jail Time for Cryptocurrency Exchange Offenders

New details have emerged about Australia's cryptocurrency exchange bill. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Android O incoming – Google hosting live stream on Monday

In celebration of the eclipse, Google has announced it will fully unveil Android O this coming Monday in a special New York City event. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago