In 1977, Alondra Nelson remembers lying stomach-down, head-in-hands, in front of the television, watching Alex Haley’s miniseries Roots with her parents. “I knew that something special was happening because my parents didn’t let us watch TV in the evenings, and here, they were le … | Continue reading
More than a dozen supply chains and trade routes that facilitate global food trade are vulnerable to unforeseen crises or climate change, according to a new report.Analysts at Chatham House, the U.K.-based think tank, released a report Tuesday identifying 14 critical junctures, o … | Continue reading
Facebook just hit 2 billion monthly active users. Geez. Look, we all know Facebook is massive and growing, but that figure is still remarkable. It was at 1.94 billion as of March, so it took a while to add those final 60 million users, but that’s not too surprising given most peo … | Continue reading
Last week, my Instagram feed was filled with photos of teenagers wearing blue leggings covered in white stars and tank tops decorated with American flags. It was Olympics Week at my former summer camp, and these counselors were not shy about their support for Team USA. I spent a … | Continue reading
If you're a G Suite user and have been waiting for the chance to sign up for Google's Project Fi service, today is your lucky day. | Continue reading
In the second episode of Syfy's new exploitation grindhouse gorefest Blood Drive, a fat Elvis impersonator (named Fat Elvis) is murdered and turned into meat to feed the customers at the Pixie Swallow diner. Poor meaty Elvis is hung upside down from the kitchen roof like a pig. T … | Continue reading
Samsung plans to release a “fandom” edition of the Galaxy Note 7 that is ostensibly safer to use. The company was hit hard by around 3 million recalls of the Note 7 last October after multiple phones caught fire due to defective batteries that were prone to overheating. Samsung e … | Continue reading
Rampart is just one of those games that every retro enthusiast remembers. I was first introduced to it on the SNES, but it was ported to nearly every platform imaginable due to its immense popularity. Its angle of marrying shooting elements with light strategy and building compon … | Continue reading
Senate Republican leaders have abandoned plans to vote on legislation overhauling the Affordable Care Act this week, bowing to opposition within their own party and demands from several senators for more time to consider the bill.According to multiple reports, Majority Leader Mit … | Continue reading
LEOcoin is all set to make history in the world of cryptocurrency with its latest wallet deployment. The decentralized peer-to-peer network, which proposes to offer cryptocurrency users faster and more secure transactions, recently activated a couple of privacy features, as it de … | Continue reading
Managing screenshots on your iPhone is about to get a whole lot easier.One of the biggest changes Apple introduced with iOS 11 is the ability to quickly edit and share your screenshots as soon as you take them, without having to hunt them down in the Photos app.SEE ALSO: iOS 11 o … | Continue reading
The self-driving car race has some new entrants: rental-car companies. Two high-profile moves reported this week link driverless cars with Big Car Rental: Google's Waymo entered partnership with Avis to storing and maintaining autonomous vehicles, while Apple's self-driving Lexus … | Continue reading
While I’m someone who actually appreciates targeted advertising, there’s no denying that Facebook’s ads can be a little… uncanny. For better or for worse, they’re about to get a whole lot smarter. The company today announced that marketers can now target entire households instead … | Continue reading
Six years ago, Keith Horwood was known in his native Toronto as a former graduate student who’d hacked into his school’s student union election site, changing candidates’ titles for comic effect. (He was given what’s called a conditional discharge after paying a fine and perform … | Continue reading
Thanks to a team of researchers at MIT, we're one step closer to finally having the flying car technology that science fiction of the 1950s promised us. But that progress also means we're one step closer to drones and robots taking over everything. (Which to be fair, they already … | Continue reading
On the heels of Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo comes a much-needed (and overdue) revamp for Yahoo Mail. The new Yahoo Mail is visually much cleaner and more minimal, with increased space between UI elements. Because people love customization, you can also now skin Yahoo Mail in a … | Continue reading
Token’s ring uses a combination of fingerprinting and an optical proximity sensor to ensure that a user’s credentials can’t be accessed by a third party. Using an app, Tokenites can pair the ring and their biometric information with anything from their credit cards to their car k … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it now has over 2 billion monthly active users. That’s up from the 1.94 billion total that the company cited as part of its most recent earnings report in May. Mark Zuckerberg shared the news directly, and Fast Company has a story on Facebook’s constan … | Continue reading
As long as you have a Samsung smartphone running Android Marshmallow or higher, you can now unlock any Windows 10 PC using Samsung Flow. | Continue reading
Sally Yates said on Tuesday that “folks ought to have tremendous confidence” in Bob Mueller, the former FBI director who is leading the Department of Justice investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Yates, the former acting attorney general who was fired by P … | Continue reading
One of the world's largest technology hardware makers has released new graphics cards (GPUs) aimed at the cryptocurrency mining market.Source | Continue reading
This post contains spoilers for the entirety of The Big Sick.Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick is one of the year’s most satisfying romantic comedies—but it’s something else, too. Written by Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon about their rocky real-life courtship, the film is a r … | Continue reading
Twitter suspended music and news publication The Fader’s account this morning, prompting an outpouring of confusion expressed with a #FREEFADER hashtag. Three other popular music blogs — 2DOPEBOYZ, Hip Hop N More, and the Complex-owned Pigeons and Planes — have also been suspende … | Continue reading
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Facebook, the social network created in a Harvard University dorm room in 2004, now has more than two billion users around the world. The achievement was announced today in a Facebook post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to his 92 million followers. For context, the U.S. Census Population … | Continue reading
The White House said Monday night that Syria’s Assad regime was potentially preparing for a chemical-weapons attack that “would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children.” “If … Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons … | Continue reading
The least-stressful option for acquiring the Super NES Classic Edition is to preorder it. Nintendo has promised that its latest mini console will be easier to find than the notoriously limited, and now discontinued, NES Classic. But that doesn’t mean you’ll find the new console c … | Continue reading
“We’re getting to a size where it’s worth really taking a careful look at what are all the things that we can do to make social media the most positive force for good possible,” Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox told TechCrunch about the company’s new milestone. 13 years … | Continue reading
Having zero battery when you just need a bar a few % is one of modern life's most common annoyances. Powrtabs are the affordable solution. | Continue reading
Apple is looking to make its Siri assistant a little smarter when it comes to significant, upcoming events. The company has posted a job listing for a position titled “Siri Event Maven,” and the person who eventually fills that role will be responsible for providing “strategic aw … | Continue reading
A meteorologist can track a storm today using satellite or pulse-Doppler radar data. A weather historian can track a storm from a century ago using records—watching it crawl across the plains through the precipitation totals of yellowed farm journals and log books.Now, two scient … | Continue reading
Limbo and Inside developer Playdead's former CEO and co-founder Dino Patti has revealed what they're working on next: a "sci-fi action adventure" called Somerville.Already in development over the past three years as a pet project by film animator Chris Olsen (Skyfall, The Avenger … | Continue reading
Do you ever get the sense that your Spotify playlists are shrinking? Or that you’re hearing the same songs more often? Or maybe a few of your favorites unceremoniously disappeared?Spotify automatically hides songs that artists have pulled from the streaming service without notify … | Continue reading
Fidget Spinner ohne Ende, Sinn und Verstand: Hier kommt der erste Spinner mit Bluetooth, womit das Teil allerdings eher mal nicht smart, sondern höchstens social wird. Die Smartphone-Anbindung wird hier nämlich schlicht zur Aufzeichnung absolvierter... | Continue reading
Where do you usually get your smartphone wallpapers? Do you download them from a specific app, or do you simply use the stock wallpapers on your phone? | Continue reading
Computer systems across Europe may have been hit by another cyberattack Tuesday following reports of a breach that some experts bear similarities to last month’s coordinated global hack that spread across Europe and Asia.The Ukrainian government was the first to report the cybera … | Continue reading
A month after the WannaCry ransomware attack paralyzed connected systems worldwide, a new threat appears to be spreading quickly.As reports emerge, today’s attack paints a picture of businesses and governments around the world held hostage by a second major wave of ransomware, a … | Continue reading
New details have emerged about some of the blockchain applications being pursed by state governments in India.Source | Continue reading
Target announced this morning it’s opening up a new, next-day home delivery service called Target Restock to consumers. The company had said in May the service was live and being tested with company employees, ahead of a consumer-facing pilot program that was due to arrive somet … | Continue reading
During my four days at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I smiled during a panel only once. This happened when, before the speakers even began, I overheard a woman in a white shirt say to her friend, "I keep attending all these panels on 'the turning point in medicine,' but I don't think … | Continue reading
Brazilian President Michel Temer has been charged with corruption by the country’s top federal prosecutor, just one month after allegations emerged that the leader approved bribes to silence a possible witness in the corruption scandal that has rocked the country.The complaint, w … | Continue reading
Bearcam. This annual tradition graces patrons of the internet with its presence every summer as large, lumbering brown bears make their way down to their local river to catch some salmon. Katmai National Park in Alaska is home to the 24-hour live stream, which in past years has s … | Continue reading
London, UK — BIT.AC, the easy to use European based multi currency crypto wallet is proud to announce the support of 22 new crypto currencies. The new list of coins includes Gnosis, Golem, Iconomi, BAT, Xaurum, Edgeless, Trustcoin, Pluton, Augur, iExec, Melon, Wings, Singular, Ar … | Continue reading
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Following its Verizon acquisition, Yahoo today is rolling out a revamped and rebuilt Mail application for its 225 million monthly active users. The update includes a new design, feature set, and technology stack, as well as a new subscription plan for desktop and mobile called Y … | Continue reading
Alongside platforms, guns and Pokemon, zombies are one of the most common tropes in recent video gaming history. However, the oversaturation of undead beings - no thanks to the ridiculous popularity of the Call of Duty: Zombies [$4.99] spin-off series - quickly became tiring, eve … | Continue reading
Many turned out to watch Venus pass across the face of the sun, a tiny, black dot moving against a white-hot backdrop. Scholars organized watch parties up and down the East Coast, from Rhode Island to Delaware, ready to learn more about their place in the world. The observations … | Continue reading
The largest the aircraft carrier ever built by the UK's Royal Navy, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, may be hitting the seas with ancient software: Windows XP.SEE ALSO: Step inside the secretive class that turns people into hackersAt least that's the claim from the Guardian and the Times … | Continue reading