Immersion journalism usually means the kind of reporting that Ted Genoways does: He and his photographer wife spent a year practically living with a soybean farmer and his family in Nebraska to give us a close-up look at the people who bring us our food. But some younger reporter … | Continue reading
Bitcoin's price has crossed the $5,900 mark for the first time, setting a new all-time high. | Continue reading
Should advertisers spend their time and ad dollars on longer YouTube ads, or will shorter ads save them from making a mistake? While media experts debate the strengths of different lengths, it appears that longer ads go a longer way toward achieving certain marketing goals. | Continue reading
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The last time President Donald Trump spoke to the nation about his administration’s plan for infrastructure spending, he ended up defending the honor of violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. Since then, the proposed $1 trillion bill appears to have slipped on h … | Continue reading
The video game industry received a shock to the system this week as Electronic Arts rebooted its story-based Star Wars game and shut down Visceral Games, a studio that made some beefy blockbusters like Dead Space and Battlefield Hardline. EA said that it was moving Star Wars proj … | Continue reading
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has used bitcoin's blockchain to issue digital diplomas to over 100 graduates as a part of a pilot project. | Continue reading
MOVPAK is an electric skateboard and a backpack all in one. The skateboard pops out from the bottom of the bag and pops back in after use. It can also reach speeds up to 15 mph and is remote controlled. The electric board takes 2 hours to charge and can ride for 9 miles on a sing … | Continue reading
Cybersecurity expert Ondrej Krehel explains that your internet browser's incognito mode doesn't really keep you safe, but it does have advantages. Read more...More about Tech, Internet, Cybersecurity, Internet Browser, and Mashable Video | Continue reading
For years, the word most closely associated with payday loans has been “predatory.” These loans have been derided not just for how expensive they are, or how they tend to push borrowers into a series of recurring loans, but also because of who they target: poor and minority consu … | Continue reading
The fall of Raqqa this week completed the slow-motion demolition of the world’s only utopian movement worthy of the name. Like most utopian movements, the Islamic State was barbaric and iniquitous, precisely because it held its own refinement and egalitarianism in such high regar … | Continue reading
It’s a testament to the particular counterintuitive genius of Better Things that when the FX show dedicated an episode to Sam’s pride in her career as an actress, it included a sequence in which she participated in one of the most ridiculous car-commercial shoots of all time. (Ca … | Continue reading
Republican senators have found the secret to recovering the unity that’s eluded them on major legislation this year. All they had to do was sacrifice the deficit.In narrowly approving a $4 trillion budget resolution on a 51-49 vote Thursday night, the GOP majority moved an import … | Continue reading
If you're not seeing portrait mode on the Google Pixel 2 front-facing camera, fret not, we'll have it up and running for you in no time! | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Every year, companies spend 1.3 trillion dollars on 265 billion customer service calls. That’s five bucks a call. On average, the cost to find and hire a call center agent costs $4000 (not including salary), with an additional $4,800 for training — and with frustrated a … | Continue reading
This modern residence is structured by a striped pattern of wood porches and beams of sustainable solid Cumaru wood. | Continue reading
At first glance, the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” and the new series Star Trek: Discovery don’t have a lot in common. One is a lighthearted romp with some critters that are basically designed to be as adorable as possible, and the oth … | Continue reading
London.gov.ukDo you fancy a cappuccino frosted with toxic dust? This is one of the unsettling images from a new campaign highlighting the terrible quality of London’s air. Launched by the London mayor’s office this week, the campaign uses heavily soiled everyday objects, includin … | Continue reading
Whenever a city updates the rolling stock of its subway, a familiar question emerges: What to do with all the old metro cars? You can hurl them in the ocean to make artificial reefs, or use them for emergency housing for the homeless, or sell them to North Korea, as Berlin did in … | Continue reading
Whether or not your son will need insurance to drive your car is determined by certain specific factors; your son’s age, where your son lives, whether he is licensed, unlicensed or has a learner’s … | Continue reading
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Today is your lucky day because, in my mind, it’s Terrapin Friday! In today’s episode we present Patches, a black-breasted leaf turtle who lives at the Knoxville Zoo. This 30-year-old turtle was living high on the hog for a number of years until she developed a hole near her nos … | Continue reading
Intel is bringing its AVX-512 instruction set to desktop CPUs with its upcoming Cannon Lake CPUs, but AVX-512 is a good deal more complex than previous SIMD sets, and its capabilities are distributed across a wider range of products.The post Intel May Deploy AVX-512 in Upcoming 1 … | Continue reading
Since I've officially become an adult (at least in the eyes of the state, maybe less so in reality), I like to feel my wiser, calmer and immensely more cynical self keeps me grounded in the lead-up to big mobile game releases. However, the occasional announcement does force me to … | Continue reading
Evidently, the humanoid robot consisted of a solitary predator. ― Philip K. Dick We puzzle over why a wealthy man would beco... | Continue reading
Billboard just announced that it will change the way it counts streams on its charts beginning in 2018. Next year, streams from paid subscription services like Apple Music and “hybrid paid/ad-supported platforms” like Spotify will be given more weight on the charts than streams f … | Continue reading
Start and end dates for the Steam Halloween, Black Friday and Winter sales have been leaked on Reddit, and we've independently corroborated them as correct.The remaining Steam sales in 2017 are: Remember, Steam no longer does flash sales so discounts last the duration. Also remem … | Continue reading
Rescuing Migrants from a Couch in Galicia Gregory Beals | Foreign Policy“Over the past four years, De Andrés says she has built a network of about 3,000 refugees and volunteers without ever leaving her hometown of Vigo. She calls it “Red Alert”—a play on red, the Spanish word for … | Continue reading
The Amazon reality show: The bidding for Amazon’s HQ2 turned America into “The Bachelor: Corporate Edition,” writes Slate columnist Henry Grabar, as the public groveling and courtship from U.S. cities now gives way to the “quieter, more private seduction of dozens of bids promisi … | Continue reading
The U.S. Navy is engaged in a technology-fueled game of hide and seek, hunting for stealthy Russian submarines like the Krasnodar, a.k.a. "The Black Hole." Video/Image: George Downs/WSJ. | Continue reading
Sociable Soccer, the Sensible Soccer-style football game, is out now on Steam as an Early Access title. It costs £14.99.Sociable Soccer is a fast-paced arcadey football game designed by Jon Hare, the designer of the Sensible Soccer games. It launches with over 1000 teams, over 30 … | Continue reading
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It has been two weeks since The New York Times published a report detailing three decades of sexual misconduct and abuse by one of Hollywood’s most powerful players, producer Harvey Weinstein. That piece centered on eight women who spoke up about his behavior, and later settled w … | Continue reading
RICHMOND, Va.— The event had all the trappings of a vintage Obama rally. There was the bouncy Motown soundtrack; the chants of “yes we can”; the call-and-response with a crowd of die-hards—Fired up, and ready to go!—for whom seeing Barack Obama in the flesh seemed to stir emotion … | Continue reading
BlackBerry’s most interesting phone in years – if not an entire decade – is the KEYone, an Android device with a classic BlackBerry hardware keyboard that finally answers the needs of truly dedicated thumb typists with a modern mobile OS. Now, the KEYone ‘Black Edition’ has arri … | Continue reading
According to a new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is still facing supply chain constraints for the upcoming iPhone X. The company will have around 2 to 3 million units before the launch on November 3rd, which shouldn’t be enough to meet demand. While Appl … | Continue reading
Sureshwar Sinha, 83, swam in the pristine waters of the Yamuna in New Delhi when he was a child. He has spent the past 25 years fighting to rescue the polluted river. Video/Photo: Karan Deep Singh/WSJ | Continue reading
Spotify already has a reputation of being a hitmaker for new artists and other up-and-comers, but now the company is turning its prowess into a product. Today, Spotify announced the launch of RISE, a new program designed to “identify and break the next wave of music superstars,” … | Continue reading
Consider these optimization techniques and strategies to get more views and elevate your reach on YouTube. | Continue reading
Rather than figuring out the keywords yourself that’ll send your web numbers surging, wouldn’t it be even better if you could get your competitors to help do the work for you? That’s the principle behind Serpstat...and right now, you can land a lifetime subscription to their inge … | Continue reading
The Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø is a member of that peculiar subspecies of authors who specialize simultaneously in violent crime fiction and … children’s books. (James Patterson is another.) I have on more than one occasion worried that some small number of Nesbø’s kid-admirers mi … | Continue reading
If Congress regulates social networks in new ways following the 2016 election, no single person will have been more responsible than Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. In the aftermath of the election, it was Warner who pushed Silicon Valley executives to delve more deeply into the … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the founders of Tezos, the Ethereum-based blockchain project which previously had raised $232 million from its initial con offering (ICO) have engaged in a legal battle over the ownership of the project. By far, Tezos, the … | Continue reading
Grab is in the process of raising $2.5 billion for it ride hailing service in Southeast Asia, but that hasn’t stopped the Uber rival from tapping banks for $700 million in debt facilities to develop its business. The Singapore-based company said it had pulled in the financing fr … | Continue reading
The heartbroken Kosmo will risk his life throughout the galaxy in a quest to reassemble the pieces of his robotic girlfriend, exploring enigmatic worlds full of bizarre aliens and mysterious puzzles. | Continue reading
Facebook users are getting a new way to pay eachother with Messenger. Well, actually an old one – starting today, people in the US will be able to pay eachother using PayPal. To set up PayPal, just initiate a payment like you normally would, by tapping the ‘+’ button and then sel … | Continue reading
Traders restored a bit of stability to the crypto markets on Friday following a day of sideways trading. The bitcoin price and ethereum price each declined a bit less than 1% for the day, and most major altcoins experienced similar minor declines. | Continue reading