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Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we dont. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters arent educated, and the media isnt objective. And now, ...

US regulators issued a blunt warning to cryptocurrency holders who think they're not beholden to the usual rules. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

An anonymous reader writes:TED Conferences has its own educational YouTube channel (now with 10 million subscribers and over 1.5 billion views). Two weeks ago it launched a 10-episode animated series ...

Now, there are tons of crochet doll patterns you can get to create your favorite characters. This only means that …The post 15 Geeky Crochet Doll Patterns appeared first on Walyou....

An anonymous reader quotes the I-Programmer site:Humans! Rest easy, we still beat the evil AI at the all-important Angry Birds game. Recent research by Ekaterina Nikonova and Jakub Gemrot of Charles U...

San Francisco has a history of dealing with out-of-control tech deployments -- just ask people who had to wade through piles of scooters for months until the city started the permit process. Companie...

SoftBank Group, the multi-billion dollar Japanese technology conglomerate and investment firm, has put together a bid that would save WeWork parent company We Co., just weeks before the co-working rea...

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes:Nvidia has a lot riding on the success of its GeForce RTX cards. The Santa Clara, California company is beating the real-time ray tracing drum loudly, adamant on bein...

We all agree: “The Politician” is a crazy show that tries to do everything at once. After all, why settle for a fast-talking satire about a high school election; a more serious treatment o...

Uber is expanding its door-to-door delivery strategy down the grocery aisle.On Friday, Uber announced its plans to take over a majority share of Cornershop, a leading grocery delivery service in Chile...

Porsche's electric Macan won't give its combustion engine counterpart much room to breathe. The automaker's deputy chairman Lutz Meschke told Autocar in an interview that the Macan EV w...

"Fortnite just blew up its entire map and all that's left is a black hole," reports TechCrunch.Some are speculating that this is simply a teaser for a new Fortnite map, but it's unclear when that new ...

One of the biggest games in the world has been unplayable since this afternoon. Ahead of its next season — or possible a completely new chapter — Fortnite has gone down in just about e...

dryriver writes:A study in the British Medical Journal that looked at 24 of the 100s of Medical apps available on Google Play found that 79% pass all sorts of user info -- including sensitive medical ...

Do you like the look of Apple's redesigned Mac Pro, but would rather not drop $5,999 on a workstation just to have that cheese-grater-on-steroids casing? You might not have to. Dune Case is clo...

Fortnite just blew up its entire map and all that’s left is a black hole. Some are speculating that this is simply a teaser for a new Fortnite map, but it’s unclear when that new map will ...

The leaks were on the mark -- Fortnite's original map is no more, at least as far as anyone can tell. The battle royale title's hyped-up The End event saw a missile launch into the sky and t...

React's Life Cycle Hooks are a control freak's dream. Between the time a node is virtually conceptualized and the time it is mounted onto the DOM (Document Object Model), developers have the power to ...

Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov quotes Wired:More than a year has passed since Bloomberg Businessweek grabbed the lapels of the cybersecurity world with a bombshell claim: that Supermicro...

Are you using Vue, React, Angular, or Svelte to create web apps? I am, and if you are too, I bet it's been a while since you've written an app that renders content without these fine tools.Armed with ...

Disgraced former Google exec Andy Rubin has lost another one of his ties to Silicon Valley earlier in 2019. BuzzFeed News has obtained documents indicating that Playground Global, the venture company...

Things are not looking good behind the scenes of the Atari VCS, Atari's retro console loaded with more than 100 old games, despite what Atari would like everyone to think.On the same day that Atari re...

An anonymous reader quotes Fortune:The battle against gaming addiction entered a new era this week when the U.K. public health system, the National Health Service (NHS), announced the opening of its f...

By Rachel CericolaThis post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and Engadget may earn affiliate commi...

An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch:AMP, Google's somewhat controversial project for speeding up the mobile web, has always been open-source, but it also always felt like a Google project first. Thu...

Brand Identity for Bente Tattoo Studio in Norway AoiroStudioOct 13, 2019 We would like to feature the work from Matheus Gomes who is a graphic designer and art director b...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The most noticeable new feature with iOS 13 has been its dark theme, which paints a darker hue across the interface and in many apps. It’s a...

Its been a rough run for Kik of late. The once mighty messaging service announced in late September that it would be shutting down its app. CEO Ted Livingston noted in a blog post that the startup wou...

A computer programmer at America's tax-collecting agency "stole multiple people's identities, and used them to open illicit credit cards to fund vacations and shop for shoes and other goods," write Qu...

If you live in California, the answer to that is our local power company, PG&E. But they're not the only ones unilaterally shutting down their operations, users, dissent, and what have yo...

I'm sure many of you have done the following:Google: "How to make make a pull request"Cry when you see the long string of commands that need to be entered and memorised. It doesn't need to be that com...

Editorial Design: A Brief Story About Everything abduzeedoOct 13, 2019 I love checking out old project published on sites like Behance and Dribbble. I think it's a great ...

Angela He It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that c...

An anonytmous reader quotes TechSpot:Google is looking to improve the web-browsing experience for those with vision conditions by introducing a feature into its Chrome browser that uses machine learni...

Part of Samsungs reboot of the Galaxy Fold was the announcement of a Premiere Service. Along with a reinforced version of the phone and a lot more warning labels, the company announced that it would a...

"Microsoft's latest keyboards now include dedicated Office and emoji keys," reports the Verge:The software giant was previously experimenting with an Office key on keyboards earlier this year, and now...

If the Webbys have any legitimacy, than a content of the year award should go to Willie McNabb for his famous tweet. It generated endless brilliant mockery online. But Reply All interviewed Willie and...

Now that Alexa knows how to speak Spanish in the US, there's a common question: how did it learn the language when it didn't have the benefit of legions of users issuing commands? Through n...

If you've got a presentation to give soon, it’s important to clarify your presentation goals. Then, get your ideas designed and your presentation deck polished, well before you're scheduled to talk....

Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again. Last week was a short one, but I talked about the merger of a couple of the worst adtech companies in the world. If you’re read...

There are a lot of different language apps out there because nobody learns anything the same exact way - especially not something as complex as a new language. For some people, the best way is to dive...

"While Facebook's upcoming cryptocurrency Libra struggles to keep partners on board and regulators happy, an alternative called OpenLibra is here to address some of Libra's potential shortcomings," re...

In California, we're looking at power outages in the North and South as the only way to avoid massive wildfires. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, there's a new power plant"embodying the notion of hedonistic ...

Latina author Jennine Cap Crucet recently spoke to students at Georgia Southern University about her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, about an Hispanic girl who feels out of place at a predominan...

What You'll Be CreatingHello and welcome to our monthly feature of tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! From vector artwork to drawing tutorials, we love seeing your work and r...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

TL;DR: Polar Backup is an affordable Dropbox substitute and you can get a 1TB lifetime subscription for $39.99 — a savings of over $300.Have you ever had your phone rudely interrupt a perfe...

Did you buy the updated Galaxy Fold now that it's finally available? You now have the posh support to go with it. Samsung has launched its Galaxy Fold Premiere Service in the US, offering all o...

Photographer Peter Adams launched a "Faces of Open Source" portrait project in 2014. This week he posted a special announcement on the web site of Bell Labs:Later this month, Bell Labs will celebrate ...

"There is no 'robot apocalypse', even after a major corporate automation event," writes Gizmodo, citing something equally ominous in new research by a team of economists. merbs shared their report:Ins...

Are you still hanging on to an early Roku player to stream Netflix in the basement? You'll need to upgrade soon. Netflix has warned that it's ending support for some of Roku's oldest ...

"In a widely-reprinted essay, Ohio State University assistant professor of physics Chris Orban ponders whether the tech world did students a favor or disservice by getting states to count computer sci...

As much as Respawn has expanded Apex Legends' gameplay, its training area has remained... lackluster. You only get to play a single character and a sliver of the available gear, making it all to...

During an event at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York City, IBM unveiled the winners to its annual Call for Code Global Challenge. The competition, which is targeted at computing sol...

Facebook's Libra project has yet another issue to deal with: a mobile banking app has sued the social network's Calibra subsidiary over their very similar logos. The tech giant introduced Ca...