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Sequoia's Medallia stake was worth upwards of $1.8 billion on Friday....

Short-form video app TikTok, the fourth most downloaded app in the world as of last quarter, is working on several new seemingly Instagram-inspired features — including a Discover page, a grid-s...

Ian McDonald's Luna trilogy is filled with fantastically detailed grace-notes that give his lunar society an uncanny veneer of reality; one of the most fascinating and thoughtful of these details is t...

A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis -- but whether it is a legal pursuit remains unclear. From a report: Carl Malamud is on a crusa...

Drone company Parrot, maker of the Anafi 4K folding drone, is reportedly leaving the mini-drone market. Parrot has been shifting its focus away from consumer drones since 2017, but it's been a sl...

I love this book, because it doesn't mess around: there's a title page, the table of contents, and then you're immediately presented with some great design advice:"Start with a feature, not a layout"T...

Amazon has a sale on the 32-oz Takeya Vacuum-Insulated Stainless-Steel Water Bottle. It's . It's got a one-hand-operated drinking spout, and you can unscrew the lid to rinse and dry the inside of the ...

Weve got great news for all the time-strapped female founders out there. Yeah, were looking at you, sister. Were extending the application deadline to apply for the All Raise ask me anything (AMA) ses...

Spotting and diagnosing cancer is a complex and difficult process even for the dedicated medical professionals who do it for a living. A new tool from Google researchers could improve the process by p...

Bloodborne is one of the most lauded titles of the current console generation, and a key ingredient in making FromSoftware's game so memorable for so many is its delectably dark soundtrack. The a...

YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos. On Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat...

Lifehacker bravely read Starbucks' Terms of Service and reports that you can get free refills on certain drinks. This is news to me.According to the companys website, to qualify, you have to have purc...

Eddie Murphy might be better known these days for his work on the screen, but it was on the stage that he got his start. His stand-up specials Delirious and Raw are often ranked among the best ever, a...

Ritesh Agarwal has reportedly purchased back $2 billion in shares from VC firms Sequoia and Lightspeed Venture Partners....

"While most beds provide convenient ingress/egress from the sides, I wanted to design one where you need to crawl in and out through the foot of the bed. I also wanted it to be difficult to make the b...

Russian lawmakers want to make it a legal requirement for all smartphones, computers and smart TV sets sold in Russia to come pre-installed with certain Russian software in a bid to support domestic s...

AutoX, the Hong Kong and San Jose, Calif.-based autonomous vehicle technology company, is pushing past its grocery delivery roots and into the AV supplier and robotaxi business. And now, it’s ta...

What better way to celebrate the Moon landing than to gather your family around the couch and relive the experience? Even if you weren't lucky enough to see Neil Armstrong plant his feet on the M...

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Trump-linked businessman testified in Mueller probe Search of 3 iPhones seized from George Nader in 2018 via search warrant turned up child pornography, say fedsJailed Mueller witness George Nader sh...

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been out for one month, and makers Ninantic and WB Games are ready to kick things up a notch. Tomorrow, they're launching the game's first community day. Simi...

Huawei reportedly wants to keep using Google's Android operating system in its phones instead of jumping to its self-developed Hongmeng system. From a report: Company senior vice president Catherine C...

Rent the Backyard is a startup that is building small standalone apartments in people's backyards and splitting the rent with the homeowner.From Techcrunch:That means Rent the Backyard works with a pa...

How do you define phishing? Chances are, your definition varies just like everyone else's. So, how SHOULD we define phishing?The post Pinning down a Phishing Definition appeared first on Hashed Out by...

I was absolutely thrilled with this hot burning, nearly smoke-free portable fire pit.If you are dispersed camping and you do not want to dig a fire pit everywhere you go, or you just want to enjoy a w...

When Senior Editor Richard Lai reviewed the OnePlus 6T, new features like its distinct dewdrop notch and in-display fingerprint reader stood out to him. As the company's first offering through a ...

Philanthropy is theoretically an expression of generosity and fellow-feeling, but in an increasingly unequal world, charitable giving is a form of reputation laundering for super-rich oligarchs who bu...

Whether you just want to update your current website or build one from scratch, you might find yourself wondering what the differences are when it comes to web design versus web development. With two ...

Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza for the Cool Tools podcast. Rob is a fascinating person, as you probably already know from the thousands of posts he's written here. He is an ...

Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Starting Wednesday, July 17, 2019, the Kazakhstan government has started intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside its borders. Local internet service providers (ISPs) ...

Nostalgia time! Top Gun was not my favorite Val Kilmer film, but it did teach me that the Navy pilots are more pilot than Air Force pilots.Football? Not volleyball? Read the rest ...

There comes a time for many startup companies where they either realize they need to do a nationwide roll-out, or they need to actively target buyers in the middle of the country......

The world is full of corrupt oligarchs looking to smuggle their money out of their countries and put it somewhere where the rule of law that they have helped to dismantle at home still reigns; a favou...

A family-run restaurant in Bangkok has had a the same giant pot of soup simmering for 45 years. When it runs low, they top it off.From Great Big Story:Its a beef noodle soup called neua tuna. It simme...

Lyft has announced an expansion of its new program designed to make airport pickups less confusing for riders and drivers alike, by directing riders to a designated pickup spot where they’ll sho...

Gorgeous Tea Packaging by Sabina Loacker ibbyJul 19, 2019 Imbibing tea is a relaxing activity so consuming thepackaging should match that same feeling. We're steeping in...

Sense and compute are the electronic eyes and ears that will be the ultimate power behind automating menial work and encouraging humans to cultivate their creativity....

Astronauts endure one of the most dangerous, high stakes, high stress professions on (or off) the planet -- a job matched in isolation, confinement and extremity perhaps only by arctic field scientist...

Parrot announced the AR.Drone back at CES 2010, three years before DJIs Phantom 1. It was a seemingly odd move by a company best known for making Bluetooth speakers and headsets, but over the years it...

NEXT CONFERENCE 2018 Branding Work Mixes 3D and Typography abduzeedoJul 19, 2019 Vincent Schwenk shared a beautiful and quite extensive branding project on his Behance pa...

On Friday, the Palm Beach sheriff opened an internal affairs investigation into the absurdly lenient handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, after Epstein entered a guilty plea in his prostitution case....

Gaurav Maken, the chief executive officer of the online vegan grocery store Mylk Guys, doesn’t think of his company as a place to just buy food. For him, it’s a testing ground and platform...

Twitter will soon do a better job of explaining missing tweets in your conversations. The social network is adding context to "this tweet is unavailable" notices in conversation threads to ...

The process of seeing a graphic design project through from conception to delivery can be a challenging one for even the most talented designers, but one thing experienced designers know is that excel...

New submitter SpaceForceCommander writes: Tech unemployment hasn't been this low since the turn of the century, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data crunched by CompTIA. As of May, ...

The American singer-songwriter-sexual-predator R. Kelly has been ordered to be brought in the custody of U.S. Marshals to New York, where he will be arraigned on August 2 on racketeering conspiracy ch...

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

Thatgamecompany's Sky: Children of the Light is finally available on iOS. The title, from the creators of Journey, was announced years ago and has lived in beta limbo for a long time. Last month,...

Lyft's support for public transportation will soon include one of the biggest mass transit systems on the planet. The ridesharing firm is rolling out access to real-time New York City subway dire...

By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylance's AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other...

I recently had the pleasure of joining Dave Rupert, Chris Coyier, and Chris Ferdinandi on the Shop Talk Show to talk about the upcoming ARTIFACT Conference (Austin, TX on Sept. 30 Oct. 1, 2019). ARTI...

On July 21, 1969, the first humans set foot on the moon. With Neil Armstrong's simple words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," the world changed irrevocably. For a f...

Twitter is testing a new way to make conversation threads easier to follow, with the launch of a new test that labels notable replies with special icons. If the original poster replies somewhere in th...

Joe Karganis writes, "This is the 'Co-Assignment Galaxy' created by David McClure. It maps the top 160K titles in the new Open Syllabus 2.0 dataset, based on the frequency with which those texts are ...

An article of faith among neoliberals is that monopolies are efficient because they are so profitable that they can offer better prices to their customers as well as better services.Reality has a well...

Twitter’s self-service tools when it comes to blocking content you don’t want to see, as well as a growing tendency for users to delete a lot of the content they post, is making some of th...

Tencent and Alibaba are among the firms that assist authorities in hunting down criminal suspects, silencing dissent and creating surveillance cities. From a report: Alibaba Group's sprawling campus h...

If you only look at porn with your browser in incognito mode, your browser will not record your porn-viewing history; but the porn sites themselves overwhelmingly embed tracking scripts from Google an...

My commute isn't too bad. I have to walk a mile or so to the metro, ride it for about 25 minutes, and then it's a short walk from the station to the office. Driving would be exponentially mo...

Seems Hongmeng isnt the Android replacement its been pitched as, after all. The initial story certainly tracked, as Huawei has been preparing for the very real possibility of life after Google, but th...

Chinese space station’s Tiangong-2 has officially ended its mission, and the orbital research facility’s entire existence. The platform de-orbited and burned up as planned at just after 9 ...

When Huawei trademarked its Hongmeng operating system last month, many assumed it was the long-rumored mobile OS that the company said it could use in place of Android or Windows. But that's not ...

China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must support robust autonomous driving capability. Bu...

After Brexit, Tory leaders are hoping to strike a bilateral trade agreement with the USA that will begin the dismantling of the NHS, starting with a ban on price-controls for pharma and open doors for...

The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsof...

I'm headed back to San Diego for Comic-Con this weekend, and you can catch me on Friday, Saturday and Sunday:Friday, 5PM: Signing in AA04Saturday, 5PM: Panel: Writing: Craft, Community, and Crossover ...

Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the UK’s Royal Air Forc...

Gamers have been eagerly awaiting Marvel's Iron Man VR game since a hands-on demo was made available in February, and now more details have been revealed about the upcoming title. Developer Camou...

Verizon Fios is already one of the best ISPs in the country, especially when it comes to speed versus price, and right now it is offering a pretty sweet freebie for those that are looking...

When it comes to video games, few are as satisfying as the ones that allow you to become the character or hero youve always wanted to be. Thats especially true of Superheroes, yet there have...

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....

It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Nvidia is using the anniversary to showing off the power of its current GPU technology. Using the RTX real-time ray tracing, whi...

Contract management isn’t exactly an exciting subject, but it’s a real pain point for many companies. It also lends itself to automation, thanks to recent advances in machine learning and ...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Using data from 356,925 broadband speed tests conducted over a year, PCMag recently compiled a list of the fastest ISPs in America. ISPs were then...

You knew NVIDIA couldn't resist reviving its GPU-based Apollo 11 recreation for the Moon landing's 50th anniversary. Sure enough, the tech firm has updated the demo to take advantage of its...

If you're looking for a great way to reach your audience, consider using a Mailchimp newsletter. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to get people's attention and using Mailchimp makes t...

Verizon is touting its fifth 5G-enabled device with the recently launched MiFi M1000 from Inseego, which the nation's largest wireless carrier just launched yesterday. In addition to launching this ne...

Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch arm of Virgin Galactic, will provide launch capabilities for the UK's Royal Air Force (RAF). Virgin has been angling for government contracts recently and...

The UK’s next prime minister must prioritize a decision on whether or not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to be a 5G supplier, a parliamentary committee has urged — warning that the cou...

Many of us play games on our smartphones these days, but the controls on a touchscreen are just not that great. Luckily, we have controllers that you can sync to your phone and start playing...

After decades of speculation and nearly endless teasing, Chevrolet has unveiled the long-awaited mid-engined Corvette. Scheduled to begin production later this year, the 2020 Stingray brings the "...

Theoretically, there's never been an easier time for marketers. The ubiquity of social media means a good word - or a good brand - can spread like wildfire with very little effort. But as limitless as...

What can we do to cause good trouble? First of all, I think it needs to be friendly, helpful and meaningful actions that dont impact other peoples lives. Secondly, its something we strongly believe in...

Chromebooks may be set to join the mobile world in leaving behind headphone jacks, based on a recent change in the Chromium Gerrit to the MediaTek-powered Chrome OS gadget referred to by the codename ...

During a Reddit "Ask me Anything" session, Director of Product Andrey Doronichev dished some more details about Google's Stadia online gaming service coming in November. Questions cover...

The Oculus Rift S represents some of the absolute best hardware in the VR space. Its got cutting-edge next-generation lens technology, a display with less of that annoying screen door effect, and a ne...

A future where drones can easily and cheaply do many useful things such as deliver packages, undertake search and rescue missions, deliver urgent medical supplies, not to mention unclogging our roads ...

Visions of the Future Digital Art in Photoshop abduzeedoJul 19, 2019 It's always inspiring to see visions of the future translated to digital art especially when 3D and d...

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.Looking for another creepy feline CGI movie trailer? We got you. We've also put together a guide for the best car-camping gear, if you're priming yoursel...

Whether you already have some coding experience or are starting from scratch, the good news is that you dont have to be chained to your desk in order to learn how to code....

Paramount Pictures has released a Terminator: Dark Fate featurette at San Diego Comic-Con, showing an inside look at the making of what people are calling the true sequel to Terminator 2. While the fr...

Amazon had some pretty good deals on Fire TV Edition TVs during Prime Day earlier this week, but this one right here is an even better deal than during Prime Day. This is an Insignia...

The Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is scheduled to drop out of orbit on July 19 and fall into the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile. New Scientist reports: Tiangong-2 -- which translates a...

Much to the delight of some in the music industry, YouTube has now confirmed stepping up its anti-piracy efforts, particularly piracy involving "stream ripping," sources report.The company has been un...

It's finally happening: 4G is coming to the London Underground. After years of promises, Londoners will at last be able to check their email while traveling on the Tube....

It's finally happening: 4G is coming to the London Underground. After years of promises, Londoners will at last be able to check their email while traveling on the Tube....

Gorgeous Tea Packaging by Sabina Loacker ibbyJul 19, 2019 Imbibing tea is a relaxing activity so consuming thepackaging should match that same feeling. We're steeping in...

VertoFX, an Africa and emerging markets focused currency trading and payment startup, has raised a $2.1 million seed round, led by Accelerated Digital Ventures. The London based company, with a subsid...

Theres the possibility that a new Android TV device might be on the horizon.The details on this are extremely scarce at the moment but basically references have been spotted for a device that goes...

Although 5G networks have gone live in only select locations all over the world and only a handful of 5G-ready handsets are available in the market currently, a new report from the research firm Gartn...

No, you're not imagining it. Your workouts really are more intense when you're jamming out to your favorite band. Whether it's distracting you from fatigue or increasing your work capacity, you'll fin...

TL;DR: Get the Damasukasu 3-piece Japanese master chef blade set for $79.99 in the Mashable Shop.Even if you have the fanciest kitchen (complete with marble countertops), have the most expensive and h...

BritBox, the streaming service from two of Britain's largest broadcasters, will finally launch in the UK by the end of 2019. The service, a partnership between the BBC and ITV, will be priced at ...

Les Petits Frres Charitable Organization: Branding Love by Felix Renaud ibbyJul 19, 2019 If you're looking for an instant mood enhancerhalt now and enjoy the beautiful wo...

In the past week or so, an app called "FaceApp". Basically, it's an app that allows you to upload a picture, and it'll show you what you look like when you're 80 years old. It's...

Star Wars: Vader Immortal Episode 1 only just came out for the Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest in May, but the second episode appears to be not too far behind that release. Coinciding with the...

Samsung has just pushed out a new update for the Galaxy Watch, which is going to improve the swim tracking, as well as the alarms on your watch, and more.The update is pretty small...

Orlando has canceled Amazon's facial recognition pilot following a series of technical problems and other issues, according to Orlando Weekly. The city started testing the facial recognition soft...

Mobile Apps have become a go-to tactic for businesses around the globe.  There won’t be any organization in the world who hasn’t invested in this sector.  Nowadays, mobile apps a...

What You'll Be CreatingOpen up the pages of any high-end magazine and you can find some really outstanding design work. The interior layouts of fashion titles can be particularly awe-inspiring. Design...

What You'll Be CreatingAlways wanted to learn what it takes to create your own icon, but never knew exactly where to start? Well, with this article, that's going to change. You'll learn what an icon i...

While the Motorola One Action has not yet been announced, we have seen a number of leaks and rumors surrounding the device, come out already.Now, the device has shown up in the Google Play...

You’ve just created the greatest logo humanity has ever seen. Your client loves it, but it’s still just one file. You’ve got to send your client zillions of files! There are differen...

Researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed 22,484 porn sites and found that 93% leak user data to a third party. Normally, for extra protection wh...

Daily Design Inspiration abduzeedoJul 19, 2019 The unfamous Daily Design Inspiration series that started it all on Abduzeedo. Where you'll find the most interesting desig...

Amazon is currently dropping the price of the Jabra Elite 65t, bringing them down to their all-time lowest price of just $139.99. That is good for $30 off of their regular price. These have...

The latest entry in the Marvel Ultimate Alliance franchise is dropping for the Nintendo Switch today, July 19th, and it comes with a nice surprise for fans of the god of mischief. Loki is joining MUA ...

WiFi is one of those things (we think) we need to survive, but it really isn't. Everything is done over WiFi now, but unfortunately a lot of routers are still not all that great at...

OUKITEL's newest smartphone, the Y4800, will be starting presales on July 22 for just $199. And it looks to be a very good value for that price.This is part of OUKITEL's new Young Series...

While Google stopped selling its augmented-reality glasses to customers due to privacy concerns, Google Glass lived on as something to be used by researchers and businesses. The New York Times reports...

I recently started to play around with C++, primarily for my own personal side projects and came to find that it is a really interesting language to learn, especially at this stage of my learning proc...

Tesla is opening a V3 Supercharger station right on the Las Vegas Strip. The automaker released a video today with more details about its newest charging site, located next to the LINQ hotel's Hi...

TL;DR: If all tests are mocked, you dont know if your code really works, you only know that, theoretically, it is supposed to work if the integrations adhere to the contract you expect. Mocking, stubb...

New submitter symgym writes: Recently out of stealth mode is a new battery technology that's printed on silicon wafers (36 million "micro-batteries" machined into 12-inch silicon wafers). It can scale...

Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one sustainable energy ecosystem, fulfilling a vision CEO...

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the FBI to investigate FaceApp after privacy concerns have been raised about the Russian company which developed the app. In a letter posted on Twitt...

As SpaceX continues its progress toward a Demo-2 launch of its Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts aboard the company put together this reel of parachute tests. According to the tag, "Spa...

Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the international real estate co-working startup, WeWork, has reportedly cashed out of more than $700 million from his company ahead of its initial ...

The final hours for China's Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the 8-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some time in the next 20 hours or so in a controlled deorbit manueve...

Slashdot reader John Nautu shares a report from Windows Report: Microsoft released their Q4 earnings and it's (almost) all good news. The giant registered amazing growth on all departments, increasing...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T and two data brokers over their sale of AT&T c...