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Everyone’s worried about Mark Zuckerberg controlling the next currency, but I’m more concerned about a crypto Cambridge Analytica. Today Facebook announced Libra, its forthcoming stablecoi...

A simple python example of using Macrometa's geo distributed cloud to create a DB application that runs across multiple worldwide data centersMacrometa is a geo distributed data cloud service and ava...

Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally col...

Good news for Apple Watch owners who don’t want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 operating system later this year, Apple will allow Apple Watch d...

Slack, the popular workplace messaging company, is expected to list on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in the second major direct listing in the U.S. after Spotify introduced the concept to in...

You knew Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency would come under scrutiny as soon as it became official, and the US government isn't wasting any time. House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman...

Restaurants and other eateries are facing a shortage of dishwashers, and for understandable reasons -- it's inglamorous work with low pay. Dishcraft, at least, thinks robots can fill that gap. ...

Over the weekend, Google Search was caught allegedly copying song lyrics from Genius.com. In response, Google published a long explanation of how lyrics in Search work and said that they will add attr...

A new iOS 13 feature could address one of the most annoying aspects of the App Store: unwanted subscriptions. The iPhone maker is once again trying to tame overly aggressive subscriptions with a ...

If youre thinking of turning your focus more toward app website design, we have both good news and bad news for you. The good news is, theres a growing need for app websites, which could mean plenty o...

PCI Express 5.0 has barely been finalized, but that isn't stopping its creators from dreaming about what comes next. The PCI Special Interest Group has unveiled a PCI Express 6.0 specification t...

Why not play a game while sitting and waiting for your electric vehicle to charge up? No, not on your phone. That'd be too easy. Instead, you can now use the very car you're sitting in — well, i...

Michael Gardi built a nice replica of the Minivac 601 computer kit, and made the plans available on Instructables.Created by information theory pioneer Claude Shannon as an educational toy for teachin...

Frank And Oak's locally Made Wool Suiting Campaign Illustrations AoiroStudioJun 18, 2019 Ever since the last feature of Amanda Mocci on ABDZ, she has been crafting her wo...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Simone Giertz was tired of waiting for Elon Musk to unveil his new Tesla pickup truck, so she decided to make one herself. The popular YouTuber and ...

Every Layout is a new work-in-progress website and book by Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell that explains how to make common layout patterns with CSS. They describe a lot of the issues when it comes to ...

US carriers have mostly rolled out 5G on high frequencies, with upcoming auctions aiming even higher. And unfortunately, those choices create problems -- the implementations typically don't work...

Sir Paul McCartney turns 77 today. To celebrate, enjoy this lovely cover of "Yesterday" as recorded by country music superstar Tammy Wynette in 1968. Read the rest ...

Master maker Simone Giertz and her friends transformed her Tesla Model 3 into an electric pickup truck. Their fake TV commercial is above; build video below. TRUCKLA: Available nowhere. Now. Read the ...

hackingbear writes: While intellectual property violation is a major accusation against China in the on-going US-China trade war, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would preven...

The battle royale craze has invaded the Mushroom Kingdom, albeit unofficially. A programmer and video game streamer going by the handle Inferbro has hacked together a web-based multiplayer version of ...

The pearl-clutchers at the MTA have a big, sex toy-shaped problem on their hands.Dame, which makes precisely engineered sex toys for women, is suing New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for...

There are a number of key differences between Apples AirPower and lookalike knockoff, AirUnleashed. The most pertinent one, however, is that one of the two is actually available for purchase. Apple ga...

Sometimes you gotta fail to succeed. And that's what exactly happened to my first project.I failed. I haven't had my assessment with my lead yet but I already know I failed. I've been going over all t...

If you have Firefox on your computer, you should update it right now. Mozilla has released security updates Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1 to fix a critical bug, which it says hackers are activ...

Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Irans budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software....

Soon you can try out the exact lipstick your favorite beauty gurus wears without even leaving your couch.Buying makeup is a commitment — how do you know if you really want to spend upwards of $4...

Hello, I'm a front-end developer looking for an open source project to help, specially the small ones. I work mainly with javascript, but could open to other languages. Is there anyone needing help? ...

Google today launched a new Chrome extension that will simplify the process of reporting a malicious site to the Google Safe Browsing team so that it can be analyzed, reviewed, and blacklisted in Chro...

Few companies have changed the way developers work as profoundly as Atlassian. Its tools like Jira and Confluence are ubiquitous, and over the course of the last few years, the company has started to ...

I walked through the code demo listed here https://thesephist.github.io/torus/todo-demo.html and created a working version on Repl.it ...

A new wave of behind the wheel gameplay is coming to Tesla. The company announced that it has started rolling out Beach Buggy Racing 2 to vehicles today. A new, Tesla-compatible version of the mobile ...

How best to untangle the Gordian knot that is navigating your own healthcare? It’s a tricky question, and one that seems to have become only more complicated as technology improves, in many rega...

IOActive may not be a household name but you almost certainly know its work. The Seattle-headquartered company has been behind some of the most breathtaking hacks in the past decade. Its researchers h...

Probably Genetic hopes to provide families of children on the autism spectrum with more complete diagnoses....

Tesla might not engage in traditional advertising. That doesn’t mean the automaker isn’t keen on getting new customers and retaining the ones it already has. Most of Tesla’s methods ...

This is a reminder to wear seatbelts when flying.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Starting later this year, residents will be able to order a pizza through the chain, track the pizza, and then have it arrive through a driverless R2 vehicle.Read more here. Read more...More about Tec...

With plans to launch next year, Libra is Facebook's answer to having a global currency available to all, even those who are unbanked. The service can be integrated through Messenger and WhatsApp.Read ...

Hours after Facebook unveiled its cryptocurrency project today, European officials have called for scrutiny of the plan, raising concerns over whether the project was sufficiently regulated. From a re...

I never thought I had a distinctive Colorado accent until people from California noted my dropped Gs at the end of "ing" words. I've since stopped dropping Gs, but when I go back to Colorado I can't h...

Apex Legends' second season debuts July 2nd, and we already knew it would include plenty of exciting changes -- like Wattson, an engineer character who thrives on defensive play. Today, Respawn s...

I've had a Brother wireless laser printer for close to 10 years. It's so much faster and cheaper than an inkjet printer, and doesn't cause problems like an inkjet printer. Right now, Amazon is selling...

The looming threat of mass-unemployment driven by automation has been grossly overstated: while it's true that "truck driver" is one of the most common jobs in America, the vast majority of truck driv...

The southwestern tip of Iceland is a barren volcanic peninsula called Reykjanesskagi. It's home to the twin towns of Keflavik and Njardvik, around 19,000 people, and the country's main airport. On the...

Originally published at https://sergiodxa.com/articles/react-conditions-lists/In a previous article I wrote about how to start a React project using the state and effect hooks, this time we will see h...

Google has a $1 billion plan to put a dent in the Bay Area housing crisis. The company announced a sweeping new plan Tuesday to contribute $1 billion to build as many as 20,000 new homes in the S...

The UK China Tribunal has concluded that China is indeed harvesting organs from prisoners, especially imprisoned members of the banned Falun Gong religion; Falun Gong members have long claimed this to...

Google isn't sitting idly by while Genius accuses it of copying lyrics. As part of a larger defense of its lyrics search practices, the company has mentioned that it will "soon" attrib...

The VidAngel story seemingly ended in late 2017 when it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But the bad news wasnt over for the streaming service, which promised to edit all of the dirty bits out of other...

Starting this Sunday, you can pick up Pictionary Air at your local Target for $20. The new game puts a high-tech spin on the classic. You'll still pull a card, choose from a list of items to draw...

Mediawatch was a column that ran in Britain's Gay Times for almost 25 years, with author Terry Sanderson cataloging coverage of LGBT issues by the mainstream press. The archives are being posted onlin...

Digital Art & Illustration: NEOMANCER by Kirill Maksimchuk AoiroStudioJun 18, 2019 Let's share the vibrant 3D work of digital artist Kirill Maksimchuk. Based in Kaliningr...

Bon Appetit's 20-tip roundup of salad-making tips is full of culinary wisdom, from the mechanical (how to use a salad-spinner properly and how to apply dressing for a good, even coat that doesn't turn...

Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them. YouTube is now kicking that experience up a not...

Google pledged $1 billion over the next 10 years to try to address an affordable housing crisis California's Bay Area. From a report: The tech giant will re-purpose $750 million of its own land for re...

For decades, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has been missing in action, standing idly by as Canada's telcom companies merged with each other and with media giants, cre...

"This conclusion was neither a rash nor a recent decision," Hockey explains....

Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its fleet of auto...

Startup SafeAI, powered by a founding talent team with experience across Apple, Ford and Caterpillar, is emerging from stealth today with a $5 million funding announcement. The company’s focus i...

Sheelah Kolhatkar's 10,000 word New Yorker profile of Elizabeth Warren is mostly a "color piece," giving a sense of where Warren is coming from, personally and politically; as such, it's a good read, ...

TL;DR: Amazon has select colors of this mini Keurig coffee maker on sale; it retails for $99.99, but you can order one for as little as $63.55 (a 36% savings). Remember the summers when you had n...

Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally col...

Google today launched a new Chrome extension that allows you to flag suspicious sites for inclusion in the company’s Safe Browsing index, which is used by Chrome and a number of third-party brow...

My daughter is taking a precalc summer school course. Last night she was doing her homework, which was about verifying trigonometric identities. Out of the 25 homework problems, there was one that she...

It's not Photoshop. I can tell by the pixels and from seeing a number of levitating fishermen in my time.(r/confusing_perspective) Read the rest ...

The latest Overwatch patch is rolling out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and once it's installed, you'll have access to the new replay system. You'll be able to re-watch your ten most recent ...

The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden o...

Many large-scale data-breaches involve attackers gaining access to administrators' database logins; from there, they can clone the whole database and plunder it at will; but leading nosql database ven...

Snail slime -- called an epiphragm -- is an incredibly strong yet reversible adhesive.Now, University of Pennsylvania scientists have developed a new kind of glue that employs the same mechanism as th...

The free Document Folder collection includes icons for most file types and the most common folder uses, making them perfect for any designer that is currently working on a business... The post Freebie...

It can be challenging enough to find electric car charging stations of any kind, let alone to look for one belonging to your charging network of choice. The hunt is about to get considerably easier, ...

The housing crisis in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco, is a complex and controversial topic with no one-size-fits-all solution but a check for a billion dollars is about as close as you'r...

A combination of hubris (failing to heed the stern warnings that bidders should only participate if they know what they're doing), cryptic annotations and confusing illustrations resulted in a bidder ...

This is a weekly roundup of awesome DEV comments that you may have missed. You are welcome and encouraged to boost posts and comments yourself using the #bestofdev [email protected] left an amazing ...

The Berlin Senate on Tuesday approved a five-year rent freeze designed to tame soaring housing costs in the German capital, bowing to pressure from residents angry that their city has become unafforda...

Not only are owls incredibly agile flyers, they're also silently stealthy.(r/NatureIsFuckingLit)Owl through legs (full speed) Read the rest ...

Why wait on Elon Musk to deliver your perfect vehicle when you can just make one yourself? YouTuber and inventor Simone Giertz needed a truck to carry materials for her creations, but didn't want...

There has been a longstanding gulf between the consumption music and the creation of it: not everyone has the time or money to spend on lessons and instruments, and for those in school, many music edu...

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle (who also founded the company Alexa, now an Amazon division) ordered a pack of Sharpies from Amazon using the Internet Archive's business account, then, minutes...

When a company hires talent away from a competitor, onboarding the new employee can pose significant legal risks for both the company and the new employee. A fundamental aspect of Silicon Valley is......

Theres a foundational question that every project starts with: accept the freedom to roll your own solutions along with the burdens that go with it, or take the chance to use sensible defaults that al...

Google says it'll invest in thousands of new homes in the Bay Area over the next decade, in the hopes of helping many of its employees and other residents find an affordable place to live in one ...

Self-driving cars are almost too observant, taking in information from light-emitting LiDAR sensors, radar equipment, microphones, and cameras. But all the information a car gleans from the outside wo...

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her...

Nest.com, the website for smart thermostat company Nest, has moved to the Google Store.The change is apparent when visiting Nest.com. Once you go there, the page redirects you to the Google Store...

The Senate of Berlin has approved a five-year, citywide rent freeze in a bid to halt the city's skyrocketing rents, driven by increased demand that has attracted large-scale corporate landlords who ha...

Apple is launching a new beta program for Beddit, the sleep tracking company it acquired just over two years ago after selling Beddit products in Apple Stores for years. According to the beta program&...

Making pourover coffee is a cherished ritual of mine on most mornings. But there are times I wish I could have a single cup of pourover without fussing about the kitchen and the Geesaa, a new gadget ...

Male stag beetles' horns are longer than their body, and these two boy beetles put them to use in a scuffle to win the heart of a girl beetle. The winner mates with the girl beetle of his dreams, but ...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you've bought anything on the internet, you've probably come across a landing page. They're a highly effective way of maximizing conversions from a website.But just what is a...

Have you ever wanted to add event booking and appointment functionality to your WordPress based website for free? Luckily, there are many WordPress calendar plugins available for you to use. In this p...

A woman who was knocked unconscious by a cyclist will be awarded compensation, despite a judge finding she had stepped into the road while looking at her phone. From a report: Robert Hazeldean, a gard...

Now that Disney is in charge of Hulu, the streaming service is going to get more original content. Hulu CEO Randy Freer told CNBC that Hulu's "investment in original programming will increas...

Niantic Support's official Twitter channel has confirmed that it will be discontinuing support for devices that run on Android KitKat software for its Pokmon GO and Ingress games on July 1. This might...

It's still slim pickings for 5G smartphones in the US, but your choices are widening ever so slightly. Verizon (Engadget's parent company) is adding the LG V50 ThinQ to its 5G lineup on Jun...

Many of the major players in online advertising have come together to create an organization called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which is supposed to focus on “digital safety.̶...

I got I got I got too many projects in my 5 to 9 I got I got I got side gig numbers like D20 dies We got we got we got cashflow in pennies, nickels, quarters, dimes We plot we plot we plot streams of ...

YouTuber Simone Giertz, celebrated DIY inventor, roboticist and general maker of cool stuff, decided not to wait for Tesla’s forthcoming pickup truck. Instead, she bought a Tesla Model 3 direct ...

Roll up! Roll up! Who dares be first to board the BREXIT DEATHLINERS?Boeing Co. announced its first deal for 737 Max jets since a March grounding that followed two deadly crashes, landing a $24 billio...

NoGood CEO Mostafa Elbermawy describes how they evaluate a clients growth challenges by quoting Zen teacher Hunryu Suzuki: In the beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there...

Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s PowerPoint is a ubiquitous tool in the corporate world. Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started to bring some of its AI smarts to PowerPoint to h...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Truecaller, an app best known for helping users screen calls from strangers and spammers, is adding yet another feature to its service as it bolsters its super app...

A new extension linked to Google'sSafe Browsing service is now available that not only helps users see when a site might be unsafe but also allows them to actively take part in keeping the web...

Apple is never keen to talk about forthcoming new features until they are ready to launch, but sometimes beta releases reveal stuff early. That's exactly what tvOS 13 beta 2 just did, by revealing App...

Cover Image Credit Callbacks?// callerfunction foo(callback) { callback('world');}// callback functionfunction myCallback(name) { console.log(`Hello ${name}`); // "hello world"}// pass callback...

This lightweight, durable MSR kitchen knife comes sharp and stays sharp.You can also sharpen it quite easily.I used to buy camping kitchen knives at the dollar store. I'd use them for a season, or par...

Facebook unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency initiative today, which is part of an alternative financial system (including new subsidiary and wallet ‘Calibra‘) it aims to build alongside ind...

Amazing Captain Marvel End Title Sequence abduzeedoJun 18, 2019 I got the chance to watch Captain Marvel a couple of days ago, at home not at the movie theater. Honestly ...

The concept of an IRL heads-up display has been a part of science fiction since basically the beginning. Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results most notably Google wit...

At The Atlantic, William Langewiesche meticulously catalogs and narrates the flight and dissapearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Though the investigation continues to focus on the water--where...

Volvo's self-driving trucks will have some familiar hardware under the hood. The automaker has signed a deal with NVIDIA that will use the chip company's Drive platform to "train, test...

With the explosion in health and wellness apps peddling self-improvement, your smartphone could one day hold the keys to helping you manage your lungs, mind, or waistline. But we're not there yet.Typi...

Based on how much we rely on shared transport services (Lime, Mobike, Uber Jump) today, it's safe to assume the next steps will involve driverless vehicles. But how many of us really know how to chang...

The Amazon panopticon may soon be getting a few new eyes. From a report: In February 2018, Amazon paid $1 billion to acquire Ring, the connected-camera doorbell company whose founder was once rejected...

TL;DR: The 2-in-1 Acer Spin 5 is a serious Dell XPS competitor and it's only $799.99 at Amazon right now, saving you $200.You would think that wanting a 2-in-1 laptop specifically would make your deci...

The only thing that you can reliably do to validate an email address is to send it an email. YOU SEND IT AN EMAIL! That's the only way you can do it. I know what you're thinking, "I have the best regu...

Google Calendar is down today in the US, UK and most of Europe, throwing working people off their schedules in most of the Western Hemisphere. Visitors to Google Calendar on desktop began receiving a ...

Google Calendar went down today in the US, UK and most of Europe, throwing working people off their schedules. Visitors to Google Calendar on desktop began receiving a 404 error around 10AM ET. The co...

yo wtf hooman from r/funnyFrom r/funny Read the rest ...

The OnePlus 7 Pro has a big and beautiful, 6.67-inch display. It's basically the entire front of the phone, with the bezels being almost non-existent. That means that if you do drop the OnePlus...

TL;DR: These durable Beats on-ear headphones usually cost $129.99, but you can grab a pair on sale at Walmart for just $73.99 — a $56 savings.Beats by Dre's high-end headphones typically have hi...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important message: You have just four days left to buy your pass to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 before the super early-bird price expir...

#BREAKING: Confederate statue at Centennial Park vandalized. pic.twitter.com/4jzm3LIk8p— NewsChannel 5 (@NC5) June 17, 2019 This is what happens when you let the losers of an unjust war put up m...

TL;DR: The all-powerful iPad Pro is the latest and greatest tablet from Apple — save $100 on Amazon and score one for just $699.When you think of a tablet, the first thing that comes to mind is ...

Snow day. All meetings are canceled until further notice. Google Calendar has been hit with what appear to be some pretty widespread issues. The company has confirmed service interruptions via its G S...

Snow day. All meetings are canceled until further notice. Google Calendar has been hit with what appear to be some pretty widespread issues. The company has confirmed service interruptions via its G S...

The NSO Group (previously) is one of the world's most notorious cyber-arms dealers, linked to horrific human rights abuses, extrajudicial killing of human rights activists, and the dirtiest of dirty t...

Jon Stewart is having none of McConnell. Read the rest ...

Not even two years into its existence, orbital fuel supply startup Orbit Fab has chalked up a big win successfully supplying the International Space Station with water, a first for any private compan...

For years it seemed Westwood's Blade Runner might be lost for good. The 1997 adventure game that meticulously recreated the film's universe has becoming increasingly difficult to play on mod...

Amazon has discounted the Roborock E25 robot vacuum, dropping the price down to just $279. This makes the already affordable Roborock E25 even more affordable. You will need to clip the $20 off coupon...

Multiple users are reporting this hour that they are unable to use Google Calendar service. Many attempting to visit the site say they are being welcomed with a "Error 404 and Not Found" error. The ap...

The sectioning elements in HTML5 are <nav>, <aside>, <article>, and <section>. <body> is also kind of a sectioning element since all content lying inside of it ...

UPDATE: June 18, 2019, 1:40 p.m. EDT Google say it's restored Calendar service. The original story follows below.You're not imagining things: Google Calendar is down.Instead of seeing their wonderful ...

Thats what I like to tell people. Ive seen too many websites die off, often damaging the company along the way because the technical debt of hosting and maintaining the website is too much in the long...

Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer s...

IBM isn't just using AI to predict diabetes. Its researchers have developed an AI model that can predict malignant breast cancer within a year with an 87 percent accuracy rate comparable to huma...

Earlier this week a lyrics website called Genius accused Google of stealing lyrics text from its website to display in Google Search results when users search for lyrics for a particular song. Google ...

TL;DR: The JBL Link 20 is a powerful speaker with Google Assistant built in and it's $100 off, meaning you can snag it for $99.95 at Dell.Having to choose between a smart assistant or a kickass speake...

Today I wanted to speak directly to the people of CA-45. There's been a lot of noise in D.C. and in the press about impeachment, so I wanted to share my thoughts with you. pic.twitter.com/ceri6lHw...

After years of heel dragging, Nintendo finally opened itself up to the smartphone world in late-2016. The gaming giant hasnt exactly opened the floodgates in the intervening years, but Fire Emblem Her...

NASA has taking a breathtaking new image of near-earth asteroid Bennu, captured by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from its new, second orbit of the extraterrestrial object. The new picture, snapped on June...

GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid. But the company has found that government work military, fire...

Youper, a mental health app with a chatbot it calls an “emotional health assistant,” has raised $3 million in seed funding from Goodwater Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate deve...

Gordon Buchanan is a ladies man... lady polar bears, that is.While on assignment for the BBC, Buchanan, in what I'm sure he hopes is a polar bear-proof enclosure, is accosted by a hungry, frozen waste...

Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra. From a blog post: Today we're sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal is to provide financial se...

Reality 2.0. This is how I tend to call Augmented Reality in the last half a year. Why is that? I honestly believe that Augmented reality already at the stage of getting out of the field of "gimmicky"...

Welcome!Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself.Reply to someone's comment, either with a q...

Karl Schroeder (previously) is literally the most visionary person I know (and I've known him since 1986!): he was the first person to every mention "fractals" to me, then "the internet" and then "the...

Stockholm-based company Truecaller, known for its anti-spam software that screens calls and its call-blocking, has now added voice calling to its list of superpowers.The company confirmed the new addi...

While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...

While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...

Best Buy thinks it might have another way to remain relevant in the face of online shopping: diving head-first into smart fitness technology that often benefits from hands-on time. The big-box retail...

There are operating system updates that feel tacked on or otherwise not particularly useful. Then there are those that genuinely alter the way you interact with a device. This new addition by way of i...

Back in the day, I had a Datel Action Replay wedged into my Commodore Amiga. More than just a cheat device, it let you peek into all the internal goings-on of a game, manipulating content as well as a...

While everyone outside of Mexico is moaning about the steep cost of avocados, those living inside of the country are paying a far higher price.From The Yucatan Times:Every day, avocado producers are v...

Twitch had a tough time getting troll streamers in control after they hijacked an unused category for Valve's Artifact. The hijackers livestreamed porn, pirated Game of Thrones episodes, other co...

Truecaller, an app best known for helping users screen calls from strangers and spammers, is adding yet another feature to its service as it bolsters its super app status. The Stockholm-based firm sai...

A woman in England named Siobhan asked her colleagues to put pop star Mariah Carey's image on her birthday cake. Instead, she got French physicist Marie Curie on it.Lye writes, "They misunderstood, an...

MongoDB is hosting its developer conference today and unsurprisingly, the company has quite a few announcements to make. Some are straightforward, like the launch of MongoDB 4.2 with some important ne...

Bay Area-based robotics startup Dishcraft has unveiled a massive robotics and AI-powered dishwashing system. Like much of the rest of the industrial robotics industry, the companys looking to automate...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: Spanish renewable energy giant and offshore wind energy leader Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy last week inaugurated operations of its electroth...

When I first started playing guitar way back in 1995 (or maybe it was 1994?) the idea of a digital multi-effects pedal was still pretty new. The Zoom 505 was the biggest game in town, if you wanted a ...

Libra.org is now live."Libras mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people."This project is receiving a lot of attention, and is be...

Spider-Man: Far From Home is bound to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer. It opens up Fourth of July week, and it's going to be sold out pretty quickly. Maybe not as...

If you’re wondering what to put on a personal business card, this article is for you. Personal business cards are a terrific marketing tool for today's professionals.You’d use your company’s bus...

Dr. Mario World will be Nintendo's latest game to hit mobile devices when it launches on July 10, which is just a few weeks away.Nintendo announced the release date of its upcoming game on...

Google Earth first made use of its rich global 3D visualization as a backdrop for a Carmen Sandiego tie-in back in March, but today there’s a new adventure to explore. After solving The Crown Je...

Dish is having another go at the smart home. The satellite TV provider has been offering smart technology installation services to its own customers for years, but today it launches OnTech, a service ...

No matter whether your memories of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels are fond or furious, there's no denying that, at the time that films were released, their cutting-edge visual effects were unlike an...

Do you have an important presentation coming up really soon? Then you need to get your presentation designed right away!Now’s the time to plan out your ideas fast, then figure out how to transform t...

The challengeSo, I've decided to walk my path into Web Development with the Web Development Course of Angela Yu on Udemy. And this is one of the so-called "Boss Challenges" she proposed for the ...

This post is aimed for people who want to learn how to use commands such as rebase & learn a few tricks to have a nicer Git experience.Alright, let's start by watching the Git history of some of m...

There are, occasionally, some concrete barriers on the road to Munsiyari, Uttarakhand. Wonderful views, too! Born Idiots writes:In June, we went to Munsiyari, Uttarakhand, which is a narrow and danger...

Salesforce announced it is making progress toward releasing a Customer Data Platform (CDP) this week at Salesforce Connections in Chicago. While the company is talking in greater detail about the plat...

Xiaomi, best known for its smartphones, is making serious inroads into Russia as it launched a collection of products in the country where some 145 million people live. That includes its smart TVs fea...

An echo of disco bouncing off the Kremlin walls, just a few years out of sync. . . (1985) (YouTube) Read the rest ...

There are a number of reasons for moving long-standing .NET Framework applications like WCF, and ASP.NET Webforms to containers and then into containers or "modernizing legacy heritage apps".DevOps - ...

The first time I showed the Palm phone to the TechCrunch staff, they were excited. At the very least, it was a unique take on the category, designed to be a second phone for those moments that didnt r...

Knowledge is the fuel of business. Every decision requires a full understanding of the data underlying it, and that means reaching out not only to an organizations own staff for insight, but also to e...

Even if you feel like AirPods are worth the price tag, you've got to admit there's a certain anxiety that comes with using them. What if I lose them? What if they get wet in the rain? Or drenched in s...

Roli has been making unconventional electronic music instruments for about a decade now. Its Seaboard series take the traditional keyboard design and infuse it with some notable tricks, like pressure-...

As much as Palm's tiny phone has improved over the past several months, there's still been one glaring limitation: you've had to use it on Verizon (Engadget's parent company) in th...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, we show you how to easily create a take-out menu template in InDesign.Restaurants invest a great amount of their budget on printing and reprinting take-out men...

Some people hate that new phones don't have headphone jacks, or that they have notches, or that they still keep getting bigger.But we think the most offensive phone element has been hiding in plain si...

Dish is upping the TV experience in hotels thanks to better integration with Netflix and also the launch of a new live TV streaming service that lets hotel guests watch live TV channels on any...

Most times you submit a form on a website, you are making a request. Every time you go to a new page, you are making a request. These requests are shoved into a header and sent to another piece of cod...

Volvo and Nvidia announced a new partnership today aimed at developing the next-generation decision-making engine for Volvo Group’s fully autonomous commercial trucks and industrial service vehi...

(This is a sponsored article.) Last year, a comprehensive introduction to the basic use of SVGator was published here on Smashing Magazine. If youd like to learn about the fundamentals of SVGator, set...

Niantic, the company behind Pok&eacute;mon Go, is up to something -- but exactly what is yet to be revealed. Following a number of AR and game company acquisitions over the last 18 months, Niantic...

Amazon has dropped the price of a brand new Samsung Galaxy S9 down to just $465. That's down from its regular price of $599, and that makes it a really good time to pick one...

What You'll Be CreatingMagazines offer so many opportunities for designers to be creative in their choices of layout, colours, fonts, imagery and more. Learn how to put it all together and design a st...

The next frontier of digital health? Your delicate ears. Apple's latest update for iOS and WatchOS is all about hearing health. Meanwhile, we discover how AI could help catch Type 1 diabetes much...

The next frontier of digital health? Your delicate ears. Apple's latest update for iOS and WatchOS is all about hearing health. Meanwhile, we discover how AI could help catch Type 1 diabetes much...

Let's try a combined blog post today: one tip for helping your users get around when you have horizontal scroll areas (for effect, or whatever), and one tip for navigating the web. Vertical To Ho...

Understanding where your users are, can mean the difference between making a sale, attracting a new member, getting a push on social media, building a solid user experience, or bombing completely. Bec...

Samsung just patented a dual display smartphone.The South Korea-based Android OEM filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on June 11, 2019 for a dual display smartphone. Samsung...

A number of incumbent backs are known to be developing new digital-first products in a bid to keep the new wave of challenger banks at bay and now it appears that the latest to make that move is J.P. ...

Hasbro isn't done riding the Fortnite bandwagon now that its themed Nerf guns are here in earnest. The toy maker is launching five new blasters on September 1st, and they might scratch your itch...

Optimizely, a platform that offers tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and in mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a total of $105 million. This includes a $50 million Seri...

When Samsung rolled out One UI last year, it also rolled out a new font for its smartphones. While it doesn't default to this new One font, you can still switch to it in the...

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Spies may soon have another tool to carry out their shadowy missions: a new device that uses sound to "see" around corners. Previously, researchers ...

If you've used OnePlus' "Shot on OnePlus" wallpapers app, your email address may have been publicly accessible against your consent a few months ago, unfortunately."Shot on OnePlus" refers to OnePlus'...

Never a week goes by without Epic Games adding something new to Fortnite. In the past month alone, we've seen the Storm Flip, Proximity Grenade Launcher and even an Air Jordan 1 collaboration. As...

Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra. From a blog post: Today we're sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal is to provide financial se...

Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Lib...

Today, Facebook finally announced its long-rumored cryptocurrency platform, Calibra. Some speculated that the company would rely on outside firms and existing cryptocurrency exchanges, like the Winkle...

After months of rumors and speculation, Facebook is finally making its cryptocurrency efforts official. This is Calibra, a digital wallet that will use a new cryptocurrency called Libra. Calibra, whic...

At least when it comes to laptops, research has shown that 60 percent of us consumers gravitate toward certain gadgets because we like the way they look. (What can we say? We're shallow like that.)The...

TL;DR: The HP ZBook laptop is a powerful workstation and on sale for $648 in the PCMag Shop with code PCMAG10.Depending on your job, your personal laptop and work laptop might need different specs and...

In the world of cryptocurrencies, big promises, names and numbers aren't uncommon; at every corner, you'll find well-funded projects that aim to change the very core of the world's financial system.&#...

Facebook’s cryptocurrency, and the company's long-rumored, vast ambitions in the crypto space, are real. On Tuesday, the company announced Libra, a decentralized cryptocurrency that will al...

One of the most common concerns a developer faces is a web server attack. Some of these attacks may comprise a denial of service, rendering a website unavailable, or theft of critical and sensitive in...

Weve recently compared the ASUS ZenFone 6 and the OnePlus 7 Pro, and its now time to compare the more affordable OnePlus 7 unit to ASUS flagship. The OnePlus 7 is not as expensive as...

Get better SEO results for your site with WIX AoiroStudioJun 18, 2019 The fine folks from WIX shared with us their latest SEO tools for your WIX site where you can rank h...

This is apparently the Motorola One Pro. Complete with a quad-camera setup and a pretty large camera bump on the back.As you can see from the image above, it is going to be available...

A couple of years ago London-based startup Zego realised gig-economy workers would need insurance, and went on to raise a very healthy 6 million in Series A funding, led by Balderton Capital. Its firs...

Over the past few months, Apple made changes to iOS subscriptions in an effort to make them more user-friendly and transparent. Now, MacStories EIC Federico Viticci has unearthed another subscription-...

Verizon announced today that the LG V50 ThinQ 5G will be making its way to its network starting this Thursday, June 20.This is LG's first 5G smartphone and the fourth 5G smartphone available on...

HMD Global is partnering up with Google Cloud along with a consultancy firm named CGI to help make Nokia phones more secure. Data security in this day and age is an important factor that many...

Scientists have discovered that some clouds on Mars are created from the debris of meteors that burn up in the planet's atmosphere. "This 'meteoric smoke,' described in a paper published Monday in Nat...

Woot is currently discounting the Klipsch R5 Wireless Headphones, dropping the price down to just $47.99. That is a 60-percent discount, down from the regular price of $119.99. That makes this a reall...

Despite all the money Netflix keeps spending on new original content, the thing we're most interested in this week is a little older. Anime classic Neon Genesis Evangelion comes to the service Fr...

After weeks of maintaining firm resolve in the midst of financial uncertainty, Chinese OEM Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd quantifies its financial loss from the Trump Ban to around $30 billion.That's the...

Amazon has discounted the Moto G7 Play, taking a cool $60 off of the regular price. That is also good for around 30-percent off. Bringing it down to just $139. And at that price point...

French startup Fairjungle wants to make it easier to book a flight or a hotel room for corporate purposes. The company just raised a $2 million funding round (1.8 million) from Thibaud Elzire, Eduardo...

Amazon has brought back one of its most popular deals for a pair of Sonos PLAY:1 speakers. Which includes a free $30 Amazon Gift Card with two Sonos PLAY:1 speakers for $298. Now this is...

Soccer is becoming more and more popular in the US, as teams from MLS (Major League Soccer) invest more and more money into acquiring players and training them. MLS managed to attract some prolific pl...

Following in the footsteps of AT&T and Verizon*, Sprint is now offering an LTE tracker. The matchbook-sized device, simply called Tracker, provides real-time location tracking on Safe + Found app....

Google essentially sees RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging as an Android equivalent to iMessage, and its ready to push it forward on its own, as carriers havent really been bending over backw...

GuestReady, a three-year-old service that lets shared-economy hosts manage their business on Airbnb and other rental sites, has announced a $6 million Series A round. The investment was led by existin...

Mario fans in Orange County are in luck. Mario Kart VR is in Irvine for the next stop in its US tour. The game launched on June 12th at VR Zone Portal Irvine, located at the K1 Speed entertainment cen...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims i...

TiVo has now announced its CubiTV solution is expanding to Android TV.This is a solution aimed at operators and designed to make it easier for those companies to offer devices that run on the...

As someone who makes a lot of Korean food, this is the best method for getting garlic peeled! pic.twitter.com/14GGJDQhRj— (@VPestilenZ) June 17, 2019If you've got a lot of garlic to peel, Tw...

Earlier this year Nintendo announced that its Dr. Mario puzzle game would return in a new iteration for mobile devices, and now Dr. Mario World has a release date: July 10th. Set to appear on Android ...

Google is finally taking charge of the RCS rollout by allowing Android users in the UK and France to opt in to RCS Chat services provided directly by Google instead of waiting for their carrier to sup...

Amazon has unveiled a full-length trailer for The Boys, its unsentimental, kooky look at a world where superheroes abuse their powers on the regular and it's up to mere mortals to stop them. It&#...

It is now possible to take a talking-head style video, and add, delete or edit the speaker's words as simply as you'd edit text in a word processor. A new deepfake algorithm can process the audio and ...

Ulefones brand new big battery smartphone is now available to pre-order, the Ulefone Power 6. The device can now be pre-ordered for only $159.99, and this is actually a special price tag, which is...

AT&T is planning to cut another 1,800 jobs from its wireline division. "Last week, AT&T declared more than 1,800 jobs nationwide as 'surplus,' meaning they are slated to be eliminated in Augus...

One of the reasons I've been so drawn to DEV.to over other platforms is the super encouraging and helpful community that gathers here. Initially I felt like it was going to be more a place where I sat...

The OUKITEL K12 is now available for pre-order over at GearBest. The company has announced that the phone is discounted to $239.99 during the pre-sale period, while its regular price tag is $249.99...

Don't look now, but a major Hollywood upset just happened... much to the chagrin of streaming outlets. Hollywood Reporter and Deadline sources say that AT&amp;T-owned WarnerMedia is near clo...

Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode that will allow users to stream two shows at the same time, TechCrunch has confirmed. The feature’s forthcoming launch was first reported by Apple n...

Many investors in Silicon Valley are waiting the next big platform. That’s fine with Lior Susan, a former Flex exec who in 2015 cofounded Eclipse Ventures with the legendary venture capitalist P...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The latest Windows preview from the 20H1 branch, build 18917, has some hidden components that signal a future where the Windows Shell UI parts, such as ...