Seeking answers about the origins of our solar system, NASA's intrepid robotic explorer surveys the most distant world ever explored.
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Stranger Things reveals its third-season premiere date - CNET
If you stayed up till midnight East Coast time, Netflix delivered some fireworks.
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Aquaman director James Wan: Stop harassing people who hate the movie - CNET
"Be respectful," the Aquaman director tells crabby fans.
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Queen's Brian May, an astrophysicist, writes song for historic NASA flyby - CNET
The rock star will be on hand at NASA headquarters as his song marks the space milestone. Don't stop him now.
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Checking the tech in the 2019 Aston Martin Vantage video - Roadshow
Aston Martin's newest car has a modern infotainment system that you might recognize from a certain German luxury-car manufacturer.
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Use this tip to store your fake Christmas tree in a snap - CNET
This fast and easy tip will protect your tree from dust without any hassle.
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Shep's Mom's Favorite Kinja Deals of 2018
Hi everyone! It’s me, Shep’s mom again, back to do another rundown of some of my favorite Kinja deals for the year. Being that Shep wrote most of the posts, I’m going to say everything was awesome. But in fairness, I did not buy one of everything in 2018, so I will stick to reviewing my tried and true.
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Scarlett Johansson slams deepfakes, says she can’t stop the internet from pasting her face on porn
Scarlett Johansson, the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, knows a thing or two about unwanted nudes making their way onto the internet. In 2012, a hacker was sentenced to 10 years in prison after leaking nude photos of her and other celebrities, setting an example to warn future thieves.
But there may be nobody to arrest, nobody even to sue, when it comes to deepfakes: AI-generated videos that seamlessly stitch Johansson and other celebs’ faces onto the bodies of porn stars having sex.
Now, Johansson has spoken out against deepfakes in an interview with The Washington Post, They’ve published her comments verbatim, so I’d suggest clicking to read the whole thing — you can practically hear her throw up her arms in exasperation.
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How to Livestream the Times Square New Year's Eve Celebration
If you want to watch the ball drop tonight in New York City’s Times Square you have some options.
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Score Some Gr...Uh, Really Good Deals From GREATS' Winter Clearance Sale
You’ve probably seen an ad for GREATS on Facebook or Instagram, and I’m happy to report that they aren’t a scam. I own a pair of Royales, and it almost feels like an insult to call them sneakers, because they’re as well made and sturdy and unapologetically leather as any dress shoes I’ve ever owned. And yet, they are…
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The lazy moviegoer’s guide to the best streaming movies of 2018 - CNET
Those trailers looked so enticing, but if you never made it out to the cineplex, here’s your home list.
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Don't Store Your Leftover Champagne in the Fridge
If you have champagne leftover from tonight’s festivities, do you yourself a favor and take it out of the fridge in the morning.
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In season 3, Netflix’s Series of Unfortunate Events has a beautiful conclusion
Given the simple structure of A Series of Unfortunate Events’ plots, it must have been tempting for Netflix to try to extend the series as long as it could. Sure, author Daniel Handler only penned 13 books in the Unfortunate Events series, but the setup of his plot could inspire any number of additional schemes where the scheming Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) dons some ridiculous costume to try to steal the inheritance of the Baudelaire orphans. But series developers Mark Hudis and Barry Sonnenfeld took a disciplined approach to their adaptation, hewing closely to the novels’ plots, spirit, and timeline. The show’s third and final season, which premieres on January 1st, 2019, is a masterclass in how to build a faithful adaptation, and...
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Make 2019 the Year You Organize Your Pans With This $17 Rack
Believe it or not, you don’t have to suffer through a disorganized pots and pans cabinet. This rack is adjustable, so you can remove shelves to fit larger frying pans, and it’s just $17 with promo code 6IRPNCWM.
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See if You're Using These Popular Android Apps That Overshare Info to Facebook
A recent Privacy International study found that 42.55% of the free apps in Google Play could share data with Facebook, and many popular apps share data with Facebook the second they’re opened.
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Black Mirror Season 5 now coming in 2019, with more optimistic stories
Are you enjoying Bandersnatch, the first choose-your-own-adventure interactive episode of the oft-delightfully dystopian Black Mirror? Good, because it may be the only new episode you’ll be seeing for a while. Executive producer and co-creator Annabel Jones has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Bandersnatch took such an “enormous” amount of effort that it wound up pushing back Black Mirror’s fifth season.
Black Mirror Season 5 is now due in 2019, a Netflix spokesperson tells The Verge, without elaborating.
It’s not clear how long a wait we’re looking at. An entire year might make sense: The New York Times reports that showrunners spent a full year on the Bandersnatch episode alone, and the past few Black Mirror projects have each...
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How to Prepare for a No-Spend Month
If you’re planning to follow along with the handful of Lifehacker staffers participating in a No-Spend January, you’ll want to do a bit of preparation before you dive in.
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: Streaming music
Although music streaming has been an integral part of daily life for what seems like ages, both the music industry and tech companies have consistently and frustratingly been behind the curve. So in many ways, 2018 felt like the first year that both sectors embraced innovation in the world of music streaming in ways that will meaningfully affect its future. There were substantial developments on the consumer side, but this year was more impactful for artists, many of whom rely on streaming platforms as their bread and butter.
Some shifts can be attributed to the platforms themselves, as services like SoundCloud and Spotify waded into new territories like self-monetization. But the biggest change came from advocacy within the music...
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The Best Family Memoirs I Read This Year
I am something of a memoir junkie. I don’t exclusively read parenting memoirs (if you haven’t read The Shepherd’s Life or The Night of the Gun yet, I’m sad for you), but 2018 seems to have been The Year of the Parenting/Family Memoir for me.
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Turn Out the Lights On 2018 With These Philips Hue Deals
If you didn’t get all the Philips Hue lights you wanted for Christmas—or if you did and now find that you need to scratch that itch even more—Amazon’s discounted a few different Hue products today, with an extra 5% clippable coupon thrown in on top for good measure.
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Help Bail Someone Out Tonight for the Price of a Drink
We live in a country where if you have enough money, you can buy your way out of jail while you await trial. This is profoundly unjust to people who don’t have ready cash on hand. Today, for #FreeThePeopleDay, consider donating the cost of one New Year’s Eve cocktail to a bail fund.
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After a 20 year delay, works from 1923 will finally enter the public domain tomorrow
After a twenty year hiatus, tomorrow will finally see the 95 year long copyrights of works released in 1923 expire. These 1923 films, books and songs will effectively be the first to enter the public domain in the US since 1998, and Duke University notes that it will include such classics as Charlie Chaplin’s The Pilgrim, Jacob’s Room by Viginia Woolf, and the song Charleston (based on the popular dance of the same name).
Welcoming classic works to the public domain was an annual New Year’s Day tradition. Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 directorial debut, The Kid, became public on January 1st, 1997, and was joined by the 1922 German horror classic Nosferatu a year later. But in 1998, Congress extended the length of copyright from 75 years to...
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Teen scientist checks for alien lasers around famously weird star - CNET
A high school junior dug deep into the data on a mysteriously dimming star to search for evidence of a highly advanced civilization.
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Say 'Happy New Year' to Friends in Different Time Zones
It’s New Year’s Eve, and if you’re the kind of person who likes texting all of your friends when the clock hits midnight in their time zones (in addition to yours), that means you’re in for some mental math tonight. Those who are partying hard—or playing The Jackbox Party Pack, like I probably will be—probably aren’t…
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Faraday Future gets a lifeline as it settles months-long battle with Chinese investor
The war between electric car startup Faraday Future and its main investor, Chinese real estate conglomerate Evergrande, appears to be over. Evergrande announced on Monday that it has agreed to restructure its $2 billion investment in Faraday Future. The conglomerate will walk away with full control over Faraday Future’s efforts in China, and both sides will drop all ongoing litigation against each other, according to a release posted to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Faraday Future will receive a bridge loan from Evergrande to “overcome [the startup’s] cash flow difficulties,” spokesperson John Schilling said in an email. Those difficulties involve Faraday Future almost completely running out of cash over the last few months, which...
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Leaked video reveals new Nokia 9 PureView with five cameras
Leaks of a potential Nokia-branded phone with five cameras on the rear have been appearing for months, but a new video suggests that the device could be officially unveiled soon. Evan Blass first posted a photo of the rumored Nokia 9 PureView on Twitter earlier today, and now mysmartprice has published what looks like a promotional video for the unannounced device.
The Nokia 9 PureView looks very similar to the existing Nokia 8 Sirocco, except for the rear. The video shows off a wild penta-lens setup capable of five simultaneous shots and claims of improved efficiency in low-light situations and the ability to re-focus images after they’re taken. HMD also appears to be including a 5.99-inch “PureDisplay” with support for HDR10 and an...
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NASA New Horizons to photograph Ultima Thule in historic New Year's flyby - CNET
As 2019 nears, the New Horizons spacecraft is zooming toward mysterious space rock Ultima Thule on a historic flyby.
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The Best Podcast Episodes of 2018
I have 470 podcast episodes in my queue right now, after some paring down. There’s just too much good stuff to listen to: fiction, chat shows, history lessons, interviews, reported documentaries, weird semi-fiction. Of the hundreds of podcast episodes I listened to this year, these are the 15 that taught or…
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The 2019 Aston Martin Vantage wraps its twin-turbo heart in a gorgeous body video - Roadshow
Fabulous looks, a powerhouse engine and delightfully playful handling endear us to the new Vantage.
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Make Your New Year's Fitness Resolutions Simpler With These Discounted Adjustable Dumbbells
We don’t all have the motivation to schlep to the gym every day, even during New Year’s resolution season, but you can keep in shape at home with this cleverly designed PowerBlock dumbbell set. Each dumbbell adjusts from 2.5 to 50 pounds in 2.5 pound increments with just the flick of a selector pin. It’s like a…
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Why Not Soothe Your Baby With the Sweet Sounds of a Honda Engine?
If you’ve ever driven a baby around town simply because parking would mean waking her, then you know the power of a car’s ability to knock a kid out.
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: Headphones
Headphones did not have the most auspicious start to 2018. Back in January, it seemed like a diversity of competing voice assistants, wireless audio protocols, and idiosyncratic control schemes would lead to a fragmented mess of a market. Everyone wanted wireless headphones, and the providers of those devices were keen to establish some sort of a walled-garden effect around their particular product.
The demand for more technologically advanced headphones has only increased over the course of the year, however the threat of user-hostile competition among headphone makers has not materialized. In large part thanks to integrated wireless chips that bundle Bluetooth radios with the necessary voice assistant compatibility for both iOS and...
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Ryan Reynolds shares a behind-the-scenes peek at Detective Pikachu - CNET
Get a closer look at the main character in the upcoming live-action Pokemon movie.
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The Best Technology Guides of 2018
If I had to pick a theme to sum up technology in 2018, it would be “bother me less.” From social networks that collect way too much data to websites that leak your password to the world to the annual circus of hardware updates that feel less and less worthy of your hard-earned cash, it feels like now, more than ever,…
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Ask Kate About Beer: What’s the best way to pack beer for air travel?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beer but were too drunk to ask. Have a question? Shoot it to beer@thetakeout.com.
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The Best New Year's Eve Deals: Trail Mix, Adjustable Weights, Philips Hue Lights, and More
Round out 2018 with deals on Philips Hue lights, Anker charging gear, Amazon-branded trail mix, and a lot more.
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The Best 3-Ingredient Cocktails of 2018
Congratulations to everyone who made it to the end of 2018, I dare say you deserve a drink (or seven). If you’re still scrambling, trying to figure out how to toast this year into oblivion, calm yourself, and gaze upon the many good three-ingredient cocktails we made and enjoyed this year. There are a lot to choose…
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When Is a 'Small' Purchase Still Not Worth It?
When you read a lot of personal finance articles, you inevitably reach a point where you can’t buy a water bottle at the corner deli or buy gas without driving around to find something that’s two cents cheaper a gallon without feeling some sense of shame. Those are unnecessary purchases after all, and everyone knows…
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What Did You Think of the 2018 Fitness Challenges?
Before we head off into the land of hope and awesomeness that is 2019, we have a few hours left to take stock of how far we’ve come in the past year. I’m preparing next year’s fitness challenges and want to hear what you thought of the ones we just did. What did you love? What motivated you to keep going?
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Deadspin Dan Snyder Doesn’t Get It | The Slot Lawyer Who Filed Complaint Against Brett Kavanaugh Say
Deadspin Dan Snyder Doesn’t Get It | The Slot Lawyer Who Filed Complaint Against Brett Kavanaugh Says He Was ‘Like a Crazed Conspiracy Theorist’ | Splinter DoubleTree Fires Employees Who Evicted Guest for ‘Calling His Mom While Black’ | TV Club Outlander brings…
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Tell Us Your Best Cancún Travel Tips
Cancún is already pretty well-packaged for tourists. So this week’s Hack Your City is a challenge: what lays undiscovered in this young city? What has sprung up outside the crowded strip of beach resorts? And what tricks help locals get by in this tourist-dominated town?
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: The US government
In 2018, tech needed government more than ever. We were surrounded by problems that the industry couldn’t solve on its own, whether it was Russian trolls, growing monopoly fears, or the ever-escalating pace of cybersecurity failures.
Unfortunately, in the second year of undivided Republican control, the US government was too busy punching itself in the face. This year saw unprecedented dysfunction in even the most basic mechanisms of government, a point driven painfully home by the ongoing government shutdown (the third of the year) which has left thousands of government employees without a paycheck over the holidays. This year, tech policy largely took a backseat to immigration, taxes and the ongoing Mueller investigation, but whenever...
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2018 Honda N-One RS first drive review: Cutie with surprising booty - Roadshow
This adorable city car is fun to drive, affordable and can pack a shocking amount of junk in its trunk.
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Before the Concorde, there was 'the Concordski' - CNET
The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 beat the Concorde into the air by two months. But the supersonic plane would enjoy a far less successful career.
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Self-driving hotel room comes to you like an Uber video - CNET
This completely autonomous hotel room picks you up and drives you to your faraway destination.
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Cars we're most looking forward to driving in 2019 - Roadshow
The next 12 months has Roadshow editors eager for a pickup truck, a crossover and a lot of sports cars.
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What's Coming and Going From Netflix the Week of December 31, 2018
The end of year offerings from Netflix were grim, so it is with pleasure that I welcome the bumper crop of entertainment in this week’s harvest. We’ve got the full complement of Indiana Jones flicks arriving on Tuesday (I see we are now calling the first installment “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,”…
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Charge Smarter In 2019 With Amazon's New Year's Eve Anker Sale
Amazon’s bringing the year to a close with a Gold Box sale on several popular Anker products, spanning a variety of categories. The PowerPort Cube power strip was probably the biggest new hit with our readers this year, but who couldn’t use a new Qi pad, a 5-port charging hub, or a USB-C hub for their laptop? For the…
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7 New Year's tech resolutions - CNET
Follow these tips to make 2019 safer, easier, cheaper and just plain better.
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Hackers use a fake wax hand to fool vein authentication security
Vein authentication, a biometric security method that scans the veins in your hand, has been cracked, reports Motherboard. Using a fake hand made out of wax, Jan Krissler and Julian Albrecht demonstrated how they were able to bypass scanners made by both Hitachi and Fujitsu, which they claim covers around 95 percent of the vein authentication market. The method was demonstrated at Germany’s annual Chaos Communication Congress.
While imprints of fingerprints can often be left behind on surfaces just by touching them, vein patterns cannot, and are considered to be much more secure as a result. However, this wasn’t a problem for the researchers, who were able to copy their target’s vein layout from a photograph taken with an SLR camera...
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Top 5 rejected Top 5s of the year (2018 edition) video - CNET
Not every topic manages to get the full Top 5 treatment. Find out what could come next year and what will never see the light of day.
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2019 Aston Martin Vantage review: Beauty is a beast - Roadshow
Aston Martin uses lightweight architecture and Mercedes-AMG power to create its most playful sports coupe yet.
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Sunday 30 December 2018
Best iPhone XR cases - CNET
Need some protection for your new iPhone XR? Here's a bunch of top cases to check out, all of them compatible with wireless charging.
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Best iPhone XS and XS Max cases - CNET
Need some protection for your new XS or XS Max? Here are bunch of top cases to check out, all of them compatible with wireless charging.
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Best mobile games of 2018 - CNET
Looking for a new game to play on your phone or tablet? Here are our picks of the best mobile games.
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The 56 best Android games of 2018 - CNET
These are unequivocally the best Android games on the planet.
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Stan Lee's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse cameo will warm your heart - CNET
Spidey's co-creator offers some advice from beyond the grave.
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Google Doodle prepares to welcome 2019 with partying pachyderms - CNET
Google's traditional party animals show up for New Year's Eve.
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The 60 best iPhone games of 2018 - CNET
If you're all about the iPhone, these are some of the best games you can play.
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This USB Battery Pack Also Has An AC Outlet, and It's Never Been Cheaper
Portable battery packs with USB ports are a dime-a-dozen, but your options are a lot more limited if you need a portable AC outlet. The Jackery PowerBar though is a great option at a solid price.
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Use These Sample Letters From the USOPM to Contact Your Creditors if You're Furloughed
As we head into yet another week of the government shutdown, many furloughed government employees might be struggling with how they’re going to pay their bills.
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Remind Yourself to Take Breaks at Work With This Chrome Extension
We all know staring at a computer screen for hours on end is a bad idea, but that doesn’t stop us from doing it.
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Netflix says over 45 million accounts watched Bird Box — here’s what that means
Netflix announced on December 28 that more than 45 million accounts watched its Netflix original horror movie, Bird Box, in seven days, making it a record breaking debut for the streaming service — but considering Netflix rarely specifies what its data means, it was difficult to gauge what that number meant.
There are a lot of variables in Netflix’s statement. 45 million accounts doesn’t exactly translate to specific viewer counts, as an account could serve one person or an entire family. It’s also unclear from Netflix’s tweet how many people watched all of Bird Box (starring A-list actors like Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich) or even half of the movie, before switching to something else. Netflix famously doesn’t make its viewership...
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New York City cops will fly a drone over the New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square
For the first time ever, a police drone will keep a watchful eye on the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York’s Times Square, as first reported by the Associated Press. The New York City Police Department deployed the gadget to keep the festivities safe, in addition to the 7,000 police officers it has on deck, bomb-sniffing dogs, and 200 blocker trucks filled with sand.
The quadcopter drone will be controlled remotely by trained police and will help give a bird’s-eye view of the massive crowds, although it will be fairly hard for passersby to spot, given its height in the air. While the police commissioner has said that there are no known threats to the New Year’s festivities, it’s pretty standard protocol for the police to come out in...
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Quickly Figure Out Where You Can Stream Any Movie Using This App
Sometimes you really want to watch “Office Space,” or “High Fidelity,” or “Follow That Bird” — you just have to figure out where that can happen.
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: AR and VR
What standard, exactly, am I supposed to be judging virtual and augmented reality against in 2018? Should I measure it against the sci-fi aspirations that VR and AR companies set years ago and have unsurprisingly failed to meet? Should I estimate how far it remains from mainstream adoption? Or should I stick to comparing 2018 with 2017, when I gave VR a middling C grade and didn’t even talk about AR? Since I just went through the trouble of listing those options, my predictable answer is “all of the above.”
2018 was partly a year of disillusionment. Some prominent AR and VR companies, including Meta, Jaunt, and Starbreeze, either massively downsized or shifted their focus. As the head of CCP Games put it in October, a year after leaving...
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Amazon reportedly plans to build new Whole Foods Market stores - CNET
Expansion aims to expand reach of its speedy two-hour grocery delivery service.
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Amazon is reportedly bringing Whole Foods to US suburbs with Prime Now delivery
Amazon reportedly has plans to expand Whole Foods stores across the US into suburbs and other regions. It also wants to bring its two-hour delivery program Prime Now to all current Whole Foods stores, anonymous sources told the Wall Street Journal. The move would grow Whole Foods at a more rapid pace that it hasn’t seen before.
Whole Foods employees have already reportedly ventured to parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and southern Utah for potential retail spaces they could set up shop in. One anonymous source told the WSJ that these spaces were sometimes around 45,000 square feet, meaning they were slightly larger than the average Whole Foods store by 2,000 square feet. The potential expansion likely isn’t limited to just the Rocky Mountain...
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: Gadgets
Big Mouth Billy Bass with Alexa isn’t necessary the product of the year, but it’s one that symbolizes all the novelty trends that we saw in gadgets in 2018. In one item, the talking, singing fish represents nostalgia, DIY hackery, and corporations taking independent developer ideas and turning it to profit. These themes highlight the trends that led the world of gadgets this year, as nostalgia continues to influence products while simultaneously being a reflection of our bleak times.
In 2018, more classic products were re-released, we opted for gadgets that do less than before, and companies are determined to make us shop in person because experiential pop-ups are in now. This resurgence in nostalgic gadgets seems to be because...
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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in January
With 2019 just days away, it’s important to cherish the hope and optimism that comes with every new year. A fresh calendar brings a fresh start — one where anything is possible! And then, of course, after a couple of days of well-intentioned good behavior, it’ll be time to drop the ceremony and resume the rhythms of the previous year and just get on with life. But what’s the best way to forget that we’ve thrown all those noble intentions out the door? Watching streaming content, of course!
Netflix is kicking things off with the third season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and its latest series, a reboot of Carmen Sandiego. But while the focus for the company has been on original content...
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Sunday's Best Deals: Portable Power, Home Organization, Kindle Favorites, and More
Bowflex’s super popular adjustable dumbbells, electronics and accessories at Amazon, and GREATS on clearance are some of the best deals online today.
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All the science fiction and fantasy books we’re looking forward to in 2019
With 2018 in the rear-view mirror, 2019 lies ahead, bringing with it a ton of new science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels that will bring us to new worlds and introduce us to our next favorite characters.
2019 is shaping up to be a really exciting year for readers. There are books coming from authors that we’re huge fans of, and debuts from up-and-coming novelists that we can’t wait to delve into.
With that in mind, we’ve rounded up some of the upcoming books that we’re really excited to see on our bookshelves this year. And before you ask — yes, this could be the year that George R.R. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss get around to releasing their long awaited The Winds of Winter and The Doors of Stone, but they don’t have a release...
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How to watch as NASA sends a spacecraft past a rock at the edge of the Solar System
While you ring in the new year on Monday night, you can also watch along as NASA sends a spacecraft zooming by a tiny rock 4.1 billion miles from Earth. The space agency’s New Horizons probe, which flew by Pluto in 2015, is now going to fly past another object — a type of space rock we’ve never been to before. And it’s all happening just as we enter the year 2019.
Just like with the Pluto flyby, the New Horizons mission team is gathered at John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where they will monitor the spacecraft from the facility’s mission operations center. Live streams will show what the team is up to before and during the flyby, and mission scientists will be hosting press conferences to provide...
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2019 Hyundai Santa Fe can use a fingerprint instead of a key - Roadshow
Will the system work with a severed finger? Asking for some friends.
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The clock that will tick for 10 millennia video - CNET
This clock is supposed to work for 10,000 years and plays a unique chime that never repeats.
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2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class: Dusty, dirty and down-right delicious - Roadshow
There are plenty of galleries featuring a sparkling clean G-Class. This isn't one of them.
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The Verge 2018 tech report card: AI
As for much of the tech industry, 2018 has been a year of reckoning for artificial intelligence. As AI systems have been integrated into more products and services, the technology’s shortcomings have become clearer. Researchers, companies, and the general public have all begun to grapple more with the limitations of AI and its adverse effects, asking important questions like: how is this technology being used, and for whose benefit?
This reckoning has been most visible as a parade of negative headlines about algorithmic systems. This year saw the first deaths caused by self-driving cars; the Cambridge Analytica scandal; accusations that Facebook facilitated genocide in Myanmar; the revelation that Google helped the Pentagon train drone...
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Saturday 29 December 2018
Clean Your Holiday Decorations Before You Pack Them Up
Before you pack up all those holiday decorations do future-you a favor: clean them.
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Malware suspected of hobbling several newspapers' production - CNET
Virus interferes with publishing at Southern California printing plant.
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Samsung is reportedly making a budget Bixby-powered smart speaker
Samsung promised a Bixby-powered Galaxy Home smart speaker back in August, a premium device that could potentially compete against Apple’s HomePod and the Amazon Echo Plus. While that speaker still isn’t available and doesn’t have a set release date, the company is reportedly also planning a second Bixby speaker that comes in black and according to Sam Mobile, citing an anonymous source, may be a more affordable option that can compete with the likes of cheaper smart speakers.
The second Bixby speaker reportedly has the model number SM-V310, while the Galaxy Home is model number SM-V510, suggesting that there could always be more Bixby smart speakers down the line. There aren’t any known specs for the lower-end speaker yet, but it’s...
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How to Watch Every Ending of 'Black Mirror - Bandersnatch'
This morning Netflix launched Bandersnatch, a stand-alone episode of the popular ‘Black Mirror’ series.
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