extremetechlove: January 2019

Thursday 31 January 2019

YouTube’s reviewing mistake could cost Shane Dawson thousands of dollars

Shane Dawson’s new hour-and-a-half-long exploration of conspiracy theories was demonetized by YouTube for 12 hours — not because of its focus on conspiracy theories, but because of a reviewing mistake.

The new video from Dawson, one of YouTube’s most popular creators who has over 20 million subscribers, has amassed more than 7 million views since being posted last night. The video contained multiple ad spots when it was first published, but those ad placements disappeared only a couple of hours later. Although Dawson’s conspiracy series is sponsored, he didn’t receive any advertising revenue for those crucial hours.

Dawson’s video has since been remonetized, but it was originally cut off because it included a clip of footage showing a...

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Wake Word: A game about the ridiculous future of bad AI

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Dodge revives Sublime green paint job for Charger, Challenger in Chicago - Roadshow

Don't expect any beefier specs, just some head-turning flashiness.

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Last chance: Grab these 6 great Kindle e-books for under $3 - CNET

Today is your last chance to cash in on these deals.

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Intel's new CEO? It's Robert Swan, the guy who's been temping in the job - CNET

Swan stepped in after former CEO Brian Krzanich resigned in June 2018.

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Best FaceTime alternatives for video calls - CNET

While Apple's FaceTime popularized video calls on smartphones, there are plenty of other apps that now offer a top-notch experience.

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Is Your Daughter's Allowance the Same as Your Son's?

The gender wage gap isn’t just a problem the work force is grappling with; it starts at home with how you treat your kids.

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Microsoft’s Super Bowl ad is all about the Xbox Adaptive Controller

The Seattle Seahawks might not be at the Super Bowl this year, but Microsoft is returning after a four-year hiatus. The software giant is focusing on its Xbox Adaptive Controller this year, and the commercial includes the many ways this unique controller is used. Designed for gamers with disabilities, the controller has two large programmable buttons and 19 jacks that can be connected to various accessories to make Xbox and PC gaming far more accessible for a number of players. Even Microsoft’s packaging for the controller is designed to be as accessible as possible.

Microsoft’s two-minute slot tells the stories of a number of young gamers with disabilities and how the Adaptive Controller levels the playing field in Xbox games. It’s...

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Samsung begins US rollout of Android 9 Pie and One UI, but slowly

Samsung has just begun rolling out a promised update for the Galaxy S9 and S9+ that brings them up to the latest version of Android 9 Pie, and switches everything over to Samsung’s new interface, One UI. It began earlier this week “just for Xfinity Mobile customers,” as Android Police noted, which made for very a limited rollout indeed for the US, though the update has been coming to international customers for over a month.

US customers on other networks (or who have unlocked devices) will need to wait a bit longer. Samsung tells us that “the update for Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ and Galaxy Note9 will continue to roll out to other carrier providers in the coming days and weeks.” The Android OTA updates have hit Verizon and Sprint customers...

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Subaru teases all-new 2020 Legacy for Chicago with a big ol' screen - Roadshow

Almost all the physical buttons are gone.

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Samsung Galaxy S10 rumors and facts: Name confirmed, Feb. 20 launch, triple rear cameras, 5G and foldable display plus everything we know about specs, features and price - CNET

The name is now official -- but so many questions remain unanswered.

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Audi TT 20th Anniversary Edition sports slick OLED taillights - Roadshow

It pays homage to the original TTS Roadster concept from the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show.

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UltraViolet going dark on July 31 - CNET

The cloud video locker service primarily focused on serving up digital versions of your Digital HD and Blu-ray discs is facilitating content transfer to other services in the interim.

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Google+ pages will shut down on April 2 - CNET

Download any photos and videos you've put on Google's social network before then.

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Meet the Chromebooks of 2019 (so far) - CNET

As competition heats up and AMD enters the market, the Chromebook category continues its march toward the mainstream.

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Save $50 On An Instant Pot Today, If You Somehow Don't Own One Yet

If you keep telling yourself you should buy an Instant Pot, today’s the day to pull the trigger, as the 6 qt. Plus model is on sale for a whopping $50 less than usual, today only.

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SteelSeries’ new Stratus Duo mobile controller is here and ready for Fortnite

Tubi to stock up on more movies, TV series as it expands internationally - CNET

The free streaming service says it'll spend "over nine figures" on content in 2019.

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This Auto-Pausing Netflix Extension is a Must-Have for Chrome Users

One of my favorite Netflix tricks is a simple one. When you’re watching your favorite TV show on the streaming service within your web browser, not a standalone Netflix app, odds are good you’ll encounter opening credits and have to drag your mouse over and click the handy “skip intro” button to get going. I think…

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Intel’s interim CEO Bob Swan becomes permanent CEO

Intel’s new CEO is Bob Swan, the executive who has been leading the company on an interim basis for the past seven months and who joined as CFO in 2016. Intel’s prior CEO, Brian Krzanich, resigned last June after the company discovered he had violated policies with a “past consensual relationship” with an employee.

While Krzanich was an engineer, Swan mostly comes from a line of financial and investing roles. He was the CFO of eBay for nine years, starting in 2006. After leaving, he joined the venture capital firm General Atlantic, which has investments in Slack, Snap, Airbnb, and Uber (also Vox Media, this website’s parent company). Swan was also the CFO, COO, and — for four months — the CEO of Webvan, a grocery delivery startup that...

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Deadspin Anthony Davis Might Not Play Again This Season, For The Most Bullcrap Of Reasons | The Root

Deadspin Anthony Davis Might Not Play Again This Season, For The Most Bullcrap Of Reasons | The Root Sarah Sanders Said God ‘Wanted Donald Trump to Become President.’ God Responds | The A.V. Club Vikings’ fifth season ends as the sons of Ragnar close the book on their father’s legacy | Jezebel Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley…

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How America’s internet connectivity issues are holding the country back

Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford explains how America’s internet connectivity issues and corrosive infrastructure are holding the country back and how we can rally to fix it. She and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel also discuss the Huawei scandal, politicians’ roles in improving broadband internet, and her new book Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It.

You can listen to their discussion about the infrastructure of America’s internet in its entirety on The Vergecast right now. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from the interview.

Nilay Patel: The last time I talked to you, I think, was like 2007. It was the height of the net neutrality battle. You had just written a book about Comcast and NBC. I...

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See the first Nvidia RTX gaming laptops in action video - CNET

The new Asus Zephyrus GX701 features the powerful new Nvidia RTX 2080 Max Q graphics card.

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Festo built the desk of the future video - CNET

This ergonomic desk made by Festo has an AI powered arm that learns with you, letting you work like Tony Stark

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Don't Get Tricked Into Paying This Extra $40 Tax Return Fee

When you file your taxes online or with an agent, you’re usually given the option to deduct the cost of filing from your federal tax refund, if you can’t file for free.

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Dive Into Your Taxes With Amazon's Big H&R Block Software Discounts

Tax season is upon us, and if H&R Block’s Deluxe + State software is right for you (you can use this tool to find out), Amazon’s currently discounting it to just $22, or about half its usual $45 price tag.

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Snap has quietly invested in Fruit Ninja creator's latest project - CNET

Snapchat's maker may have fallen out of favor with younger users, but financial documents hint that it's trying a new strategy.

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Fake news spotter: How to enable Microsoft Edge's NewsGuard - CNET

Microsoft's mobile browser is stepping up the fight against fake news sites.

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Criterion streaming service launches April 8 in US, Canada - CNET

You'll have access to a bunch of movies and other programming on The Criterion Channel.

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Sprint posts loss as it awaits a T-Mobile lifeline - CNET

Phone customers are also jumping ship.

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Nintendo's Mario Kart mobile game delayed until summer - CNET

Mario Kart Tour hit a banana skin on its road to launch.

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Facebook in trouble with Apple, Wisconsin Foxconn plant refocuses video - CNET

Today's major tech stories include Facebook new trouble with Apple, free WiFi for Apple Music on American Airlines flights and new plans for the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.

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Google invented the AI version of a Hallmark card

I don’t have the time, energy, or attention span to give every email a thoughtful reply.

It’s a problem Google has been trying to solve with a Gmail feature called Smart Replies, the automatically generated, prewritten responses that pop up when you’re composing an email. But I worry these simple responses will make us lazy and our language homogeneous. Email’s terrible, but do I now need to worry about it destroying language and cratering our relationships, too?

Most short email responses aren’t carefully written as it is, so we aren’t exactly losing out on poetry, says Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics emerita at American University and author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. “We like to assume that...

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How to responsibly get rid of the stuff you’ve decluttered

So you’ve chosen everything that gives you joy and now you have all those bags of tech, clothing, books, and other stuff that you need to get rid of. Where do you go from here?

First, keep in mind that just dumping it isn’t an option. Reusing and recycling old and unneeded stuff has become an important aspect of the push to preserve the world’s environment — to the point that junk food manufacturers are testing reusable packaging. Many states and urban areas are mandating the recycling of tech, metals, paper goods, or other substances, but even if you live in an area where the law doesn’t require it, you probably don’t want to add more to the world’s trash.

The problem is finding how and where you can get rid of your stuff with the...

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The Best Copenhagen Travel Tips From Our Readers

Get hygge with it! Has anyone crocheted that into an afghan yet? The trendy Danish word for coziness is pronounced “hoo-guh” but we do not care! This week Hack Your City covered Denmark’s coastal capital Copenhagen. Here’s what we learned from our commenters:

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How AI is changing photography

If you’re wondering how good your next phone’s camera is going to be, it’d be wise to pay attention to what the manufacturer has to say about AI. Beyond the hype and bluster, the technology has enabled staggering advances in photography over the past couple of years, and there’s no reason to think that progress will slow down.

There are still a lot of gimmicks around, to be sure. But the most impressive recent advancements in photography have taken place at the software and silicon level rather than the sensor or lens — and that’s largely thanks to AI giving cameras a better understanding of what they’re looking at.

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LG rumored to unveil 5G-enabled V50 alongside G8 next month

LG’s previous V-line phone, the V40 (above), dropped last fall.

Next month’s Mobile World Congress is shaping up to be an interesting one for LG, with the South Korean company now rumored to be unveiling two handsets at the show: the LG G8 ThinQ and a second, higher-end, 5G-enabled device, possibly the LG V50 ThinQ 5G.

This latter rumor comes from Korea’s ETNews, which says the LG V50 will feature a 6-inch display, 7nm Snapdragon 855 chipset with vapor-chamber cooling, and 4,000mAh battery. More importantly, says ETNews, it’ll have a 5G modem.

If the V50 does land at MWC, it’ll be arriving sooner than expected. The V40 and its five cameras only launched last fall, and we weren’t expecting an update to LG’s highest-end line until the same time this year. But, speeding up the launch cadence would make...

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Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us

Programming note: I’m on assignment tomorrow and Friday. The Interface will return on Monday.

At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program revealed on Tuesday by TechCrunch. Effective immediately, the company said, the program would end on Apple devices. It also took issue with some of the language in TechCrunch’s report:

“Key facts about this market research program are being ignored,” the company said. “Despite early reports, there was nothing ‘secret’ about this; it was literally called the Facebook Research App. It wasn’t ‘spying’ as all of the people who signed up to participate went through a clear on-boarding process asking for their permission and were paid to...

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Alphabet’s Loon sets its sights on the satellite industry

Satellite company Telesat will use Loon’s networking software to manage Low Earth orbit constellations

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Checking the tech in the 2019 Ford Ranger video - Roadshow

Ford stuffs tons of tech into its newest midsize truck.

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2019 Mercedes-Benz C300 stays the course to good effect - Roadshow

With some new tech and a mostly new engine, the C300 plots a steady course ahead in a popular segment.

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2019 Ford Ranger review: A midsize truck champ - Roadshow

It’s been eight long years since the midsize Ford Ranger has graced our shores. Thanks be to the truck gods, it’s back.

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Midsize king: The 2019 Ford Ranger video - Roadshow

The Ranger does it all and does it well.

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Ultraviolet digital movie locker is shutting down

Ultraviolet, one of the entertainment industry’s first attempts at creating a comprehensive digital locker service, is shutting down on July 31st, according to Variety. Users of the service should link their libraries to the service of at least one retailer which can then be used to access their films and TV shows after the shutdown.

Ultraviolet’s days were numbered ever since Disney, the only major Hollywood studio not to join, launched its expanded Movies Anywhere locker service in 2017. Not only did it offer broad studio support, it could also be connected to major digital retailers like iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play, unlike Ultraviolet.

Walmart’s Vudu, the biggest retailer to support Ultraviolet (and later Movies Anywhere),...

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Beer appreciation starts with these 6 essential books

New beer books hit shelves every year, and I try to read as many as possible. They run the gamut: deep dives into specific beer styles, historical investigations, technical manuals for exacting homebrewers. If you bought every beer book you see online, you’d have a small library’s worth. But truthfully, the average…

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The Muse Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Is Almost as Cruel as It Is Boring | Dead

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Five Sports Detergents For Every Kind Of Gross Workout Gear

Here we are at the end of January, and if you’re a person who’s adopted a new or revived workout habit you’re probably realizing that along with a new gym habit comes a need for some new laundry habits too. One way to manage a lot of stinky workout clothes to wash is to invest in a dedicated sport detergent. There are…

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How to Stay Sane With Kids During the Polar Vortex

News reports are saying the polar vortex hitting much of the United States this week is bringing temperatures that are the coldest in a generation. Which means our kids have the potential to be the most stir-crazy in a generation. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

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Spark Joy With This Discounted Battery Organizer

It’s...it’s beautiful. I’ve always kept my batteries loose and scattered across like three different drawers, but this organizer is surely better. It even has a built in battery tester to make it easier to know which batteries need to be recharged or recycled. At $16, it’s also never been cheaper.

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What Are 'Frost Quakes'?

Temperatures across the United States plummeted today, with parts of the Midwest experiencing wind chills of 40, 50, even 60 degrees below zero—and that’s in Fahrenheit. As if frozen pipes and frostbite weren’t dangerous enough, some folks are learning about one of the rarer, scarier side effects of super-cold…

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How to Date When You Have Food Allergies

Dating’s hard enough. Add a severe food allergy and the prospect of a swollen air passage in the middle of a date, and not only have you found the holy grail of romantic disasters, but you’ve landed square on it and without a parachute.

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Automakers Need to Stop Doing This Sneaky Pricing Trick on Their Websites

When it comes to deciding on a new car, price isn’t everything. But it’s a big one. Almost everyone researches car online and even use an automaker’s website to configure a car with the options and features they want before going into the dealer. The problem is that some brands are a little bit sneaky about posting…

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Block Out the World With These $40 Active Noise-Canceling Headphones

You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to enjoy the benefits of noise canceling headphones: TaoTronics’ latest noise canceling over-ears are down to just $40 today with promo code 2SI6REVL and when you clip the coupon on the page.

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How to Check If Your Kid Is Using Facebook's 'Banned' Research App

As you’ve probably heard by now, Facebook—in its infinite wisdom—has been running a program that pays your kid (aged 13 to 35) a whopping $20 worth of gift cards each month in exchange for near-unlimited access to the data on their Apple or Android devices. By installing a custom root certificate, Facebook can see…

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How to Upgrade Your Salad Sandwich

Chicken, tuna, and egg salad sandwiches can inspire two wildly different sets of emotions. They’re either deliciously restorative and nostalgic, or sad, boring, and reminiscent of bleak desk lunches (similar to fluorescent lighting). The key components never change—it’s the details that make these sandwiches great.

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When to Hire Someone to Do Your Taxes

Advancements in tax software make it easier to file your taxes without the help of a professional, as does this year’s increased standard deduction and simplified 1040. But there are still plenty of circumstances when you’d want to hire someone.

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How Was Your Month of Jump Rope?

Well, friends, our month of jumping rope has come to an end. How did you like it? Did anybody count their cumulative number of jumps for the month? (I didn’t, but I wish I had thought of that.)

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Upgrade to a Big, Honkin' TV In Time For Sunday With a Trio of Deals

There’s a big, important football game this Sunday, and if your piddly old TV just won’t cut it, there’s still time to upgrade to a 65" behemoth. Three different sets are on sale at Walmart right now from three solid manufacturers.

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How to Help the Homeless During the Polar Vortex

A Polar Vortex is descending upon the midwest, making parts of it literally colder than Mars. This is a potentially life-threatening weather pattern that holds particular danger for people without housing. Here’s how you can help.

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Tips For Playing Kingdom Hearts III

I played all the way through Kingdom Hearts III. I played it extremely underleveled. I did this because I love a challenge and because I was in a hurry. I also did this for you: my struggle forced me to play the game well. That means, buddy, I got tips.

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You Can Skip These Oscar-Nominated Movies

You haven’t seen Bohemian Rhapsody!? That’s fine. The Lifehacker staff gathered our collective 2018 movie-watching experience, and named the Oscar-nominated movies that you can safely skip—including ones we ourselves did not even watch. You can actually safely skip any movie, ever, that’s how entertainment works. But…

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Live: Ask Daniel Post Senning Your Modern Etiquette Questions [Update: Finished]

We’re live with etiquette expert Daniel Post Senning until 2 PM Eastern! As host of the podcast Awesome Etiquette, author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online, and the great-great-grandson of Emily Post herself, Daniel is more than qualified to help you navigate the nuances of manners in the age of…

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Help Federal Workers by Donating to Diaper Banks

Although federal workers who’ve gone all month without a paycheck during the government shutdown are expected to be paid this week, diaper banks are still working tirelessly to distribute diapers to their families.

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Wednesday's Best Deals: Weighted Blankets, Uniqlo Cashmere, Balsamic Vinegar, and More

Note: You might notice that today’s main post looks a little different. Now, you can find the best deals from today specifically at the top. The Flood, along with some other great deals you may have missed from earlier, are down below. Happy browsing!

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All Our Favorite Super Bowl Snacks

I’ve heard tell of a big sporting event this weekend and, if you plan on gathering people to watch it at your home, you are going to need some snacks. Luckily, we have a lot of those around here.

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Nintendo delays Mario Kart mobile game until summer

We’ve heard basically nothing about Mario Kart Tour, the upcoming smartphone entry in the banana-flinging racing game series, since Nintendo announced it exactly a year ago. The game was pegged for a release before the end of March 2019, but it turns out it’s not ready — Nintendo is delaying it til summer.

The decision has been made “in order to improve quality of the application and expand the content offerings after launch,” according to a statement contained within Nintendo’s quarterly earnings released today. It’s the second major Nintendo title hit with a delay this month; last week the company announced that the much-anticipated Metroid Prime 4’s development is being completely rebooted.

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Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast despite strong holiday season

Nintendo had the best quarter ever for Switch sales, with 9.41 million consoles moved between October and December, a 30 percent improvement on a year ago. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokémon: Let’s Go were also both massive hits, at 12.08 million and 10 million units sold respectively. Super Mario Party performed well, too, selling 5.3 million copies.

Despite the huge numbers, though, Nintendo almost certainly won’t be able to hit its self-imposed target of 20 million Switch consoles sold this financial year. The current amount sold since April is 14.49 million units, but last year Nintendo sold just under two million. Accordingly, the company has revised its forecast down to 17 million units for the fiscal year.

Switch sales...

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Vaping may help some people quit cigarettes, but what about the nicotine?

E-cigarettes helped more people quit smoking than traditional nicotine replacement therapy did, a new study says — but vapes aren’t a miracle cure for nicotine addiction. Most of the smokers who tried vaping were still smoking cigarettes by the end of the trial, and most of the vapers who did manage to quit smoking continued to vape a year later.

The new study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, reports that 18 percent of smokers who switched to e-cigarettes had given up cigarettes after a year. That’s more than the 9.9 percent of people who stopped smoking using conventional quitting aids like the patch, gum, lozenges, or inhalers. The results add weight to the claims that e-cigarettes could help some people...

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No, Elon, the Navigate on Autopilot feature is not ‘full self-driving’

Samsung reports big fall in profit but expects Galaxy S10 to ‘prop up’ performance

Samsung Electronics has turned in an earnings report in line with its guidance, as happens every quarter. The difference this quarter, though, is that the guidance was unexpectedly bad, and so as predicted the company’s 10.8 trillion-won (~$9.7 billion) operating profit is down 29 percent year on year. Revenue dropped 10 percent from a year earlier to 59.27 trillion won ($53.3 billion), slightly on the high end of Samsung’s provided range.

Samsung says its earnings were primarily affected by falling demand for memory chips, usually its biggest profit driver, as well as slowing smartphone shipments and increased competition for mobile displays. The company doesn’t expect demand for memory to pick up this quarter, either, and is warning of...

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Stephen King’s The Stand is headed to CBS All Access

Another adaptation of a Stephen King series is headed for a streaming service. This time, it’s his classic novel The Stand, which CBS All Access has greenlit for a 10-episode series, according to CBS.

The Stand is arguably one of King’s best-known novels, a sprawling, post apocalyptic work set in the aftermath of a plague that wipes out most of the world’s population. The novel follows the breakdown of society and the efforts of a small band of survivors who seek to establish a new society led by a 108-year-old who is the embodiment of “good,” and face off against a rival faction headed by a malevolent leader.

This isn’t the first time that the novel has been adapted: ABC aired an eight-hour miniseries way back in 1994, and there have...

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Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot will premiere April 1st on CBS All Access

CBS has set a premiere date for Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone: April 1st. The first two episodes will premiere on CBS All Access, with new episodes to follow each Thursday.

Peele will be one of the show’s executive producers, and he will also host and narrate the show. The timing is apt, as CBS All Access’s other big science fiction revival show, Star Trek: Discovery, should be wrapping up its second season in April, giving subscribers another reason to hang onto their subscription for a bit longer.

Created in 1959 by Rod Sterling, the original Twilight Zone has endured as a classic science fiction anthology series, with each science fiction, fantasy, or horror episode playing out a self-contained, moralistic story, often...

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Facebook’s combined messaging system won’t arrive this year

Measles are coming back because of vaccination loopholes

Yet another measles outbreak is endangering children — this one in Washington state. Of the 37 people already infected in this outbreak, at least 32 weren’t vaccinated against measles, and 35 were under 18 years old. Experts say this outbreak was easy enough to predict, and could have been prevented if more children in the area were vaccinated. The situation raises the question — how many more kids will get sick before vaccination rates increase?

Measles has been flaring up around the world, with outbreaks in the US cropping up in New York, New Jersey, and now, Washington state. Last year, 349 people were infected with measles — making it the second-worst measles year since 2000, when health officials determined that the disease had...

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Google disables app that monitored iPhone usage in violation of Apple’s rules

Google just disabled a private iOS app that monitored users’ iPhone usage, after it was revealed today that the app violated Apple’s distribution policies in the same way that Facebook’s usage-tracking Research app did.

Called Screenwise Meter, the iOS and Android app gave users who opted into Google’s Opinion Rewards program gift cards in exchange for tracking their internet usage data. The iOS version of the app relied on Apple’s enterprise program, which allows for the distribution of apps with special privileges to be used only by a company’s employees. The app has now been disabled on iOS, though it’s still available on Google’s Play Store.

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Apple FaceTime bug prompts investigation from NY attorney general - CNET

The probe is focused on Apple's response to the eavesdropping vulnerability.

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Mercedes-Benz gives a guy god-like powers in its 2019 Super Bowl ad - Roadshow

It's a great commercial, and we love the A-Class but we have serious concerns about what happens to Free Willy, and Ludacris.

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Elon Musk announces Tesla's CFO departure during earnings call - Roadshow

The news sent shares prices dropping by 5.9 percent in late trading.

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Tesla's Model Y could be closer to a debut than we thought - Roadshow

CEO Elon Musk surprised everyone with some Model Y stats during Tesla's Q4 earnings call.

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Lyft and Juno sue NYC over driver pay rules - CNET

The ride-hailing companies say new minimum-wage calculations give Uber an unfair advantage. But drivers aren't happy about the lawsuits.

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Volkswagen teases electric dune buggy concept to debut at Geneva Motor Show - Roadshow

Looks like VW is bringing the dune buggy into the 21st century.

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Samsung sees slow phone sales too, but has hopes for Galaxy S10 debut - CNET

It's not just Apple struggling in today's smartphone market.

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Senators to Facebook: We want answers on data collecting app - CNET

The social media giant is under fire for getting teens to download a tracking app.

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The Twilight Zone reboot: How to watch, release date, cast and more - CNET

Cast news is trickling in for the Jordan Peele-fronted remake of the classic TV series that kicks off April 1, with Jessica Williams and Ike Barinholtz among the latest additions.

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Facebook earnings, user base jump even as scandals grow - CNET

CEO Mark Zuckerberg also oversees a jump in sales and profit.

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Fortnite is hosting a live DJ Marshmello concert in the game - CNET

After some pretty major leaks, it appears DJ Marshmello will be playing Pleasant Park live on Saturday.

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UAE's 'Karma' hack tool spied on iPhones just by sending a text, report says - CNET

Spies for the United Arab Emirates stole photos and messages without victims needing to click anything, Reuters reports.

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Tesla's still profitable, but big challenges await it in 2019 - Roadshow

Tesla's Q4 earnings report shows that things are looking up for the EV maker, but 2019 will be a pivotal year.

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Qualcomm reaches interim licensing agreement with Huawei - CNET

The chipmaker also tells investors it's still trying to settle an antitrust case with the FTC.

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Next iPhone may swap Lightning port for USB-C, have three rear cameras - CNET

A new report claims Apple's next iPhone may have a 3D rear-camera powered by lasers and that the company is looking to replace its Lightning port.

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Super Bowl 2019 ads we've seen so far - CNET

Harrison Ford goes to the dogs, Buffy fights bad skin and 2 Chainz won't keep his receipts.

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iPhone 11 rumors: Price, specs, features and everything else we know - CNET

Apple's competition in 2019 will have 5G, foldable screens and powerful cameras. Can the iPhone keep up?

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Danger noodles? Scientists gleefully 'unscience' their favorite animals - CNET

Flappy flaps. Boopers. Food hole. These are definitely not rigorous scientific descriptions of animal anatomy.

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Xbox Live outage temporarily broke a bunch of Xbox One consoles - CNET

When your console needs the internet to do anything, it can't do anything without the internet.

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Google's data-gathering app may have also violated Apple's policies - CNET

The search giant took advantage of a program from Apple designed for internal app distribution.

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Watch this robot play Jenga video - CNET

Researchers at MIT used a new method of machine learning to teach a robot the classic building game Jenga.

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Argo AI can now test self-driving cars in California - Roadshow

The company, which counts Ford among its investors, received the permit to do so this week.

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Better Bluetooth: 2 apps for using AirPods with a Mac - CNET

Let your Mac and AirPods make beautiful music together.

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Apple worker charged with stealing self-driving-car secrets for China - Roadshow

This is the second such case within a year.

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Wednesday 30 January 2019

Americans were slammed with more than 26 billion robocalls last year - CNET

A new report from Hiya shows robocalls were on the rise in 2018.

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Ram 3500 heavy-duty pickup finally gets EPA certification post-shutdown - Roadshow

The 2500 received the green light prior to the shutdown, but the 3500 didn't.

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Man gets 5 years in prison for 'global cell phone fraud scheme' - CNET

He and his partners stole access to thousands of phone accounts and used their information to make international calls, the Justice Department said.

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Foxconn may shelve plan to make LCD panels at $10B Wisconsin factory - CNET

The iPhone supplier intends to hire engineers and researchers, not manufacturing workers, according to Reuters.

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Get Paid $10,000 to Move Your Family to Italy

Why spend just three months in Italy when you can live there indefinitely (and get paid a few thousand dollars for it, too)?

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The AI video game character that influenced an industry

The current wave of virtual assistants owes a lot to a sidekick from one of the most popular video games of all time. The release of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001 introduced Master Chief’s AI partner Cortana, popularizing a lot of the common characteristics that are now shared by real-world AI helpers. Cortana was a friendly, helpful female voice in your ear, one who blurred the line between companion and digital tool. She sounded an awful lot like Siri — and she did it a decade before virtual assistants became indispensable features of our smartphones and homes.

Halo didn’t invent the concept of an AI helper. It’s been a staple of science fiction for years, with the likes of the shipboard computer in Star Trek: The Next Generation and...

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The Midwest is colder than Antarctica, Alaska, and Siberia right now

Saying that the upper half of North America is cold right now would be like saying that the Sun is hot. A polar vortex has caused extremely cold winds to sweep across the country, promising record-low temperatures, with highs still well below freezing.

How cold is that? Not that many places are likely to beat the coldest inhabited place on Earth, Oymyakon in Russia, which is expected to see lows in the negative 40s Fahrenheit this week. But plenty of Midwestern cities are going to be chillier than areas in the Arctic, Antarctic, and even other planets. Here is a list of places that will be warmer than the Midwest over the next couple of days.

Alaska
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