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Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Patreon is raising fees for new creators next week — but not for existing users

If you’re interested in starting a Patreon campaign for your art, videos, or other creative work, you should join this week before the crowdfunding company raises its rates. Patreon announced a new payment plan structure in March, and on May 7th, it will start charging a higher commission for access to popular features. But the new rates won’t apply to anybody who’s already using the platform.

Patreon currently takes 5 percent of its users’ earnings, and it has one service tier, which lets creators accept recurring payments from fans, offer different backing tiers with special perks, and link their Patreon accounts to platforms like Discord and Itch.io. Starting on May 7th, new users will choose between three options. For 5 percent,...

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Google sit-in: Workers protest alleged company retaliation after walkout - CNET

Some of the search giant’s employees say they're being unfairly targeted.

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Mueller report: How to read the doc online or download the PDF for free - CNET

The special counsel's report on Russia's interference in 2016 US presidential election is now available and could further sharpen the partisan divide.

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Tesla hit with lawsuit over fatal California crash involving Autopilot - Roadshow

The complaint also lists California's Department of Transportation as a defendant.

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Caavo remote gives Sonos a screen on your TV, lowers price to $60 - CNET

The bad news? The service fee is going up to $4 per month.

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Don’t panic: NASA is just simulating a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact this week

Anyone who has been following the European Space Agency’s Twitter account over the past week may have gotten a small scare when the organization started tweeting about an “enormous asteroid” that’s on track to hit our planet in 2027.

The good news is that’s not actually going to happen.

ESA is just one of many space agencies and organizations participating in a simulated scenario of what would happen if humans did discover a massive asteroid heading our way. It’s an exercise that NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and others do every year to figure out how the world should respond to such a terrifying event. It’s coordinated through NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, which is hosting a conference this week that’s...

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Wednesday's Best Deals: Google Home Hub, Ecovacs, JetBlue Sale, and More

A major Google Home Hub sale at Walmart, Ecovacs, and a $44 JetBlue sale lead off Wednesday’s best deals.

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How to See Beyond the 'Money FOG'

If you let fear, obligation, or guilt control your decisions about money, you’re stuck in the Money FOG.

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Google and Nest products are discounted for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 12th, in the US, so you still have plenty of time to think up the perfect gift idea. In terms of what you should buy, only you know your mom best, but a device from Google’s discounted Home smart speaker lineup or a Nest device may be appealing. While these aren’t the best deals that we’ve seen, they’re still decent savings if you think your mom will be interested in a smart home upgrade. We’ve also listed a few other deals below that might be a perfect fit for your mom, and others that may be more suited to your own tastes.

Google Home is $99 (usually $149.99) at Walmart, Best Buy, and Google Store
Google Home Max is $299 (usually $399) at Walmart, Best Buy, and Google Store
Google Home Hub is $99...

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Google is adding useful widgets called Tiles to Wear OS smartwatches

Google has spent the last year refining its Wear OS smartwatch software to make everything feel simpler, more intuitive, and easier to use. The improvements have gone a long way in making Wear OS feel smoother and more useful. Today, Google is announcing another new addition: Tiles. Tiles are glanceable widgets that you can swipe between to get information quickly, including the weather, your next calendar appointment, your heart rate, news headlines, etc.

You access Tiles with a left swipe on your Wear OS watchface, which previously took you to Google Fit. Your Fit data is still in that spot, but now you’ll have these other widgets available to you as well.

“With a swipe left, you’ll be greeted by these Tiles and can check your...

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Google's new Wear OS update adds a suspiciously Samsung-like feature - CNET

Swipable "tiles" add widgets to the watch.

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SEC commissioner isn't exactly pleased with settlement over Elon Musk tweets - Roadshow

Friday's settlement means Musk avoids a contempt charge, but he's still under plenty of scrutiny.

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Google Pixel 3a XL leak puts camera right in your face - CNET

The rumored phone might make an appearance at Google I/O.

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10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in May

I picked up two books about the modern state of Star Wars recently. The first is Making Solo: A Star Wars Story by Industrial Light and Magic supervisor Rob Bredow. The book is an exhaustive behind-the-scenes look at how the last Star Wars movie came together through Bredow’s photographs, looking at the locations, actors, props, and special effects process. It also wasn’t the exhaustive look in the vein of J.W. Rinzler’s trilogy of books for the original films, neatly sidestepping the drama that occurred during production.

The second book is Star Wars After Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy by Dan Golding. It’s an in-depth analysis of the new generation of films and how Disney has rebooted the franchise, although it...

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New York state is allowing early vaccination for infants to combat measles outbreaks

As the number of measles cases in the United States has surged, some officials are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated sooner rather than later. Normally, kids would get their first measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine when they’re about a year old, but given the rise in cases, babies in areas with ongoing measles outbreaks may be able to get theirs earlier in an effort to keep some of the youngest and most vulnerable members of those communities safe.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday that the number of people infected with measles in the US continues to climb, reaching 704 as of April 26th. That’s the highest case count since 1994, and 2019 still has eight months remaining for that...

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How to Prevent Google from Saving Your Voice Recordings

The unfortunate trade-off of a smart speaker is clear: for the convenience of having something to yell at that can tell you what the weather is, what the traffic is like, and whether your front door is unlocked or not (to name a few items), you have to give up your privacy to a giant corporate entity.

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Dutch to selfie-obsessed: You're trampling our tulips - CNET

Tulips are reportedly getting crushed in the quest for selfies.

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iPad 2 joins Apple's graveyard of obsolete products - CNET

The days of the iPad 2 have drawn to a close.

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Snap’s big plan to turn Snapchat into a gaming platform

It’s an inevitability: if a platform gets big enough, eventually, it’ll support video games. It happened to the iPhone and Facebook, and now it’s happening to Snapchat. Early last month, Snap announced its first original game, Bitmoji Party, along with a handful of titles from third-party developers. It wasn’t exactly a surprising announcement, given that games are overwhelmingly the top-grossing form of mobile app; even platforms like Facebook Messenger are trying to get in.

But succeeding with a game on mobile is hard, and that challenge is only increasing as the space becomes more saturated. Snap’s solution? Going in a slightly different direction that leans into the company’s playful persona. Will Wu, Snap’s director of product and...

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The Cuisinart Griddler grill and panini press is a steal at $40 - CNET

That's a fantastic deal on one of my favorite kitchen appliances. Plus: Score a first-gen Amazon Echo for only $38.

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Hulu hits 28 million subscribers - CNET

All those megadeals make a difference.

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8 foods you shouldn't cook in your slow cooker - CNET

A slow cooker plus these foods equals a culinary disaster.

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Cryptocurrency scams and thefts siphon off $1.2B in early 2019 - CNET

Old-era problems afflict new-era finance, CipherTrace's quarterly report concludes.

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Netflix now sounds better when you watch it - CNET

A car cash in Stranger Things 2 prompted Netflix to improve the quality of its audio streaming.

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Porsche heads to Road America to capture another lap record - Roadshow

As if you needed more evidence that the GT2 RS is a monster.

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Hulu greenlights two new Marvel shows: Ghost Rider and Helstrom - CNET

Also Chrissy Teigen will have a cooking show with Momofuku's celebrity chef, David Chang.

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Play Karaoke Videos for Your Kid Who Loves Music but Hates Reading

Some kids are natural bookworms, happy to spend hours of their day curled up in a comfy chair with a stack of chapter books. And some kids are, well, not.

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High-wattage USB-C batteries can keep your laptop charged on the go

These batteries can nearly do it all

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Ghost Rider and Helstrom are Hulu’s next two live-action Marvel shows

Moment overhauls its camera app with even more manual controls

Moment has updated its iOS and Android camera apps with a swathe of new features to give you both more control and more information about your photos and videos. What started as little more than a software companion to Moment’s range of smartphone lenses has since evolved into a capable camera app in its own right. With today’s update, Moment has gained more of the features of other advanced camera apps like the iOS-exclusive Halide and Filmic Pro.

Both the iOS and Android versions of the Moment app are getting new visual cues designed to show you which areas of your image are correctly exposed and in focus. Zebra stripes show any under or over-exposed parts of an image, while focus peaking shows which areas of the image are sharp.

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Caavo drops price of Control Center, adds Sonos support and parental controls

Caavo is making several software improvements today to its Control Center, a voice-driven box that acts as a universal remote for all of your home theater devices. Before I get to those, it’s worth highlighting that the company is also changing up the product’s pricing structure. The Control Center device will now cost $59.95 (down from $99.95). But the mandatory service plans are going up in price: paying monthly will now be $3.99 / month (previously $1.99), the annual plan jumps to $39.99 (from $19.99), and lifetime service will now run $129.99, whereas it was previously $59.99.

These subscriptions are required for the Caavo’s core features like voice commands and universal search to work. You can buy the Control Center and ignore the...

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Huawei is reportedly preparing a 5G 8K TV for later this year

Huawei is planning to release an 8K 5G TV by the end of this year, a new report from Nikkei claims. According to sources familiar with the company’s plans, the set would include a 5G modem to allow it to stream remote content directly without the need for a cable box or fixed-line internet connection, and it could even act as a router for other internet-connected devices in your home.

Pairing a fast 5G connection with an 8K display could theoretically be a way of overcoming the difficulties of streaming data-heavy 8K content without requiring a high-speed fixed-line internet connection at home. Along with 8K, Nikkei speculates that the TV’s 5G connection could also let them stream 360-degree videos, although that sounds like an...

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DuckDuckGo wrote a bill to stop advertisers from tracking you online

Online advertising has never been more invasive or more inescapable. A single site or app might carry dozens of trackers, building a detailed profile of who you are and what you do online. After Cambridge Analytica and countless other data privacy scandals, the danger of those profiles is clear — but no one in the tech industry or in government seems to know what to about it.

Now, an old answer to that problem is making a surprise comeback, drawing on years of nearly discarded work. Today, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg is mounting a new campaign to revive the Do Not Track standard, a privacy system first introduced ten years ago and largely abandoned by the industry in the years since. Weinberg has developed a draft bill titled “The...

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iPhone 11 might have cool new Touch ID feature - CNET

Apple's patent suggests you'll be able to unlock your phone by touching anywhere on the screen.

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3 ways to get your lights to turn on when you get home video - CNET

You'll never walk into a dark house again.

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Facebook's Oculus Quest heralds VR's next gen, but will we buy in? - CNET

The $399 virtual reality headset, shipping May 21, is being positioned as the industry's first true mass-market product.

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Honda Rugged Open Air Vehicle concept first drive review: Bigger is better - Roadshow

Supersizing a UTV magnifies its fun factor.

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Mitsubishi's growth plan: More dealers, more marketing, more awareness - Roadshow

CEO Fred Diaz wants to double sales in three to four years' time.

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Honda Rugged Open Air Vehicle concept drives as dynamite as it looks - Roadshow

Roadshow gets a special chance to drive this supersized utility terrain vehicle concept based on the Honda Ridgeline pickup truck.

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Best laptops for college students in 2019 - CNET

With picks from Acer, Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo, we've got an affordable laptop for every student.

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Smart speakers vs. smart displays: Is a touchscreen worth the extra money? - CNET

Which of these two categories of devices fits better at the center of your smart home?

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How to pick the best vitamin subscription service for you - CNET

You can now purchase vitamins that support your health based on your goals, allergies and even blood type.

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Facebook needs fixing. Zuckerberg says he has a plan - CNET

The world’s biggest social network has faced seemingly endless privacy, trust and corporate malfeasance scandals. Now it's charting a way out.

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Facebook F8 developer conference Day 2: How to watch - CNET

Facebook's biggest event of the year continues Wednesday, May 1, with a keynote speech expected from CTO Mike Schroepfer, starting at 10 a.m. PT.

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This wireless water-resistant speaker is just $10 - CNET

Take your tunes into the shower or anyplace else splashy. Great gift idea for Mother's Day!

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NASA was sold faulty aluminum in 19-year scam - CNET

The space agency linked it to two mission failures.

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Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail in the UK - CNET

The WikiLeaks founder was arrested last month at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

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Facebook's F8 conference underway, Google workers stage a sit-in video - CNET

Today's major tech stories include news out of Facebook's F8 conference, a sit-in being staged by Google employees and preorders starting for Valve's VR headset, the Index.

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Pixel 3 phones aren't selling, and it's probably Verizon's fault - CNET

Commentary: Google's carrier exclusive with Verizon isn't doing Pixel sales any favors.

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MrSpeakers Ether 2 review: true high-resolution headphones

A luxury price demands luxury build quality and performance, and MrSpeakers delivers on all fronts

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Uber expands its driver rewards program to 20 more US cities

The Nokia 4.2 gets a US release date and $189 price tag

HMD Global’s Nokia 4.2, which the company announced back in February, is available to pre-order now in the US for $189, and will start shipping in mid-May. Beyond its mid-range specs and Android One software, the Nokia 4.2 features an interesting take on a dedicated voice assistant button. Pressing it once will wake Google Assistant like you’d expect it to, but you also have the option of pressing it twice to bring up Google’s visual snapshot, or holding it to have the voice assistant listen to your voice command indefinitely.

Considering the budget price tag, the Nokia 4.2’s specs are modest. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage, and it’s got a 3,000 mAh battery. On the back is a...

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Facebook’s total focus on privacy could crowd out more important issues

F8 is a conference where Facebook executives talk about the future — and at Facebook, the future is flexible. In 2015, the future was video. The next year, the future was bots. The year after that, the future was augmented reality — and also a project to let you hear with your skin. All of those technologies eventually found their way into Facebook’s products, in some form — well, all except the skin hearing thing. But none really shifted the company away from its core product: an infinitely scrolling feed of updates interrupted with highly targeted advertising.

This year, the company sought to break with that tradition. Nearly every speaker at today’s F8 keynote, starting with Mark Zuckerberg, repeated a version of the phrase “the...

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Honoring Senna with the car that bears his name video - Roadshow

The McLaren Senna is named after the legendary Formula 1 driver who died 25 years ago today. We took that car to the site of his most incredible performance, the legendary Lap of the Gods at the 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington.

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Huawei’s phone sales are ballooning while Apple and Samsung’s slump

Avengers: Endgame writers address time travel questions - CNET

"We have a loophole that's not cheating."

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Save 75% on ThinkGeek clearance items and 25% on everything else - CNET

One day only, score huge savings on tons of merch based on Marvel, Star Wars, Bob's Burgers, Harry Potter and more.

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How to take badass car photos with your Galaxy S10 Plus - CNET

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus has a great camera. Here's how I used it to snag some great shots of a stunning Aston Martin DBS Superleggera.

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Best Mother's Day gifts for foodie moms - CNET

Forget flowers. These are the things your mom really wants.

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Avengers: Endgame -- 22 things I learned from Marvel's epic opus - CNET

It's the end of an era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and here were my main takeaways. Warning: spoilers ahead.

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Avengers: Endgame has no postcredits scene, but there is a minor audio stinger - CNET

Spoiler-free answers (and some extremely minor speculation) below.

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Game of Thrones cinematographer defends 'too dark' episode - CNET

"People don't know how to tune their TVs properly."

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The 2020 Range Rover ditches its V6 for a straight six and gets pricing - Roadshow

Jaguar Land Rover's Ingenium straight six makes its first appearance in a Range Rover and we're psyched.

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Mother's Day gifts for the Mom who's got game - CNET

Show Mom how much you love her by gearing her up for survival.

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Game of Thrones' Battle of Winterfell by the numbers: Who was the MVP? - CNET

All the stats from "The Long Night", the biggest battle in TV history. Who lived, who died, how many wights did they slay and who was the MVP? Caution: Spoilers ahead!

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Google Doodle celebrates Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa - CNET

She overcame World War II discrimination to become a renowned sculptor and advocate for art's transformative power.

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Drivers in London are renting people's driveways to avoid paying emissions fees - Roadshow

Commuters are apparently parking just outside the ultralow emissions zone in rented spaces and using public transit to avoid paying the fees.

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Apple reportedly warning of consumer injury associated with Right to Repair bill - CNET

The company is putting forward an argument against the California legislation, based on consumer safety, Motherboard reports.

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Aston Martin Vantage AMR trades torque for a seven-speed manual - Roadshow

Once the AMR sells out, the three-pedal setup will be offered on the normal Vantage.

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Aston Martin Vantage AMR is a $180,000 power move - Roadshow

Are you willing to sacrifice performance for a manual transmission and spend an extra $30,000 to do so?

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Verizon holds the most 5G-heavy advertising pitch ever - CNET

Verizon's media unit puts its next-generation mobile network in the spotlight at its presentation to New York video advertisers.

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Noah Centineo to play He-Man in Sony's Masters of the Universe - CNET

By the power of Grayskull -- Noah Centineo of To All The Boys I've Loved Before has the Powerrrrrr!

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It's a lot easier to buy a car with an open recall than you'd think, report says - Roadshow

Consumer Reports shows that dealers may not always inform you as a customer of needed repairs and open safety recalls, even serious ones.

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Apple iPhone sales drop, but services and wearables offer a boost - CNET

Services revenue, a bright spot for the company, posted an all-time high.

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Broadband part of $2 trillion infrastructure deal between Democrats, Trump - CNET

But rural Americans waiting for broadband shouldn't hold their breath. Republicans still need to weigh in.

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Apple Pay is coming to New York City’s MTA transit system this summer

It’s been nearly two years since we wrote that New York City would finally be upgrading its transit system to take “tap-to-pay” contactless payments, but Apple’s Tim Cook says it’s finally coming true — on the company’s Q2 earnings call today, the CEO told investors that Apple Pay will begin rolling out to New York City’s MTA transit system starting in “early summer” of this year, letting you tap a phone or watch to pay instantly.

But it probably won’t just be Apple Pay, because a few quick web searches show that NYC has actually already announced a specific date for a contactless payment system that should support other phone-based wallets (perhaps rival Android Pay?) and even contactless credit cards.

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Game of Thrones cinematographer: it’s not me, it’s your TV settings

Spoiler alert: Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3, “The Long Night.”

Perhaps you, like countless other that have sounded off on social media in the past few days, had trouble viewing the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, in which the living faced off against the dead in the dark of night. There was plenty of fire to go around, but for the most part, the episode was a flurry of hard-to-see action taking place in poorly lit environments. Even diehard fans were complaining en masse.

Know that the decision to film the episode in such a fashion was a purposeful one, according to cinematographer Fabian Wagner, and that he blames your TV settings or the quality of your screen if you had trouble making out what was...

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years

Eric Schmidt will depart Alphabet’s board this June, after holding a seat for 18 years. His departure comes just over a year after Schmidt stepped down from his role as Alphabet’s executive chairman — it also comes as Google struggles with internal turmoil over its involvement with US military contracts, potential business in China, and reported cover-ups of sexual misconduct.

Schmidt has been a key presence at Google during his time with the company. He initially took a board seat in 2001, when he was made CEO of Google — a role he was given essentially to lend business expertise to what company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been building. In 2011, he left the CEO position and become Google’s executive chairman. At the...

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Border officials have ‘near-unfettered’ access to electronic devices, ACLU says

Slack vocab game that gave away money for no real reason is getting shut down

Workplace communication platform Slack says it will be deactivating a public channel dedicated to giving away $1,000 per day to anyone that can guess that day’s selected vocabulary word, citing company policies. The game, called The Word of the Day Is, was started by Gabriel Whaley last week as an experiment. It used a Slack bot to monitor entries, which were any one-word messages entered into the public channel. Winners were then sent the money via Venmo.

Whaley, the founder and CEO of a New York City-based creative agency called MSCHF Internet Studios, told The Verge at the time that he was “just trying to keep the internet a fun place and an escape.” In quick order, the game gained popularity and write-ups from major news...

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Apple, Luminary, Spotify, and the podcast wars to come

The podcast wars are coming. After Luminary’s troubled launch, The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Ashley Carman sit down with podcast expert Nick Quah of Hot Pod to discuss if Luminary or anyone could be “the Netflix of podcasts” and where the industry is headed.

You can listen to the discussion in its entirety on The Vergecast right now. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from the interview.

Nilay Patel: I think the podcast war is coming. I think the question of “why isn’t the podcast industry more like TV” is because all of those TV companies have their own distribution. NBC owns antennas in the world, and they control a massive distribution point: cable companies they sell to other cable companies, and that’s a massive distribution point....

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YouTube CEO addresses top creator issues including copyright claims and trending section

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki published a blog post today addressing some of creators’ biggest concerns and frustrations, including copyright claims removing ads from their videos, the site’s trending section not showing some of the most popular uploads, and comments being removed for family vloggers.

It’s clear from Wojcicki’s blog that addressing the community’s most consistent complaints was a top priority — and chief among those is copyright claims. Copyright claims on videos, which lead to YouTubers not earning ad revenue, are a constant source of aggravation. Many of the situations that Wojcicki indirectly refers to in the blog post are from top creators, like Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who has spoken about losing out on ad revenue...

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The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote

Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today, and the company just finished its opening keynote. Its overwhelming theme, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.” After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is invading its users’ privacy and encouraging social division, it’s pushing hard on helping people connect with close family and friends.

During the keynote, Facebook announced updates to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook’s core service. We also got more news about the Oculus Quest and Rift S virtual reality headsets — and about a new dating feature that could spark some very intense interactions between you and your friends.

Facebook is being redesigned around groups and events

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Apple’s Q2 earnings: iPhone sales continue to drop as services keep growing

Apple just reported its second quarter financial results, posting quarterly revenue of $58 billion (down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago) earnings per share of $2.46. The company said its crucially important services division hit an all-time high of $11.5 billion in revenue. iPhone revenue came in at $31.05 billion, still down year over year but enough to make up over 53 percent of Apple’s entire revenue. Mac sales were down, but the iPad, wearables/home/accessories, and services units of Apple’s business all saw gains.

“We delivered our strongest iPad growth in six years, and we are as excited as ever about our pipeline of innovative hardware, software and services,” CEO Tim Cook said in the accompanying press release....

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The Girl Who Had Everything But the Kitchen Sink Caddy

There’s water all over my kitchen sink.

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Use a Smart Speaker to Track Nights With Your Newborn

What I hated about being woken up by my newborn in the middle of the night—aside from, you know, being woken up by my newborn in the middle of the night—was learning what time it was. Hearing his cry for the third or fourth time since putting him down and then groggily opening my eyes to discover that it was only 11…

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Get Rewards for Your Dinner Reservation Through the 'Seated' App

When you live in a major city, making a reservation for dinner can mean the difference between getting a table shortly after you arrive at the restaurant and waiting hours for the privilege of ordering your food at high speed before the kitchen closes for the evening.

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Extend Your Stay With This 120,000 Point IHG Premier Rewards Welcome Offer

Update 4/30: Today’s the last day to get in on the 120,000 point welcome bonus! More details below.

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How to Support Someone You Love Through Infertility

About 10 percent of women have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, so chances are good that someone you love is facing or will face infertility. But if you haven’t experienced it yourself (or even if you did but your circumstances were different), it might be hard to know what to say or do to support them.

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How to Tell if a News Site Is Reliable

It’s happened before, and with another presidential election looming next year, it’s going to happen again and again. The spread of “fake news,” the incorrect labeling of real news as “fake,” and overall confusion as to how to tell the difference.

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You Don't Need Two Lids to Cut Cherry Tomatoes

Using two lids to slice cherry tomatoes in half is a classic hack. The lips of the lids stabilize the tomatoes, letting you run your knife through the little guys with ease. But I’m here to tell you that you don’t need two lids. You never did. You just need a cutting board and your hand.

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Build Your Own Retro Game Console With This One-Day Raspberry Pi Sale

There are a lot of reasons to own a Raspberry Pi, but anecdotally, I think somewhere north of 90% of people buy them to build retro game consoles. But no matter how you like to tinker, today’s your lucky day.

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How to Stop a Recording From Waking Alexa

Lifehacker recently published a video in which two subjects test the functions of an Amazon Echo. Soon after, our Senior Technology Editor, David Murphy alerted the video team that anyone watching the video at home through speakers would find their Echo repeatedly activated each time someone in the video spoke the wake…

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How to Buy a JetBlue Ticket for as Little as $44

In desperate need of a vacation? Until 11:59 pm ET tomorrow, JetBlue is having a pretty major sale as part of its “Fly As You May” promo, which means you can nab a one-way ticket for as low as $44—departing as soon as next week.

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What Was Your Best Hackintosh Experience?

One of Lifehacker’s most-loved posts, our guide to hackintoshes, is starting to show its age. It’s time to give this article a fresh coat of paint, but before renovation work begins, I wanted to hear about your experiences with every geek’s big dream: the ability to run macOS on a non-Apple device.

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Adopt a Dog, Not a Breed

I spend my weekends looking at photos of dogs.

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How to Find a LGBTQ-Affirming Therapist

Finding the right therapist—someone you trust, someone you like, someone you click with—is important for anyone to ensure their therapy is effective. But for those who identify as LGBTQ, finding a therapist who is LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming is critical for creating a safe, supportive space.

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Make Custom Greeting Cards, Stickers, and More With This Terrific Cricut Deal

If you’re unfamiliar, Cricuts make all those custom stickers, delicate doilies, and Instagram-ready greeting cards you see around your crafty friend’s house. You too can start being a craft wizard with Amazon’s sale on this popular Cricut Explore Air 2 machine.

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