GM’s Cruise self-driving unit is hosting a special event at the end of November, the company revealed today via invites to select media. The tagline for the event is “Come experience our vision of a self-driving future,” and while advance details are scarce, it sounds likely that Cruise will take the opportunity to allow media and other guests to experience their pilot… Read More
Instagram is finally rolling out native support for Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi – three popular languages that are all written right-to-left. They join 36 other languages that Instagram supports natively. And just like all other language options on Instagram, everything besides someone’s username will be translated. Why did this take so long? Because adding a language like Arabic… Read More
Cybersecurity expert Ondrej Krehel explains that your internet browser's incognito mode doesn't really keep you safe, but it does have advantages.
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Getting tired of the same old Instagram Stories? Get ready for stop motion, the newest feature in Instagram's story camera.
The tool allows you to take a series of photos, string them together into a short stop-motion video and post them to your story.
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You can edit the videos with filters, stickers, and texts, just like any other post to Stories. We haven't yet found a limit on the length that the videos can be — we were able to stitch together up to 50 frames.
Here's the feature in action:
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CircleUp, what’s been a marketplace for consumer and retail investing, is announcing that it now has a $125 million growth fund to invest in companies directly. Using machine learning technology called Helio, CircleUp Growth Partners says it will be able to identify potential investments using data about companies to predict success. CircleUp co-founder and COO Rory Eakin said that… Read More
The Witcher is receiving its very own stage adaptation in Poland and this preview makes it look absolutely insane.
The Witcher, best known outside of Central and Eastern Europe as an acclaimed fantasy RPG, is based on a popular Polish book series of the same name (a.k.aWiedźmin)The musical, coming to the Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej, doesn't appear to shy away from the action and occasional brutality of the series. Just in this short clip, we see someone holding up a severed head prop and the actor playing Geralt throwing what appears to be a child actor off the front of the stage. Read more...
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One Halloween-themed daytime show started off with a real-life scare.
Wendy Williams fainted during a live taping of her talk show today on Tuesday morning, and the moment is hard to watch. Williams was introducing a segment when she froze up and fell to the ground.
Social media has mixed reactions about Williams' fall, but many wanted to know if she was okay.
A few minutes after the incident, Williams addressed the audience about the unplanned and frightening moment.
"That was not a stunt. I'm overheated in my costume and I did pass out," she stated. "But you know what, I'm a champ and I'm back." Read more...
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Amazon and Walmart aren’t the only major U.S. retailers looking to better merge online with brick-and-mortar operations. Today, Target announced a new app called “myCheckout” for its store staff that will allow them to process online transactions on the customer’s behalf, including taking payments, right from the store’s floor when merchandise is unavailable… Read More
Astronomers track asteroids and comets in space near Earth, and some are unfathomably far away in the outer solar system. However, scientists may have spotted the first such object from someplace even more distant--another solar system.
The post Astronomers Discover Extra-Solar Object Zipping Through the Solar System appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Hangouts Meet, Google’s service for running video and audio meetings, is getting a few new hardware companions. The company today announced the Hangouts Meet hardware kit that includes a touchscreen controller, speaker microphone, 4K camera and an ASUS Chromebox to control it all. The Chromebox (an Asus CN62) is the nerve center of this kit. While Chromeboxes (which you can think of as… Read More
Amidst the indictments of former top Trump campaign officials through Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the president and the first lady hosted the traditional White House Halloween party on Monday evening.
While many members of the Trump administration opted not to wear costumes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attended the party as Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus. Interesting!
Ms. Frizzle, of course, was a school teacher/scientist with a permit to drive a school bus and also a witch or a magician or something. Betsy DeVos is a billionaire without an education degree and zero experience working in a school environment who recently repealed 72 documents outlining the rights of students with disabilities in schools. Read more...
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As usual, the hosts of the Today show went all out for Halloween this year. Also as usual, the costume rollout was truly something to behold.
This year's theme was "country music," so everyone ~transformed~ into a particular country music icon. We understand it might have been difficult to register everyone's ensemble through the sizable morning show chaos, so here's who wore what.
Al Roker, the emperor of the Today show, transformed into a flawless Willie Nelson. (Al Roker rules.)
.@alroker is Willie Nelson! #HalloweenTODAY http://pic.twitter.com/a5eURD5aB8
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If you're embarrassed to admit to your dentist that the last time you flossed was the last time the dentist did it for you, join the club.
This Kickstarter project is looking to help you save some time during your morning routine while also making it easier to clean your teeth — in the shower. Meet ToothShower, the ultimate "two birds with one stone" gadget.
The device hangs on the wall of your shower and uses water pressure from the shower as its power source — it's basically an electric toothbrush without the electricity. Read more...
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One of the most entrepreneurial TV families also happens to be an animated one. For seven seasons on the series "Bob’s Burgers," we’ve watched The Belcher family run a restaurant in a small, seaside community. The eatery is named after Bob, the family patriarch and owner, who operates the business alongside his wife Linda and their three children Gene, Tina, and Louise.
When a small business is depicted on TV, it’s generally done in a quaint and lowkey manner. Details like the daily lack of customers in a clothing shop or employees taking frequent breaks don’t seem to affect the company’s bottom line. Bob’s Burgers, on the other hand, keeps the trials and tribulations of running a storefront in check because the burger joint is practically one of the main characters. Read more...
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After discounting Manafort's indictment as irrelevant and shrugging off Papadopoulos' guilty plea with an "everybody makes mistakes" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Fox News host Sean Hannity turned to the person whose crimes he thought investigators should be focusing on: President Hillary Clinton.
But his call out of Clinton didn't necessarily go as planned...
.@seanhannity on Manafort indictment: "Is this all Mueller has? Because if it is, it's pathetic." #Hannity https://t.co/RW3GsNSXP3 http://pic.twitter.com/pXNOGVlsd9
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 31, 2017
Yep, he called Hillary Clinton the President on air. (If you care to listen to Hannity's dulcet tones, the President Clinton slip comes in around 3:20.) Read more...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai lit a fire under the internet Sunday when he asked the Twitter-verse to provide its thoughts on the "correct way" to build a cheeseburger, and accordingly a cheeseburger emoji.
Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https://t.co/dXRuZnX1Ag
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017
It seems Apple and Google have different conceptions of how to create an authentic cheeseburger emoji, as demonstrated by the tweet that stoked Pichai's interest. The placement of cheese seems to be the primary area of disagreement: Read more...
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Move over, cheesy Cialis bathtubs. There’s a sleek new startup targeting men with erectile dysfunction.
A first of its kind, Roman is an app that will screen you for ED, let you talk one-on-one with doctors, and even get prescriptions delivered to your door — all without ever leaving your house. The service, whose wares are packaged in dignified red and black branding, is aiming to take the shame out of the condition for a new generation.
While an app that dispenses Viagra sounds like something out of an episode of Silicon Valley, in a refreshing turn of events, Roman is not being pitched as a cynical ploy to disrupt your dick. Instead, it’s a personal mission of the company's CEO, Zachariah Reitano, an earnest software developer who has struggled with erectile dysfunction since he was a teenager. Read more...
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It's been almost a year since America elected President Donald Trump, and finally, we're about to learn more about how Google, Facebook, and Twitter were used by outside forces to secure that victory.
The top lawyers for each of those companies will testify before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday on the influence of social media in the 2016 election. Lawmakers will most likely ask about Russian interference and the spread of fake news. Meanwhile, the companies will try to defend their actions (or lack thereof) in the hopes of avoiding looming government regulations.
The companies have also been trying to get ahead of the game by imposing some new rules on themselves. Read more...
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It's Halloween, and while most of the parties have come and gone, you may still need to whip up a quick costume for any or trick-or-treat action happening in your neighborhood, right? Not to mention upcoming midnight screenings of, say, Thor: Ragnarok or Justice League.
That's where DIY Costume Squad can help you out. Whether you're feeling like a superhero or a Ghostbuster, this new series from Mashable can help you put together that costume.
Sure, it all requires a little bit of craftiness, but there's still plenty of daylight left to make a run for supplies and get to painting and gluing. Read more...
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Earlier this month, Amazon promised it would bring its Echo line of smart speakers to the competitive e-commerce battleground of India. The devices, including the Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot, were initially available through an invite-only program. Today, Amazon says those orders are now shipping to customers, and will arrive in November. To encourage sales, earlier Echo adopters were offered… Read More
