Image: Hernan Pinera/FlickrIt teased us with the possibility of a no-show this summer, but a weak La Niña has officially arrived, according to NOAA. Parts of the northern United States can expect a cooler and wetter-than-average winter, while southe…
Lees meerAdding to the long list of things you never knew was a legitimate competitive sport, the Red Bull Street Style World Final recently took place in London, where athletes juggle soccer balls in impossibly amazing ways using any part of their body exce…
Lees meerGettyFacebook will end some ads that target users by their race. “We are going to turn off, actually prohibit, the use of ethnic affinity marketing for ads that we identify as offering housing, employment and credit,” Erin Egan, Facebook’s Vice Pres…
Lees meerImage: Global New Light of Myanmar/FacebookA large cylindrical structure thought to be part of a Chinese rocket has fallen down into a mining area in north Myanmar, while another piece of metal tore through the roof of a nearby house.Read more...
Lees meerIllustration: Jim CookeEach morning I take three pills, all of which I need to stay alive. I get my health insurance through the Affordable Care Act—without it, I’d be spending upwards of $500 on prescription medication each month.Read more...
Lees meerColor Binoculars landed on the App Store today, promising to infuse the real world with color for anyone with the three most common forms of color blindness. This isn't the first app designed to help color-blind folks see a broader spectrum…
Lees meerThree major online retailers in the UK have been listing a number of bomb-making manuals on their websites, according to The Guardian.
Lees meerDenim Gold BoxYou need jeans. Everyone needs jeans. Get denim from brands like Hudson, AG, Naked and Famous and more for less from Amazon’s one-day sale. You could end up saving over $100 on good denim that will last a long time.Read more...
Lees meerThe name CrowdTangle may not be familiar to you, but Facebook just snatched up the company to help its publishers track how content moves around the internet. CrowdTangle's platform launched four years ago, giving companies a real-time look…
Lees meerWhatsapp is one of the biggest messaging services out there, so it's a little surprising that it hasn't supported two-factor authentication. That is, until now -- as noted by Android Police, people using the beta version of Whatsapp are sta…
Lees meerOver the last few months, Spotify desktop users on both Mac and PC have noticed the app has been writing massive amounts of data to their storage drives on a daily basis. Reports in the company's own forums, Reddit and Hacker News indicate …
Lees meerMagazine and stationary retailer WHSmith is to start selling video games in-store again, thanks to a partnership with GAME to trial concessions in a small number of locations. WHSmith pulled games from shelves six years ago due to competiti…
Lees meerOver a billion people now use Facebook on a daily basis, and that's just on their phone. That dominance is bringing in huge profits, but the site's popularity makes it an incredibly useful tool during emergencies. This is thanks to the comp…
Lees meerDespite President Obama's first-term pledge to close it, the "Gitmo" Guantanamo Bay Naval Base remains open. It's hard to believe, but the 5,500 military families and staff living there have never had cellular data coverage -- until now. T-…
Lees meerFacebook will disable settings that let advertisers exclude racial and ethnic groups when buying ads for housing, employment or credit, the company wrote in a blog post. It first started allowing "ethnic affinity" marketing several years ag…
Lees meerTrigger warning: This episode in a solid hour of Donald Trump talk. If you're still with us, strap in. Dana Wollman, Nathan Ingraham and Devindra Hardawar join host Terrence O'Brien to talk about how social media traps us in echo chambers.…
Lees meerWith Sky Q growing in popularity and Virgin Media soon to unveil its new 4K set-top box, BT knows it needs to keep innovating its own TV offering or be left behind. That's why it's today announced a fresh round of updates for its YouView-po…
Lees meerToday on In Case You Missed It: Facebook's latest AI tech, called Caffe2Go, can add painterly styles and colors over the top of your videos in real time, processing the changes from your smartphone. In other AI news, researchers at the…
Lees meerInstagram CEO Kevin Systrom has confirmed to The Financial Times that the Facebook-owned company is bringing live videos to the photo-sharing app. Systrom said in the interview: "Live is really exciting for us. I think it can enhance what w…
Lees meerIf you controlled a media publishing platform that connected to millions of people, it'd make you a pretty powerful individual. Not so, according to Mark Zuckerberg, who has come out against the notion that Facebook helped win it for Trump.…
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