METABLOKS / DIGITAL

Wired

Google Stadia Will Be Missing Some Key Features at Launch

First impressions are critically important, especially for gaming consoles. You feeling lucky, Google?

1 hour ago

Wired

Google Stadia Will Be Missing Some Key Features at Launch

Wired

146 New Android Bugs, an Audio Porn Streaming Site, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

2 hours ago

Wired

146 New Android Bugs, an Audio Porn Streaming Site, and More News

Wired

A Visual Diary of This Year's WIRED25 Festival

Dina Litovsky captured the weirdest and the WIRED-est moments from our 2019 event.

3 hours ago

Wired

A Visual Diary of This Year's WIRED25 Festival

Wired

15 Early Black Friday Tech Deals for 2019 (Frequent Updates)

Get a head start on holiday shopping with these deals and discounts.

4 hours ago

Wired

15 Early Black Friday Tech Deals for 2019 (Frequent Updates)

Wired

How to Watch the Trump Impeachment Hearings: Day 2

The House of Representatives is holding public hearings into claims of wrongdoing against the president. Today: former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Here's how to livestream the sessions.

6 hours ago

Wired

How to Watch the Trump Impeachment Hearings: Day 2

Wired

Chasing Instagram Analytics, My Friend Became a Grocery Store

Instagram has helped blur the lines between personal branding and personal life'such as by encouraging people to turn their profiles into businesses.

8 hours ago

Wired

Chasing Instagram Analytics, My Friend Became a Grocery Store

Techcrunch

The House and Senate finally agree on something: Robocalls

In these times of political strife, it's nice that despite our differences we can still band together as a nation in the face of a catastrophe that affects us all equally. I speak, of course, of robocalls, and it seems that the House and Senate have put their differences aside for the present in order ...

11 minutes ago

Techcrunch

The House and Senate finally agree on something: Robocalls

Techcrunch

Those crappy pre-installed Android apps can be full of security holes

If you've ever bought an Android phone, there's a good chance you booted it up to find it pre-loaded with junk you definitely didn't ask for. These pre-installed apps can be clunky, annoying to remove, rarely updated... and, it turns out, full of security holes. Security firm Kryptowire built a tool ...

59 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Those crappy pre-installed Android apps can be full of security holes

Techcrunch

Facebook's Libra code chugs along ignoring regulatory deadlock

"5 months and growing strong" the Libra Association announced today in a post about its technical infrastructure that completely omits the fierce regulatory backlash to its cryptocurrency. Forty wallets, tools and block explorers plus 1,700 GitHub commits have how now been built on its blockchain testnet ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Facebook's Libra code chugs along ignoring regulatory deadlock

Techcrunch

Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure

When Salesforce announced this week that it was moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure, it was easy to see this as another case of wacky enterprise partnerships. But there had to be sound business reasons why the partnership came together, rather than going with AWS or Google Cloud Platform, both ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure

Techcrunch

D-Wave sticks with its approach to quantum computing

Earlier this month, at the WebSummit conference in Lisbon, D-Wave and Volkswagen teamed up to manage a fleet of buses using a new system that, among other things, used D-Wave's quantum technology to help generate the most efficient routes. While D-Wave's 2000Q only played a small part in this process, ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

D-Wave sticks with its approach to quantum computing

Techcrunch

VC Cyan Banister on her path, who decides what at Founders Fund and the state of San Francisco

Cyan Banister is an American success story. A homeless teenager who originally supported herself by making hemp necklaces, then silk-screen T-shirts, she went on to become a self-taught engineer and to later hold several management roles at the security startup IronPort. It was a life-changing experience ...

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

VC Cyan Banister on her path, who decides what at Founders Fund and the state of San Francisco

The Verge

With new APIs, Sony's robot dog could be the smart home assistant you've always wanted

Image: Sony Sony says you can now use a web-based API to program its adorable Aibo robot dog to do new tricks ' and you might even be able to make it your smart home's best friend. With its new 'aibo Developer Program,' Sony is inviting developers to make 'services and applications' that can ...

16 minutes ago

The Verge

With new APIs, Sony's robot dog could be the smart home assistant you've always wanted

The Verge

Redbox agrees to stop selling Disney download codes

Redbox 2 1024

1 hour ago

The Verge

Redbox agrees to stop selling Disney download codes

The Verge

YouTube beauty guru James Charles is launching a makeup competition show

James Charles is one of the most influential beauty creators on YouTube, and he's using his platform to try to find YouTube's next beauty guru through a four-part YouTube Original series. The show, which is operating under the working title James Charles Instant Influencer, is akin to other fashion ...

1 hour ago

The Verge

YouTube beauty guru James Charles is launching a makeup competition show

The Verge

John Legere reportedly won't become WeWork's next CEO

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Turning around the mess that is WeWork isn't going to be up to John Legere. According to CNBC, the current T-Mobile CEO does not intend to take the chief executive role, despite rumors earlier this week that WeWork was strongly pursuing him. Legere 'has no plans' ...

1 hour ago

The Verge

John Legere reportedly won't become WeWork's next CEO

The Verge

TikTok begins testing links in bios

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has more than a billion users on its platform, and it appears the company is now experimenting with ways for it and its users to monetize their audiences on the app. Recently, TikTok has begun a limited test of a feature that lets users add links ...

2 hours ago

The Verge

TikTok begins testing links in bios

The Verge

Pokémon Sword and Shield's camping is perfectly fluffy

Part of the allure of Pokémon games is growing attached to each new creature you catch. Games like Pokémon X and Y, Sun and Moon, and Let's Go incorporate some sort of bonding, from giving your pals a good pat to feeding and cleaning them up. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, downtime doesn't just happen ...

3 hours ago

The Verge

Pokémon Sword and Shield's camping is perfectly fluffy

Engadget

Google scales back town hall meetings following leaks

Google's weekly all-hands meetings have quickly become a source of leaks, and the company is apparently taking an aggressive approach to curbing those leaks: it's limiting the meetings themselves. The Verge has learned that CEO Sundar Pichai sent com...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Google scales back town hall meetings following leaks

Engadget

What we've been watching: 'State of the Union' and 'Little Monsters'

In this installment of our video IRL, senior editor Daniel Cooper highlights the short-bites marital drama Ste of the Union that you absolutely must not binge. Senior editor Richard Lawler explains why Hulu's shlocky horror movie Little Monsters is w...

2 hours ago

Engadget

What we've been watching: 'State of the Union' and 'Little Monsters'

Engadget

iFixit examines the 16-inch MacBook Pro's 'throwback' keyboard design

From the time we spent with Apple's just-announced 16-inch MacBook Pro, it was obvious that the shallow, unreliable butterfly keyboard design was out and scissor switches were back in. (It didn't hurt that Apple has confirmed the changes on the new M...

2 hours ago

Engadget

iFixit examines the 16-inch MacBook Pro's 'throwback' keyboard design

Engadget

Spotify's latest feature creates a playlist for your road trip

It's no secret Spotify wants to give you as many playlist options as possible, and today it's adding one more. Only this time, the streaming service wants to help you create a list for a specific activity: a road trip. With "Soundtrack your Ride," Sp...

2 hours ago

Engadget

Spotify's latest feature creates a playlist for your road trip

Engadget

Google's Files app now streams local media to your Chromecast

Google just made it decidedly easier to beam your personal media collection to your Chromecast device of choice. An updated version of the Files by Google app includes long-in-the-making support for playing your audio, photos and videos on any Chrom...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Google's Files app now streams local media to your Chromecast

Engadget

Pre-installed apps on low-end Android phones are full of security holes

In what has become an annual reckoning, security research company Kryptowire recently published its 2019 report on the state of manufacturer-installed software and firmware for Android devices and, to no one's surprise, they found more than 140 bugs...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Pre-installed apps on low-end Android phones are full of security holes

Fast Company

Even Hulu realizes that live TV prices are out of control

Hulu is raising the price of its live TV channel bundle for the second time this year. Starting on December 18, Hulu With Live TV will have a base cost of $55 per month, both for new and existing subscribers. That's a price hike of $10 per month. As Hulu points out in a blog post, the new price is ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

Even Hulu realizes that live TV prices are out of control

Fast Company

Americans finally understand Big Tech's Faustian bargain, but that doesn't mean they'll quit tech

America is no longer buying the internet advertising industry's argument that personal data tracking helps us by showing us more relevant ads.&xA0;That's perhaps the biggest lesson from the results of a broad new Pew Research study, released today. The survey of 4,272 U.S. adults found that 6 in 10 ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

Americans finally understand Big Tech's Faustian bargain, but that doesn't mean they'll quit tech

Fast Company

How to collaborate better by collaborating less

&x201C;Hypercollaboration&x201D; is the latest iteration of team-building, Slack-laden workplaces. Depending on who you ask, this might mean companies who gather various specialists to&xA0;innovate new products. It might also mean company departments reaching out to other departments to improve their ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

How to collaborate better by collaborating less

Fast Company

The boldest Democratic climate plan gets just a C+ on this report card

Climate change is poised to be a big issue for voters in the 2020 presidential election, but the current Democratic candidate roster may prove to be disappointing on that front. In a new report card that assesses the candidates on their climate action plans, the highest grade awarded was a measly C+. ...

9 hours ago

Fast Company

The boldest Democratic climate plan gets just a C+ on this report card

Fast Company

The ultimate backpack for creatives has a spot for your X-Acto, camera, and more

Staple guns and hammers. Tubes of oil paint and brushes. Protractors and X-Acto knives. DSLR camera bodies and lenses. A Moleskine and a set of premium colored pencils. These are just some of the tools of creatives, and they don't fit all that well into the compartments of a typical backpack or messenger ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

The ultimate backpack for creatives has a spot for your X-Acto, camera, and more

Fast Company

'Witness intimidation is a crime': Why Trump's tweets about Marie Yovanovitch are a problem

&x201C;Witness intimidation is a crime,&x201D; tweeted Kamala Harris, moments after Adam Schiff paused the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment hearing today. Schiff, the top Democrat leading the hearing, stopped the proceedings to ask Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

'Witness intimidation is a crime': Why Trump's tweets about Marie Yovanovitch are a problem

Ars Technica

Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds

Google is sometimes hands-on under the hood, and investigators want to know more.

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds

Ars Technica

Supreme Court agrees to review disastrous ruling on API copyrights

A 2018 ruling on API copyrights could cause problems for the software industry.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

Supreme Court agrees to review disastrous ruling on API copyrights

Ars Technica

Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid

Research has implications for future topological quantum computers.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid

Ars Technica

Apple bans vaping apps from the iOS App Store

Customers can continue using apps they've already downloaded.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

Apple bans vaping apps from the iOS App Store

Ars Technica

Huawei finally ships the foldable Mate X, complete with a protective pouch

For now it's only in China, but the market's second major foldable is finally out.

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

Huawei finally ships the foldable Mate X, complete with a protective pouch

Ars Technica

"Dirty trickster" Roger Stone convicted on all counts in Mueller indictment

Former Trump campaign adviser found guilty of witness intimidation, lies, and obstruction.

5 hours ago

Ars Technica

"Dirty trickster" Roger Stone convicted on all counts in Mueller indictment

Recode

Twitter is walking into a minefield with its political ads ban

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. | Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images Twitter just released the first iteration of its policies banning political ads ' and appears to have changed course on CEO Jack Dorsey's declaration it would ban issue ads. ...

4 hours ago

Recode

Twitter is walking into a minefield with its political ads ban

Recode

The world's most profitable company is about to go public

President and CEO of Saudi Aramco Amin Nasser (left) and Aramco's chair Yasir al-Rumayyan attend a press conference in the eastern Saudi Arabian region of Dhahran on November 3, 2019. | AFP via Getty Images The oil company that made Saudi Arabia rich is going public. Some say the timing couldn't ...

11 hours ago

Recode

The world's most profitable company is about to go public

Recode

Nike's breakup with Amazon is a lose-lose situation for everyone – including you

Nike shoes worn by Norman Powell of the Toronto Raptors during a game against the Portland Trail Blazers on November 13, 2019, in Portland, Oregon. | Abbie Parr/Getty Images Soon, when you buy Nike stuff on Amazon, it will no longer come directly from Nike. When Nike announced in 2017 that it ...

23 hours ago

Recode

Nike's breakup with Amazon is a lose-lose situation for everyone – including you

Recode

Netflix says it speaks truth to power, after all

Hasan Minhaj in Netflix's Patriot Act. | Cara Howe/Netflix A week after CEO Reed Hastings said Netflix was in the entertainment business, not the 'truth to power business,' another exec takes a stab at it. Tldr: It's still going to get censored. Last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said his ...

1 day ago

Recode

Netflix says it speaks truth to power, after all

Recode

A bait-and-switch scam ran unchecked on Airbnb. Here's how it worked.

While Airbnb has been slow to implement strong verification policies, some customers are getting scammed in a big way. | Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On this episode of Reset, hear how one woman found herself in the middle of it, and how to protect ...

1 day ago

Recode

A bait-and-switch scam ran unchecked on Airbnb. Here's how it worked.

Recode

How Trump is using Facebook to amplify his fight against impeachment

Left to right: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and Vice President Mike Pence listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of technology executives at Trump Tower in New York City on December 14, 2016. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook ...

1 day ago

Recode

How Trump is using Facebook to amplify his fight against impeachment