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Facebook's New Privacy Feature Comes With a Loophole

"Off-Facebook Activity" will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers.

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Facebook's New Privacy Feature Comes With a Loophole

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The Dangers of Vaping, a Texas Ransomware Attack, and More News

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

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The Dangers of Vaping, a Texas Ransomware Attack, and More News

Wired

Disney+ Brandishes Its Weapon: An Infinity Gauntlet of Brands

While everyone else was yelling about chicken sandwiches, Disney assembled its forces to fire the first shot in the Streaming Wars.

1 hour ago

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Disney+ Brandishes Its Weapon: An Infinity Gauntlet of Brands

Wired

A Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas

A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source.

6 hours ago

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A Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas

Wired

Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow?Even Without Nicotine

Inhaling e-cigarette vapor alone had an immediate, negative impact on the vascular systems of first-time vapers.

8 hours ago

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Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow?Even Without Nicotine

Wired

Think Video on Your Phone Is Slow? It's Not Your Imagination

A study by Northeastern University researchers found that major wireless carriers sometimes limit video to DVD-quality, even on some "unlimited" plans.

8 hours ago

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Think Video on Your Phone Is Slow? It's Not Your Imagination

Techcrunch

Walmart sues Tesla for negligence after multiple solar panel fires

Walmart is suing Tesla for breach of contract and gross negligence after rooftop solar panel systems on seven of the retailer’s stores caught fire, according to a filing. Walmart said the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in New York state court, arose from years of gross negligence and failure ...

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Walmart sues Tesla for negligence after multiple solar panel fires

Techcrunch

YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings

The process of using the Stoic journaling app is simple: You open the app in the morning and the evening, when you’ll prompted to answer a couple questions and perform a few simple exercises. For example, this evening the app asked me to rate my current level of fulfillment and to identify what ...

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YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings

Techcrunch

The American AI Initiative: A good first step, of many

When the global economy starts to feel the shift ushered in with mass-adoption of AI, the United States needs to be leading the charge as opposed to chasing the pack.

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The American AI Initiative: A good first step, of many

Techcrunch

Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums

If you're like me, and I'm just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you're not driving. So what are we supposed to do in self-driving vehicles? Researchers are finally looking into this question with an experiment designed to see just what ...

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Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums

Techcrunch

MoviePass exposed thousands of unencrypted customer card numbers

Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed tens of thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards because a critical server was not protected with a password. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk, found an exposed database on one ...

1 hour ago

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MoviePass exposed thousands of unencrypted customer card numbers

Techcrunch

Waxed canvas bags from Waterfield, Manhattan Portage, Saddleback and more

It's Bag Week again! And here for your consideration are a handful of bags from a variety of makers who specialize (or dabble) in waxed canvas, my favorite material. It's natural, it's durable, and it looks great " what's not to like"

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Waxed canvas bags from Waterfield, Manhattan Portage, Saddleback and more

Readwrite

Virtual Reality Can Save Lives and Isn't Only for Fun

Despite all the joys that technological progress brings us this progress still leaves many with a question: 'So what if so many people still don't live to mature age'' How can a new technical toy help a man suffering from cancer' However, everything is not so sad – even when it comes to such seemingly ...

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Virtual Reality Can Save Lives and Isn't Only for Fun

Readwrite

Resisting and Reducing Enterprise Storage Downtime

Downtime for an enterprise is the same as getting knocked out cold. The downtime is the inability to access essential data for extended periods is like getting an arm or a leg chopped off for an enterprise. Enterprise system downtime can cost millions in losses and lead to reputation damage, loss of ...

7 hours ago

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Resisting and Reducing Enterprise Storage Downtime

Readwrite

3 Ways Tech Is Responsible for Crucial Healthcare Improvements

The increasing number of tech companies and startups venturing into healthcare is a sure sign that healthcare IT isn't going anywhere – except forward. The post 3 Ways Tech Is Responsible for Crucial Healthcare Improvements appeared first on ReadWrite.

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3 Ways Tech Is Responsible for Crucial Healthcare Improvements

Readwrite

The Evolution of Startups in India — The Story Up Until Now

Before we take a plunge into the Startup culture of India, let us first try understanding what exactly a startup is, and how does it function' Then we will tell the evolution of startups in India and the story until now. What is a Startup' Investopedia defines a startup as 'a young company that is just ...

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The Evolution of Startups in India — The Story Up Until Now

Readwrite

Small Business Marketing Strategies that Will Work for You

In business, these days, startups and entrepreneurial setups are trending heavily. Maybe startups and entrepreneurial structures will always trend as everyone wishes to initialize a small business for their passive income. Building for passive income is a good idea, but people can struggle and fail ...

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Small Business Marketing Strategies that Will Work for You

Fast Company

These are the 10 best places to buy a vacation home, and they’re not where you’d guess

There may be a recession looming, but some people out there still have the resources to both take a vacation and buy a home in which to while away their days away from Slack notifications. Of course, if you are one of the lucky few with down-payment money burning its way through your savings account, ...

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These are the 10 best places to buy a vacation home, and they’re not where you’d guess

Fast Company

Mercedes-Benz might track your car’s location if you don’t make your payments

Mercedes-Benz is using location-tracking tech to find and repossess cars in the United Kingdom, the company confirmed in response to a report published last night by the Sun.

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Mercedes-Benz might track your car’s location if you don’t make your payments

Fast Company

Unchecked capitalism is causing the collapse of NYC’s power grid, monopoly critic says

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but it keeps turning out the lights. A stretch of Manhattan’s West Side went dark on July 13, with 73,000 customers—including Broadway theaters—in the dark for three hours. A smaller number were without juice for even longer, about five ...

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Fast Company

Unchecked capitalism is causing the collapse of NYC’s power grid, monopoly critic says

Fast Company

Facebook is looking for a few good humans for its news department

Good news for job-hunting reporters: Facebook is looking for a few “seasoned journalists”—real human journalists—to curate stories for its News Tab, a new service that will aggregate news from reliable publishers, the New York Times reports. While the News Tab will fill its ...

7 hours ago

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Facebook is looking for a few good humans for its news department

Fast Company

How Copenhagen plans to reach carbon-neutral status in just six years

If you miss the metro as you walk up to a stop in central Copenhagen during rush hour, you won’t wait long for the next train: the automated system is designed to run every two minutes. It’s one way for the city to convince residents not to drive a car, and as the metro system expands, ...

7 hours ago

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How Copenhagen plans to reach carbon-neutral status in just six years

Fast Company

Kanye’s ‘Star Wars’-themed homeless shelter could get the Death Star treatment

What: The probable demolition of some Calabasas-based prototypes for Star Wars-themed homeless housing. Who: Kanye West (who else?) Why we care: Perhaps the fact that his first album featured a song called “Spaceship” should have been a hint that Kanye West might be a Star Wars obsessive. ...

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Kanye’s ‘Star Wars’-themed homeless shelter could get the Death Star treatment

Engadget

OnePlus TV arrives in India next month

Following last week's name reveal, OnePlus says it will launch the OnePlus TV in September. The company's CEO, Pete Lau, revealed the launch date in a post on the OnePlus forums. In the same post, Lau adds OnePlus plans to first release the device in...

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Engadget

OnePlus TV arrives in India next month

Engadget

Tidal shares songs as Stories in Facebook and Instagram

iHeartRadio isn't the only streaming music service helping you share music as Stories in recent days. Tidal has introduced an option to share tunes directly as Stories in Facebook and Instagram, helping you convey your musical mood to your followers...

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Tidal shares songs as Stories in Facebook and Instagram

Engadget

YouTube sues user who extorted others through fake takedown requests

A lawsuit filed by YouTube yesterday claims that a user abused its copyright infringement reporting system to extort fellow YouTubers and carry out a swatting attack. YouTube alleges that Christopher Brady, of Omaha, Nebraska, filed dozens of Digital...

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Engadget

YouTube sues user who extorted others through fake takedown requests

Engadget

A fourth 'Matrix' movie is happening

Yes, you read that correctly. About 16 years after the last movie in the series, Warner Bros. has confirmed work on a fourth movie in The Matrix universe. And it doesn't appear to be a spinoff -- Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will star in the...

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Engadget

A fourth 'Matrix' movie is happening

Engadget

Spotify is getting its own TV mini-series

The music business has been through a turbulent decade, with dwindling sales, record labels pushing "360 deals" on artists and concert venues beginning to take cuts of merchandise sales. The debates around the ethics of streaming apps are a high-prof...

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Spotify is getting its own TV mini-series

Engadget

Sega's remastered "Yakuza" bundle for PS4 comes to the US

With western interest in the Yakuza series the most passionate it's ever been, Sega is bringing remastered PlayStation 4 versions of its PlayStation 3 open-world Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5 games to the West. Fans can purchase The Yakuza Remaster...

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Sega's remastered "Yakuza" bundle for PS4 comes to the US

Venturebeat

Twitter acquires Lightwell to improve conversations

Twitter has acquired Lightwell, an app creation engine launched by interactive storytelling startup Hullabalu, to bolster its efforts around conversations.

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Twitter acquires Lightwell to improve conversations

Venturebeat

OpenAI releases curtailed version of GPT-2 language model

OpenAI today said it's releasing a version of GPT-2, but that it's not yet safe for the public release of the original 1.5 billion parameter version.

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OpenAI releases curtailed version of GPT-2 language model

Venturebeat

Apple health team sees departures, reportedly over modest ambitions

Quite a few members of Apple's health team have exited the company in recent months, and a lack of ambitious direction is reportedly to blame.

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Apple health team sees departures, reportedly over modest ambitions

Venturebeat

Google launches Android Studio 3.5 with improved memory settings, build speed, and Apply Changes

Google today launched Android Studio 3.5, the latest version of its IDE, fixing over 600 bugs, 50 memory leaks, 20 IDE hangs.

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Google launches Android Studio 3.5 with improved memory settings, build speed, and Apply Changes

Venturebeat

Here's what Marvel's Avengers gameplay looks like

Square Enix has finally given us some Marvel's Avengers gameplay footage, and it turns out they are making a super-hero action game. Weird!

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Here's what Marvel's Avengers gameplay looks like

Venturebeat

Gmail in G Suite now uses AI for inline spelling and grammar suggestions

Google announced improvements to Gmail spelling and grammar correction tools in G Suite. They'll roll out August 20 for early release domains.

5 hours ago

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Gmail in G Suite now uses AI for inline spelling and grammar suggestions

Ars Technica

Spider-Man is out of the MCU thanks to Sony/Disney standoff

The two studios failed to negotiate new terms giving Disney future co-financing stake

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Ars Technica

Spider-Man is out of the MCU thanks to Sony/Disney standoff

Ars Technica

Apple TV+ will launch in November for $9.99, facing off against Disney+ at $6.99

Report claims Apple will launch with a small slate of shows and a free trial.

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Ars Technica

Apple TV+ will launch in November for $9.99, facing off against Disney+ at $6.99

Ars Technica

Facebook audit of alleged anti-conservative bias fails to pinpoint any

Report angers conservatives, who say bias is real and call audit a "smokescreen."

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Ars Technica

Facebook audit of alleged anti-conservative bias fails to pinpoint any

Ars Technica

With Artemis, NASA at risk of repeating Apollo mistakes, scientist warns

"To look forward to the Moon, we need to learn from the past."

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Ars Technica

With Artemis, NASA at risk of repeating Apollo mistakes, scientist warns

Ars Technica

The Matrix 4 is officially happening with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss

Lana Wachowski will helm with Cloud Atlas, Sense8 scribes; production begins in 2020.

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Ars Technica

The Matrix 4 is officially happening with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss

Ars Technica

AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan

After losing 1 million customers, AT&T makes streaming TV even pricier.

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Ars Technica

AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan