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Month: July 2018
Netflix’s new smart downloads will keep pace with your binging habits
Netflix has unveiled a new feature today that will help you better manage your downloaded TV series. The feature, which will be exclusive to Android devices at launch, is appropriately called ‘smart downloads’ and its purpose is to delete any episode you’ve already watched, plus […]
Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car secrets
A former Apple employee who downloaded a plan for a self-driving car circuit board and booked a flight to China was arrested at the San Jose airport on July 7th. The man, Xiaolang Zhang, had made known that he was going to go work for […]
Book Excerpt: How Music Fans Built the Internet
There weren’t a lot of people online in the early 1990s. Mark Kelly, keyboard player for the English band Marillion, early internet adopter and self-titled “co-inventor of crowdfunding,” was an exception. One night after a concert someone handed him a stack of papers—printouts from an […]
It’s now easier to change Google Assistant’s voice
The addition should be platform-agnostic and will be widely available in the US by the end of the week. It’s not certain when other countries will receive the fresh interface, but that’s also dependent on having multi-voice support in the first place. If you live […]
Nerf updates laser tag with smartphone AR
There’s nothing like a great new toy to make you mourn the ghost of bygone youth. I don’t have the opportunity to try many out at this job, but when I do, there’s an invariable pang of jealousy for kids today who have much broader […]
HTC reveals more on its blockchain phone
HTC has unveiled more details on its all-new blockchain phone. The Taiwanese phone maker has revealed that the HTC Exodus will be available early to fans in the third quarter of 2018. The Android-powered device is set to be powered by blockchain technology, including a […]
HTC’s blockchain ‘Exodus’ phone launches this fall
In May HTC announced plans for a blockchain-focused mobile device and now development is far enough along to say that its Exodus will arrive in Q3 of this year. A website is active and taking signups for more information, promising “the first cold wallet phone […]
DIY Guns: A Landmark Ruling Opens the Door for Homemade Firearms
Five years ago, 25-year-old radical libertarian Cody Wilson stood on a remote central Texas gun range and pulled the trigger on the world’s first fully 3-D-printed gun. When, to his relief, his plastic invention fired a .380-caliber bullet into a berm of dirt without jamming […]
UK’s Information Commissioner will fine Facebook the maximum £500K over Cambridge Analytica breach
Facebook continues to face fallout over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed how user data was stealthily obtained by way of quizzes and then appropriated for other purposes, such as targeted political advertising. Today, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it would be […]
