Month: July 2018

Ah summer. At one time the warmer months meant nights spent beneath the warm glow of the drive-in movie projector. These days … not so much. Thankfully, Amazon Prime Video has came in to pick up the slack. While the service catches a lot of […]

The first official stream takes place on July 27th, when the developer and Facebook gaming “all-star friends” will mark the launch of After Hours. You can expect a series of broadcasts running through mid-August with certain Facebook streamers offering perks through their respective channels. You […]

For the past two years, researchers at Northwestern University have been analyzing the habits of tens of thousands of scientists—using Dropbox. Looking at data about academics’ folder-sharing habits, they found the most successful scientists share some collaboration behaviors in common. And on Friday, they published […]

Bari – Prima la contestazione di alcuni giorni fa nella sua Lecce da parte di alcuni attivisti No Tap, quindi lo scontro con il governatore Michele Emiliano nel corso di un incontro a Bari: le giornate in terra di Puglia si stanno rivelando piuttosto … […]

Did you know Segway is making a pair of self-balancing roller shoes? It is! The company has been tinkering with all sorts of new form factors since it was acquired by Ninebot in 2015, from half-sized Segways to kick scooters. Next up: inline… shoe… platform […]

mink , n : (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on July 25, 2018: Interior courtyard of the Tabātabāei House, a historic house in Kashan, Iran. The house was built in the early 1880s by Ustad Ali Maryam, architect of the Borujerdis House and has 40 rooms, 4 courtyards, 4 […]

The Wikipedia article of the day for July 25, 2018 is Shorwell helmet. The Shorwell helmet (replica pictured) is a sixth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found near Shorwell on the Isle of Wight in southern England. It was one of the grave goods of a high-status Anglo-Saxon […]

“In response to the feedback we’ve received, we’ve removed thousands of categories from exclusion targeting,” Facebook said in an April announcement. “We focused mainly on topics that relate to potentially sensitive personal attributes, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion.” It also began requiring […]

Just a month ago, Valve announced Steam Chat — an overhaul to its aging chat system, and the company’s answer to rapidly growing competition from apps like Discord. At the time, it was a beta limited only to those who were granted access. Today it’s […]