Month: August 2018

Samsung’s latest monolith of a phablet has officially been unveiled, and we’ve now got the lowdown on what makes the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 special. The Note 9 has been announced in two different colours – Ocean Blue and Midnight Black – as well as […]

With the growth in cross-border payment services and ‘challenger’ bank cards for consumers, you’d be forgiven for wondering where the options are for small business — where cash is particularly precious. They do exist. One of the newer options is Neat, which is nested in Hong […]

If policymaking is never easy, and military policymaking is very difficult, it stands to reason that space military policymaking is basically impossible. Yet today, in a speech at the Pentagon, Vice President Mike Pence announced the formation of a sixth branch of the US armed […]

Massive Ocean Wave Swallows Up Ship ​One of the scary things about the ocean is that you can see its biggest waves coming from hundreds of feet away. And there’s nothing you can do about it. August 9, 2018 at 04:38PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2M2XREy

The Wikipedia article of the day for August 10, 2018 is Bill McCann. Bill McCann (1892–1957) was a decorated soldier of World War I, a barrister, and a prominent figure in the military and ex-service community of South Australia during the interwar period. He enlisted […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 10, 2018: Usain Bolt (Jamaica) during the 100 m heat of the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia. https://ift.tt/2KGKCUD

Though Facebook has attempted to stem the spread of misinformation on its site in various ways since acknowledging its fake news problem, the issue still persists. In some cases, that’s because Facebook has made an active decision to leave misinformation on its site. Take, for […]

doofer , n : (slang) An object the name of which the speaker or writer cannot remember or does not know. [from 1930s] (slang, specifically) The remote control for a television. […] (Australia, slang) A participant in a doof (“outdoor dance party held in remote […]

The game industry is about to go through some pretty major changes, all centered around a new technology: game streaming.  While traditional gaming meant owning a relatively high-powered console and buying physical discs for each game, the near future could bring libraries of unimaginable sizes […]

A handful of tweets and videos that appear to have been cited in the choice to remove Alex Jones from Facebook and YouTube vanished from Twitter on Thursday after being called out in a CNN piece focused on the company’s hypocrisy. Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch […]