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Wednesday October 17, 2018. 11:32 PM
Household chores are a major time suck. Mopping floors, dusting furniture, and tidying clothes are lengthy projects and kill downtime. Even though these mundane tasks aren’t fun, what if we had the opportunity […] The post WTF? Wednesday: The Wacky Sport of ‘Extreme Ironing’...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Apple on Wednesday began allowing users in the U.S. to download a copy of all of the data that they have stored with the company from a single online portal. U.S. users will be able to download data such as all of their...
This man's reaction when a stranger points out he's wearing his motorcycle helmet BACKWARDS is endearing. His embarrassed grin is pure gold. The part when they both turn their heads in unison! So meme-worthy. Seems to have been taped on this IMGURian's Android phone...
Here, you look like you could use a ferret video. Theories for this adorable and mystifying behavior, a ferret that seems to be introducing her caretaker to her newborn ferret babies: • “She wants you to babysit so she can go out with her friends” • 'Feast, my...
People's Facebook posts might predict whether they are suffering from depression, researchers reported this week. From a report: The researchers found that the words people used seemed to indicate whether they would later be diagnosed with depression. The findings offer a...
Leaky AWS S3 bucket fingered by infosec bods Now, now, America. Don't go overboard. Again.…
The 'Civilian Interaction Training Program' is a project of the Texas Commission On Law Enforcement, aimed at teaching children how not to terrify heavily armed, easily-spooked Texas law enforcement officers, who, when triggered, are at risk of murdering children during...
In the early days of what ultimately became Waymo, Google's self-driving car division (known at the time as 'Project Chauffeur'), there were 'more than a dozen accidents, at least three of which were serious,' according to a new article in The New Yorker. From a report: The...
Millions of dollars in funding and billions of dollars in valuations have made scooters the next big thing since the last big thing. From a report: When Michael Ramsey, an analyst for technology research firm Gartner, started in February to put together his 2018 'hype cycle' ...
Enlarge (credit: Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In the early days of what ultimately became Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division (known at the time as 'Project Chauffeur'), there were 'more than a dozen accidents, at least three of which were serious,'...
For the longest time, the prevailing wisdom was that DC did better TV shows and Marvel did better movies. While the home of Superman and Batman still hasn’t caught up to the MCU […] The post 11 Villains We Want to See in the New Season of ‘Daredevil’ appeared first on...
McAfee is expanding its Mvision security platform with new cloud as well as Endpoint Detection and Response capabilities.
You might not think the eye of a Metapocyrtus subquadrulifer beetle is a work of art, but you may just change your mind when you see Yousef Al Habshi’s photo of one, which […] The post Under a Microscope: Winners of 2018 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Contest appeared fir...
The Sesame Workshop is reporting that long-time Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney has announced his retirement, noting that he's performed on the program since its 1969 premiere. Spinney has played the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years! After...
Even if I liked pets, which I don’t, living in a classically cramped New York City apartment makes owning one pretty infeasible. That’s why I was pretty excited to check out the Anki […] The post GEEK PICK: Anki Vector appeared first on Geek.com.
Grubby Grubbs' grifting days are gone A programmer who wrote and sold software that backdoored PCs so they could be remotely controlled has been jailed for 30 months – and forced to give up his stash of 114 Bitcoins.…
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update was a real mess for Microsoft, not to mention for those users who installed it and lost their data. That feature update is back with Windows Insiders for further testing, and it likely won’t be long until it’s re-released. In the...
A security researcher from Colombia has found a way of gaining admin rights and boot persistence on Windows PCs that's simple to execute and hard to stop -- all the features that hackers and malware authors are looking for from an exploitation technique. From a report:...
In this episode of the Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray , and PCWorld executive editor Melissa Riofrio discuss the key takeaways from our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 review, and how AMD performs after Principled Technologies revised its...
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