Actually, on some streets this would be useful every day.
Source: TreeHugger – Just what we need for Halloween: A zombie-proof bike
Monthly Archives: October 2017
LG's phone arm continues to eat away at its profits
One of the great problems with being a popular musician or comedian is that your audience is always aching for you to play the greatest hits. That can get pretty boring, especially if you want to be known as an artists with a broader, or deeper, body…
Source: Engadget – LG’s phone arm continues to eat away at its profits
How To Find a Woman's G-Spot
Like so many other aspects of female sexuality, the G-spot is typically—and unfairly—thought of as mysterious, elusive, and complex. In reality, it’s not that complicated. It’s a part of a woman’s body that—for some women—can create a lot of pleasure. End of story. Here’s how to find her G-spot, and what to do with it…
Source: LifeHacker – How To Find a Woman’s G-Spot
Intel Has Been Working On A New User-Space File-System For Persistent Memory
Intel developers have been working on a new user-space file-system designed for persistent memory. This user-space file-system is designed to be high-performance and does not make use of FUSE…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Has Been Working On A New User-Space File-System For Persistent Memory
ARM Rides AI Wave With New Machine Learning Group
There is a ton of attention being paid to artificial intelligence and machine learning in the tech industry at the moment, encompassing a variety of fields, everything from digital assistants in smartphones and other gadgets, to self-driving vehicles, and more. It is no surprise, then, that chipmaker ARM has gone and created a new machine
Source: Hot Hardware – ARM Rides AI Wave With New Machine Learning Group
'Bury Me, My Love' brings a Syrian refugee's tale to your phone
After creating a big buzz within the indie gaming community, interactive dialogue-driven game Bury Me, My Love launches today on iOS and Android. Based on real life stories, the game tells the tale of Nour and her husband Majid, both caught up in the…
Source: Engadget – ‘Bury Me, My Love’ brings a Syrian refugee’s tale to your phone
Save Your Feet with Amazon's Sale on Men's Rockport Shoes
When it comes to finding the right pair of shoes that won’t hurt your feet after an hour but are still pretty okay looking, Rockport should be on your radar. Amazon has four styles (with a couple colors each) on sale right now that, if you’re in need of some new kicks, you should take advantage of. They’re all priced…
Source: LifeHacker – Save Your Feet with Amazon’s Sale on Men’s Rockport Shoes
Amazon's Blowing Out a Bunch of Handy Photography Accessories, Today Only
The best camera is the one you have with you, but that’s much more likely to be your DSLR if you take advantage of today’s Amazon Gold Box.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon’s Blowing Out a Bunch of Handy Photography Accessories, Today Only
Today Is Napoleon Hill Day, Named For the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All Time
Walk into any bookstore in America and you’ll find plenty of titles written by Napoleon Hill in the financial self-help section. He practically invented the genre in the 1930s with his most famous book Think And Grow Rich. And for that, Virginia has declared today Napoleon Hill Day. But many people have no idea that…
Source: Gizmodo – Today Is Napoleon Hill Day, Named For the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All Time
Twitter closes in on its first-ever profitable quarter
Twitter has updated the world on its financial position for the third quarter of this year, and the outlook is better than it has been for a while. The company has seen monthly active user figures increase, arresting the slide that it had to report a…
Source: Engadget – Twitter closes in on its first-ever profitable quarter
Amazon Announces Paid Subscriptions To Help Devs Monetize Alexa Skills
Amazon seems to have struck gold with its push into smart speaker territory. The company’s digital assistant, dubbed Alexa, is every bit as recognizable as Siri, and Amazon’s been able to monetize its AI assistant across a growing line of products. Now third-party developers will get their chance. Amazon is introducing paid subscriptions for
Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Announces Paid Subscriptions To Help Devs Monetize Alexa Skills
Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition
BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: While both the Cinnamon and Mate versions of Linux Mint are decent choices for computer users, there was one version that was always utterly bizarre — the KDE Edition. Don’t get me wrong, KDE is a fine environment, but Kubuntu already exists. Having a version of Mint using KDE was redundant and confusing. Thankfully, today, the Linux Mint team announces it is finally killing the KDE edition. “In continuation with what’s been done in the past, Linux Mint 18.3 will feature a KDE edition, but it will be the last release to do so. I would like to thank Kubuntu for the amazing work they have done. The quality of Plasma 5 in Xenial made backports a necessity. The rapid pace of development upstream from the KDE project made this very challenging, yet they managed to provide a stable flow of updates for us and we were able to ship good KDE editions thanks to that. I don’t think this would have been possible without them,” says Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint. Lefebvre further says, “KDE is a fantastic environment but it’s also a different world, one which evolves away from us and away from everything we focus on. Their apps, their ecosystem and the QT toolkit which is central there have very little in common with what we’re working on. We’re not just shipping releases and distributing upstream software. We’re a product distribution and we see ourselves as a complete desktop operating system. We like to integrate solutions, develop whatâ(TM)s missing, adapt what’s not fitting perfectly, and we do a great deal of that not only around our own Cinnamon desktop environment but also thanks to cross-DE frameworks we put in place to support similar environments, such as MATE and Xfce.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition
Qualcomm tries to find a place for VR in medical training
It’s the “Wild West” age for virtual reality. The medium has gained traction as a canvas for storytelling and gaming, but hasn’t yet been applied in many other fields. As the industry explores ways to use VR effectively, Qualcomm wants to make sure i…
Source: Engadget – Qualcomm tries to find a place for VR in medical training
Google Delivers First Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview
Google launched Android 8.0 Oreo over the summer, but chances are pretty slim that your device has received the update unless you have a supported Pixel or Nexus device in-hand. Smartphone OEMs are notoriously slow to release major Android updates, but that isn’t stopping Google from moving on to the next branch of Oreo: Android 8.1.
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Source: Hot Hardware – Google Delivers First Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview
There's a New Way to Get Smart Lights: Replace Your Switches, Not Your Bulbs
Smart homes have finally improved enough that having a home that responds to your every wish and command is almost within reach. The problem, is that unless you are a Hollywood movie star or the offspring of an oil baron, retooling your house to smarten it up is too expensive to do all once, which means you’re going…
Source: Gizmodo – There’s a New Way to Get Smart Lights: Replace Your Switches, Not Your Bulbs
BT is slashing the price of line rental for landline-only customers
A BT landline costs £19 per month, and that’s without any kind of free calls package added on top. The cost is easy to ignore when it’s absorbed into a TV and broadband package for £38.49 per month, but customers that only have a landline…
Source: Engadget – BT is slashing the price of line rental for landline-only customers
12 big cities commit to electric-only buses & fossil fuel-free zones
The air in our cities is about to get a whole lot cleaner.
Source: TreeHugger – 12 big cities commit to electric-only buses & fossil fuel-free zones
Logitech's Circle cameras now obey Google Assistant commands
Source: Engadget – Logitech’s Circle cameras now obey Google Assistant commands
Zappi: A charging station that prioritizes 100% green, surplus energy
Solar and wind are intermittent, and sometimes there’s a glut. The Zappi helps you make use of that glut.
Source: TreeHugger – Zappi: A charging station that prioritizes 100% green, surplus energy
Google Developer Claims iPhone Camera Permissions Turn Rogue Apps Into Peeping Toms
For many people, the most important aspect of a smartphone is the camera performance. That is why phone makers put so much focus on the camera, with each new generation handset upping the ante with better photo-taking capabilities. But what if these cameras were used to spy on you? According to a software developer, the permissions granted
Source: Hot Hardware – Google Developer Claims iPhone Camera Permissions Turn Rogue Apps Into Peeping Toms