This January we asked you to do a pull-up centric workout a few times a week, either doing pull-ups themselves (if you can) or exercises that would bring you closer to being able to do a pull-up. So how did it go?
Source: LifeHacker – How Did You Do With January’s Pull-Up Challenge?
Today, WhatsApp introduced a new app update that adds compatibility with Carplay. The additional functionality was first noted on the Dutch site iCulture, and it’s automatically available who those who update to version 2.18.20 of the app.
Source: Engadget – WhatsApp is the first third-party messaging service on CarPlay
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Source: Gizmodo – German Automakers Reportedly Forced Humans To Breathe Toxic Diesel Fumes In Tests, Too
Apple is allegedly far along in development on a trio of upcoming Mac computers that will feature custom ARM co-processors. These new ARM chips will work in conjunction with the Intel processors that already power the machines according to the new report, and these Macs will include two new MacBook models along with an unnamed desktop (presumably
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Reportedly Developing Three New Macs With Custom ARM Co-Processors
The first bitcoin transaction ever was by man who bought two pizzas. That arrangement would be worth over a $100 million today. Regret was baked into Bitcoin from the beginning. Last year, somewhat inexplicably, Bitcoin’s price rose more than 1,000 percent. That number has since dipped, but a single bitcoin is still,…
Source: Gizmodo – How Much Should I Regret Not Buying Bitcoin?
In June last year, Apple announced the HomePod, its first smart-speaker which will battle Amazon’s sleeper hit Echo speakers and Google’s Home speakers. Apple being late to enter a product category is nothing new, but the HomePod has a few other strange things about it. Apple said it won’t begin shipping the HomePod until December that year, in a departure of its own tradition. Then the device’s shipment was delayed till “early 2018” — February 9 is the current shipping date. Bloomberg has reported about the difficulties Apple engineers faced over the years to come up with the HomePod. At any rate, Business Insider now has more information about the device, and is reporting the things that Apple’s first smart-speaker won’t be able to do. From the report (condensed): 1. HomePod can’t pair with Android phones. 2. HomePod doesn’t recognize different people’s voices. 3. HomePod can’t check your calendar. 4. HomePod doesn’t work well with other streaming services besides Apple Music. (Spotify, Tindal, and Pandora users won’t be able to use Siri.) 5. HomePod can’t hook up to another device using an auxiliary cord. 6. HomePod can’t make calls on its own. (In order to make a call using HomePod, you have to dial the person’s number on your iPhone, then manually select that the call play through HomePod.) 7. The HomePod version of Siri isn’t prepared to answer random questions like Alexa and Google Assistant.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Things Apple’s 0 HomePod Smart-Speaker Can’t Do: Answer Random Questions, Check Calendar, Work With an Android Phone, and More
It looks like Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, the mobile version of the console and PC game, is just around the corner. According to an App Store listing, it will hit iOS on February 9th for players who have an iPhone 6s or later, late model iPad or…
Source: Engadget – ‘Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition’ launches February 9th
Each Monday we’re tackling one of your pressing personal finance questions by asking a handful of money experts for their advice. If you have a general question or money concern, or just want to talk about something PeFi-related, leave it in the comments or email me at alicia.adamczyk@lifehacker.com.
Source: LifeHacker – How Two-Income Couples Should Manage Their Cashflow
It’s very easy to look at an animal mimicking a human-like behavior and think “Wow! That animal is doing a human thing! It looks so cute and happy” (because humans are so cute and happy, right?) That is almost never the case. If an animal looks weird, it probably is weird—and not in a good way.
Source: Gizmodo – The Shower Rat Is Very Obviously Not Cleaning Itself
Enlarge / Astronaut Charles Bolden served as NASA’s administrator for more than seven years. (credit: NASA)
More than a year has now passed since four-time astronaut Charles Bolden resigned as NASA administrator on January 20, 2017, after seven years on the job. NASA has been led by an acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, ever since. It is unprecedented for NASA to go without formal leadership for this long.
Five months ago, the Trump administration finally put forward a nominee for the post of administrator, Oklahoma Congressman and pilot James Bridenstine. Although he was confirmed along a party-line vote twice during Senate confirmation hearings, he has yet to receive a vote before the full Senate. Increasingly, it is obvious that the White House does not have the votes to confirm Bridenstine in a Senate where Republicans hold only a narrow margin.
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, has led opposition to Bridenstine, saying he is too politically polarizing a figure to lead NASA. Nelson has convinced his fellow Floridian Senator, Republican Marco Rubio, to oppose Bridenstine as well. However, Nelson’s motivations may not be just the sanctity of NASA’s bipartisanship, as Bridenstine may not be pliable enough for the Florida Senator who is looking out for the interests of Kennedy Space Center. Nelson may be more interested in someone like Kennedy’s director, Bob Cabana, as a potential Bridenstine replacement.
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Source: Ars Technica – NASA has gone a year without a formal leader—with no end in sight
Even the fruits and vegetables are wrapped in plastic so that the sensors can read them, inculcating a culture of convenience and waste.
Source: TreeHugger – Why Amazon Go should be a no-go: We will drown in a sea of plastic
It has been more than two years since the release of Ncurses 6.0 as the GNU project for developing terminal-independent text-based user-interfaces while this weekend marked the availability of the big Ncurses 6.1 update…
Source: Phoronix – Ncurses 6.1 Released With A Variety Of Improvements & Other Changes
Lupita Nyong’o teases her Star Wars future. Agents of SHIELD reveals Dove Cameron’s mysterious character. Bruce Campbell says there’s a huge fight coming in the next season of Ash vs. Evil Dead. Plus, new snippets from Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time, and a sneaky glimpse at Annihilation. Spoilers now!
Source: Gizmodo – At Least One Familiar Marvel Character Won’t Return For Avengers: Infinity War
If you’ve ever eaten at a nice steakhouse, there’s a good chance you’ve eaten sous-vide meat. Here’s a secret though: It’s really easy to get those kinds of results yourself, and Amazon’s here to help with a $129 deal on the newest Wi-Fi version of Anova’s top-selling immersion circulator.
Source: LifeHacker – Will It Sous-Vide? Find Out For Yourself With a Great Deal On Anova’s Circulator
Update to Disable Mitigation against Spectre, Variant 2. You know, for when your update was not really an update but rather a downdate, which might be referred to as the poopshow….to say it nicely. Anyway, this should roll back the Intel patch that was causing reboots if you have it impacting any important boxes. Applies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1Windows 8.1Windows 10 and more.
Intel has reported issues with recently released microcode meant to address Spectre variant 2 (CVE 2017-5715 Branch Target Injection) – specifically Intel noted that this microcode can cause “higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior” and then noted that situations like this may result in “data loss or corruption.” Our own experience is that system instability can in some circumstances cause data loss or corruption. On January 22nd Intel recommended that customers stop deploying the current microcode version on impacted processors while they perform additional testing on the updated solution. We understand that Intel is continuing to investigate the potential impact of the current microcode version and encourage customers to review their guidance on an ongoing basis to inform their decisions.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Microsoft Issue Patch to Disable Intel’s Patch Issued for Variant 2 which has Issues
ZDNet is suggesting that “Intel will soon stop being a PC-centric company.” Well, when you finally tell the world that every CPU you have made over the last decade is a center for cyberattack, maybe stopping being PC-centric is not such a bad idea. Ah oh, I think I hear the “death of the PC” drums beating again, as they do every other year for the last 20. Of course Intel having some competition from AMD again after 10 years might put a new spin on the ball as well.
Intel has been trying to reduce its dependence on the PC business by moving into data-centric businesses such as the Internet of Things, which includes automated driving. These made up 47 percent of revenues in fiscal 2017, so in the next few years, the PC could become a minority.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Intel Moving Away from PC says ZD
We pushed out our review of Enermax’ new LiqTech TR4 280 AIO cooler for all Threadripper CPUs. We put it to the test using a highly overclocked 1950X, and Enermax still continues to impress while being the only company truly in the TR4 AIO market with a properly sized and configured cold plate.
You [H]|Club assignment for today is to see how many time you can interject the name “LiqTech” into a conversation with a normie.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Quiet Threadripper Overclocked Coolling
Brian Krebs, reporting for Krebs on Security: ATM “jackpotting” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this week after the U.S. Secret Service quietly began warning financial institutions that jackpotting attacks have now been spotted targeting cash machines here in the United States. To carry out a jackpotting attack, thieves first must gain physical access to the cash machine. From there they can use malware or specialized electronics — often a combination of both — to control the operations of the ATM. On Jan. 21, 2018, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing rumblings about jackpotting attacks, also known as “logical attacks,” hitting U.S. ATM operators. I quickly reached out to ATM giant NCR Corp. to see if they’d heard anything. NCR said at the time it had received unconfirmed reports, but nothing solid yet.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit US ATMs
The littleBits team has long been eager to teach kids about the joys of building electronics, and it’s taking that commitment to its logical conclusion. It’s partnering with Pearson on the STEM Invention Toolbox, a kit that teaches students at varyin…
Source: Engadget – littleBits and Pearson bring electronics kits to US schools
They made an entire city out of that Donald Glover show. And it’s got lots of tricks to it. If you need to get to a street called Peachtree, make sure it’s definitely the Peachtree Street, and not the 70 other Atlanta streets with “Peachtree” in the name. And when an inch of snow freaks out the city, stay off the road…
Source: LifeHacker – Tell Us Your Atlanta Tips
