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Source: io9 – Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne Might Be Dying for at Least 3 Seasons
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Eating Breakfast Maybe Not Be That Helpful for Weight Loss After All
Breakfast is often said to be the most important meal of the day, but according to a new review out Wednesday in the BMJ, it won’t help you lose weight. The study found no good evidence that regularly eating breakfast helps us cut down on calories or avoid weight gain. More damning, it even found some evidence that…
Source: Gizmodo – Eating Breakfast Maybe Not Be That Helpful for Weight Loss After All
To Facebook, your privacy is worth a $20 gift card
Another day, another Facebook controversy. The latest backlash follows a TechCrunch report that the company was secretly paying teenagers to access their data and basically monitor their every move on the web. Facebook was asking people to install a…
Source: Engadget – To Facebook, your privacy is worth a gift card
'Overwatch' heads to Paris in latest map
The newest Overwatch map replaces team-chat whine with fine wine. The Paris map is live right now for PC players in the PTR program, allowing battles to break out along the Seine. It’s an Assault map, and it features a few notable spots, including a…
Source: Engadget – ‘Overwatch’ heads to Paris in latest map
Second Apple Hardware Engineer Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets for China
An Apple hardware engineer working in the top secret “Project Titan” autonomous vehicle division has been arrested for stealing trade secrets. A fellow Apple employee witnessed Jizhong Chen taking unauthorized pictures of the vehicle. He also neglected to tell Apple that he had been hired by an autonomous vehicle company in China. He was caught when he tried to board a flight to China. When confronted, he admitted to backing up 2,000 files containing manuals and schematics from the project to his personal hard drive. This is the second Apple engineer caught trying to board a plane to China with Apple autonomous vehicle trade secrets. Thanks @TheCommander !
Apple said disclosure of the data taken by Chen would be “enormously damaging,” according to prosecutors. Among the photos seized by the government: an image stamped Dec. 19 diagramming Apple’s autonomous driving architecture. Another from June 2018 depicts an assembly drawing of a wire harness for an autonomous vehicle. The engineer later told Apple he intended to travel to China to visit his ill father, but was arrested last week before he could board his direct flight. He was released from federal custody after posting $500,000 in cash and property on Jan. 25.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Second Apple Hardware Engineer Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets for China
Google Chrome To Get Warnings For 'Lookalike URLs'
Google Chrome browser is set to add a feature that will warn users when accessing sites with domain names that look like authentic websites. From a report: The feature has been in the works for quite some time at Google and is a response to the practice of using typosquatted domains or IDN homograph attacks to lure users on websites they didn’t intend to access. Since the release of Chrome Canary 70, Google engineers have been testing a new feature called “Navigation suggestions for lookalike URLs.” In Chrome Canary distributions — Google Chrome’s testing ground for new features — users can access the following URL to enable the feature: chrome://flags/#enable-lookalike-url-navigation-suggestions.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Chrome To Get Warnings For ‘Lookalike URLs’
2019 Could Be the Year Your Phone Finally Gets a Real Dark Mode
Windows 10 has had dark mode settings for a quite some time, and Apple added it to macOS with its Mojave update last year. But strangely, neither iOS nor stock Android offers a true system-wide dark mode option right now.
Source: Gizmodo – 2019 Could Be the Year Your Phone Finally Gets a Real Dark Mode
The Muse Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Is Almost as Cruel as It Is Boring | Dead
The Muse Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Is Almost as Cruel as It Is Boring | Deadspin An Interview With The Local TV Producer Fired For A Graphic Calling Tom Brady A “Known Cheater” | Splinter Jonah Peretti Cautions Against Leaks in Leaked Audio of BuzzFeed All-Hands Meeting | The A.V. Club You,…
Source: LifeHacker – The Muse Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Is Almost as Cruel as It Is Boring | Dead
How Scientists Used a 1906 Photo to Find the Center of San Francisco's Most Infamous Earthquake
Researchers used a grainy photograph of a toppled train combined with an eyewitness account to analyze the deadly earthquake that struck San Francisco over 110 years ago.
Source: Gizmodo – How Scientists Used a 1906 Photo to Find the Center of San Francisco’s Most Infamous Earthquake
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K Perfectly Captures the Agony of Wanting to Be Left Alone
Comics, shows, and films about people blessed with incredible gifts almost invariably end up telling stories about how understanding the balance between power and responsibility is what keeps them human despite the overly-dramatic lives they lead. Shūichi Asō’s The Disastrous Life of Saiki K dabbles in that space…
Source: io9 – The Disastrous Life of Saiki K Perfectly Captures the Agony of Wanting to Be Left Alone
An 80,000-Piece, 9-Foot Diorama Of The Death Star Trench Run From Star Wars: A New Hope
This is the 80,000-piece, 8.79-foot long (I lied in the title!) by 4.49-foot deep and 3.60-feet tall Death Star trench run diorama constructed by South Korean certified LEGO professional Wani Kim and his team of builders. No word if it cost as much to build as an actual Death Star, but I bet it was close.
This LEGO build consists of around 80,000 LEGO elements and is even populated with 100 minifigures. Most of those Minifigs are in the back, where you can see the interior of the Death Star! It comes complete with tractor beam controls, Vader’s chamber, detention cells, a locker room and more.
Oh yeah, the whole think also lights up and has lighting effects.
Man, that’s impressive. I could see myself playing with that for at least 20 minutes before transforming into Godzilla and stomped across the whole thing on my way to fight Mothra. “We don’t even bother buying him toys any more.” Mom! “And once we realized he’s just as happy playing with cat turds–” Stop! “We just have to get him dewormed every couple weeks.”
Keep going for a handful more shots including the impressive rear *licks finger, tries sizzle on ass, it doesn’t, makes promise to self I’ll go to the gym more*, but check out Wani’s Instagram page (with videos of the light effects) for even more.
Source: Geekologie – An 80,000-Piece, 9-Foot Diorama Of The Death Star Trench Run From Star Wars: A New Hope
The Wii Shop Theme Was A Banger
Opening in December 2006, and serving millions around the world for over a decade, the Wii Shop closes its virtual doors at the end of today. While the storefront itself will be gone, though, its theme song will live on forever.
Source: Kotaku – The Wii Shop Theme Was A Banger
Apple's 2020 iPhones may use laser-assisted 3D cameras
Apple’s plans to improve iPhone photography might go well beyond adding a third rear camera. Bloomberg sources say the tech giant is developing a 3D camera system that uses a laser scanner to capture depth information at distances much greater than…
Source: Engadget – Apple’s 2020 iPhones may use laser-assisted 3D cameras
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Once Again Heading Toward the Sun
It’s been a while since we last heard from the Parker Solar Probe, the NASA spacecraft voted most likely to end up as a blistered chunk of molten metal. An update from the space agency suggests it’s now all systems go for the Sun-bound probe, which recently began its second of 24 planned stellar orbits.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Once Again Heading Toward the Sun
Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police: Google announced its plans to sunset its Google+ social media network for consumers on a sour note in October. The platform, which has a small but dedicated user-base, decided to shut down following Google’s acknowledgement of a data exposure that affected up to 500,000 Google+ profiles. Shortly after, in December, the shutdown timeline was expedited due to another, larger bug that had the potential to reveal private user information and impacted approximately 52.5 million users. Now, the company has detailed its shutdown timeline for the consumer version of Google+ — and it’s not wasting any time.
The shutdown timeline is as follows:
– As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities, or events.
– The Google+ feature for website comments will be removed by Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2nd.
– Google+ sign-in buttons will stop working in the coming weeks, but in some cases will be replaced by a Google sign-in button.
– Google+ Community owners and moderators who are downloading data from their Community will gain additional data for download starting early March 2019. That includes author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community.
-On April 2nd, all Google+ accounts and pages will be shut down and Google will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in users’ Album Archive and Google+ pages will also be deleted. Photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers
The 10 Best Deals of January 30, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Best Deals of January 30, 2019
How to Stay Sane With Kids During the Polar Vortex
News reports are saying the polar vortex hitting much of the United States this week is bringing temperatures that are the coldest in a generation. Which means our kids have the potential to be the most stir-crazy in a generation. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Stay Sane With Kids During the Polar Vortex
Nintendo's Wii Shop Channel shuts down today
It’s a sad day for loyal fans of the original Wii. As promised back in 2017, Nintendo is closing down the Wii Shop Channel as of January 30th. It lost much of its usefulness after March 26th of last year, when you could no longer add Wii Points and…
Source: Engadget – Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel shuts down today
Insys exec allegedly gave lap dance to doctor while pushing deadly opioid
Enlarge / Former Regional Director Sunrise Lee, a defendant in the Insys trial, exits the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on January 29, 2019. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images/Boston Globe)
A former regional sales director for Insys Therapeutics allegedly gave a lap dance to a doctor as the company was pushing him to prescribe its deadly opioid painkiller to patients. That’s according to multiple reports of testimony given Tuesday from a former Insys colleague in a federal court in Boston.
The testimony is part of a federal racketeering trial getting underway this week against Insys founder John Kapoor and four former executives, including the sales director, Sunrise Lee. Federal prosecutors allege that the Insys executives used bribes and kickbacks to get doctors to prescribe the company’s powerful and addictive fentanyl spray, called Subsys—which was intended only for cancer patients experiencing pain that’s not alleviated by other medications (aka “breakthrough pain”). The former executives are also accused of misleading and defrauding health insurance companies that ended up covering the drug for patients who did not need it. A congressional investigation in 2017 concluded that Insys sales representatives bluntly lied and tricked insurers to do that—and the investigators released the tapes to prove it.
Two additional former Insys executives—former Insys CEO and President Michael Babich and former Vice President of Sales Alec Burlakoff—were also charged in the case but have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors.
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Source: Ars Technica – Insys exec allegedly gave lap dance to doctor while pushing deadly opioid
Teamsters Join Coalition Against HQ2 as Amazon Doubles Down on Anti-Union Stance
“It’s a cold day in New York,” Stuart Applebaum told a crowd of shivering protesters that included members of Make the Road, the Tech Workers Coalition, the Democratic Socialists of America, Desis Rising Up and Moving, and the group he presides over, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, “but it’s not as…
Source: Gizmodo – Teamsters Join Coalition Against HQ2 as Amazon Doubles Down on Anti-Union Stance