PBS and PBS Kids are coming to YouTube TV. Beginning sometime this year, PBS member stations who choose to participate will have their programming streamed on YouTube TV’s live TV and on-demand subscription service. The move will bring both education…
Source: Engadget – YouTube TV will carry PBS and PBS Kids
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Twitch Streamers Plan ‘SlutStream’ To Raise Awareness Of Online Harassment
Tomorrow, a veteran Twitch streamer is organizing a day called “SlutStream” for women gaming online to band together and deflate the power of the word “slut.”
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamers Plan ‘SlutStream’ To Raise Awareness Of Online Harassment
Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality
Believe it or not, contact lenses are still an option for those who wear glasses that accommodate multiple prescriptions, but because of the unique approach they take to remedying vision problems, it can sometimes take over a month to get used to using them. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have…
Source: Gizmodo – Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality
DMARC's Abysmal Adoption Explains Why Email Spoofing is Still a Thing
Companies around the world are still failing to see the benefits of implementing DMARC, an email security protocol designed to prevent email spoofing, the primary trick used by cybercriminals to deliver phishing emails and BEC scams. From a report: Around 79.7% don’t use DMARC, according to a report that surveyed the DMARC policies deployed with 21,075 business and government domains. The survey, carried out by email security and analytics firm 250ok, analyzed domains from sectors such as Fortune 500, US government (Executive, Legislative and Judicial), the China Hot 100, the top 100 law firms, international nonprofits, the SaaS 1000, education, e-commerce, financial services, and travel sectors. The survey looked specifically at DMARC adoption because of the protocol’s importance.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – DMARC’s Abysmal Adoption Explains Why Email Spoofing is Still a Thing
Looks Better Than It Tastes: Dog Tries To Picture Of Spaghetti Printed On Table
This is a short video from a very precious dog’s owner in the Philippines who has complete disregard for hygiene allowing their dog to sit on a restaurant table and try to eat the bowl of spaghetti that’s printed on the table’s surface (previously: a dog trying to eat a picture of ice cream). Again, what is wrong with people? Now I love dogs as much as the next person who wishes they had the space and resources to adopt them all, but I also love being able to eat at a restaurant knowing there wasn’t a dog’s bare @$$hole recently on the table. Is that too much to ask? Also, a million dollars and to never have diarrhea again.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – Looks Better Than It Tastes: Dog Tries To Picture Of Spaghetti Printed On Table
What Is the Best Breath Mint?
Gum is good, but if bubble blowing, gum popping, or just the act of chewing in general offends you, it might be wise to exclusively look to mints for your breath-freshening needs.
Source: LifeHacker – What Is the Best Breath Mint?
Cool Your Car Down Faster With the 'Air Recirculation' Button
You can target the air conditioning toward your body, your feet or both. You can crank it up from cool to super cold. But in the heat of the summer, if you’re not using your car’s “air recirculation” button, you’re not getting the coolest driving experience possible.
Source: LifeHacker – Cool Your Car Down Faster With the ‘Air Recirculation’ Button
Tiny Fossil Tooth Found in the Amazon May Have Come From Ancient, Baseball-Size Monkey
In a single tooth, scientists might have discovered the smallest fossil monkey as well as an important piece of primate evolutionary history.
Source: Gizmodo – Tiny Fossil Tooth Found in the Amazon May Have Come From Ancient, Baseball-Size Monkey
Netflix's 'The Irishman' will open the New York Film Festival
Martin Scorsese directing Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in a crime saga. If that weren’t evidence enough Netflix is hoping for another major Oscars player with The Irishman, the movie will have a swanky world premiere when it opens the New York Film F…
Source: Engadget – Netflix’s ‘The Irishman’ will open the New York Film Festival
Do you prefer a live demo to be perfect or broken?
At DevFest DC in June, Sara Robinson, developer advocate at Google Cloud, gave the most seamless live demo I’ve ever witnessed.Sara live-coded a machine model from scratch using TensorFlow and Keras. Then she trained the model live, deployed it to Google’s Cloud AI platform, and used the deployed model to make predictions.With the exception of perhaps one small hiccup, the whole thing went smoothly, and I learned a lot as an audience member.read more
Source: LXer – Do you prefer a live demo to be perfect or broken?
Google Confirms Pixel 4 Face Unlock And Motion Sense Gesture Tech
The Pixel 4 does not drop until this upcoming October, but Google has already revealed several new features. The Pixel 4 will unlock with face scanning technology instead of a fingerprint sensor. This feature appears to be a direct challenge to Face ID found on devices like the iPhone XR and iPhone XS.
Google has confirmed what many have
Source: Hot Hardware – Google Confirms Pixel 4 Face Unlock And Motion Sense Gesture Tech
Google announces the Pixel 4 will have FaceID, radar-powered gestures
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Google’s new diagram of the Pixel 4. There’s FaceID and Soli technology in there.
After showing off the back of the Pixel 4 in June, Google is again taking the unprecedented step of publicly detailing an unreleased smartphone. The newest post on the company blog is all about the Pixel 4’s big top bezel and the tech goodies contained within.
First, Google confirms the earlier rumors from 9to5Google that the device will integrate Project Soli technology:
Pixel 4 will be the first device with Soli, powering our new Motion Sense features to allow you to skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence phone calls, just by waving your hand. These capabilities are just the start, and just as Pixels get better over time, Motion Sense will evolve as well. Motion Sense will be available in select Pixel countries.
Soli, or “Motion Sense” as it’s being called in the Pixel 4, is powered by radar. Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects team (ATAP) has been working on shrinking down radar into a tiny chip for the last five years. As originally pitched, Soli was capable of detecting a number of fine hand gestures, like tapping your thumb and index finger together for a virtual button press or rubbing the two fingers together to scroll or turn a virtual dial. Google’s old Soli YouTube video claims the technology is capable of tracking “sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy,” but in this first consumer device, the video shows waving your hand across the entire face of the phone to skip music. Gestures like this have been done before on Samsung and Motorola phones with cameras and other optical sensors, and they were not well received enough to be carried forward to future devices.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google announces the Pixel 4 will have FaceID, radar-powered gestures
Horror Legend Bruce Campbell on Why Superhero Films Are Getting Boring
We at io9 are longtime fans of Bruce Campbell, so we were jazzed (and honestly quite starstruck) when we got an opportunity to sit down with him at San Diego Comic-Con to chat.
Source: io9 – Horror Legend Bruce Campbell on Why Superhero Films Are Getting Boring
UK Made Illegal Copies and Mismanaged Schengen Travelers Database
Authorities in the United Kingdom have made unauthorized copies of data stored inside a EU database for tracking undocumented migrants, missing people, stolen cars, or suspected criminals. From a report: Named the Schengen Information System (SIS), this is a EU-run database that stores information such as names, personal details, photographs, fingerprints, and arrest warrants for 500,000 non-EU citizens denied entry into Europe, over 100,000 missing people, and over 36,000 criminal suspects. The database was created for the sole purpose of helping EU countries manage access to the passport-free Schengen travel zone. The UK was granted access to this database in 2015, even if it’s not an official member of the Schengen zone. Further reading: EU Votes To Create Gigantic Biometrics Database.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – UK Made Illegal Copies and Mismanaged Schengen Travelers Database
This Month's EVE Online Videos Showcase Expert Piloting
Every month, EVE Online players like to share their favorite moments with each other. Countless videos are produced by players, showcasing their skills and prowess in battle, the beauty of the EVE game world, propaganda pieces for their groups, and news reports attempting to keep others up to date on the game. Here…
Source: Kotaku – This Month’s EVE Online Videos Showcase Expert Piloting
What the Federal Reserve Interest Rate Cut Might Mean for You
The Federal Reserve is scheduled to lower interest rates this week. What does that mean, and how might it affect your spending decisions?
Source: LifeHacker – What the Federal Reserve Interest Rate Cut Might Mean for You
NVIDIA 430.40 Linux Driver Released With RTX 2080 SUPER Support, RTX 3000 Max-Q
NVIDIA’s Unix/Linux graphics driver team has kicked off a new week by introducing the 430.40 long-lived driver release…
Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA 430.40 Linux Driver Released With RTX 2080 SUPER Support, RTX 3000 Max-Q
EU says sites using Facebook's Like button are responsible for your data
The highest court in the EU has issued a ruling that affects websites using Facebook’s Like button plugin. It determined sites should obtain the consent of visitors before the plugin captures and sends their data to Facebook, whether or not you click…
Source: Engadget – EU says sites using Facebook’s Like button are responsible for your data
NumPy 1.17.0 released
The NumPy team has announced the release of NumPy 1.17.0. NumPy is a
fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. “The 1.17.0
release contains a number of new features that should substantially improve
its performance and usefulness. The Python versions supported are 3.5-3.7,
note that Python 2.7 has been dropped.“
Source: LWN.net – NumPy 1.17.0 released
Unexplained Radiation Leak Traced to Russian Nuclear Facility
Two years after a mysterious cloud of radiation swept through Europe, a team of scientists has pinpointed the source of the leak to a nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia, which was preparing materials for an Italian physics experiment at the time.
Source: Gizmodo – Unexplained Radiation Leak Traced to Russian Nuclear Facility