TLDR: With SelectTV, all your streaming subscriptions and other viewing options are centralized and organized in one place, including a library of more than 500,000 TV shows and movies. When did the simple act of watching TV get so complicated? You probably never thought you’d be flummoxed by the process of checking in on your favorite TV shows or movies, but in the age of streaming, that can be a... Read more ›
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Our online privacy faces growing threats. Governments around the world are calling for encryption backdoors that would enable access to personal information. They argue that encryption protects criminals. But it also protects activists, dissidents, persecuted groups, and ordinary citizens. Edward Snowden is among the most prominent beneficiaries. The whistleblower’s first messages to journalists were made with encryption. They resulted in revelations that millions of Americans had been under illegal mass... Read more ›
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EVs are a green alternative and we love them for that. But they could be even greener if we regularly recycled the valuable metals their batteries contain instead of relentlessly squeezing Mother Earth. The good news is battery recycling has been getting traction, and there are now many companies in North America and Europe building recycling plants, including Li-Cycle, Northvolt, Redwood Materials, and ReLIB, to name a few. But here’s... Read more ›
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The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. The big idea Even whenkids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television, or text– it doesn’t appear to be harmful. That’s what my colleagues and I at the University of Colorado Boulder discovered after analyzing data taken from nearly 12,000 participants in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study – the largest long-term study of its... Read more ›
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Once a year I’m hit with an impossible question: how the hell do you review the new iPhone? Do you write for the tech-heads who obsess over every details? The broader public who may only upgrade their phone every few years? Sceptics? Fans? There’s simply no right way. Making this even trickier is the fact the devices are now incredibly mature. This year’s model (the iPhone 13 in case you... Read more ›
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Facebook has announced a research project that aims to push the “frontier of first-person perception”, and in the process help you remember where you left your keys. The Ego4D project provides a huge collection of first-person video and related data, plus a set of challenges for researchers to teach computers to understand the data and gather useful information from it. In September, the social media giant launched a line of... Read more ›
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YouTube Music is a great alternative to Spotify or Apple Music. Even if you are a paid subscriber to those services, you can use YouTube Music’s ad-supported tier without paying anything. The company is now making a major change to how you can consume music on the app. Till now, you could either listen to the audio or watch the video of a track — even if you’re on the... Read more ›
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The year is 2025. You zip through customs in a fast-track lane to enjoy the one-year residency permit that will allow you to come and go as you please. Hop in an Uber and you’re headed to your temporary home, a boutique coliving space. You check in with the swipe of an app and funds are drawn from your e-wallet –no need to mess with ATMs or currency exchanges. Seamlessly... Read more ›
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DataReportal‘s new Digital 2021 October Global Statshot Report – published in partnership with We Are Social and Hootsuite – is packed with impressive milestones. The top headline this quarter is that social media users have passed the 4.5 billion mark, but there are also big new numbers for internet users in China, TikTok’s active user base, and Facebook’s advertising audience. We’ve also got insights into podcast use around the world,... Read more ›
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As I’ve said before, if you want to ride a hyperloop, you’ll be waiting a while. These things happen slowly. Which is not so much a bad thing when you think about hurtling through a windowless tube at high speeds. But this week saw the hyperloop reality get a hell of a lot more real. Hardt Hyperloop raised a tonne of cash from the European Commission. This is the first... Read more ›
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In a perfectly aligned joke, rumors emerged about Facebook renaming itself, Donald Trump has launched a new social network named Truth. That’s a bold choice, given how Trump has been accused of making more than his fair share of misleading statements over the years. Trump’s team said the new social network will be a rival “to the liberal media consortium and fight back against ‘Big Tech’ companies of Silicon Valley.”... Read more ›
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One of Windows 11‘s biggest features was omitted from the OS’ initial launch: the ability to run Android apps that you can install right from the Microsoft Store. That highly anticipated feature is finally showing signs of life, albeit in a very limited form. The ‘Windows Subsystem for Android‘ is now rolling out to Windows Insiders on the beta channel, allowing them to downloads apps from the Amazon Appstore, which... Read more ›
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A colleague recently sought my advice on covering a queer-related tech topic and I’m not ashamed to admit I advised them against it. I’m queer. I made the decision to come out in my professional life after a lot of consideration and long discussions with my family. In the time since, I’ve learned that millions of people who’ve never met me hate me. They despise me for existing. They think... Read more ›
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Over a week ago, at Tesla’s “Giga Fest” event in Berlin, on the site where the company is currently building its German Gigafactory, Elon Musk announced that Tesla is going to make its own… beer. Echoing the “giga” spirit of the day, the beer is going to be called “Giga Beer” and “Giga Bier” (the German equivalent), and the bottle’s design is inspired by the futuristic lines and angles of... Read more ›
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Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high of over $66,000 on Wednesday, a day after the launch of the first bitcoin-focused exchange-traded fund in the US. The cryptocurrency surged as high as $66,100, according to Coindesk. The coin’s previous record price of $64,889 was set in April, but it plummeted below $30,000 in July. The recent rally has been driven by the trading debut of the ETF on the New... Read more ›
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TLDR: With 4TBs of premium Treasure Cloud Storage space, users get a robust package of storage options, headlined with an armada of prime security features. Most cloud storage shoppers fixate on two key selling points from any provider: the size of the cloud storage space they offer; and the price. Those concerns obviously make sense, but there’s a third headline bullet point that absolutely should not be ignored: security. Too... Read more ›
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So you have the shiny new iPhone 13 in your hands. Congratulations! The latest iPhone refresh boasts new sizes, new colors, significant camera improvements, the A15 chip, 5G technology, and a ton of other nifty features. It’s an upgrade worth your money, and now that you have it in your possession, the next step is to transfer your data from your old iPhone. There are multiple options in which you... Read more ›
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Word on the grapevine is that social media nightmare platform Facebook is planning on changing its name. This mighty rebrand, according to The Verge, is happening for one reason: the metaverse. In more real terms, the Zuck wants to position Facebook as more than a social media company. On the information we have, it seems this move is like Google reorganizing under the Alphabet name. That means it’s unlikely the... Read more ›
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We’ve long known what Mars looks like, but the Perseverance rover is finally teaching us how it sounds. The buggy shared the first audio of the Martian surface in February and has gone on to record five hours of the planet’s sounds. NASA this week released an array of audible delights captured by the six-wheeled spacecraft. The sounds of gusting winds, rattling wheels, and whirring motors provide a new perspective... Read more ›
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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the Netherlands? That’s right, weed bikes. But, despite being the country with the most bikes per capita, bikes are not manufactured in the Netherlands. In fact, even the country’s most famous bicycle company VanMoof makes their ebikes in Taiwan. But as consumers are looking to buy locally, and manufacturers are feeling the pain of supply chain woes,... Read more ›
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