Most Popular Story: Dealmaster: The Black Friday 2018 tech deals that might actually be worth buying
Updated: about 2 hours ago
- The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up
- Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm
- Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers
- Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos
- Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught
- EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location
- Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire
- People Sensitive To Caffeine's Bitter Taste Drink More Coffee, Study Finds
- Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required
- Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS
Updated: about 10 hours ago
- Black Friday ads 2018: The full ads from Best Buy, Walmart, Target and more - CNET
- Facebook ex-security boss Alex Stamos: Firm blew it, but so did others - CNET
- Black Friday 2018 Office Depot deals: HP laptop for $450, Chromebook for $130 - CNET
- In defense of The Star Wars Holiday Special as it turns 40 - CNET
- 20 years ago, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's trailer made web history - CNET
- Buchardt’s $1,200 a pair speakers are a steal - CNET
- High-end audio kicks it up a notch at this New York show - CNET
- Star Wars land: Everything we know about Galaxy's Edge - CNET
- Star Wars: Galaxy Edge's Disney park ride names, more details revealed - CNET
- Facebook's latest crisis is about its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg: What you need to know - CNET
Updated: about 7 hours ago
- Will Stanich's Ever Reopen? Why America's Best Burger Spot Closed Down - Thrillist
- The end of the beginning — Benedict Evans
- Is Science Stagnant? - The Atlantic
- AWS in Plain English
- A thread written by @TinkerSec
- Everything on Amazon Is Amazon! - The New York Times
- Opinion | How Plato Foresaw Facebook’s Foibles - The New York Times
- The scientists who make apps addictive
- When is someone ready to manage managers? – Camille Fournier – Medium
- Meditations on Axios’s smart brevity longform - Columbia Journalism Review
Updated: less than an hour ago
- What are the advantages of linux compared to mac?
- Trouble starting Wine application
- Trouble starting Wine application
- Erlang and Elixir's IO List data type makes for very memory efficient output
- Linux switch software
- OpenSUSE usages
- RSA: One crypto algorithm to rule them all
- Detecting fingerspelling with artificial intelligence
- Can we please get organized and start making appimages?
- VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 2 released
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- NASA Image of Merging Galaxy Clusters Looks Suspiciously Like the USS Enterprise
- Trump Suggests California Wildfires Can Be Avoided by 'Raking'
- Judge Refuses to Throw Out Lawsuit Against Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer
- Maybe Don’t Try to Bend Your iPad Pro Like a Paper Clip
- CIA Says Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s Killing, But Trump Isn’t Convinced
- Search Team Finds Missing Argentine Submarine ARA San Juan in Pieces on Floor of Atlantic Ocean
- Instagram Is Reportedly Down for Android Users Following Concerns Over Password Security
- Check Out John Williams' New Score For Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
- We Visited the World's Largest Digital Camera and Damn
- Amazon Makes Mattresses Now, And They're On Sale For Black Friday With a 100 Night Trial
Updated: 1 day ago
- How to install Tomcat 9 on CentOS 7
- Mark Shuttleworth reveals Ubuntu 18.04 will get a 10-year support lifespan
- RHEL 8 Beta arrives with application streams and more
- HSTR Makes Searching Your Bash Or Zsh Command History Easy
- Kubernetes co-founder on the container revolution and the future of VMs
- How to Install Elgg Social Network on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Install TLPUI In Ubuntu Or Linux Mint From PPA
- 3 best practices for continuous integration and deployment
- How to install a device driver on Linux
- Meet TiDB: An open source NewSQL database
Updated: about 16 hours ago
Updated: about 5 hours ago
- First 'State of Decay 2' content update adds stealthy crossbows
- Alexa can wake up more of your smart home devices
- NASA bids Kepler 'goodnight' with last set of commands
- Google may add public comments for searches
- Tumblr for iOS disappears from the App Store
- SpaceX drops plans to make Falcon 9 rockets more reusable
- 'Devil May Cry' series coming from the producer of 'Castlevania'
- YouTube quietly offers free, ad-supported movies
- Ask Engadget: Is it OK to buy a tech toy for someone else's kid?
- The best external hard drives
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant duke it out at CES 2018
- The weirdest tech of CES 2018
- Sennheiser co-CEO: Why we're betting on AR and VR with 3-D audio
- Honda wants to prove robots can help you, not kill you
- Ford will begin testing self-driving cars in an unnamed city
- Intel wants this drone to fly you around
- AMD CEO on chip security flaws: ‘We're absolutely all over this’
- Nvidia went all out for PC gaming at CES 2018
- What a security expert thought of a few new smart-home devices at CES 2018
- Mother Angry After School's Robocall Keeps Mispronouncing Daughter's Name As A Racial Slur
Updated: about 16 hours ago
- This Week In Techdirt History: November 11th - 17th
- Blockchain Voting: Solves None Of The Actual Problems Of Online Voting; Leverages None Of The Benefits Of Blockchain
- Not Funny: The Conan O'Brien Joke-Stealing Lawsuit Is Still Going On
- Appeals Court: No Immunity For Shooting A Man Who Had His Hands Up And Twice Said He Surrendered
- If You Want The Government To Hand Over Documents, You Might Want To Retain A Lawyer
- Canadian Politician Hangs Out With Racists; Issues Legal Threats To People Calling Him A Racist
- Daily Deal: The Ultimate Raspberry Pi eBook Bundle
- Nintendo Gets Huge Settlement Against ROM Site Probably Just To Scare Other ROM Sites
- AT&T CEO Continues His Fake Calls For Real Privacy, Net Neutrality Laws
- Not Even Hiding It Any More: EU Council Explicitly Pushing For Mandatory Upload Filters
Updated: about 6 hours ago
- Dealmaster: The Black Friday 2018 tech deals that might actually be worth buying
- Artifact beta: Learn how to play Valve’s first card game… and how to pay
- The Boring Company’s first tunnel is all dug up
- Sunset Overdrive review: Ride the rails to kaboom-town (finally on PCs, too)
- Enigmatic ridges on Pluto may be the remains of vanished nitrogen glaciers
- Abstract board games are all the rage—and Reef is the year’s best
- Report: Charges against Assange relate to Russian hacking
- Review: Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9 9900K processor hits 5GHz—just at a price
- After man was gunned down by US Park Police, two lawmakers want more body cams
- NASA’s daring asteroid mission unfurls its sampling arm for the first time
Updated: about 2 hours ago
- RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers
- SMS 2FA database leak drama, MageCart mishaps, Black Friday badware, and more
- Holy moley! The amp, kelvin and kilogram will never be the same again
- Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality
- We asked the US military for its 'do not buy' list of Russian, Chinese gear. Surprise: It doesn't exist
- Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets)
- Pick three people you think will replace Google Cloud CEO Greene, then forget them – because it's Thomas Kurian
- Microsoft menaced with mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office apps
- Visual Studio 2017 15.9 is here! Fire up your Windows on Arm laptops. All four of you
- The week in networking? It's SD-WAN all the way down
Updated: 2 days ago
- Google Updates: WearOS hums, Pixel buzzes, Nest crashes
- Over half the top free VPN apps on iOS and Android are linked to China
- Huawei plans to rival Alexa and Google with its own AI voice assistant
- Sharp thinks two notches are somehow better than one
- BlackBerry buys AI cybersecurity outfit Cylance in 'biggest ever' acquisition
- Microsoft's Windows Store gets a shot in the ARM
- Nvidia admits some RTX 2080 Ti FE cards are borked
- Nintendo is not working on an N64 Classic
- Microsoft won't fix network mapping borkage in Windows 10 until 2019
- Ofcom slaps EE and Virgin Media with £13m fine for overcharging customers
Updated: less than an hour ago
- PlayStation 4 Slim 1TB Console - Marvel's Spider-Man Bundle ($199.99)
- Havit HV-F2056 15.6"-17" Laptop Cooler Cooling Pad - Slim Portable USB Powered (3 Fans) (Black+Red) ($24.99)
- Apple AirPods
- iRobot Roomba 960 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Wi-Fi Connectivity ($449.00)
- All-New Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet 2-Pack, 8" HD Display, 32 GB, Kid-Proof Case - Pink/Yellow ($149.98)
- iRobot Roomba 960 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Wi-Fi Connectivity ($519.00)
- All-New Fire HD 10 Kids Edition Tablet 2-pack, 10.1" 1080p Full HD Display, 32 GB, Blue/Pink Kid-Proof Case ($249.98)
- Echo Dot Kids Edition 3-Pack (Blue/Punch Red/Green) ($99.97)
- Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free, 10.1" 1080p Full HD Display, 32 GB, Marine Blue - with Special Offers ($99.99)
- Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Charcoal with Sengled Color Smart Lighting Kit ($79.98)
Updated: about 8 hours ago
- Will our smart devices become a massive surveillance network?
- Email on mobile sucks, but it’ll get better in the next 10 years
- Gig workers are forced to educate themselves to survive
- Drone assassination attempts are a reminder that better legislation is needed
- Tired of being a JavaScript ignoramus? It’s time to get schooled for $39!
- Report: People are going to have a lot of sex in self-driving cars
- This is why women’s panties are trending on social media
- Facebook’s former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
- A beginner’s guide to AI: Human-level machine intelligence
- Twitter says the Bitcoin scam wave came from third-party app
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- Zuckerberg Defends Company in Friday Meeting with Employees
- Facebook Fallout Ruptures Democrats’ Longtime Alliance With Silicon Valley
- Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down
- The Saturday Profile: From Encyclopedic Collector to ‘Wikipedian-at-Large’
- Bits: The Week in Tech: Amazon Finally Makes an HQ2 Decision
- Real Estate Technology: Try, Try Again
- A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog
- ‘No Morals’: Advertisers React to Facebook Report
- The Look of Amazon’s HQ2 Winners, Before Amazon
- Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook as Furor Over Its Tactics Grows
Updated: 1 day ago
- Impact assessment shows privacy risks of Microsoft Office
- Limiting the power of package installation in Debian
- Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support
- International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
- How Facebook's leaders fought through crisis
- Official support for Windows 10 on ARM development
- Windows 10 to get white theme
- The vacuum tube's many modern day uses
- The vacuum tube's many modern day sues
- KDevelop 5.3 released
Updated: less than an hour ago
- End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats
- OpenZFS vs. Btrfs and other file systems (2017)
- Why Google can’t technically do customer support (2011)
- Euromyths 1992 to 2017
- Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World
- The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog”
- Don't believe everything you read online about ProtonMail
- Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?
- Iris Automation Is Hiring a Recruiting Lead – AI for Drones
- Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics
Updated: about 6 hours ago
- A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making (Kelsey D. Atherton/New York Times)
- Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google's China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University's AIMI (Tony Peng/Synced)
- How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs (Erica X Eisen/Slate)
- Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT's Facebook exposé (New York Times)
- Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong (Alex Stamos/Washington Post)
- Mythical Games has raised $16M Series A to build out its blockchain-based player-owned economies starting on a EOS blockchain (Mike Fleming/Deadline)
- Crypto startup Amun says it has been given the green-light to list the first crypto Exchange Traded Product on Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange (Trustnodes)
- Microsoft is now selling Amazon's Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott.com)
- Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received (Richard Lawler/Engadget)
- YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including "The Terminator" (Garett Sloane/Ad Age)
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Clean with a robot vacuum and save $160 on the Ecovacs Deebot, today only
- Microsoft’s friendly new A.I wants to figure out what you want — before you ask
- How to take a screenshot on a PC
- The Fix PUBG campaign is over: What’s next for ‘PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’?
- Common multi monitor problems, and how to fix them
- ‘Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers’ to launch summer 2019 with gunblades, Viera
- Here’s how to give a Steam game as a gift
- New iPad Pro’s durability in question after it fails YouTuber’s bend test
- Instagram tool accidentally exposes user passwords: Were you affected?
- OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully tests its asteroid sampling arm
Updated: about 7 hours ago
- The Big PS4 Black Friday Deal Is Available Now: $199 For the Console Plus Spider-Man
- Get the Weather Forecast For Your Calendar Events Using This App
- Don't Fall For That 'Secret Sister' Facebook Scam
- Saturday's Best Deals: PlayStation Plus, Anki Toys, Power Tools, Sonos, and More
- Live Your Wildest HGTV Fantasies With This Massive Combo Kit, Now Cheaper Than Ever For Black Friday
- Watch Out For This Turkey Salmonella Outbreak
- Fuel Your Thanksgiving Rants With a Drunk Cousin
- The Difference Between One Million and One Billion
- Tips For Playing Pokémon Let's Go! Eevee and Pikachu
- What's Your Favorite Travel Item?
Updated: about 16 hours ago
- Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted out
- Microsoft to shut down HockeyApp
- China’s hottest news app Jinri Toutiao announces new CEO
- Quantum computing, not AI, will define our future
- WhatsApp could wreck Snapchat again by copying ephemeral messaging
- How cities can fix tourism hell
- Microsoft could release a disc-less Xbox One
- SparkLabs Taipei closes initial $4.25M for its first fund, adds Jeremy Lin as an advisor
- YouTube quietly added free, ad-supported movies to its site
- Blockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games’ $16M Series A
Updated: 2 days ago
- The San Francisco air quality is so bad that Uber drivers are selling masks out of their cars
- Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’
- Recode Daily: Facebook battles renewed criticism from Washington, D.C.
- Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are in crisis mode again following a New York Times expose
- Facebook’s board is throwing public support behind Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg — who are on Facebook’s board
- Facebook takes on new political heat after its internal problems are exposed
- Facebook’s top lawyer — who said he was leaving the company — isn’t leaving after all, because Facebook is still in crisis
- Recode Daily: Who will Facebook fire after a damning New York Times investigation?
- Netflix will get ads, predicts the Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green
- Who does Facebook fire after a bombshell New York Times investigation?
Updated: about 4 hours ago
- Microsoft Weekly: Light theme, game team, update stream
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 makes its appearance on the Microsoft Store
- PUBG Corp declares "Fix PUBG" a wrap amidst mixed feedback from gamers
- Samsung's patents show an interesting array of designs that could appear in the Galaxy S10
- Microsoft outlines transition plan for HockeyApp to Visual Studio App Center
- You can now watch some Hollywood feature films on YouTube for free
- Star Citizen funding crosses the $200 million mark, raised by over 2 million backers
- Free Download: Threat Intelligence Report
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme review: The first X1 with a Core i7-8750H, and GeForce graphics
- New patent from Microsoft reveals the company's plans for the Elite Controller 2
Updated: about 13 hours ago
- Captain Marvel Is Crash Landing Into Disney's California Adventure Park
- In the First Trailer for The Magicians Season 4, a Revolution Is Rising
- The DC/CW Elseworlds Crossover Gets the Mashup Comic Cover It Deserves
- Dark Souls Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
- The Doctor Gets a Very Special Delivery in This New Doctor Who Clip
- Titans Actor Curran Walters Talks About Jason Todd's Relationship With Batman's Other Ward
- Optimus Prime Replaces the Matrix of Leadership With a Watch, and More of the Wildest Toys of the Week
- Legacies Are What Define This Week's Best New Comics
- CW's Supergirl Casts Lex Luthor and Now No One's Age Makes Sense
- Marvel Entertainment Chairman Named in NYPD Bribery Trial Over a Gun Permit and Movie Tickets
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Detective mysteries like Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford
- Need to work out a workplace situation
- The Giant Spider & The Giant Minotaur
- What exactly was my car's tire pressure monitor doing?
- Help for wrist/tendon pain when playing guitar
- Food disorder
- Facebook Book
- Seeking obscure out-of-print O'Reilly Perl code example
- The Man takes center stage
- Minimum necessary repairs after water damage
Updated: about 21 hours ago
- Julian Assange Charges, Japan's Top Cybersecurity Official, and More Security News This Week
- Does 'Maniac' Really Need So Many Dream Sequences?
- The 13 Best STEM Toys for Kids That Will Make Learning Fun
- 13 Early Black Friday (2018) Tech Deals: Echo, Dyson, OLED
- Make Thanksgiving Taste Like the Future With This Freeze-Dried Apple Pie
- Machine Learning Can Create Fake ‘Master Key’ Fingerprints
- The Promise of (Practically) ‘Serverless Computing’
- How Did the 'Freedom From Facebook' Campaign Get Its Start?
- What Diane Greene's Departure Means for Google Cloud
- Kilogram Redefined. The Metric System Overhaul Is Complete
Updated: about 14 hours ago
- Facebook’s former CSO says that the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from misinformation
- Tumblr is missing from Apple’s App Store
- The Boring Company has completed digging its first tunnel
- Instagram accidentally exposed some user passwords through its data download tool
- Unagi is the $1,190 electric scooter you won’t want to share with anyone
- 9 new trailers you should watch this week
- Disney’s Star Wars park will come with original music from John Williams
- Microsoft is now selling Amazon’s Echo devices
- YouTube is now streaming free, ad-supported feature films
- Despite its flaws, Facebook still holds my memories, and giving that up is hard
Updated: 1 day ago
- Here's How Battlefield V Performs with Ray Tracing
- Microsoft Brings Ads to Windows 10's Mail App
- Windows 10 Now Supports Arm64 Apps on Arm Devices
- Nvidia Admits Issues With Some Early GeForce RTX 2080 TI FE GPUs
- Corsair Vengeance 5180 Gaming PC Review: Like You Built It
- Nvidia Has A Crypto-Hangover, Mid-Range Turing Cards Likely Delayed
- Intel Cuts CPU Shipments by 2M, Motherboard Makers May Suffer - Report
- Windows 10 Gets A Light Mode With Preview Build 18282
- Windows 10 October 2018 Update (1809) Still Flawed, Incompatible With Some AMD GPUs
- Asus AMD RX 580 (4GB) Hits $160 on Newegg
Updated: 1 day ago
- Original Apple Pencil vs. Apple Pencil 2
- New iPad Pro Models May Be Prone to Bending
- Black Friday Preview: Get Ready for the Best Deals on HomePod, iPad, Hue Lights, Audio Accessories, and More
- Nike Launches New Apple Watch Sport Bands and Sport Loops in Olive, Teal, and Mauve
- Discontinued AirPort Extreme and 2TB Time Capsule Finally Disappear From Apple Online Store
- Apple Highlights Photos Shot on iPhone XR
- Apple Hires Indie Studio A24 to Produce Films
- Final Cut Pro X Updated With Support for Third-Party Workflow Extensions
- Apple Seeds Third Beta of iOS 12.1.1 to Developers
- Apple Hunting for Wireless Modem Engineers Near Qualcomm's San Diego Headquarters
