Wednesday, October 09, 2019

9 October - Tech Crunch / The Verge

Tech Crunch
  • Social Club, a ‘censorship free’ Instagram clone for pot, gets booted from the App Store 9 hours ago  –  Apple has booted from the App Store cannabis-promoting app Social Club after it devolved into a place where users were openly posting drugs for sale, and it became filled with photos of various drugs, guns and weaponry, racist content, memes, gore videos and adult and child pornography, according...
  • Toys ‘R’ Us relaunches its website, where online sales are powered by Target 10 hours ago  –  Toys “R” Us is back online, thanks to a new deal with Target. Tru Kids, the parent company that acquired the defunct toy chain following its bankruptcy, has announced the relaunch of the ToysRUs.com website as it begins the process of opening its retail stores across the U.S. As a part of its com...
    Toys ‘R’ Us relaunches its website, where online sales are powered by Target 10 hours ago  –  Toys “R” Us is back online, thanks to a new deal with Target. Tru Kids, the parent company that acquired the defunct toy chain following its bankruptcy, has announced the relaunch of the ToysRUs.com website as it begins the process of opening its retail stores across the U.S. As a part of its com...
  • Gnarbox 2.0 backup SSD is a photographer’s best friend in the field and at home 10 hours ago  –  Working photographers, and enthusiasts who just love taking plenty of pictures, know that even the biggest SD cards can sometimes fill up, especially when you’re working with large file sizes, shooting both JPG and RAW, and shooting 4K video. The solution? A good mobile backup drive. There are a ...
  • European risk report flags 5G security challenges
  • Eureka Robotics’ new robotic arm is designed for optical lenses and mirrors
  • Walgreens partners with FedEx to accept online returns, print labels
  • Toyota, GM, Nvidia, Bosch and others form new autonomous driving tech consortium
  • Uber’s newest feature alerts drivers that pets will be joining the ride
  • China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
  • Amazon, Walmart confront India’s slowing economy as

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  • Linksys’ mesh routers can now detect motion using Wi-Fi a day ago  –  Photo courtesy Linksys Security cameras are all well and good, but what do you do if you really want privacy? Linksys may have come up with a solution with its new Linksys Aware service, which claims to use mesh Wi-Fi to sense motion without the use of cameras or other hardware. The company is...
  • Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads
  • This Juul-charging phone case will tell the world you value vaping more than anything else
     a day ago  –  Duo Inc. Peer into the annals of Indiegogo and Kickstarter, and you’ll find that it is filled with weird phone case ideas. There’s that iPhone case that was actually an entire Android phone, a case that could record all of your voice calls, the one that put an E Ink screen on the back of your ...
  • Google’s latest products are trees that it will grow specifically for its campuses
  • iOS 13 has gotten better, but there’s still a long way to go
  • Harmony remotes are fading in relevance as streaming takes over, says Logitech CEO
  • After Hearthstone player’s ban, Blizzard is in hot water with lawmakers
  • You can now ask Google to ‘move the music’ to a different room
  • Medicare insurers are starting to offer big Apple Watch discounts
  • Ang Lee puts Will Smith through the digital wringer in
  • Call of Duty is the biggest mobile game launch ever, with 100 million downloads 17 hours ago  –  Call of Duty: Mobile has had a colossal launch week, racking up more downloads than any other mobile game in history, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. The game has reportedly achieved over 100 million downloads since going live at the beginning of this month. That easily beats out the la...
  • FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data, court rules
    s a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Bureau of Investigation made tens of thousands of unauthorized searches related to US citizens between 2017 and 2018, a court ruled. The agency violated both the law that authorized the surveillance program they used and the Fourth Amendment ...
  • Essential reveals Project Gem smartphone with very long, unusual design
  • Ring has made it ridiculously easy to surround your house with smart lights and cameras
  • Facebook wants Portal to be your next office webcam
  • YouTube is letting politicians reserve advertising space for 2020 election
  • EV startup Canoo’s mysterious backers named in new harassment lawsuit
  • Photoshop and Lightroom users should wait before updating to macOS Catalina
  • Cocaine is driving deforestation, climate change, and migration
  • Microsoft’s Your Phone app can now route calls from 
  • Chromebook 101: how to use Android apps on your Chromebook 12 hours ago  –  One of the advantages that Chromebooks — well, most Chromebooks — offer is the ability to run many of your favorite Android apps alongside Chrome OS windows. In fact, a lot of the more popular Android apps have been optimized for Chrome OS, so they will look perfectly at home on your Chromebook. ...
  • Uber Pet lets furry friends join the ride — for a fee
  • Indie game makers open up about the money they actually make
  • Fat Bear Week’s bears survived a historically hot summer
  • Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games says it won’t ban players for political speech
  • The next console war is going to be way more fun than the last one
  • Xbox One’s parental control time limits now apply across Windows and Android
  • Why Facebook can’t stop politicians from lying
  • This keyboard case gives the iPad Pro a pretty good trackpad
  • Logitech MX Master 3 teardown offers an intriguing lo
  • Apple starts selling Microsoft’s Xbox controller after adding support in iOS, macOS, and tvOS 9 hours ago  –  Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple has begun selling Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller after adding support for the gamepad in the latest major software updates for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the Mac. The Xbox controller is priced at $59.95 and is available from Apple’s website. I’m...
  • After years of delays, NASA is finally poised to launch a satellite to better understand space weather
    9 hours ago  –  Update October 9th, 2:55PM ET: NASA delayed the ICON launch due to bad weather at the rocket’s drop zone. The agency will try again Thursday, October 10th at 9:30PM ET. The weather forecast is much better, with a 70 percent chance of favorable conditions. Original Story: NASA is slated to launch ...
  • New blockchain-based music streaming service Audius is a copyright nightmare
  • Senators pressure Visa and Mastercard over work on Facebook’s blockchain project
  • Question Club: the best and worst Joker debate topics
  • Ring’s Indoor Cam is an easy add-on to a Ring video doorbell
  • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K review: DP starter kit
  • GitHub will keep selling software to ICE, leaked email says
  • Google might announce a 5G Pixel 4 at next week’s event
  • Ming-Chi Kuo updates 2020 Apple predictions for AR 
  • Adobe says Venezuelan users losing service due to US sanctions will get refunds 3 hours ago  –  Adobe customers in Venezuela, who were notified via email on Monday that their accounts would get deactivated at the end of the month due to US sanctions, will be able to receive refunds after all. The company initially cited the US executive order as the reason it wouldn’t be able to refund cust...
  • Blizzard employees walked out in protest following pro-Hong Kong player ban
  • American Airlines says it will resume flights with Boeing’s 737 Max jets in January
  • In the Tall Grass director Vincenzo Natali doesn’t know if Stephen King read his script
  • TikTok should be investigated for censorship, Marco Rubio says
  • Volvo’s first EV will run native Android
  • Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is the game Destiny always should have been
  • Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit announces plans to send tiny vehicles to Mars
  • An anti-Semitic shooting in Germany was live-streamed on Twitch
  • Here’s why this is the decade of superstar astronaut 
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