Wednesday, June 19, 2019

19 June - Technology - Global / Google (CA) / Next Web

Global News
  • Canada’s Digital Charter not strong enough to soothe privacy concerns on Sidewalk Labs: critics
  • Can a game-based impairment app tell if you’re stoned? Not always, we found
  • ‘Users have no idea’: Mozilla exec says Amazon Alexa recordings ‘shocked’ his family
  • Facebook says it won’t remove misleading content during Canada’s federal election
  • Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Sandberg will not appear at Ottawa hearing despite summons
  • Apple vehicles are driving around Canada to improve i
  • Microsoft unveils new Xbox console to be released next year 9 days ago  –  The device will be four times more powerful than the Xbox One X console and be powered by an Advanced Micro Devices chip, the company said during its Xbox E3 conference in Los Angeles.
  • Facebook no longer allows its apps to be pre-installed on Huawei phones 11 days ago  –  The social network said it has suspended providing software for Huawei to put on its devices while it reviews recently introduced U.S. sanctions.
  • NASA will allow private travel to the ISS — but this vacation won’t come cheap 12 days ago  –  NASA estimated the cost of a flight would be around $50 million per seat.
  • YouTube declines to ban vlogger using anti-LGBTQ2 slurs
  • Apple’s iOS 13 update won’t be released to phones older than iPhone 6s
  • Apple criticized for launching $1K monitor stand — monitor sold separately
  • YouTube bans neo-Nazis and videos that deny ‘well-documented violent events’
  • China launches rocket off mobile platform at sea
  • Russia wants Tinder data — but info could be used to target LGBTQ2 users
  • NBA Finals broadcast to more than 200 countries, than

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  • Leak reveals Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL display sizes and measurements - MobileSyrup 16 hours ago  – Google Pixel 4: What To Expect  PhoneDogRumors said the Pixel 4 would finally have a better design than the iPhone 11 this year. It won’t.  BGRGoogle Lens Tips and Tricks: Everything you can do with the coolest app you...
  • RBC clients can finally use Google Pay in stores - MobileSyrup 16 hours ago  –  Royal Bank of Canada starts rolling out Google Pay support  Android Police[Update: now 21] Google Pay has added 12 new banks in the US in June 2019  9to5Google[Update: 8 more banks] Google Pay adds 57 US banks and credit unions to its a...
  • Huawei P30 Pro vs Oppo Reno 10x Zoom - Battle of the Superzoom Camera Phones - Gadgets 360
  • Keanu Reeves and Final Fantasy VII Remake Dominate Social Media at E3 2019 - Push Square
  • First Footage Of Milla Jovovich's Monster Hunter Movie Breaks Cover - Nintendo Life
  • Galaxy Fold and Mate X delays: The ripple effect for foldable phones - CNET
  • Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1 Review - PCMag
  • 10 minutes of Borderlands 3 Moze gameplay - HANDS ON WITH THE GUNNER - Eurogamer
  • Pokémon Sword/Shield interview – ‘we try to implement new things gradually' - Metro.co.uk
  • Dumbest 'Gotcha' Story Of The Week: Google, Genius 
  • Kotaku - Kotaku 13 hours ago  –  The First 24 Minutes of Bloodstained Gameplay  IGNBloodstained Is Goth Fun In An All-Too-Familiar Package  KotakuBloodstained - Launch Trailer | PS4  PlayStationOh, Hey, The Long-Awaited Bloodstained Is Finally Out Now  GameSpotView full coverage on Google News
  • First Drive: 2020 Ford Explorer - Driving 13 hours ago  – The 2020 Ford Explorer Is a Huge Improvement Over the Old One  MSN Autos2020 Ford Explorer First Drive Review | Specs, photos, driving impressions  Autoblog2020 Ford Explorer Review (First Drive)  autoTRADER.caWill It Tow? We Put The New 2020 Ford Explorer ...
  • Cadence Of Hyrule Review - NecroDancer Meets Zelda - GameSpot
  • Here Is What Happens When You Try To Create A 3D Pokémon In 5 Minutes - Kotaku
  • Google's ninth attempt at a messaging service will be based on RCS - Ars Technica
  • Here's How Zelda: Link's Awakening's Dungeon Editor Mode Works - GameSpot
  • IGN's Best of E3 Winners - All Categories - IGN
  • Google Calendar was down for some users across the globe [u] - AppleInsider
  • Porsche 718 Cayman GT4, Boxster GT4 Pack Flat-Six Power • Gear Patrol - Gear Patrol
  • Microsoft is selling its remaining stock of Huawei laptop
  • OxygenOS 9.5.8 update for OnePlus 7 Pro starts to roll-out - MobileSyrup 11 hours ago  – OnePlus 7 Pro camera update: OxygenOS 9.5.7 improves color contrast and more  CNETOnePlus 7 Pro selling ten times better than Galaxy S10+ in China - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.comOxygenOS 9.5.8 update rolling out to OnePlus 7...
  • Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - BleepingComputer 11 hours ago  – Update your Firefox browser now, there’s an emergency patch you’ll want  The VergeYou should update Firefox right now to fix a critical bug  EngadgetUpdate Your Firefox Browser Right Now to Fix a Serious Security Bug  Lif...
  • Super Mario makes for a shockingly good battle royale game - The Verge
  • Google explains how it sources lyrics data, will add attribution soon - MobileSyrup
  • Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Have A $300+ Collector's Edition - GameSpot
  • New Nintendo Switch Models Are Now In Production - Report - GameSpot
  • The 2020 Lexus GX has a new off-road package nobody will use - Driving
  • World of Warcraft’s next patch, Rise of Azshara, launches June 25 - Polygon
  • Graphic Compares Sizes of Existing iPhone Models with Rumoured 2020 Devices - iPhone in Canada
  • POLL: What's your opinion on the Fortnite Shotgun Del
  • External drive support in iOS 13 makes it possible to easily share files with a Kindle - 9to5Mac 9 hours ago  – iOS 13 to Warn Users When Deleting Apps with Active Subscriptions  iPhone in Canada40+ Changes in iOS 13 Beta 2! Portrait Mode Effects, CarPlay, & More!  AppleInsiderApple Watch just got one step cl...
  • 2020 BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe Is Luxury Fun With Two More Doors - Motor1.com 9 hours ago  –          BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe - Launch Film  BMWBLOGThe 8 Series Gran Coupe is a good-looking BMW  Top GearBMW 2-Series Active Tourer And Gran Tourer Could Be Dropped  CarscoopsExclusive look at the new BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe  B...
  • Windows 10 1809 Cumulative Update KB4501371 Released With Fixes - BleepingComputer
  • Cadence of Hyrule Review - IGN
  • Apex Legends Has Dragons Now, Apparently - GameSpot
  • Minecraft: Story Mode relisted on Xbox 360, but for $100 to deter new buyers - Gamasutra
  • How to get a League of Legends PBE account for Teamfight Tactics - The Rift Herald
  • How Doom Eternal Draws From Doom II: Hell On Earth - IGN LIVE | E3 2019 - IGN
  • meross Smart Power Strip - Google Home Essentials - 9to5Google
  • Breath Of The Wild Is Getting A Sequel Because The T
  • Cyberpunk 2077 On Next-Gen PS5 Or Xbox Scarlett? "We'll Look At It," Dev Says - GameSpot an hour ago  – Cyberpunk 2077: CD Projekt Red Breaks Down Hidden Trailer Details - IGN Live | E3 2019  IGNCyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith defends 2077 from post-E3 criticism  PC GamerCD Projekt Red isn't ruling out Cyberpunk...
  • E3 has ended, but you can still get this amazing Xbox Game Pass deal - CNET 2 hours ago  –  New Xbox Scarlett Console Releasing Holiday 2020 - E3 2019  GameSpotXbox One X games UPDATE: Microsoft has BAD NEWS for Xbox One X owners  ExpressPhil Spencer Looks To Netflix As An Inspiration For Xbox's Future  TrueAchiev...
  • Samsung could unveil the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7 in New York - Android Central
  • Video of ‘Overwatch’ running on Switch shows just how far hacks have come - BGR
  • PlayStation games are currently on sale for up to 75 percent off - MobileSyrup
  • What We Know About Dr. Mario World - IGN NOW - IGN
  • Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Release Date Announced - IGN
  • That outdoor gear you need to enjoy everything Colorado has to offer could soon cost a lot more - Denver7 – The Denver Channel
  • Apple Watch’s own built-in apps can be deleted in watchOS 6 - TechCrunch
  • How Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Will Evolve The Series
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  • Google Play hosted phishing apps impersonating Turkish cryptocurrency exchange 2 days ago  –  Malicious apps impersonating Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk are circumventing Google’s recently adopted security enhancing measures. According to researchers, the apps are accessing one-time passwords (OTPs) and SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA), was well as some email-based 2FA ...
  • 9 research-based strategies to maximize your profits 2 days ago  –  What do Alan Scott, the inventor of Botox, Snuggie-creator Scott Boilen and Alexander Graham Bell have in common? Two things: They are/were all successful businessmen They didn’t particularly care for the product they sold* There’s a persistent myth that in order to be a great salesperson, you ha...
  • 4 mistakes companies make when expanding overseas
  • Tim Cook takes aim at tech companies for creating ‘chaos’
  • CHEAP: EVERYTHING on ThinkGeek is half price, so move fast!
  • US authorities seize over $200,000 worth of Bitcoin in suspected drug ring
  • Report: Why you shouldn’t always trust the ‘Amazon’s Choice’ badge
  • Bitcoin surpasses $9,000, setting another yearly record
  • Moonday Mornings: South African Bitcoin Ponzi scheme rakes in $135,000 a day
  • PSA: Set your Venmo transactions to private right now
  • The unforeseen trouble AI is now causing a day ago  –  AI has come a long way in recent years — but as many who work with this technology can attest, it is still prone to surprising errors that wouldn’t be made by a human observer. While these errors can sometimes be the result of the required learning curve for artificial intelligence, it is becomin...
  • Scientists discover infinite decay and rebirth in quantum particles a day ago  –  A team of scientists recently determined certain quantum particles can regenerate after they’ve decayed. This has grand implications for the future of humanity, quantum computing, and intergalactic graffiti. Theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institu...
  • Netflix fixes potentially devastating Linux SACK vulnerability
  • A Super Mario battle royale should not be this addictive
    A Super Mario battle royale should not be this addictive a day ago  –  It’s finally happened… our beloved Mario has finally made his way into a battle royale game, just like everything and its shadow. My first reaction was, “What madness hath we wrought?” My second was, “I’ve played sixteen games already, what the heck?” “Mario Royale” is a browser-based game that c...
  • ‘Crypto Twitter’ anxiously awaits white paper for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
  • AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon
  • Russians (not North Koreans) thought to be behind $530M Coincheck hack
  • Wikipedia titles you can sing to the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ theme song, tweeted
  • Insiders wrote the Official 2019 State of Marketing Report. Learn from it for $39.
  • Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obta
  • Why Samsung’s virus scans for smart TVs are a UX disaster 19 hours ago  –  Samsung was lambasted and mocked in the press and on social media yesterday, after the company tweeted a reminder to owners of its smart TVs to periodically run virus scans on their panels – along with a video demonstration of how to go about it. Let’s point and laugh at Samsung for a bit: for an...
  • Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ is missing one thing: monetary policy 20 hours ago  –  Facebook has outlined the economics of its new Libra cryptocurrency, revealing it will create a secondary token intended specifically to pay dividends to early backers. It’s called the Libra Investment Token, and it will only be available to members of the Libra Association (which maintains the n...
  • Google is rolling out RCS messaging without waiting for carriers – here’s what that means
  • Facebook will launch its Libra digital currency in 2020
  • British Bitcoin scammer nets $50M running fake Bitcoin trading site
  • India is still hounding WhatsApp to make its messages traceable
  • How to recover your hacked Instagram account
  • MIT researchers taught robots to link senses like sight and touch
  • Here’s why Minecraft: Story Mode episodes are $100 each on Xbox 360 right now
  • Hilarious robot revenge video parodies Boston Dynamics
  • YouTube will soon let you try out makeup with AR 2 minutes ago  –  If you’re obsessed with makeup tutorials on YouTube, we’ve good news for you. You can now try out makeup with your favorite YouTubers using augmented reality. The tool is called AR Beauty Try-On, will let you virtually try products on your face with AR while following along with guides on YouTube...
  • Samsung is reportedly preparing to launch its Galaxy Note 10 in August an hour ago  –  CNET reports that Samsung is gearing up to unveil its Galaxy Note 10 phone on August 7 at the Barclays Center in New York. That lines up with the Korean firm’s usual annual schedule for Galaxy Note launches – but it’s possible that the date might change, seeing as how August is still a while away...
  • GitHub acquires Pull Panda and makes its code review tools available for free
  • Meet Nuro, the pint-sized robot that could one day deliver your pizza
  • How to download new apps to your Fitbit watch
  • Genius inventor turns her Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck
  • MIT built a neural network to understand pizza
  • Roli’s Lumi is an advanced light-up keyboard that makes learning piano easy
  • Nintendo makes over Dr. Mario for iOS and Android
  • This is how rich you’d be if you bought Apple stock instea
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    Tuesday, June 18, 2019

    18 June - Pale Moon START Page - MSM Canada

  • Heiress, designer Gloria Vanderbilt dead at 95 2 days ago  –  Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the 'poor little rich girl' of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and reigned during the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer, has died at the age of 95.
  • Fears of 'secularism police' in Quebec raised by last-minute changes to religious symbols bill
  • Plan to ban single-use plastics has First Nations with long-term drinking water advisories worried
  • Government lays out fine print of new CMHC program that could contribute 10% to price of first home
  • 911 call from frantic asylum seeker details desperate bid to enter Canada on foot
  • 'I'm living a dream': Raptors victory parade takes over T
  • Drake's CBC mic drop and other highlights of the Raptors championship parade a day ago  –  Whether you're a lifelong basketball fan, a bandwagoner or don't know the first thing about the game, there's no denying the Raptors' NBA Finals win has brought the country together in a way unlike almost any other.
  • 'Hands up, buddy. You're going to die': Violent Edmonton arrest under investigation
  • Tax levies, subsidies could pay for high-risk flood insurance, report says
  • Dominic LeBlanc announces he will run again after success with non-Hodgkin lymphoma fight
  • 'It's time for implementation': UN High Commissioner urges Ottawa to develop national MMIWG action plan
  • Toronto Raptors victory parade erupts into massive celebration
  • 4 people shot during Raptors rally at Nathan Phillips Square
  • MasterCard launches bid to let transgender people use chosen name on cards
  • Team Trump faces troubles on eve of official 2020 presidential campaign kickoff
  • 'We're anxious to get it in the ground': Pipe yards fill ahead of federal decision on Trans Mountain expansion
  • Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi dies after
  • Iran will not wage war against any nation, president says 20 hours ago  –  Iran will not wage war against any nation, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV.
  • Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologizes but says she won't resign
  • From breakup to 'fake-up': How a changing Yukon River is reshaping an age-old ice bridge
  • This isn't Thomas Mulcair's NDP anymore
    This isn't Thomas Mulcair's NDP anymore 21 hours ago  –  If Justin Trudeau and the Liberals hadn't trounced the NDP in 2015, the New Democrats would surely not have released the sort of platform they did on Sunday — a platform that practically boasts of the billions in new revenue an NDP government would raise.
  • What to watch for in today's cabinet decision on the TMX pipeline project
  • B.C. woman still waiting for cleanup of pipeline oil leak on her property
  • A guide to Quebec's new immigration and religious symbols laws: How we got here and what's next
  • Human rights commissions targeting Facebook over job ads
  • Talking honestly about the carbon tax requires serious political courage: Neil Macdonald
  • Trump's approval ratings are hovering around 40%. Here's how he could win in 2020 anyway
  • Canadians are worried about climate change, but many 

  • Trump blasts rivals, returns to 2016 message as he launches 2020 campaign 4 hours ago  –  Donald Trump officially kicked off his re-election campaign Tuesday at a Florida rally where he exhorted thousands of rollicking supporters to keep advancing his political movement to put America's "own citizens first."
  • The National
  • Like it or not, Trans Mountain is what a pipeline 'compromise' looks like
  • To minorities worried about religious symbols law, Quebec premier says he 'could have gone further'
  • Job vacancies up almost 10% from last year: StatsCan report
  • Gordon Stuckless's sentence extended to 10 years in Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse case
  • 3 men arrested after shootings at Raptors celebration ID'd by police
  • Scheer climate plan would encompass more big polluters, require investments as penalty
  • Trudeau cabinet approves Trans Mountain expansion project
  • Deputy in clash with Raptors president Masai Ujiri claims concussion, considering lawsuit, says lawyer
  • MP Michael Cooper disparaged 'goat herder cultures' in
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