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Seven of Nine, one of the Star Trek franchise’s most popular characters, has come back after nearly 20 years away from the screen. Once again played by Jeri Ryan, she appeared at the tail end of episode four of Star Trek: Picard. But her backstory for the past two decades has been revealed further in…
via How STAR TREK: PICARD’S Seven of Nine Channels KILL BILL — Nerdist
NEW YORK — The impact on cruise companies’ earnings from canceled trips, steep discounts and ships quarantined over coronavirus concerns could pose credit risks, said ratings agencies Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings. Read More
via Coronavirus could pose threat to cruise ship credit ratings — Financial Post
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has removed almost 600 “disruptive” Android apps from the Play Store and banned their developers in its latest effort to rein in mobile ad fraud, the company announced on Thursday. Google’s policy does not allow ads that display when an app is not in use or that…
via Google bans hundreds of Android apps from the Play Store for obnoxious ads — The Verge – All Posts
Zero introduced its latest electric motorcycle yesterday, the slick-looking SR/S, with up to 201 miles of range. At a launch event in New York City, the biggest vibe I got was that the company is all in on what it thinks is the future.Read more…
When producers approached lyricist Steven Sater (“Spring Awakening”) to adapt Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” into a musical, his initial reaction was to recoil. His initial thought was that the book didn’t have a beginning, middle and an ending. But Sater pulled it off with his production of “Alice By Heart.” After an off-Broadway…
via Steven Sater On Adapting ‘Alice By Heart’ From a Musical to a Book — Variety
Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther” is rolling off Netflix in the U.S. on March 3, 2020 — after which Wakanda fans will be able to stream the movie the next day on Disney Plus. The migration of “Black Panther,” one of the top-grossing superhero films to date, from Netflix to Disney Plus comes as Disney winds…
via ‘Black Panther’ Is Leaving Netflix to Come to Disney Plus — Variety
ViacomCBS reported a loss in the fourth quarter, its first as a new entity forged from the former Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., showing that the merged company faces many of the same tough operating conditions as its predecessors. The New York owner of the CBS television network and cable outlets such as MTV and…
via ViacomCBS Swings to Loss in First Post-Merger Results — Variety
Lori Loughlin tried to go incognito while out in Santa Monica, just days after daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli’s falsified rowing resume made the rounds online.
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – If you have ever dreamed of buying your own private island, here’s your chance. No Man’s Island – 19-acres in Cape May County, New Jersey – is up for sale for $200,000. According to the real estate listing, the island is easily accessible by boat, offers sweeping views of Wildwood and…
via Private New Jersey Island Could Be Yours For $200,000 — CBS New York
A human rights investigator has been told he can’t enter the US due to the recommendation of an algorithm. Eyal Weizman, the director of London-based investigative group Forensic Architecture, was first informed by email that his visa waiver had been revoked. No reason was given for the revocation. The next day, he went to apply…
via Algorithm blocks human rights investigator from entering US — The Next Web
Microsoft has released its new Office app for iOS following a period of beta testing. As noted by MacRumors, the new Office hub was announced in November of 2019 and is now available to download. According to Microsoft: The Office app combines the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know and… Link: Microsoft Office App […]
via Microsoft Office App released on iOS following beta testing — Techie.Buzz
Android 11: Google Takes On Apple With These Killer Security And Privacy Features — Forbes Real Time
Google’s newly launched Android 11 developer beta includes some killer security and privacy features that could put pressure on its biggest rival Apple. Here’s what you need to know.
via Android 11: Google Takes On Apple With These Killer Security And Privacy Features — Forbes Real Time
Ex-Cleveland Browns offensive tackle Greg Robinson has been charged with intent to distribute marijuana and further related charges after being arrested near the USA-Mexico border with significant quantities of the drug. Robinson, a former number two pick in the NFL Draft, spent the last season as a member of the Cleveland Browns but had been…
Can anyone make Andre Drummond happy these days? Cavaliers guard Collin Sexton hopes that he and his teammates can.Despite a flood of tumult and a franchise battling an image of ineptitude this week after coach John Beilein resigned his job just four months after the season started, the Cavs remain hopeful that they’ll be able…
via Andre Drummond Calls Out ‘Lie’ as Cavaliers Recruit Him to Stay — Heavy.com
With Windows 7 support already pulled, Microsoft is nearly all about Windows 10 right now (despite Windows 8.1 still receiving updates until 2023). And while the company is now recommending everyone to move to Windows 10, it goes without saying that this latest version of the operating system isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and many…
via The Evolution of Windows in the Last 17 Years in Just One GIF — Softpedia News / Global
The key component of cloud-based computing is the virtual machine. Creating a VM using Google Cloud Platform is simple, but there are some decisions to make. As of the third quarter 2019, the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market grew to $27.5 billion. That was a quarterly increase of 37%. Link: How to create a virtual […]
via How to create a virtual machine in Google Cloud Platform — Techie.Buzz
Don Wood – MessageToEagle.com – It seems our knowledge of Ice Ages is still rather limited. It’s very difficult to determine when an Ice Age begins and ends, but there are some clues we should look for. About 1 million years ago our planet experienced an Ice Age every 40,000 years when vast ice sheets…
via Coincidences Decide When Ice Ages Begin And End – Scientists Say — MessageToEagle.com
Liam Neeson is set to star in the action crime thriller “Memory” to be directed by the U.K.’s Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale,” “Goldeneye”). STX International is handling the international sales rights and will unveil the project at the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market. “Memory” follows Neeson as an expert assassin who himself becomes a target…
via Liam Neeson to Star in Martin Campbell’s ‘Memory’ for STX International — Variety
Supercapacitors can charge almost instantly, and discharge enormous amounts of power if needed. They could completely erase the Achilles heel of electric vehicles – their slow charging times – if they could hold more energy. And now Chinese and British scientists say they’ve figured out a way to store 10 times more energy per volume…
Saudi Arabian film director Mahmoud Sabbagh, who made a splash with groundbreaking romcom “Barakah Meets Barakah” and black comedy “Amra and the Second Marriage,” roughly a year ago became president of Saudi’s Red Sea International Film Festival, the kingdom’s first full-fledged festival and market. The ambitious event, which will run March 12-21 in Jeddah, recently…
via Red Sea Festival Chief Mahmoud Sabbagh on Attracting Movies, Execs to Saudi (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety
From NASA Feature | February 18, 2020 The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News Team The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on the planet. As temperatures rise, the perpetually frozen layer of soil,…
via NASA Flights Detect Millions of Arctic Methane Hotspots — Watts Up With That?
Last November, Microsoft took the official wraps off a preview of its new, lightweight unified Office mobile app for iOS and Android. Today, February 19, Microsoft is making this app generally available worldwide to users on those mobile platforms. (Note: Microsoft actually made the Android version of the app available yesterday in the Play Store.). […]
via Microsoft’s new unified Office mobile app is here and more new features are coming — Techie.Buzz
For months, a loose network of pro-Trump commentators and outside agitators has been urging the president to purge his administration of anyone and everyone involved in the Russia probe. They’ve celebrated as many of the FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the investigation have left government. And now, with an angry and newly liberated…
via Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one — Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories
The suspected gunman, who was later found dead at his apartment, reportedly opened fire at two hookah bars frequented by Kurdish customers in the city of Hanau, near Frankfurt.(Image credit: Michael Probst/AP)
via Shootings In Germany Kill 9; Police Suspect Far-Right Extremism — News : NPR
British actor Jeremy Irons, this year’s president of the international jury at the Berlin Film Festival, has spoken out about prior controversies surrounding his alleged views on sexual abuse, same-sex marriage and abortion. Irons opened the jury’s press conference on Thursday, calling it a “privilege” to have been named president, but wasted no time in…
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The second season of Fortnite’s Chapter 2 has finally arrived. After months of waiting, developer Epic Games announced the release date via Fortnite’s official website. Following this reveal, players began to notice various items throughout the world turning gold. This was swiftly complimented by various golden teaser images posted on Fortnite’s Twitter account showcasing a…
via Complete Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 Patch Notes — Heavy.com
Cisco urges customers using its smart licensing software to upgrade now because of a 9.8/10 severity flaw.
via Cisco critical bug: Static password in Smart Software Manager – patch now, says Cisco — Latest news
Herbert L. Kloiber, former managing director of Tele München Group, has launched a new media venture focusing on European film and series projects. Munich-based Night Train Media is looking to develop, co-produce, finance and distribute in-house and third-party projects. Speaking to Variety, Kloiber said it was the ideal time to launch the company “in this…
A planetary crisis looms large. Last summer’s heatwave in Europe melted enough arctic ice to measurably rise global sea levels. In a single event. Luckily the board is primed with big-thinking tech players ready to make their next move. Rather than balking in the face of an uncertain future, we’re energized by the progress achievable…
via Meet the green tech leaders saving us from climate catastrophe at TNW2020 — The Next Web
February began well for the energy industry and Western Canada. Read More
London-based distributor Dogwoof and music films specialist Eagle Rock have partnered on international sales for the Natalie Johns-directed “Max Richter’s Sleep.” The film follows the ground-breaking British-born German composer — who rose to prominence with the Golden Globe-winning “Waltz with Bashir” and whose credits include “Ad Astra” and “Shutter Island” — as he created his…
via Berlin: Dogwoof Boards ‘Max Richter’s Sleep’ Documentary (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety
Passengers of a small plane who were filming their takeoff from an airfield in Magadan were horrified when they realized their aircraft wouldn’t make it. It crashed instead but, luckily, no lives were lost in the incident. The video, purportedly shot from inside an Antonov An-2 plane, which crashed on Thursday in northern Russia, shows…
via WATCH heart-clenching video from INSIDE CRASHING PLANE in Russia — RT – Daily news
TL;DR: Baby Yoda figures and toys are available to pre-order from Disney, with delivery expected in late March. The wait for Disney+ has been long and arduous for fans in the UK, but it’s finally coming to an end on March 24. Yes, that’s right. We’re almost there guys. Disney’s popular streaming service will hit…
via Pre-order your very own Baby Yoda before Disney+ drops — Mashable
In a promotional video featuring Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka, as well as fans of different nationalities, the organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games revealed on Feb. 17 the event’s official motto: United by Emotion. Yet if there’s one emotion linking the world today, it might be fear. The COVID-19 outbreak…
via Could the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Be a Victim of COVID-19? — TIME
TL;DR: Save 14% on hundreds of Alienware laptops and desktops with the code AW14. Dell doesn’t drop massive sales too frequently, and it’s even less common to see Alienware devices included in the promotion. Well, we’re pleased to say that Dell has launched a sale, and yes, Alienware is in the mix. You can now…
Apple is among a number of tech companies with plans to release a GaN-based power adapter this year, claims a new report out today. According to IT Home (via Gizchina), Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung, Oppo, and Apple all have plans for the Gallium Nitride technology, which can provide fast charging solutions through a USB-C interface and…
Apple is among a number of tech companies with plans to release a GaN-based power adapter this year, claims a new report out today. According to IT Home (via Gizchina), Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung, Oppo, and Apple all have plans for the Gallium Nitride technology, which can provide fast charging solutions through a USB-C interface and…
Megan Fox, best known for “Transformers” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” is set to star in suspense thriller “Aurora.” Arclight Films will start worldwide sales for the movie at the European Film Market in Berlin. “Aurora,” to be directed by Lazar Bodroža (“A.I. Rising”), tells the story of a female astronaut stationed in outer space…
via Megan Fox to Star in Suspense Thriller ‘Aurora,’ Arclight to Sell Worldwide (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A man has filed a civil rights lawsuit after being shot in the face by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this month in Brooklyn. Erick Diaz Cruz, 26, was wounded while visiting his mother on Feb. 6 in Gravesend. WEB EXTRA: Read The Civil Rights Lawsuit In The…
via Man Shot In Face By ICE Agent Files Civil Rights Lawsuit — CBS New York
Fig. 1: Measured purely based on nominal prices, $500 sure seems like it’s at the high end. [credit: Ars Technica ] Last week, a Bloomberg report about PS5 component costs suggested the upcoming system would cost no less than $450 for Sony to manufacture. Add in costs for packaging, shipping, and retail markup, and Sony…
via Is the US market ready to embrace a $500 game console? — Ars Technica
St. Petersburg police searched the apartment-turned-“temple” and stables of “Order of the Path,” a family-run cult that claimed to be fighting against “black mages” in the gov’t and sold “divine protection” for $300,000 a pop. Earlier this week, St. Petersburg police SWAT teams raided the mysterious “Order of the Path,” a cult run by psychologist-turned-“magister” Gayva Tihomirova, and…
Hold that tweet — and add another one. Twitter is adding a new feature for mobile users to make it easier to link dispersed ‘shower thoughts’ together — and another thing styleee. Per 9to5Mac, the feature — which Twitter tweeted about yesterday — is slowly rolling out to its iOS app.
via Twitter adds a button so you can thread your shower thoughts — Yahoo Tech
The sleek electric racer landed this week at Pebble Beach Continue reading…
via Infiniti’s new electric concept car can only be described as vintage future — The Verge – All Posts
Automakers are tapping nostalgia to promote electric cars — and it’s working — The Verge – All Posts
Automakers around the world have spent the last few years promoting hybrid and electric drivetrain technology in order to show how they’re thinking about the future. 96 more words
via Automakers are tapping nostalgia to promote electric cars — and it’s working — The Verge – All Posts
A mixtape of Stephen King’s stories Continue reading…
Apple has a new deal for US customers who haven’t signed up for iCloud yet. 9to5Mac spotted a Reddit thread that pointed to the deal… 119 more words
It hasn’t been a good week for telecommunications companies: security researchers have uncovered security flaws with systems at AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile that could have left customer data accessible to bad actors. 96 more words
After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul and KSI finally exchanged blows today in front of millions of people. The official way to watch this fight was supposed to be a pay-per-view stream on YouTube that costs $10, but it seems most fans found… 83 more words
via More people watched the Logan Paul vs KSI fight on Twitch than on YouTube — The Verge – All Posts
Music GIF provider TuneMoji has announced that it’s integrated within Snapchat, as reported by Business Insider. This means that users with the TuneMoji app installed can send clips to their Snap story, or within a chat. 103 more words
via Snapchat now lets you send musical GIFs — The Verge – All Posts
Bang & Olufsen is making its Beosound 1 and BeoSound 2 speakers a bit smarter this fall. The company will release new versions featuring Google Assistant in September, which is a nice upgrade for speakers that start at $1,750. 80 more words
via Bang & Olufsen adds Google Assistant to its expensive Beosound speakers — The Verge – All Posts
There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our column Pod Hunters, we cover what we’ve been listening to that we can’t stop thinking about. 102 more words
On Friday, a driver for Didi Chuxing’s rideshare service Hitch killed his 20-year-old female passenger in the Chinese city of Wenzhou. Following the incident, the company says that it will suspend the ride-hailing service while the company examines its practices. 79 more words
Recommended mostly to versed users, this tool enables you to view and edit registry entries, compare and export them, as well as back up all the information
The package provides the installation files for Microsoft Surface UEFI Driver version 234.2278.769.0.If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones.In…
via Microsoft Surface UEFI Driver 234.2278.769.0 for Windows 10 — Softpedia Drivers / All
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The U.S. and Mexico are close to resolving their NAFTA differences and may wrap up as soon as Monday, creating an opening for Canada to rejoin talks between countries that trade more than a trillion dollars annually. As has been the case over a year of intense and sometimes fractious negotiations to update the decades-old…
To hear Mark Selby tell it, the Canadian nickel industry is actually an “oligopoly,” in which a few large companies control the smelters, and grab an outsized share of the profits. Selby, chief executive of Toronto-based Royal Nickel Corp., which is raising money to build a mine in Quebec, thinks he can break that pattern.…
via Meet the Canadian miner that plans to shake up the nickel industry — Financial Post
Android collects ten times as much data as iOS because it offers 10x as much usability — Techie.Buzz
Anyone who knows me on even a casual level knows how much I value my privacy. I think of my personal data as currency, and since tech companies build billion-dollar businesses from data it’s not worth a trivial amount. I also know that there isn’t any feasible way to stay completely anonymous if… Link: Android […]
via Android collects ten times as much data as iOS because it offers 10x as much usability — Techie.Buzz
PayPal this week announced that it has redesigned the PayPal app for iOS with a focus on making it easier for users to send and request money. The update comes as PayPal faces newfound competition from Apple Pay Cash. In a blog post, PayPal explains that its redesigned iOS app focuses on “the customer experience” […]
via PayPal targets Apple Pay Cash w/ redesigned iOS app focused on P2P payments — Techie.Buzz
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If you happen to be one of those hybrid users who works on macOS, but for your mobile experience you opt to go with Android, you know that transferring files between the two can be a bit of a hassle. Sure you can go the Google Drive or SMB route, but why not make use […]
via How to easily transfer files between Android and macOS — Techie.Buzz
Did you notice the title of this blog post clearly states, “to find” your signal strength not to “boost” your signal strength? . Wouldn’t it be great if there was a smartphone app that could miraculously give you full bars, powerful signal and super fast internet? I am sure there is some innovator locked away […]
via Best Smartphone Apps to Find Your Mobile Signal Strength — Techie.Buzz
As smartphones are superiorly smart, easy to access anywhere and broadly available, they can be utilized for your business too. You can extend the utility by integrating mobiles with your CRM technology. SugarCRM and SuiteCRM are the two most successful technologies that empower business processing. Link: Key Advantages of Mobile CRM Software for Higher Sales […]
via Key Advantages of Mobile CRM Software for Higher Sales — Techie.Buzz
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The phone industry has come a long way in just the past year. Screens have gotten taller, bezels are being molded into notches, companies have begun bundling ways in their services to allow users to be more conscious of how much they stare at a screen, smarter features powered by machine learning… Link: Android Pie […]
Apple makes a really big deal out of getting users to switch from Android to iOS, and with market saturation becoming a potential issue, it’s easy to see why. Now, according to a new survey conducted by PCMag, we have a new insight into why Android owners switch to iPhones. The survey consisted of questions […]
via New Survey Reveals Top Reasons Why Users Switch Between iOS, Android — Techie.Buzz
Highly available applications using IBMs Cloud Foundry PaaS — Part 1: The underpinnings (Almost) seven nines availability on IBM Cloud for (less than) $18By Simon Moser, Richard Johnson and Carl Swanson Clearly, applications hosted on a cloud can be a critical part of your business and… Link: Highly available applications using IBMs Cloud Foundry PaaS via medium.com
via Highly available applications using IBMs Cloud Foundry PaaS — Techie.Buzz
With data privacy scandals like the Cambridge Analytica affair hitting the news on an almost daily basis, people are getting used to the idea that their online user profile data is being routinely captured and shared with third parties. But as increasing numbers of users move away from desktop and laptop computers as their primary […]
via User Profile Data | How It Is Being Captured And Shared Over Mobile — Techie.Buzz
Korean romantic drama “On Your Wedding Day” landed on top of the South Korean box office. That helped local titles remain strong and account for more than 75% of the total weekend box office. Opening on Wednesday, “Wedding Day” earned $7.06 million from 901,000 admissions between Wednesday and Sunday. Featuring young stars Park Bo-young (“Collective…
via Korea Box Office: ‘Wedding Day’ Tops ‘Witness,’ as Local Titles Remain Strong — Variety
DAVIE, Fla. — Sintavia, LLC, a leading Tier One metal additive manufacturer, announced today that it added two more additive manufacturing (AM) machines to its fleet of in-house printers—a TRUMPF TruPrint 3000, the first machine of its kind in North America, and an EOS M400-4, a large-scale printer with four lasers designed for faster production.…
via Sintavia Adds Eighth and Ninth Industrial Metal Printers — Financial Post
I have been known to be critical of the biases in Canada’s financial advice industry and rightly so, as there is plenty to criticize. I was interested to read the findings of a recent two-year research investigation by Credo Consulting into the presumably biased practice of proprietary product loading (PPL). The study determined that PPL…
via Relying on proprietary products not necessarily a bad thing for advisers — Financial Post
TORONTO — Tilray Canada Ltd. (“Tilray”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tilray, Inc. (Nasdaq:TLRY) announced today that it has been selected by the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (“NSLC”) to receive an initial purchase order for adult-use cannabis. The purchase order would allow Tilray, one of fourteen cannabis producers selected by NSLC, to supply the province…
U.N. investigators called Monday for leaders of Myanmar’s military to be prosecuted for genocide, issuing the strongest condemnation to date of the nation’s security forces since they launched a bloody campaign targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority. Speaking in Geneva, three human rights experts said Myanmar’s military, known locally as the Tatmadaw, had demonstrated “genocidal intent.”…
via The Myanmar Army Should Face Charges for Genocide, U.N. Investigators Say — TIME
WASHINGTON — Endowment for Clean Oceans (ECO) announces Mr. Pierre-Yves Cousteau’s membership on ECO’s Scientific and Technical Committee, which will judge $1 million and $5 million prize contests. Mr. Cousteau, son of the world-renowned Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Founder of Cousteau Divers said, “I am excited to be working with ECO to find deployable and active…
THE gamer who fatally shot two rivals and injured 11 others at a video game tournament yesterday was a “man of business” who showed no emotion, it has been claimed. Cops are investigating why David Katz, 24, opened fire on two contestants at the Madden NFL competition in Jacksonville, Florida, as it was streamed live…
Follow CBSPHILLY Facebook Twitter PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Three people were hospitalized after a car crashed into a home overnight in Philadelphia’s Kensington section. It happened on the 2800 block of Tulip Street. There’s no word on the conditions of the three victims. Officials say the people who live inside of the home were displaced. Police are still…
via 3 Injured After Car Crashes Into Home In Kensington — CBS Philly
A Hong Kong democracy party said Chinese authorities detained and questioned two of its members on separate occasions for several hours in mainland China, stoking already heightened fears of Beijing’s increasingly heavy oversight of the territory’s political discourse. Speaking to a room of local and international media Monday, leaders of one of Hong Kong’s most…
via Two Members of a Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Party Were ‘Detained and Questioned’ in China — TIME
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A speed camera program in city school zones will now be saved, just in time for the first day of school. Advocates say cameras have made a difference, reports CBS2’s Jenna Deangelis. Speed enforcement cameras were put in 140 school zones in New York City to crack down on dangerous driving.…
via Speed Cameras Around NYC Schools To Stay On For Return To Classes — CBS New York
Machine Translation ‘Significantly’ Boosts Trade, Leading US Think Tank Finds Slator Full coverage from https://slator.com/technology/machine-translation-significantly-boosts-trade-leading-us-think-tank-finds/ via Translation services
via Machine Translation ‘Significantly’ Boosts Trade, Leading US Think Tank Finds — Human Translations
A SIX-year-old boy has been left with horrific injuries after standing up to a group of children who were bullying a friend. Carter English was beaten with rocks and sticks leaving him with a broken arm, lacerations to his eyelid and eyeball, and bruising on his head. Carter was left with lacerations to his eye…
DEMI Rose looked every inch the carnival diva in a revealing dress that showed off her famous curves. The Birmingham model headed to Notting Hill for a party to launch her new app on Sunday. Demi showed off her famous curves in this sexy outfit on SundayKP PicturesDemi, 23, turned heads in the showstopping gown that…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Marquis Williams and Taylor Poindexter at first thought they heard a balloon popping. When the loud bangs kept coming, the Chicago couple and fellow video gamers attending a weekend tournament recognized them as gunfire and began scrambling for an exit. As he fled, Williams, 28, said, he could see the back…
via Competitor: ‘No One Deserves To Die Over Playing A Videogame’ — CBS Boston
Muslim countries have been silent over China’s crackdown on its Uighurs, a Muslim-majority ethnic minority in the country’s west. Experts and activists say it is because countries fear economic retribution from China and because many Arab states have unenviable human rights records of their own.
Facebook is cracking down on the military leadership in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been identified as a factor contributing to ethnic tension and violence. The U.S. company said today that it removed accounts belonging to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the military-owned Myawady…
via Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts for ‘enabling human rights abuses’ — TechCrunch
LYNCHBURG, Va. — BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David Black will be participating in the Seaport Global Energy and Industrials Conference in Chicago on August 28, 2018. BWXT will not make a formal presentation. The company’s overview presentation is available in the Investor Relations section of…
via BWXT to Participate in Seaport Global Energy and Industrials Conference — Financial Post
Security products gather tremendous amounts of data but they are siloed. Bringing together all of that data, and doing machine learning on it, will drive its use across the cybersecurity portfolio and ultimately its use for the whole business.
YOUTUBE is sticking even longer ads that can’t be skipped in tons of videos across its site. The Google-owned platform is expanding its “non-skippable” adverts that run before videos to all creators, meaning they’ll start popping up before a lot more content in the coming weeks and months. YouTube’s longer ads that last 15-20 seconds…
Sandbox VR, a new free roam virtual reality center now open in several US cities, originated in Hong Kong. The company plans to open 16 locations in 2018.
via Sandbox VR Free Roam LBVR Opens In LA, NY, SF — Forbes Real Time
Influencer marketing has expanded in recent years, and gaming-specific influencers are no exception. With hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential monthly income at stake, it’s become big business for the best of the best gaming creators to make a living on streaming video… Link: Gaming influencer report: Family Gaming Team outdoes Ninja in July […]
via Gaming influencer report: Family Gaming Team outdoes Ninja in July — Techie.Buzz
Spotify has revealed its official Songs of the Summer chart, and in a not-shocking development Drake’s “In My Feelings” topped the list both globally and in the U.S., with more than 393 million streams between June 1 and August 20. Globally, the No.2 and No. 3 songs both featured Cardi B: Maroon 5’s ballad “Girls…
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – “Wolverine” star Hugh Jackman added his take on the viral video social challenge trend around Drake’s “Kiki Do You Love Me” song. The “In My Feelings Challenge” has been going on for a while now, with people jumping out of their cars and celebrities adding their own spin to the song,…
via ‘Wolverine’ Hugh Jackman Takes ‘In My Feelings’ Challenge To New Level — CBS New York
North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper accused the U.S. of “double-dealing” on Sunday after Washington canceled a planned visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as negotiations over the pariah state’s nuclear arsenal continue to stall. An editorial in North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun paper criticized American “double-dealing attitudes,” and alleged that the U.S. was “busy staging secret…
via North Korea Accuses the U.S. of ‘Hatching a Criminal Plot’ Against Pyongyang — TIME
The package provides the installation files for Realtek High Definition Audio Driver 6.0.1.8509.If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones.In…
via Realtek High Definition Audio Driver 6.0.1.8509 for Windows 10 64-bit — Softpedia Drivers / All
There’s a surprising number of unexpected snows occurring this summer in the northern hemisphere, here’s a compendium of news reports and video from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, as well as Germany, Austria, Italy, and Slovenia. 26 Aug 2018 – August to end with a taste of winter as snow blankets the Northern Rockies Winter weather advisories have been issued by…
via Unexpected summer snows wreaking havoc on vacation plans — Watts Up With That?
Travelstop is a new startup in Singapore that aims to bring the benefits of business travel management to SMEs and other smaller companies in Southeast Asia. The company launched its product today after being founded in November 2017 by three entrepreneurs who worked at TravelMob, the Singapore startup bought by HomeAway in 2013. Prior to…
via Travelstop brings business travel management to SMEs and startups in Southeast Asia — TechCrunch
Google security researchers have revealed this week that the immensely popular Fortnite Android app is vulnerable to so-called man-in-the-disk (MitD) attacks. This vulnerability allows low-privileged malicious apps already installed on a users’ phone to hijack the Fortnite app’s installation process and install other malicious apps that have a higher permissions level. Link: Fortnite Android App […]
via Fortnite Android App Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Disk Attacks — Techie.Buzz
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