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Spotify Tests Social Listening Feature

TechCrunch reports that Spotify appears to be testing a new feature called Social Listening, which would let multiple users add songs to a queue in real time, somewhat like the defunct social media platform Turntable.fm (minus the chat and open invite policy). The feature, unearthed by reverse-engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, is just a test right now. There’s no indication that it would ever make its way to the consumer […]

todayJune 6, 2019

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Lego Celebrates Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary with New Lunar Lander Set

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission (July 20th, specifically, for the actual date of the Moon landing itself), and Lego is already gearing up to celebrate with a new Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Lander Set, developed together with NASA. The set isn’t the first lunar lander from Lego — the company released one in 2003 in partnership with the Discovery Channel — but the new […]

todayJune 5, 2019

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Apple announces All New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR

The Verge reports that at WWDC 2019 on Monday, Apple announced its brand new Mac Pro, along with the Pro Display XDR display.   Having admitted that its glossy “trash can” Mac Pro of 2013 was a mistake, Apple has long promised that the next update to its most professional computer line would be a return to more modular, less thermally constrained computing. That was realized at WWDC 2019 with […]

todayJune 4, 2019

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Silicon Valley Ends it Run with Sixth Season

HBO’s biting tech industry satire Silicon Valley is coming to an end with its sixth season slated to air later this year, according to Variety. The show follows the borderline absurd struggles and occasional successes of a group of startup employees trying to maneuver the world of tech, secure funding, and beat out rival products from the giant, soulless corporations trying to crush them. It’s aired since April of 2014, […]

todayJune 4, 2019

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Twitter Fights Vaccine Misinformation With New Search Tool

If you search for tweets related to vaccines this week, the first thing you see on Twitter is a post from the United States Department of Health and Human Services pointing you to reliable health information instead of anti-vax misinformation.   Last week, Twitter announced that it would be launching a new tool in search that would prompt users to head to vaccines.org, which is run by officials at HHS. […]

todayMay 30, 2019

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New Tech from Amazon Promises to Read Human Emotions

Amazon is said to be working on a wrist-worn, voice-activated device that’s supposed to be able to read human emotions. This would be a rather novel health gadget, of the sort we’re more used to seeing in tenuous crowdfunding campaigns instead of from one of the world’s biggest tech companies.   Bloomberg has spoken to a source and reviewed internal Amazon documents, which reportedly show the Alexa voice software team […]

todayMay 30, 2019

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Get Your Name on NASA’s Next Mission to Mars

It’s that time of the year again, when NASA gives you the opportunity to “ship” your name to another celestial body. This time, the destination is Mars, and the shipping service is NASA’s future Mars 2020 rover, which will be headed to the Red Planet in — you guessed it — 2020.   The rover’s primary mission is to get us closer to answering that fundamental question: did Mars ever […]

todayMay 29, 2019

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Could Snapchat Employees be Spying on You?

Companies store a ton of data. You know this. Everyone knows this. But we’re not always happy about the kinds of data they store. We rightfully get pretty touchy when we hear our address, credit card number, mental health inquiries, or private conversations are just hanging out on some internet server where they might wind up in the wrong hands — like, say, an employee of the company that collected […]

todayMay 29, 2019

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Michael Jordan’s Jumpman Invades Fortnite

A new Downtown Drop Limited-Time Mode is bringing Michael Jordan’s Jumpman brand to Fortnite. While it is about hang time, it’s not the basketball variety that Mr. Jordan is famous for. The theme here is skateboarding, and players get to roam around a “Brooklyn-inspired” downtown area, completing challenges to unlock extra goodies and beautification items for their hero. Some of it is free, but, as usual for Fortnite, those with […]

todayMay 28, 2019

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