So, if I understand this article correctly, there are better uses of your time than Facebook and Twitter? Pffft. Whatever.
A dedication to cultivating your social media brand is a fundamentally passive approach to professional advancement. It diverts your time and attention away from producing work that matters and towards convincing the world that you matter. The latter activity is seductive, especially for many members of my generation who were raised on this message, but it can be disastrously counterproductive. Most social media is best described as a collection of somewhat trivial entertainment services that are now having a good run. These networks are fun, but you're deluding yourself if you think that Twitter messages, posts and likes are a productive use of your time.
Here's to hoping this rumor is true. As it is, I already get a lot of value out of my $99 a year, adding live sports to Amazon Prime would just be the icing on the cake.
"Amazon Prime members could soon be getting more bang for their buck when it comes to entertainment, as the e-commerce giant is rumored to be in talks with major sports leagues and television networks to offer live-streaming of sporting events. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that Amazon has been in talks with the NBA, MLB, and NFL — as well as smaller leagues for soccer and lacrosse — to obtain rights to stream live games as part of its $99/year Prime subscription service or as an add-on service."
Really? Is this what the world has come to? Zombie groans are now being perceived as racial slurs? Am I alone in thinking people are just looking for crap to be offended by these days? Here's the email I got yesterday:
Hey, remember all that stuff Tim Cook said last year about focusing on diversity? It would seem that Apple isn't having much luck with that. Turns out that trying to fix an industry-wide issue by "putting a ton of energy" behind the problem just doesn't seem to be working as well as Cook had planned.
The iPhone maker released new data Monday night showing that the company’s highest ranks remain even more white and male than the company as a whole. Just 20 of Apple’s top 107 executives are women, according to a government filing, while only five are from underrepresented minority groups (defined as black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander). Another 14 executives are Asian, while the remaining 88 are white.
Our friends at PC Perspective got their hands on a Kaby Lake powered laptop and put it to the test against a Skylake version of the same model laptop. To say they were surprised by the performance increase over the Skylake based laptop would be an understatement.
As it turns out, the advantages of the 7th Generation Core processor family and Kaby Lake are more substantial than I expected. I was able to get a hold of two different notebooks from the HP Spectre lineup, as near to identical as I could manage, with the primary difference being the move from the 6th Generation Skylake design to the 7th Generation Kaby Lake. After running both machines through a gamut of tests ranging from productivity to content creation and of course battery life, I can say with authority that Intel’s 7th Gen product deserves more accolades than it is getting.
NVIDIA announced today that if you upgrade to a GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080 graphics card, system, or laptop, you will get a free digital copy of Watch Dogs 2. Not a bad deal if you were planning on upgrading your video card anyway.
From today, if you upgrade to a GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080 graphics card, system, or laptop, you'll receive a free downloadable copy of Watch Dogs 2, redeemable on Uplay. In addition to delivering the performance to smoothly play Watch Dogs 2, the recommended GeForce GTX 10-Series graphics cards support our vast array of critically acclaimed technologies, giving you the definitive gaming experience, unmatched by any other platform. Specifically, whilst playing Watch Dogs 2 you can make use of Ansel, DSR, HBAO+, HFTS, G-SYNC, GameStream, GeForce Experience Share, PCSS, SLI, Surround, and TXAA.
Are you too lazy (and inconsiderate) to turn off your phone or switch it to silent mode while you are at the dinner table? Are your fingers so weak that flipping a switch on your phone isn't an option? Well then, this stupid metal box is for you! You can blame [H] reader scojer for bringing this one to my attention.
If you are an iPhone owner beware of this stupid prank, especially if your friends are dicks. This is like that stupid text link prank that made the rounds last year. Since this seems to be an iOS memory leak issue, Android users don't have to worry about this.
Hang on a minute, are they saying this like its a bad thing? Imagine a world where Facebook and/or Twitter were down for a day. A week? Imagine the spike in workplace productivity!
As we come into 2017, botnets capable of causing such damage are likely to become a bigger challenge to control, according to Mike Raggo, Chief Research Scientist at social media security firm ZeroFOX. The security expert predicts that in the next year, a "massive" botnet will target and disrupt popular social media platforms, potentially including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Has Instagram made Snapchat irrelevant? Wait, was Snapchat ever relevant to anyone other than teens in the first place? How many of you guys use Snapchat? What about Instagram?
Instagram announced today that users will now be able to message each other photos and video that self destruct, much like the vaporizing messages that first made SnapChat a billion-dollar baby in Silicon Valley. Instagram also confirmed that it’s taking a page from its parent company Facebook’s playbook and adding live video in the coming weeks. Instagram’s live video will differ from Facebook’s feature in that it cannot be viewed again once the broadcast is over.
What's that you say? You've been enjoying our VR performance reviews so much that you want to pick up a Vive of your own? Good news! According to the Vive blog you can get $100 off a Vive on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There is also a 50% off sale that is running through the weekend. Hit the link for all the details.
To get your jump on Virtual Reality this season, on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, wherever Vive is sold, purchasers can receive $100 off their Vive purchase (while supplies last). In addition, Vive owners can build up their VR library with some of the most popular titles with big discounts through HTC’s Viveport app store, with bundle deals, an in-store cash back offer, and a 50% off sale running through the weekend. The Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals will be available online and in all retail locations where Vive is sold, including Microsoft Stores, Amazon.com, Gamestop, Newegg.com, Micro-center, and Vive.com. In addition, for the first time, Vive will be available for sale in 34 Fry’s locations across the U.S and online.
NASA’s efforts to find life in the far reaches of the universe draw significant attention. Less known is a recent agency program to prevent asteroids from ending life here on Earth. Three teams of researchers using GPU-powered deep learning spent the summer tackling asteroid-related challenges at NASA’s Frontier Development Lab, in partnership with the SETI Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to researching life in the universe. The FDL’s work was made possible by an "applied research accelerator" — a GPU-powered platform that helps researchers accomplish work that used to take six months or more in just six weeks. The FDL itself is a response to the White House’s Asteroid Grand Challenge, an ongoing program that aims to get researchers to "find all asteroid threats to human populations and know what to do about them." The emergence of GPU computing has enabled organizations like NASA and SETI to analyze large datasets that are critical to the space program. FDL Director James Parr says the lab’s goal was to approach the challenge in two ways: apply machine learning techniques and technologies to planetary defense, and demonstrate the viability of the applied research accelerator to industrialize significant breakthroughs quickly. A group of 12 standout graduate students was chosen for the internship, during which they were housed at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and worked on their respective projects at a nearby SETI facility.
Intel will demonstrate solutions for industrial settings at SPS IPC Drives, in Nuremberg, Germany, from Nov. 22-24 (Hall 3 Stand 270). Plant managers can use semiconductors known as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), as well as Intel’s portfolio of core hardware and software, to help factory operators accelerate their IIoT innovation and arrive at the goal of Industry 4.0 – a more secure, connected, interoperable, efficient and safe operation.
Those of you in the market for a super-efficient 600 watt PSU should read our evaluation of the Enermax Platimax DF 600W power supply today. There are a lot of things to like about this power supply but is it the right one for you? Hit the link to find out.
Enermax comes to us today with a super-efficient 600 watt computer power supply that is dressed in black and has fully modular SLEEMAX cables that are very suitable for configuring a distinguished looking build. How does it do when put through our PSU gauntlet however?
You know, if Facebook would have been using algorithms on its experimental drones, this probably wouldn't have happened. What? At least that way they could just blame the crash on "algorithms" and call it a day.
No one was hurt in the incident, which came during the unmanned aircraft’s first test flight on June 28. It marks the latest hiccup in Facebook’s plans to wirelessly connect the world, following an explosion earlier this year that destroyed one of its satellites and political resistance to the service in India. The high-altitude drone, which has a wingspan wider than a Boeing Co. 737 and is powered by four electric engines, suffered a "structural failure" as it was coming in for a landing, according to a previously undisclosed investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Today TheBackyardScientist shows you how to make a DIY fire tornado. The part where he combines two different color flames is just awesome. Watch the video below, I think you'll really like it.
The folks at ZDNet have put together a list of The Biggest Tech Turkeys Of 2016 that is worth checking out...even if it's in slideshow format. My personal favorite on the list was Microsoft's stupid self-learning Twitter chatbot.
If there's one thing guaranteed on the internet is that we can't have nice things. Microsoft's artificial intelligence bot, Tay, was a self-learning chatbot for Twitter. But within a few hours, the bot was taught to be racist and abusive from the thousands of people who tweeted at her. Tay was pulled offline, only to return a week later, when she spammed people who unfollowed her. Tay hasn't been heard of since.
Your binge-watching favorites on Netflix are now available in 4K exclusively on compatible PCs and 2-in-1 devices, on Windows 10. Check out the new streaming experience with Microsoft Edge, the only browser that supports Netflix 4K content. If you’re looking for a new Windows 10 device that supports 4K, head over to Microsoft Stores. When streaming Netflix on Microsoft Edge you can get through at least one more full episode of Gilmore Girls than when streaming on Chrome on battery – and you know one episode can be the difference between Chris and Lorelai casually dating and being a married couple.
Who knew you could peel potatoes and carrots, deep fry a turkey and mix four bowls at the same time using a drone? Obviously these guys knew, because they did it.
During an interview with Der Spiegel, the President said that he can't pardon Edward Snowden until he has gone before the courts. Plenty of people have been pardoned in the past without standing trial so, at least in this case, I think "can't" means "won't."
I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point. I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system. At the point at which Mr. Snowden wants to present himself before the legal authorities and make his arguments or have his lawyers make his arguments, then I think those issues come into play. Until that time, what I've tried to suggest -- both to the American people, but also to the world -- is that we do have to balance this issue of privacy and security.
Apple's Jony Ive says he has created an all-enveloping magical experience for Claridge's Christmas Tree 2016. True to form, Ive took normal every day trees, the same you would find in your back yard, called them "magical" and everyone loves it. If you think I'm kidding, just look at the picture.
Uber wants you to know that, even though its terms of service agreement sounds like the company can sell your information to third parties, that is not the company's intention and they have no immediate plans to sell your data.
"In the "User Provided Content" section of the Uber terms of service, it states that "by providing User Content to Uber, you grant Uber a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit in any manner such User Content in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Services and Uber’s business and on third-party sites and services), without further notice to or consent from you, and without the requirement of payment to you or any other person or entity."
It looks as though Apple has abandoned its wireless router division. Much like the company did when it killed off its monitor business, Apple has disbanded its wireless router team and moved employees to other, more profitable, departments.
Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product development groups, including the one handling the Apple TV, said the people, who asked not to be named because the decision hasn’t been publicly announced. Apple hasn’t refreshed its routers since 2013 following years of frequent updates to match new standards from the wireless industry. The decision to disband the team indicates the company isn’t currently pushing forward with new versions of its routers.
Are we talking about the same LifeLock that was fined millions for false advertisement and then hit with a $100 million fine for failing to secure consumers' personal information and stop deceptive advertising practices? I was going to say Symantec must have money to burn but the article says they are taking out $750 million in new debt to make this deal happen.
"People’s identity and data are prime targets of cybercrime," said Symantec board chairman Dan Schulman. "The security industry must step up and defend through innovation and vigilance." LifeLock is best known for an advertising campaign touting its identity protection services which includes its former CEO Todd Davis sharing his social security number. A 2010 report from the Phoenix New Times claims since the ads, Davis had been a victim of identity theft at least 13 times.
What is the best way to claim your car is the "world's fastest all-electric supercar?" Take it to Nürburgring and beat the existing world record by almost 17 seconds. Not bad for a Chinese company no one has ever heard of.
The sleek two-seater has four onboard motors and four individual gearboxes, capable of delivering 1 megawatt of power to the wheels. For speed freaks, that means 0 to 100KPH (62MPH) in 2.7 seconds. It will also do 0 to 200KPH (124MPH) in 7.1 seconds and 300KPH (186MPH) in 15.9 seconds. The EP9 can't, however, complete a quarter mile stretch in under 10 seconds (at 10.1 seconds, it's pretty close however.)
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