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An Instagram bug briefly showed Stories to strangers
Early this week, an Instagram bug caused users’ Stories to show up in strangers’ Stories trays. At least one user reported the problem on Twitter, and an Instagram spokesperson confirmed the glitch. Considering the hype around privacy concerns, espec… …read more
Source:: Engadget
Firefox comes to Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs
Always on, always connected PCs haven’t exactly taken the world by storm yet, but app developers and software creators are steadily dialing up their support for these ultra-portable machines. Need proof? Just look at Mozilla: this morning, the compan… …read more
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NVIDIA shows how much ray-tracing sucks on older GPUs
NVIDIA recently announced that ray-tracing is coming to older Pascal GPUs, and now it has detailed how well — or not well, rather — it will actually work. If you’re happy with basic effects, the news isn’t too bad. The RTX 2080 Ti will outperform i… …read more
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The makers of ‘Chef’s Table’ have a new Netflix series about street food
Michelin-starred fine dining is passé. As evidenced by the exploding popularity of street food, good eats these days are found at trucks and carts tucked away outdoors, prepared by families with decades of hard graft behind them, and not a sin… …read more
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Alienware Area 51m review: A gaming desktop stuffed inside a laptop
The Area 51m is a unique beast. At first glance, it looks like what we used to expect from gaming laptops: It’s an intimidating, hulking machine that doesn’t belong in the modern age of slim notebooks. But what makes it special is under the hood…. …read more
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An Amazon employee might have listened to your Alexa recording
Yes, someone might listen to your Alexa conversations someday. A Bloomberg report has detailed how Amazon employs thousands of full-timers and contractors from around the world to review audio clips from Echo devices. Apparently, these workers transc… …read more
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The Morning After: We saw a black hole
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.
Hey, you want to see a black hole? Now you can. Also, SpaceX is about to attempt something you’ve just got to watch live (the view of two booster rockets landing in perfect sync is amazing), and the House of Rep… …read more
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Microsoft and Amazon will fight for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract
Amazon and Microsoft are the two final companies in the running for the Defense Department’s $10 billion cloud computing contract. The Pentagon’s migration to the cloud, known as the JEDI project, was announced in 2017, with some of the biggest compa… …read more
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by London police
Julian Assange has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and removed from the embassy, according to the MPS. Police entered the facility at the request of Ecuador’s Ambassador, “following the Ecuqdorian government’s withdrawal o… …read more
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Sony’s popular A7 III camera now tracks your pet’s eyes
Sony is making its already top-notch A7 III and A7R III cameras better with the release of a new firmware update. It introduces a fun AI feature for pet owners called animal eye detection. When set to continuous tracking focus mode, it can focus on y… …read more
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