All over the world, language barriers are limiting the ability of refugees and immigrants to seek help, and aid workers to provide it. Tarjimly is a new service that connects people who speak one language but need to speak in another, with a person who speaks both — in just a couple minutes. They’re part of Y Combinator’s latest batch and are gearing up for a proper launch. Read More
Were you among the lucky 15 million people to get your paws on a Nintendo Switch? Congrats! In the spirit of consumerism, it would be a sin not to pimp it out with the best accessories. Fortunately, we have a finely curated list of the finest accessories to enhance your gaming experience. 1. Juice: RavPower Type-C Charger TaoTronics Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter / Receiver, Wireless 3.5mm Audio Adapter (aptX Low Latency, Pair 2 At Once, For TV / Car Sound System, Volume Control) TaoTronics Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter / Receiver, Wireless 3.5mm Audio Adapter (aptX Low Latency, Pair 2 At Once, For...
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Sound quality isn’t dead. Casual fans may be okay with a badly encoded MP3 streamed over a slideshow on YouTube, but if you’re really into your music, you want something better. There is FLAC, but that requires a whole new set of players and a new library. That’s where ALAC comes in: Apple’s lossless codec. It is compatible with iTunes and iOS, so you can change formats without changing your routine. Lossless vs. Compressed Codecs Whether it’s AAC or MP3, most of the music you’re buying/streaming is encoded using a lossy codec. That derives from how they compress data. The...
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You’ve purchased yourself one of the best 3D printers around. You’ve learned how to dial it in with our ultimate beginner’s guide to 3D printing. Maybe you’ve even designed your own 3D models with OpenSCAD. But no matter how good you are at 3D printing, you will have unwanted or failed prints. Maybe you were experimenting with a new filament. Perhaps you were still calibrating your machine, or an accidental nudge ruined the latest batch. Whatever the reason, failed prints happen. Today I’ll be showing you some of the coolest things you can do with all these failed parts. 1....
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Trello is a terrific tool for managing projects of most any size. With its visual method of organization, extensive features, and wide availability, Trello is ideal for both business and personal projects. So, why not let it help you with romance? Yes, you read that right, romance! If you want to plan that perfect night, weekend, or big event, here are some tips to make Trello your planning partner. Design Your Date Night How often do you spend a romantic evening with your sweetheart? Whether it’s a table for two and blockbuster movie or a candlelit dinner at home with...
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Facebook’s status update box is getting a new feature called Lists, which begins rolling out today. This is the first major update to the entry field since the launch of colored backgrounds just over a year ago, and also serves as a way to encourage Facebook users to share more personal content. The feature, like it sounds, lets users make lists of anything they choose – New… Read More
There is more to Netflix than movies, TV series, and the company’s own original shows. The service also offers a vast number of engrossing documentaries (including some of our favorite BBC documentaries). The problem? It’s not very easy to find them. Sure, you can use Netflix’s secret codes, but the streaming service’s search tools are woefully inadequate. That’s why so many people love awesome third-party sites like Flixable. However, not even Flixable will let you search by TV network. For example, there’s no way to find shows that originally aired on FOX or NBC. When watching documentaries, this is an...
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Google’s AMP format has always been about making mobile pages render faster. But Google is now taking it beyond posts, recipes and how-to articles. First, the company launched the new AMP story format earlier today and now it’s also announcing a preview of AMP for Email. At first, that may seem like an odd combination, especially given that few people complain about how slowly… Read More
ARM doesn’t build any chips itself, but its designs are at the core of virtually every CPU in modern smartphones, cameras and IoT devices. So far, the company’s partners have shipped more than 125 billion ARM-based chips. After moving into GPUs in recent years, the company today announced that it will now offer its partners machine learning and dedicated object detection processors. Read More
PicoBrew today announced a new product in its growing line of brewing appliances. Called the Z Series, this product targets serious brewers with a scalable design that allows for greater precision in repeatable larger batch sizes. And with the largest model, the Z4, the owner ends up with a stack of slick brewing appliances that reinforces the thought we’re finally living in the future.… Read More
Of the millions of websites on the internet, it’s reasonable to expect that you might want to block a few. Whether you want to strip out time-wasting sites that sap your productivity or just don’t want to see dangerous or explicit content by accident, blocking websites is a powerful tool. Thankfully, you have several ways to block websites on Chrome. Let’s talk about them. Supervised Profiles No Longer Work Chrome’s profile system allows you to sign in as multiple users all on one Windows account. Prior to January 2018, you could create a supervised profile which had website restrictions —...
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Obligatory disclaimer: Don’t be dumb. What follows is a video showing high level instructions on how to build a nearly exact copy of The Boring Company’s flamethrower. Basically, gut this $125 Airsoft gun and insert a propane torch. The total bill of goods should be under $200, well under the $500 The Boring Company was charging until it sold out of the 20k units. As many pointed… Read More
In Q4 2017 – essentially during the last holiday season – market research firm Canalys found that more people bought Apple watches than Swiss watches. Two million more, to be exact. Brian Heater has more data but this news is quite problematic for the folks eating Coquilles St-Jacques on the slopes of the Jura mountains. The numbers are estimates based on market data but they… Read More
If you’re a committed Evernote user, you’ve probably got a ton of information saved to your account that, if it were lost, would be a catastrophe. Granted, Evernote stores your notes locally on your machine as well as on their own servers. This means that if you accidentally delete Evernote from your PC, you can easily download the latest synced version of your notebooks to your next Evernote install. You’ll be up and running again in no time. But is this really enough? Well, probably not: If you accidentally delete notes from the Trash folder in Evernote, those notes are...
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Our verdict of the Anki Cozmo:If you're buying as a gift, or want to learn how to program, then buy Cozmo RIGHT NOW!810Meet Cozmo, a cute little robot from Anki — makers of the ever popular Overdrive AI cars. Cozmo is an artificially intelligent, robotic companion. In other words, he’s a little toy robot, with a cheeky personality. Read on to see what we thought. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway contest at the bottom of this review to win your own! Cozmo Cozmo Buy Now At Amazon $199.32 What is Cozmo? Cozmo is so friendly he wouldn’t be out...
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The UK government’s pressure on tech giants to do more about online extremism just got weaponized. The Home Secretary has today announced a machine learning tool, developed with public money by a local AI firm, which the government says can automatically detect propaganda produced by the Islamic State terror group with “an extremely high degree of accuracy”. Read More
Every browser has a zoom feature that lets you decrease or increase the size of a webpage. Apply it in the right places and it can make your browsing life much easier. It can improve readability for all of us and also make the web senior-friendly. Chrome also has the obligatory Zoom feature. But did you know that you can set custom zoom levels for each webpage with a bit of work? How to Manage Custom Zoom Levels in Chrome In Chrome, you can go to More > Zoom and change the size of text, images, and videos for one webpage or for...
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For the most part, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project was about what its name implies: accelerating mobile pages. Unsurprisingly, that mostly meant quickly loading and rendering existing articles on news sites, recipes and other relatively text-heavy content. With that part of AMP being quite successful, Google is looking to take AMP beyond these basic stories. Read More
If you have a shared family Mac computer, switching between accounts can be a quick and easy process if you use the fast user switching feature that comes with all Mac computers. The feature is disabled by default if you haven’t already created multiple user accounts to log in to the computer. If you have more than one user profile created, it should already be turned on. How to Enable Fast User Switching on Mac If you’ve turned it off or if you don’t see the option to switch profiles in the menu bar, turning the feature on is an...
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For the most part, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project was about what its name implies: accelerating mobile pages. Unsurprisingly, that mostly meant quickly loading and rendering existing articles on news sites, recipes and other relatively text-heavy content. With that part of AMP being quite successful, Google is looking to take AMP beyond these basic stories. Read More
Love is in the air. Valentine’s Day is upon us once again and it’s time to show your loved one how much you care by taking them out for some overpriced food in an over-filled restaurant. If you’re feeling extra brave, you could even try throwing a prank in there. Then again, Valentine’s Day is about more than commercialism and fancy chocolates. Believe it or not, there is a deeper, more emotional side to the day! If you’re struggling to find the true meaning of Valentine’s Day, the web can help. Here are three sites to get you in the...
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Despite the controversy surrounding YouTube celebrity Logan Paul (thanks to a string of videos exploiting an apparent suicide and tasering a rat), the young media personality hasn’t done anything to warrant being kicked off of the platform that made him a star. That’s according to chief executive Susan Wojcicki, who defended her company’s treatment of Paul’s video… Read More
YouTube Red will expand its subscription service to as many as 100 countries, according to YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki . Speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif., Wojcicki said that YouTube will be looking to expand its Red service “to many more countries”. The subscription service first launched in October 2015 as a $9.99 subscription… Read More
Foxconn, AKA Hon Hai Precision Industry, AKA the company that made your iPhone, is working with digital cinema pioneer RED to create affordable 8K cameras, the company announced. Chairman Terry Gou told reporters in Taipei, the Nikkei’s among them, that the goal is to reduce both the price and the size of such camera systems by two thirds. Read More
