iPhone X fast charges up to 50% in just 30 minutes, but that costs extra
iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are now official, and you may be pleased to know Apple’s latest creations support fast charging. This means you can get up to 50% power after 30 minutes on the cable, as 9to5Mac uncovered, if your battery is completely drained from the start. However, there is a …
Bodega’s tone-deaf vending service won’t kill your corner store
Following all of today’s criticism, the company released a statement saying that it’s not really aiming to kill mom and pop shops. “Challenging the urban corner store is not and has never been our goal,” wrote co-founder and CEO Paul McDonald.” Corner stores have been fixtures of their neighborhoods for generations. They stock thousands of …
Croatia is the adventure destination you’ve been missing
Croatia is well known for its party beaches, swanky nightlife and many “Game of Thrones” filming locations. But when you step away from the tourist … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Presunto stupro Firenze, il buco di unʼora nei racconti dei due carabinieri
Per il secondo militare, martedì sentito in procura, sarebbero state "le ragazze a invitarli a salire in casa". Lʼinformativa ai pm: tante le violazioni. leggi dopo. commenta. Presunto stupro Firenze, il buco di un'ora nei racconti dei due carabinieri. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
YouTube’s app is dominating mobile video by monthly users, time spent
Americans spent nearly a billion hours watching YouTube videos on Android this past July, according to new data released today by App Annie. That’s the largest amount of time spent in any one streaming video app in a month. The figure is yet another data point showcasing the shift in the way people are consuming …
Can Apple’s iPhone X Beat Facial Recognition’s Bias Problem?
Joy Buolamwini once built a robot that could play peekaboo. But there was just one problem: It couldn’t see her. Buolamwini is black, and the facial-recognition software she used couldn’t recognize her face. The software worked well enough with lighter-skinned people, so Buolamwini moved on to other projects. “[I] figured, you know what, somebody else …
Amazon Prime members can get over 30% off of new Fire tablets
Apple may have been quiet about tablets this week, but Amazon isn’t doing likewise. The new Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 tablets from Amazon are a pair of incredibly affordable tablets that aren’t half bad, especially the Fire HD 8, and Amazon is currently giving Prime members a discount of over 30% on each. …
U.S. government bans Kaspersky software citing fears about Russian intelligence
Three months after the General Services Administration removed Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved federal vendors, Homeland Security is banning the Russian security software maker outright. In a statement on Wednesday, DHS Acting Secretary Elaine Duke directed all Executive Branch agencies and departments to identify any Kaspersky products being used over the next 30 …
ASUS is spending millions to bring US startups to Asia
But ASUS is being very specific about which ideas it’s letting in the door. The general partner and CEO of Fenox Venture Capital, which is partnering with ASUS to manage its fund, told TechCrunch that the company is eyeing concepts like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data, augmented and virtual reality. Like other …