You’d be forgiven for thinking your Amazon Kindle is just a tiny slate only fit for reading. That’s what it’s designed for, sure, but your humble e-reader has some hard-to-find, little-known tricks up its sleeve. Here are the best Kindle features you absolutely need to know about (but probably don’t). 1. Play Apps And Games …

Election meddling is Facebook’s next adversary, and it’s got a plan to attack it just like it did with fake news. Solutions to both these scourges come too late to prevent tampering that may have aided Donald Trump winning the presidency — but at least Facebook is owning up to the problem, working with the …

Google late Wednesday announced that it would pay $1.1 billion for employees from HTC's smartphone unit, prompting waves upon waves of … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Before you ask, that doesn’t include the rights to broadcast in America, which NBC acquired for a reported $1 billion deal back in 2015 to retain until the 2021-22 season. But snatching broadcasting rights for leagues far from home is apparently now in Amazon’s purview after it recently outbid Sky and ITV for tennis’ ATP …

Apple TV 4K may be grabbing all the headlines, but don’t sleep on Roku. The AV accessory company is apparently prepping a new streaming stick capable of porting through 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) content, and at a likely cheaper price than Apple. The new 4K HDR Roku Streaming Stick+ was uncovered by Zatz Not …

Baidu is putting some serious cash behind its self-driving car push after it announced a $1.5 billion fund that’s focused on backing autonomous driving tech companies. The Chinese giant, best known for its internet search service and AI technology, has prioritized autonomous vehicles in a major way in recent years, so this comes as little …

La Guardia di Finanza di Catania, dopo un'indagine coordinata dalla Procura etnea, stanno eseguendo sei misure di arresti domiciliari per scambio elettorale politico-mafioso in relazione alle elezioni amministrative del 2016 del Comune di Vittoria in … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During this year’s record-breaking hurricane season, oil rigs and refineries were just as exposed as any structure on the precarious Gulf Coast, and their owners were limited to the same options as everyone else: evacuate, prepare, and hope the storm was merciful. The devastation Harvey …

Il tema della tasse sulle vendite online è in cima alla lista delle «questioni che contano» nella community di eBay, prima della lotta al cyber crime o … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from