How to Photograph the 2017 Solar Eclipse Using Your Smartphone For about three minutes on August 21, if you’re lucky, you can watch the moon cross in front of the sun and block out its light in a total solar eclipse. Afterward, you can expect your Instagram feed to fill with pictures of the big event. …
Teens favoring Snapchat and Instagram over Facebook, says eMarketer Facebook is losing appeal among teens and young adults which is contributing to generally slowing growth for the platform, according to the latest projections from research firm eMarketer. At the same time alternative social apps Snapchat and (Facebook-owned) Instagram are seeing rising and double-digit growth in the …
SNES Classic Mini: Join us for a live Q&A about the retro console later today The SNES Mini is Nintendo’s latest dive into its past. A miniature version of the company’s classic 1992 console, the SNES Mini comes packed with 20 classic titles, and one game that was produced and never saw the light of day …
Nintendo’s second ‘Classic’ console is better, but not perfect If you’ve played Nintendo’s original throwback console, you know what to expect out of the SNES Classic Edition. It’s a tiny replica of the original Super Nintendo, and it catches all the right nostalgic hooks. The dimensions are perfect, the colors are spot on, and the power …
Acasa is building a platform for ‘Generation Rent’ to manage their homes London-based startup Acasa has come a long way since we covered its seed round in late 2015. The company, then called Splittable, offered a way to manage and share household expenses with multiple house members. However, the bigger vision was to build a platform …
How to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Without Glasses You’ve surely heard by now that the moon will pass between Earth and the sun on August 21, creating a total solar eclipse that will cast a shadow over much of the US. Jimmy Carter was president the last time this happened, so you definitely don’t want …
This leak could be your first look at Android O Renowned tipster Evan Blass has tweeted a fresh picture which clearly hints that the upcoming Android 8.0 will be called as Oreo. Google has already announced the official release date of Android O. ‘What will be the name of Android O?’ is currently one of the …
HP’s first Omen X gaming laptop is built for overclocking To start, the 17-inch system’s vapor chamber cooling and high-powered fans are good enough to allow both your own processor overclocking (it’s an unlocked Core i7, naturally), memory overclocking and factory-overclocked graphics chips up to the GeForce GTX 1080. Need to upgrade? There’s a single panel …
ACLU taps tech to help the public hold district attorneys accountable to criminal justice reform Many people don’t pay much attention to their district attorneys, let alone realize district attorneys are elected officials, says Ana Zamora, the criminal justice policy director at the ACLU of Northern California. That was the genesis for MeetYourDA. The campaign, which launched …
IRS warns that tax-related phishing scams are on the rise Most of the scams work by sending a fake email that looks like it’s coming from a company executive to someone in the organization that has access to W-2s — payroll, human resources or financial department employees, for example. The email typically asks for an employee …