Games and smart speakers is probably the combination all but a few have in mind, and yet that is exactly what Google is now trying to push for its Google Home speaker. Forget whatever preconceived notion you might have about computer games. There are no fancy graphics here, not even 8-bit ones. There are no joysticks or gamepads either. Since … Continue reading
The Overwatch World Cup is back for its second go-round, this time inviting players from more countries, featuring more games and promising even more live events. The world of eSports has continued to expand since the inaugural event last fall, and t…
Never underestimate Chrissy Teigen’s savagery.
Twitter user @aleashofkeys, also known as “aj,” tried to secretly insult the 31-year-old model in a tweet by censoring Teigen’s name with asterisks ― but things didn’t go as planned.
In an act of apparent wizardry, Teigen replied to the subtweet Thursday night, daring the “aj” unfollow her. Her clap back left Teigen’s fans baffled.
Many people wondered how Teigen was able to uncover “aj’s” insult. Others were straight-up afraid of her tweet-finding skills.
“How did you even see this,” one Twitter user asked. “Are you God?”
Teigen later explained that, no, she’s not a wizard. She just has very loyal fans.
“People tag me with the shit talking they see!” she tweeted. “I am bored but not that bored.”
Moral of the story: Don’t even try to hide from the queen of Twitter because her fans will find you.
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Recently a group of hackers calling themselves the Turkish Crime Family have announced that they have the login credentials to millions of Apple accounts ranging from iCloud.com to Me.com, and that if Apple doesn’t pay the ransom by the 7th of April, they will wipe millions of Apple devices.
As to what the situation is right now is unclear, but safe to say that there are probably quite a few people out there who are worried about. This is possibly why there seems to be a recent phone scam that has been making its rounds in which scammers are calling pretending to be from Apple, and are informing their victims that their iCloud has been hacked in order to obtain login information from them.
According to MacWorld writer Glenn Fleishman, he claims that his wife has gotten no less than 6 calls from these scammers. “Earlier on Monday, my wife let me know that “Apple Support” had called about iCloud security. She was dubious, and rightly so. “Apple” then called five more times (and counting). Suffice it to say, it wasn’t Apple, but fraudsters trying to piggyback on reports that a major breach of iCloud credentials could render hundreds of millions of accounts vulnerable.”
If you do receive such a call, it’s best to ignore it. Even if you think there’s a remote chance your account could be compromised, it’s probably best that you go through the motions yourself by changing your password manually. It would probably also be a good idea to enable two-factor authentication.
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If you are living in Europe, or to be more specific Germany or the Netherlands, don’t be surprised if your pizza orders from Domino’s are delivered by robots. This is because the company has recently announced that they will begin using robots to make pizza deliveries in those two countries.
The robots will be provided by Starship Technologies, which we have covered before as robots that could be used for all kinds of deliveries, such as groceries and now we guess pizzas too. According to Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Chief Executive Officer Don Meij, “With our growth plans over the next five to 10 years, we simply won’t have enough delivery drivers if we do not look to add to our fleet through initiatives such as this.”
This wouldn’t be the first time that Domino’s has turned to robots to make deliveries, or tested out the idea. For example in 2016 the company began testing out pizza deliveries using drones in New Zealand, so this initiative isn’t exactly new. As to whether or not they plan to expand their robot delivery services to other countries remains to be seen, although if they do decide to come stateside, the state of Virginia is the first state in which robot deliveries have recently been made legal.
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These days internet speeds are fast enough where you’ll be able to download huge files in considerably shorter amounts of time than before. However we guess no one likes waiting, and if you are trying to download games from the eShop on your Nintendo Switch, you might want to try this little trick.
As you can see in the video above put together by the folks at GameXplain, it seems that it has been noticed that if you were to put the Nintendo Switch in sleep mode, you will be able to download games faster compared to normal. The exact metrics are unclear since it is difficult to judge as sleep mode does not let you check your progress, but the tests conducted have found that your downloads should be faster by around 15% versus if your console is in use.
Granted 15% isn’t exactly a huge figure, but it is faster and if you’re looking to shave some time off on downloads, especially those bigger files, we guess it does help a bit. It is possible that in sleep mode, other processes aren’t being used so the focus would be on the download, thus the increase in speed.
It is also why it has been theorized that if you were to put your phone in airplane mode and turn off all connections, your phone should in theory charge faster. In any case this is something you might want to think about if you are looking to improve your download speeds on the Switch.
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Cards Against Humanity wants to teach Republican lawmakers a lesson in internet privacy.
Max Temkin, co-founder of the irreverent card game, tweeted on Monday that if Congress passed a bill allowing telecom and cable companies to share customers’ personal information without their consent, he would buy Congress members’ web browsing histories and publish them online.
When the House of Representatives passed the bill, known as S.J.Res. 34, on Tuesday, Temkin doubled down on his threat and announced that he was matching donations to the digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation up to $10,000.
“The desire for privacy is just fundamental to human dignity,” Temkin told The Huffington Post on Thursday. “If lawmakers feel like they can sell our right to privacy to the highest bidder, they should be subject to that same exposure.”
The bill, which President Donald Trump will likely sign into law, rolls back regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission last year that required companies to get customers’ explicit permission before selling or sharing their sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, information on children, web browsing and app usage histories, and the content of communications.
However, what happens once the bill is signed isn’t exactly clear.
The telecom industry maintained it would not be selling individual lawmakers’ browsing histories after several crowdfunding campaigns promising to buy up lawmakers’ data raised more than $180,000.
A Verizon spokesman told U.S. News & World Report that the question of whether telecom companies will sell individuals’ data “falls in the category of FAKE NEWS” (Verizon’s emphasis) and called it “nothing more than worthless dribble bouncing around the internet.” (Verizon is the parent company of The Huffington Post.)
Opponents of the bill aren’t so sure. Democratic lawmakers maintain that S.J.Res. 34 is all about profit, and David Segal, executive director of the grassroots group Demand Progress has said that internet service providers are trying to “exploit consumers’ data” for “private profit.”
“This law hasn’t even been signed yet,” Temkin told HuffPost. “So nobody knows what kind of data will be available or how people will be able to buy it.” Still, he took to Reddit on Wednesday to ensure his supporters that Cards Against Humanity would do whatever it could to acquire and publish the data of the lawmakers who voted for the bill.
That process may take a long time, Temkin wrote in the Reddit thread, adding that it could involve Freedom of Information Act requests or buying browsing data in the congressional office buildings’ ZIP Codes “and then p-hack[ing] our way to statistical significance in an attempt to fish spurious correlations out of unreliable datasets.”
Temkin also told HuffPost that if the law allowed advertisers to purchase data or anonymized data, Cards Against Humanity would enter that marketplace and buy the data that way.
“If we’re able to find anything, we’ll publish it on our site or in partnership with an organization like the Sunlight Foundation,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that advocates for political transparency.
This isn’t Cards Against Humanity’s first foray into fighting for internet users’ rights. The company has hosted fundraisers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for internet privacy and aggressively opposes the bill Congress just passed.
Even if Temkin finds a way to publish lawmakers’ web browsing data, he realizes that it’s not technically a win for internet users.
“That’s not a very substantive victory,” he told HuffPost. “I would much rather have my right to privacy recognized by the government.”
And he’s ready to take them on.
“Republican lawmakers want to fundamentally change how the internet works and make the internet less fair and competitive,” Temkin said. “We need to be ready to fight for an open internet.”
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Early Friday morning, more than 90 national organizations published a letter to President Trump’s administration demanding the federal government enforce Title IX.
Title IX is “a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity,” according to the United States Department of Justice. While Title IX is best known for demanding equal treatment of female and male student athletes, it also offers other important protections in areas including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and protections for trans and parenting students.
Addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the letter details specific requests including prevention programs for gender-based violence, implementing proper channels for survivors to get justice and protecting undocumented students from being targeted for their immigration status.
The letter was released on Friday which the group is calling a national day of action in support of Title IX. The campaign titled #CantTrumpOurTitleIX will be accompanied by rallies on over a dozen college campuses across the country.
“As students, faculty members, and advocates for survivors across the country, we strive each day to reduce instances of gender-based violence, yet the number of students who experience violence is still too high,” the letter begins. “Because it is our collective responsibility to work toward creating communities that will support survivors of violence, we urge you to strongly enforce Title IX.”
The number of undergraduate college students who experience gender-based violence is astonishing: An estimated 24 percent of trans students, 23 percent of female students and 5.4 percent of male students report being sexually assaulted on campuses across the country.
Emily Dunlap, a University of Kentucky student and organizer for the school’s Feminist Alliance, explained to The Huffington Post why her university’s Feminist Alliance program co-signed the letter.
“We want all survivors of sexual assault to feel comfortable and be protected when reporting to the proper authorities,” Dunlap said. “We want to make sure survivors receive proper accommodations, both medical and educational, and do not feel punished in any way for coming forward; we want no report to go without an investigation.”
We want to make sure survivors do not feel punished in any way for coming forward.
Emily Dunlap, undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky
Most of the organizations that co-signed the letter are feminist groups and/or anti-sexual violence programs on college campuses. Colleges and universities on the list include Columbia University, Duke University, Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, George Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Kentucky and many more. Other national organizations outside of colleges include Trans Youth Equality Foundation, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence and One Billion Rising.
“No student should experience gender-based violence, nor should schools ignore threats to a student’s safety or ability to learn,” the letter reads. “We will not rest until the rights and protections of all students, especially survivors of gender-based violence, are guaranteed.”
The demands included in the letter are particularly relevant now, as the Trump administration has begun to roll back protections originally included in Title IX.
In February, Trump announced that his administration will no longer bar schools from discriminating against trans students in K-12 schools and college campuses across the country. The level of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in the past few weeks has also been unprecedented, with law enforcement detaining multiple undocumented college students in February. Just last week, a second year student at Columbia University sued the school for violating her rights under Title IX.
Sarah Gutman, a Harvard Law student and member of the graduate program’s Harassment & Assault Law-Student Team, told HuffPost she hopes DeVos takes note of their demands.
“We hope the administration, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in particular, realizes the fundamental importance of Title IX and its promise,” Gutman said. “Every student deserves equal access to education and that can only happen through the enforcement of Title IX.”
Brandee Blocker, an organizer for No Red Tape and third-year law student at Columbia, told HuffPost she became involved in the anti-sexual violence organization after Columbia allegedly mishandled her sexual assault case in April 2015.
When she joined No Red Tape in October 2015, Blocker says she felt empowered to call out the very systems that failed to bring her attacker to justice. Now, she’s leading the charge to demand that Title IX ― and all of its protections ― stay intact.
When universities fail to protect and adequately respond to these crimes, the impact reverberates beyond the incidents of sexual violence themselves.
Brandee Blocker, law student at Columbia University
“When universities fail to protect and adequately respond to these crimes, the impact reverberates beyond the incidents of sexual violence themselves, into students’ academic, economic, emotional, and physical lives and wellbeing,” Blocker told HuffPost.
Blocker said she hopes the Trump administration is listening and acknowledges the 90-plus organizations demanding that Title IX be enforced.
“By asserting the right to be free of gender-based discrimination and harassment early on,” she said, “college students are in the best position to create and promote a future world and culture, where sexual violence is not tolerated.”
Read the full letter and list of demands here.
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued a statement slamming President Donald Trump’s executive order rolling back climate change protections — but it was all a mistake. The statement, not Trump’s climate policy.
The EPA issued a press release with positive comments from organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute.
But it also included scathing criticism right up top from a senator calling the move “irresponsible” and “irrational,” and accusing Trump of recklessly choosing to “bury his head in the sand.” The statement added: “With the world watching, President Trump and [EPA] administrator Pruitt have chosen to shirk our responsibility, disregard clear science and undo the significant progress our country has made to ensure we leave a better, more sustainable planet for generations to come.”
The quote was misattributed to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a supporter of coal mining who attended Trump’s signing of the order. The statement was actually from Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a critic of Trump’s environmental policies. A Carper spokesman quipped to The Hill after the press release that he was “happy to lend his words to a good cause.”
The EPA attributed the mistake to human error. An internal draft was mistakenly sent out with the Carper quotes, the agency said in a statement. A corrected press release was sent later Thursday morning with Capito’s quotes, which said in part that President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan “would have completely decimated West Virginia’s vital coal industry while having no meaningful climate impact.”
EPA spokesman John Konkus apologized for the error, adding that officials “are making sure that our process is improved as we build our team.”
Another disconnect between the Trump administration and the EPA was apparent Wednesday when agency scientist Michael Kravitz criticized his boss Scott Pruitt and what’s happening to the agency charged with protecting the environment in a letter to the editor of The New York Times.
“I am very saddened by what I see these days under an EPA administrator whose role it is to dismantle the agency that he leads,” wrote Kravitz. “Our president comes to the EPA to sign an executive order withdrawing the Clean Power Plan and other environmental policies, and the audience applauds.
“I hope the nightmare ends soon.”
Pruitt on Wednesday rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the insecticide chlorpyrifos on crops, despite concerns by scientists in Pruitt’s own agency about potentially serious health risks from chlorpyrifos in water and crop residue.
Pruitt also doesn’t believe carbon dioxide is responsible for global warming.
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Work, play and watch videos with this 2-in-1 14-inch touchscreen laptop ‘Flex 4 14’ from Lenovo. Featuring a 360-degree flip-and-fold design, this convertible laptop has a 14-inch 1366 x 768 HD 10-point multi-touch LED-backlight display, a 2.10GHz Intel Pentium 4405U processor, an Intel HD Graphics 510, a 4GB DDR4 RAM and a 500GB 5400rpm hard drive.
Apart from that, the system also sports an HD webcam w/ microphone, a media card reader, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x HDMI output port, a 3-cell lithium-ion battery and built-in Harman/Kardon speakers.
Running on Windows 10 64-bit OS, the Flex 4 14 provides WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth for connectivity. The Lenovo Flex 4 14 will set you back just $399.99. [Product Page]
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