Jun 13
Jada Pinkett Smith Talks ‘Deep Despair,’ Mental Health After Celebrity Suicides
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe “Girls Trip” star shared her own thoughts in moments of “deep despair.”
Jun 13
Michael Cohen’s lawyers are expected to stop representing him in the FBI probe.
Posted in: Today's Chili Jun 13
Snarky Feminists Rejoice: A ‘Reductress’ Talk Show Is Coming To Comedy Central
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe cable network ordered a pilot that will talk about women’s issues with the website’s satirical tone.
Jun 13
Fyre Festival Organizer Charged With Selling Fake Tickets While Out On Bail
Posted in: Today's ChiliBilly McFarland allegedly scammed people looking to attend the Met Gala and Coachella as he awaited sentencing.
Jun 13
Candidate Archie Parnell hopes voters will see him as a changed man.
Jun 13
Way back in October of last year, Ring announced “Ring Protect” — a modular, no contract, DIY home security system.
After a few delays, a bit of legal drama and Ring being acquired for a billion dollars by Amazon, the alarm is finally about to ship — albeit with a slightly different (better!) name.
Ring Protect has been redubbed as the more intuitive Ring Alarm — a better name if only because competitor Nest has both a security product and a totally different product (a smoke detector) called Nest Protect.
Ring’s base level alarm kit starts at $199, which includes a keypad (for arming/disarming the system), one door/window sensor, a motion detector and a range extender. You’ll probably want to add more components, and, fortunately, they’re relatively cheap: another door sensor, for example, is $20, while the motion detectors are $30.
Nest’s competing security system packs a few tricks that Ring’s doesn’t (Nest combined the door/motion sensors into one, for example, and it’s got a fancy RFID system for PIN-free disarming), but it also costs $200 more… and that’s after a $100 price drop that, presumably not by coincidence, just happened yesterday.
The system doesn’t require any sort of contract — but if you want professional monitoring, it’ll be $10 a month. That’s a pretty good deal, especially because if you’ve got any of Ring’s cameras (like its smart doorbell, or its floodlight cameras), that plan includes unlimited video storage for all of ’em.
Ring says it’s got more products on the way to expand the system, including smoke/carbon monoxide detectors and flood sensors.
Ring’s security system is up for pre-order now and, if all goes as planned, will start shipping on July 4th.
Jun 13
Bixby smart speaker details surface
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For as much talk as there’s been about Samsung’s Bixby smart speaker, the device is still shrouded in mystery. The veil is being lifted ever so slightly today, thanks to new patent filings with the World Intellectual Property Organization and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These filings give us an idea of the capabilities we might expect from … Continue reading
Jun 13
Today Google Translate can be used offline with NMT for the first time ever. That’s Neural Machine Translation – artificial intelligence – and until now it’s only been available via the internet, as it was hosted by Google. Now Google’s packaged this top-level set of smarts in software that’s able to fit on your smartphone. Now you no longer need … Continue reading
Jun 13
It has been less than a year since Epic Games released Fortnite and it has proven to be a major hit for the company. Epic has now provided the updated player figures for Fortnite and they’re nothing short of impressive. The developer has confirmed that Fortnite has more than 125 million players across the globe less than a year after its launch.
Fortnite was launched in July 2017 but Epic Games didn’t launch the battle royale mode initially. That arrived a few months later in September 2017.
The last time Epic provided figures for the game was back in January this year when the company revealed that the game had been downloaded 45 million times. Epic’s investor Tencent also confirmed last week that more than 40 million people play Fortnite once a month.
It’s not surprising to see that Fortnite has become so popular given the fact that it’s available on almost all major platforms. It doesn’t hurt that the game is free to play as well. The Nintendo Switch was left out and that has been rectified as well since Fortnite is arriving on Nintendo Switch too.
The only major platform left now is Android and Epic has already confirmed that Fornite for Android will eventually be released as well in the not too distant future.
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Jun 13
Sony first revealed Marvel’s Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 at E3 two years ago, but how it actually plays remained a mystery until now. At this year’s show I finally got to go hands on with the PlayStation 4 exclusive. My demo was a little different t…
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