Hasta La Gadget!

Several years ago, Facebook launched an app called Moments. The app was designed to be a private photo sharing platform where users could upload and share photos with people that they wanted to, versus their Facebook profiles which are sometimes visible to the public. Unfortunately it seems that the app has come to an end.

In a statement made to CNET, director of product management for Moments, Rushabh Doshi, confirmed that the app would be killed off and that the service would be shutting down. “We’re ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photo. We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app.”

Presumably this is due to the lack of usage of the app, which shouldn’t be too surprising since we’re not sure if the app was ever necessary to begin with. In more recent times with the Facebook privacy scandals, it feels like there are now even less reasons to use such an app. Users who want to export their photos that they’ve uploaded to Moments will be able to do so by heading to a special website that Facebook has setup for this purpose.

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It’s 2019, and ordinary beer bongs just won’t cut it. Gravity just doesn’t deliver beer fast enough for some people. That’s why we now have the Q-bong pressurized beer bong, a device designed to shoot beer down the throat of its recipient faster than ever.

All you have to do is fill the reservoir with up to 32-ounces of beer, pump the air bulb to your desired beer-pressure, press the trigger valve and get to chugging. Isn’t college fun? Now it’s a little less fun because it’s so convenient to chug all by yourself with no one helping.

Is it called the Q-Bong because some guy in British intelligence who invents gadgets for a living came up with this? I have no idea, but I can tell you that the guy in the video looks like Ryan Reynolds demonstrating this device. And just as I thought, he doesn’t look like he’s having a lot of fun chugging from this thing. Calling it now, this thing kills parties dead. Oh look, there’s so and so over there chugging by himself in the corner from what is essentially a juice box of beer. No one likes that guy.

I like how the video also cuts off right before he chugs. Because he can’t. Because he’s clearly too old for college.

[via Dude I Want That via Geekologie]

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Several years ago, Facebook launched an app called Moments. The app was designed to be a private photo sharing platform where users could upload and share photos with people that they wanted to, versus their Facebook profiles which are sometimes visible to the public. Unfortunately it seems that the app has come to an end.

In a statement made to CNET, director of product management for Moments, Rushabh Doshi, confirmed that the app would be killed off and that the service would be shutting down. “We’re ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photo. We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app.”

Presumably this is due to the lack of usage of the app, which shouldn’t be too surprising since we’re not sure if the app was ever necessary to begin with. In more recent times with the Facebook privacy scandals, it feels like there are now even less reasons to use such an app. Users who want to export their photos that they’ve uploaded to Moments will be able to do so by heading to a special website that Facebook has setup for this purpose.

Facebook Will Be Shutting Down Its Moments App , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

It’s a weird quirk of the current generation of AirPods: they support Siri, but only if you double-tap one of the earbuds first. Unlike with iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and HomePods, you can’t just say “Hey Siri” and babble out your request.

Rumors have been floating around for a while suggesting that a new iteration of AirPods — AirPods 2, the rumor mill is calling them — would bring “Hey Siri” functionality. Now a screen hiding in the latest iOS beta seems to suggest the same.

While it’s not a publicly accessible screen, Guilherme Rambo of 9to5mac managed to trigger the following prompt in the just-released iOS 12.2 beta:

(Image Credit: 9to5Mac)

“Talk to Siri with your AirPods or iPhone by saying ‘Hey Siri’,” it reads.

Its absence from the current generation of AirPods presumably boils down to a matter of battery life. Apple figured out how to make “Hey Siri” work with minimal impact on battery life with the iPhone 6s, then broke down how it all works in a post on its Machine Learning Journal in April of 2018. But to pull off the same trick in a tiny earbud — each having a battery capacity of 93 milliwatt hours, or roughly 1 percent of that of an iPhone — is an entirely new challenge. For the first gen, it was just easier to let the headphones wait for that double-tap, queueing it up as a new selling point whenever Apple figured out how to pull it off.

Rumors have also hinted at other features for the eventual AirPods sequel, from waterproofing to sensors that help track health data. Alas, no sneaky hidden prompts hinting at any of that have been found yet.