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Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

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Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a color. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated color detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely…Read more... Go to Source
The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes is a classic. Of course, I’m talking about the original (the Tim Burton remake is another “one good scene” post in the making). There was huge demand for a sequel, one that would expand the story’s world and mythos following that dynamic ending. That didn’t quite happen with Beneath the Planet of…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With ‘Mass Censorship’ of Climate Activists

Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With ‘Mass Censorship’ of Climate Activists

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Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With 'Mass Censorship' of Climate Activists Just last week, Facebook launched an initiative to uplift climate science. It was wildly misguided, yes, but the company was trying to show it’s down for the cause or something. Now, the company is proving just how devoted to climate activism it is by, um, booting environmental justice organizers from the platform.…Read more... Go to Source
This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

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This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every time we leave the house for several hours, there’s a small part of me that’s convinced our furballs have died gruesome deaths due to freak accidents. I imagine their ghosts staring at me dolefully, asking…Read more... Go to Source
Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts

Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts

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Pro-Trump NIH Goon to 'Retire' After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts One of the Trump administration’s flacks at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases secretly trashed the agency under the persona “streiff” for the right-wing blog RedState, according to a Monday report by the Daily Beast. He is now planning to “retire.” Read more... Go to Source
One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal

One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal

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One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal On September 19, 2019, Apple launched Apple Arcade, a $5-a-month subscription service dedicated to bringing top-tier, bullshit-free mobile games to iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. One year later the service has more than 130 mostly great games with more arriving on a semi-weekly basis, and I’ve never once considered…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It

Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It

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Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You'll Let It Over the years, Amazon has made it very clear that it’s no longer satisfied with being “the everything store.” What was once just a hub where you buy shit online has since branched into the world of autonomous vehicles, pharmaceuticals, drones and space travel. Earlier today, the company unveiled some of the details…Read more... Go to Source
Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them

Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them

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Android's 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here's How to Use Them For a long time, one of the key benefits of choosing Android over iOS has been the ability to break away from the rigid inflexibility of multiple home screens, split up into uniform grids of app icons. Now with the introduction of home screen widgets and the App Library in iOS 14, that advantage has disappeared.…Read more... Go to Source
What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?

What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?

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What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalization,” “kind of a boring place”—he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck…Read more... Go to Source
Logitech’s New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel

Logitech’s New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel

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Logitech's New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel Last fall, Logitech released its flagship MX Master 3 mouse, which featured a super smooth scroll wheel that immediately put everything else on the market to shame. And now with the new MX Anywhere 3, Logitech is about to do the same in a smaller and more portable package.Read more... Go to Source
Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist

Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist

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Twitter's Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has been…Read more... Go to Source
Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie

Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie

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Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie If you know Janina Gavankar, chances are, it’s from her turn on True Blood or as the protagonist in the singleplayer campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, where she played the (fantastic) Iden Versio. Now the actress and writer is getting to work on a rad monster movie based on Hindu mythology. Read more... Go to Source
The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren’t So Tragic

The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren’t So Tragic

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The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren't So Tragic The United States is ceding its position as a world technological power. For decades, the world’s brightest landed here to build. They chose the U.S. for a few simple reasons, among them access to world-class equipment and education, the ability to take high-paying tech jobs, and a business climate that rewarded the…Read more... Go to Source
Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain

Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain

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Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain Giancarlo Esposito is a well respected actor. He played Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. He filled up the screen as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian. But that pales in comparison to the challenge before him now: playing a cartoon villain on DuckTales. Read more... Go to Source
There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s ‘Blessing,’ Delaying Ban

There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s ‘Blessing,’ Delaying Ban

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There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s 'Blessing,' Delaying Ban Talk about TikTok whiplash, although that’s normal thing these days. Hours before a new ban was supposed to be put in place to block new downloads and updates of the popular video-sharing app, President Donald Trump has come out to say there is a deal, and it has his “blessing.”Read more... Go to Source
First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital

First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital

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First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital It sounds like something out of a tragic Black Mirror episode: A woman seeking urgent care died this week after an apparently bungled ransomware attack took down a major hospital in Germany, thus forcing paramedics to rush her to another city for treatment, according to several outlets.Read more... Go to Source