Does anyone else feel like the natural order of the world has been flipped upside down? I do, and I know why. It’s because Instagram switched its feed from photos appearing in chronological order to photos being sorted by an algorithm. You may have noticed the change roll out in the past few days, and you may have noticed how it is totally fucking with your head.
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Perhaps it’s fate that today is (almost) the Fourth of July, and you will once again be seeing Jeff Goldblum in a film about squid-like aliens hellbent on destroying earth.
Or, perhaps it was just time for a much-needed sequel to Independence Day. Whatever the case, Jeff Goldblum is here to get your butts in the theater seats.
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Independence Day: Resurgence’s Jeff Goldblum and Jessie Usher stopped by to show Mashable Goldblum’s latest project — writing a kid-friendly version of the 1996 original blockbuster, so new audiences can get caught up quickly. …
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Researchers at security intelligence blog Trend Micro have discovered a new version of mobile malware “Godless” that targets devices running Android 5.1 Lollipop or earlier. Unfortunately, that means almost 90% of all Android devices used worldwide.
Godless is similar to an exploit kit, having multiple exploits, and uses an open-source rooting framework called android-rooting-tools. This is what the company had to say in its official statement regarding the newly found threat:
Based on the data gathered from our Trend Micro Mobile App Reputation Service, malicious apps related … – Source
ISRAEL-SECURITY/SOCIALMEDIA (PIX)Israel eyes law to remove online content inciting terrorism – Source
Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Emilia Clarke have just secured themselves a nice new deal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. – Source
Popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has announced a number of productivity features today. The company says these features are aimed at simplifying, unifying, and securing your work.
Now you can scan documents using the Dropbox mobile app, and the service’s Business users can even search inside the scans. Dropbox now also lets you create Microsoft Office docs on mobile – the feature can be accessed by tapping the new plus button.
Other features/tools that the company has introduced include the ability to manage photos from computer, share files and folders from the desktop, add…
Slither.io is not new, but it is crazy popular. The game has been sitting at number one on the iOS gaming charts for some time now. Slither.io has been available for just over three months now and, according to the most recent ranking, the game still holds the number one game, action game, and simulation game spots in the U.S. Apple App Store. It’s also the number six free app… Read More
SANTA MONICA, California — One of the first noticeable things Inside Tastemade’s massive warehouse space — aside from its six kitchen sets — is a large map of the world.
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The wall art, which is sandwiched between several large TV screens that display Tastemade content on an infinite loop, showcases small circular photos of creators within the digital producer’s network across the globe.
But it’s bigger purpose? “It reminds us to think globally,” Oren Katzeff, head of programming at Tastemade, told Mashable.
Tastemade’s Jay Holzer, head of production, and Oren Katzeff, head of programming.
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House Democrats are staging a sit-in today in an effort to push their Republican colleagues to vote for a gun control bill that would exclude suspected terrorists from purchasing automatic weapons. Led by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the Representatives sat down on the chamber floor, chanting “No bill, no break,” and calling for a vote. The beginning of the dramatic protest was… Read More
Google and Udacity have offered Android app development courses in the past, but none quite like this.
The two companies have just announced the Android Basics Nanodegree, which consists of a set of courses that will teach you how to build simple Android apps, even if you have little or no programming experience. With these Google-designed courses, you’ll learn how to use Android Studio, the Java programming language, and much more.
At the end of the Nanodegree, you’ll have an entire portfolio of apps in your repertoire. During your training, you’ll build an order form for a coffee shop, an app to track pets in a shelter, an app to teach vocabulary words from a Native American tribe, and an app that shows recent earthquakes.
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Upon completion, you’ll also have the opportunity to continue your learning with the Android Nanodegree for intermediate developers. In fact, the first 50 participants to finish the Android Basics Nanodegree have a chance to win a scholarship for the next Nanodegree program.
The best part? Google is offering a week-long free trial for the new courses, so you can try before you buy. Now you have no reason to keep putting this off. Want to learn more? Head to the Nanodegree link below to get all the details.
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Pinterest today said it was acquiring the team behind tote, a shopping app that highlights products that are suggested by fashion influencers and friends. The tote founders are joining Pinterest’s growth and monetization team. This isn’t the only talent acquisition Pinterest has made even this month as well: Just last week, Pinterest acquired the team behind the custom keyboard… Read More
