iOS: One of the annoying things about working with text on your phone or iPad is that properly formatting it can be a bother, especially when you’re copying and pasting between apps and get line breaks where you don’t want them. …
Like other urban areas, New York City has free internet hot spots around town that can give you web access. But as always, be careful. – Source
As big companies race to build oversize data networks, communities are finding that the giant buildings can operate with only about 30 people. – Source
After worldwide condemnation, France’s top administrative court overturned a ban on the Muslim swimwear item, the burkini, in one French town.
The ban of the burkini, which covers a woman’s head and body, on French Riviera beaches has been a topic of much conversation in recent weeks. It has also caused division in France’s government and society.
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The uproar reached a high point on Tuesday, when a photograph of a woman being asked to remove her burkini by armed police on a Nice beach spread like wildfire across the internet.
The ruling by the Council of State on Friday specifically concerns a ban in the Riviera town of Villeneuve-Loubet, but the binding decision is expected to set a legal precedent for all the 30 or so French resort municipalities that have issued similar decrees. …
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For every genuinely clever device that manages to succeed on Kickstarter, there are 1,000 other ridiculous crowdfunding campaigns that thankfully don’t succeed. There’s a chance you might roll your eyes at the …
LONDON — Not everyone’s a fan of modern art.
Although some people enjoy analysing and interpreting the abstract and the hard-to-classify, others just don’t quite know what to make of it.
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Reddit user mar480 recently took a trip to the Tate Modern in London, where they discovered the following comment card.
To anyone that’s never been into modern art, it speaks volumes.
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Other people chipped in with their experiences.
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At this point, some people began sticking up for modern art.More about Uk, London, Tate Modern, Art, and Modern Art – Source
It’s telling that, days before the expected launch of iPhone 7, we’re seeing more rumors about the next year’s iPhone. The consensus among the reporters and leakers who follow Apple is that the iPhone 7 will only bring minor upgrades compared to last year’s model, while the iPhone that comes in 2017 will be a far more revolutionary upgrade.
A new Bloomberg report reiterates this notion, saying it’s likely that the 2017 iPhone will undergo a major redesign that shuns the home button and “focuses more heavily on the display.”
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We’ve seen the rumor about the home button being replaced by a touch-sensitive button in …
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An extremely advanced hack exploiting three iOS vulnerabilities in iPhones was recently uncovered by researchers at digital rights watchdog group Citizen Lab and mobile security company Lookout. Citizen Lab has informed Apple of the vulnerabilities, called zero-days, and a patch is available in the latest update, version 9.3.5.
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Emirati human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor first discovered the hack on Aug. 10, when he received suspicious-looking text from an unknown number: “New secrets about torture of Emiratis in state prisons,” it read. …
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A mystery handset from Xiaomi has been benchmarked by Geekbench. The device is code named the Xiaomi Mido and we can see that the Snapdragon 625 chipset is under the hood carrying an octa-core 2.02GHz CPU. 2GB of RAM is inside, and Android 6.0.1 is pre-installed. While not listed on Geekbench, the Snapdragon 625 SoC features the Adreno 506 GPU.
This phone could very well be the version of the Xiaomi Redmi 4 that comes with 2GB of RAM. This model is expected to have 16GB of native storage inside. Another variant of the phone should feature 3GB of RAM and 64GB of native storage. The latter … – Source
An official at a leading telco said the GSM body, of which new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm is also a member, hasn’t received any communication from the PMO. – Source
The son of a prominent Russian politician has been convicted in Seattle of 38 charges related to stolen credit card information, including 10 counts of wire fraud and nine counts of obtaining information from a protected computer, …
Writer, producer and voice actor Justin Roiland says he wants to make “super duper games” through his new VR development company, Squanchtendo Games. – Source
Remember Action Memo? This was the feature that allowed Galaxy Note users to jot down handwritten notes with the S Pen, and take action with it. For example, you could write a phone number on the screen and call or text it. Or, you might have written down an address and let Google Maps look it up. With Action Memo, you were able to send an email to a handwritten email address, and more.
But Samsung removed Action Memo from the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. As you might imagine, Samsung phone reps have had to deal with angry consumers not happy with the removal of this handy feature. But we have … – Source
LOS ANGELES — Chris Evans is one of those “get it right on the first take” kind of guys. Like that’s a surprise.
In this exclusive clip from the DVD extras in the forthcoming Captain America: Civil War home video release, we learn that Evans doesn’t need a lot of do-overs. Sometimes none.
Actually, according to the Russo brothers, Anthony and Joe, it’s often none. Such a try-hard, this guy.
“He’s a crazy quick study,” Anthony told Mashable during the directing duo’s promotional run for the film’s forthcoming home video release. “Insanely fast. There are fights we’ve pre-blocked on the set that are really complicated that he gets in one or two takes.” …
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Amazon’s launched a new car researching tool, Amazon Vehicles. Here, you can search for cars from a variety of years using an array of search parameters.
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The internet is awash in trashy memes just waiting for your late-night retweet spree. Why waste precious energy making your own when a bot could be doing the tough work for you?
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Enter ShitpostBot 5000, a bot that randomly pairs a user-submitted image with a user-submitted template and posts a new meme every half hour on Facebook.
The results are usually terrible, but often genius:
With more than 10,500 images to choose from, the possibilities are (nearly) endless. In fact ShitpostBot 5000’s website …
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US prosecutors have now named a total of three men said to be operators of the defunct file-sharing site KickassTorrents (KAT). The new allegations are in a formal indictment filed Tuesday, which contains the most detailed charges against the site yet.
Last month, alleged site operator 30-year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine was arrested in Poland. The new indictment (PDF) also names Ievgen (Eugene) Kutsenko aka “chill” and Oleksander (Alex) Radostin aka “pioneer,” also of Ukraine. Bench warrants have been issued for the arrest of all three men, although authorities have confirmed the arrest of only Vaulin. The indictment was reported earlier today by TorrentFreak.
Prosecutors say the three men developed and maintained the site together and used it to “generate millions of dollars from the unlawful distribution of copyright-protected media, including movies… television shows, music, video games, computer software, and electronic books.” They gave out “Reputation” and “User Achievement” awards to users who uploaded the most popular files, including a special award for users who had uploaded more than 1,000 torrents.
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