Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.
Mashable » Beyoncé celebrates her birthday by releasing 'Hold Up' music video on YouTube
Most of us just celebrate our birthday with a little cake, but when you're Beyoncé, the special day becomes an event that gets its own music video. The video is for the song "Hold Up" from Lemonade, and includes footage previously only made available on Tidal and HBO during the album's initial launch in April. Beyoncé released the the video … [Link]
Slashdot » Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: TSA checkpoints caused 6,800 American Airlines passengers to miss their flights in just one week this spring, and the problem isn't improving. "Two years ago the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offered $15,000 to anybody — literally anybody — who could come up with an idea to speed up airport security…" writes Popular Science. "They wouldn't … [Link]
Mashable » Lane Kiffin trolls USC with tweet after Alabama blowout
Lane Kiffin took his revenge on Saturday as the Alabama Crimson Tide destroyed the USC Trojans 52-6. After the game was over, he couldn't refrain from twisting the dagger a little bit on Twitter. In case you forgot, Kiffin used to be the head football coach at the University of Southern California until he was fired on the LAX tarmac in … [Link]
Mashable » 'Mythbusters' build team is back together for a Netflix series
Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara are getting the M7 band back together. SEE ALSO: Grant From MythBusters Offers Advice for Aspiring Hardware Hackers The former Mythbusters stars are together again for The White Rabbit Project. The Netflix series, which premieres on Dec. 9, was announced during a panel at DragonCon, an annual convention that celebrates a broad spectrum of … [Link]
Mashable » Giant pandas are no longer 'endangered,' but eastern gorillas face extinction
Giant pandas, break out your best bamboo. You're no longer considered an endangered species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Sunday moved the black-eared, white-faced bears from "endangered" to "vulnerable" on its Red List of Threatened Species. But eastern gorillas, the world's largest living primate, have little reason to celebrate. The ape species is now listed as "critically … [Link]
Slashdot » Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income
Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income — one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Futurism.com: Finland is about to launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of 2,000-3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly … [Link]
Slashdot » New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from TechHive: On Friday, HDMI Licensing announced a new cable standard that connects USB-C and HDMI devices… The idea, naturally enough, is to to develop an HDMI-to-USB Type-C cable that ties together the most common cabling protocols in both the PC and consumer electronics industries, eliminating the need for an adapter or special … [Link]
Mashable » Leslie Jones is back on Twitter and her comeback tweet rules
Leslie Jones is back to communicating with her adoring public on Twitter after cowardly hacker-trolls drove her away, probably to compensate for their own failings. SEE ALSO: An 8- to 9-year-old kid wrote Leslie Jones the greatest fan letter ever The Saturday Night Live alum and Ghostbusters star returned on Saturday evening with a series of tweets ruminating about breakfast cereal, … [Link]
Slashdot » Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: "A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his Facebook profile picture," writes the International Business Times. After investigating reports of a disturbance, police discovered the 41-year-old's Facebook profile, which revealed the man was already wanted for six months for violating his … [Link]
Mashable » Beyoncé turned 35 today, so she can officially run for president
Sept. 4, 2016 is finally upon us. Not only does today mark the anniversary of the birth of Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, but on this blessed day our queen turns 35 year old. This means Beyoncé is officially eligible to run for president of the United States. SEE ALSO: Michelle Obama throws wicked shapes to Beyoncé in epic Carpool Karaoke trailer With … [Link]
Mashable » Radar captures flock of seabirds trapped in the eye of Hermine
When hurricane-force winds are whipping violently over the ocean, the safest place for seabirds may be right in the eye of the storm. Lease terns, royal terns, sooty terns and frigatebirds were spotted over Florida last Friday as Hermine — currently a post-tropical cyclone — made landfall over the Sunshine State. Snapshots of weather radars showed flocks of birds trapped in … [Link]
Mashable » Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian casually throw gold-winning first pitches
Olympians Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian brought their outstanding gymnastics skills to the baseball diamond on Saturday and blew us all away. The gold medal winners were given the honor of throwing the first pitches for the New York Mets and Texas Rangers, and as you can imagine, they did not disappoint. SEE ALSO: Laurie Hernandez is all of us when … [Link]
ProgrammableWeb.com » Daily API RoundUp: Betfair, NASA, ScentSee, DriveWealth, Sensorberg
Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.
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Slashdot » John McAfee Sues Intel To Use His Own Name
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes a report from Bloomberg: John McAfee, the creator of the eponymous antivirus computer software system, sued Intel Corp. for the right to use his name in new ventures after the chip maker bought his former company. Intel bought McAfee in 2010 and eventually renamed it "Intel Security." McAfee has since joined digital gaming company MGT … [Link]
Mashable » 7 Instagram-worthy healthy dessert recipes
No matter how many times I look through my Instagram feed and salivate over beautifully curated pictures of rainbow sprinkled banana splits, dense chocolate cakes, glistening glazed donuts, and stacks of ooey-gooey brownies, I fail to go the extra step in actually copying the recipe and making them. Not because I don’t think I can, but because these desserts contain hundreds … [Link]
Mashable » 8 absurdly expensive iPhone cases you definitely should not buy
Of all the items worth investing in, a luxury iPhone case is low on the list. Beyond basic protection from inevitable slip-ups, phones don't need a crystal-embellished, leather-wrapped cover. And yet… Take, for example, Dolce & Gabbana's tech accessory offerings, sold at prices that would make a financial advisor cry. SEE ALSO: Future iPhones might copy Samsung's Galaxy Edge phones But … [Link]
Mashable » How Hermine could affect your Labor Day weekend travel plans
There is a lot of Labor Day weekend traveling to be done, which is why plenty of people are worried about Hermine. The post-tropical cyclone threatens hit several Mid-Atlantic states with high winds, rain and flooding. That's bad news for travelers. The good news? Some airlines are letting you rebook your flights with no charge. SEE ALSO: Hermine presents challenges but … [Link]
Slashdot » Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes?
If scientists could send Zika-carrying mosquitoes into extinction, should they do it? Several science and business journals are now exploring the question, and Slashdot reader retroworks asks if scientists will ultimately target "not just the most deadly species of the animal, but all 12 species of human-biting mosquitoes in the world, responsible for 500,000 deaths per year." The headline on … [Link]
Mashable » 'Don't Breathe' finishes on top at Labor Day weekend box office
The summer months are now over, and September's first weekend at the domestic box office has an apparent winner: Don't Breathe. The horror-thriller is expected to earn an estimated $15.7 million from Friday to Sunday, and then climb to around $19 million by the end of Monday's Labor Day holiday. As of Sunday, its estimated two-week total is $51.1 million. SEE … [Link]
Slashdot » Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans
"The promotion has ended," a bank spokesperson said. After more than a year of preparation, Amazon's partnership with Wells Fargo to sell student loans barely lasted six weeks. An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: It's another black eye for Wells Fargo's student loan business, which just last week agreed to pay $3.6 million to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to … [Link]
Mashable » Hermine sends serious waves to New York and New Jersey coastlines
Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine is causing some gnarly swells this Labor Day weekend. On Sunday morning, as Hermine continues to drift further eastward, photographs and videos posted to Twitter and Instagram show intense waves striking beaches on the coasts of New York and New Jersey. SEE ALSO: Live blog: Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine moves up East Coast While some surfers appear to be … [Link]
Mashable » At IFA 2016, smart appliances and virtual reality take center stage
BERLIN — Coming to Berlin for the 2016 IFA electronics trade show, we expected wearables, smart everything and virtual reality devices, and that's pretty much exactly what we got. Still, seeing all the "smart" and "connected" home appliances in one place gave me a sense of how much this technology will permeate our everyday lives in a few years. SEE ALSO: … [Link]
Slashdot » FTC Warns Consumers: Don't Sync To Your Rental Car!
Slashdot reader chicksdaddy quotes an article from Security Ledger: The Federal Trade Commission is warning consumers to beware of new 'connected car' features that allow rental car customers to connect their mobile phone or other devices to in-vehicle infotainment systems. "If you connect a mobile device, the car may also keep your mobile phone number, call and message logs, or … [Link]
Mashable » Huskers football stages a touching tribute to fallen teammate
Something was amiss when the Nebraska Cornhuskers college football team sent their punting squad out to the field for the first time on Saturday: there were only 10 players, and no punter. It was a gesture to honor former teammate Sam Foltz, who was killed in an automobile accident on July 23. The team stepped out onto the field and, with … [Link]
Slashdot » NASA Announces New Mars Probe, While SpaceX Is Urged To Focus on Launches
NASA will land a new probe on Mars on November 26, 2018, "paving the way toward an ambitious journey to send humans to the Red Planet," according to one NASA official. The $828 million project will investigate how the planet was formed, NASA announced Friday, calling it "an unparalleled opportunity to learn more about the internal structure of the Red … [Link]
Mashable » Mother Teresa declared a saint in Mass led by Pope Francis
Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who spent much of her life giving aid to India's poor, was declared a saint on Sunday in a canonization Mass led by Pope Francis. The Pope addressed the thronging crowd that gathered in St. Peter's Square, at the heart of Vatican City, to bear witness as he delivered the formula of canonization. SEE ALSO: … [Link]
Mashable » 5 under-the-radar video games we can't wait to check out this fall
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer — so this weekend we're previewing the games, movies, music and more that our staff is most excited about for fall. Below, check out five video game releases we can't wait to play. Shadow Warrior 2 This is a first-person ninja game from Flying Wild Hog and published by Devolver Digital. Following up … [Link]
Slashdot » Google, Apple, Mozilla, and the EFF Support Microsoft's Fight Against Gag Orders
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes BetaNews about new legal documents filed Friday: Microsoft is fighting the US Justice Department in an attempt to quash a law that prevents companies informing customers that the government is requesting their data. The technology giant has the backing of other tech companies as well as media outlets. Amazon, Apple, Google, Fox News, Electronic Frontier … [Link]
Mashable » Before alarm clocks, Brits paid people to wake them up by tapping on their window
c. 1900A knocker-up rouses a client in Lancashire.Image: Past Pix/SSPL/Getty ImagesThough designs for alarm clocks date back to the ancient Greeks, they were still not particularly widespread well after the Industrial Revolution. In Britain and Ireland, a large number of enterprising early birds made a living waking people for work.A knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week to make … [Link]
Mashable » Coca-Cola says it 'replenished' all the water it used to make its soft drinks
Coca-Cola Company says it has fully "replenished" all the water it uses globally to make billions of bottles of soft drinks, juices and purified H20. The Atlanta-based beverage giant recently estimated it had returned roughly 192 billion liters of water to the communities and watersheds near hundreds of its bottling plants in 2015 — or about 115 percent of all the … [Link]
Slashdot » New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors
"Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the first to have fabricated carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) that outperform the current-density of conventional semiconductors like silicon and gallium arsenide," reports NanotechWeb. Slashdot reader wasteoid shares the site's interview with one of the researchers: "When the transistors are turned on to the conductive state (meaning that current is able to pass through … [Link]
Mashable » What an influx of American tourists could mean for Cuba
When JetBlue Flight 387 touched tarmac Wednesday, it marked a historic moment for the U.S. and Cuba. The plane from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara was the first commercial flight between the two countries in more than half a century, and it heralded a new era of American tourism in the Caribbean nation. SEE ALSO: First commercial flight from U.S. … [Link]
WIRED » How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech
The city of Baltimore has all the ingredients to make the perfect modern panopticon. The post How Baltimore Became America's Laboratory for Spy Tech appeared first on WIRED. [Link]
Mashable » When a rare syndrome renders girls voiceless, tech helps them speak again
When 13-year-old Nathalia Lawlor was born, she seemed perfectly healthy, moving and babbling like any other baby. But at around six or seven months, she started to lose her coordination and ability to move. Once able to grasp small objects, she could no longer pick up pieces of food from her plate. Nathalia was diagnosed with Rett syndrome, a rare neurological … [Link]
Mashable » 1966: Blasting away speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats
A trio of streamliners from the H- and I-classes, with Wheel Centre Company #901H at top, "The Ball Point Banana" #555 at center and "The Orange Crate" #222 at bottom.Image: Eric Rickman/The Enthusiast Network/Getty ImagesIn 1907, Bill Rishel and his business partners were the first to drive a Pierce-Arrow automobile across Utah’s vast Bonneville Salt Flats. Seven years later, Teddy Tetzlaff … [Link]
Slashdot » Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously
Long-time Slashdot reader mspohr writes: The Guardian has an opinion piece by Richard Stallman which argues that we should be able to pay for news anonymously. From the article: "Online newspapers and magazines have come to depend, for their income, on a system of advertising and surveillance, which is both annoying and unjust… What they ought to do instead is … [Link]
Mashable » Boomer Phelps is the real king of the pool in new Instagram video
Just like his dad Michael Phelps, Boomer Phelps loves the pool — but he's taking a more relaxed approach. The littlest Phelps, who already has an impressive 679,000 Instagram followers, made his video debut on Friday with a weekend-ready pool clip. Be warned: he looks very cute in his baby sunglasses. SEE ALSO: Please enjoy these photos of Boomer Phelps wearing … [Link]
Mashable » Watch Drake get a face full of cake courtesy of Tyra Banks in his new video
Don’t mess with Tyra Banks. Surely anyone who has seen even a second of America's Next Top Model knew this already? Drake learns the hard way in his new 12-minute video for "Childs Play," which he debuted on the OVO blog Saturday night. The clip, which seems to take place at a really fancy Cheesecake Factory, is from his latest album, … [Link]
Mashable » Underpaid, under-protected: Australian football's women players deserve better
Australian Rules football is part of Australia's national psyche, but I have to confess I didn't like it at first. That didn't stop me from going to my first game a few years ago. It was Sydney University and the Balmain Dockers in the grand final of the Sydney women's competition. It was grassroots, it was raw and a hell of … [Link]
Slashdot » These Are the Six Crypto-Currencies Approved By Apple
An anonymous reader quotes Softpedia: Anthony Di Iorio, founder of Jaxx, a crypto-currency wallet, claims that an Apple representative revealed to him the six crypto-currencies allowed on the App Store, during a private phone conversation… Di Iorio had this conversation with the Apple employee after the company removed his Jaxx iOS app from the store. The Apple employee told Di … [Link]
Mashable » Watch the world's happiest dog groomer boogie with a canine client
Good luck finding a job this fun. Luis Antonio Caballero, who runs PetShop Perrito Feliz in Buenos Aires, Argentina, grooved to the B-52s during a recent grooming session. His wife Gabriela, who operates the salon with him, caught the whole dance on video. SEE ALSO: Dogs can understand what you're saying and how you say it Luis even sings a little. … [Link]
Mashable » 11 times the internet improved Trump Jr.'s bizarre appeal to millennial voters
The Trump children are young. At least, um, they're somewhat younger than their 70-something dad. That's presumably why Donald Trump Jr. decided to make an appeal on behalf of his father to the millennial voter Friday. Tweeting a picture of himself, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, the trio looked like your classic teen rebels, from their baby blue ties down to … [Link]
Slashdot » QtCon Opens In Berlin
Long-time Slashdot reader JRiddell writes: A unique coming together of open source communities is happening in Berlin over the next week. QtCon brings together KDE, Qt, VLC and FSF-E to discuss free software, open development, community management and proprietary coding. Live streams of many of the talks are available now. The opening keynote spoke of open data and collaborative coding … [Link]
Slashdot » Second Irregularly Dimming Star Found
Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: Remember the screaming and welcoming of our Dyson-Sphere-Dwelling 1500 LY distant Overlords that accompanied the news that star KIC 8462852 was irregularly dimming on both short and longer timescales? A second star with a similar light curve has been discovered and reported on ARXIV. With the euphonious names "EPIC 204278916" and "2MASS J16020757-2257467", the star … [Link]
Mashable » 1984: Partying with British mates in Ibiza
Image: Stockcar Pete via FlickrLocated in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of Spain, the island of Ibiza has for years been recognized as one of the top destinations for nightlife, music and good-natured debauchery.Tourists from around Europe flock to the island for its pristine beaches and wild nightclubs, where world-famous DJs debut their latest electronic compositions.These photos, shot by … [Link]
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