Screenshots posted in Wong’s tweet indicates once you snap a photo from the stories camera option, it’ll let you post it to your stories, stories visible to only close friends, and stories for a group. Plus, you’ll be able to create a new group and post your story there too. — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 5, 2019 This can be quite useful if you have groups with specific shared interests on Instagram....
Now you can use the Remix feature in Reels to create your own reel next to one that already exists ? Whether you’re capturing your reaction, responding to friends or bringing your own magic to trends, Remix is another way to collab on Instagram ✨ pic.twitter.com/eU8x74Q3yf — Instagram (@instagram) March 31, 2021 Using it is pretty simple: Tap on the three-dot menu on any existing Reel, select the “Remix this Reel” option, and start recording your own clip....
? https://t.co/1Al0DT8an1 pic.twitter.com/u6bVsfvOOm — NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) November 16, 2019 Whilst access to the internet is proving almost impossible, some have managed to communicate what’s currently happening in the country via Twitter. As first reported by TechCrunch, one user posted a video showing Tehran, Iran’s capital which has one of the country’s main highways, with miles of standstill traffic as streets were closed down. — Marjaneh Rouhani #JAVIDSHAH (@rouhanim) November 17, 2019 As NetBlocks pointed out, the ongoing disruption is the most severe recorded in Iran since President Rouhani came to power, and the most severe disconnection tracked by the cybersecurity organization in any country in terms of its technical complexity and breadth....
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Columbia in New York recently published research demonstrating what they refer to as “representational drift” in the brains of mice. Per the paper: Up front: What’s interesting here is that, in lieu of a better theory, it’s been long believed that neurons in the brain associate experiences and memories with static patterns. In essence, this would mean that when you smell cotton candy certain neurons fire up in your brain and when you smell pizza different ones do....
An Israel-based startup is offering a $250,000 bounty for anyone that can crack its supposedly ‘unhackable’ Bitcoin cold wallet and extract the funds. It’s like Bitfi all over again. [Read: Watch this 15-year-old hacker play DOOM on John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ crypto-wallet] The cybersecurity startup GK8 has put around $125,000 (14 Bitcoin) into the wallet itself, and will pay out an additional reward of up to $125,00 (14 Bitcoin) to the successful hacker, The Block reports....
Published on October 31, 2008, the white paper, officially titled, ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,’ described a novel, immutable, decentralized peer-to-peer network that could track and verify transactions while also preventing double-spending and producing a transparent record for anyone to verify in almost real-time. Nakamoto began by outlining how e-commerce relied almost exclusively on financial institutions acting as trusted third parties to process payments. Although the system worked well enough for most transactions, it still suffered from the inherent weaknesses of this trust-based model, the white paper says....
But short-haul travel is far from an anomaly as we usher in an era of eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft) for on-demand trips. And it remains, for the near future, the domain of the rich. So, what’s the controversy with Jenner? In one of her recent flights, she traveled in California between Camarillo and Van Nuys, a 17-minute flight according to a flight tracker on Twitter. For context, the roughly 40-mile journey could have taken about 45 minutes by car, an hour by bus, or four hours by bicycle, depending on traffic....
Vitamin D is essential for maintaining overall health, especially for bones, teeth, and muscles. It regulates the body’s stores of calcium and phosphate and helps us maintain a healthy immune system. While we can get vitamin D from oily fish, egg yolks, red meat, and supplemented foods in our diet, the vast majority of vitamin D in the body is produced in the skin due to sunlight exposure. Vitamin D concentrations are lower in people with obesity, those with high blood pressure or diabetes, and those who smoke....
While there’s no official announcement from the company, folks from XDA Developers have published a bunch of screenshots that suggest upcoming changes to Google’s new Android version. There are a lot of new things to notice such as redesigned widgets, but Android 12’s possible privacy settings caught my eye. The Privacy section might allow you to disable the camera and microphone through a toggle. XDA also noted that if you enable developer settings, you will be able to disable all sensors of the phone....
Writing be no good sometimes. Bad thoughts, bad words, bad grammar. If a writer is bad, nothing agrees and sentences stopped making sense. Sometimes writers need big help. The Ludwig sentence search engine is dedicated to making sure stuff like that preceding paragraph never happen in your writing. Even if your prose is structurally sound, but just needs a shot of professional-level pizzazz, the Ludwig treatment may be your answer....
Technology is usually our friend. But sometimes, it’s just an incredible pain. Just one area where the advent of new tech has become a double-edged sword is on our favorite streaming platforms. You used to have all your favorite movies available on your bookshelf in easy, convenient DVDs. But with the introduction of even easier, even more convenient streaming, many boxed up their DVD collections and embraced non-physical media. Unfortunately, the streaming home for your favorite movies today may not be where they’re found tomorrow....
This seems to indicate that there is no or very little friction present. Friction is the fundamental physical force resisting the motion of one surface sliding relative to another. The lack of friction in these long landslides – compared to normal, shorter ones – is comparable to suddenly losing traction when driving a car on a wet or icy surface: you pull the breaks, but you stop well beyond where you intended....
It’s been my experience that wireless speakers are often competitive with some more expensive traditional hi-fi speakers, despite their convenience – so now I want to put that to the test. Today’s subject is the $399 Sonos Move, the company’s first portable, IP56-rated, Bluetooth-enabled speaker. My colleague Callum Booth previously offered his thoughts on the speaker here – it’s worth reading his review for a broader perspective. I’m just here to talk about the data....
The intelligence gained from these ciphers had a drastic effect on WWII’s outcome: “My own conclusion is that it shortened the war by not less than two years and probably by four years,” said the official historian of British Intelligence, Sir Harry Hinsley, in a 1993 lecture at Cambridge University. Not only did the codebreakers save countless lives by bringing the war’s end quickly, but without them, it’s entirely possible the Wehrmacht’s tanks could now be parked on the Queen’s lawn....
Luckily the board is primed with big-thinking tech players ready to make their next move. Rather than balking in the face of an uncertain future, we’re energized by the progress achievable in tackling environmental challenges through green tech. Can innovation combat the climate crisis, while promoting economic growth? We know that emerging technology has a key role to play in achieving our global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the next decade....
The new version To Do includes a refreshed look with new backgrounds. The app also includes a smart daily planner, lists that can be accessed from multiple devices, and integration with other Microsoft apps like Outlook, Microsoft Planner, and Cortana. It looks a lot like popular to-do app Wunderlist, and that’s not a coincidence. The company explicitly says it built the new To Do on the back of Wunderlist, and namedrops specific features it’s bringing over from its parent app....
From comic books and radio programs to TV shows and Atari games, the world has always been full of things that distract us. Today, most of us blame our phones or, more specifically, social media, Words with Friends, or Netflix as the reason we can’t get anything done. Yet these aren’t the real culprits. Instead, our distraction is usually driven by our desire to escape discomfort, including boredom, fear, and anxiety....
Check it out. The Ukrainian government is allegedly preparing plans to legalize cryptocurrency in the country, The Block reports. The move is being pushed by the incoming digital transformation deputy minister Alexander Bornyakov, who says legalization will benefit the country and its government through taxation. Ecommerce website Overstock.com and its former execs are being sued for securities fraud, a US states district court document states. The document, filed last Friday, alleges that a substandard cryptocurrency strategy and a series of releases (described as “bizarre”), led to continued losses....
“The hacker was able to obtain private keys used between May 13 and July 12,” wrote Dash marketing manager Michael Seitz in a July 12 Dash forum post. Inspired by MyEtherWallet, MyDashWallet acts as an online wallet for fledgling altcoin DASH. The service, which runs almost entirely on JavaScript, allows users to store, send, and receive DASH from within their web browser. “Out of an abundance of caution, anyone using mydashwallet....
In a research paper published on Monday, the team describes the final moments before Earth loses its ability to support life as we know it: In other words, approximately one billion years from now (we’re not sure if that counts leap days or government holidays) the sun’s slowly-increasing radiation will have reached a point of no return for our atmosphere. The team came to this conclusion after modeling and running an algorithm-based simulation hundreds of thousands of times....
