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If you use Instapaper, you may have noticed that it recently experienced an extended outage. The outage began on February 8, at 12:30 PM PT. Instapaper announced the outage in a blog post on February 9, 2017. After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database
I talk at length about the upcoming Net Neutrality battle. I also talk about why spending more than 10 minutes on Facebook may be hazardous to your health and why it and the news in general has me stressed out.. Time to take a media break.. Plus all the tech news you can handle. Are you a gamer? Time sensitive
Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO, has started a limited-time celebration of Valentine's Day. It started on February 8, 2017, and will continue through 11:00 A.M. PST on February 15, 2017. Now is a good time to catch some Pokémon that you probably haven't seen very often. The featured Pokémon for the Valentine's Day event are pink. Niantic officially says that
A good Hacker has taken out a very nasty Dark Web site that was making available absolute filth exposing 381,000 users emails and connecting IP addresses that law enforcement should be able to use to build cases. It is simply disgusting that any of this material is available. Good job to the hacker and I feel sorry for the investigative
Blizzard Entertainment created the WoW Token in 2015. In my opinion, the purpose was to give players a safe and secure way to buy in-game gold directly from Blizzard (and not from a disreputable gold seller). Today, Blizzard Entertainment expanded the potential uses for a WoW Token. Players can now exchange a WoW Token for Battle.net Balance. Previously, the WoW Token
I have a Compaq desktop PC that’s a few years old that is handy for tasks such as doing taxes or writing articles with. Unfortunately, it came with Windows Vista. More than a year ago I installed an inexpensive 128 gigabyte SSD in it. The SSD sped things up dramatically to the point where Vista was actually usable. To be
There is a new form of Cyber Warfare that is being used against digital companies, using tactics that have worked on Television and Radio personalities. Here that and a full stack of incredible news, this is the most action packed show in sometime. Did you miss my Tribute on Facebook? Please tell Kris thank you for having faith in this
The New York Times announced that it will launch on the Snapchat Discover platform. The New York Times will create a daily Edition for Snapchatters in the U.S., Canada, and Australia based on its popular Morning Briefing, which is designed to help readers prepare for their day, and will be published Monday through Friday. Discover is the section of the Snapchat
Learning is best done when fun and what's more fun than play? Sam's Curious Cars fall right into this sweet spot and Todd gets an interactive demo from Joachim. Sam Labs have created a series of component-based toys (think chassis, wheels, motors) that can be built up to make a vehicle - in this instance a car. The components are
The technology to measure physiology is becoming commonplace: any smart watch worthy of the name can record heart rate. The trick now is to incorporate these sensors into other useful gadgets. A good example here is the Owlet Smart Sock which brings reassurance to parents that their baby is sleeping normally. The Owlet Smart Sock monitors a baby's heart rate
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