Day: October 30, 2018

Weird horror movies and TV for Halloween you may have overlooked – CNET

Teen cannibals, ghosts, killer cults, evil puppets and tentacled sea creatures. Watch these unusual scary films and TV shows, streaming now, to get your spook on. …read more Source:: CNet


Uber adds monthly subscription service that guarantees low-cost rides – CNET

Ride Pass starts at $14.99 and is available Tuesday in five US cities. …read more Source:: CNet


People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There’s Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds

According to a recent study by Hyla Mobile as reported by the Wall Street Journal, a mobile-device trade-in company, the average age of an iPhone at trade-in is now 2.92 years. That’s up from 2.38 years in 2016, and 2.59 in 2017, according to the company. From a report: Part of this, according to Biju…


Reporters Posed as 100 Senators To Run Ads on Facebook. Facebook Approved All of Them.

William Turton, reporting for Vice News: One of Facebook’s major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is a required “Paid for by” disclosure at the top of each ad supposedly telling users who is paying for political ads that show up in their news feeds. But on the eve of the 2018 midterm elections,…


It’s (finally) official: 2020 Toyota Supra to debut at Detroit Auto Show – Roadshow

Start the countdown to the return of the Supra now. …read more Source:: CNet


Wavetable General MIDI For Everyone

There are only so many ways to generate music with a computer, and by far the most popular method is MIDI. It’s been around for thirty-five years, and you don’t get to be a decades-old standard for no reason. That said, turning MIDI into audio is a pain, but this project in the Musical Instrument…


The Case for MarDevSecOps

Why security must lead the integration of marketing into the collaborative security and development model in the cloud. …read more Source:: DarkReading


iPad Pro 2018: Feast your eyes on Apple’s big iPad update – CNET

It’s a big one. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple’s Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage

Apple’s new dual-SIM function, which lets iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR owners use two cellular subscriptions at once, will come to new phones today. But the current implementation will have a huge negative impact on Verizon subscribers who choose to use dual-SIM in the US, PCMag reported Tuesday, citing engineers who have seen early…


US Energy Dept. announces new Nvidia-powered supercomputer

The Perlmutter will more than triple the computational power currently available at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center. …read more Source:: ZDNet