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Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ will self-regulate to avoid censorship in India

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 03:47 PM PDT

Streaming services are keen to prevent regulators from censoring their content, and they're willing to police themselves to ensure that artistic freedom. Variety reports that Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar and 12 other companies have si...

Twitch will shut down its live karaoke game on January 1st

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 02:22 PM PDT

Twitch Sings will bid karaoke fans farewell after 2020. The Amazon subsidiary has announced that it's shutting down the live karaoke game on January 1st, 2021, less than two years after it was officially launched. In its announcement, Twitch says it...

Electronic skin reacts to pain like a human

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:41 PM PDT

Electronic skins can already react to touch, but they're not much good at reacting to the jabs and burns that cause pain. That's a problem for prosthetics and robots that are supposed to have human-like responses. They may be more sensitive in the fu...

Microsoft details how it will phase out Flash support in Edge after 2020

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:08 PM PDT

Microsoft is providing more detail (via Bleeping Computer) about how it will drop support for Flash in Edge to dovetail with Adobe's plans, including some notable exceptions. As expected, Flash will be disabled by default in Edge as of December 2020....

US considers blocking deals with China's largest chip maker

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:23 PM PDT

The US' trade bans on Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE might have been just the beginning. The Defense Department has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that agencies are discussing whether or not they'll add China's Semiconductor Manufacturin...

Amazon foils plot using phones in trees to get more deliveries

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:41 AM PDT

Amazon appears to have stopped a strange plot that used phones in trees to game delivery route assignments. Contract drivers talking to Bloomberg said that they're now getting more routes even when they're miles away from the Whole Foods locations th...

Volkswagen shows off ID.4's interior ahead of official debut

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 10:20 AM PDT

Volkswagen is giving us a glimpse of the ID.4, its first all-electric crossover, before the vehicle's official reveal later this month. The automaker has released photos of ID.4's interior, showing its touchscreen displays — yes, it has more than one...

Facebook blocks terminally ill French man from livestreaming his death

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 10:08 AM PDT

Facebook is dealing with a test of its policies barring live streams involving suicide and self-harm. The social media giant told the AFP (via The Verge) it would block terminally ill French man Alain Cocq from livestreaming his death. The French gov...

Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law and court orders with data collection

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:52 AM PDT

If you were concerned that federal agents might play fast and loose with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702 while gathering data, your worries were well-founded. The Washington Post reports that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

Hitting the Books: Lessons learned from gaming with the King of Sweden

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:30 AM PDT

Video games have come a long way from their dim arcade origins. No longer a mere niche diversion for pasty, maladjusted youth, gaming is now an integral part of modern pop culture standing shoulder to shoulder with "classical" forms of media like fil...

Recommended Reading: Behind the wheel of the Polestar 2

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 07:00 AM PDT

Driving the Polestar 2, the first electric car with a brain by GoogleAndrew J. Hawkins, The VergeThe Verge offers some first impressions of the first EV that runs Android Automotive: Google's tech that controls things like air conditioning, navigatio...

The Morning After: macOS Big Sur preview

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:47 AM PDT

On Saturday morning a couple of classic game series have surprising news for us. First is Shenmue, which follows last year's Shenmue III effort with news of a new anime series that's coming soon. Sega fans can tune in to the Crunchyroll Virtual Indus...
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