Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Google Drive will automatically back up your hard drive later this month


While Google Drive is already a decent cloud storage tool, it’s about to get a lot more useful: starting June 28, the service will let you back up entire folders from your hard drive, and keep them in sync with your account. You’ll need to first download the Backup and Sync tool for your PC or Mac when it launches; once you’ve signed in, you’ll be able to choose which folders on your desktop you want to keep backed up, and access them through Drive across your devices. That sounds handy for people who already use Drive extensively – it’d certainly be nice…

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Mobile roaming is (mostly) free across the EU

It's been a long time in coming and had plenty of trials and tribulations, but it's finally here: mobile roaming is now free in the EU. As long as you have service in a member state and live there for at least 8 months each year, you can use your pho...
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Element Raises $102 Million | Crunch Report

Element AI raises $102 Millon, Another board member resigns from Uber and Chan Zukerberg Initiative invests $5 million into Landed to help teachers afford housing in Palo Alto. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Outpost Is Bringing "Robotic Wingmen" to the Battlefield

DIUx is an initiative by the Department of Defense that has set up in Silicon Valley to incubate special projects and it’s starting to roll out some fully formed concepts. The latest prototype the program has produced would allow Maverick to fly with a robotic Goose, and it’s totally okay if this wingman dies.

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The ambition of 'Beyond Good and Evil 2' might exceed the hype

We've waited a long time for the sequel to Beyond Good and Evil. And you know what? They actually went and did it. Arguably the biggest surprise of E3 2017 was a minute-long trailer teasing a game that barely seems recognizable to the 2003 original....
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Sling TV’s improved DVR won’t delete your recordings

You asked, and Sling TV answered. By popular demand, the live TV streaming service's Cloud DVR now lets users protect shows from deletion and added the ability to record content on Fox channels. Plus, you can watch and manage recordings from your Xbo...
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These Are the Colors that Words Make When Used as Hex Code

Hexadecimal format allows us to instruct a computer to display a color using three or six characters. For example, #000 will produce black. But how many words can be created in Hex and what colors do they produce? One intrepid programmer has tackled this problem so that we don’t have to.

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Plex update brings local video playback to its Android app

Plex's last few big announcements include unveiling live TV streaming for its premium subscribers and launching Plex Cloud, which lets users pipe media stored on cloud-based services (like DropBox) to any device with Plex's app installed. But the sof...
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A Dating App Reveals Unexpected Cloning Capabilities in Funny Short Swiped

Finding the perfect match should theoretically be easier with apps like Tinder—but there’s always the possibility that the person you see on the screen doesn’t measure up in real life. This gets very awkward in Swiped when one dude’s online match turns out to be someone he already knows. Like, really well.

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Why your startup should use conferences to get users


With the rise of the Internet and all of the content that comes with that, it can be difficult to justify the time, effort, planning, and expense it takes to travel to a conference. If you can video chat with prospective clients, look up industry information online, and log into a webinar to learn the newest trends in your niche, why bother heading to SXSW to expand your user base? It’s certainly true that there are some aspects of conferences that are growing obsolete. However, from providing unique learning experiences to facilitating your next connection, they can be helpful for…

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Mystery internet company challenges NSA’s mass surveillance order

Thanks to a newly-declassified document, we know that an unnamed tech company refused to comply with NSA orders to let the agency spy on the company's client users. It's the first known case of an organization from the industry outright rejecting suc...
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360 video is coming to BuzzFeed and NowThis (like it or not)


The Samsung Gear 360 ー a 360-degree camera that shoots in 4k — is now in BuzzFeed’s hands. Here’s what BuzzFeed’s Head of Development had to say: “We’re excited to partner with Samsung to give our audience engaging, social 360-degree video content. Samsung’s 360-degree technology will enable BuzzFeed to use our ‘test and learn’ strategy to unlock new kinds of shareable content, while learning more about how audiences are consuming and using it.” The possibilities for stupid, weird, hilarious, shocking and ridiculous videos are endless. But 360-degree video either goes viral or turns into sucky content that comes off as…

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iPhone manufacturer Foxconn could be building a plant in Wisconsin


A key link in the Apple supply chain is reportedly looking to build its next plant in the heart of dairy country. According to an Associated Press report, Wisconsin officials are hashing out the details with Foxconn representatives, although no further details were reported. Apple products are part of a global supply chain, but Foxconn handles the final chassis assembly. The Taiwan-based factory is also the subject of numerous instances of bad press: from underage workers, to poor wages, and even a rash of suicides that put the company on the tip of all our tongues. 2010 was a particularly bloody year with…

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