Need to do a little last-minute fine-tuning to that video of your cat before you upload it to YouTube? If you’re an Android user, you can now trim your video clips directly from the YouTube app before you upload. According to the In addition, YouTube says the new version will upload videos more quickly than it had in previous versions.
But I did spend about an hour tooling around with a pre-release build earlier this week, and it only seems right to give you an idea how this spin-off strategy game (of sorts) is shaping up. You know that absurdly-complicated board game Ben Wyatt comes up with in
Which is better: Doritos or Mountain Dew? It's a question that's plagued philosophers since at least the time of Plato. And now, thanks to Yesterday Paradox released the What it
The names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 Uber drivers were compromised in a security breach last year, the company revealed Friday. Uber discovered a possible breach of its systems in September, and a subsequent investigation revealed an unauthorized third party had The files accessed held the names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 current and former drivers, which Uber described as a “small percentage” of the total. About 21,000 of the affected drivers are in California. The company has several hundred thousand drivers altogether.
It's the last week before GDC, which means all the serious news is being saved for next week. What we're left with? A collection of the silliest news ever rounded up in Missing Pieces. But like Vin Diesel's There are so very, very few cases where I write about console games, but this is one of them: A free
Products that try to be all things to all people are typically mediocre at Personally, I have a love/hate relationship with this cross-platform video-playback software; mostly the former, and the latter only occasionally. I love the way it handles nearly every format, including HEVC; that it allows dragging and dropping subtitles; that it can capture from video cameras; and that it can play network streams (hence its name); and more. But I hate the way it misfires, depending on the version, on certain AVIs, FLVs, and MPEG files. Even more, I hate the
The crowded Android phone pool has yet another competitor jumping in, but the newcomer is one you've heard of before. The announcement doesn't give any details, but It's not anything that will dissuade someone who is eyeing the new HTC One or Galaxy S6, but it's interesting to see what was once considered a luxury PC brand taking a stab at the Android smartphone market.
It only took an embarrassing adware scandal that put millions of PCs at risk, but Lenovo has had a revelation: People just want clean Windows. As such, Lenovo will significantly reduce the amount of pre-loaded software on its PCs. The cutbacks on bloatware will begin immediately, and by the time Windows 10 arrives this fall, new PCs will only include the operating system, security tools, Lenovo's own apps, and any software necessary to make the hardware run properly. (An exception will be made in countries where certain applications are “customarily expected by users.”) “This should eliminate what our industry calls ‘adware’ and ‘bloatware,’” Lenovo said in a statement.
You might be familiar with Spark, a company that’s best known for its The Electron is a tiny $39 circuit board that you can think of as a cellular-connected Arduino with a SIM card. It also has an ARM Cortex M3 processor, 128K RAM, 1MB of flash storage, and a USB port. Spark says the Electron plays nice with the rest of the Spark family, though the real appeal here is its cellular connectivity.
Advocates for open access to the Internet were popping champagne corks on Thursday after the Federal Communications Commission voted in favor of The FCC vote means that Internet service providers (ISPs) will be required by law to respect the principles of net neutrality. But what exactly does that mean, and why are so many people celebrating the FCC’s ruling while others are cursing it?
