Plastic pumpkins are a mainstay around Halloween, but if you want to give the ubiquitous little candy holder a bit more character, Adafruit has a guide for adding lights and custom sounds. Read more…
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AT&T—the same people trying to buy Time Warner—announced Tuesday that it will be launching an online-only TV service dubbed DirecTV Now . It’s cheaper than cable, too. Read more…
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AT&T Wants to Sell You a Hundred Streaming Channels for $35 a Month
Netflix announced in a press release on Monday that the company would be taking on another $800 million in debt in order to create more original content. Netflix is already in $2.37 billion of debt to further Netflix’s vision of being 50 percent original content. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos announced in January that the company planned to invest $6 billion total in creating its own movies and TV shows. So it’s half way there. Read more…
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Netflix Pledges to Eat $3 Billion in Debt for Original Programming
Wicked Lasers is known for its handheld lasers and flashlights that redefine what it means to be bright. A few years ago it released a flashlight that was intense enough to start a fire, and now the company has managed to dramatically shrink its design so you can easily bring it the next time you go camping and leave the matches at home. Read more…
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A Flashlight That Can Start Fires and Cook Dinner Is the Best Camping Accessory
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Tim Boyle) Following up on news reported yesterday, AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner Inc. for more than $80 billion, The Wall Street Journal wrote today . The boards of the companies are meeting today to approve the merger, “with a deal likely to be announced as soon as Saturday evening.” Original story from yesterday follows: AT&T and Time Warner Inc. have recently met “to discuss various business strategies including a possible merger,” Bloomberg reported Thursday . Discussions are still in early stages, according to Bloomberg’s anonymous sources. “The talks, which at this stage are informal, have focused on building relations between the companies rather than establishing the terms of a specific transaction, the people said, asking not to be identified as the deliberations are private,” Bloomberg wrote. “Neither side has yet hired a financial adviser, the people said.” Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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AT&T has $80 billion deal to purchase Time Warner Inc. (and with it, HBO)
Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn , a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried out the attack and why, but regardless, the event served as a demonstration of how easily large swaths of the web can be wiped out if attacked by determined hackers. Read more…
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What Is DNS and Why Does It Make the Internet Break?
Today a massive DDoS attack took out a major piece of Internet infrastructure , causing huge outages across the United States and Europe. Watch it spread like a disease across the States. Read more…
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Watch America’s Internet Get Wiped Out by a Massive DDoS Attack
The Wall Street Journal wants a “substantial number” of newsroom employees to take a buyout, editor-in-chief Gerard Baker announced to his staff in a memo sent to WSJ staff Friday morning. Read more…
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Executive Accidentally Reveals Layoffs in Reply All Nightmare
Japanese hand planes or kannas are remarkable tools that can shave off layers of wood so ridiculously thin that they look like tissue paper. The wood shaving in the GIF above is only 8 microns thick which almost sounds like an impossible measurement because even human hair has a diameter of about 50 microns. Read more…
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Watch a Japanese Hand Plane Shave Wood Impossibly Thin
Enlarge On Thursday night, Tesla announced the new Model X and Model S electric vehicles will now come with the necessary hardware to allow them to drive completely autonomously at a future point in time. But buried in the notes about this new functionality there was also a warning to future Tesla owners: don’t expect to be able to use your EV driving for Uber, Lyft, or any other ride-sharing service that isn’t owned by Tesla. On Tesla’s website , the section that describes the new “Full Self-Driving Capability” (A $3,000 option at the time of purchase, $4,000 after the fact) states “Please note also that using a self-driving Tesla for car sharing and ride hailing for friends and family is fine, but doing so for revenue purposes will only be permissible on the Tesla Network, details of which will be released next year.” In Elon Musk’s ” Master Plan part 2 ,” the company’s CEO included plans for a Tesla ride-sharing network, which we know know will be called the Tesla Network. However, no other information about this program has escaped into the wild as yet. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Tesla bans customers from using autonomous cars to earn money ride-sharing