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Details & Requirements<p>Updates included<br>• TigerVPN offers you lifetime access to 15 nodes. Here's the complete list of nodes you can connect to: NL - Amsterdam US - Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York RO - Bucharest NO- Oslo DE - Frankfurt UK - London ES - Madrid CA - Montreal, Toronto AT - Vienna CH …

Atlas of Reddit's /r/place makes sense of beautiful chaos

Reddit’s massive /r/place art experiment remains one of the most remarkable collaborative endeavors I’ve ever seen on the internet. Screw you, museums: this is <i>really</i> modern art.<p>It’s dizzying to look at it and try to make sense of the many, <i>many</i>, different references, pictures, flags, and symbols …

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You should read more. We’ve all said it to ourselves. You hear about a great new book and you think, “I should pick that up.” Then life happens. Before you know it, that book is on a list of hundreds of titles under the category, “I wish I wasn’t so busy so I could get to that book.”<p>For those of us …

Does anyone really need a phone that can tell what you're eating?

It’s obvious that the craziest, most daring, most innovative smartphone manufacturers aren’t in South Korea or California, but in China, where they toil away in relative obscurity. Chinese manufacturers are risk takers, and they’re prepared to try things that their larger rivals wouldn’t dare.<p>Where …

Amazon's latest Alexa feature makes it sound more human than ever

Amazon announced this week that it’s integrating new features into Alexa, which will allow developers of Skills to make it sound more expressive and human.<p>Alexa now supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), which allows developers to control the tone, timing, and emotion of its voice. With …

Visual effects expert sells the hell out of old Suzuki

Earlier this month, one Eugene Romanovsky posted a YouTube video showing off his 20-year-old Suzuki Vitara. Watch it and be amazed by the capabilities of a 96-horsepower engine:<p>I hope that altered Jurassic Park footage falls under fair use.<p>Of course the top comment is that the commercial must cost …

Apple fanboys are now in the official dictionary definition of 'sheeple'

Merriam-Webster just added the word ‘sheeple’ to its dictionary, defined as “people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced : people likened to sheep.”<p>You know who are often called sheeple? Apple fanboys – the ones who follow the crowd and buy whatever the company sells, no matter how …

Watch how Elon Musk plans to fix LA traffic by boring giant underground tunnels

After creating Tesla, setting the Hyperloop in motion, and trying to send more people to space, Elon Musk is now working on a boring company. And by boring, I mean creating holes in the ground.<p>Musk has teased this new venture – literally called the Boring Company – for some time now; its current …

Twitter now supports emoji search, which we all absolutely needed

Emojipedia revealed on Twitter that users can now search for tweets and usernames with specific emoji. They chose to announce it by making fun of people using the fax machine emoji.<p>Naturally I had to search for every emoji available on my iPhone’s keyboard. I can’t say it adds much, unless you’re …

Ed Balls is still the best argument against searching for your name on Twitter

Ed Balls is more than just a man with a funny name. He’s a walking, talking cautionary tale.<p>Six years ago to this day, the former Labour party minister tried to search for his name on Twitter. Don’t judge – we’ve all done it. Mortifyingly, Balls mixed up the search box with the one you compose …

Samsung Galaxy S8 owners report their phones are randomly restarting

The mysterious reddish tint might not be the only issue Samsung is experiencing with its smash-hit Galaxy S8 flagship. Numerous users are reporting their all-new handsets are randomly restarting by themselves.<p>While it remains unclear what could be causing the glitch, it appears the issue persists …

Spellfucker screws up your spelling to outsmart and confuse web bots

Spellfucker is a new text obfuscating tool that changes the input text into coherent gibberish that humans can make sense of, but not computers. This means it would make it more difficult for bots to exploit information about you, for example, targeting ads based on what you type.<p>There’s already …

Facebook now lets Pages make money from people who steal their videos

Video piracy is pretty rampant on Facebook. No, not in the sense that you can download the latest episode of your favorite show, but rather that videos are shared – and ad revenue gained – without proper attribution.<p>Facebook introduced the Rights Manager last year to help combat some of this, but …

Uber finally lets you delete your account

After being given the cold shoulder by a hashtag-using public, Uber has finally taken the hint and given users the ability to delete their own account.<p>This new option — which should roll out in the next few weeks — comes in the wake of #DeleteUber, where dozens if not hundreds of users got rid of …

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Everyday computer users are juggling huge amounts of data, so it makes sense that you're taking care of that data responsibly. With Degoo you get 2TB of supremely secured cloud storage from which to manage and share files with awesome simplicity. With high speed transfers from a database that …

Google and Facebook scammed out of $100M in elaborate phishing attack

Back in March, reports surfaced that a cunning Lithuanian phishing artist had purportedly scammed two unnamed US tech giants out of the hefty sum of $100 million – as it turns out, the two unsuspecting victims were none other than Google and Facebook.<p>The two industry titans have now come forward …

Google teams up with Huawei for high-end Raspberry Pi rival that runs Android

Thanks to a collaboration between Google and Huawei, Android developers will no longer have to code on Intel x86 architectures – or Chromebooks – to build software for ARM-based systems. They’ll get to do it on a beefed-up Raspberry Pi-style computer that also happens to run Android.<p>The HiKey 960 …

This cleverly designed $25 power bank is a charger and battery in one

Power banks are great to have around, except for the fact that they need to be charged before they can be of any use.<p>The folks at Uiee (I just sound silly trying to pronounce that) have a smart solution: its puck-shaped power bank comes with a fold-away plug so it can charge itself – as well as …

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Apple is using the same Lexus model as Google's Waymo to test self-driving tech

Earlier this month, we heard about Apple securing permission to test self-driving vehicles in California, confirming rumors that circulated for years about the company getting into the auto industry. Now, Bloomberg has visual evidence of its tech being tested in the real world.<p>Bloomberg noted that …

Google opens up Classroom so anyone can now become a teacher

Google is opening up its Classroom educational service to allow anyone to create and teach a class on its platform.<p>The web-based tool works across devices and Google says it can be used to help manage classes for adult education, hobbies, and after school programs.<p>Classroom should come in handy for …

Reddit is down, we're all doomed [Update: Back now]

<b>Update (1:36PM IST / 1:06AM PDT/4:06AM EDT/10:06AM CEST):</b> <i>Reddit seems to back online now. Phew!</i><p>The worst is upon us, internet friends: Reddit is down. On a Friday.<p>The site underwent scheduled maintenance two hours prior to the time of writing, but it’s still down as of 12:08AM PDT/3:08AM EDT/9:08AM …

Nintendo packs big screens into its small new $150 2DS XL

Not to be distracted by the success of its Switch console, Nintendo has just added the new 2DS XL to its lineup of portable gaming systems.<p>The device offers 2D gameplay across two large screens that are the same size as those on the 3DS XL, and comes with the same processing power as well. Plus, it …

It’s a VPN and online security suite in one, and you can have it for just $70 right now

When is a VPN not a VPN? When it’s a heck of a lot more… which describes the package of services available through Windscribe. Right now, you can pick up this next step in the evolution of online security with a lifetime subscription – and take an extra $9 off your final price using the coupon code</b> …

Google Home now helps you cook by reading recipes out loud

Following updates to its Home speaker with support for multiple users, finding cheap flights and controlling your connected gadgets, Google has added a handy new feature to the device that aspiring chefs will enjoy.<p>It can now read recipes out to you while you cook, one step at a time. Simply fire …

Build (and blow up) a brand online with this marketing certification training, just $29

If it feels like everyone in the world has a presence online… well, you’re not far from the truth. Right now, about two billion people — nearly a third of the world’s population — are social media users. So it makes sense for savvy business professionals to market their goods and services where the …

FCC thinks throttling doesn't hurt consumers

The Federal Communications Commission today released the draft of its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which would alter existing net neutrality rules. In it, the FCC outlines what it feels needs to be addressed in the reform of its rules.<p>If you think our emphasis on the potential endgame where …

Google opens up Assistant SDK for developers, creates mocktail mixer to prove it

Google made a big deal out of its new Assistant when it launched alongside the Pixel and Home. The company has since brought the Assistant to other Android devices, but now it’s launching a preview of the Assistant SDK so developers can start to add it to their own hardware.<p>To show off the new SDK, …

Uber to offer its UK drivers sick and injury pay

One of the most controversial facets of Uber’s business policy is how it classes its drivers. They aren’t employees, but rather self-employed contractors. This means they are ineligible for many of the things salaried workers take for granted – like sick pay, holiday pay, and the national minimum …

Lyft's user numbers soared after #DeleteUber

At the start of the year, #DeleteUber trended worldwide after a couple of major missteps by the divisive ridesharing service. Outraged consumers deleted the Uber app en-masse from their phones and flooded to other transportation methods, including old-school taxis and Lyft.<p>According to numbers …