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Twitch has been blocked in China - PC Gamer 21 Sep 2018
PC Gamer | Twitch has been blocked in China PC Gamer Twitch saw a tremendous uptick in popularity in China last month, becoming the third-most popular app on the iOS App Store, according to Abacus News. The surge was reportedly driven by the presence of esports at the 2018 Asian Games, which weren't ... Twitch Blocked in China Following Surge in Popularity There China has banned hugely popular game streaming service Twitch Twitch blocked in China |
Engadget | Apple iPhone XS and XS Max review: Pricey but future-proof Engadget When Apple introduced the iPhone X last year, it didn't just release a new phone — it presented a new vision of what iPhones should be. The fact that the X became Apple's top-selling model quarter after quarter was proof that people were embracing change. 8 things you'll want to try first with your iPhone XS Check Out the iPhone XS' Weirdo Battery Huawei hands out battery packs and apple-free juice to iPhone XS buyers |
'Holy Grail' fossil mystery cracked – 558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal - Fox News 21 Sep 2018
Fox News | 'Holy Grail' fossil mystery cracked – 558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal Fox News Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the earliest known fossil dating back 558 million years. The discovery is being termed the 'Holy Grail' of paleontology. It might not have been Indiana Jones who found it, but the "Holy ... World's oldest known animal identified after decades-long mystery Extraordinary Evidence Suggests 558-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is the Oldest Known Animal on the Planet Earliest animal fossils are identified |
PCMag | Hands On With Amazon's New Echo Dot, Plus, Input, and More PCMag SEATTLE—Amazon's new Echo Dot and Echo Plus are incremental upgrades that bring these models more in-line with the design of their larger counterpart. Instead of bare plastic or metal cylinders, the upgraded Echo Dot and Echo Plus have cloth covers ... AI Weekly: Transparency challenges stand in the way of ambient computing Amazon's new Echo Show: Buy 2, save $100 9 Biggest Reveals of Amazon's Surprise Alexa Event |
ZDNet | Google to lawmakers: Yep, Gmail data is still open to app developers ZDNet This device is unable to play the requested video. Featured stories. This Windows file may be secretly hoarding your passwords and emails · $1,000 iPhone XS expensive? 'Most will pay $1 a day for one', says Apple CEO Tim Cook · It's not the jobs AI is ... Google Admits That It Lets Outside Services Share Your Gmail Data Google say it still allows third parties to scan and share your Gmail data Gmail's Smart Reply is an example of what real AI will look like for frontline workers |
Wall Street Journal | Apple Launches New iPhones (Again). Here's a Guide. Wall Street Journal Two of the newest iPhones hit stores Friday, with predictable scenes of customers around the world lining up outside Apple Inc. AAPL -0.49% stores and the decade-old guessing game over how strong demand will be for the technology giant's latest gadgets. The new iPhone is in stores. Here are 5 reasons to wait before buying one. The amazing sorcery of the new iPhone cameras New iphones hit stores Friday |
Space.com | NASA's New Planet-Hunting Telescope Spots Its Second Possible World Already Space.com Scientists poring over data from NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope have announced that they've spotted a second possible planet, just three days after many of the same team members announced their first find. The two potential planets are the ... Get ready for a flood of new exoplanets: TESS has already spotted two 60-Second Astro News: TESS's First Exoplanet, Asteroid Hides a Galaxy NASA's new planet hunter just found its 1st alien world — an evaporating 'Super-Earth' |
PCWorld | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs. RTX 2080 Ti: Should you upgrade? PCWorld Two and a half long years after the launch of the GeForce GTX 10-series, Nvidia's next generation of graphics cards is finally here, and the GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti top our performance charts. But should you upgrade to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ... Digesting Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 And RTX 2080 Ti Performance, Features And Price Morgan Stanley's Failure To Comprehend Bleeding Edge GPU Tech Results In NVIDIA Downgrade GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 FE review |
Space.com | Japanese Probe Drops Tiny Hopping Robots Toward Big Asteroid Ryugu Space.com Japan's Hayabusa2 probe, which has been circling the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu since late June, deployed two little "rovers" called MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B at 12:06 a.m. EDT (0406 GMT) today (Sept. 21). The event occurred ... A Japanese spacecraft just threw two small rovers at an asteroid Japan has attempted to land two tiny rovers on a distant asteroid Japan has just landed two rovers on the surface of an asteroid |
New York Times | On Ecstasy, Octopuses Reached Out for a Hug New York Times By dosing the tentacled creatures with MDMA, researchers found they share parts of an ancient messaging system involved in social behaviors with humans. Image. An octopus on its way to an underwater EDM festival.CreditCreditKen Lucas, via Getty ... Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound Octopuses given mood drug 'ecstasy' reveal genetic link to evolution of social behaviors in humans Confirmed: If You Give an Octopus MDMA, It Will Get All Cuddly |