Quentin Tarantino Made a Massive Playlist of His Favorite Music From All His Movies
Hot on the heels of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s $40 million opening weekend, Quentin Tarantino has compiled his favorite songs from all of his movies in one ginormous Spotify playlist.
The director took over the music streaming service’s “Film & TV Favorites” section to create a 71-track playlist of retro tunes that runs nearly four hours long.
Tarantino included some obvious choices, including “Miserlou” by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, which is perhaps best known from Pulp Fiction, and a remastered version of David Bowie’s haunting “Cat People (Putting Out Fire),” which famously kicks off the final chapter of Inglourious Basterds, just to name a few. Listen to the entire Spotify playlist above if you’re ready to go deep into QT’s musical faves.
And if you want to hear the period-accurate songs featured in his latest 1969-set release, the entire Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack is also available on Spotify—check it out here:
Google has made Android Auto work more like your phone — for better or worse
Five years after Android Auto launched, Google announced the platform’s first major refresh at Google I/O earlier this year. That refresh — which brings an updated layout, app launcher, a notification tab, new typeface, and dark mode by default — is starting to arrive on Android phones across the world this week. By and large, Android Auto looks and feels a lot more like your Android phone now, with big, colorful icons that better highlight all the things you can do rather than have you go hunting for apps under various tabs.
In the old version of Android Auto, there were small icons along the bottom navigation bar that split everything into categories: navigation, calls, home screen, music, and exit. Now, everything is condensed into…
Ray-Ban Debuts New Version Of Vintage Aviator Sunglasses
Ray-Ban Aviators are now so ubiquitous, it’s always a relief to be able to rock a new twist on the classic military-inspired frames.
The Ray-Ban Archives program, which previously brought back vintage riffs on the Ambermatic, Clubmaster, Meteor, Street Neat Wayfarer, Aviator, Outdoorsman and Wings, has resurrected the 1968-era Aviator Olympian for a limited time only.
The latest frames feature the time-tested aviator lenses wrapped in acetate with a distinctive gold brow bar, and are available in two colors: light bronze with B15 brown lenses and light grey with G15 lenses.
Each colorway is limited to just 210 pairs, so better act now if you’re feeling them.
Get the Aviator Olympian while supplies last for $183 at ray-ban.com.
Samsung will launch the Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Tab S6 before the Note 10
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 and Galaxy Watch Active 2 have been all but outed by Samsung in a brief YouTube clip, via SamMobile. The clip stops just shy of mentioning the devices’ full names, but at the very least, we have confirmation that the Galaxy Watch Active 2 exists and that the Galaxy Tab S6 will have a notch on its back that an S Pen stylus can attach to magnetically.
The Galaxy Watch Active 2 looks to have a glass watchface that extends out to the edge, giving your finger plenty of space to use its rumored touch-sensitive bezel. This teaser shows the watch’s heart rate sensor flickering, possibly hinting at its EKG capability. However, this feature supposedly won’t be ready until 2020, according to a report from Wareable.
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Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Microsoft in data-sharing project
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Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features. Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud. A number of alternative social networks have also joined the project, with Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project enabling the import and export of contacts, and Mastodon allowing for the import and export of posts.
An open-source project aimed at making it easier to transfer data from one service to another, the Data Transfer Project has mostly consisted of back-end coding to make data export tools like Google Takeout and Facebook’s Access Your Information tool compatible with each other. Right now,…
Congress is running out of time to secure the 2020 elections
Russian hackers targeted US elections in 2016. They spread misinformation across social media platforms and attempted to infiltrate voting machines. Last week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned Congress that 2016 “wasn’t a single attempt” and that foreign actors continue to threaten the democratic process “as we sit here.”
He wasn’t the first to give that warning. This spring, FBI director Chris Wray said that protecting the 2018 midterm elections from foreign interference was just a “dress rehearsal for the big show” in 2020. Earlier this year, the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, gave a similar warning: “Despite growing awareness of cyber threats and improving cyber defenses, nearly all information, communication…
More Presidential Candidates Taking Strident Pro-Caviar Stance To Appeal To Democratic Socialite Wing Of Party
WASHINGTON—Doubling down on new policy in an effort to cater to the most influential segment of their base, an increasing number of 2020 presidential contenders were pushing strongly pro-caviar positions Tuesday in an effort to appeal to the Democratic Socialite wing of the party. “Today, too many Americans are forced…
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