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NASA astronauts will build Adidas shoe parts on the ISS – CNET
The space agency takes another step toward embracing businesses on the International Space Station.
Perfect potluck products to transport your Thanksgiving food – CNET
These casserole carriers, pie boxes and more ensure you won’t ruin all your hard work (and can bring leftovers home too).
Lasers can seemingly hack Alexa, Google Home and Siri – CNET
Researchers took over smart speakers, phones and tablets by shining lasers at their microphones.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dunks on Facebook’s new all-caps logo
Facebook’s new corporate logo is, in a word, bland, leading to plenty of goofs across the internet making fun of the uninspiring font that appears both boring and sinisterly corporate at the same time. The latest dunk comes from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who posted a tweet mocking the uninspiring design.
Dorsey’s tweet appears to be referencing two oddities of the logo: the “rebranding” of Facebook to an all-caps “FACEBOOK,” and the way Facebook will be using the new text-only logo. Per the announcement, Facebook (the parent company) will be adding the new logo to the various services it owns, like WhatsApp and Instagram, in the form of a “From FACEBOOK” tag at the bottom of various pages to constantly remind users that the corporate…
What happened in the comments section of the FCC’s net neutrality hearing?
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative unit, about his story that was published recently regarding the fake comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s online net neutrality debate.
If you haven’t read the piece, you should. The investigation details where all of the fake comments in the FCC’s net neutrality process came from, including dead people leaving comments and shady political operatives involved in the scam.
It’s not really a story about net neutrality. Instead, it’s about how systems designed for public participation in the government are so easily scammed and what the challenges are for preventing such scams from…
Coworker Apparently Just Going To Stare At Lunch In Microwave For Entire 3-Minute Cook Time
CLEVELAND—Noting his evident reluctance to break eye contact with the steadily rotating tupperware container, employees at Vizer Solutions speculated Tuesday that coworker Edward Morris was apparently just going to stare at his lunch in the microwave for the entire three-minute cook time. “Man, I guess his plan is to…
Your Horoscopes — Week Of November 5, 2019
Hello, Earthlings, We Are Here to Destroy You
Bob Vulfov writes a humorous letter from a conquering alien species to the citizens of Planet Earth about the ways in which human civilization could be destroyed.
Stepan scores in overtime, Coyotes beat Oilers 3-2
Derek Stepan scored at 2:01 of overtime and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2