UFC champion Robert Whittaker has a spreadsheet so detailed, it predicts how he’s going to feel before he starts training.
Best Halloween movies to watch and where to stream them – CNET
No matter which service you have, there’s something scary for you to watch. Time to stream and scream!
Men are from cyberspace: this week in tech, 20 years ago
A few months ago, I mentioned that it was “unfortunately” too early to write about the release of beloved role-playing game Fallout 2. Well, Fallout 2 was released this week 20 years ago, and I am definitively not going to write about it — because I already spent half my summer immersed in the series while researching the never-released Fallout Online. Fortunately, Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton has you covered with an entertaining analysis of Fallout 2’s first, frustrating level.
Instead, this week’s stories cover cyber romance, Y2K, and one of the year’s worst new TV shows.
Men are from cyberspace
HBO premiered a documentary last month called Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age that explored the worst aspects of online dating — you can…
Amazon fired an employee who shared customer e-mail addresses a third-party seller
In September, Amazon confirmed that some of its marketplace sellers had bribed Amazon employees to delete negative reviews or to obtain proprietary information like sales data or customer e-mail addresses, following a report in The Wall Street Journal. Now, according to FT, Amazon has fired at least one employee.
FT says that the employee had provided customer e-mails to a seller. Amazon confirmed the news, saying that “individual responsible for this incident has been terminated from their position, and we are supporting law enforcement in their prosecution.” The affected customers have since been notified, and Amazon says that no other customer information was leaked to outside parties.
The WSJ’s report revealed that third-party…
Yes, your selfies look different on the iPhone XS. Here’s why – CNET
Is there a so-called “beauty mode” on the iPhone XS?
Talking to Master Replicas’ Hal 9000 smart speaker sent chills down my spine
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Even with the background hum of New York Comic Con all around us, the iconic voice of Hal 9000 — the sentient computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey — made me intensely nervous as its red eye stares back from Master Replicas’ booth on the convention floor.
Steve Dymszo, CEO for the prop-making company, leans in to speak over the noise of the crowd. “What’s the problem?”
“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do,” Hal responds. Dymszo gestures to the device. “You can go on and on with the rest of the sequence.”
Announced earlier this year in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the iconic film’s…
Amazon’s new Echo Dot vs. the Google Home Mini: Which sounds better? – CNET
Go ahead and take a listen for yourself.
How Facebook polarized us during the Kavanaugh hearings
The polarization of the American electorate predated Facebook’s arrival on the scene. But a nagging question about the social network has been whether its viral mechanics — and the viral mechanics on YouTube, Twitter, and other platforms — have accelerated the split between the left and the right.
Today we have two stories that examine that phenomenon. The first concerns the fight over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. At a time when the sharing of news articles on Facebook is in general decline, the wrenching battle over Kavanaugh has been a top performer on the site. And many of the top performing posts, reports Craig Silverman, are among the most partisan in nature:
Daily Wire’s top story about Kavanaugh…
Outpatient antibiotic overprescribing rampant
Clinicians prescribed antibiotics without an infection-related diagnosis nearly half of the time and one in five prescriptions were provided without an in-person visit, according to new research.
‘Turbidity currents’ are not just currents, but involve movement of the seafloor itself
Turbidity currents in submarine canyons often involve large-scale movement of the seafloor. This discovery could help ocean engineers avoid damage to pipelines, communications cables, and other seafloor structures.