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Two years ago, DxO — the company best known for issuing scores for the best (and worst) smartphone cameras on the market — released a curious little camera called the DxO One that plugged into the Lightning port of iPhones and iPads. Now that camera is finally coming to Android. DxO announced today that the company is launching a USB Type-C version of the One that should work with most USB-C Android phones and tablets.We don’t know much more about when the Android version will

My grandmother died in 2013. 
She was a stubborn, brilliant woman who ardently believed in the value of science. She came of age in Brooklyn, but I knew her as my Nana in Los Angeles who worked with dinosaur bones. 
When she died, my grandfather gave me one of Nana's necklaces: A jade stone with a gold chain. I wear it most days. 
After today, I will look at that necklace differently. 
SEE ALSO: Researchers watched as gold was made millions of light-years from Earth
While the

Game of Thrones has given us all more than enough to talk about over the years, and one of the surprising best parts about the series is the relationship between Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner that's developed on set. It's a friendship so deep that even an engagement with Joe Jonas can't break it up. 
With a cute Instagram post, Williams left a sweet message for Turner congratulating her best friend on the event. 
SEE ALSO: Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are officially engagedCongratul

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Coding isn't always easy to learn, and some of the products that are designed to teach coding can be equally as difficult to figure out. These new building blocks on Kickstarter, however, are aiming to make coding lessons a snap.
SEE ALSO: Get access to 3,000+ coding training courses for less than $60
Cubroid is the latest toy that wants to teach kids programming at a young age. This building b

Facebook has acquired tbh, an iOS app that’s popular among teens for delivering compliments. The company is allowing tbh to operate as it did before, which is similar to how other Facebook acquisitions, like WhatsApp and Instagram, are run.
Tbh lets you send prewritten compliments to friends, a method aimed at preventing people from writing nasty comments and cyberbullying. According to tbh, which stands for “to be honest,” over 5 million people have downloaded the app so far a

Bots are a thriving part of Twitter's user base, and it's likely they'll continue showing up alongside our own human tweets. 
Twitter bots can be thought of as autonomous programs or entities that generate social content. Some of this content is harmless, like sports updates, and some of it intentionally malicious and polarizing — like the over 1,600 known bots that tweeted extremist right-wing views during the polarizing 2016 campaign, explored in a recent report from Bloomberg.
The

It would be that in an exposé of Vice President Mike Pence, it's a reported comment from President Donald Trump about his veep's views that's putting the president right back in the hot seat.
SEE ALSO: Chelsea Clinton had the best response when Trump blocked a cancer patient on Twitter
A new New Yorker story, "The Danger of President Pence," dug out incredible details about Pence's history, his rise to the vice presidency, and his relationship to Trump. Toward the end of the lengthy piece

Netflix just keeps raising the ceiling on its content aspirations. 
The company officially announced that it could spend up to $8 billion on original video in 2018—a cool billion dollars more than it had previously planned. 
Ted Sarandos, head of content at Netflix, recently said publicly that the company could hit the $8 billion mark, but Monday's quarterly earnings report made it official.
"With $17 billion in content commitments over the next several years and a growing librar

It's been almost two weeks since McDonalds revealed they hadn't produced enough promotional Szechuan sauce to satisfy the rabid Rick and Morty fanbase.
Fans everywhere are mildly disappointed. Desperate for sauce packets, a vocal population has made their demands known. Nearly everyone, it seems, has an opinion on the matter.
So where is Hillary Clinton?
SEE ALSO: Hillary Clinton calls Trump the most dangerous president in U.S. history
In a times like this, we expect our leaders to take action.

The dominoes keep falling for Harvey Weinstein. Days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts voted to expel the alleged rapist, the Producers Guild of America has also begun the process of kicking him out.
SEE ALSO: Harvey Weinstein expelled from motion picture academy
The guild has voted to "institute termination proceedings," per the official statement obtained by Mashable. Weinstein will have a chance to respond before the board makes its final decision on November 6. 
The move is clear

Get ready for the next generation of Pokémon in Pokémon Go. Video game sleuths from the group known as the Silph Road uncovered a whole bunch of hidden data added to Pokémon Go in its latest update. The intel suggests that the third generation of Pokémon may be coming to the game soon, along with some Halloween content.
SEE ALSO: 'Pokémon Snap' lives on through 'Pokémon Go' photography contest
The latest Pokémon Go data mine includes sound files f

More customers in the US are buying the iPhone 7 than the iPhone 8, according to a new report from KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh (via Reuters).Apple hasn’t released sales numbers for the iPhone 8, but it’s beginning to look like the new phone has had something of a muted response since its release at the end of September. Notably, the iPhone 8 was still readily available on launch day, instead of the usual sold out numbers that have historically shown up for previous mode

Samsung wants to make sure you never lose your stuff again. And is tapping the Internet of Things to do it. 
The consumer electronics giant has introduced the Samsung Connect Tag, which can clip on to any object, and accurately relay the object's location to your smartphone. 
Connect Tag will, as its name indicates, help you keep track of your stuff. If you've lost a device attached to Connect Tag, you can request its location from an app on your phone. And if your kid gets lost, they

Typos are a fact of life. Today's example: Newt Gingrich, tweeting his steadfast support for "Presideent Trtump."
In the words of the former speaker of the House, "Trtump was rermarkably stgroing in hius joint press event with" Senator Mitch McConnell held earlier Monday at the White House. 
A glowing review!
SEE ALSO: Trump and Mitch McConnell formally announce bromance in weird Rose Garden press conferenceGingrich has replaced the original tweet with a legible version.  "Sometimes my

Riddle me this: What has four arms, but also none?
Reader, it is the Hamburger Helper.
SEE ALSO: Hamburger Helper's April Fool's rap album is actually excellent
In a tweet Monday, the famous glove, rapper, and corporate feminist confirmed the anatomy of its skeletal system — solving a mystery that internet denizens have been trying to solve for days.If I must pic.twitter.com/avKPZm80CX
— Helper (@helper) October 16, 2017It all started with this inquiry from Twitter user @soongrowtire

Netflix has had a run of strong earnings over the last year, driven by better-than-expected subscriber gains and relatively consistent profit. Investors like what they see, and the company’s stock has steadily climbed, closing today at an all-time high of $202 a share. But the company has also been forced to borrow large sums to cover the ever-growing costs of its original content.The company continued its streak this past quarter, besting analyst expectations in terms of revenue and subsc

Keyssa, a startup specializing in wireless data transmission that is backed by Nest co-founder Tony Fadell, has filed a lawsuit against Android phone maker Essential, according to a report from Reuters. Keyssa has been around since 2009, and the company says it was in talks with Essential for 10 months or so to help provide the technology behind connecting Essential’s new Android handset with its planned family of accessories and smart home devices. The talks ended without an agreement, an

Microsoft has been gradually improving its Xbox One dashboard to make the experience a lot faster to use. While the original Xbox One launched with Kinect and voice controls, much of the navigation with a controller was slow and clunky. Microsoft started addressing some of those performance issues with some updates earlier this year, but today’s Xbox One dashboard goes a step further.
Microsoft is once again moving the guide so it’s ordered horizontally. You can switch between differ

Today, researchers published details of a new attack against Wi-Fi encryption, which they dubbed “Krack.” Manufacturers have known about the issue for more than a month, but it still caught much of the industry off guard; major companies are still scrambling to deploy patches before an exploit code becomes available. It’s an unusual bug — both hard to exploit and hard to fix — and it’s already stretching vendor patching systems to their limit. Here’s wha

Netflix has perfected its algorithms on me. A week ago, I was feeling dismal about my show selection, after bingeing every season of Mad Men and House of Cards. I found myself watching Lucy Liu star in Code Name: The Cleaner, a diverse yet cheesy flick where Liu doesn’t get to do much but look pretty and say sassy lines. So I started rewatching parts of the Minions movie, hoping someone had miraculously translated and subtitled King Bob’s speech from Minionese to English.But then Net

Honeywell, a multinational conglomerate founded 111 years ago that currently has 132,000 employees and a market capitalization of over $109 billion, is today announcing that it would like you to preorder its next product on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. The new product is a DIY home security system that buyers will be able to install and monitor on their own, instead of relying on professional monitoring and installation, as with past Honeywell products.
Indiegogo has been courting big brands

Google Photos has announced that it can now detect photos of your pet, automatically grouping them together the way it does with people. This means you will no longer have to type in words like “dog” or “cat,” as the algorithm will sort them for you.
Rolling out in most countries today, the new update will not only show you pets grouped alongside people, but you can label them by name, allowing for easier searches to find the perfect portrait you took of your beloved furr

Antivirus software is always a cat and mouse game, but Google is trying to make things a little easier for users by adding some antivirus features to Chrome for Windows.The biggest addition is a new option to detect if settings like the default search engine have been hijacked by a rogue extension, and automatically offer to set things back to normal. Google Chrome users on Windows will be able to enjoy a little more peace of mind
Additionally, the built-in Chrome Cleanup tool has been redesigne

We’re still two weeks out from Stranger Things’ season 2 premiere, but Netflix just released a new clip that should hit that sweet spot of dark, gooey, monster mystery until then.The new scene above is short, but it gives us a pretty good look at the murky world of The Upside Down, and what it’s like to crawl out of it. In the clip, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) sees a hole in the wall of The Upside Down and fights her way through a sticky, slimy goo until she lands back in the h

Apple has been ordered to pay $439.7 million to the patent-holding firm VirnetX for infringing on four patented technologies that were apparently used in FaceTime and other iOS apps. While this is the final judgement from the US District Court the case is being argued in, Apple tells The Verge that it plans to appeal the ruling — continuing this long-running patent battle, which began back in 2012.
VirnetX first filed suit against Apple in 2010, winning $368 million just two years later. I

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its team-based shooter Overwatch has passed the 35 million players mark. Overwatch launched in May 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Overwatch hit the 30 million player milestone in April. Blizzard’s number is for total players, not active ones. So 5 million people bought Overwatch in about the last six months. While sales aren’t moving at the insane pace they did during its first year, the milestone shows that Overwatch is sti

(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp. over whether prosecutors should get access to emails stored on company servers overseas.
The justices will hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling last year preventing federal prosecutors from obtaining emails stored in Microsoft computer servers in Dublin, Ireland in a drug trafficking investigation.
That decisi

This fall, The Verge is making a choice. The choice is fear! We’ve decided to embrace the season by taking in as many new horror movies as possible and reporting back on which ones are worth your time. We’re calling this series Hold My Hand, as we look at films you might want to watch with a supportive viewing partner. Get comfortable, put the kettle on, check the closet for ghosts, then find a hand to squeeze until the bones pop.
The horny teenagers gather in a big house in the wood

Creating an international satellite office for a growing startup can be a tough challenge. In order to get started, companies have to find talent, real estate, and deal with new employment laws, tax considerations, and all manner of other complexities.
A startup coming out of stealth today is aiming to fix that by doing much of the heavy lifting for its clients. Called Terminal, the company plans to open offices in a wide variety of tech hubs outside the U.S., complete with human resources, fina

EXCLUSIVE: Pocket Gems is launching the first major expansion for its War Dragons mobile game. Dubbed Atlas, the expansion will open up the world of the 3D real-time strategy game, which has been a top mobile game since its launch in April 2015.
San Francisco-based Pocket Gems was able to raise $90 million from China’s Tencent in May, in part because of the success of the hardcore multiplayer game War Dragons and also because of the strength of Episode, a digital storytelling app.
The Atla

The Supreme Court will review whether US law enforcement can use search warrants on emails outside the United States, in a case with massive implications for US-based megacorporations that serve countries across the world.In US v. Microsoft,federal authorities served Microsoft a warrant under the Stored Communications Act (also called a “disclosure warrant”) for the emails of a foreign citizen that were stored on servers based in Ireland. The tech company refused, and in July 2016, a

Ecommerce giant eBay has launched a previously announced service designed to combat the scourge of fake goods on the platform.
eBay has proven popular with fake goods’ sellers for some time, with fashion accessories and jewelry featuring highly on counterfeiters’ agenda. The company announced eBay Authenticate way back in January with a broad focus on giving “high-end” goods an official stamp of approval prior to sale. Ultimately designe

There’s one more event to add this to record-breaking hurricane season: a hurricane has hit Ireland, leading to the first-ever severe weather alert for the entire country.Extratropical Storm Ophelia made landfall over the weekend, killing a woman in her 20s. Ophelia was a post-tropical storm by the time it hit, but earlier in the weekend it was a Category 3 hurricane — and the easternmost Category 3 Atlantic hurricane on record. The Irish National Meteorological Service, Met É

If you didn’t manage to get your hands on an SNES Classic Edition, soon there will be another way to play 16-bit games on your HD TV. Analogue, the company best known for its high-end NES hardware crafted from a block of aluminum, has just announced that its next console will tackle the SNES. Called the Analogue Super Nt, the device is designed to play old-school cartridges at 1080p, and it’s also significantly cheaper than the company’s previous hardware. Whereas the Analogue

Women across Twitter and other social media platforms are sharing their experiences of sexual assault and harassment using the hashtag #MeToo, after actress Alyssa Milano suggested the idea in a post on Twitter last night. The outpouring of stories comes in the wake of several high-profile investigative reports from The New York Times and The New Yorker into decades of sexual assault and harassment from Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Many women quickly responded to Milano’s tweet, wh

Like most based-on-a-true-story biographical films, Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is only loosely connected to actual events. Psychology professor William Moulton Marston (played by Luke Evans in the film) did create the comic book character Wonder Woman, and he did live in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth Marston (Rebecca Hall) and their grad student Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote). Everything else in the movie, though, is up for grabs.Robinson f

(Reuters) — China’s Huawei has unveiled a new line of smartphones that match or even improve on key features offered by Apple or Samsung while undercutting their rivals on price.
Huawei aims to distinguish itself through technological advances that will put it on a level playing field with the most coveted premium-priced devices, helping to boost profitability that has been undermined by heavy discounting in the chase for market share.
Monday’s product launch in Munich introduc