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If you've seen it, you know it: The iPhone X has an absolutely stunning OLED display. 
But now display calibration experts at DisplayMate have put the iPhone X's screen under the scrutiny of their extensive tests, and they agree: Not only does the iPhone X top any other smartphone display out there, it's the best smartphone display ever made. 
SEE ALSO: A hands-on review of the iPhone X
According to DisplayMate, the iPhone X has the highest color accuracy of any smartphone display, the

iOS 11, the latest version of Apple’s operating system for its iPhones and iPads, is now installed on 52 percent of iOS devices, according to an update posted to Apple’s App Store support page for developers (via MacRumors).While that number may seem impressive, iOS 11 is lagging somewhat behind earlier iOS versions. Last year, iOS 10 was said to have reached 60 percent of devices (as announced by Tim Cook at Apple’s “Hello Again” Mac event on October 27th, 2016), w

Amazon yesterday announced the implementation of five new security features to its S3 web servers. Considering at least 185,000 sites run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, this is a much needed update. The primary problem addressed by the new features is lazy administrators. Over 53-percent of cloud service administrators have unintentionally exposed their company’s data to the internet. It’s scary to think the odds of your data on sites like Healthcare.gov being potentially unp

Navya, the French company behind the all-electric, self-driving ARMA shuttle buses on the streets in Las Vegas, Michigan, and Singapore, has a brand-new ride for cities looking to create fleets of driverless taxicabs.
The company just unveiled its latest electric autonomous vehicle, the Autonum Cab, at a private company event in Paris. Navya's calling the car the "world's first taxi robot," a title that competitors with public pilot programs on the road like Waymo, Uber, and Cruise would probabl

When goats aren't doing yoga and posing for Instagram, they're trying to influence OUR elections. 
On Tuesday, these elitist barnyard animals were spotted at a polling station at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.Goat the VOTE! Petting zoo at the polls at @virginia_tech #GameOnVA pic.twitter.com/nP6FOcRutG
— NextGen America (@NextGenAmerica) November 7, 2017Virginia is looking to replace Gov. Terry McAuliffe with either Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, or Ed Gillespie, the Repu

Baseball great Roy Halladay died in a plane crash near the coast of Florida Tuesday, police confirmed.
The talented pitcher, born Harry Leroy Halladay, was piloting the plane over the Gulf of Mexico when it crashed, according to ESPN.We are saddened by the tragic news that Roy Halladay, 2-time Cy Young Award winner & 8-time All-Star, has died in a plane crash. He was 40pic.twitter.com/SOFv3bOLyt
— MLB (@MLB) November 7, 2017Halladay was one of the game's top pitchers during his playing

Facebook recently tried out a new algorithm that elevated comments with the word ‘fake’ in it in an effort to weed out fake news. Users were not pleased. The test, which has already finished, was the social network’s latest attempt to fight fake news, and resulted in users being more annoyed than impressed. But it’s important to notice that Facebook is sticking to its word and continues to search for ways to eliminate fake news from the social network once and for all. @

Snap says it's going to pay top creators, similarly to how YouTube incentivizes people to create videos in exchange for ad revenue. In prepared quarterly remarks, CEO Evan Spiegel said the company had "neglected the creator community on Snapchat that creates and distributes public Stories for the broader Snapchat audience."Over the next year, he said the service would build out more distribution and monetization options. He said the company might make professional tools available, and generally,

Bloomberg is reporting that Taylor Swift’s fifth album, Reputation, won’t be available on any streaming services for at least a week after going on sale.According to the report, major services are “still negotiating” with Swift and her team to figure out when the album will be available. At the moment, it looks like the only way to listen to Reputation when it is released on Friday, November 10th will be to buy it — either online, or accompanied by a bonkers-looking

Just when Twitter expanding to 280 characters from its longtime 140-character limit seemed like an earth-shattering decision, a couple hackers blew the limit out of the water.
Over the weekend, a German-based account @Timrasett, along with the account @HackneyYT who was tagged on the tweet, hacked the not-so micro-blogging platform to post a tweet with a whopping 30,396-characters. 
SEE ALSO: Twitter makes 280 characters the new normal
It's since been deleted, but the Internet Archive has p

Snap Inc. had a pretty abysmal past few months, reporting today that its fiscal third quarter 2017 earnings came in under Wall Street expectations. The news sent its stock plummeting nearly 20 percent. Packaged in its statement was a tiny nugget of news regarding the company’s Spectacles, the camera-equipped sunglasses it sells both online and in pop-up vending machines around the world. Snap says it lost nearly $40 million on the device, “primarily related to excess inventory reserv

For every moment we believe we're doing quite well in our professional endeavors, there's a talented kid showing us we could do a lot better.
A young entrepreneur, named Madison Greenspan, and a group of exceptional young people broke the Guinness World Record for making the most amount of slime at the same time, Saturday. They produced approximately 13,820 pounds of purple slime.
SEE ALSO: How to Make Your Own Internet-Friendly SlimeAccording to NY 1, the kids made pounds and pounds of slime us

In today’s earnings letter to Snap investors, CEO Evan Spiegel revealed that Snapchat is working on a significant overhaul of its app. “One thing we have heard over the years is that Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use, and our team has been working on responding to this feedback.” He confirms that a redesigned, easier-to-use Snapchat is coming.
And it sounds like whatever’s on the way is far bigger than just some minor user experience tweaks. Spiegel says

Before Overwatch League's first season has even had a chance to begin, one team has already fired one of its staff members over allegations that he sexually assaulted a Twitch streamer.
SEE ALSO: 'StarCraft' player appears to drunkenly harass woman on stream, gets banned
The San Francisco Shock fired team manager Maxwell Bateman after he was accused of sexual assault by Twitch streamer Krystlin, team owner Andy Miller announced via Twitter today.In accordance with NRG ESports zero tolerance poli

Snap published its third quarter earnings report as a public company this afternoon. This first two did not go well, and the third was no better. The company missed investors’ expectations in terms of revenue and user growth, and the share price plunged over 15 percent in after-hours trading.The company brought in $207 million in revenue for the third quarter, up 62 percent over the same period last year. But its losses expanded much faster: Snap lost $443 million in the third quarter, nea

United flight 747 made history Tuesday morning. 
The flight from San Francisco to Honolulu was the final flight on the airline's last Boeing 747 aircraft. It all came fill circle after the first commercial flight departed on the same route on June 23, 1970 — 47 years ago.
SEE ALSO: Today marks the last flight 666 bound for HEL on Friday the 13th. Would you take it?
This wasn't just any old takeoff — it was an homage to the '70s with the flight crew decked out in original uniform

New York MTA employees are getting 230 iPhone 6S models that they’ll use to help keep riders informed about train disruptions, according to the New York Daily News. Only one line of the city’s 27 lines (the E train line) is getting the smartphones for now. Ninety phones will go to conductors, while 140 will be distributed to platform controllers.
New York’s subway system is notorious for delays of late, especially at peak commute times. Now with the iPhones, each conductor or p

Snap really isn't looking so hot to Wall Street, and so they're making some radical changes. 
"One thing that we have heard over the years is that Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use, and our team has been working on responding to this feedback. As a result, we are currently redesigning our application to make it easier to use," Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said in a statement Tuesday. 
SEE ALSO: Snapchat's next trick could be adding facial recognition to Bitmoji
Snap stock fel

Apple's AirDrop might finally get some competition from Google.
The search giant is reportedly working on a new file manager app called "Files Go" for Android with a wireless transfer feature that could compete with Apple's AirDrop, according to 9to5Google.
SEE ALSO: We're finally going to explain Airdrop to you, so listen up
The report says the "smart storage manager" app is available on the Google Play Store in select developing markets, but you won't be able to download it. It's part of Googl

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I cannot put it in 280 characters more plainly than that.
Giving every single Twitter user 280 characters to blather on is a big mistake, and like many, I blame millennials for this change.
SEE ALSO: Why Twitter's 30 mil

Watching Hulu's Difficult People, you may notice that there are a load of jokes about Kevin Spacey. 
Without context, these jokes may seem like a fun gag, but now with multiple sexual misconduct allegations coming to light, it's hard to comprehend how all of this was hiding in plain sight. Spacey has denied the allegations.
The show, which stars Julie Klausner as Julie Kessler and Billy Eichner as Billy Epstein, features a trove of jokes pertaining Spacey, from the actor liking younger men

Last week, as Facebook testified before Congress about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, committees released the first batch of Kremlin-linked ads that ran on the platform. They were much weirder than anyone expected. There was plenty of straightforward political button-pushing, of course — the groups put forth both faux-Black Lives Matter and gun rights campaigns — but some of the ads were harder to explain. One ad put forward a Speedo-clad Bernie Sanders, lifted from a real-li

After growing media pressure, Disney lifted its media blackout of the Los Angeles Times, which had barred movie critics at the publication from attending press screenings of its movies. Disney originally blacklisted the newspaper after it published an investigation of the entertainment giant’s business ties to the city of Anaheim, which Disney called “unfair.”In response, writers, film critic associations, and publications like The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, the National S

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Hey, aspiring Google or Microsoft engineers: how does adding a real, working Spotify clone to your portfolio sound?
Up your HTML, JavaScript, and PHP skills while creating your own music streaming service from scratch. This online course is the ultimate guide for aspiring software engineers and web developers (or super bored people looking to learn a new skill). The step-by-step curriculum take

After testing a new 280-character limit a couple of months ago, Twitter is rolling out the new limit to everyone, starting today. Twitter says you shouldn’t expect to see an apocalyptic flood of massive tweets now, though. According to its data, the number of tweets with a higher-than-average character count was small after the initial novelty wore off. In fact, only 5 percent of tweets sent by testers were longer than 140 characters. According to Twitter’s Product Manager Aliza Ros

It turns out 140 characters isn't really enough after all. 
After a little more than a month of testing, Twitter is ready to officially flip the switch on its new 280-character limit. Beginning today, anyone (save for Twitter's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean-speaking users*) can cram a full paragraph's worth of characters into a single tweet.
SEE ALSO: 19 times Chrissy Teigen got hilariously angry with stuff on Twitter
The update, which will roll out across the service on Tuesday, up-ends wh

While Stranger Things became a pop culture phenomenon that seemingly came out of nowhere, or maybe the Upside Down, it still had many moments worth mocking.  
Screen Junkies uploaded an Honest Trailer for Stranger Things Tuesday, and it rightfully ridicules some of the shows obvious influences like Steven Spielberg movies from the '80s and Stephen King adapted novels. Don't worry if you're slow to binge the new season, the video only spoils Season 1.
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In most of the world, the iconic 140-character tweet is now officially a thing of the past. Twitter said today that after a global test, 280-character tweets will roll out to users around the world. Longer tweets will now be the standard in every language where Twitter is available save for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where the 140-character limit will still apply. (The company says Asian languages fit more thoughts into fewer characters; the average length of a tweet in Japanese is 15 charac

Blizzard knew two things going in with Moira: She needed to be a healer, and she needed to be a villain.
"If you look at the roster for Overwatch, it has these amazing heroes but not really a whole lot of villains," Blizzard designer Scott Mercer said in a post-BlizzCon interview.
SEE ALSO: Blizzard made a Blizzard-themed theme park for the newest 'Overwatch' map
"I think to really tell a lot of great stories, it's not just about the heroes. You need to have these great villains for them to face

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Ever wanted to know what it was like for Ariel to dance to music under the sea in The Little Mermaid? These waterproof headphones could help you do just that, minus the hot crustacean band.
SEE ALSO: Annoy your coworkers with this under-the-desk elliptical machine
The Swimbuds are completely waterproof so you can keep the music going while you're taking a swim. It also comes with a waterproof 8

Google's latest software update for its Pixel 2 XL phones is innocuous on the surface, but it should alleviate some of the recently reported issues with the device's OLED screen. 
A large number of Pixel 2 XL owners say they're experiencing significant "burn-in" issues — which leaves visible image residue on the screen after an image is shown for too long — as well as discoloration issues on their Pixel 2 XL phones. 
SEE ALSO: What the inside of Google's Pixel 2 XL looks li

Got a brand new iPhone X, or perhaps fantasizing about becoming rich and buying one?
First thing you'll want to do is load it up with some apps that play nice with the device's notch. 
SEE ALSO: A hands-on review of the iPhone X
Apps that haven't been optimized for the iPhone X will often look like crap — Gmail, for example, ignores the screen's height and just places huge black bars on top and bottom. 
Apple's App Store now has a "Looks great on the iPhone X" section, but the li

Things just keep getting worse for Blue Apron.
After reporting yet another disappointing set of earnings last week, the company is now saying that a move from one New Jersey fulfillment center to another is incurring “unexpected costs."
That was the last straw for many investors, who sent the company's stock careening to new lows on Tuesday. 
Here's the Blue Apron's stock chart since going public at the end of June.Image:google financeBlue Apron chief financial officer Brad Dickerson

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Sitting still at a desk for eight hours a day? The worst. There's got to be a way to keep your legs busy without getting up and taking a walk around the office every ten minutes, right?
Well, if you're cool with the possibility of annoying the crap out of neighboring coworkers, this under-desk elliptical on Amazon could be your solution to feeling antsy — and could burn some calories whil

A year after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, there is one thing we know for sure: nothing will stop his tweets (except maybe the occasional customer support employee).
And, according to data from the Trump Twitter Archive, his tweeting habit is getting worse.
SEE ALSO: The internet alerts the White House day care that Trump is tweeting again
As of Sunday, Trump had tweeted a staggering 2,444 times since election day in 2016. Since July, when we last checked on his Twitte

Apple made a big deal of its Venmo-like payment service in iOS 11, but it’s been kind of slow actually rolling out the feature. Fret no more, early adopters: Apple Pay Cash is now available in public iOS 11.2 beta 2. Once you open up iMessage, you’ll be able to tap on the apps button and then select Apple Pay. From there you’ll be able to input the amount you want to pay or request.  Both you and the recipient will need to have the beta installed for it to work, but other

Women earn less than men. They invest less than men. They end up in college majors that lead to jobs with lower salaries. 
And it all starts with their parents' college funds. 
Two studies recently found that parents save less for their daughters' college educations than they do for their sons'. As highlighted in a Wall Street Journal story, a study by T. Rowe Price examined families who had all boys and families who had all girls. 
SEE ALSO: Latina Equal Pay Day is in November, a

Israeli company Corephotonics filed a lawsuit against Apple yesterday, just as Apple was awarded $120 million by the Supreme Court after a prolonged battle with Samsung. Corephotonics, a maker of dual lens camera technology, claims that the cameras featured in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus infringe on four of its patents.The Israeli company was founded in 2012 by Dr. David Medlovic, a Tel Aviv University professor and former chief scientist in the Israeli government. Corephotonics claims i

Can you imagine being this enthusiastic?
In this cute clip, a vivacious little 6 year old shows off her impeccable two-step dance moves while singing along to her favorite gospel song, "Old Church Choir" by Zach Williams.
Not only is she the most adorable little dancer we've seen in a while, she confidently stands out from the rest of her classmates and completely steals the show. 
Nothing's going to steal her joy. Read more...
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Who says that you have to turn up the water to have a better shower? Rua is a Kickstarter campaign that wants to deliver you a fuller shower and take up less water doing it.
Unlike traditional showerheads that are large circular hoses, Rua is uniquely designed as a geometric ring that can apparently deliver a wider shower with more even coverage across your body, according to the campaign page.

There are some great news for LEGO lovers. The iconic plastic construction toys company is relaunching one of their biggest sets, the Taj Mahal, after nearly a decade.
SEE ALSO: The new Lego House is inviting one lucky family to stay overnight
This is super exciting for those of you who appreciate beautiful architecture as this set is pretty much identical to the real thing located in India.
 Image:Lego
Taj Mahal from the Yamuna River, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.Image:Quynh Anh Nguyen/getty

Facebook is testing a new preemptive revenge porn defense in Australia that may, at first blush, feel counterproductive: uploading your nude photos or videos directly to Messenger. According to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Facebook has partnered with the office of the Australian government’s e-Safety Commissioner, which works primarily to prevent the online abuse of minors, to develop the new system for combating the nonconsensual sharing of explicit media.By uploading the image