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This week, Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress regarding Facebook's data leaks and basically gave the most patient tech support assistance.
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I’m happy for you, Pixel and Nexus phone users, because Google enabled wireless Android Auto for you this week. Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6P devices running Android Oreo or higher are compatible with the new feature, which automatically loads Android Auto on your car display when you get in the vehicle. You don’t need to take your phone out of your pocket or plug it in; it automatically connects over Wi-Fi.So far, the support appears to only be for de

Fait intéressant: Seulement 17% des Américains parlent plus d'une langue. Yep, according to a survey cited by Forbes, less than one fifth of Americans know a second language. And yet there are countless benefits to being bilingual, or at least able to fumble along in another dialect.
To name a few: It looks good on your resume and can help you get jobs; locals in foreign countries appreciate it when you make an effort in their own tongue; it makes you better at your own language; i

Remember the PA system that blasted messages to every room in your elementary school? Yeah, Alexa is that now. 
You can now use Amazon's voice assistant to broadcast messages to all the Echo devices in your house, and whatever unsuspecting souls happen to be near them. 
SEE ALSO: Amazon Alexa spouted conspiracy theory when asked about chemtrails
Amazon announced the new feature earlier this month, but it's finally fully rolled out, according to the company's newsletter. 
It's pret

Timothée Chalamet is definitely having a moment, making waves with both Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name — the latter of which earned him an Academy Award nominationHis next foray, Hot Summer Nights, is a coming-of-age film set in the '90s. It finds Chalamet spending the summer on Cape Code, getting mixed up in weed, falling in love, and public bathroom make outs. The film hits theaters July 27th.  Read more...More about Mashable Video, Dating, Shirtless, Relationships, and L

The drone’s engines are running, and I have 30 seconds to twist the red safety switch on top of the metal control panel, hold the blue button, and then press the green button to launch the drone. It was like playing a high-tech Bop It, and the payoff was sending a nearly seven-foot-long autonomous fix-winged aircraft zipping off its metal runway and into the sky.I’m at drone delivery startup Zipline’s new test site in California’s Central Valley to check out the new vehi

With Special Counsel Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's firings looking increasingly more likely, our great Congress is so far responding with a collective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Ah, checks and balances — we hardly knew ye!
Americans, on the other hand, are far more ready to mobilize if and when the moment comesMoveOn.org and over two dozen activist organizations from across the political spectrum have collected over 335,000 RSVPs for nationwide protests should Mueller o

Google appears to have just leaked a major feature coming to Android P, the next version of its OS. According to an image that appeared briefly on the Android Developers blog for an unrelated feature, Android P will come with support for gestured based navigation – and it’s about time. This is the image Google posted: Notice anything odd? Look at the navigation bar: Here’s what it normally looks like on a Pixel 2 running Android O (or the current Android P beta, for that

After President Trump's tweet describing former FBI director James Comey as a "slimeball," Merriam-Webster dictionary says searches for the word are up by 60,000 percent.
The president called Comey a "proven LEAKER & LIAR" in a series of tweets improperly strung together on Friday morning. 
SEE ALSO: Donald Trump's 'pee tape' controversy, explained
"He lied to Congress under OATH," Trump tweeted. "He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of

The latest bizarre piece of gossip from the video game community is the public fall of video game record holder Billy Mitchell, who today got his entries in the Guinness Book of World Records struck off thanks to being publicly exposed as a cheater. Mitchell, a.k.a. the “King of Kong,” used to hold the world record for the high scores in Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. His competition for the high score in the former is the stuff of legend — and the subject of a movie.

Just when you thought you wouldn’t hear about the monkey selfie ever again, the legal saga lives once more. Although the parties — the photographer, a self-publishing book company, and PETA, on behalf of the selfie-taking monkey — reached a settlement in September of last year, the Ninth Circuit is now refusing to dismiss the case. This means the court will be coming out with an official appellate decision about the monkey selfie.Back in 2011, nature photographer David Slater

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has received a second application to test fully driverless vehicles on public roads, and the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the applicant is Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet.Waymo is already testing fully driverless cars with no human safety driver behind the wheel on public roads in Arizona, so it doesn’t come as a huge shock that the company would be interested in performing similar tests on its home turf in Ca

Slouching at your desk isn't the only way to ruin your back and posture. If you carry a backpack, you probably know that better than most. Carrying around a laptop, lunch, chargers, thermoses, and any other stuff you think you might need on a daily basis will definitely cause some strain on your back and shoulders.
SEE ALSO: How to stay fit at a desk job: The best workout hacks and exercise devices
According to the America Association of Neurological Surgeons, an estimated 75-85 percent of Ameri

Google today announced a pair of new artificial intelligence experiments from its research division that let web users dabble in semantics and natural language processing. For Google, a company that’s primary product is a search engine that traffics mostly in text, these advances in AI are integral to its business and to its goals of making software that can understand and parse elements of human language.The website will now house any interactive AI language tools, and Google is calling

A businessman has won the first 'right to be forgotten' lawsuit against Google in the UK high court, according to the BBC.
The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is an online privacy statute that the European Court of Justice passed in 2014. It states that European citizens can petition search engine companies like Google to delist URLs from search results if the websites contain information that is inaccurate, irrelevant, and not in the public interest to keep available.
SEE ALSO: Europeans asked Goo

If you don't have a website, you might as well not exist. 
Whether it's via smartphone or desktop, more than 4 billion people in the world (over half the population) are plugged-in. That's 4 billion opportunities for people to get to know you. Better yet, they could be spending money on your services — cha-ching!
SEE ALSO: Save more than $500 on a lifetime subscription to this web hosting platform
Regardless of whether it's to promote your business or your "personal brand" (millennial

Great news! You've been invited on an important business trip with your company, and today's the first day of an amazing week.
You've had a good night's sleep, you've gotten in a few laps at the pool, and you've fueled up with La Quinta Inns & Suites™ FREE Bright Side Breakfast®.
You're hanging out in the lobby when you see your boss and the CEO of your company. They want to introduce you to a very important client—who's standing right behind them.
For a moment, nerves get th

The Simpsons' show runner Al Jean responded to backlash to Sunday's episode, in which characters implied that criticism of Apu (Hank Azaria) as a racial stereotype was overblown.
Jean teased the response he expected to Sunday's episode, entitled "No Good Read Goes Unpunished," tweeting that evening "New Simpsons in five minutes. Twitter explosion in act three."
SEE ALSO: 'The Simpsons' completely missed the mark in addressing Apu criticism
As of Friday, after many takes and exhausting debates an

It’s a good time to get into VR gaming. We’re finally starting to see some premium titles launching on PC platforms, such as Skyrim VR and L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files. In order to play them you’ll need a fairly powerful gaming rig, and if you’re in the market and on a budget, Dell’s Inspiron 5680 is definitely worth a look. This new addition to Dell’s lineup is intended reach gamers who aren’t ready (or can’t afford) to dive in to its Alienware

A filing from Apple at the Federal Communications Commission reveals images of a gold iPhone X that has yet to be released. The 180-day confidentiality period on the photos has now lapsed, offering a clear view of an iPhone X with a glass backplate featuring the same gold tone as the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus released in September. MacRumors first spotted the now-public photographs. The stainless steel sides are also a shade of gold.Leading up to last year’s iPhone event, it had been reported t

When IT came out in 1990, it terrified children and parents alike. The 2017 reboot of IT  is still keeping people on their toes. 
Twitter user @BornToBriWild's three-year-old daughter gave her a scare recently when she looked down the drain and said, "Hi Georgie." 
In IT, Georgie is a little boy who gets lured into a sewer.And gets eaten by this monstrous clown named Pennywise.So you'd understand why Bri was so scared to look at what their daughter just pointed out, considering th

In an internal memo to employees, Applethreatened severe consequences for leaking confidential company information – reminding staff that those who leak can lose their jobs, have difficult finding future employment, and even get arrested. Last year, Apple claimed to have busted 29 leakers, 12 of whom were arrested.
The memo itself was leaked, and its content was published by Bloomberg this afternoon.
Apple has always cultivated a culture of confidentially about its work, as a means of main

The upcoming, redesigned Gmail looks like it will have several new features to protect the privacy of your emails. 
One of these, according to TechCrunch, is self-destructing emails. Following the update, you'll be able to set emails you send to "expire" after a certain amount of time. That means they'll disappear from your outbox, and from the recipient's inbox. 
SEE ALSO: 'Major' Gmail update might convince you to use email again. Maybe.
You'll also be able to send emails in "Confide

With Samsung's brand constantly growing, so in turn do the options for cases to protect its flagship Galaxy lineup. 
The Samsung Galaxy S9 is a phone that "gets it exactly right" as our reviewer wrote. But it's a slippery phone, so beyond the aesthetic reasons to get a case, you should make sure it's protected. 
SEE ALSO: Capturing Barcelona with the Samsung Galaxy S9
Since the Galaxy S9 is one of the most popular phones in the world, there are hundreds cases to choose from, with a ran

Apple has had 12 employees arrested over the course of last year for leaking internal information about future software plans, according to a memo leaked (ironically) today, spotted by Bloomberg.
The company said in a strongly worded memo that it had caught 29 people who leaked information last year, and 12 of them were arrested. Those 29 people included employees, contractors, and supply chain partners. “Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple,” the memo reads, “In som

NASA may make some big changes to the first couple flights of its future deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, after getting a recent funding boost from Congress to build a new launch platform. When humans fly on the rocket for the first time in the 2020s, they might ride on a less powerful version of the vehicle than NASA had expected. If the changes move forward, it could scale down the first crewed mission into deep space in more than 45 years.
The SLS has been in development for the l

Teslais one of the more interesting companies for Wall Street that had an interesting couple of months this year — and it seems even tweets from Elon Musk, who said that the company will be profitable in the back half of the year, may be enough to swing its stock.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder sent a tweet very early this morning that the company would be profitable and cash-flow positive in the third and fourth quarter this year. Tesla is known for setting ambitious targets and foreca

This column is part of a series called "Voices of Women in Tech," created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions training the next generation.
When it comes to women in technology, there's a lot of data out there. Whether it's the fact that women still hold less than a quarter of technical roles, or the studies that show — time and again — that diversity

Over the course of an accumulated 10 hours spread out over two days of hearings, Mark Zuckerberg dodged question after question by citing the power of artificial intelligence.
Moderating hate speech? AI will fix it. Terrorist content and recruitment? AI again. Fake accounts? AI. Russian misinformation? AI. Racially discriminatory ads? AI. Security? AI.It’s not even entirely clear what Zuckerberg means by “AI” here. He repeatedly brought up how Facebook’s detection system

The blogs have activated, and they say a cheaper HomePod might be in the works. That sounds like a reasonable expectation. Apple would hopefully reduce its smart speaker’s price eventually, especially considering that it might be selling fewer than 10 HomePods a day in some retail locations. But still, Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI doesn’t think we should get excited about a cheaper option anytime soon.His most recent report says Apple could sell between 2–2.5 million HomePods this ye

Just a few days after Dell revealed its new budget oriented-gaming laptops, HP is announcing a similar line of its own. While they won’t knock your socks off regarding total specifications, they provide a solid spec sheet for their price point. Omen is HP’s brand aimed specifically at gamers, but these new products fall under the mainstream Pavilion series, with a price to match. The simply-named Pavilion Gaming Laptop starts at $799, and offers the following at that price: A 8th ge

Every year, high school seniors in South Korea take a national college entrance exam called suneung that will essentially determine the rest of their lives. This isn’t an exaggeration. Unlike the SATs, which only play a small part in college admissions, the idea of suneung is battered into students’ heads as the determining factor of how successful they’ll be in a deeply hierarchical society. That’s why it makes sense that Samsung is releasing a smartphone that can&rsquo

Apple may start iPhone 6S Plus production at a new factory in southern India to lower the model’s price, local media outlet The Economic Times reported today. It may start manufacturing in Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, in two weeks.
By setting up a local factory, Apple aims to slash Indian iPhone prices, as a response to government policies that tax foreign phones. India’s government raised tariffs on smartphones from 15 to 20 percent in February, forcing Apple to seek new

Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebookhas repeatedly cut off competitors from its feature for finding your Facebook friends on their apps… after jumpstarting its own social graph by convincing people to upload their Gmail contacts. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Download Your Information tool merely exports a text list of friends’ names you can’t use elsewhere.
As Congress considers potential regulation following Mark Zuckerberg’s testimonies, it should prioritize leveli

Barring any sort of major shakeup at Google’s mobile division, there are two things we know for sure about the next Android’s name: it will start with the letter “P” and it will be a dessert food. That already narrows things down quite a bit — you’ve got pudding, pecan pie, peanut brittle…Then, of course, there’s Popsicle — a fact the company might well be alluding to in its new Spring Wallpaper Collection. 9to5Google noted a colorful array

Googledoes a great deal of research into natural language processing and synthesis, but not every project has to be a new Assistant feature or voice improvement. The company has a little fun now and then, when the master AI permits it, and today it has posted a few web experiments that let you engage with its word-association systems in a playful way.
First is an interesting way of searching through Google Books, that fabulous database so rarely mentioned these days. Instead of just searching fo

Blood-testing startup Theranos is circling the drain, and more and more details appear to be leaking from inside the company’s final troubled days. One particularly eye-popping anecdote, courtesy of Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, revealed how one Theranos employee made a Space Invaders clone featuring a photo of Carreyrou himself as the titular alien threat, culled from his Twitter profile.Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist whose series o

It's tax season, and we all know what that means: procrastinating on doing your taxes until the very last minute. 
Look, we get it. Taxes are a complicated, convoluted process, and you shouldn't spend more time on them than you absolutely have to. 
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Luckily, a number of software tools can help you file your taxes in the span of a (longish) lunch break, and all you need is your computer, tablet, or even just your phone.&nbs

Elon Musk says Tesla relied on too many robots to build the Model 3, which is partly to blame for the delays in manufacturing the crucial mass-market electric car. In an interview with CBS Good Morning, Musk agreed with Tesla’s critics that there was over-reliance on automation and too few human assembly line workers building the Model 3.Earlier this month, Tesla announced that it had officially missed its goal of making 2,500 Model 3 vehicles a week by the end of the first financial quar

The release of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were possibly the most comforting release ever. Sure, the iPhone X's changes are insanely cool — but a huge part of Team Apple was intimidated by the thought of making the leap to such a fancy spaceship phone. (An iPhone without a home button? What is this blasphemy?)
For those still stuck with an iPhone 6 or 7 but who aren't ready to convert to the X, the iPhone 8 is the perfect middle ground. The 8 features a gorgeous glass back (compare

Coinbase announced today that it has acquired Cipher Browser, a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain that it will be using to bolster its own similar product. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
We're excited to welcome @CipherBrowser to Coinbase! https://t.co/CIqK0EtDbb
— Coinbase(@coinbase) April 13, 2018Coinbase operates a decentralized mobile browser of its own which it introduced last year called Toshi. Users could utilize Toshi as a wallet for Ether

Everybody has a different coffee order. Some people love a simple cup of black drip. Others want a shot of chocolate in a mocha latte. And, ya know, a Crystal Ball Frappuccino is a thing that exists now.
But no matter what your coffee order is, one thing is true: Coffee is expensive!
SEE ALSO: The cleanest cup of coffee: Sustainable farming meets low emissions shipping
Fortunately for those of us hoping to save some money while also getting our caffeine fix, there are a variety of high- and low-