Google Maps is overrun with fake business listings and phone numbers that reroute to competing businesses, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Amazon Music might be coming to a TV near you soon. Comcast is bringing the music streaming service to Xfinity X1 over the next few weeks. It says it’s the first time you’ll be able to access Amazon Music on a TV via a pay-TV provider.

Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/20/comcast-amazon-music-xfinity-x1-flex/

Netflix’s Hack Days tend to produce at least one or two genuinely practical ideas, and that’s certainly true for its 2019 efforts.

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So picture this: You’re a receptionist at, say, a hotel. Someone walks in and says they found a lost wallet but they’re in a hurry. They hand it to you. What would you do? And would that answer be different if it was empty or full of cash?

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Apple is recalling some older generation 15-inch MacBook Pros over a battery risk, the company announced Thursday. MacBook Pro, not the recent models that have USB-C or Touch Bar. Apple says that other MacBooks, including the 13-inch Pro from the same time period, are not at risk.

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Apple has added a warning in iOS 13 beta 2 that appears when you try to uninstall an app which still has an active subscription. “Do you want to keep the subscription for this app?” the message reads, before giving you a link to manage your Apple ID subscriptions.

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Microsoft is considering adding a dedicated Office key to keyboards. The additional key would provide additional keyboard shortcuts for Office apps, including the ability to quickly share documents and files.

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Apple seemingly left one new, upcoming tvOS feature out of the company’s WWDC keynote earlier this month: picture-in-picture.

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Suzanne Collins is bringing back The Hunger Games, with the author announcing a new prequel novel that takes place 64 years before the events of the first book in the series, set for release on May 19th, 2020. The time period isn’t one we know much about from Collins’ existing trilogy.

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For humans, it’s easy to tell how an object will feel by looking at it or tell what an object looks like by touching it, but this can be a big challenge for machines. Now, a new robot developed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is attempting to do just that.

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Target can’t quite escape its technical woes, apparently. The retail giant’s registers suffered a roughly two-hour nationwide outage in mid-day on June 15th, preventing customers from making purchases (including in self-checkout lines) right before Father’s Day.

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How many markers do I need in my collection? Sorry, Copic fans, there is no clear cut answer for this.  But I can share my common sense approach on how to start your collection.

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So you want to get into Copic art markers? Well, this beginner’s guide is a great place to start! You’ve probably drew with Crayola markers before but now it’s time to join the big leagues. Here’s a list of what’s covered in this guide.

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Enter for a chance to win a FREE Luxury Accessory Kit. The Hanger Project + Goulet Pens have partnered together to offer this amazing prize that contains over $2,000 of rare and essential accessories that every true gentleman needs. This kit includes: Visconti Homo Sapiens Fountain Pen Visconti 40ml Bottled Ink Visconti Travel Inkwell Frank Clegg Alligator Pen Case Hanger Project Ebony Double-Sided Garment Brush Maglia Francesco Imperial Cotton Travel Umbrella $250 Hanger Project Gift Certificate

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British mobile-only bank Monzo is making its way across the pond to the US today. Valued at more than $1 billion, Monzo has gradually been growing its customer base in the UK and recently hit 2.2 million customers.

Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/13/18677298/monzo-bank-us-launch-date-availability

Apple shook up the world of logins last week, offering a new single sign-on (or SSO) tool aimed at collecting and sharing as little data as possible. It was a deliberate shot at Facebook and Google, which currently operate the two major SSO services.

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Samsung still has the consumer tech world waiting to see if the company will actually make good on its ambitious plan to launch a foldable smartphone, something it had planned to do on April 26 and scuttled at the last minute because of a slew of problems that showed up in review units.

Continue Reading . . . https://bgr.com/2019/06/11/new-samsung-phone-design-patent-rollable/

I get asked every day about the tools I use to make my art. I don’t mind sharing, its just hard to keep up with the demand and reply to every person who asks, “what pen is that?” So I made this page to make it easy to share with others.

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Health organizations recommend children receive the varicella vaccine at one year old to protect them against chickenpox, but the vaccine appears to have another benefit: it cuts the risk of shingles, a painful and potentially debilitating rash caused by the reactivated chickenpox virus, by more tha

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