NASA-inspired Smartglasses Turn Dark Whenever You Lose Focus | Digital Trends

Struggle to concentrate? Wellness company Narbis has developed pair of smartglasses intended to discourage distraction by visibly darkening when your mind wanders from the task you should be focused on. Here's how you can get your hands on a pair in the very near future.
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WhatsApp now supports fingerprint lock on Android

Today, WhatsApp announced it officially supports fingerprint lock on Android devices.
Read more: https://www.androidauthority.com/whatsapp-fingerprint-lock-1049140/?source=Snapzu

Scientists plan a new orbiter mission to Pluto

Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will orbit the mysterious world.
Read more: http://astronomy.com/magazine/2019/10/return-to-pluto?source=Snapzu

Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Dorsey Says

The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/technology/twitter-political-ads-ban.html?source=Snapzu

Tesla’s solar-roof sales will grow ‘like kelp on steroids,’ Musk vows

A brand-new Tesla may be coming soon to your neighborhood. But it could be on top of your neighbors’ home, not parked in their driveway. Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.10% Chief Executive Elon Musk on Friday unveiled the electric-car company’s new solar-paneled roofs and said he expects to be fitting more than 1,000 a week within short order.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-solar-roof-sales-will-grow-like-kelp-on-steroids-musk-vows-2019-10-27?source=Snapzu

Opinion: Automation is likely to eliminate nearly half our jobs in the next 25 years. Here's what to do

A recent study from Oxford University estimated that as many as 47% of the jobs in developed nations will vanish in the next 25 years as a result of automation. These losses will be in both white- and blue-collar jobs. As a nation, we are completely unprepared for the upheaval this will create.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/opinion-automation-is-likely-to-eliminate-40-of-jobs-in-the-next-25-years-heres-what-we-can-do-a?source=Snapzu

New AI Deep Learning Model Allows Earlier, More Accurate Ozone Warnings

Researchers from the University of Houston have developed an artificial intelligence-based ozone forecasting system, which would allow local areas to predict ozone levels 24 hours in advance. That would improve health alerts for people at heightened risk of developing problems because of high ozone levels.
Read more: http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2019/october-2019/10292019-choi-ozone.php?source=Snapzu

Nationals rally past Astros in Game 7 to win first World Series

The Washington Nationals rallied in the seventh inning of Game 7 to defeat the Houston Astros 6-2 and capture their first World Series championship in franchise history.
Read more: https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/nationals-rally-past-astros-game-7-win-first-world-series/?source=Snapzu

Formula 1 rule changes: The Secret Aerodynamicist

Wakey, wakey - it's time to find out the shape of Formula 1's future, and just how exciting it all is.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/50222105?source=Snapzu

Billionaire activist Bill Ackman says WeWork has a 'high probability' of being worth zero

While speaking at the Robin Hood Investors Conference on Tuesday, the billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman said SoftBank might have to write off its entire investment in WeWork, according to the Financial Times. "I think WeWork has a pretty high probability of being a zero for the equity, as well as for the debt," Ackman said, according to the newspaper.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-could-be-worth-zero-activist-investor-bill-ackman-says-2019-10?source=Snapzu

Epstein family pathologist says financier's body shows signs of homicide

A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother to look into his suicide said on Wednesday that the convicted sex offender's body showed a number of signs o
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/468071-pathologist-epstein-body-shows-signs-of-homicide?source=Snapzu

Amazon makes grocery delivery free for Prime members

Amazon is eliminating its fee for grocery delivery in the United States as competition heats up in the rapidly expanding food delivery business. Before today, Amazon charged Prime members a $14.99 monthly subscription fee for its Amazon Fresh online grocery delivery service. Two-hour Whole Foods deliveries were free for many Prime customers through Amazon's Prime Now delivery app.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/business/amazon-fresh-grocery-delivery-free/index.html?source=Snapzu

New Mac Pro Receives FCC Approval Ahead of Launch

Apple's new Mac Pro has received FCC approval today ahead of its release later this year. Apple's website still says the new ‌Mac Pro‌ is "coming this fall," but FCC approval could signal an imminent announcement. The all-new ‌‌Mac Pro‌‌ is a powerhouse, with up to 28-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 1.5TB of ECC RAM, up to 4TB of SSD storage, and up to AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics with 64GB of HBM2 memory. The computer also has eight PCIe expansion slots for maximum performance, expansion, and configurability.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/30/2019-mac-pro-fcc-approval/?source=Snapzu

Facebook highlights AI that converts 2D objects into 3D shapes

In a blog post and papers, Facebook highlights a pair of AI models that can convert 2D objects into 3D shapes with high accuracy.
Read more: https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/29/facebook-highlights-ai-that-converts-2d-objects-into-3d-shapes/?source=Snapzu

Risks of cannabis use for mental health treatment outweigh benefits

New study shows evidence of positive outcomes is scarce while symptoms can be The use of cannabis medicines to treat people with depression, anxiety, psychosis or other mental health issues cannot be justified because there is little evidence that they work or are safe, according to a major new study.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/28/risks-of-cannabis-use-for-mental-health-treatment-outweigh-benefits?source=Snapzu

WhatsApp's Case Against Alleged Hackers Might Be an Uphill Battle

The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-nso-group-lawsuit/?source=Snapzu

Apple Shares Photos of AirPods Pro Launch in Stores Around the World

Apple's new AirPods Pro wireless earphones have begun launching around the world today. To celebrate, the company shared a few images of customers trying on the ‌AirPods Pro‌ for the first time at Apple retail stores in Shanghai and Tokyo.‌ AirPods Pro‌ feature active noise cancellation, IPX4 water and sweat resistance, H1 chip with "Hey Siri" support, and a new in-ear design that supports silicone tips in three different sizes. All of these upgrades have increased the price of the ‌AirPods Pro‌ to $249.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/30/airpods-pro-launch-around-world/?source=Snapzu

‘Friends Talking Faith’ co-host Rev. Bryan Fulwider, accused of child rape, commits suicide

Well-known pastor Bryan Fulwider, a co-host of the currently suspended “Friends Talking Faith,” has killed himself in the wake of child-rape allegations, police in Florida said.
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-bryan-fulwider-faith-accused-rape-girl-suicide-20191029-qosubn7scjcgvejzxqemckaaqm-story.html?source=Snapzu

Facebook Employees Have Launched Their First Major Protest Against Mark Zuckerberg

As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment?
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyznxm/facebook-employees-have-launched-their-first-major-protest-against-mark-zuckerberg?source=Snapzu

'Friday' Actor John Witherspoon Dead at 77

Witherspoon's family confirmed the news.
Read more: https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/10/john-witherspoon-dead-at-77?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk offers discounted solar panels and batteries after California blackouts

Tesla is offering a discount on solar panels and batteries to people who are affected by wildfire power outages, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted today. More than 2 million people across California have been affected by power outages since October 25th as utility companies try to prevent their power lines from sparking new blazes. A fire just north of San Francisco has already consumed more than 66,000 acres and is only 5 percent under control.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/28/20937049/elon-musk-tesla-solar-panels-batteries-california-blackouts-fire?source=Snapzu

Amazon Turns to More Free Grocery Delivery to Lift Food Sales

Amazon has yet to find the key to unlocking huge grocery sales. Now, the company is trying a new tack: free delivery for more people. On Tuesday the company announced free two-hour grocery delivery for Prime members in more than 20 major metropolitan areas. The changes eliminate what had been a monthly $14.99 fee for people shopping on Amazon Fresh, its online grocery service that delivers milk, eggs, seafood and other perishable products from its warehouses.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/technology/amazon-prime-fresh-whole-foods-grocery-delivery.html?partner=IFTTT?source=Snapzu

Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows

Eating healthy food is almost always also best for the environment, according to the most sophisticated analysis to date. The researchers said poor diets threaten society by seriously harming people and the planet, but the latest research can inform better choices.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/28/healthy-diet-means-a-healthy-planet-study-shows?source=Snapzu

The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles

The network of clear streams comprising California’s Strawberry Creek run down the side of a steep, rocky mountain in a national forest two hours east of Los Angeles. Last year Nestlé siphoned 45m gallons of pristine spring water from the creek and bottled it under the Arrowhead Water label.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles?source=Snapzu

Sexy witch. Sexy nurse. Sexy Mr. Rogers? Inside the sexy Halloween costume industrial complex.

Four weeks before Halloween, Dominique Fiacco tried on the costume that its creators hope to turn into one of the holiday’s hottest and stepped in front of the camera in a small photography studio.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/inside-the-sexy-halloween-costume-industrial-complex/2019/10/25/7184c23a-eacd-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html?source=Snapzu

Masterpiece found in French kitchen fetches €24m

The painting was found hanging above a hotplate in an elderly woman's home in northern France.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50201691?source=Snapzu

Spotify is profitable once again as it cuts costs and adds cheaper plans

Spotify announced today that it beat expectations for third-quarter revenue and posted an operating profit of €54 million (about $60 million). This marks the third time in its history that the company has turned a profit, but one of those profits was the result of a tax windfall in 2018 that pushed it into the black.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/28/20936612/spotify-q3-earnings-cheaper-plans-profitable-costs-cuts?source=Snapzu

Netflix tests speed-binge feature, draws Hollywood outrage: 'Spectacularly bad idea'

What if you could watch every episode of Breaking Bad and Stranger Things 50 percent faster? That’s a feature that Netflix is quietly testing, and it’s quickly drawn a big backlash from Hollywood creatives.
Read more: https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/28/netflix-speed-binge/?source=Snapzu

Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

Alphabet, Google’s parent, said its profits fell after a sharp increase in spending for research and development.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/google-challenges-results.html?source=Snapzu

WiFi Is Illegal in This American Town. (And Yes, People Actually Live There.)

In order to do its important research, the Green Bank Observatory needs electromagnetic silence. Is that even possible anymore?
Read more: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a29589714/town-wifi-illegal/?source=Snapzu

How a simple ‘hello’ became the first message sent via the Internet

No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind. Just months after the first manned moon landing, the ARPANET, granddaddy to the World Wide Web, was brought to life with a rather inauspicious first communication: the letters “L” and “O.” UCLA grad student Charley Kline had been trying to type “LOGIN,”
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/internet-got-started-simple-hello?source=Snapzu

Facebook’s new political-ad policy already showing cracks, loopholes

If you create a system, someone will try to game it—that's true of everything from Candyland to the tax code. And so we should not be terribly surprised that Facebook—which is desperately trying to create some kind of coherent system for political advertising and speech as the United States careens headlong into the 2020 election season—already has players pushing to exploit loopholes in its policy.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/facebooks-new-political-ad-policy-already-showing-cracks-loopholes/?source=Snapzu

Facebook’s embrace of Breitbart doesn’t add up

Trying to build trust with one hand, and chipping away at it with the other. If you missed the first-ever Interface Live last week, I hope you’ll consider come seeing me this week! I’ll be talking with Clara Tsao, a researcher and entrepreneur who focuses on disinformation and platforms, at a free event in San Francisco. It’s on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., and I would love to see you there. The event is free, and you can RSVP here.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/10/29/20936441/facebook-news-breitbart-mosseri-trust-political-ads?source=Snapzu

iPhone 11 beating expectations in LCD sales – supply chain

We’ve heard a number of reports of the iPhone 11 beating expectations in terms of early sales. A new supply-chain report today backs the idea that it’s the base model that is leading the way. That always seemed a likely bet, with the LCD model arguably offering the best bang for the buck, and relatively few reasons to opt for the more expensive Pro model …
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/29/iphone-11-beating-expectations/?source=Snapzu

Brown: California fires show 'the horror' world will face from climate change

As Californians suffer widespread power outages and mass evacuations due to wildfire dangers, former Gov. Jerry Brown is warning that the dark scenario may be “only the beginning” for Americans across the country — unless officials in Washington seriously tackle the issue of climate change.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/10/28/brown-california-fires-show-the-horror-world-will-face-from-climate-change-1226036?source=Snapzu

Facebook takes down fake political ad meant to test its fact checking

It highlighted Facebook's reluctance to fact-check politicians.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/27/facebook-takes-down-fake-lindsey-graham-ad/?source=Snapzu

Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification

What could possibly go wrong?
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/australia-wants-to-use-face-recognition-for-porn-age-verification/?source=Snapzu

Tiger Woods ties record for most PGA Tour titles with 82nd win in Japan

Tiger Woods won his 82nd career win, tying the legendary Sam Snead.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/27/golf/tiger-woods-pga-title/index.html?source=Snapzu

Super-rich fuelling growing demand for private jets, report finds

Almost 8,000 new private jets are expected to be bought by multinational companies and the super-rich over the next decade, each of which will burn 40 times as much carbon per passenger as regular commercial flights, according to a report by aviation firm Honeywell Aerospace.
Read more: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/27/super-rich-fuelling-growing-demand-for-private-jets-report-finds?source=Snapzu

Musician appeals for help after leaving 18th-century violin on train

Stephen Morris forgot to pick up £250,000 Tecchler violin when he got off train in London
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/28/musician-asks-public-for-help-after-leaving-c18th-violin-on-train?source=Snapzu

How Aldous Huxley prophesied the Big Data nightmare

In 1958 the journalist Mike Wallace interviewed Aldous Huxley, the British author best known for writing "Brave New World." This dystopian sci-fi novel, published in 1932, takes place in the fictional and future World State society, where human beings are produced in laboratories and assigned to different classes based on their intelligence and physical gifts.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2019/10/27/how-aldous-huxley-prophesied-the-big-data-nightmare/?source=Snapzu

'The Best Part Of The First Amendment': Dave Chappelle Accepts Mark Twain Prize

Sarah Silverman, Tiffany Haddish and Jon Stewart were among the comedians who honored Chappelle as he received the annual American humor award in a music-filled ceremony at the Kennedy Center.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/773979675/the-best-part-of-the-first-amendment-dave-chappelle-accepts-mark-twain-prize?source=Snapzu

Here’s Why We Eat More When We’re With Friends And Family

Going home from dinner out with a friend or a Sunday family lunch, you may notice you feel slightly more full than you normally do after eating. And while some of this may have to do with how many potatoes your mum insists you eat, new research seems to suggest that there could be something else going on. Researchers analysing dozens of past studies on the “social facilitation” of eating have confirmed that people do tend to eat more when eating in groups than alone — and have come up with several social and psychological mechanisms that could explain our increase in consumption in company.
Read more: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/10/28/heres-why-we-eat-more-when-were-with-friends-and-family/?source=Snapzu

Ingenious solution saves birds from flying into glass windows

Dozens of rainbow lorikeets have been flying into large glass windows at a Queensland university — some dying on impact — but a unique style of curtain has come to the rescue.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/the-curtain-saving-birds-from-hitting-glass-windows/11638774?source=Snapzu

Argentina Imposes Draconian Capital Controls As Peronists Return To Power After Macri Defeat

It's time for Paul Singer to start buying up Argentina bonds again, and confiscating ships again.
Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/argentina-imposes-draconian-capital-controls-peronists-return-power-after-macri-defeat?source=Snapzu

Quantum computing’s ‘Hello World’ moment

Does quantum computing really exist? It’s fitting that for decades this field has been haunted by the fundamental uncertainty of whether it would, eventually, prove to be a wild goose chase. But Google has collapsed this nagging superposition with research not just demonstrating what’s called “quantum supremacy,” but more importantly showing that this also is only the very beginning of what quantum computers will eventually be capable of.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/26/quantum-computings-hello-world-moment/?source=Snapzu

Digitimes: 2020 iPhone to feature 120Hz high refresh rate 'ProMotion' display - 9to5Mac

As iPhone 11 season continues, rumors begin to pick up about what is in store for the 2020 iPhone. Many are expecting significant design changes after three years of the same iPhone X series chassis (perhaps with a more squared off design reminiscent of the iPhone 4).
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/28/digitimes-2020-iphone-to-feature-120hz-high-refresh-rate-promotion-display/?source=Snapzu

Apple's $399 'iPhone SE 2' launches in March 2020

In research materials seen by AppleInsider, regularly reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is claiming that Apple will begin mass production of what's referred to as the "iPhone SE 2" in January. It's not know what the model's name will be, but Kuo says that it will launched at the end of March.
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/28/apples-399-iphone-se-2-launches-in-march-2020?source=Snapzu

NASA's collaborating with Caterpillar on Moon mining machines

"There are many synergies between what NASA needs to meet exploration goals and Caterpillar technologies used every day on Earth."
Read more: https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-caterpillar-moon-mining-machines?source=Snapzu

Apple Is Patenting an Autonomous Navigation System That Learns

Apple's semi-secret automotive project, code-named Project Titan, might have been canceled earlier this year. Apple acknowledged in January that it had moved employees away from its autonomous-car project but said that it is still working on "autonomous systems and associated technologies."
Read more: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29597755/apple-patent-self-driving-autonomous-navigation/?source=Snapzu