January 28, 2021

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Netflix finally adds ‘Shuffle Play’ button after smashing 200 million subscribers 1 min read

Netflix finally adds ‘Shuffle Play’ button after smashing 200 million subscribers

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Netflix is the market leader when it comes to streaming services (Photo by Olly Curtis/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Netflix has just hit a major milestone as it confirmed it now has over 200 million subscribers to its service around the world.

And, to celebrate, it seems to be finally making the ‘Shuffle Play’ option official.

The option of just launching a random Netflix show or movie has been talked about for a while but now it appears some users have access to the feature.

It appears either as an option in the side bar or underneath the profile pictures on the account when you choose who’s watching.

‘Our members can basically indicate to us that they just want to skip browsing entirely, click one button, and we’ll pick a title for them just to instantly play,’ explained Netflix COO and chief product officer Greg Peters, during a call … Read the rest

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Find the best MacBook for the classroom 1 min read

Find the best MacBook for the classroom

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Whether you’re still in high school or the middle of college, a laptop is an essential piece of equipment for every student. Apple makes some of the best laptops in the world with its MacBook lineup. Whether it’s the powerful MacBook Pro or hyper-portable MacBook Air, Apple’s laptops will power you through any task you’ll meet. For most students, the MacBook Air (M1,2020) is the best choice. It has enough power to face almost any academic challenge you come up against. There are other MacBooks to consider, depending on your situation, as you can see below.

Best Overall: MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

In mid-2020, Cupertino announced Apple silicon. Six months later, the first non-Intel-based MacBooks in over a decade arrived, starting with the MacBook Air (M1, 2020). The best MacBook for students this year, the latest MacBook Air packs a punch for anyone on a smaller budget, starting with

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Early Galaxy S21 Ultra battery life test offers promising results 1 min read

Early Galaxy S21 Ultra battery life test offers promising results

Adiantku 7 days ago

  • An early battery comparison between the Galaxy S21 Ultra, iPhone 12 Max, S20 Ultra, OnePlus 8 Pro, and Xiaomi Mi 11 shows promising results for Samsung.
  • The new S21 Ultra, powered by the new Exynos 2100 chip, outperformed all other Android handsets, with the iPhone 12 Pro Max lasting the longest. Except for the iPhone, all phones support 120Hz refresh rates.
  • The S21 Ultra’s performance indicates the Exynos 2100 platform will not be plagued by the same issues as the Exynos 990.

A week ago, Samsung launched the Galaxy S21 series, with the three phones already available for preorder in several markets. The handsets feature top of the line specs and offer the best possible Android experience in early 2021. The phones pack brand new processors meant to rival the iPhone 12’s A14 Bionic, including the Snapdragon 888 or Exynos 2100 (depending on the market). Both platforms are built … Read the rest

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China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US 1 min read

China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US

Adiantku 7 days ago

China’s space program might have been slowed by the pandemic in 2020, but it certainly didn’t stop. The year’s highlights included sending a rover to Mars, bringing moon rocks back to Earth, and testing out the next-generation crewed vehicle that should take taikonauts into orbit—and possibly to the moon—one day. 

But there were a few achievements the rest of the world might not have noticed. One was the November 7 launch of Ceres-1, a new type of rocket that, at just 62 feet in height, is capable of taking 770 pounds of payload into low Earth orbit. The launch sent the Tianqi 11 communications satellite into space.

At first glance, the Ceres-1 launch might seem unremarkable. Ceres-1, however, wasn’t built and launched by China’s national program. It was a commercial rocket—only the second from a Chinese company ever to go into space. And the launch happened less than three years … Read the rest

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Platforms are cracking down hard on political misinformation, but it’s still easy to find 1 min read

Platforms are cracking down hard on political misinformation, but it’s still easy to find

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The type of misinformation that fueled election doubts and support for the events at the Capitol is still easy to find online. | B.A. Van Sise/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day.

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In the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection on January 6 that left five people dead, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube promised to crack down harder on false claims that the US presidential election was stolen and on dangerous fringe movements like QAnon. But two weeks later — on Inauguration day, no less — it’s easy to find this same kind of misinformation on their platforms.

That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. As the Capitol insurrection earlier this month showed, online misinformation doesn’t just stay online. It … Read the rest

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Free online tool calculates risk of Covid-19 spreading in badly-ventilated areas 1 min read

Free online tool calculates risk of Covid-19 spreading in badly-ventilated areas

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Commuters wear facemasks as they travel on the underground in London on November 5, 2020 (AFP)

Experts have created a free, online tool that calculates the airborne spread of Covid-19 in indoor spaces.

Users add in variables, such as the square footage, level of ventilation, number of people and whether any masks are being worn to affect the outcome.

The tool builds on work that researchers have done to monitor how the virus spreads through the air.

The teams, from the University of Cambridge and University College London, concluded that social distancing alone does not prevent the spread of the virus in poorly-ventilated areas.

As the cold weather forces more interactions to be carried out inside, the researchers believe that masks and ventilation are crucially important.

The researchers found that when two people are in a poorly-ventilated space and neither is wearing a mask, prolonged talking is … Read the rest

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How to watch Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' inauguration 1 min read

How to watch Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' inauguration

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Proceedings get underway at 12:00 PM ET.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be inaugurated as the next President and Vice President of the United States on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 12:00 PM ET.

As you might expect, the ceremony will be broadcast across a wide range of networks all over the world. This year, the inauguration will feature speeches from both Biden and Harris, as well as performances by Jon Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, and Justin Timberlake.

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As mentioned, the inauguration of Biden and Harris will take place on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 12:00PM ET. A special prime-time show hosted by Tom Hanks will air later that evening at 8:30 PM ET.

How to watch

The inauguration will be shown across a wide range of US networks including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and PBS. The inauguration can also be watched at

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New feature might fix the most annoying thing about Netflix 1 min read

New feature might fix the most annoying thing about Netflix

Adiantku 1 week ago

  • Netflix plans to make it even easier for users to find new content to watch, announcing that a version of its Shuffle Play feature will be available worldwide in the first half of the year.
  • Shuffle Play is a button that will appear under the profile icon. Shuffle Play will automatically choose the next movie or TV show based on the user’s saved list or streaming history when selected.
  • The feature is still being tested on TVs<, and it’s not available on desktop or mobile.

The most annoying thing about Netflix is choosing something new to watch. That’s not necessarily a Netflix fault, but human nature. Users are given so many choices that they can’t make up their minds quickly. What if there’s something better in a different category? You’ll scroll vertically and horizontally for something new, you might add things to your list here and there, and then you’ll … Read the rest

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A guide to being an ethical online investigator 1 min read

A guide to being an ethical online investigator

Adiantku 1 week ago

As rioters stormed Capitol Hill on January 6, Theo—like many Americans—watched, dumbfounded and in horror.

Then he had an idea. “What if we went on social and started pulling these screenshots together and tried to go around and crowdsource [the rioters’] identities?” he remembers thinking.

So Theo bought a burner phone, set up a fake email address, and created an Instagram account over a VPN: @homegrownterrorists. Within hours, and before the FBI had issued its plea for help to identify rioters, Theo (a pseudonym for the account holder, who asked to remain anonymous because of death threats he has received) had gained hundreds of thousands of followers as he furiously posted images and video. Thousands of people were commenting on and sharing the images, with the goal of identifying the perpetrators. 

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Donald Trump just issued a surprise pardon for the man at the center of an epic fight between Google and Uber 1 min read

Donald Trump just issued a surprise pardon for the man at the center of an epic fight between Google and Uber

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The full pardon of Anthony Levandowski came out of nowhere.

In one of his final acts as President, Donald Trump early on Wednesday morning suddenly pardoned the engineer at the center of an iconic, litigious, and years-long conflict between Uber, Google, and federal prosecutors over the technology for self-driving cars.

Encouraged by some of his highest-profile backers in Silicon Valley, such as venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Trump issued the surprise full pardon to Anthony Levandowski, a former Google executive who had decamped to work for Uber. Levandowski was last year sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets from Google that he then used to help Uber in the self-driving race.

The announcement came as a shock for several reasons: One was that the news that Levandowski was seeking a pardon had not previously been reported. Another was that it … Read the rest

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