Month: February 2020
iPhones could soon unlock and start your car, thanks to Apple’s CarKey
The number of everyday items that a smartphone is able to replace continues to grow, with cameras, media players, computers, and wallets amongst them, and soon we could be adding ‘car key’ to that list. As discovered by 9to5Mac, the recently-released beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers contains mention…
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Harley Quinn smashes her way into Fortnite in time for Birds of Prey
Following on from its Batman Day celebration in September last year, DC and Epic Games are teaming up once again to bring the ‘fantabulous’ Harley Quinn to Fortnite for a special Birds of Prey crossover event. Teased by Warner Bros. and Epic on Twitter last month, Harley Quinn’s Fortnite skin…
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OB-GYNs Are Using Reddit To Help People Who Desperately Need Advice
Isabel Seliger I spoke to a woman I’ll call “Lily” for about 12 minutes one afternoon in October. It was all the time she had. The 35-year-old mother of two is a public health official who works long hours at a women’s health clinic in central Missouri and had to…
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Unpublished writer decided to cybersquat on a famous author’s website, and it backfired
An enterprising cybersquatter who is not Patrick deWitt has commandeered patrickdewitt.net in an attempt to attract attention for their own novel (via Willamette Week). And while the squatter has backed off some of his more audacious demands by scrubbing them from the website, screenshots and archived versions of the site…
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Ancestry lays off 6% of staff as consumer genetic testing market continues to decline
Excitement in the consumer genetic testing market continues to show signs of slowing down. In the past two weeks layoffs have hit two of the biggest consumer genetic testing services — 23andme and Ancestry — with the latter announcing that it would slash its staff by 6% earlier today, in…
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The head of Gears of War will now oversee Diablo
Rod Fergusson announced today that he’s leaving his role as the head of The Coalition, Microsoft’s Gears of War-focused studio, to join Blizzard and oversee the Diablo franchise. Fergusson will join Blizzard sometime in March, according to his announcement tweet: Starting in March, I will join Blizzard to oversee the…
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