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You can type ‘how to vote’ into Google now for instant state-by-state voting instructions
Election Day in the US — November 3rd — is almost here. Now, if you type “how to vote” or “how to register to vote” into Google’s search box, it will automatically detect which state you live in and give you voting dates, ways to register to vote online, and…
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Facebook’s Preferential Treatment Of US Conservatives Puts Its Fact-Checking Program In Danger
Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images On May 8, Prager University, a nonprofit conservative media outlet, published a video on Facebook that incorrectly claimed “there is no evidence that CO2 emissions are the dominant factor” in climate change. Within days, Climate Feedback, a nonpartisan network of scientists and a…
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Epic rallies Fortnite players against Apple with a warning that they’ll miss the next season
Apple has banned Fortnite from the App Store for violating store policies, and Epic is rallying players against the iPhone maker in part by telling them they could miss the game’s upcoming season if Apple doesn’t change its rules. “Because Apple has BLOCKED your ability to update, when Fortnite Chapter…
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Don’t know what to watch? Just ask Google null
If you’ve been struggling to find something new to watch on TV, there’s good news: Google searches now have live TV results for sports and popular shows that are going on right now. The new feature was described in a post on Google’s blog today, and you can try it…
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Photoshop’s upcoming tagging system will help identify edited images
Last year, with help from The New York Times and Twitter, Adobe started working on the Content Authenticity Initiative, an attempt to cut down on the number of altered images that circulate online. Adobe said the technology would use metadata tagging… Source
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Microsoft will now let you choose a preferred GPU for every Windows 10 app null
Experienced users know that some programs take advantage of proprietary features of various GPUs and thus demonstrate better performance than on competing graphics cards. Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Windows 10 update will help power users to bind a particular GPU to a particular application to get better performance. Right now, Windows 10…
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