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Facebook is testing a keyword snooze button

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Facebook today introduced a feature that allows users to snooze certain keywords. When you don’t want to see posts about a current event, or a show, or even just something you don’t want to look at for a while, you can simply snooze posts which contain words related to that topic. First spotted by Chris Messina and pointed out by TechCrunch, it’s a variant of Facebook’s option to snooze people and pages you didn’t want to see, which was introduced last year. The period of quiet time is the same, too: 30 days. The option is fairly simple to use: if you…

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Review: The Sonos Beam is a major upgrade to your TV’s sound (and brains)

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 8:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Reviews


People buy soundbars for convenience. There are almost always ‘better’ options for the price. For sound quality, you could buy a pair of bookshelf speakers. For surround sound, there are cheap 3.1 or 5.1 systems. But soundbars let you do it all – or almost all from one convenient unit. The Sonos Beam isn’t the company’s best speaker, but it’s almost certainly its most versatile. At $400, the Beam is an easy way to upgrade your TV’s sound, while enabling some smart TV functionality via Amazon Alexa you never knew you wanted. It’s a rare combination. Smart speakers continue to…

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Coinbase CEO launches charitable cryptocurrency fund

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 6:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency investors have amassed a lot of money in a short amount of time, and now it is time to give back. That is the philosophy which inspired Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO to launch a new charitable fund. Armstrong announced the initiative GiveCrypto in a blog post today. The fund aims to provide direct funding in cryptocurrencies to people in need all across the globe. Armstrong suggests that this will also help popularize cryptocurrencies further and explore new use cases. As per Armstrong, donations made in cryptocurrency will also reach the people directly without the possibility of corruption: Cryptocurrency is unique in…

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PUBG drops lawsuit against battle royale rival Fortnite

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


The companies behind two of the biggest games in the world looked set to fight it out in a South Korean court — but now it looks like the battle has been settled. The details: PUBG Corp, the company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, last month filed suit against Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite. The former claimed the latter was ripping it off by using the same 100-player battle royale mode PUBG made famous. The two games are some of the most popular in the world, though PUBG is starting to fall from grace as the cartoonish Fortnite takes over. What should have been an even contest is starting to…

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EOS considers scrapping constitution among chaos over governance

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Amidst all the chaos surrounding the EOS constitution, it seems Daniel Larimer, the cryptocurrency’s co-founder and technical architect, is giving up on its on-chain governance model. In a conversation on EOSIO Gov Telegram channel today, Larimer proposed to scrap the existing constitution calling it “unwise.” Indeed, he is working on proposing a new constitution. Larimer said that he has “learned a lot about human nature by watching the disputes, the witch hunts, the ‘bring everything before [EOS Core Arbitration Forum (ECAF)]’ mindset.” But he would now prefer to put an end to it. The EOS governance model drew severe criticism earlier this month when…

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