Новости за 18.04.2018

Google Chrome comes with its own built-in security measures to warn you about dangerous websites and weed out phishing scams, but it never hurts to have more (or better) safeguards when you’re browsing.

Using an increasingly sophisticated method for making fake videos, or “deepfakes,” video editors can realistically face-swap someone into a video. (As our sister site Gizmodo reports, the technology has been especially popular for making fake celebrity porn.) Deepfakes will soon make it hard to tell when a video of a…

Pervasive as Facebook is, not everyone uses the social service. Maybe they hate social networking, orthey’re frustrated with Facebook’s continual privacy “oopsies,” or they’re not technologically savvy. In this week’s installment of Tech 911, a readers asks how they can share content outside of Facebook’s (somewhat)…

Your intentions are good. You learned long ago that the polite guest never shows up empty-handed to a dinner party and you’ve stuck by it. You always grab a bouquet of Trader Joe’s wildflowers on your way to the fete that you thrust magnanimously into the arms of your host on arrival. You’re polite! You sweat the…

Android: It looks like Google is finally adding a long-missing feature to Android with its next big update. When Android P arrives this fall, you’ll (finally) be able to set different default volumes for your various Bluetooth devices.

Chrome 66 is out, and if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t really care when your web browser has a new update, you might want to rethink that approach for this version. Though your browser will automatically update to Chrome 66 (technically, 66.0.3359.117), you should manually trigger that update right now for…

There are plenty of accounts from dismayed parents about how they’re losing their kids—or as Chicago Tribune writer Thomas Pace describes “these zombies, who used to be our children”—to Fortnite, the wildly popular video game that’s consuming kids’ days, destroying some schools and spawning neighborhood support…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently urging consumers, restaurants, and retailers to throw out any chopped romaine lettuce. That includes store-bought chopped romaine lettuce in pre-made salad mixes. At least 35 people from 11 different states have been infected with E. coli, and the source has…

For years, I politely declined to keep the pedestrian substance known as table salt in my pantry. Spurred by the belief that real chefs use kosher salt—and my desire to be one, too—I dutifully bought box after box of Morton, painstakingly double-checking recipes to ensure I added the “Morton amount” and not the…

Worried that your local Starbucks might call the cops on you because of your race? Want to show that you care how the company treats black customers? Want to give your money to a black owned small business instead of an $83-billion corporation? Business site Shoppe Black lists 47 cafés with black owners across the…

Worried that your local Starbucks might call the cops on you because of your race? Want to show that you care how the company treats black customers? Want to give your money to a black owned small business instead of an $83-billion corporation? Business site Shoppe Black lists 47 cafés with black owners across the…

iOS/Android: I really hate running. I’ve always hated running. Every time I decide to give running a try (again), I think about how much I’d rather be biking, lifting heavy things, or doing anything else (except squats). However, when I do go running, I use the free C25k app to try and guide me toward longer and…

Later this year, Stockton, a city in California with a 25% poverty rate, will conduct an unusual experiment: Roughly 100 of its citizens will receive $500 a month for 12-18 months, with no work requirements and no strings attached. Researchers likely will regularly assess the recipients’ health, childcare…

Congrats, grad! If you’ve received a financial aid letter from a prospective undergraduate or graduate program, that means you filled out the FAFSA correctly—no easy feat—and you’re on your way to accomplishing your dreams. But before you sign on the dotted line, here’s what you need to know about those financial aid…

If you’ve been a die-hard Apple fan since you first put your fingers to a keyboard, there’s a chance you’ve never experienced the thrill of Minesweeper—one of the two classic games that used to be found on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. If that’s true, or if you just miss the thrill of losing game, after game,…

Kevin Gibbs created something you might use every day. Before founding workplace software company Quip and selling it to Salesforce, Gibbs created Google Suggest. We talked to him about building and running a company using the company’s own product, and the insight that made him a better public speaker. His answers…

Congrats procrastinators, you have an extra day to file your taxes this year thanks to a well-timed crash on the IRS’s “Direct Pay” page.

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This week we have guy who met a nice girl on a dating app, had some great conversation with her, then met up for some drinks. Then she disappeared forever...