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Little Red Riding Hood

Facebook’s Portal now lets you sing on an AR stage

Facebook’s Portal TV now lets you sing on an augmented reality stage while wearing AR to look like an ’80s rock star, hippie, or punk rocker in one of several feature upgrades announced today. Facebook Messenger video calls with the new Mic Drop feature let …

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

The Future of Video Calling: Portal from Facebook Adds New Content and Features

The Portal family of products give people a new way to spend more time with friends and family. With the AI-powered Smart Camera, Portal stays with the action and keeps you in the frame while Smart Sound minimizes background noise. Today, were announcing new …

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Facebook’s big Portal update adds livestreams and ‘Mic Drop’ karaoke

Other new features include the introduction of WhatsApp login, which opens up Portal to those without a Facebook account, and Mic Drop -- a brand new lip-sync experience that lets you sing along to popular tracks and perform them on an AR stage during a call.…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Android

This is one of the best robot vacuums on the market today

Source: Android Central One of the biggest reasons I held off from buying a robot vacuum for so long is because I didn't want to risk wasting my money on a relatively expensive purchase that might not perform well for my home. On top of that, there are hundr…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey could send troops to Libya if requested – Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey could deploy troops in Libya, if the UN-supported government in Tripoli were to request such support. His comment came weeks after Turkey signed security and military cooperation agreements, as well …

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Scotland

7 landscape photo tips if all you have is an iPhone (or Pixel 4, Galaxy S10 Plus…) – CNET

Andrew Hoyle/CNET The latest crop of phones like the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, OnePlus 7 Pro or Google Pixel 4 have cameras on board that can snag the sort of beautiful photographs you'd normally expect to see coming from pricey DSLRs. I've…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

NSA

Special Report: White House veterans helped Gulf monarchy build secret surveillance unit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the years after 9/11, former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke warned Congress that the country needed more expansive spying powers to prevent another catastrophe. Five years after leaving government, he shopped the same idea…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s police search regional offices, firms in League fraud probe

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's finance police searched on Tuesday offices of the Lombardy regional government and two firms with links to the League party as part of a money laundering probe, a statement by the prosecutor's office said. The investigation is tied …

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Solar Storm

A favorite daily thing: NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day.”

| Index | Search | Today's Picture | Note: Some versions of Chrome are having trouble pre-fetching the links on this page and freezing. 2019 December 10: Starlink Satellite Trails over Brazil2019 December 09: Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Prob…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Electric Scooter

Bike-sharing startup Wheels offers discounts if riders use its helmets

To make the helmets shareable, they lock to the rear fender of the bikes and are unlocked for free via the app. They come with a removable biodegradable liner for cleanliness and have sensors that recognize when the helmet is in use. To encourage riders to us…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Facebook’s Portal now lets you sing on an AR stage

The Future of Video Calling: Portal from Facebook Adds New Content and Features

Facebook’s big Portal update adds livestreams and ‘Mic Drop’ karaoke

This is one of the best robot vacuums on the market today

Turkey could send troops to Libya if requested – Erdogan

7 landscape photo tips if all you have is an iPhone (or Pixel 4, Galaxy S10 Plus…) – CNET

Special Report: White House veterans helped Gulf monarchy build secret surveillance unit

Italy’s police search regional offices, firms in League fraud probe

A favorite daily thing: NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day.”

Bike-sharing startup Wheels offers discounts if riders use its helmets

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