The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, March 10, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend! Check out Elon Musk’s latest hyperloop concept video, plus other news highlights from the last week. Then keep an eye out for all of our updates from SXSW. Bring your bike. Elon Musk's Boring Company transports to prioritize pedestrians over cars Last night Musk tweeted out a new Boring Company concept video that focuses on its shuttles full of people. According to him, the new plan for those tunnels is that “all tunnels & Hyperloop will prioritize pedestrians & cyclists over cars.” HBO brought the town of Sweetwater to life. We're live from SXSW 2018! We have arrived in Austin, Texas for the 2018 edition of SXSW, the festival that showcases some of the best things in the tech (interactive), film and music industries. You can keep up with all the news from SXSW right here, and even check out video from our first stop: HBO’s Westworld. Bad Password. MoviePass: The new face of unbridled data greed The word "privacy" in any app's policy at this point is so cynical a euphemism that we can only say it now with a smirk.  Excellent, not monumental Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review It’s that time of the year. Samsung’s new flagship phones have arrived: Is there enough to warrant an upgrade or draw you away from your iPhone? Well,  improvements to its latest flagship work as promised, but according to Cherlynn Low, they don’t feel like features that you’d miss by not upgrading. Still, thanks to blazing performance, solid cameras and long battery life, the Galaxy S9+ continues to uphold the S series’ reputation for excellence. Look for the bright blue big rigs. Waymo self-driving semi truck pilot starts in Atlanta  Waymo's self-driving trucks will begin hauling cargo to Google data centers next week. There will, of course, be highly trained drivers in the cabs in case anything goes awry. Without standing in line even once. Google adds Disney parks to Street View  Now you can explore inside 11 Disney Parks, getting an on-the-ground glimpse of all the castles, rides and attractions, including inside the Avatar-themed world of Pandora. But wait, there's more... 1. The settings you should change immediately after buying a new TV 2. See all the wild cars and concepts unveiled during the Geneva Motor Show 3. Now Google Assistant offers better control over connected devices 4. China's first space station will hit the Earth's atmosphere soon 5. Netflix's 'Lost in Space' trailer doesn't look like the show you remember 6. Nintendo is bringing 'Super Smash Bros.' to the Switch this year The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: 'Super Smash Bros.' for Switch

It's Friday, March 09, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Get your Friday off to a good start with our Galaxy S9 review, plus all the highlights from last night’s Nintendo Direct stream and a beautiful penguin selfie. Excellent, not monumental Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review It’s that time of the year. Samsung’s new flagship phones have arrived: Is there enough to warrant an upgrade or draw you away from your iPhone? Well,  improvements to its latest flagship work as promised, but according to Cherlynn Low, they don’t feel like features that you’d miss by not upgrading. Still, thanks to blazing performance, solid cameras and long battery life, the Galaxy S9+ continues to uphold the S series’ reputation for excellence. Switch gets games Coming to Nintendo Switch: ‘Super Smash Bros.’, ‘Crash Bandicoot’, ‘Mario Tennis’ and more! Nintendo’s newest console has managed to sustain critical praise (and success) despite a shortfall in games -- at least compared to the home console competition. Its future catalog got a major shot in the arm last night, with broad release dates for Super Smash Bros., Mario Tennis: Aces, Crash Bandicoot Remastered, Octopath Traveler and Okami HD. Oh, and more games for the 3DS well into 2019 -- Warioware is back. Hyperloop is edging closer to reality Five years in, things are starting to happen. Plenty has happened in the five years since Elon Musk first published his white paper on a system he called hyperloop. Since releasing that manifesto to the world, hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of dollars have been put to work, all in the service of bringing to life Musk's retro-futurist dream of a vacuum tube for people. And despite being less than a fever dream half a decade ago, the pace of innovation is notably increasing. 2018 has already included several big announcements regarding the future of mobility. Giving the Spot personality required a fresh approach. Inside Amazon's quest to make a different kind of Echo Of all the devices Amazon announced last fall, the one that got the most attention was the Echo Spot. A smaller, spherical version of the Echo Show, the Spot exuded an adorable style that was distinct from the rest of the Echo lineup. And judging by the reviews it received, it's clear that the Spot's form factor helped make it something of a surprise hit. Here’s the behind-the-scenes story of how it came to be. How to keep tabs on your binge-watching, game marathons and listening parties. The best ways to track your TV, music and reading habits The death of physical media! Without bookshelves, CD racks and the rest, how do we remember what media we’ve consumed? There are quite a few apps dedicated to showcasing the media experiences we've collected. We've gathered some of the better ones so you can easily keep track of -- and brag about -- what you're watching, listening to, playing and reading in this digital age. But wait, there's more... 1. It's Friday, so here's a beautiful penguin selfie 2. All the wild cars and concepts from the Geneva Motor Show 3. Snap lays off over 100 employees from its engineering team 4. China's first space station will hit the Earth's atmosphere soon 5. Every PS4 Pro game now supports supersampling for 1080p gamers 6. Trump spurns experts for his video game meeting 7. 'Fortnite Battle Royal' is coming to iOS and Android The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- March 8, 2018

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Russians Pose as Americans to Steal Data on Social Media
NICE Alliance Aims to Get Smart Cameras to Play Well Together
Kali Linux Security App Lands in Microsoft Store
Facebook Under Fire for Bizarre Child Predator Survey Question

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Russians Pose as Americans to Steal Data on Social Media
Americans have been targeted on social media by Russian agents on a
mission to harvest personal information. The agents pretended to work
for organizations promoting African-American businesses as a ruse to
obtain personal information from black business owners during the 2016
presidential election campaign. Using names like "BlackMattersUS," the
agents set up hundreds of social media accounts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85187.html

NICE Alliance Aims to Get Smart Cameras to Play Well Together
Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Nikon, Foxconn, Scenera and Wistron have
formed an alliance to create standards that allow surveillance and IP
cameras to play well with each other. The NICE Alliance, unveiled
Monday, aims to create a new smart camera ecosystem, along the lines of
the mobile ecosystems that have become so familiar. The "NICE" acronym
stands for "Network of Intelligent Camera Ecosystem."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85184.html

Kali Linux Security App Lands in Microsoft Store
Kali Linux, a penetration testing app from Offensive Security, has
become available in the Microsoft Store. Windows 10 users can download
and install the Kali Linux app onto the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Microsoft last summer announced that WSL, which makes it possible to run
operating systems like Ubuntu, would become a fully supported part of
the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85183.html

Facebook Under Fire for Bizarre Child Predator Survey Question
Facebook has come under fire after posing a survey question on how it
should deal with predatory sexual behavior against children over the
weekend. Survey participants were asked whether sexual predators should
be allowed to request photographic images from 14-year-old girls online.
Further, users were queried about how Facebook should handle such a
request if it learned about it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85179.html

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