Supreme's $60 burner phone is a hypebeast's dream

Now available on your smart speaker and wherever you get your podcasts Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Play  |  iHeart Radio It's Friday, October 18, 2019. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. After you’re done watching this historic spacewalk, take a look at what life is like after your Netflix show ends. Also, we’ll explain why a $60 featurephone sold out almost immediately and take a look at the next big get for HBO Max. (View in browser.) Especially if you keep your husband/cameraman locked in the basement. Crowdfunding is better than Netflix for YouTube's creep queen Six months ago, Christine McConnell picked up the phone and learned that her Netflix show, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, wouldn't be renewed. Now, with YouTube and Patreon, she has a stream of reliable income for the first time in her artistic career. More than 3,000 fans contribute to her page monthly in $3 to $100 increments, while 90,000 subscribers follow along on YouTube. According to her, "(social media stars and YouTubers) don't know that they're actually in such a better position to completely own their brands and have this totally new kind of income that didn't exist 10 years ago. It's just so much better." The $60 candybar phone sold out in seconds. Supreme’s burner phone is a hypebeast’s dream It’s perfect for calling for help from the next Fyre festival. Earlier RAZR rumors hinted at a $1,500 Verizon-exclusive folding phone. Motorola invite hints at a 'reinvented' RAZR Earlier this year, a Motorola exec confirmed to Engadget that the company was hard at work on foldable phone technology. Now CNET reports it's sending out invites for a November 13th event in Los Angeles that promise the "highly-anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon." Add in an embedded GIF of something that looks like a hinged mobile device, and the potential of a new RAZR phone is quickly moving from rumor to reality. Sponsored Content by Stack Commerce Unlock 2,000+ documentaries for just $45 with CuriosityStream. That seems bad. Samsung will fix bug that lets any fingerprint unlock a Galaxy S10 The Samsung Galaxy S10's fingerprint reader has been balky from day one, with users reporting it could be unlocked with a 3D-printed fingerprint. Worse, a buyer recently discovered that if you install a third-party screen protector, a non-registered user could unlock the phone. In a statement to Engadget, the company said "We recommend all customers to use Samsung authorized accessories, specifically designed for Samsung products." It’s time to take on Tesla’s Superchargers. Ford teams up with charging companies to form the FordPass Network Ford has introduced the FordPass Charging Network, which it says includes 12,000 charging stations with more than 35,000 plugs in North America. Customers who buy its upcoming EVs, presumably including its Mustang-inspired electric SUV, will get two years of free access (they’ll still need to pay for electricity) to the network from the time they buy and activate their FordPass account for the vehicle. You'll have another way to see 'My Neighbor Totoro' next spring. Studio Ghibli movies will stream on HBO Max HBO Max will be the streaming home for movies from the legendary Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. Classics including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle will be available to stream for the first time anywhere on the service. In one fell swoop, HBO Max grabbed a selection of much-loved animated movies, which might help it in the battle for streaming supremacy against the likes of Disney+. In fact, Disney’s streaming service may have seemed like the logical choice for the Ghibli canon. The movies will start streaming from next spring. It's one step ahead of the Trump administration's ban on flavored e-cigs. Juul stops selling its fruit-flavored vape products Juul is suspending the sale of its fruit-flavored vape products in the US, including mango, creme, fruit and cucumber varieties. The company will continue to sell its mint and menthol nicotine pods. The decision comes as the Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigs in an attempt to curb teen vaping --  and as the CDC continues to search for the cause of a vaping-related lung illness. Juul halted sales of those flavors in stores last year. Since then, they've only been available online. But wait, there's more... 1. HTC Vive Cosmos review: At $699 it's too late and too expensive 2. Olympus' OM-D E-M5 Mark III camera is small and shoots fast 3. MIT scientists develop a way to recover details from blurry images 4. Latest NVIDIA Shield TV Pro leak shows a bigger, better remote and Dolby Vision HDR 5. Watch the first trailer of 'Red Dead Redemption 2' for PC running in 4K at 60 fps 6. The 15th anniversary of Google Books arrives with a big redesign 7. Mark Zuckerberg paints himself as a defender of 'free speech' on Facebook 8. Engadget's Guide to Home Entertainment: The best free-to-play games 9. Lebanon's 'WhatsApp tax' charges a fee for internet voice calls

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Is this the ultimate retro-gaming portable?

Now available on your smart speaker and wherever you get your podcasts Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Play  |  iHeart Radio It's Thursday, October 17, 2019. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Say goodbye to Yahoo Groups and Google Daydream, and good morning to Volvo’s first full-EV. Also, the Vatican is going click-to-pray, and Under Armour has unveiled the latest in spacesuit fashion. Just another Thursday, right? (View in browser.) Your ancient posts will disappear on December 14th. Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content Yahoo (owned by Engadget's parents at Verizon) is phasing out one of its longest-standing features -- Yahoo Groups. The site will close in a two-phase process. First, you'll lose the ability to post new content from October 21st, and Yahoo will delete all "previously posted" material on December 14th, marking the true end. Users can still connect to their groups through email, but the site will effectively be vacant. If you're at all interested in preserving your history on the site, you'll want to download your data either directly from posts or through Yahoo's Privacy Dashboard. Yahoo hasn't formally explained the shutdown, but it follows the closure of GeoCities, another iconic Yahoo community that was sidestepped by the meteoric rise of social media and more agile rivals. All of Volvo’s electrified vehicles will be a part of its Recharge lineup. The XC40 EV is Volvo’s first full-electric vehicle Volvo’s all-wheel-drive (AWD) XC40 Recharge pure EV debuted on Wednesday at an event in Los Angeles. It looks exactly like its gas-powered counterpart and will house a 78kWh battery pack under the passenger area. With DC fast charging, it charges to 80 percent from zero in 40 minutes, and Volvo is targeting over 200 miles of “mixed driving” range between charges. Its dual motors pump out 402 horsepower and 486 foot-pounds of torque, and it’s the first Volvo to run on Android’s Automotive OS with support for OTA updates. The company is promising plug-in versions of every car in its lineup, with a year of free electric charging included. The XC40 EV will start under $48,000 after federal tax credits when it rolls out late next year. The device is designed to teach young people about the Catholic faith. Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary The Vatican is hoping to attract tech-savvy youth to the Catholic Church with the launch of a Click-to-Pray eRosary -- a wearable device that pairs to a phone app. It’s made of 10 consecutive black agate and hematite rosary beads, plus a data-storing "smart cross." Once they’ve activated the beads, the wearer can choose to pray with the standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or a thematic rosary, which will be updated throughout the year. The device shows progress of each prayer and keeps track of each rosary completed. In recent years, the Catholic Church has attempted to court younger Christians by establishing a social network presence across Twitter and Instagram -- even offering Telegram messages to the faithful during Lent. The wearable on sale now for €99 ($110/£85). Sponsored Content by Stack Commerce The best apps to learn languages in 2019. Back to the future. Analogue's $200 Pocket could be the ultimate retro-gaming portable The Pocket is a roughly Game Boy-shaped console that can play any Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance game, with support for Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color and Atari Lynx coming through add-on adapters. While all-in-one consoles typically run games through software emulation, Analogue's party trick is and has always been its use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The company develops its machines by examining the original hardware and circuitry of a console, and then coding an FPGA core to mimic it. The Pocket has two: one to support the various systems and games and a second that’s a blank slate for developers to work with. Whether you just like playing old games, need perfect emulation for an archive or want to make chiptunes, the possibilities are vast. An interview with the director about high frame rates and digital cinema. Ang Lee chases cinema’s 120 fps future with ‘Gemini Man’ As Gemini Man director Ang Lee explained in a roundtable interview, “High frame rates comes along with 3D, and it all comes from digital [filmmaking]. Once it's digital, it allows dimension unlike film." But, he added, shooting in high frame rates requires a fundamental rethinking of what we take for granted when making and watching movies. The immediacy this film’s action scenes create provide a preview of why James Cameron will use the same technology for his Avatar sequels. Athleisure for astronauts. Virgin Galactic passengers will wear these Under Armour spacesuits Under Armour unveiled the space gear -- a base layer, spacesuit and boots -- that it's designed for passengers on Virgin Galactic flights. According to Under Armour, each spacesuit iteration underwent rigorous testing with pilots, spaceship engineers, medical professionals and astronaut instructors. It has functional features like an integrated communication system and plenty of pockets. It also has a clear pocket on the inside of the jacket (above the heart) for a photo of a loved one, and each suit will have a removable patch that can be transferred to flight jackets for everyday wear. Something to consider. Pixel 4 pre-orders at Amazon include a free $100 gift card Amazon is offering a $100 gift card to anyone who buys the Pixel 4 (starting at $799) or Pixel 4 XL (starting at $899) ahead of launch. Google also offers $100 when you pre-order from its store, but this might be better if you'd rather have a wider range of accessories or want to buy something else entirely. But wait, there's more... 1. California's statewide earthquake alert system launches today 2. The (Day)dream is over: Phone-based VR is well and truly dead 3. Law enforcement shuts down largest known child-porn site on the dark web 4. Netflix says 'Stranger Things' S3 is its most-watched season yet 5. UK finally abandons its unworkable 'porn block' plan 6. FCC votes to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger 7. Moto G8 Plus leak shows off some high-end phone features trickling down 8. The Panama Papers lawyers want to stop Netflix's 'The Laundromat' 9. Engadget's guide to home entertainment: The best games for your smartphone 10. Internet Archive adds 2,500 more DOS games to playable database 11. If Google is serious about the environment, then it needs a sustainable phone moonshot

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Editor's Pick: Millennial Women Chart New Direction for E-Commerce

Millennial Women Chart New Direction for E-Commerce

Alex Fitzgerald Oct 16, 2019 11:56 AM PT
	It's remarkable how a hot IPO can get discussion going. After a 50 percent rise in the stock price of The RealReal, the marketplace for consigned luxury items, following its June 28 public offering, there's been a search to define what is so lucrative about this company, or e- commerce in general. The RealReal certainly has exhibited wisdom in various aspects of its e-commerce strategy. [More...]

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'Serious' Linux Sudo Bug's Damage Potential Actually May Be Small Developers have patched a vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, that could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even if that root access was specifically disallowed. The patch prevents potential serious consequences within Linux systems. However, the Sudo vulnerability posed a threat only to a narrow segment of the Linux user base, according to Todd Miller, a maintainer of the open source Sudo project. [More...]

Virtual Pets, Virtual People and Virtual Immortality One of the interesting and somewhat underappreciated aspects of the recent Qualcomm wireless event is that 5G will make realistic AR avatars possible. This advance will be possible because with high bandwidth and very low latency, processing could shift from the device to the cloud. Coupled with the rollout of distributed data centers, this means you could have realistic virtual pets and friends. [More...]

Safari's Safe Browsing Option Raises Privacy Concerns An option in Apple's Safari browser that's supposed to protect Web surfers from malicious sites has raised privacy concerns in some quarters. The option, called "safe browsing," is turned on by default. Depending on where an Apple device is registered, the browser could be sending IP information to Tencent, a conglomerate with close ties to China's government. [More...]

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