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In September 2018, a devastating fire at the museum destroyed an estimated 20 million pieces, from one-of-a-kind artworks to archeological artifacts. Now Google is hosting an online exhibition of the museum’s collection where you can virtually explore the pre-fire museum in a Street View interface.
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A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
The Steam Link app is now available on the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ running Raspbian Stretch. A wired network is strongly recommended.
A new commit on the Chromium source reads: "Entries that are added to the back/forward list without the user's intention are marked to be skipped on subsequent back button invocations."
In March, many Android users were shocked to discover that Facebook had been collecting a record of their call and SMS history, as revealed by the company’s data download tool. Now, internal emails released by the UK Parliament show how the decision was made internally. According to the emails, developers knew the data was sensitive, but they still pushed to collect it as a way of expanding Facebook’s reach.
The focus is on bug fixes and security, so none of them introduce major new features.
With Chrome 71, Chrome will filter experiences on websites that fall under Google’s definition of abusive. These include web experiences that aren’t just limited to ads, such as auto-redirects that happen without any action from a user or trick-to-click experiences like a warning notification that actually leads to an ad or another website’s landing page. Sites that are reported to have abusive experiences will be given a 30-day grace period to clean up their behavior before every ad on the site is blocked.
Windows Central is reporting that Microsoft is developing a new Chromium browser for Windows 10 under the codename "Anaheim", and that it will replace Edge as the default browser on the platform. Their sources "wish to remain anonymous".
A Google spokesperson this afternoon issued an official statement confirming Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet will be made available for regular users. Hangouts "classic" is reported to be shutting down “eventually.” The company is “fully committed to supporting classic Hangouts users” until a ‘succesful’ migration to the new services.
Abraham Riesman scored an interview with Olivia Jaimes, a mysterious cartoonist who’s resurrected the venerable strip “Nancy” for the 21st century.
Today Google is launching Flutter 1.0, the first stable release of its open source, cross-platform UI toolkit and SDK. Flutter lets developers share a single code base across Android and iOS apps, with a focus on speed and maintaining a native feel. The announcement was made today at Google's Flutter Live conference in London - a show dedicated entirely to the launch of Google's new developer track.
Internet providers will not be required to forward notifications that include any of the prohibited content. Any notices that include settlement offers, requests for payments or links to requests for payment fall outside the boundaries of legal notices and do not need to be forwarded as ISPs will not face any penalties for failing to forward such notices.
Google introduces reCAPTCHA v3, their newest API to helps you detect abusive traffic on your website without user interaction. Instead of showing a CAPTCHA challenge, reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score so you can choose the most appropriate action for your website.
IBM and Red Hat executives announced Monday that IBM is acquiring the open source software and cloud services company in a $34 billion cash deal.
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Safari Tech Preview 68 supports Dark Mode, and Safari 12.1 might support it in a few months too. The prefers-color-scheme query supports three values: dark, light, and no-preference.
The trackers send periodic "silent notifications" to the apps you've installed, and if the apps are still installed, they ping the trackers' servers. If they don't hear back from you, they assume you've uninstalled the apps.
Starting from tomorrow, a random selection of US Firefox users will be offered a subscription to ProtonVPN. VPNs provide protection and privacy from network eavesdroppers and have become particularly popular by users of public Wi-Fi hotspots in cafes, airports, hotels, and so on.
By YouTube channel UX Live.
A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions.