Apple just disabled Walkie Talkie on Watch due to an iPhone eavesdropping vulnerability
The Apple Watch has a neat new app that lets you talk to your friends called Walkie Talkie. It’s not a phone calls app, although the Watch can do that too. Instead, it’s just a simple app that lets you send quick thoughts via voice back and forth. It works a lot like the old push-to-talk (PTT) phones, but it all happens on your wrist. However, you won’t be able to use it for the time being, as Apple has disabled the watchOS 5 functionality because of a new newly discovered vulnerability that would allow others to listen to your iPhone without consent.
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Apple just disabled Walkie Talkie on Watch due to an iPhone eavesdropping vulnerability originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 06:50:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Scientists think they’ve found all the ‘missing’ iron in the universe
These days, scientists think they have a pretty good idea of what the universe is made of. By detecting the telltale signatures of various elements in celestial bodies like stars, asteroids, and other planets, scientists can estimate how abundant or rare each of the known elements is. Iron, however, has proven to be tricky to nail down.
We know iron is abundant on Earth as well as in stars, where the intense heat allows it to exist in the form of gas. That suggests that the element should also exist in relative abundance in the interstellar medium — the space between star systems in galaxies such as the Milky Way — but scientists haven’t detected much of it there. So, where is it? A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal might have the answer.
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Scientists think they’ve found all the ‘missing’ iron in the universe originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 23:07:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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‘StarCraft: Cartooned’ is an adorable mod for one of the best strategy games ever
Whether you love Terran, Zerg, or Protoss, there’s no denying that Starcraft is an incredible strategy game, delivering thrilling, stressful battles, especially in multiplayer games.
And that’s because you have to make sure you’re harvesting all the resources you need for the specific upgrade path you’ve chosen, while simultaneously guarding against surprise attacks, and preparing your assault. But do you know what could alleviate some of that stress? Turning the game into a cartoon.
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‘StarCraft: Cartooned’ is an adorable mod for one of the best strategy games ever originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 22:05:48 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Astronomers just spotted an asteroid that loves the Sun
Thanks to astronomers and their constant search for new bodies moving throughout our solar system, we know about a lot of asteroids. Many of them have long, elliptical orbits around our Sun, swinging through our system — sometimes making close passes of Earth along the way — around the Sun and then back out again.
Now, researchers have spotted an asteroid that never really ventures all that far from the Sun, even at its further point. The object, known as 2019 LF6, completes an orbit of our star every 151 days, and comes far closer to the Sun than even Mercury.
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Astronomers just spotted an asteroid that loves the Sun originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 21:03:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This supersonic car will try to hit a ridiculous 500mph in October
Hard as it might be to imagine a car that can travel at supersonic speeds of up to 1,000 miles per hour, one such project is working to get closer to that goal — the Bloodhound supersonic car project, which has a major speed test set for October.
The car, which has a British team behind it that almost gave the whole thing up last year, will try and hit 500 miles per hour on a new custom-built racetrack on a salt flat in South Africa. Already, the car has reached the 200 mph mark in a test run at Cornwall Airport in the UK back in the fall of 2017, the culmination of a multi-year effort to achieve that feat.
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This supersonic car will try to hit a ridiculous 500mph in October originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 20:08:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nintendo confirms that the Switch XL will not be coming out in 2019
The rumors were true. Nintendo is indeed launching the Nintendo Switch Lite this September for $199, removing the device’s signature ability to “switch” between a portable system and a home console. It’ll make Nintendo a great deal of money, and there’s undoubtedly an audience for a more portable version of the console, but the existence of the Switch Lite begs an obvious question: When are we getting a Switch XL?
Rumors of a cheaper, smaller Switch had been flooding the internet for months ahead of Nintendo’s announcement this week, but there have also been reports of a beefed up Switch with better specifications floating around. It seems inevitable that Nintendo will launch an upgraded Switch at some point, but when?
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Nintendo confirms that the Switch XL will not be coming out in 2019 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 19:06:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Japan’s asteroid probe is about to attempt its second daring asteroid touchdown
Japan is doing some incredible things with its Hayabusa2 asteroid probe. The spacecraft has now spent several months in orbit around the space rock known as Ryugu, and it’s blown not one but two holes into its side. Now, in yet another potentially dangerous maneuver, Japanese space agency JAXA has commanded the probe to perform a brief touchdown on the asteroid’s surface.
The plan is a bold one: The spacecraft is tasked with returning samples of asteroid material back to Earth, but first, it has to uncover some of the material below the outer surface to get a pristine sample. To do that, Hayabusa2 fired two “bullets” into Ryugu’s side. The current sample retrieval is the second such attempt, but there are still many risks.
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‘Avengers: Endgame’ directors tease something special for Comic-Con
Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo on Wednesday afternoon gave Marvel fans something intriguing to think about in the lead-up to their appearance at San Diego Comic-Con at the end of next week, during which they’ll headline a panel discussion set for Friday, July 19 moderated by Collider’s editor-in-chief.
We already knew “A Conversation with the Russo Brothers” was set to take place on that day, from 11 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. PT. Their appearance will serve as a celebratory capstone to their multi-film contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that culminated in April’s release of Avengers: Endgame, by all measures a landmark achievement of modern cinema.
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16-foot white LED light strips are down to $7.99 on Amazon today
The possibilities are endless with LED light strips, which is why they’re so unbelievably popular right now. Since they’re paper-thin and can be stuck just about anywhere, you can create all sorts of fantastic lighting effects. All those cool ideas can add up to big bucks if you buy strips from certain brands though, but you follow the BGR Deals team so you know you’re not going to pay top dollar. The popular HitLights Warm White LED Light Strips are each 16.4-feet long, and they’re warm white instead of that awful blueish-white color that makes your house look like a hospital. Head over to Amazon right now, and you can get them for just $7.99 a piece!
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Nearly 1 out of 4 Netflix subscribers think the service is too expensive
As far as video streaming options are concerned, you’d be hard-pressed to find a service that offers consumers more bang for the buck than Netflix. Even with a series of incremental price increases over the past few years, the value proposition afforded by Netflix is arguably unrivaled, especially given the avalanche of new content the streaming giant continues to roll out with each passing month.
Nonetheless, some subscribers take an opposing view and believe that Netflix has gotten a tad too pricey. According to a recent survey involving approximately 1,000 Netflix subscribers, 24.3% of respondents believe that Netflix has gotten to expensive.
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