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Disney’s bombshell announcement today that it would be building its own branded direct-to-consumer streaming service, and ending its licensing deal with Netflix, came with another nugget of news: the previously announced all-new ESPN streaming service is launching next year. We first heard about this service last year, when Disney acquired a minority stake in BAMTech, the MLB-founded video juggernaut behind many of the most popular sports and TV streaming services.

Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.

It’s always been a bit weird that San Francisco, the cradle of autonomous research, has been missing from the list of cities that boast their own self-driving ride-hailing services. Autonomous cars are prowling the streets of cities like Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Singapore — and soon enough Boston — offering rides to ordinary people through services like Uber, NuTonomy, and Waymo. And poor San Francisco has been left out of the mix — until now.

Mazda is using diesel engine technology to save the gasoline engine, just as everyone else is trying to find the alternative fuel that will beat more stringent emissions standards around the world.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine today announced that it is suing Maine Gov. Paul LePage for deleting comments from his official Facebook page that disagree with his viewpoints. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two women who say they’ve had their accounts blocked from further commenting on Gov. LePage’s profile, claim the act is a form of censorship and violates the country’s free speech protections.

Game of Thrones has already broken its own record for most-watched episode, after just setting a new one with the season 7 premiere a few weeks ago. According to HBO, 10.2 million viewers tuned in for season 7, episode 4, “The Spoils of War,” on Sunday night, beating out the 10.1 million who showed up for episode 1, “Dragonstone.” That number doesn’t include viewers who watched online or through an HBO app, which will almost certainly push that number even higher.

Apple started a massive trend, but now it might be about to deem it dead. Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has previously been a reliable source of Apple information, says that the company won’t release a rose gold iPhone 8. Instead, the phone will only be available in black, silver, and gold.

HBO is the latest victim of a security breach that, so far, has resulted in the leak of unreleased episodes of several shows, scripts, internal emails, and personal information for the Game of Thrones cast. Accompanying the hack was a ransom video for HBO executives, which has now surfaced online.

Austin’s annual Fantastic Fest is known for being a weird, raunchy, and shameless celebration of genre and horror movies, and this year’s lineup looks like it’ll continue that tradition. Festival organizers just announced the first wave of films slotted to play during the fest, several of which will be making their world or US premieres.

Razer’s suite of PC gaming accessories is instantly recognizable for its acid-green-and-black color scheme. And while more recent products have taken advantage of the company’s color-changing Chroma system that lets you switch up the glowing neon green for other colors, you’ve still been stuck with the black finish.

“Getting an Uber” took on a new meaning today after federal drug enforcement agents announced the arrest of four men running a drug mill on Central Park West who were allegedly selling baggies of fentanyl and heroin stamped with the popular ride-hailing app’s logo.

Earlier this year, a string of bomb threats targeted more than 100 Jewish centers, causing daily chaos for local organizations and raising new concerns about anti-Semitic violence in the US. The spree came to an end when police arrested 19-year-old Israeli citizen Michael Kadar in connection with the threats, overcoming various anonymity measures to trace the calls. But new evidence suggests Kadar may have been making the calls on behalf of a third party, as part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire business operating on the dark web. Читать дальше...

Microsoft is starting to roll out a new Outlook.com beta today. It’s an opt-in web-only beta that is activated through a “try the beta” toggle on Outlook.com, and it should be available to all users within the next few weeks. This is the third design iteration of Outlook.com since it first launched in 2012. Microsoft is updating the Outlook.com design with some subtle changes, including an improved conversation view, and the ability to read and attach files a lot faster.

In May of last year, I wrote about TRNTBL, a $420 record player that claimed to somehow interoperate with Sonos and modernize the vinyl experience. It was available for direct preorder, with a Kickstarter-style early-bird price, and was supposed to ship that summer.

As we’ve come to expect every fall, a new iPhone is headed our way and this year things are looking zanier than ever. From minimizing the bezels to getting rid of the home button, it looks like the iPhone 8 will receive a drastic makeover from previous iterations. Here are all the rumors, leaked details, and speculations about what we can expect to see from Apple later this year.

In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), trades in cassette tapes for another piece of bygone tech: Microsoft’s Zune. The Zune, one of Yondu’s Ravagers tells him, can hold up to 300 songs and is a hit back on Earth. In a scene cut from the film, Pratt learns the finer details of how to use its turny thing to find songs and gets to know music from “kind of angry” lady Alice Cooper.

Lifestage, one of Facebook’s more recent attempts to get Snapchat-obsessed teens to use Facebook’s services instead, has now been shut down, as reported by Business Insider. If you’re not familiar with Lifestage, I don’t entirely blame you, given that the app’s big hook was that only users aged 21 or younger could sign on in the first place.

Here’s a small but very real problem that podcast creators run into: Once an episode is published, the creator probably wants to promote it. But on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, all they can really do is post a link. There’s no easy way let their followers listen to an interesting snippet of the podcast from right inside of most social apps.

A teenage girl has created a 3D-printed lens that, when fitted onto a smartphone and used with an app, can give a preliminary diagnosis for people with diabetic retinopathy, reports IEEE Spectrum. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of vision loss for those who suffer from diabetes, and diagnosis of the disease is usually done via a two-hour exam, which also requires a specialized camera to take a photo of the retina. Sixteen-year-old Kavya Kopparapu, along with her team, trained an... Читать дальше...

Hard drives and SSDs come in pretty standard shapes at this point: there are 3.5-inch drives for desktops, 2.5-inch ones for laptops, and the newer M.2 standard that basically looks like a giant stick of RAM. Intel’s new enterprise SSDs are changing that with the company’s new “Ruler” design, which is designed to optimize storage density while also reducing the amount of power and cooling, via Techgage.

Sharp keeps making smartphones with incredible, almost bezel-free displays, and today it’s announcing another one: the Aquos S2.

If you want to see this month’s total solar eclipse, hopefully you’ve already made your travel plans because flight costs and hotel searches are skyrocketing right now. The special astronomical event is expected to draw millions to the US states located in what’s called the path of totality, where you'll be able to see the Moon completely cover the Sun for just a few minutes.

Next month will see the long-awaited release of a brand-new 2D Metroid game, and to celebrate, Nintendo is launching a red-and-gold 3DS based on the series’s star. The handheld will be of the New Nintendo 3DS XL variety — not the recently launched New 2DS XL — and will be available on September 15th, the same day that Metroid: Samus Returns hits the platform. It sports a color scheme reminiscent of the iconic bounty hunter’s spacesuit, as well as her silhouette printed on the top of the clamshell. Читать дальше...

Tile, known for its Bluetooth trackers that you can hang on your keys or stuff in you wallet, is launching a new product line today: the Tile Pro Series. Your Bluetooth tracker is evolving from novice to professional — who knew the day would come. The series includes the Tile Sport and the Tile Style, and you can probably guess how the company differentiates these in its portfolio.

We all love to complain about air travel. And thanks to technology, there are increasingly more places than ever to scream into the void. But the surfeit of technology platforms can make it difficult for airlines to track and address complaints. One airline thinks it has a solution. Starting this year, JetBlue is overhauling its customer service operations to integrate more modern communication channels like email, SMS text messages, and even Twitter and Facebook. And its doing it by adopting... Читать дальше...