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The Roku 4 is the company's current high-end streaming box. Sarah Tew/CNET Hoping for a Roku 5 to succeed the Roku 4? You may be disappointed by this report.According to ZatzNotFunny.com's correlation of an FCC leak against a Canadian computer sales website published Saturday, the streaming company could be debuting up to five streaming devices this fall that would add HDR picture capabilities and give each of the streamers a name instead of a number.The entry-level Roku 1 would be instead replaced by the Roku Express and Roku Express Plus, both the Roku 2 and Roku 3 would be replaced by the Roku Premiere and Roku Premiere Plus and the 4K-capable Roku 4 would be replaced by a Roku Ultra device.And for those with HDR television sets, the report alleges that the Roku Premiere Plus and Roku Ultra would both have support for the picture format.Roku declined to comment on the report. ,roku,roku tv,roku stick,roku 3,roku 4,roku channels,roku 2,roku remote,roku account,roku 1 ...ادامه مطلب

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThat's a lovely look. WLS-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I tend to find the silly in the apparently serious.Occasionally, though, the obviously silly comes along and I think: "Wait, might that be actually serious?"And so it was that on the pages of WLS-TV in Illinois, I espied a man with bottles and cans stuck to his head.I grew up with quite a few people who crushed cans on their heads. But this was something far more elevated.It seems that Jamie Keeton has some sort of magical properties in his body that cause inanimate objects to stick to him.The sheer delight of being able to stick a bottle of fine wine to your head and then walk into a fancy restaurant would be incalculable. Keeton told WL, ...ادامه مطلب

As the homogenization of social media continues, Twitter followed in Snapchat's wake by adding the ability to apply stickers with embedded hashtags. Now the business justification emerges: brands will be able to offer stickers with their own built-in hashtags so that you can promote for them and allow them to track your stickered tweets. The company's Promoted #Stickers initiative was announced in a blog post on Monday, with Pepsi as the exclusive partner, and the option will be available to "select marketers" with managed accounts. They're pitched to advertisers as "a huge opportunity for brands to drive brand affinity and raise awareness of their message at scale." Happy brand-affinity driving.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge ImageThe first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship stationed about 370 miles east of Cape Canaveral. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a Japanese communications satellite into orbit early Sunday, lighting up the deep oveight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral on a jet of fiery exhaust.While the rocket's second stage was boosting the relay station to orbit, the first stage successfully flew itself back to landing on an offshore drone ship, the Califoia rocket builder's sixth successful booster recovery in 11 tries. It was the latest step in an ongoing push by SpaceX founder Elon Musk to lower costs by recovering, refurbishing and relaunching spent stages.If all goes well, SpaceX hopes to relaunch a previously used first stage later this year. But as always, company officials said, stage recovery is a purely se,spacex sticks another landing ...ادامه مطلب

Snapchat ups its game with new city-specific stickers. Oscar Gutierrez/CNET While you sip your nitro coffee out of a mason jar in a tiny San Francisco coffee shop, you can now snap a selfie and add a "hipster" sticker designed just for the city. The photo- and video-sharing app Snapchat on Tuesday launched Geostickers, allowing users to send city-specific stickers along with their snaps to friends. The new feature follows the trend of using geocentric elements in messaging, like the geo-filters Snapchat already provides. The stickers will first be available in 10 major cities, including San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Paris and London. The news comes on the same day the Facebook-owned Instagram launched its Snapchat-esque "Stories" feature, which allows users to publish 24-hour reels of content to their feeds. Some of San Francisco's 15 stickers provide a satirical look at the city. One is of an angry sheep-looking creature yelling about rising rent, while another shows a plump walrus with a disapproving look beneath the caption "tech snob," according to TechCrunch. Snapchat declined to comment.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Think those extreme eaters are daring, stuffing dozens of hot dogs down their gullets? There's a world of extreme makeup videos out there, and they can be just as fascinating.YouTube makeup channel host Mayra recently posted an 8-minute video in which she applies 100 -- that's right, 100 -- coats of liquid lipstick to her own lips. A counter in the coer tracks the applications. She uses 50 different colors, each one twice.[embedded content]After just four coats, she comments, "My lips right now, feel drier than ever." Soon the glossy buildup is so huge she can't even drink from a straw. But she soldiers on, for science! The process takes 8 hours (with one break), but Mayra never falters, even as her lips grow to entire-hive-of-bee stings size and begin to look a little Frankensteiny.When the experiment's over and she scrapes the lipstick off with a mini-trowel, the resulting jam-packed layers look like sedimentary rock. "That is so gross!" she tells her audience. "By the way, I feel like my lips are now breathing (again)."Mayra notes that she's not the first makeup artist to try the 100 layer liquid-lipstick experiment, and others have tried 100 layers of foundation, 200 layers of nail polish and various cosmetic challenges. Since the lipstick video went up on July 15, it's already clocked more than 8 million views, even though some watchers are unclear why they tuned in."I don't know why but this gave me anxiety," wrote YouTube commenter Molly Ayres. And said a viewer going by Rainbow Sparkle 73: "Who else thought it was satisfying when she took it off?"Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.What do you see here? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When the rumor spread that Donald Trump would choose Indiana Goveor Mike Pence as his presumptive veep, the wags came out on Twitter. Perhaps the most elegantly literary remark came from legendary sci-fi writer William Gibson, who crafted a satirical take on the Bard in response: "Trump Pence. Trumppence? 'I'd not warrant you a harlot's trumppence, thou foul gobshite.' --Shakespeare." On Friday after the official announcement, also on Twitter, the campaign logo made its debut in a fundraising email, according to The Wall Street Joual. And what a logo it is. To your average nun, this might seem no more than the "T" that fronts "Trump" entwining itself with the "P" of "Pence." Most Twitterers aren't your average nun, however. Many saw something a little more erotic. Bloomberg Politics contributor Matt Negrin mused, "the Trump-Pence logo looks like a forbidden sex act that Pence would definitely not be OK with."Then there was comedian Samantha Bee, with one of the more glorious and moving interpretations: NBC News political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald urged everyone to stay calm. "It's just two consenting adult letters being...intimate with each other," he wrote, "back off."You might assume that it was just so-called liberal types who snorted. But conservative blog Red State was also driven demented by this creation, even alleging that the logo might have been designed by, no, not a hipster, but a Democrat. Looking too closely at logos can have its amusements. Who can forget Jeb Bush, whom Trump constantly described as being "low energy," enjoying a logo with a large exclamation point? Of course, there were some who preferred to focus less on the design aesthetics of the Trump-Pence logo and more on th, ...ادامه مطلب

Add one more premium cable service to Roku's continually growing list of apps. The Starz app, which launched in April, is now available on the company's media streamers, joining Apple TV (the new one, not the old) and Chromecast (via Android and iOS devices). The app gives you access to all of the content available from Starz as well as its sister networks, Starz Encore and Movieplex for a monthly subscription fee of $8.99. If you subscribe to Starz through your cable provider, however, you may not be able to authenticate service on Roku. Comcast, for example, will not allow you to use the app to view Starz content. Other participating cable, satellite and telephone company partners will allow you to authenticate service directly through Roku's Starz app or on a PC or Mac computer. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MPs in the UK Are Revolting., ...ادامه مطلب

[embedded content] SpaceX's quest for a reusable rocket has been through many challenges, culminating in a triumphant landing of the Falcon 9 on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year. The first four tries resulted in explosions, a fate that a cute drone version of the Falcon 9 manages to avoid. YouTuber user ajw61185, who also created a Star Wars Imperial Speeder Bike drone, built the drone and a floating landing barge.The drone flies thanks to four small rotors at the bottom where the thrusters would be on the real rocket. The barge is painted to match the big one used by SpaceX. It floats in a pool to help add a sense of realism to the drone landing. The drone's vertical design makes it look challenging to fly, but the operator guides it safely into place. The drone is crafted using model rocket parts mixed with custom-made pieces. A removable "flame" attaches to the bottom. Despite the beautiful landing captured on video, the drone doesn't always behave. An extended cut of the footage shows it veering off course several times. Ajw61185 made the drone just for fun and has no intention of producing a kit version. If you don't have drone-modifying skills of your own, you can still play a Flash video game version of the Falcon 9 landing. Good luck. It's hard to succeed. (Via The Verge)Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Twitter users already have emojis, hearts and hashtags, and soon they will be able to cover their photos with #stickers -- literally. Twitter will soon let users add stickers to their photos. Twitter The San Francisco-based social network said Monday that stickers will be joining the list of creative options for users to make their photos more interesting. Multiple stickers can be placed anywhere on a photo to describe "what you're doing, how you're feeling, show a support for a cause or just to add some flair," Twitter said. The stickers also have a unique function. When Twitter users tweet a photo using a sunglasses sticker, for instance, others can click on the sunglasses to see how that sticker was placed in other photos elsewhere on the platform. "Tapping on a sticker in a Tweet takes you to a new timeline, where you can see how people all over the world use that sticker in different ways," Twitter said. The stickers feature will be joining other existing photo-editing tools on Twitter including filters, tags, cropping, and accessibility options.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Roku Roku entered the Windows 10 era yesterday by releasing a new remote control app for laptops and tablets.The app, which is now available for free in the US from the Windows Store, gives users a new homepage design and the usual slate of features for the streaming set-top box. You'll be able to select channels, search for content, play music and show photos and use Cortana to make your selections. The company said it's the first time that tablet users will be able to use the Roku app to get its full breadth of channels and movies. On the company's blog, Roku Senior Product Manager Matthew Wee said the app would be released inteationally soon and would get more features in the coming weeks. Availability for Windows phones was not announced.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge Image 3M The humble roll of Sellotape is a staple in every kitchen's miscellaneous drawer, one of those everyday items we simply take for granted. When you stop to think about it, it's actually rather ingenious.It took a college dropout to think of it. Richard Gurley Drew, bo in Minnesota on June 22, 1899, took just one year of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota before dropping out.At the age of 22, he was hired by a sandpaper manufacturer. In the early 1920s, while testing sandpaper samples at an auto body shop, something sparked his attention. The two-tone paintjobs for cars so popular at the time were a real hassle to execute.This was because there was no efficient way to get a clean divide between the paint colours. The workers would use butcher's paper stuck to the car with adhesive so strong that it would leave behind a sticky residue. Drew realised a gentler pressure adhesive that still sealed well enough to protect against bleed would be ideal.Enlarge ImageRichard Gurley Drew's patent for clear adhesive tape was filed in May 1928 and awarded in May 1930. USPTO He began experimenting with crepe paper for flexibility, coupled with the adhesive the company used for sandpaper. In 1925, Drew's masking tape, the first paper-backed, pressure adhesive tape, hit the market. This came to be known as Scotch Brand Masking Tape, after a worker at the auto body shop where the tape was tested became frustrated that there was too little adhesive on it. "Take this back to your Scotch bosses," he allegedly said, "and tell them to put more adhesive on it." At the time, Scottish people were thought to be stingy, and "Scotch" was used as a pejorative, but somehow it stuck.Drew continued experimenting, and in 1930 his waterproof transparent cellulose tape arrived, called Scotch Brand Cell, ...ادامه مطلب

Slack's new Message Buttons allow users to execute third-party apps -- without leaving the workplace chat app. Slack Slack is trying to make it harder to leave its workplace chat app by bringing third-party apps right into your chats.Dubbed Message Buttons, Slack's new feature will allow users to interact with other apps without leaving the popular messaging tool that companies use to communicate and collaborate with each other. The buttons will allow Slack's 3 million users to book a flight, approve a new job posting or file an expense report - all from within Slack.Slack said the addition of a dozen new apps, from partners such as Trello, Kayak, and Abacus, should improve productivity and workflow by reducing time wasted switching apps. With the new feature, Slack has tall ambitions of its app becoming an indispensable tool that companies will use every day to connect with colleagues and apps. "It will usher in a whole new world of apps built for Slack," the company said in a statement.Other apps also available withing the new Message Buttons include Current, Kip, Greenhouse, Cyber, Qualtrics, PagerDuty, Talkdesk, Riffsy, and Talkus.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Roku is making it easier for viewers to catch up on the news by adding it into its universal search feature.The search feature -- which is available on current Roku streaming boxes, the Streaming Stick and televisions that have the Roku platform built-in -- now allows for entering in a topic such as "Apple" or "NBA," and will retrieve a listing of videos pertaining to that topic from across many of streaming news channels on the platform. These include news broadcasts from the four major US networks -- such as ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX -- as well as from digital outlets like Yahoo (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of CNET). The streaming company announced the addition in a blog post on Friday.And what if you don't have a specific topic in mind? News videos can also be searched using the date by entering in the numbers without punctuation (for instance, June 20th would be 620).Roku's search feature has mainly served to help a viewer find a movie or television show across the myriad of digital stores and subscription services available on the platform. That way, a viewer could find out if they would need to purchase an episode of "Bates Motel" from a store like Amazon Video or if they can stream it from a service that already subscribe to such as Netflix.CNET has reached out to Roku for additional comment on this feature, and will update after hearing back.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

United States Patent and Trademark Office No stranger to wacky patents, Google's latest idea is to put a layer of what is essentially glue on the front of cars to help protect pedestrians who may be struck by autonomous vehicles.The glue will act like flypaper, the Guardian reports -- if a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle, they will stick to the car and carried until it comes to a stop. This way "both the vehicle and pedestrian may come to a more gradual stop than if the pedestrian bounces off the vehicle," the patent explains.While the patent specifically outlines self-driving cars as potential applications for the system, it does say it could be used on any type of vehicle. The company continues to test autonomous vehicles, recently taking to the roads of Phoenix, Arizona.Google declined to comment on the patent.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب