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NYPD will replace handwritten logs with an iPhone app later this month
After more than a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is retiring the handwritten memo books carried by police officers and replacing them with an app, The New York Times reports. On February 17th, officers will begin recording their...
Over 267 million Facebook users reportedly had data exposed online
More than 267 million Facebook users allegedly had their user IDs, phone numbers and names exposed online, according to a report from Comparitech and security researcher Bob Diachenko. That info was found in a database that could be accessed without...
Judge demands Facebook hand over data privacy records
Facebook will have to hand over emails and records related to how it handled the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In September, shareholders sued the company in order to obtain information pertaining to the leak. Today, a US judge sided with shareholders...
Amazon Prime Day 2019 Set to Shatter Records
The Amazon Prime Day 2019 will be again the biggest shopping day in the history of Amazon. Prime Day is setting sales records for Jeff Bezos' online giant every year. Amazon said about last year's...
Amazon Prime Day 2019 Set to Shatter Records
The Amazon Prime Day 2019 will be again the biggest shopping day in the history of Amazon. Prime Day is setting sales records for Jeff Bezos' online giant every year. Amazon said about last year's...
Bandcamp will open its first record store in California next month
Bands and indie artists using Bandcamp to sell their music and merchandise might soon see their creations sold in the service's first brick-and-mortar location. The online platform, known for providing musicians an online portal where they can sell d...
Charles Martinet, Voice of Mario, Lands Guinness World Record
Fans of video games might not recognize the name Charles Martinet, but you have heard his voice if you ever played a game with Mario in it, as Charles has been the voice of the character since back in the early 1990s. Now, Martinet has landed a Guinness Book of World Records achievement.
This record is for the most recorded video game voice-overs for a single character. He won the award after voicing Mario in the Super Mash Bros. Ultimate game that recently launched. With that game’s release, Martinet has voiced Mario in over 100 titles.
Mario isn’t the only character that Martinet has voiced in the Super Mario Bros. world. He is also the voice of Wario, Luigi, Waluigi, and the baby versions of Mario and Luigi.
[via Destructoid]
NASA’s InSight Lander Records Actual Sounds of Wind on Mars
NASA has been exploring Mars for years, but it was never able to capture the winds blowing on its surface.Now, for the first time, a lander has heard these spooky sounds on Martian surface and...
Music streaming is fueling vinyl’s resurgence
Streaming has been blamed for killing off the CD, but industry experts agree it's helping bolster the growth and quality of another physical music format: vinyl. Since 2015, streaming income has eclipsed CD sales, and the likes of Apple Music and Spo...