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February, 2020

Switzerland Urges U.S. to Remove it From its ‘Pirate Watchlist’

On April 1st, Switzerland's new copyright law will go into effect. The new legislation incorporates many recommendations from copyright holders, including a “stay-down” provision. Not all wishes were granted, however, as site-blocking is off-limits and downloading will remain legal. The country hopes that the changes will nonetheless warrant a removal from the U.S. pirate watchlist.

Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers

Numbers are one of the most commonly asked for pieces of data, typically used in dates. We know from user research that some users prefer the large buttoned number keyboard (resembling a telephone keypad) for entering numbers on mobile. Until now, the GOV.UK Design System date input component used the HTML element <input type=”number”> to provide this number keypad when a user enters dates.

Genshin Impact illumine la PAX East avec 12 minutes de gameplay

Malgré les nombreuses annulations de ses confrères causées par la peur du Covid-19, le studio chinois miHoYo a fait le déplacement au salon PAX East de Boston pour présenter une nouvelle démo jouable de Genshin Impact, son action-RPG en monde ouvert dont IGN Japan nous montre ici la démo tournant sur PC.

Like `console.log` But Better

Did you know the console has more properties than log? Try it yourself! Write this into your console and be amazed. console.log(console);

Ad-free news subscription Scroll now hides unsightly toolbar by default (Update: Dark mode too)

Fkn yes this is way better.

The Scroll bar at the bottom of the screen — although helpful with its ability to read articles aloud — that used to take up a significant bit of display real estate has been neatly tucked behind a convenient Scroll tab.

Pokémon Go memorializes late YouTuber Etika with a pokéstop

Pokémon Go added a new pokéstop to commemorate the late Desmond Amofah, better known as YouTube personality Etika. On Twitter, Reversal — a Netherlands-based YouTuber who’s been campaigning for a pokéstop for Etika since last year — posted an image of the new spot. “Remembering the passing of Etika, JoyconBoyz forever,” the description reads.

Disney Plus announces preorder discounts for Europe

A year’s subscription costs £10 / €10 less if you subscribe before March 23rd

Samsung blasts Galaxy phones worldwide with weird ‘1’ notification

In what appears to be a curious accident, Galaxy phone users worldwide have received a mysterious notification from Samsung’s Find My Mobile app. The alert, which several users are reporting, simply reads “1” with another “1” below it.

Amazon patent imagines using a giant whip to yeet payloads into space

It’s a pretty wild idea. Amazon’s patent shows the whip attached to a marine vehicle (read: a boat) via a winch at one end and an “aerial vehicle” carrying the payload on another. Along the whip is a series of additional aerial vehicles that help generate the whip waveform and could also draw power via the whip itself.

Une démo gratuite et un season pass pour Hatsune Miku Mega Mix sur Switch

Cette veille de Saint-Valentin est placée au Japon sous le signe de Hatsune Miku, qui viendra réchauffer les coeurs avec la sortie aujourd'hui même de Project DIVA Mega Mix sur Switch. Tant qu'à faire, elle refroidira aussi les porte-feuilles avec l'annonce d'un season pass qui s'échelonnera jusqu'au mois de mai, soit 6 packs de contenu supplémentaires incluant chansons et modules - le nom que l'on donne aux cosmétiques sur les podiums de cette série de jeux musicaux.

Jeff Bezos bought the most expensive property in LA with an eighth of a percent of his net worth

According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reportedly just bought the most expensive property in Los Angeles from David Geffen, another unimaginably wealthy man, for $165 million. (It’s the Warner Estate, which spreads out over nine acres in Beverly Hills.)

Breaking: Essential is dead, and so are updates to Essential Phone

Andy Rubin's Essential launched its first phone in 2017, and it turns out that will be its only phone. After making some news last year with the bizarre Project GEM prototype, Essential has now announced that it won't be releasing that device or any other. Essential will shut down, effective immediately.

Google officially introduces emoji mashup stickers on Gboard as 'Emoji Kitchen' (Updated)

Gboard is constantly under construction as Google keeps finding ways to improve one of the most used tools on our phones. The latest experiment looks extremely similar to an earlier test that added GIF and sticker suggestions for emoji last year. This time, the company is experimenting with stickers that put one emoji's emotion on another emoji's shape, and the results can be hilarious.

Those RCS chat 'hacks' for Google Messages will stop working by the end of the month (Update: More details from Google)

For those of us here in the 'states, (or the UK, France, and Mexico), this doesn't really matter. Google officially rolled out RCS/chat support via Messages, so we're all first-class citizens in the future of digital messaging. But this change will leave those that used the hack in unsupported markets out of luck.

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Here is the list of connections that Microsoft Edge requires to work properly

Some users may want to know about these URLs to block them right away. A user could block update requests to update Microsoft Edge manually when it is appropriate, or disable the experimentation and configuration service to avoid configuration or functionality changes made by Microsoft.

I think I already have ecs.skype.com set in PiHole

La Suisse punira l'homophobie

La Suisse pourra sanctionner ceux qui discriminent des personnes en raison de leur orientation sexuelle. Les Suisses ont soutenu à 63,1% dimanche un élargissement de la norme antiraciste.

BingSnap is a freeware program that can download the daily Bing wallpaper

Microsoft puts up a new wallpaper on the homepage of Bing every day. Most of them are really cool, and you may like them that much that you may want to use them as your desktop background.

Nintendo Switch hacker pleads guilty, faces child pornography sentence, too

The Nintendo charges could get him a maximum sentence of five years in prison, but the child pornography charges carry a potential sentence of 20 years. [...] Prosecutors, in a plea agreement, have recommended that a judge sentence him to three years in prison.