Remains of the Day: a Day Without Women
If you read regularly, you probably noticed that our page slowed down to crawl speed today. This is because the women of Lifehacker are participating in the Day Without a Woman strike along with many of our colleagues at Gizmodo Media.
You can read more about the strike here and about Jezebel . The organizers say the purpose of the strike is to “[recognize] the tremendous value that women of all backgrounds add to our socio-economic system, while receiving lower wages and experiencing greater inequality, vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment and lack of employment guarantees. … “
Thus, this day was slow for us. We’ll be back in full force tomorrow. Here are some more stories to end your day:
- A PS4 software update will be available tomorrow that will support the external hard drive. It also adds a “boost mode” for the PS4 Pro, which should improve performance for some legacy games that have not been specifically coded to take advantage of the PS4 Pro’s enhanced features. (Not guaranteed to work with all games, so this is an optional mode.) [PlayStation Blog]
- Time Warner is set to launch a cartoon-only streaming service, Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera. It will be called Boomerang and will cost $ 4.99 a month to watch old classics like Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny, as well as new shows currently streaming on their animation channel (also called Boomerang). It’s nice to have access to many of the classic cartoons I grew up with, but I wish they’d just license the show to an existing service. This is the costly fate of a cord cutter . [Wall Street Magazine]
- Finally, Nest has added two-factor authentication for user accounts that control their smart home devices. Hopefully this will help thwart attempts to hack such IoT products that played a role in last year’s massive DDoS attack (not that the attack was related to Nest products). You must enable two-factor functionality on any service that offers it. [Gizmodo]
- Pinterest acquired Jelly , a fancy search engine that started out as a Q&A platform from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. [The Verge]