Google Wifi to show which devices have bad connection

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Google has announced that it’s adding a new feature to Google Wifi that will allow you to measure how well each device on your network is performing. 

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In the next few weeks, you’ll be able to use the Google Wifi app to check the connection of any device that’s plugged into your network, be it your Amazon Echo, smart TV, or other IoT device. 

Google’s Wifi network already allows you to measure the speed and quality of your internet connection. The new feature, however, will essentially allow you to run a speed test on each individual smart device on your network.  Read more…

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Emilia Clarke says she was always paid equally on ‘Game of Thrones’

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It shouldn’t be that hard to pay women the same amount as men for equal work, but Hollywood – and, you know, every other industry – continues to struggle with itMashable first noted the lack of pay gap on Game of Thrones in 2017, and Emilia Clarke confirmed at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival that this has always been the show’s standard.

“On Game of Thrones, I have always been paid the same amount as my male costars,” Clarke told Glamour. “It was my first job, and I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.”

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Snoop Dogg surprises guests at multiple blockchain parties

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The Dogg is in the house, and you better believe he’s hodling. 

With NYC’s Blockchain Week in high gear, the rapper best known (these days, anyway) for smoking weed and kicking it with Martha Stewart took a little detour into the heart of cryptocounty. And boy did he get around. 

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A performance at a Ripple party was or particular note, with Bloomberg reporting that blood orange margaritas and champagne flowed freely.

The one and only @SnoopDogg performing live at #XRPCommunity Night! pic.twitter.com/lWHhU6s1V6

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Facebook’s adding new features to Stories to complete its Snapchat domination

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For Facebook, the future is all about Stories. At F8, the company shared the surprising revelation that the Stories format is growing faster than feeds.

But if the company wants to maintain that pace, it needs to juice Stories’ growth in the main Facebook app, not just Instagram and WhatsApp. Now, it looks like the company may have a new strategy to do just that.

The company just introduced a new set of updates for its camera-centric feature, but, unlike some previous updates, the features will roll out to users in India first.

SEE ALSO: Why does everyone who’s ever ghosted me still watch my Instagram Stories? Read more…

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This woman could become the first Native American governor in US history

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The list of Native American governors in American history is depressingly short. It’s zero, to be exact.

That’s why Idaho Democrat Paulette Jordan’s Tuesday primary win for governor was so significant. If Jordan wins the general election, she’s poised to become the first Native American governor in American history, and the first female governor in Idaho history.

It’s a historical achievement, if a painfully overdue one.

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Jordan, a member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe, defeated moderate Democrat A.J. Balukoff in Tuesday’s primary. She has served two terms in the Idaho state legislature, where she emerged as one of the state’s leading young liberal voices. Read more…

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People are mesmerised by the return of this disappearing lake

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Nestled deep in the mountains of southern Tasmania in Australia, the Disappearing Tarn is sought after by photographers and intrepid hikers.

As the name suggests, the tarn isn’t always there, but recent heavy rainfall in the region has given it new life.

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Photographer and blogger James Spencer visited the spot on Saturday, which is only accessible by a 6.5 kilometre (4.04 mile) hike up the mountain.

“There really was only one place to go for a walk when the weekend rolled around,” Spencer wrote in a blog post.  Read more…

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The stigma against oatmeal raisin cookies is grotesque

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No matter how hard it tries, no matter how many recipe formations it attempts to squeeze into, it seems the oatmeal raisin cookie can never do anything right.

The stigma against the cookie is persistent and unwavering. For as long as I can remember, oatmeal cookies have belonged to a lower caste of cookie. While some of the criticisms of oatmeal raisin cookies are genuinely felt, so much of the opposition to oatmeal raisin originates in cultural prejudice.

We are taught to hate oatmeal raisin, we were not born to loathe it. 

Let’s strip away the layers of stigma and celebrate oatmeal raisin cookies for what they are: a delight. Read more…

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Facebook’s new transparency report ignores its biggest problems

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Another day, another stop on Facebook’s never-ending apology tour. 

On Tuesday, that takes the form of the social network’s latest transparency report, which, for the first time, includes stats on the vast amounts of content the company removes for violating its community standards.

SEE ALSO: Why you feel guilty unfriending people you don’t even like

In the past, the report’s focused on censorship, tracking Facebook’s response to takedown requests from government officials. But, content removed at the behest of local governments represents only a tiny fraction of the total content Facebook removes every year.  Read more…

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‘Solo’ review roundup: It may not leave an impression, but it’ll make you smile

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Solo: A Star Wars Story flies into theaters in little over a week, and reviews point to a Star Wars adventure that’s perfectly fine, we’re all fine, how are you? 

But seriously; Solo has been through a lot, from a highly scrutinized casting process to director shakeups to our own doubts from the first full trailer. But Mashable’s Chris Taylor (who literally wrote the book on Star Wars) says the new film will delight even hardcore fans, and in her spoiler-free review, Angie Han claims she was “fully on board” within minutes.

For more (spoiler-free) reviews of Solo: A Star Wars Story, read on. Read more…

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