Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, tried to throw shade at Democrats with a photo of Team Trump donning “Keep Iowa Great” hats as they left the state on Tuesday. It didn’t exactly go as planned.
“So much winning,” he tweeted, alongside the photo of the Trump allies on a plane. “Didn’t have time to pay attention, so how’d it go for the Democrats? Everything go off without a hitch?”
This was, of course, a reference to the Democrats’ Iowa caucus debacle involving a faulty app and a major delay in results going public.
But Murtaugh’s plan backfired. Soon enough folks online were roasting the photo, noting the vast majority of the people in the picture were white. Read more…
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We’re less than a week away from Samsung’s big Unpacked event, and the leaks will not stop coming.
The big draw at Unpacked this year is the Samsung Galaxy S20 line of flagship phones. Just in case you still thought we were wrong about that, Samsung went ahead and leaked the phone on one of its European websites for a brief moment on Tuesday before taking it down, according to WinFuture, who also captured screenshots of the product page.
While we’re still waiting on confirmation for plenty of major details about the Galaxy S20, Samsung’s small mistake (if we’re being generous) gave us some useful information. The camera bump on the back is long and vertical, while the camera on the front comes in a hole-punch configuration, for example. Read more…
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Disney+ has hit 26.5 million subscribers since its Nov. 12 launch, according to Disney’s latest earnings report.
That’s a big number for a new streamer — one with not nearly the global reach of Netflix, but it’s coming — but given Disney’s expansive library, aggressive marketing, near-limitless resources, and a certain adorable Child, we’re not surprised.
Verizon’s unlimited customers gained access to a free year of Disney+, accounting for a significant chunk of the subscription numbers (up to one-third). Disney itself promoted a rate of $69.99 per year to new users (a.k.a. everyone), and Disney+ remains one of the cheaper streaming services at $7 month-to-month. Read more…
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As our schedules become more and more jam packed, having the option to automate daily chores, such as feeding the cat, can be a real time saver. Plus, it just feels good to know your feline bestie has a nice full belly. Pet product manufacturers have smartly recognized this need of pet parents everywhere, and there are now dozens of automatic cat feeders available these days. To help you figure out which option is right for you, we researched the internet’s favorite models and broke them down based on the features cat owners care about most.
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Whether you’re looking for a no-frills, basic gravity feeder or a full-fledged product to program perfectly timed and portioned meals, we’ve got the best automatic cat feeder options to fit your—and your kitty’s—needs. Read more…
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BEST OVERALL
PetSafe Healthy Pet Simply Feed Automatic Feeder
For pet parents who want to program multiple daily meals in set portions, the PetSafe Healthy Pet Simply Feed Automatic Feeder is your best bet.
Capacity: 24 cups
Meals: Up to 12
Power source: Battery/adapter
$134.95 from Chewy
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BEST IF YOU WANT COOL FEATURES
WESTLINK 6L Automatic Pet Feeder Food Dispenser
The WESTLINK 6L Automatic Pet Feeder Food Dispenser has all the bells and whistles cat owners want in an automatic feeder.
Capacity: 25 cups
Meals: Up to 4
Power source: Battery/USB
$129.99 from Amazon
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BEST FOR CATS WITH SPECIAL DIETS
SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder
If you have a multi-cat home where one feline requires a special diet or medication, the SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder can give you peace of mind the right pet is consuming what they need.
Capacity: 2.5 cups
Meals: 1
Power source: Battery
$149.99 from Chewy
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BEST BUDGET PICK
PetSafe 5-Meal Automatic Feeder
Capacity: 1 cup/chamber (5 cups total)
Meals: Up to 5
Power source: Battery
$52.95 from Chewy
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BEST SPLURGE
Wagz Smart Dog Feeder
Capacity: 19 cups
Meals: Unlimited (up to 4 cups at a time)
Power source: Battery/adapter
$245 from Amazon
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BEST GRAVITY CAT FEEDER
Van Ness Medium Auto Feeder
Capacity: Approximately 15 cups
Meals: N/A
Power source: N/A
$12.99 from Chewy
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BEST SMART FEEDER
PetSafe Smart Feed Automatic Dog and Cat Feeder
Capacity: 24 cups
Meals: Up to 12
Power source: Battery/adapter
$185.95 from Chewy
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BEST FOR WET FOOD
GemPet 5 Meal Trays Automatic Pet Feeder
Capacity: Each compartment holds about 240 mL, for a total capacity of 1.2L
Meals: 5
Power source: Battery/adapter
$65.99 from Amazon
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BEST FOR INDEPENDENT CATS
AmazonBasics Self-Dispensing Gravity Pet Feeder and Waterer
If your pet can be trusted, there’s no reason not to go with this product.
Capacity: 11.5 cups
$11.99 from Amazon
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BEST FOR PAMPERED CATS
WOPET Automatic Pet Feeder
Its sleek design will make dry cat food seem a bit more attractive.
Capacity: 20 cups
$89.95 from Amazon
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BEST FOR SMALLER CATS
Iseebiz Automatic Cat Feeder
Reviewers say this voice-recorder-included pet feeder is “indestructible.”
Capacity: 6 cups
$58.99 from Amazon
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BEST AFFORDABLE SMART OPTION
BELOPEZZ 6-Liter Smart Pet Automatic Feeders
This feeder has all the bells and whistles (and great reviews) at a great price.
TL;DR: Three ultra-powerful Acer Predator gaming laptops are on sale on Amazon for as much as $401 off — choose from the well-rounded Helios 300, the beefy Helios 700, or the slim Triton 500.
If your MacBook or Chromebook sounds like it’s about to blast off whenever you open one too many tabs, you’re probably well aware that there are limits to the processing capabilities of today’s thin notebooks.
Enter: gaming laptops. They’re definitely not as sleek or delicate as, say, your garden variety MacBook Air or a Pixelbook Go, but what they lack in portability, they make up for in sheer power. With graphics cards capable of some serious heavy-lifting, lightning-fast processors, and specialized cooling systems that prevent overheating during marathon multiplayer sessions, gaming laptops are, like, the absolute units to normal laptops’ smol beans. (That’s not to say normal laptops are useless, just that there are different machines out there for different computing purposes.) Read more…
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For dissidents around the globe, Twitter remains the tool of choice for speaking out against their repressive governments.
With that in mind, it’s easy to see why today’s announcement from the social media company is so troubling. Twitter, in a Monday blog post and corresponding statement, announced it had discovered that “bad actors” with possible state-sponsored connections had found a way to tie phone numbers to Twitter accounts en masse.
In other words, a hacker using this exploit could potentially reveal the identity of a person tweeting under a pseudonym who has their account tied to a phone number. Or, alternatively, it’s worth remembering that determining the phone number connected to an account is often a crucial step in hacking it. Read more…
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We finally know how much Google is making from ads on YouTube.
Google took in more than $15 billion from YouTube ads in 2019, the company revealed. That number, nearly 10 percent of Alphabet’s total revenue, doesn’t include other sources of revenue from the video platform, including subscriptions.
Google disclosed the numbers, along with revenue for its growing cloud business, for the first time ahead of Alphabet’s fourth-quarter earnings call.
“I’m really pleased with our continued progress in Search and in building two of our newer growth areas — YouTube, already at $15 billion in annual ad revenue, and Cloud, which is now on a $10 billion revenue run rate,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement. Read more…
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As conspiracy theories about the coronavirus spread on social media, Twitter is taking new steps to fight disinformation about the virus like automating search results likely to direct individuals to “non-credible content.” Read more…
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Byte, the long promised successor to Vine, has already eclipsed its predecessor by one key metric.
In its first week on the App Store and Google Play, the app was downloaded more than 1.3 million times, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. That’s nearly twice as many downloads as Vine received in its first week on the App Store.
Sensor Tower further notes that the vast majority of Byte’s downloads have so far come from the United States, which accounts for 70 percent of its first-week installs.
Byte, which is backed by Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann, was released exactly seven years to the day Vine was initially launched. Of course, much has changed since Vine first introduced the looping video concept that launched a thousand memes and propelled some of the internet’s earliest influencers to stardom. Read more…
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