Distracted? Tired? Bad at staying in your lane? Just plain out of it? Don’t worry, your car’s got you.

While fully autonomous vehicles might not be here for awhile, new driver assistance systems are so advanced you’ll feel like you’re in a self-driving car. 

What’s coming down the pipeline makes Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system look positively polite and passive. Instead of quiet beeps urging you to put your hands back on the wheel or a light flashing when something’s in your blind spot, these features plan to give control over to the vehicle. 

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So you’ve got a $100 to spare. Maybe grandma included a crisp hundo in this year’s birthday card, or, hell, let’s just say you’re a brain genius who always has extra cash laying around. Yeah, let’s go with that. 

The question is, just what are you going to do with your excess wealth? If music-streaming service Spotify has its way, you’re going to spend those dollars on its completely necessary forthcoming voice-controlled music player for your car. That’s right, Spotify is allegedly getting into the hardware game. 

So reports the Financial Times, which notes that the company best known for paying artists shit is asking you to kick some additional hard-earned dollars its way in exchange for a device that the market is definitely crying out for.  Read more…

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Let Jim Cantore scare you into staying inside this weekend.

The Weather Channel meteorologist stars in a new video previewing this weekend’s winter storm, which is set to strike the Midwest and Northeast. Like the network’s previous videos about storm surges and wildfires, the segment utilizes immersive mixed reality (IMR), which means that that simulated fallout from the storm “happens” around Cantore as the video progresses. 

It also means that everything looks extremely real and scary. A power line falls. A city bus skids on the ice. Are you venturing outdoors this weekend? Please do not. Read more…

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New court documents filed by the Democratic National Committee unveiled a previously unknown infiltration attempt by Russian hackers.

“On November 14, 2018, dozens of DNC email addresses were targeted in a spearphishing campaign,” claim the DNC in the documents, which were filed on Thursday night. “The content of these emails and their timestamps were consistent with a spearphishing campaign that leading cybersecurity experts have tied to Cozy Bear (APT 29).”

Cozy Bear is the Russian intelligence agency-linked hacker group that infiltrated the DNC during the 2016 presidential elections. 

The DNC says there is no evidence that the group was successful in the attempt, which was made one week after the 2018 Midterms. Read more…

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Look, we’re only 18 days into 2019 and it’s already looking better than the shitshow that was last year. Starting with this thread. 

Twitter user @macnchief came across the most blessed image on Reddit and shared it to Twitter: an impossibly small pup wearing a Croc on its head. 

Hmmmmmm.

Dare I ask … who wore it better?

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Bored of regular fireworks? ALE, a Japanese “space entertainment” company, is working on making artificial meteor showers an option. ALE has already managed to send its first satellite into orbit to conduct experiments ahead of their first attempt for a meteor show due in 2020. If the company succeeds, you might soon be able to buy shooting stars. Read more…

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He blames the revenue loss on less travel by government contractors and employees. Read more…

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At the last real day of CES (before Kanye showed up and tried to make the vacant halls of Thursday a “thing”), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey held a public discussion to clue us all in on his efforts to make Twitter better.

But hey! Forget the hate speech, Nazis, account-muting, and general directionlessness of Dorsey’s social media devil child for a sec. What the people really wanted to know about were Jack’s SHOES.

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Mortal Kombat tops the very short list of video games that have cemented themselves as permanent staples of pop culture. Whether it’s pro wrestlers, Wreck-It Ralph, Zayn Malik’s Met Gala outfit, or Lil Wayne and Skrillex tracks, its influence far exceeds the confines of a fighting game.

You’d think after nearly three decades, it’d get old. But the hype for Mortal Kombat 11 is still just as fatal.

“We’re all just honored the game’s still going,” said Chris Chapman, who’s been working on the franchise since 1994 and is now director of art at NetherRealm Studios. “I’m honored to see how we’re stitched into culture now.” Read more…

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Let’s just cut the mushy bullshit and get straight to the point: Online dating can truly suck. Don’t get me wrong — the help is seriously great when you start to feel like you’re #ForeverAlone, but the entire process of creating a dating profile and dealing with less than ideal matches can be cumbersome.

You’re forced to answer fake “deep” questions that everyone lies about anyway, deal with creepy dudes and girls who think it’s cute to terrorize your inbox, and navigate sites that just do not have what you’re looking for.

Here’s the thing though: OkCupid is about to be your new best friend.

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