‘MST3K’ raises about US$5.8 million, becomes biggest crowdfunded video project to date

When Mystery Science Theater 3000 crowdfunded its revival, there was an inkling that it would be big. And yes, it was big indeed. The show that makes fun of bad movies has become the biggest crowdfunded video project to date after raising nearly US$5.8 million through Kickstarter. They beat out Veronica Mars movie’s $5.7 million. According to Engadget, it has also raised $600,000 outside of Kickstarter. The result? You’ll get 14 new MST3K episodes (including a holiday special) in 2016.

Source: Engadget

Take easier screenshots with the Google app

Taking screenshots is a bit cumbersome on Android. You’d have to press the power and volume down button at the same time. A new update from Google lets you just use your home button to take the screenshot for you. It’ll even take out the notifications bar and have a share button so you can easily send the screenshot to yourself or someone else. However, this only works with Google’s Now on Tap, which means you need to have Android Marshmallow running and you have the latest Google app.

Source: Lifehacker

Google's Sundar Pichai expresses support for Muslims, slams intolerant discourse

It's so disheartening to see the intolerant discourse playing out in the news these days — statements that our country would be a better place without the voices, ideas and the contributions of certain groups of people, based solely on where they come from, or their religion.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written an open letter in support of Muslims while slamming the 'intolerable discourse,'indirectly referring to  blustery Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Pichai brings a unique perspective since he himself is an immigrant who came from Madras, India 22 years ago and settled to study and work in the US. 

Titled 'Let's not fear defeat our values,' the letter preaches tolerance and the advantages of different voices in running successful companies as well as nation building. Pichai is the latest recognized tech CEO who has weighed in on serious issues of equality. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg also gave his support to Muslims and Apple's Tim Cook famously expressed his support for minorities and he even penned an essay on bloomberg advocating for equality.

Twitter gets 1Password integration on iOS

It’s now much easier and safer to log into your Twitter iOS app. The app gets an update that adds 1Password integration to it. This will come in handy when you sign in multiple accounts or when you’re logging into Twitter for the first time on your mobile device. iOS users get first dibs though with Android hopefully getting the same feature soon.

Source: The Next Web