How to Turn Off 5G to Save Your iPhone 12 Battery
The entire iPhone 12 lineup is capable of connecting to lightning fast 5G networks, which is great news for when those networks are actually lightning fast. But tapping into those gigabit speeds requires a sacrifice: battery life. But Apple baked a Smart Data Mode setting into new iPhones to give you more control over…Read more...
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Space Force Personnel Will Be Called 'Guardians' Because Sure, Whatever
Outbound Vice President/gynophobe-in-chief Mike Pence announced at a press conference on Friday that enlisted personnel in the Space Force will be referred to as “Guardians.”Read more...
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Apparently Microsoft Wants to Design Its Own ARM Chips
Seems like Microsoft isn’t going to sit back and let Apple take all the glory with its new M1 processor. According to The Verge (via Bloomberg News), Microsoft is reportedly designing its own ARM processor for its Azure cloud servers and possibly even a future Surface device.Read more...
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The Best Gifts for Chicken Nerds
This year, we have to find the silver linings wherever we can. One of those glimmering plus-sides is a sudden rise in chicken ownership—at least, I’d call that a silver lining. Chickens are great! (Salmonella outbreaks aside, of course.) And plenty of others seem to think so, too. According to My Pet Chicken, which…Read more...
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Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says
With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this. Read more...
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Drone Giant DJI Added to U.S. Blacklist
The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added drone maker DJI to its “Entity List,” effectively banning U.S. companies from doing business with the China-based firm.Read more...
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The Mandalorian Finale Just Expanded Star Wars' Streaming Plans
A lot was going on in this week’s Mandalorian finale, but there was a surprising bit of news tucked in all the way at the end.Read more...
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Sony WF-1000XM3 True Wireless Headphones Are Down to $158, the Lowest Price Yet
Sony WF-1000XM3 True Wireless Headphones | $158 | AmazonRead more...
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RIP Android Things, the Smart Home Platform We All Forgot Existed
While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Android Things—a platform Google launched in 2018 for the Internet of Things. And although Google said last year it was shifting Android Things away from the smart home, it’s now officially pulling the plug on the…Read more...
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Members of Congress to Receive Covid-19 Vaccine While Debating How Many Crumbs to Give Americans
Members of Congress will be able to get vaccinated for covid-19 in the first round of inoculations currently being rolled out by Pfizer and BioNTech, according to the physician to Congress and a new report from Reuters. Meanwhile, those same members of Congress are still debating whether to give Americans $600 each in…Read more...
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Twitter Starts Testing Spaces, Its 'Dinner Party'-Like Voice Chat Rooms
The social media company that brought you the Fleet began testing its take on audio-0nly chat rooms on Thursday. In a thread announcing the private beta tests, Twitter said a small group of users would be able to create Spaces, as the feature is now being called, and invite any of their followers or other Twitter…Read more...
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TikTok Is Reportedly Booting Off OnlyFans Creators and Sex Workers
OnlyFans creators and sex workers have seen TikTok delete their accounts en masse in recent months for violating the platforms sex and nudity policies, Rolling Stone reports. Of the half a dozen creators the outlet spoke with, all of them said their videos didn’t violate TikTok’s policies and believe they were banned…Read more...
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Yes, Donald Trump Had a Twitter Password Any Rube Could Guess, Netherlands Authorities Say
Twitter and the White House have both denied reports that a Dutch security researcher was able to log into Donald Trump’s infamous Twitter account with the impossibly easy to guess password “MAGA2020!” But it turns out that really did happen, at least according to Dutch prosecutors.Read more...
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How Google Ruined the Internet (According to Texas)
Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have in…Read more...
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Facebook Repays News Industry It Destroyed With Print Ads Begging You to Hate Apple
Facebook has taken out its second round of full-page ads in two days seeking to have Apple... not roll out a privacy update or something.Read more...
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Well, Well, Well, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi Must Testify in Epic Case
Yes, Apple and Epic are still in a legal battle over in-app transactions in Fortnite. And apparently, a judge has now ordered both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Craig Federighi, Apple’s perfectly coiffed senior vice president of software engineering, to testify.Read more...
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The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s highlights and…Read more...
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Longing For a Theater Filled With Strangers
Several years ago, at an independent South Jersey movie theater that would later be overtaken by AMC corporate, I saw The Secret Life of Bees. My mother and I had read the bestseller it was adapted from just a few years before and growing up in the kind of family that went to the movies at least once, maybe twice per…Read more...
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Google-Fitbit Merger Wins EU Approval, With a Few Conditions
Last year, Google announced it was going to acquire Fitbit for a whopping $2.1 billion. Immediately, the news raised privacy concerns as Google is a tech giant with a lot of ad data on the cusp of absorbing another company with a hoard of health data. The deal itself has been under some intense scrutiny from…Read more...
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The World's First Death Attributed to Air Pollution Could Spark the Change We Need
In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s untimely, tragic passing in 2013. She is the first person in the world to have a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death. The declaration could…Read more...
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A New Fitness Tracker Sensor Can Learn and Recognize Almost Any Activity
Depending on the sport, different athletes rely on different exercises during their fitness routines and while fitness trackers have gotten smarter, they can generally only recognize a handful of motions like swimming, riding a bike, or running. Bosch has developed a new self-contained chip that can be taught to…Read more...
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3,400 Dead
The U.S. reported precisely 3,400 deaths from covid-19 on Wednesday, a new record in a long list of new records this month. And there’s not much more to say that hasn’t already been said about this avoidable tragedy—the greatest failure of American political institutions to protect human life in recent U.S. history.Read more...
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Genius Media Group Is Suing Google For Antitrust
Joining the national pile-on of entities suing Google for antitrust is Genius Media Group, which announced a lawsuit on Wednesday night related to the search giant’s ad exchange practices.Read more...
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Alabama Amazon Workers Could Become the First in the Nation To Unionize
Warehouse workers in an Alabama Amazon facility could soon become the first unionized workers employed by the retail giant after federal regulators greenlit a National Labor Relations Board election on Wednesday.Read more...
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The Best Gifts and Gadgets to Help Your Youngest Child Build Character
Children are wonderful miracles. The way they go from babies to chaos to creatures with genuine personalities and feelings all their own is remarkable. But youngest kids of a multi-child household are another story. They are nightmare hellions with little regard for others, an incredible capacity to care only about…Read more...
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Twitch Bans the Words 'Simp' and 'Virgin' (Actual Simps And Virgins Still Welcome)
As part of an ongoing process of retooling its policies around harassment and hateful conduct, Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults. If they are used in a friendly way, the…Read more...
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