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Tech NewsTerry Crews Has His Own Cryptocurrency Because Why Not?
Soon you could be spending money minted by Terry Crews—certainly an exciting piece of news if that’s been an ambition of yours. The former NFL player, actor, and game show host just launched his own social currency via the startup Roll, a platform that allows so-called “creatives” to crypto-monetize themselves and their own content via … Continued
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Tech NewsInternetRoku Will Debut Its First Exclusive Series This Month With Cypher
Roku’s first exclusive series to arrive on the Roku Channel will premier this month. The streamer acquired exclusive rights to Cypher, a crime-thriller starring Martin Dingle Wall that centers on a cryptanalyst commissioned by the FBI to help decode an encrypted hit list. To be clear, it’s not a Roku original. Roku didn’t produce it … Continued
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Tech NewsYouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He’s Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing
Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool’s plan to found a media company is allegedly collapsing amid infighting over footage of the Jan 6. Capitol riots and allegations he held a cat hostage for leverage over one of his partners in the venture, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday. Pool first came to prominence in the Occupy Wall … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSomeone Totally Ruined the Memory of PalmOS By Putting Twitter on It
PalmOS devices may look incredibly antiquated now, but the PalmPilot and Handspring Visor had one major advantage over modern smartphones: They didn’t have a Twitter app. Unfortunately, Jorge Cohen has just changed that with a PalmOS Twitter app that brings doomscrolling to these 24-year-old devices. The original PalmPilot was released by U.S. Robotics in March … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Maps Will Let You Draw Missing Roads
Google Maps is great—except when it’s not. Missing roads, incorrect street names, closed-down bridges, and more can really put a hamper on your travels. And by “put a hamper on your travels,” I mean it’ll throw you into a blind rage as you stomp on the gas while you try to figure out where the … Continued
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Tech NewsYour Next Office Might Be a 3D-Printed Smurf House
This odd-looking structure might look vaguely like an alien seed pod, but it’s actually the latest in cubicle design from Dutch 3D-printing company Royal3D. The cubicle or workspace is fully customizable and modular and made of plastic waste from PET bottles. Royal3D partnered with the ARCHITECH Company to create the R-IGLO, an enclosure that users … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsOppo Doubles Down on the Camera Bump for the Find X3 Pro
Like it or not, the smartphone camera bump isn’t going away anytime soon, so Oppo is using a new curvy glass design in its latest flagship phone to try to convince people to love the bump. In addition to updated specs, including a Snapdragon 888 processor and a 6.78-inch QHD+ AMOLED screen with a nifty … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsPhoto-Editing Playing Cards Turn Poker Night Into a Crash Course in Photoshop
You can spend an entire career using a tool like Photoshop and still not master all of its features, so it’s especially daunting for those just starting out. These designer playing cards won’t walk you through every step like a YouTube tutorial, but they feature tips, tricks, and explainers for common digital photo-editing tasks and … Continued
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Tech NewsLatest Windows 10 Update Is Causing Some Printers to Crash PCs
The latest Windows 10 update isn’t playing nice with some printers. According to Windows Latest, the issue is affecting printers from Kyocera, Ricoh, and Zebra. When a user sends a file to print, instead of actually printing, the entire PC will crash, showing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death along with the error code “APC_INDEX_MISMATCH … Continued
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Tech NewsEurope’s Biggest Mobile Tech Show Still Thinks It’s Going to Happen
In the pantheon of tech shows, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is Athena-level—way up on the list but not quite as big or brash as the Zeus-like Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But now it’s acting more like the fun-loving Dionysus and claiming, this early in our post-vaccine world, that the show must go … Continued
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Tech NewsIt’s Not Too Late to Pass a National Privacy Law (OK, It Kind of Is)
The federal government cares little about what happens to your most sensitive data. Its main focus today is stopping espionage and prosecuting computer criminals who pose a threat to itself or corporations and banks. Little energy is spent holding those same institutions accountable when malpractice and greed produce the same outcomes: millions of people threatened, … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsQAnon Is a Dangerous Echo of Conspiracies Past
As the tragic events of January 6th, 2021 played out in glaring clarity on our televisions, laptops, and phones, it became remarkably obvious how disparate the goals were of the separate groups involved. Some of the insurrectionists seemed more than happy to wave TRUMP 2020 flags and snap selfies in the Capitol, while others carried … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicyCongress Has a New $94 Billion Plan to Bring Affordable Internet to Everyone
The so-called digital divide in the U.S. has become all the more glaring over the course of the current pandemic. A new bill could help close the gap. Enter the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, a new bill that was spearheaded by Democrats Rep. James Clyburn, of South Carolina, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar … Continued
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Tech NewsBeeple’s $69 Million NFT Sale Is a Good Time to Rethink Some Things
“It’s hard to be like, ‘Oh man, I hope it doesn’t flop!’” artist Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple chortled at the kickoff of his “Christie’s Closing Party” Clubhouse session this morning, about an hour before his Christie’s sale would close with the staggering bid of $69,346,250—making it the third-most valuable sale by a living artist. In … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Want to Decorate My Entire Home With Classic Arcade Games Turned Into Playable Works of Art
If you grew up hanging out in arcades, now that they’re gone, there’s probably a small part of you who wants to recreate that experience at home. But sacrificing a big chunk of your living space to classic arcade cabinets no longer seems necessary as Jürgen Müller demonstrates, turning a classic Pong cabinet into a … Continued
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Tech NewsInternetVerizon’s Cheapest Plans Will Only Get You Its Slowest 5G Speeds
Bad news for folks on Verizon’s basic plans. If you want the carrier’s faster 5G speeds, you’re going to have to cough up for a more expensive unlimited plan. Technically that’s nothing new. Verizon has already restricted its faster millimeter-wave (mmWave) network to customers on its Play More, Do More, and Get More Unlimited plans. … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Rumored to Finally Embrace Bigger Batteries on the iPhone 13
For years, Apple has been able to equip its iPhones with smaller batteries than its Android counterparts thanks to the strong energy efficiency of the company’s A-series chips, but it seems that for the iPhone 13, Apple might finally increase the size of the iPhone’s power packs. The latest info comes from noted Apple analyst … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Love This Over-Engineered Door Handle That Wipes Itself Down With Disinfectant After Every Use
Necessity breeds innovation, and during this pandemic that has resulted in some unique ways to curb the spread of Covid-19. Door handles in well-trafficked locations are notoriously dirty and a hot spot for viruses, so a Swiss company called Tweaq has created what it’s calling the “world’s first smart self-disinfecting door handle.” One solution that’s … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Can’t Wrap My Brain Around This Tiny SSD That Puts 4TB of Data in the Palm of My Hand
Technology gets faster, cheaper, and more capacious year after year, but every once in a while it still manages to catch you by surprise. It wasn’t too long ago that 4TB of storage required a RAID enclosure claiming a corner of your desk, but Crucial’s new X6 4TB portable SSD packs that much storage into … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsHow to Back Up All Your Photos Without a Cloud Subscription
The photos and videos you’ve captured are probably the most important files on your phone, which is why Apple, Google and other storage service providers want to give you ways to get these pictures and movies up into the cloud as quickly as possible. As convenient as that cloud storage is, it usually comes with … Continued
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