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New Culture War Just Dropped: World’s Largest Jeweler Pivots to Lab-Grown Diamonds

If you can bring yourself to wear a diamond that doesn’t represent a shaved-down bit of the planet’s finite supply, but is chemically identical to the original product and denies warlords funding—then Pandora is your shop. The world’s largest jeweler (in sheer volume of product), known for charm bracelets, has announced that it will only…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Slow-Mo Footage Reveals the Unique Way Plasma TVs Displayed a Single Frame of Video

As fun as it is to watch things go boom in slow motion, high-speed cameras are more useful as educational and research tools, revealing phenomena that are otherwise imperceptible to the naked human eye, like the weird way old plasma TVs would display a single frame of video by flashing various parts of the image…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Microsoft Is Cutting the Adobe Flash Cord in July

Adobe Flash officially reached end of life at the end of 2020, and now Microsoft is removing Flash from Windows 10 this summer. While Microsoft had already started to remove support for Flash from a number of its apps, including its Edge browser, there is still some native support for Adobe’s Flash Player built into…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

At the heart of Epic Games’ case against Apple is the company’s 30% App Store commission and its iron rule over in-app purchases. We now know, thanks to internal documents unearthed through the Epic’s lawsuit, that Phil Schiller, the top executive in charge of App Store, had floated the idea of cutting its infamous Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song

Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into an Aging Baby Yoda With Male Pattern Baldness

A few months after OtterBox gave the Echo Dot a Baby Yoda facelift last year, Amazon revealed a complete redesign of the smart speaker, making it rounder to squeeze better speakers inside. So OtterBox is back with another Grogu-themed stand for the fourth-generation Echo Dot, but this time around, the Child isn’t looking as adorable.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say

When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one—assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future of “number exhaustion”—a sort of “peak oil” for phone numbers, when every possible number that could…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Uber Is Teaming Up With Arrival To Create an Electric Ride-Hailing Car

Arrival, the electric bus and vehicle manufacturer that’s been making waves since it went public in March, announced on Monday that it plans to partner with Uber to create a completely electric ride-hailing car. A UK-based startup perhaps best known for its desire to disrupt the traditional assembly line models in auto manufacturing in favor…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force

An international task force has shut down a large-scale dark web child sexual abuse platform, along with several similarly aligned dark web chat sites. According to an announcement from Germany’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), “Boystown” had 400,000 registered users and was “one of Europe’s most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Future of American Democracy Hangs in Balance and/or Doesn’t

Facebook’s Oversight Board, the supposedly independent watchdog tasked with determining whether Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook after he incited a deadly neo-fascist riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 will be as permanent as his Twitter ban, has reached a decision. On Monday, it stated that it will be announcing its findings at Wednesday at…

Social Media Tom McKay

Hardware Hacker Breaks the DRM on a Mini Dishwasher

In what amounts to a very clever bit of hardware hacking, developer dekuNukem (the hacker who created a little device that automatically switches your screen to work when a boss walks by) has detailed a methodology for refilling the DRM-protected detergent cassettes for a $486 portable dishwasher called Bob. Trust me, it’s more interesting than…

Tech News John Biggs

Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

Clubhouse—the company that was making headlines just a few months back for drawing major celebrities (and Elon Musk)—seems to have reached a tipping point. In April, the app reached a grand total of 922,000 downloads, new research found, a sharp downturn after bringing in millions of new users just a month earlier. These numbers come…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Ethereum Surges to $3,200, Making Its Creator the Youngest Crypto Billionaire

Amidst an ongoing crypto surge, Ether soared to new market heights Monday, becoming one of the priciest cryptocurrencies in circulation. The Ethereum blockchain-based token is now worth around $3,200, making its total market capitalization higher than Bank of America, Paypal, and Nestle. The new valuation has also made Ether’s creator, the 27-year-old Russian-Canadian computer programmer…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Reportedly Rolling Out in 2023

The question was never if, but when, and according to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the long-rumored foldable iPhone is now expected in 2023. According to note from the analyst seen by MacRumors, Kuo said he predicts Apple’s first foldable iPhone will feature an 8-inch flexible OLED display sourced from Samsung and will go on…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The Epic vs. Apple Hearing Is Already a Disaster

The Epic v. Apple trial kicked off on Monday morning, and it’s already devolved into a giant, internet-fueled mess. First, the court had issues getting both teleconference lines up and running, and even when they were humming along fine, everyone’s lines seemed to be unmuted. On the main line, one person chanted, “Epic Games! Epic…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Verizon’s Selling Off AOL and Yahoo for $5 Billion

Verizon’s officially selling off its media assets to the private equity firm Apollo Global for $5 billion, the company announced on Monday. Alongside that bundle of cash, Verizon will also be keeping a 10% stake in the company, which will simply be renamed—no joke—Yahoo. It’s a bit of a fall from grace for Verizon, which…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Print Books Are Still Outselling eBooks, Study Finds

According to a study by Statista’s Advertising & Media Outlook, ebook sales are still trailing physical book sales globally, especially during the dog days of the covid-19 pandemic. The study, which asked respondents to describe their book purchases in 2020, found that ebooks still haven’t replaced paper in most countries. “In the United States for…

Tech News John Biggs

How An Ethos Of Empowerment Fueled This Tech Company’s Open Source Initiative

The tech world is at the apex of innovation — it’s constantly evolving, ushering in cutting-edge inventions, and optimizing our everyday lives. Much of that innovation is happening at Intuit, the global technology platform that has developed software like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mint. Lately, Intuit has been embracing one of the quickest-growing areas…

Tech News By Rachel Mosely for Intuit

You Can Now Play Multiplayer Game Boy Tetris Across the Internet

The simple yet challenging game of Tetris helped make the original Game Boy a success, but the game was even better when played head-to-head against a friend using a link cable. Finding someone to play Game Boy Tetris with 30 years later isn’t as easy, so a clever hacker has upgraded the handheld with online…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How to See Who’s Using Your Streaming Passwords

Siblings, parents, partners, friends, colleagues—chances are you’ve shared at least one or two passwords to your streaming service accounts over the years, which is perfectly understandable. These acts of digital generosity can quickly add up, though, and before you know it there too many people on your Netflix account and you’re getting the dreaded “too…

Gadgets David Nield

Chuck Grassley Tweets That Cable Companies Have Gotten ‘To [Sic] Big Like Goggle [Sic]’

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather bizarre way. After all, who can forget Grassley classics like “PantsBurnLegWood” of 2009 and “WH:ANSWER MY LETTER” of 2017? But the senator’s tweets over the weekend were particularly weird, even if you agreed with his central premise. “These cable companies are getting…

Tech News Matt Novak

New Culture War Just Dropped: World’s Largest Jeweler Pivots to Lab-Grown Diamonds

Slow-Mo Footage Reveals the Unique Way Plasma TVs Displayed a Single Frame of Video

Microsoft Is Cutting the Adobe Flash Cord in July

Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into an Aging Baby Yoda With Male Pattern Baldness

Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say

Uber Is Teaming Up With Arrival To Create an Electric Ride-Hailing Car

Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force

Future of American Democracy Hangs in Balance and/or Doesn’t

Hardware Hacker Breaks the DRM on a Mini Dishwasher

Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

Ethereum Surges to $3,200, Making Its Creator the Youngest Crypto Billionaire

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Reportedly Rolling Out in 2023

The Epic vs. Apple Hearing Is Already a Disaster

Verizon’s Selling Off AOL and Yahoo for $5 Billion

Print Books Are Still Outselling eBooks, Study Finds

How An Ethos Of Empowerment Fueled This Tech Company’s Open Source Initiative

You Can Now Play Multiplayer Game Boy Tetris Across the Internet

How to See Who’s Using Your Streaming Passwords

Chuck Grassley Tweets That Cable Companies Have Gotten ‘To [Sic] Big Like Goggle [Sic]’

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Don’t miss out: Bitdefender, One of the World’s Best Antiviruses, Is Now on Sale

The Secret to Better Sperm? It’s Probably Already on Your Schedule

Lego Is Leaning Into Your Marvel Memories With a New Helicarrier Set

Toshiba’s 65-inch Smart Fire TV Now Matches 43-Inch Pricing After 44% Drop on Amazon

Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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