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As predicted by an alleged product roadmap from Samsung from earlier this month, info about Samsung’s next budget tablet has leaked onto the net. According to leaks posted by Evan Blass, Galaxy Tab A7 Lite is a small 8.4-inch tablet with a simple design and rather barebones specs including a MediaTek Helio P22T chip, just…
A gaggle of tug boats freed a container ship on Monday that has been stuck in the Suez Canal for six days, appearing to dash the world’s dream that we would simply blow up the boat. But don’t put away those sticks of dynamite just yet. The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie,…
It won’t be long before brick and mortar stores will be a distant memory, replaced by entire neighborhoods of warehouses facilitating our obsession with shopping online. And when that time comes, Boston Dynamics wants us all to know it’s got a roaming robotic arm called Stretch that’s ready and willing to schlep boxes all day…
The odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might just…
Have you noticed a strange army of Amazon employees on Twitter recently, claiming that Amazon doesn’t engage in union-busting and disputing stories that workers sometimes have to piss in bottles? Many Twitter users are wondering whether the people are even real. And while there’s some evidence these people could be real, at least one of…
For all who have been captivated by the Ever Given, the ginormous shipping container boat that has been stuck in the Suez Canal for days, we have some good news. Before you get excited, no, the boat’s still stuck. But you can now stick the Ever Given anywhere you please thanks to the clever people…
It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling, physically taxing, and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee in California has sued the company for not allowing its workers to take their full mandated meal or rest breaks, even though it discounts time for the former in their paychecks. The case,…
Although the covid-19 pandemic is still raging worldwide, big tech companies appear to be heartened by the recent developments over the last few months and are taking the first steps to bring their workers back to the office. This week, Uber and Facebook announced timelines for a small percentage of their workforce to return to…
Nearly two years after WeWork imploded ahead of its planned initial public offering, the office-sharing startup is finally going public. On Friday, WeWork announced a merger with special-purpose acquisition company BowX Acquisition Corp. The deal values WeWork at $9 billion, a far cry from the ridiculously inflated $47 billion it was valued at in the…
“Link in bio.” If you, like me, are constantly doomscrolling online, you’ve probably come across the phrase before. Between the endless conveyer belt of new social media platforms and the fact that most limit users to just one URL in their bio, it’s led to a growing demand for landing pages to house all those…
Parler, the online safe haven for bigots and far-right extremists, claims it repeatedly alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation about “specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol” ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, the company’s lawyers said in a letter to lawmakers dated Thursday. After seeing record growth in the latter half…
A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS devices is actually the work of “Western government operatives” conducting a “counterterrorism operation,” according to a new report from MIT Technology Review. The campaign in question, which has garnered more and more attention from media outlets over the last…
Peacock is currently in the process of vetting racist content from its massive WWE content catalog. Peacock announced it would become the exclusive home for WWE Network content back in January, with 17,000 hours of new and original WWE Network programming as well as pay-per-view events like WrestleMania and SummerSlam. But citing sources familiar with…
We’re jumping the gun on Hellfeed’s normally bi-weekly schedule—because dear lord, the last five days were something else. This week’s social media hellscape kicked off with news Donald Trump is investigating opening his own, presumably even more racist social media platform (uh-huh) before drunkenly veering everywhere to a beleaguered mega-ship clogging the bowels of shipping…
Today the U.S. administered a record-breaking one-day rate of 3.4 million vaccine doses, according to the White House covid-19 response team. Presumably, this was accomplished by the time of the team’s 1:15 pm ET tweet. Hot vaccine summer! Maybe! For some! According to the CDC covid-19 vaccine tracker, over 89.5 million U.S. residents have received…
Apple users are already pretty quick when it comes to downloading new OS updates, but anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch need to be even more proactive about installing iOS 14.4.2 and watch OS 7.3.3 as quickly as possible to address an active security threat. Unlike larger software updates, which might bring some…
Phone makers are constantly looking to one-up each other with new tech and features, and if its new teasers are legit, Xiaomi might have a real advantage over the competition with what appears to be a liquid camera lens designed for an upcoming Mi Mix phone. Based on a handful of images and a clip…
If you’ve ever wasted an afternoon (or all of 2020) looking at cute dog pictures online, then you already understand what inspired Ryder from the YouTube channel Ryder Calm Down to build an AI-powered machine that can recognize dogs walking past their home and automatically shout compliments to their owners. The creation actually started as…
Slack—following in the grand old tradition of companies like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter—is planning on cloning buzzy app Clubhouse’s voice chatroom functionality. Slack, which builds a chat room product primarily used by businesses, already allows users to place audio calls to one another. Per Protocol, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said in a recent Clubhouse session…
I’m not usually one to wax rhapsodic about an operating system, but let’s go back 20 years to just before the launch of Mac OS X and talk about what came before and everything that came after. Twenty years is a rare and important milestone for a piece of software. After all, most software rarely…
