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Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars in crypto from Roll, a social currency startup that allows so-called “creatives” to launch and manage their own Ethereum blockchain-based money systems. According to the company, someone managed to get inside its “hot wallet” early Sunday morning, making off with the equivalent of $5.7 million in currencies.…
The arrival of iOS 14 last year came with a new feature that, at first glance, seems handy but is actually a symptom of a deeper sickness: We all have far too many apps—many of which are violating your privacy on a regular basis. The App Library in iOS lets me clean up my home…
If you want a picture of the future of art, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. Elon Musk’s abomination of a non-fungible token (NFT) is selling for over one million dollars, not quite proving there is no God, but certainly demonstrating that if one does exist they might be feeling woozy and need…
Just as LastPass nerfs the free tier of its popular password manager, Dropbox has swooped in with a free version of its own password app—but there’s a bit of a catch. Dropbox today announced that Passwords will soon be free to all of its users, whether they’re on its free basic plan or one of…
In just over a decade, Sony has transformed its E-mount lenses from a small collection of glass into one its biggest strengths, and today Sony is announcing its 60th E-mount lens: the new FE f/1.2 50mm G Master prime lens. The f/1.2 G Master sports a $2,000 price tag and is definitely a lens aimed…
Today, Intel finally took the wraps off all the details about its upcoming 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors. While the announcement wasn’t a surprise—so much information is out there in the wild already, and some consumers and reviewers have even gotten their hands on a chip or two well before the official launch date—there’s still some…
One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem. A new patent spotted by AppleInsider…
With investments into next-gen communications continuing to ramp up, Nokia has decided to cut up to 10,000 jobs over the next two years to help cut costs and reinvest resources into 5G. In a statement issued earlier today, Nokia said that by eliminating between 5,000 and 10,000 positions, it will reduce its cost base by…
Back in 1921, Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the pioneering inventor and mathematician, was published in a Massachusetts newspaper predicting what the fantastical world of 2021 would look like. Steinmetz made some amazingly accurate predictions about things like air conditioning, cooking, electric bicycles, and home entertainment in the future. At first glance, the predictions may not…
Google hasn’t updated its smart display, the Google Home Hub, in more than two years, but today the company announced a brand new Nest Hub. While the updated version may look identical to its predecessor, Google makes up for it a fresh feature: the ability to track your sleep without requiring you to strap a…
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Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App Store in China, according to Reuters, but it’s not clear how much longer that might last. The Chinese government has not made any announcement about Signal being blocked or banned…
When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a hollow copy—has been around much longer and is the premise behind Myyard’s Formart 2. The machine allows you…
If you need further proof that we are living in a literal science fiction movie right now, look no further than the fact that the U.S. Defense Department is thinking about strapping jetpacks onto its special forces cadres. Well, actually the term they are using is “portable personal air mobility system,” but you get the…
New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things they wouldn’t normally do. In a Monday press release, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the new regulations,…
Amazon’s streaming service is currently testing a shuffle tool that could help switch up your binge-watching routine. Prime Video’s shuffle tool will not pull from Amazon’s entire catalog but will instead shuffle episodes within a given series where it’s supported, the company confirmed to Gizmodo. That might make it a useful tool for popular legacy…
After temporarily disabling Australian news organizations’ ability to share news links in February, Facebook announced on Monday that it had reached a licensing agreement with the news giant News Corp. In a statement, News Corp Australia said that the three-year deal would allow the media conglomerate’s properties — including the national newspaper The Australian, the…
In an effort to assist the evolving science of contact tracing, researchers have created a virtual phone virus that is meant to “mimic” the spread of Covid-19. By “infecting” phones within a controlled environment, the researchers hope to gain a better understanding of the trajectory of viruses as they proliferate within a given population. Academics…
For those of us who turn to nature sounds when we’ve got the weirds, a new Disney+ series looks like it may fit the bill. The streaming service on Monday debuted the first look trailer and key art for Earth Moods, a National Geographic joint that will debut on Disney+ on April 16. By all…
Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap, who the Department of Justice indicted last week for his alleged role in providing encryption tech to international drug cartels, has shot back that the government is targeting him to destroy the “fundamental right to privacy.” Per ZDNet, Eap (whose company is based in Canada) published a statement on Sunday…
