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Vivaldi Delivers Two-Level Tab Stacking Feature for Tab Hoarders

What’s better than one tab bar? Two, obviously. Vivaldi, the highly personalized browser, announced today a new two-level tab stacks feature that introduces a second tab bar in Vivaldi 3.6. The company already supports plenty of customization features to keep tabs organized, including the ability to group tabs together and orient them vertically. With double-deck…

Tech News Catie Keck

‘Democratized Finance’ App Robinhood Halts Purchases Of GameStop, AMC, American Airlines

The lulz (and soaring financial gains) of Reddit’s insurgent investor community, WallStreetBets, are on hold Thursday morning as popular stock-trading app Robinhood halted key types of trades of its favorite stocks due to “significant market volatility.” Robinhood’s decision to halt trading on GameStop and other Reddit “YOLO” stocks is the latest bump in the ongoing…

Tech News Andrew Couts & Whitney Kimball

Utah Lawmakers Want to Make Catfishing Illegal

House lawmakers in Utah are weighing a package of bills aimed at strengthening privacy protections and protecting citizens when they’re online. One piece of legislation that’s up for consideration would make catfishing a criminal offense in some cases. Introduced by Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, the bill is pretty straightforward. It makes it a third-degree felony to…

Tech News Rhett Jones

See Which Apps Are Using Your Camera, Microphone, and Location

Protecting your privacy in the modern age isn’t easy, with everything from app labels to online cookies to think about, but knowing what the apps on your devices are up to has to be one of your top priorities—and in particular, you’ll want to know which apps are using the camera, the microphone, and the…

Gadgets David Nield

Virgin Hyperloop Releases Concept Video of Future We Want to Become Reality

Virgin Hyperloop, one of the entities currently developing Elon Musk’s high-speed transportation idea from 2013, has released a new concept video showing off its vision for the future of moving around a city. And it all looks pretty damn cool to us. The only question is whether Virgin can make it a reality anytime soon.…

Transportation Matt Novak

Facebook Once Again Pledges to Depoliticize Facebook

After initially pledging not to recommend civic and political groups to its users, but then sort of continuing to do that anyway, Facebook once again affirmed its commitment to reducing the amount of political content that users see on Wednesday. During a fourth-quarter earnings call with analysts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on the…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Apple Had a Better Holiday Than Literally Anyone Else

We’re well into the second decade of iPhone sales, and with the covid-19 pandemic devastating economies worldwide, some wondered: Would 2020 be the year that Apple’s runaway revenue train finally slowed down? The answer is decidedly: lol no. The company reported its holiday quarter earnings today, and it turns out that an absolute shit-ton of…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets for Hate Speech Violations

After kicking off a historic rally around GameStop stock that has incited the ire of hedge fund tycoons and the SEC, the r/wallstreetbets channel was banned from Discord on Wednesday over apparent hate speech violations. While some on Reddit were quick to speculate that the server had been taken down by hackers as part of…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

U.S. Navy Documents Discuss Creating a ‘Spacetime Modification Weapon’

The U.S. Department of Defense spent close to half a million dollars—at least $466,810—on fringe science research, in the hopes of someday creating an aircraft that bends the laws of physics. That news comes via a new report from the War Zone, which recently acquired DoD documents from a public records request as part of…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Congressional Panel: We Have a ‘Moral Imperative’ to At Least Consider Building a Terminator

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressional advisory panel—helmed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt—has mulled whether or not the U.S. should deploy artificially intelligent autonomous weapons, and, after taking into account the numerous reasons it would be a terrible idea, decided that at least toying around with the idea is “moral imperative.”…

Tech News Tom McKay

Twitter User Hit With Criminal Charges for Memetic Voter Suppression in 2016 Election

If the online MAGA army wasn’t nervous before today, the Department of Justice just gave them a good reason to tighten their sphincters. In a surprising announcement, DOJ officials said on Wednesday that they’ve charged a prominent Twitter user with taking part in a conspiracy to trick citizens into not voting during the 2016 presidential…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Intel Launches Its First Desktop Graphics Cards in More Than 20 Years

It’s been more than 20 years since Intel released its last desktop graphics card, the Intel740, but as of yesterday the company is officially back in the discrete GPU game. Intel teamed up with Asus and a few other graphics cards partners to release its Iris Xe desktop GPUs for system builders who want to…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

‘World’s Most Dangerous Malware’ Botnet Disrupted by Global Police Sting

The criminal operation behind a dangerous, global botnet has been disrupted. On Wednesday morning, authorities with Europol announced that an international police action, dubbed “Operation Ladybird,” had successfully disabled the infrastructure behind Emotet, the malicious botnet that has been used to execute ransomware attacks all over the world. The coordinated purge saw “law enforcement and…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Alexa Can Now Bark Like a Dog to Scare People Away When You’re Not at Home

You typically use Amazon’s Alexa to play music, provide weather forecasts, and respond to other household requests. But Alexa just got a somewhat unusual new skill: the ability to bark like a dog. Alexa’s newfound gruff comes by way of Alexa Guard Plus, which is a new subscription service launching this week from Amazon to…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

DeskStand Is a Neat Standing Desk Solution That Isn’t Heinous

When space is limited and corners of your home have to be multi-functional, consider a standing desk converter that can easily break down to be stored out of sight. I’m a big fan of one such standing desk solution I’ve been testing for the last couple of weeks from a Cape Town-based outfit called DeskStand.…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Samsung Heir: Sorry I’m in Jail, but Uh, Please Keep Working

Everyone’s had a boss who sent a tone-deaf email but imprisoned Samsung heir apparent Lee Jae-yong has one-upped them all. Sending a message on Samsung’s intranet, Lee apparently apologized for landing himself in jail once again and urged them to “maintain their work” in his absence, Yonhap reports. “I feel truly sorry for giving you…

Tech News Victoria Song

Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

The current scoreboard on the Reddit meme stock war here. Reddit: 1, Hedge Fund Antagonists: 0. Citron Capital and Melvin Capital—the latter, the main loser in the massive inflation of GameStock prices, thanks to the subreddit WallStreetBets—have reportedly pulled out of their short positions in GameStock. Meaning that the hedge funds have accepted the losses…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Sling TV Prices Are Going Up Now, Too

One of the best cable alternatives for live TV enthusiasts is getting a price hike. Both the Sling Orange and Sling Blue packages are bumping up to $35 per month for incoming customers, a price increase of $5 per month. The service’s bundling option for both options, meanwhile, will bump up to $50 per month…

Internet Catie Keck

Signal Blocked by Iran as Encrypted Messaging App’s Popularity Explodes

With great popularity comes great scrutiny. Following WhatsApp’s controversial announcement of changes to its privacy policy, users have flocked to the encrypted messaging app Signal. The app has maintained a relatively small userbase for years, but in the last month, it has reportedly doubled in size. And now it’s attracted the attention of government regulators…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

Often, when I show off a new smartwatch I’m testing to my gal pals, they inevitably crinkle their noses. “It’s…so big. And ugly,” they say. “I’d never wear something like that.” It’s something I’ve harped about in many a smartwatch review, a plea from the small-wristed among us for a wearable that doesn’t leave us…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Vivaldi Delivers Two-Level Tab Stacking Feature for Tab Hoarders

‘Democratized Finance’ App Robinhood Halts Purchases Of GameStop, AMC, American Airlines

Utah Lawmakers Want to Make Catfishing Illegal

See Which Apps Are Using Your Camera, Microphone, and Location

Virgin Hyperloop Releases Concept Video of Future We Want to Become Reality

Facebook Once Again Pledges to Depoliticize Facebook

Apple Had a Better Holiday Than Literally Anyone Else

Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets for Hate Speech Violations

U.S. Navy Documents Discuss Creating a ‘Spacetime Modification Weapon’

Congressional Panel: We Have a ‘Moral Imperative’ to At Least Consider Building a Terminator

Twitter User Hit With Criminal Charges for Memetic Voter Suppression in 2016 Election

Intel Launches Its First Desktop Graphics Cards in More Than 20 Years

‘World’s Most Dangerous Malware’ Botnet Disrupted by Global Police Sting

Alexa Can Now Bark Like a Dog to Scare People Away When You’re Not at Home

DeskStand Is a Neat Standing Desk Solution That Isn’t Heinous

Samsung Heir: Sorry I’m in Jail, but Uh, Please Keep Working

Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Sling TV Prices Are Going Up Now, Too

Signal Blocked by Iran as Encrypted Messaging App’s Popularity Explodes

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

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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