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Facebook Says a ‘Glitch’ Redirected Users to a QAnon Primer

Facebook users who were not searching for information on QAnon were redirected to an extensive primer on the conspiracy theory due to a “glitch” in a system designed to fight it, according to Facebook. The company tweeted on Wednesday that its “Redirect Initiative”—which is supposed to direct Facebook users that appear to be on the…

Social Media Tom McKay

Fubo’s Apple TV Multiview Feature Now Supports Four Streams at Once

What’s better than dual streams on a single screen? Four streams, obviously. Fubo TV, among the best streaming options for cord-cutting sports fans, announced today an update to its Multiview feature on Apple TV that will now support four simultaneous streams on a single screen rather than the previously supported two. Coinciding with the Big…

Internet Catie Keck

ClipDrop Is Copy and Paste for the Real World

When the idea behind ClipDrop first appeared a few months ago, it seemed like magic: You could point the app at any object and then clip it out its background, creating a standalone image of anything from a plant to a coffee mug. It’s basically like copy and paste, but for anything. The app is…

Artificial Intelligence John Biggs

Jony Ive Will Bring Accessible, Relevant, Incredibly Powerful, Personal, Fluid, and Refined Design Sensibilities to…Airbnb

Jony Ive is a mythic figure in gadget design. He’s the mastermind behind the aesthetic of Apple’s most iconic products, and is internet famous for his Gwyneth Paltrow-esque descriptive phrasing. He’s also got pretty good taste in shoes. Last year, he consciously uncoupled from Apple, and now, Ive is apparently “engaging in a special collaboration”…

Tech News Victoria Song

Security Researcher Claims He Took Over Trump’s Twitter Using Password ‘maga2020!’

A Dutch security researcher is claiming that he was able to gain access to President Trump’s Twitter account last week. Allegedly, the only vulnerability he discovered was Trump’s total lack of concern for security. The researcher says that all he had to do was guess that the password was “MAGA2020!” The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant…

Politics Rhett Jones

Garmin Made an Esports Fitness Smartwatch for Streamers Because We Live in Hell

No one: Absolutely no one: Garmin: What’s up fam, it’s ya boi Garmin here with a new GPS esports smartwatch that you can use to livestream your biometric stats on Twitch or whatever it is you use to stream you crushing your opponents! I wish I were joking, but 2020 continues to test everyone’s sanity.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Sick of Camera Bumps, How ‘Bout a Camera Ring?

Right now it’s not a stretch to say that a lot of mainstream phones end up sporting very similar glass brick designs, but with Huawei’s new flagship phones—the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro—the company ditched the familiar camera bump for a head-turning “Space Ring.” As you’d expect from a company that’s vying with Apple…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

WhatsApp’s New Update Is So Privacy-Preserving, Even Facebook Won’t Say What It Is

There’s a lot we don’t really know about Facebook. Why is the company always beefing with Apple? Is CEO Mark Zuckerberg actually unsettlingly thicc, or are we just catching him at weird angles? And in the latest stumper thrown in our direction, we also have to ask: What’s the deal with that cryptic blank blog…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky

Inside the Fight to Legalize Psilocybin Therapy in Oregon

On a sunny September afternoon in Portland, volunteers pour into a Zoom conference room. They’ve come for a weekly update from Oregon’s Yes on Measure 109 campaign—a measure which would create the world’s first market for psilocybin-assisted therapy. The pandemic prevents them from knocking on doors to reach voters. But that has not dampened their…

Tech News Mason Marks

See You Soon, Jack and Mark

“BIG victory that didn’t look possible even 24 hrs ago,” Senator Josh Hawley tweeted on Thursday morning. The senator was celebrating the fact that the Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to drag Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a hearing on why they hate conservatives so much. Despite Hawley’s assertions that…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Image: Adapted from ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020

A Smartphone Sensor Can Measure the Heat of Chilis Before You Accidentally Nuke Your Mouth

Popping a random chili into your mouth is the culinary equivalent of playing Russian roulette. Some are mild and packed with flavor, while others will make you feel like you’ve just bitten into the surface of the sun. Without knowing where a chili is from it’s hard to know how hot it is, so researchers…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Don’t Cry for Quibi

A former boss of mine, someone who worked at a legacy cable TV channel that starts with F and ends with “-ox News,” first told me about Quibi last February. “It’s bite-sized video. It’s run by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg! It raised a few billion!” If she was so excited about it, why hadn’t…

Internet John Biggs

11 Tips and Tricks to Level Up Your Steam Gaming

If Steam on Windows is your gaming platform of choice then you’d be forgiven for wanting to dive straight into the action and start playing whatever games are in your library. But the Steam client has a few under-the-radar features and settings that are worth diving into, so you can make sure your gaming setup…

Tech News David Nield

Apparently Foxconn’s Wisconsin LCD Factory Is Fake

Last week, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) rejected electronics maker Foxconn’s tax subsidy application for failing to not only hire the number of employees it promised, but to build a Gen 10.5 LCD factory. The company had instead built a Gen 6 facility to manufacture phone screens instead of a larger factory for TV…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Amazon Isn’t Even Hiding Its Intentions Anymore

After spending years promising Congress that the data it collected from third-party sellers wasn’t used to beef up its private-label products, today Amazon decided to roll out a product achieve a similar end from a different angle. The Amazon Shopper Panel, as it’s called, promises to pay Amazon customers that offer intel to the ecommerce…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky

What Your Favorite iPod Says About You

In honor of the launch of the original scroll wheel iPod on Oct. 23, 2001, let’s look back on some notable iPod models and what they say about you as an early tech consumer. Every iPod tells a story, and some of the stories they told were pretty darn rough. Rip. Mix. Burn.

Tech News John Biggs

Boston Dynamics Will Sell Robot Arm to Go With Its Robot Dog Next Year, Which Is Totally Fine

Back in June, Boston Dynamics made more than 150 units of its robotic dog Spot available for sale to outside companies and research facilities. The idea was to see what type of real-world applications those companies and facilities would use it for, and get feedback on the capabilities of Spot itself. While Boston Dynamics did…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Republicans Crying Censorship on Twitter Just Needed to Hit Another Button

It’s only taken about a week for Twitter to become the ultimate symbol of Big Tech (Big T) censoring conservative speech in the minds of Republican politicians. And the GOP outrage has manifested in a telling blunder. On Wednesday afternoon, the account for the Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee tweeted the following: In…

Tech Policy Rhett Jones

RIP Quibi

After several tumultuous months during which each new week brought more bad news for Quibi, it appears the streaming service is throwing in the towel. Following earlier reports that Quibi had been courting potential buyers for its beleaguered short-form video service—which bet big on its so-called Turnstyle technology that lets mobile users see two different…

Internet Catie Keck

5G Could Be Great, But It’s Woefully Misunderstood

Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg spent what felt like the bulk of Apple’s big iPhone announcement evangelizing 5G, the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology. According to the two men, 5G is going to revolutionize how you use your phone with incredible 4 Gbps download speeds and the whole…

Tech Policy Alex Cranz & Brian Kahn

Facebook Says a ‘Glitch’ Redirected Users to a QAnon Primer

Fubo’s Apple TV Multiview Feature Now Supports Four Streams at Once

ClipDrop Is Copy and Paste for the Real World

Jony Ive Will Bring Accessible, Relevant, Incredibly Powerful, Personal, Fluid, and Refined Design Sensibilities to…Airbnb

Security Researcher Claims He Took Over Trump’s Twitter Using Password ‘maga2020!’

Garmin Made an Esports Fitness Smartwatch for Streamers Because We Live in Hell

Sick of Camera Bumps, How ‘Bout a Camera Ring?

WhatsApp’s New Update Is So Privacy-Preserving, Even Facebook Won’t Say What It Is

Inside the Fight to Legalize Psilocybin Therapy in Oregon

See You Soon, Jack and Mark

A Smartphone Sensor Can Measure the Heat of Chilis Before You Accidentally Nuke Your Mouth

Don’t Cry for Quibi

11 Tips and Tricks to Level Up Your Steam Gaming

Apparently Foxconn’s Wisconsin LCD Factory Is Fake

Amazon Isn’t Even Hiding Its Intentions Anymore

What Your Favorite iPod Says About You

Boston Dynamics Will Sell Robot Arm to Go With Its Robot Dog Next Year, Which Is Totally Fine

Republicans Crying Censorship on Twitter Just Needed to Hit Another Button

RIP Quibi

5G Could Be Great, But It’s Woefully Misunderstood

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

Final Call: Get NordVPN at $266 Off + Amazon Gift Card (Few Days Left)

C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Sold for a Cool Million

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Delivers Fast Speeds, Low Monthly Prices and Cash Back

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

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

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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