January 28, 2021 Facebook’s Oversight Board Issues First Five Rulings for Everyone to Get Mad About Facebook’s Oversight Board, the supposedly independent entity the company created to quell some of the heat over its moderation policies, announced its first five…
January 28, 2021 Sony pushes PS5 exclusive Returnal’s release date to April 30th Returnal, the upcoming PS5 exclusive from Resogun studio Housemarque, will arrive a little later than expected. The studio and Sony have pushed back the…
January 28, 2021 Blast the Stars Onto Your Ceiling With This $33 Galaxy Projector TYY Star Projector | $33 | Amazon Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
January 28, 2021 Someone Hacked a 17-Year-Old iPod to Stream Spotify There hasn’t been much attention paid to the iPod since the iPhone arrived, and that’s a crime, because it was a brilliantly simple device…
January 28, 2021 Tim Cook takes aim at Facebook’s practices during privacy conference In a wide-ranging keynote delivered at the (online-only) 2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook called for greater…
January 28, 2021 UCLA Scientists Successfully ‘Jump-Start’ the Brains of People in a Coma-Like State Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles are continuing to find success using ultrasound to “jump-start” the brains of people stuck in a…
January 28, 2021 Robinhood Sued by Furious GameStop Stockholders Stock-trading app Robinhood now faces a class-action lawsuit after it blocked stock purchases of GameStop and other companies favored by Reddit’s WallStreetBets community on…
January 28, 2021 Microsoft made a giant climate pledge one year ago — here’s where it’s at now One year after pledging to remove all of its historic and future planet-heating emissions within a few decades, Microsoft says it has already slashed…
January 28, 2021 YouTube is testing clips on live streams and VODs The Verge YouTube is introducing clipping — the ability to make short clips of live streams or videos — starting today with a small…
January 28, 2021 Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds Startups like Playable Worlds and Manticore are taking different approaches to the metaverse and have 40 years of mistakes to learn from.Read More via…