February 4, 2021 Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter team up to crack down on hackers who steal rare usernames Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has disabled hundreds of accounts that were stolen as part of online hacking operations designed to…
February 4, 2021 Stop Ruining Oculus, Facebook Facebook is now rolling out Messenger on Oculus Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and trust me, I’m cringing too. Read more… via Gizmodo Check out…
February 4, 2021 In We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, the Void Does More Than Stare Back If you’ve been following the coverage of this year’s all-digital Sundance film festival, there’s a very good chance that by the time you read…
February 4, 2021 The next victim of the global microchip shortage is Ford’s most profitable truck, the F-150 Many companies have had to scale back car production due to a global computer chip shortage, but CNBC is reporting that the shortages are…
February 4, 2021 Apple patent application imagines charging cables that might not fray so easily A Lightning to USB-A cable. | Image: Apple Apple’s charging cables aren’t exactly known for their durability. They often fray after a year or…
February 4, 2021 AOC and Bernie Sanders Push Joe ***** to Declare a Climate Emergency With a New Bill Between fires, heat waves, droughts and storms, the climate crisis is an emergency. A new bill demands that the U.S. start acting like it….
February 4, 2021 Zenimax Co-Founder & CEO Robert Altman Has Died Robert Altman, who co-founded Bethesda parent company Zenimax and was the company’s chairman and CEO, has died, Bethesda announced today. Read more… via Gizmodo…
February 4, 2021 A Sonic Lego set is coming Everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog is about to get his own Lego set. You can thank 24-year-old Sonic fan Viv Grannell and the Lego Ideas…
February 4, 2021 Apple’s Rumored VR Headset Might Have 8K Displays and Cost How Much?? Last month, the Apple rumor mill was buzzing that the company’s long-whispered-about mixed-reality headset would be powered by the new M1 chip and, unsurprisingly,…
February 4, 2021 Two Google engineers quit over firing of ethical AI leader Timnit Gebru Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of the ethical AI…