April 15, 2021 The Fyre Festival settlement reveals the true cost of schadenfreude — $7,220 a pop Image: Fyre Festival LLC The organizers of Fyre Festival — think: The Hunger Games, but for influencers — have agreed to a settlement with…
April 15, 2021 Please keep Anish Kapoor away from the whitest white paint Xiulin Ruan, one of the researchers who made the whitest white paint, holding up a sample. | Photo by Jared Pike / Purdue University…
April 15, 2021 Amazon tried to coerce Ecobee into collecting private user data, the WSJ reports Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon tried to use its power to coerce Ecobee into using its smart home products to collect…
April 15, 2021 How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just…
April 15, 2021 Dozens of Fossilized Neanderthal Footprints Found on a Beach in Spain Paleoanthropologists have discovered more than 80 fossilized footprints in Southern Spain, on an uneven span of rock that used to be a sandbar. In…
April 15, 2021 Some Kindle ereaders can now display your current book as your lockscreen File this one under a feature the Kindle probably should have had since launch. via Engadget Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast!
April 15, 2021 WallStreetBets Does Not Bow to Crypto Wave For about 20 hours, moderators of the Reddit r/WallStreetBets opened the floodgates to crypto, a topic that’s been banned on the forum for years….
April 15, 2021 What Exactly Is Paramount’s Plan for Showtime, Anyway? So, what the heck is the plan, Paramount? Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
April 15, 2021 This iOS Game Secretly Turns Into a Gambling App Entrepreneur Kosta Eleftheriou has made it his life’s mission to expose scammy iOS apps, and his latest discovery is a doozie. He found a…
April 15, 2021 CIA: We Can’t Rule Out the ‘Lab Leak’ Theory of Covid-19’s Origins Top U.S. intelligence officials reiterated Thursday that they could not rule out the possibility that covid-19 leaked out of a Chinese government lab in…