August 5, 2020 The Wonderful (and Surprisingly Legal) World of Disney Mockbusters It’s 1993, and your grandma reveals she bought you a VHS copy of Aladdin. You’re thrilled until you discover it’s a cheap 40-minute knock-off…
August 5, 2020 How to Help People in Beirut After the Deadly Explosion As the search for survivors of yesterday’s explosion in Beirut continues, at this point we know that it left more than 100 people dead…
August 5, 2020 Samsung guarantees three ‘generations’ of Android OS updates for some Galaxy phones Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung is promising to “support three generations of Android updates” for Galaxy phones, but that won’t apply to all…
August 5, 2020 TikTok bans deepfakes to fight misinformation and election meddling TikTok has become the latest platform to ban deepfakes. Under its new policy, the app says it “prohibits synthetic or manipulated content that misleads…
August 5, 2020 Instagram ‘bug’ heavily favored ***** content over ***** for months In yet another evidentiary blow to the conservative mythology that social media platforms are biased against them and actively silencing right-wing voices, Buzzfeed reports…
August 5, 2020 Security flaw in Twitter Android app might have exposed Direct Messages Twitter acknowledged today that there was a security vulnerability in its Android app that would have exposed private data such as Direct Messages (via…
August 5, 2020 Samsung extends Android support on flagship phones During its Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung announced it would support its latest devices with “OS updates up to three generations.” Until now, it has…
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August 5, 2020 Common Cold Coronaviruses Might Prime the Immune System to Recognize SARS-CoV-2 A group of scientists think they’re closer to understanding why some people’s immune systems seem to recognize the coronavirus that causes covid-19, despite the…
August 5, 2020 Street Fighter V’s last character pass includes Akira from Rival Schools Capcom has announced the new characters coming to Street Fighter V as part of its Season 5 pass, which will be the last one…