August 10, 2022 Facebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study says Facebook’s crackdown on hate speech apparently has room for improvement. As The Washington Postexplains, the non-profit watchdog Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has published a…
August 10, 2022 How Can Textbook Publishers Milk Students Even More? NFTs, Apparently The heart of the argument for NFT evangelists has always been the sense they were democratizing the world of art and commerce. Artists, they…
August 10, 2022 A Newly Discovered Virus Has Likely Sickened Dozens in China—How Worried Should We Be? Scientists in China have found a new virus that has likely made dozens of people sick since 2018 and may be natively carried by…
August 10, 2022 Microsoft is giving one of its most-maligned tools a birthday makeover Microsoft has announced a new design for its OneDrive platform as it reaches a landmark anniversary. Launched in 2007 initially as a document storage…
August 10, 2022 Google Fiber was stalled for years but now says it’ll expand to 5 new states Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kalief Browder) Google Fiber says it plans to expand its fiber-to-the-home Internet service to several new states for the…
August 10, 2022 Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Enlarge / A truck delivery of fiber conduit and other materials for Jared Mauch’s broadband network. (credit: Jared Mauch) Jared Mauch, the Michigan man…
August 10, 2022 There’s Marvel and Star Wars Halloween Galore in This ShopDisney Fall Preview While there may no longer be a physical Disney Store (RIP), ShopDisney.com and Disney Parks have unleashed their fall holiday merch lines. Check out…
August 10, 2022 Elon Musk Teases X.com as a Potential Social Media Site of His Own In yet another chapter of Elon Musk’s conquest to own Twitter, the billionaire cryptically teased X.com—a potential new social media platform—in a response to…
August 10, 2022 Amazon’s Echo Show 5 is back on sale for $40 Amazon has reduced the price of the Echo Show 5 by $45. With the 53 percent discount, you can buy the smart display for…
August 10, 2022 Captive Gorillas Started Using a Special Call Just to Summon Zookeepers Researchers in Georgia report that gorillas at zoos across the U.S. have come up with a special vocalization—something between a cough and a sneeze—to…