April 8, 2021 LG Pledges Three Years of OS Updates After It Stops Making New Phones LG will continue to provide operating system updates for its mobile phones over the next three years, even after the company stops making phones…
April 7, 2021 Facebook Is Officially Beta Testing Hotline, a Clubhouse-Inspired Audio Q&A Feature Facebook on Wednesday ran its first public beta test of Hotline — a web-based Q&A platform that seems like it was dreamed up as…
April 7, 2021 Dallas Police Used Face Recognition Software Without Authorization, Installed on Personal Phones Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches in attempts to identify people based on photographs. A…
April 7, 2021 *****’s Twitter Not Even Allowed to Return in Archival Format for Nerds No one wants to return to Twitter more badly than Donald *****. Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
April 7, 2021 These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget Urbanista isn’t a household name. Founded in Sweden, the company makes low-cost, high-design headphones for folks who don’t want to spend a few hundred…
April 7, 2021 These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled and feathered dinosaurs, web-winged pterosaurs, and, as a…
April 7, 2021 Amazon’s Worker-Crushing Megacycle Is Energizing a Battle Amazon wanted its workforce to break its back for 10 hours straight, four nights a week, hauling boxes. It got what it wished. As…
April 7, 2021 The French Army Is Testing Spot the Robot on the Battlefield Boston Robotic’s Spot quadruped robot seems to be hitting the battlefield with a group of French Army trainees in a series of drills and…
April 7, 2021 Hunting for Pokémon Cards Has Become a Different Kind of Game A few weeks back, during a particularly unremarkable late night of insomnia-fueled doomscrolling, a notification slid its way onto my phone’s screen that quickened…
April 7, 2021 The Midwest’s Active Fire Season Is a Warning It’s a climate cliché to say the world is on fire, but it is. Right now, wildfires are burning across the Midwest in a…