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Turtle Power with Star Trek's Melissa Navia | First Fandoms
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 21:45
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Reddit CEO Flames Protesting Moderators, Calls Them 'Landed Gentry'
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 14:15
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company's plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, callin...
Sony Bravia TV owners can soon take Zoom calls from the couch
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 23:30
Sony Bravia TVs will be the first hardware to support the upcoming Zoom for TV app on Google Play. Although remote work has dwindled as corporations beckon their underlings back to the office, those still enjoying work-f...
Meta will lower the Quest headset's recommended age from 13 to 10
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 23:11How Bluesky Is Seizing the Opportunity of Twitter's Decline With Custom Algorithms
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 22:40
Twitter is in freefall--ad revenue is down more than half since last year, owner Elon Musk is mucking around and firing people left and right, and users (including me) have noticed a steep decline in the quality of their...
Pixar's Leader Talks Balancing Originals and Sequels
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 22:30
After years of being damn near perfect, Pixar has entered a whole new phase. Its past few releases have failed to live up to the company's impossible standard, and more and more animation studios seem to have caught up t...
Pediatricians Warn Weighted Baby Sleep Sack May Cause SIDS
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 22:15
Doctors are warning parents against buying the baby sleep sack, a weighted swaddle blanket designed for infants. In a major public service announcement, pediatricians say the blanket, which is meant to mimic the sensatio...
Soma Sport Bottle keeps you hydrated and healthy with its borosilicate glass design
The Gadget Flow - 16 Jun 2023 22:00
Quench your thirst with the Soma Sport Bottle, designed to make hydration on the go a breeze. Check out the features that set this bottle apart. - Single-handed sipping: Whether you’re taking a mid-workout water break ...
The FTC Is Rewriting the Rules of the Internet, Just in Time for the AI Sea Change
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 21:57
There's a widespread misconception about whether or not federal law protects your privacy. It doesn't, at least not explicitly. Congress has managed to squander a decade's worth of bipartisan agreement about the internet...
El Niño Is Here and It's Taking the Heat for the Death of 300 Wild Birds in Mexico
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 21:40
El Niño is here and bringing record temperatures this June. As of this month, the global shift has officially arrived and is "expected to gradually strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2023-24," according to a...
Firefly Aerospace buys the final scraps of doomed Virgin Orbit
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 21:30
The last remnants of Virgin Orbit have been offloaded. Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy the defunct satellite-launch company's remaining assets for $3.8 million. Firefly's purchase included the leftovers from a May au...
UPS Drivers Officially Vote to Authorize a Strike
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 21:10
Shortly after officially receiving air conditioning and heat regulation in trucks, UPS drivers have officially voted to go on strike. 97% of drivers in the Teamsters Union voted in favor of the motion.
Hulu is streaming Bonnaroo this weekend for the third year in a row
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 21:00
Bonnaroo takes place this weekend and, as with the last two years, you can watch the festival from the comfort of your home on Hulu. Through Sunday, the streaming service is offering two channels of live music coming to ...
Google unexpectedly sells its domain-hosting business to Squarespace
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 20:30
Google Domains is a quick and simple way to get a jumpstart on building your website, but now the company will soon leave that business. Today, Squarespace announced that it will acquire approximately 10 million domains ...
8 Things We Liked (and 2 We Didn't) About Black Mirror Season 6
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 20:15
Black Mirror is back! On June 15, Netflix dropped the five-episode sixth season of Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series, bringing a new batch of stories that examine humanity's deepest fears about... well, mostly...
Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With 'Voicebox' AI
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 20:00
Meta has another new AI model on the docket, and this one seems perfectly engineered for the land of tomorrow if that utopian future is filled with nothing but deepfakes and modified audio. Like AI image generators, Voic...
Valve gives Steam its biggest update and redesign in years
Ars Technica - 16 Jun 2023 19:52
It's a night-and-day difference for macOS and Linux users.
Meta rolls back COVID-19 misinformation rules in many countries
Engadget - 16 Jun 2023 19:47
Meta is rolling back COVID-19 misinformation rules for Instagram and Facebook in countries that no longer deem the pandemic to be a national emergency. The policy will no longer apply in the US, along with some other ter...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Banned in UAE, Probably Because of a Poster
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 19:30
One of the many, many things that rule about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is how diverse and inclusive it is. People of every size, shape, color, gender, and more fill every frame of the film, and while most peopl...
Jamal Khashoggi's Widow Says Notorious Spyware Left Her 'Irrevocably Altered'
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 19:02
The widow of Jamal Khashoggi--a Saudi journalist brutally executed by intelligence agents for writing critically about the regime--is suing the NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company allegedly responsible for creatin...
Wrap Yourself Up in a Classic Apple OS While Your Brain Turns to Mush With a Modern One
Gizmodo - 16 Jun 2023 18:51
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of what's now considered the second most momentous on-stage reveal by Steve Jobs (after 2007's iPhone debut): the Apple Macintosh. You can get a head start on the festivities with Thr...
Windows 11 beta fixes major taskbar gripe, removes old File Explorer settings
Ars Technica - 16 Jun 2023 18:47
New build also (sort of) removes OS-level Microsoft Teams integration.