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Canadians are asking their government to federate

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Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs

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Google is working on a 'lookup' button for unknown callers on Android

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Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked...
Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from your recent calls screen. X user AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a new “Lookup” button in the beta version of the Goog...
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Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills

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Roku's idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell

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In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems...
In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems to telegraph that the company is planning some heavy advertising tactics for those who purchase Roku TV televisions. The patent centers around the idea of displaying ads on these TVs whenever they’re tuned to an HDMI i...
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We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access

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In August 2020, during the heart of the covid-19 pandemic when many schools were closed, social...
In August 2020, during the heart of the covid-19 pandemic when many schools were closed, social media and news outlets were awash with a picture of two grade school students sitting outside of a Taco Bell, attempting to do their schoolwork. That one picture changed millions of minds about the necessity for everyone ...
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Who is 'Jia Tan,' the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?

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Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is 'a gift'

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Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, has taken a lot of...
Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, has taken a lot of heat from critics who accuse it of exploiting its users, the vast majority of whom are children and teenagers. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, however, Roblox’s studio head, Stefano Corazza, said the platform has actually been a ...
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X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for

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The App Store Was Down, Along with Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Music

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Microsoft reveals how much you'll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely

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Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay...
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely. Microsoft will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 users, with pricing starting at $61 for the first year.The pricing for additional security u...
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A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores

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Almost a month after Apple’s begrudging capitulation to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), only one third-party...
Almost a month after Apple’s begrudging capitulation to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), only one third-party iOS app store is currently live in Europe. It’s the B2B-focused Mobivention marketplace that allows companies to distribute their own apps internally. While that’s fine and all, things won’t stay this way for ...
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Welcome to the AI Gadget Era

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I’m just going to call it: we’ll look back on April 2024 as the beginning of...
I’m just going to call it: we’ll look back on April 2024 as the beginning of a new technological era. That sounds grandiose, I know, but in the next few weeks, a whole new generation of gadgets is poised to hit the market. Humane will launch its voice-controlled AI Pin. Rabbit’s AI-powered R1 will start to ship. Bri...
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President Biden is now posting into the Fediverse

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It's time for a hard reset on notifications

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Google Podcasts is gone – and so is my faith in Google

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Google Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall that...
Google Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall that it was killing its dedicated podcast app in order to focus all its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music. This is a bad idea and a big downgrade, and I’d be more mad if only I were more surprised. The Podcasts app is just the ...
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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

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Instagram’s co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could...
Instagram’s co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale. Yahoo has hundreds of millions of readers — but could use a dose of tech-forward cool to separate it from all the internet’s other news aggregators. And so, the two sides are joining for...
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AT&T confirms data breach and resets customer passcodes

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20 Years of Gmail

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Amazon's palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone

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Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. It’s...
Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. It’s launching a new Amazon One app on iOS and Android you can use to take a photo of your palm and set up your account, allowing you to start scanning your palm at locations that support the verification tech.Previously, Amazon r...
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How a Windows shake-up could position Microsoft to capitalize on AI PCs

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After Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay departed Microsoft last year, the software giant quickly split...
After Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay departed Microsoft last year, the software giant quickly split his two divisions into two different teams. It was a move designed to push Windows engineers to focus on more web and AI features under Mikhail Parakhin, who was previously responsible for Bing and ads. It didn...
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Oregon's governor signs right-to-repair law that bans 'parts pairing'

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Qualcomm demos Baldur's Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops

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If you read my scoop last week, I bet you’ve been wondering — how well could...
If you read my scoop last week, I bet you’ve been wondering — how well could a Snapdragon chip actually run Windows games? At the 2024 Game Developers Conference, the company claimed Arm could run those titles at close to x86/64 speed, but how fast is fast?With medium-weight games like Control and Baldur’s Gate 3, i...
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Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel

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Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for...
Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to ...
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