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Amazon Featured

Amazon Originals Coming to Other Streaming Platforms Soon

Amazon is taking a different approach to increasing its subscribers by making its Amazon Original content available to other media outlets. 

By Charlie Fripp – May 10, 2023

Google Featured

Google I/O Conference Betting Big on AI

Google is making a bigger AI push, as the overarching theme of its annual I/O Conference will focus on artificial intelligence.

By Charlie Fripp – May 9, 2023

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Western Digital Confirms Customer Data Stolen in Hack

Those who use hard drive manufacturer and online storage provider Western Digital have learned that their data was stolen in a hack.

By Charlie Fripp – May 8, 2023

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Expect to Find More Advertising in Your Gmail Inbox

If you use Google’s Gmail, you’ve undoubtedly seen a few advertising emails pop up every so often. It’s about to increase and get worse.

By Charlie Fripp – May 5, 2023

Discord Featured

Discord Changing Usernames to Remove Discriminators

There are so many Discord users that the naming system needs to change to make them all unique without a four-digit discriminator.

By Charlie Fripp – May 4, 2023

Facebook Featured

FTC Accuses Facebook of Violating Privacy Agreement to Protect Children

The FTC accuses Meta of violating a 2020 privacy order and proposes changes to force Facebook into protecting user data, particularly kids.

By Charlie Fripp – May 4, 2023

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Google Rolling Out Passkeys for “Passwordless Future”

Google is starting the process it calls a “passwordless future” by introducing passkeys for its Google accounts.

By Charlie Fripp – May 3, 2023

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Intel to Move Away From Familiar Processor Branding

Intel is gearing up for the release of its Meteor Lake processors, but there are strong indications the familiar “i” will be dropped.

By Charlie Fripp – May 3, 2023

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Chrome the Most Popular Browser, with a Battle for No. 2

The second most used browser is soon to be an unlikely candidate, with Google Chrome still riding high as the most popular.

By Charlie Fripp – May 2, 2023

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Jack Dorsey Admits Elon Musk Isn’t the Right Person for Twitter

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey admits that Elon Musk wasn’t the right person to take over the platform.

By Charlie Fripp – May 1, 2023

Ai

Google’s “Godfather of AI” Warns It Can Cause Serious Harm

A former Google chatbot engineer is in agreement with other critics that AI is “racing toward danger” – and there’s little that can be done.

By Charlie Fripp – May 1, 2023

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Microsoft Putting Windows 10 Out to Pasture

Microsoft announced that the current version 22H2 will be the final version of Windows 10. There will be no more feature updates.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 28, 2023

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Sony Sold Almost 40 million PS5s Since Launch

Sony revealed that its third quarter of 2022 was the strongest, selling just over 7 million PS5 consoles – and nearly 40 million in total.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 28, 2023

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AI to Blame as Dropbox Cuts 500 Jobs

While there’s always a fear that artificial intelligence can replace workers, the file-sharing platform Dropbox ia blaming AI for 500 layoffs.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 27, 2023

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Google Meet Gets 1080p Video Calls for Crisper Visuals

Thanks to an upcoming Google Meet update, the platform will now support the higher-definition 1080p resolution for video calls.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 27, 2023

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Netflix Lost a Million Subscribers Over Password Policing

Netflix lost more than a million Spanish subscribers, who canceled their paid plans in the first quarter of 2023, with 10% more to follow.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 26, 2023

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Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Blocked by UK Regulator

The UK’s competition authority blocked the proposed $69 billion purchase by Microsoft of the hugely-successful developer Activision Blizzard.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 26, 2023

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Microsoft to Unbundle Teams From Office

Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Office to prevent an antitrust investigation in the EU brought on by rival platform Slack.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 25, 2023

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Spotify Has 500 Million Users for the First Time

For the first time, music and podcast streaming giant Spotify has over 500 million active monthly users while operating at a loss.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 25, 2023

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Twitter Adds Blue Verified Checks to People Who Passed Away

Twitter requires that you pay for Twitter Blue to be verified, but some accounts have the check even though they passed away or didn’t pay.

By Charlie Fripp – Apr 24, 2023

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

Jun 15, 2026

Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

Jun 11, 2026

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Jun 10, 2026

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

Jun 10, 2026

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