Month: January 2020
Twitter has fixed a bug that made its app crash – here’s how to install the update
Twitter has released a fix for a bug in a recent update that caused its mobile app to crash unexpectedly. After installing the latest release (version 8.28), many Android users found that the app shut down immediately after being opened. At first, Twitter recommended that users simply avoid installing the…
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Captain Marvel 2 is targeting a 2022 release date, claims report
Captain Marvel 2 is targeting a 2022 release date, according to a report on THR. The movie now has a writer, Megan McDonnell, who worked on the first season of upcoming Disney Plus show WandaVision. The movie will apparently focus on Carol Danvers in the present day rather than the…
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PSA: Never open a WhatsApp message from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia
Bay Area! I’ll be talking with Anna Wiener about Uncanny Valley, her brilliant new memoir of a life in tech, on February 4th at Manny’s in San Francisco. It’s our second-ever Interface Live event, and it would mean the world to me if you came to say hello and talk…
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Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical
Did you notice a recent change to how Google search results are displayed on the desktop? I noticed something last week — thinking there must be some kind of weird bug messing up the browser’s page rendering because suddenly everything looked similar: A homogenous sea of blue text links and…
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Doomguy isn’t coming to Smash Bros Ultimate, at least not yet
Doomguy, the hell-raising US marine and brutal demon-hunter from id Software’s iconic Doom franchise, isn’t coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate anytime soon, it seems. In an interview with Metro, Doom Eternal director Marty Stratton shut down rumors that Doomguy was in the works as playable DLC character for the…
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Dfinity launches an open source platform aimed at the social networking giants
When Dfinity raised $102 million in funding in 2018 at a $2 billion valuation in a round jointly led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital, it was thought of as a step change in the world of blockchain technology. In an area that was synonymous generating a lot of headlines…
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