Month: October 2020
Steam’s profanity filters put you in control of chat content
Steam’s latest feature allows you to tweak your chat settings to obscure profanity, slurs and any other words you don’t want to see while using the platform. It builds on filtering options Valve developed for games like CS:GO and Dota 2. In additio… Source
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Feast your eyes on the first DDR5 memory modules
Three years after the computer industry promised to double the speed of the world’s computer memory with the DDR5 spec, it’s finally nearly almost here. SK Hynix has officially announced the world’s first DDR5 memory modules. Here they are: Currently, we’re looking at 32 or 64GB to a stick.Image: SK…
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NAS devices can finally get cloud backup Google cloud services
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are an excellent way to backup your data locally but what if you also want to store a copy of that data in the cloud? Up until now this wasn’t possible but thankfully the data protection and management company Druva has announced the industry’s first…
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Instagram made a big change to Threads and I, as the sole user of Threads, am sad
Instagram has rolled out an update to the Threads app, and it’s a pretty big change. While Threads previously only allowed you to message close friends (that is, accounts you’d added to your “Close Friends” list on Instagram), you can now use it to message any Instagram user. As planet…
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Facebook will ban US political ads indefinitely after election
Facebook will ban US-based political ads indefinitely after the presidential election, attempting to forestall confusion over its results. “While ads are an important way to express voice, we plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral, or political ads in the US after the polls close on November 3rd,…
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Facebook will ban political ads after polls close on election night
Facebook is once again tightening its rules as it prepares for a potentially chaotic election. The company said that it would ban all political ads from its platform once polls close on election night in an effort to guard against misinformation and… Source
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