Month: October 2021
Pinterest whistleblower Ifeoma Ozoma has a new way for tech workers to speak out
When Ifeoma Ozoma came forward with allegations of discrimination and racism at Pinterest, she was prepared. She had a list of reporters on deck to share her story. She’d already hired a lawyer. Then she started hearing from other tech workers who also wanted to speak out. “The general lack…
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The Switch OLED Is More Than Just a Pretty Screen
Sure, the improved 7-inch screen is pretty great. But it’s the revamped kickstand that makes Nintendo’s new handheld shine. Source
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All Twitch data and source code has been leaked online
An anonymous hacker claims to have leaked the entirety of popular video game live streaming service Twitch, including its source code and personally identifiable information (PII) of its users. Video Games Chronicles (VGC) reports that the hacker wasn’t pleased with the community that had built around the service and leaked…
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Verge Tech Survey 2021
In a year of isolation, fear, sickness, and death, the tech industry provided many of the ways people stayed connected. It also made Americans very aware of their reliance on the major tech companies. So have our attitudes toward them shifted? Starting in 2017, The Verge has conducted periodic surveys…
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Watch out Nvidia – AMD RX 6700 XT becomes first Big Navi card to rank in Steam’s top GPUs
AMD’s Big Navi graphics cards have ranked in the GPU section of Steam’s hardware survey for the first time ever, in what could be a tentative indication that sales – or perhaps more to the point, stock – of the latest RX 6000 series cards are picking up a bit.…
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The Morning After: Facebook’s October 4th outage, explained
We’ll get into why Facebook saw its entire business fall off a cliff on Monday, but first: e-readers. It’s a device category we don’t see much development in — probably because it’s very much a device for reading text and not much else. Amazon’s Kindle, thanks to its powerful online…
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