Month: October 2021
Roblox has been down for more than a day and it’s not because of Chipotle
Roblox has been down for more than a day, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players. The hugely popular game-creating platform first started having issues more than 30 hours ago, at 7PM ET on October 28th. Roblox said it was “working hard to get things…
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Facebook puts tighter restrictions on vaccine misinformation targeted at children
Just as the FDA officially approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of five and 11, Meta, Facebook’s brand new identity, announced that it’s rolling out stricter policies for vaccine misinformation targeted at children (via Engadget). The platform previously put restrictions on COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in late 2020,…
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Global climate talks in Glasgow aren’t very global
One of the most anticipated rounds of international climate negotiations this decade will go down at a United Nations summit in Glasgow over the next couple weeks. But many representatives from the frontlines of the climate crisis won’t be there: people from islands that may be lost under rising seas,…
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Minnesota man charged with illegally streaming MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA games for profit
Federal authorities have accused a Minnesota man with trying to extort $150,000 from Major League Baseball after hacking into its computer system. The US Attorney’s office for the southern district of New York and the FBI have charged Joshua Streit, 30, with illegally streaming content from MLB, as well as…
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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti GPU could be coming to supercharge gaming laptops
Nvidia could be readying an RTX 3080 Ti laptop graphics card if the rumor mill is to be believed. Speculation about higher-end notebook GPUs from Nvidia has been flying around for quite some time now, although previous leaks from a few months or so back pointed to the possibility of…
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Save on spooky games to play during Halloween and more
It’s the spooky holiday this weekend, but you probably already knew that since Halloween decorations have likely been up in your town for the last month and a half. But what hasn’t been around as long (and will disappear faster than those decorations) are the deals below. To match the…
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