Month: December 2021
Twitter’s new CEO wants the company to move a lot faster
The new CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, has a clear message: expect the social network to move a lot faster than it has in the past. In his first public appearance since taking the reins of Twitter from co-founder Jack Dorsey, Agrawal says his top priority is “improving our execution”…
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Microsoft rolls out Notepad with dark mode for Windows 11 Insiders
Microsoft is testing a redesign of its venerable Notepad app, adding some welcomed modern features like a dark mode, a better search / find and replace interface, better undoing, and more. While the visual updates like the addition of dark mode, updated right-click menu, and Windows’ new theme-adopting material are…
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Your LG TV can now play Google Stadia if it’s running webOS 5.0 or later
Have a gamepad handy and a recent LG TV? You can likely now try Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform — as of today, it’s an app you can download for your television running webOS 5.0 or webOS 6.0 (read: likely 2020 models or later) in any of the 22 countries…
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Don’t Look Up is an absurdist mirror of our reality — before it just becomes a regular mirror
For a goofy satire about a comet destroying the planet, Don’t Look Up sure takes you on an emotional journey. The film — helmed by writer and director Adam McKay, best-known for movies like Step Brothers and Anchorman — starts out hilarious, with big-name stars trading one-liners amid an impending…
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Meta Portal now lets you view Facebook Stories hands-free
The Meta (formerly Facebook) Portal is getting a number of updates, including one that lets you browse through your Facebook friends’ stories hands-free, as detailed in a post on the About Facebook blog. You can access the feature by saying, “Hey Portal, show me Stories.” In addition to Stories, you…
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AWS went down – and large parts of the internet went with it
UPDATE: 14:04 PM PST / 17:04 ET The official AWS dashboard has published the following statement: “We have executed a mitigation which is showing significant recovery in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are continuing to closely monitor the health of the network devices and we expect to continue to make progress…
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