Month: February 2022
Love the AirPods Max but hate the price? Don’t miss these excellent Apple deals
Apple’s AirPods Max over-ear headphones are among the best-sounding wireless cans we’ve tested – but their expensive price makes them difficult to recommend to anyone on a budget. Happily, there are some excellent deals on the AirPods Max today that bring the prices in the US and the UK down…
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Twitter expands downvote test worldwide
If you’ve seen the option to downvote replies on Twitter, you’re not alone. The experimental feature, which Twitter started testing last year, is now being shown to a global audience, says the company. The option to downvote was initially given to a select group of web users, but Twitter says…
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GoFundMe Says The Viral Campaign For Canada’s Trucker Protest Hasn’t Violated Its Rules Even Though It Sure Seems Like It Does
GoFundMe says a fundraiser that’s collected millions of dollars for vaccine mandate protesters is “still compliant” with its terms of service despite vowing to remove campaigns that contribute to vaccine misinformation, support travel to political events where there’s a risk of violence, or otherwise violate its rules. In the past…
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Meta’s Stock Dropped $230 Billion After Earnings Showed Fewer People Are Using Facebook
Facebook parent company Meta’s stock plunged more than 25% on Thursday, following fourth-quarter financial results that show the impact of Apple’s new privacy measures and a drop in people using Facebook on a daily basis. The plummet could be the steepest collapse in the company’s history, following a 19% drop…
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Google highlights repairable Chromebooks for education as it battles cheap Windows laptops
Google announced today via its Google for Education blog that it’s starting a repairability program to help schools fix Chromebooks in-house, and turn it into a valuable training opportunity for students looking into the IT field. Google says 50 million students and teachers are using Chromebooks while raising bold claims…
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Elon Musk’s first Starship update in two years is next week
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans to give an update on his company’s next-generation Starship rocket next Thursday evening. The presentation will come more than two years after Musk’s last update on the vehicle in 2019. Starship is the massive new deep-space rocket that SpaceX has been developing at the…
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