Month: April 2022
Exclusive: this is the new budget soundbar from Sonos
Sonos is nearing the release of a new entry-level soundbar, and you’re looking at it. Codenamed “Fury” and officially known as model S36, the new device is yet another soundbar that will join the company’s lineup beneath the $449 Beam and flagship $899 Arc. It appears that Sonos is no…
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Elon Musk has the money to buy Twitter – now what?
Audio player loading… Elon Musk now has the funds to buy Twitter outright. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is hellbent on adding another notch to his entrepreneurial belt, making a cash offer of $46.5 billion for the remaining Twitter shares he doesn’t own. Musk laid out his new plan in…
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Google claps back at Brave, DuckDuckGo over latest privacy debate
Audio player loading… Google has hit out at Brave and DuckDuckGo over recent service updates designed to undermine the divisive AMP initiative. Earlier this week, the two privacy software vendors announced new browser functionality that allows users to bypass AMP, which they say is harmful to privacy and the economics…
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FAA will revoke YouTuber’s pilot license after plane crash video
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has demanded that YouTuber Trevor Jacob turn over his pilot license after he posted a video called “I Crashed My Plane,” of a crash that the agency suggests was staged, as reported by The New York Times. In the video (which you can watch here),…
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Google Meet gets new co-hosting options to help keep your meetings under control
Audio player loading… With video calls showing no signs of disappearing any time soon, Google has announced new co-hosting options for its video conferencing software. Users will now be able to set up Google Meet breakout rooms in advance of their meetings via Google Calendar, which allow moderators to divide…
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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg accused of squashing reporting about then-boyfriend Bobby Kotick
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Meta Platforms, used her influence to bury two stories about her then-boyfriend, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ reports that, in 2016 and again in 2019, Sandberg contacted MailOnline, the online imprint of…
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