Month: April 2022
Watch out Apple: EU moves closer to making us all use USB-C
Audio player loading… European smartphone users are a step closer to only ever needing to worry about buying one charger for all their devices. Earlier in 2022, the EU took the wraps off a pretty interesting plan: reduce electronic waste by mandating that all smartphones use USB-C, the near-ubiquitous connectivity…
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When the virtual city of Cybertown went dark, its citizens rebuilt it
Coming back to your hometown can be an alienating experience, especially when all you find is a dead link to a long-deserted website. For nearly a decade, that was the experience of Cytonians — members of an early virtual world called Cybertown, which operated between 1995 and 2012. But since…
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Amazon Prime shipping delivery is now available to all merchants
Audio player loading… Amazon is looking to expand its next-day delivery service with the launch of Buy with Prime, a new service that competes directly with FedEx and UPS for delivery supremacy as the e-commerce wars heat up. “Buy with Prime is a new way to extend Prime shopping benefits—including fast,…
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What Would Elon’s Twitter Takeover Look Like?
This week, we discuss Elon Musk’s bid to buy the platform, and we debate whether an edit button would be a sensible addition. Source
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The Morning After: Netflix plans cheaper, ad-supported subscription tiers
Netflix might offer cheaper, ad-supported plans in the coming years. In the company's most recent earnings call, co-CEO Reed Hastings said the company is working on the offering, and it’ll finalize details for those plans "over the next year or two." The service lost around 200,000 subscribers in the first…
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Microsoft’s greed is killing Windows 11 for me
Audio player loading… Nothing in life really comes for free, and Windows 11 is a great example of that. While Microsoft’s latest operating system is offered as a free upgrade for many users (previous moves from older versions of Windows to newer ones would require you to pay for the…
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