Month: May 2022
The fight to unionize Amazon’s warehouses
The latest on organization efforts at one of the world’s largest retailers Contributors: Verge Staff Amazon, one of the United State’s largest employers and a mainstay of Americans’ shopping habits, has long resisted unionization efforts such as union drives in 2000 and 2014. In recent years, though, the calls for…
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Simone Giertz’s online store sells cool inventions ‘you didn’t know you didn’t want’
Swedish inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz (aka the “queen of shitty robots”) has revealed her latest creation: a website named after the way her last name is pronounced, “Yetch.” Giertz’s roster of inventions includes things like a toothbrushing helmet and a gnarly vegetable chopping machine. While the website doesn’t feature…
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AMD promises ‘extreme gaming laptops’ in 2023 with new Dragon Range CPU
A funny thing happened in 2020: AMD won the gaming laptop for the first time ever. Until the Asus Zephyrus G14, we’d never seen a laptop with an AMD CPU and AMD GPU run circles around the competition. Since then, we’ve repeatedly seen that “AMD laptop” no longer means cheap.…
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YouTube Live stole one of Twitch’s best features and managed to make raids better
A few years ago, YouTube added Live Redirects as a way for creators to hold livestreams that ended by pointing viewers to another video on their own channel for premiere events, like BTS engaging fans before showing off a new music video. Now it has adjusted Live Redirects so that…
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Millions of IoT devices and routers could have a mega security flaw
Audio player loading… An unpatched vulnerability in a popular C standard library found in a wide range of IoT products and routers could put millions of devices at risk of attack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02 and discovered by Nozomi Networks, is present in the domain name system (DNS) component…
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10 Years Ago, A Man Jizzed In A Shoebox And The Internet Was Never The Same
At the time of the interview, lynfect had stopped using the box, since it was beyond repair. Instead, he said he’d been ejaculating on the floor and cleaning it up immediately afterward. Other questions revealed a portrait of, well, the kind of guy you might expect to post about having…
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