Month: May 2023
Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers to the US
Meta has been hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine (€1.2 billion) by EU data regulators, and ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data of EU citizens to the US, according to reports from Bloomberg and Politico. EU courts believe such data transfers expose EU citizens to privacy violations —…
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If your HP OfficeJet printer isn’t working, you’re not alone – here’s why
Some HP OfficeJet printers are becoming unusable after a dodgy firmware update earlier this month, leaving them with nothing more than a blue screen displaying a seemingly unfixable error code. The affected devices belong to the OfficeJet 902x family and include the OfficeJet Pro 9022e, OfficeJet Pro 9025e, OfficeJet Pro…
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Pac-Man is the latest video game classic to be lovingly recreated in Lego
Lego has announced a new premium set based on 1980s arcade classic Pac-Man. The 2,650-piece set is designed to recreate a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, complete with an illuminating coin-slot, four-way joystick, and a mechanical chase. There’s a crank on the side of the cabinet which you can turn to move…
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Instagram is down
As you may already know if you’re reading this — Instagram is down. The app’s feed is frozen, tossing users errors that it can’t refresh, while the website gives only a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM…
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The Galaxy S24 apparently won’t be replacing Google with Bing after all
After rumors that Samsung might be switching its in-house browser app’s default search engine from Google to Bing – perhaps in time for the Galaxy S24 – a new report suggests that the change is no longer happening, which is no doubt a relief to Google. This comes from the…
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Hitting the Books: How music chords hack your brain to elicit emotion
Johnny Cash’s Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But that change can fundamentally alter how a song sounds, and what…
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