Month: October 2023
Move over Sonos Roam, Klipsch’s new portable Bluetooth speakers can rock outdoors
Klipsch is a company known for making big – refrigerator-sized, in some instances – speakers, all of them with a version of the horn-loaded driver design the company has used since producing its first models back in the 1940s. But the long-running American brand has also kept up with the…
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Porsche is adding Google to its cars as VW’s software problems worsen
Porsche said today that future models would include native versions of popular Google apps, like Maps and Assistant. The German automaker is the latest to support Google built-in, enabling native Android apps with over-the-air (OTA) software updates. It was just a few months ago that VW rolled out an entirely…
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Instagram and Facebook get ad-free subscriptions in the EU, but they’re pricey
Starting in November, Meta will offer Facebook and Instagram users in the EU, EEA, (European Economic Area,) and Switzerland the opportunity to remove all advertisements from the platforms via a new subscription plan. There will be two different prices available at launch depending on where you purchase a plan. People…
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World of Horror is a skin-crawling dread machine that does its inspirations proud
I am fully encased in a bundle of spider’s silk, only my eyeballs still visible as I wait for my turn to be devoured. I’ve failed to save the city from the insatiable arachnidian Old God, and now myself and all the inhabitants of Shiokawa, Japan are caught in its…
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X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it
Everyone knew that Twitter wasn’t worth $44 billion when Elon Musk bought it a year ago. Now, we know what Musk himself thinks it’s worth today: $19 billion. On Monday, employees at X were awarded equity in the company at a valuation of $19 billion, or $45 per share, according…
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Watch out – sharing a Wikipedia link on Slack could be a serious security no-no
Cybersecurity researchers from eSentire have discovered a glitch in how Slack renders Wikipedia articles that could be abused to trick users into opening malware-laden websites. In popular messaging apps, including Slack, when a user forgets to add a space between a full stop and the first letter of the next…
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