Month: April 2024
How to mix politics with your Threads
You can’t really blame Meta’s executives for wanting to limit the amount of political yelling on Instagram and Threads. That stuff can get pretty toxic. As a result, both of Meta’s social networks now limit what Meta terms “political content” from people you are not following. However, if you are…
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April Fools’ Day 2024: the best and cringiest pranks
April Fools’ 2024: Bluesky Shorts. Unlike every other app and service chasing the bouncing ball of vertical video (off the top of my head, we have YouTube, Instagram, NBA, Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, Netflix, Spotify… you get the picture), Bluesky’s April Fools’ contribution is… actual shorts. At least, assuming they get…
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The FTC is trying to help victims of impersonation scams get their money back
Using government seals or business logos when communicating with consumers by mail or online. Spoofing government and business emails and web addresses, including spoofing “.gov” email addresses or using lookalike email addresses or websites that rely on misspellings of a company’s name. Falsely implying government or business affiliation by using terms that…
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Google may have been storing your incognito browsing data and now they’ve agreed to delete it
Bad news: Google‘s apparently been storing your Chrome incognito browsing data. Good news. They’ve finally agreed to delete it. In a court document filed Monday (April 1) and spotted by BGR, Google has agreed to settle a nearly four-year-old class-action suit that challenged Google’s private browsing (a.k.a. “Incognito Mode) data…
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Tekken fans pester developer to add a Waffle House stage
Get ready for the next battle… at the Waffle House. For a while now, Tekken fans on social media have been pestering Katsuhiro Harada, longtime Tekken producer, to add a Waffle House battle stage. All the posts seemingly got to Harada, who finally asked, “Why?” The resulting thread on X…
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Engineers enlist NASA to send yet another time capsule to the moon — 24 sapphire discs will contain ‘the very essence of humanity’ printed over 170 billion pixels but who will read them?
NASA, in collaboration with a team of international scientists, researchers, designers, and artists led by French engineer Benoit Faiveley, is set to send another time capsule to the moon. The project, titled “Sanctuary on the Moon”, is part of NASA’s ambitious Artemis CLPS program and enjoys the support of UNESCO…
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