Month: November 2024
The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews
The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabber, an online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using point-of-sale reviews to misrepresent what customers think about products. In one of its first enforcement actions under new rules banning companies from making or selling fake reviews, the FTC is…
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NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike
Striking New York Times tech workers have created a “Guild Builds” page dedicated to strike-themed games you can play, including a spin on Wordle, a word search, and the custom Connections I reported on earlier today. As part of its strike announcement on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild…
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Microsoft’s new emulator could bring more games to Windows on Arm
This way, Qualcomm’s new chips can run more kinds of apps that don’t have native ARM64 versions and, until now, weren’t usable with emulation. It could even enable games that use AVX2, like Starfield and Helldivers 2, to work on Windows on Arm. With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open…
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Trump Won. What Will Happen to Electric Vehicles?
Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition. Source
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Roblox is banning kids from ‘social hangout’ spaces
Roblox is going to block kids from accessing certain types of experiences following reports alleging that the platform has enabled child abuse. One new measure will stop kids under 13 from accessing experiences with “certain types of interactive features,” Roblox says in a post on its developer forum. Those include…
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Galaxy S25 ‘Slim’ rumors suggest a skinny phone showdown next year
And now Smartprix has shown the listing for a smartphone with the market name “Galaxy” and model number SM-S937U in the GSMA IMEI database. Smartprix says Samsung typically adds smartphones it’s working on testing internally to the database before launching it six to seven months later, and this model number lines…
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