Month: March 2026
Amazon.com says things are fixed after some issues with logging in and checking out
If you were having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music on Thursday, you weren’t alone. For over three hours today, Downdetector showed a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging in. The problem seemed to be affecting both the site and…
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What if your real computer was a super-sized Lego computer brick?
Now, industrial designer Paul Staal has flipped the script with a working desktop PC that’s a super-sized homage to the classic computer brick (via Reddit and Hackster.io). It’s ten times bigger than the original: The “M2x2” is largely a 3D-printed case for a Mac Mini — one you can freely…
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Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store
A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to advance the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act; Sammy’s Law; and the App Store…
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The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing one source familiar, will bar defense contractors from working with the government if they use Claude, Anthropic’s AI program, in their products. Though the designation is typically applied to foreign companies with ties to adversarial governments, this is…
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Roku’s solution to streaming decision fatigue is a trivia game
Roku users who struggle to figure out what they want to watch might have an answer in the form of “Roklue,” a new game coming to the streaming platform on March 7th. Announced on Thursday, Roklue is a pop culture trivia game that Roku says helps users discover new content…
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Pokopia made me look at Pokémon’s high-tech future in a whole new way
Pokémon Pokopia features, of all things, a 3D printer. I wasn’t sure why this surprised me so much, given all the other high-tech gear in pretty much every Pokémon game. But I was not expecting to find, inside the once-crumbling Pokémon Center I’d just worked hard to restore, a kind…
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