Author: Zach_Wilson
Etsy is laying off 11 percent of its staff
Etsy is the latest company to lay off staff in 2023. CEO Josh Silverman confirmed the marketplace is letting go of 11 percent of its staff (around 225 employees) in its first significant staffing cut in recent years. It’s also reshuffling its leadership, including announcing two executives’ departures at the…
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An X outage broke all outgoing links, again
As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon. A problem with the URL redirect that captures activity before sending users on their way sent people to a simple error…
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Someone reviewed a stealth HDD that’s not supposed to exist – meet Seagate’s very unique 25TB hard drive, so special it’s not listed anywhere, and won’t work with Windows or Mac
Browse through Seagate‘s repertoire of enterprise hard drives and you’ll see some of the best HDDs you can buy, but one that’s absent from its listings and nearly impossible to get ahold of is the Exos X26z. This 3.5-inch 25TB enterprise hard drive is unlike any other, in that it’s…
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Apple will make it harder for governments to get your push notifications
Apple will require law enforcement to obtain a court order before the company hands over details of customers’ push notifications from now on. As Reuters reports, Apple quietly updated its guidelines for law enforcement page on Monday with language specifying that search warrants and court orders are now required for…
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How to take spatial video on the iPhone 15 Pro
We knew that the iPhone 15 Pro and the Pro Max would be able to record spatial videos, but that capability wasn’t available until the release of iOS 17.2. Well, it’s here now, so there’s no time like the present to start building up a library of spatial video clips…
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15 last-minute deals at Amazon – 50% off Echo Dot, Kindle, Fire Tablets and 4K TVs
We’re getting closer to December 25, which means retailers are starting to use “last-minute” language to remind consumers that time is running out to order gifts that will arrive before Christmas. Amazon is leaning in by offering last-minute deals on its best-selling smart home devices, including the Echo Dot, Fire…
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