Tag: Tech
What Should Facebook’s New Name Be?
Facebook is reportedly planning to rename itself. The Verge reports that the company wants to rebrand in a way that signals it is more than just the social media site, and emphasizes its ambitions in the AR/VR “multiverse” world (and perhaps deemphasizes years upon years of bad press). This would…
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Facebook’s New Portal Go Is Nearly Perfect For Kids, Except It’s Horrible For Kids
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News The new Portal Go ($199) from Facebook. “It’s my Portal, just made for kids!” My 5-year-old had only been using Facebook’s new Portal Go for 15 minutes, and already he looked like he was starring in an ad for it. He’s spent a lot of…
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Apple Launches Powerful New MacBook Pros And New AirPods
Today, Apple announced 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, and they are very, very powerful. These are a significant upgrade from the previous MacBook Pro and faster than any previous laptop from Apple. The killer feature of the new Pro is the new M1 Pro or M1 Max chip. The M1…
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How Celebrity Gossip Site Crazy Days And Nights Went QAnon
BuzzFeed News; Getty Images It was early June and “Penny Farthing” had finally had enough. “I’ve been a faithful reader of this site since like 2008 but I have just about had enough of the QAnon garbage that gets posted lately. The very first post I read here was about…
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FTC Warns Hundreds Of Brands To Avoid Misleading Ads & Fake Reviews
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent out a notice to over 700 companies — a list that includes the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Tesla — warning them about the menace of fake reviews and misleading ad practices using social media, and has asked them to…
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Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Secure messaging app Signal’s founder Moxie Marlinspike is doing a bit of trolling by releasing an NFT that shows up differently depending on what platform you’re looking at it on — and that will, allegedly, display as a poop emoji in your wallet…
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