Category : General Tech News

Who Gets the Banhammer Now?

In a single week, some of the internet’s biggest platforms banned users and groups they had tolerated for years. What changed?

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This wooden block is actually a wireless record player — all you need is a flat surface

TL;DR: Wirelessly play your vinyl records with a RokBlok record player for $89.99, a 9% savings as of July 11. That box of records sitting in the corner? You're supposed to listen to them. Of course, if you don't have something to play them...

The last-minute Facebook political ad ban could end up suppressing votes

Facebook's latest test balloon has popped. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Facebook is considering a blackout of political ads in the "days" before the November 2020 election. That alarmed democratic campaign staff and experts, who warned that i...

Coronavirus: How can we make post-pandemic cities smarter?

Will the "anthropause" brought on by lockdowns make our cities greener, cleaner and quieter in future?

Huawei: Why the UK might hang up on 5G and broadband kit supplier

The Chinese telecoms equipment provider's fate in the UK is set to be revealed on Tuesday.

Police use facial-recognition tech to arrest another innocent man

Let's say it together: Facial-recognition technology is a dangerous, biased mess. We are reminded of this obvious fact again with the news Friday that an innocent man, despite not looking like the perpetrator at all, was arrested last year af...

A copy of Super Mario Bros. for the original Nintendo just sold for a record $114,000

Video games are getting pretty expensive. The average price of a new release for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Sony Playstation is around $60. Throw in some in-game microtransaction purchases and you could be looking at a whole lot more. But,...

Amazon Backtracks From Demand That Employees Delete TikTok

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat.

TikTok Users Respond to Potential U.S. Ban: ‘It Would Be Like Losing a Little Bit of Me'

Gen Z and millennial users have found community on the app, particularly during the last few isolating months. And for some of them, it’s their livelihood.

TikTok: Amazon says email asking staff to remove app 'sent in error'

Earlier, the company had asked staff to remove the TikTok app from phones over "security risks."

'I left Smile Bank today due to the ongoing outage'

Smile Bank customers have been unable to access their accounts for days due to an ongoing outage.

‘It Would Be Like Losing a Little Bit of Me’: TikTok Users Respond to Potential U.S. Ban

Gen Z and millennial users have found community on the app, particularly during the last few isolating months. And for some of them, it’s their livelihood.

Facebook Said to Consider Banning Political Ads

The social network has been under intense pressure for allowing misinformation and hate speech to spread on its site.