Verizon said Thursday it is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to recall 2.5 million hotspot devices after an investigation found the devices’ lithium-ion batteries could overheat and…
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Facebook and Instagram appear to have recovered after brief outage
Facebook and Instagram were down on Thursday afternoon. The outage appeared to start around 5:30PM ET, with several thousand people reporting outages on DownDetector. The outage is the second one…
Nike and MSCHF settle Satan Shoe lawsuit, say any ‘confused’ buyers can get a refund
Nike and the internet collective MSCHF have settled their trademark dispute over a run of unofficially modified Satan-themed Nike sneakers. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal. But it…
Avengers Campus is finally opening at Disneyland on June 4th, complete with aerial Spider-Man robot
After being delayed for almost a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Avengers Campus will finally open at Disneyland, specifically at the Disney’s California Adventure park in Anaheim, California…
Another 500 million accounts have leaked online, and LinkedIn’s in the hot seat
You might still be reeling from the news that personal information from 533 million Facebook accounts has been made freely available online. But now there’s another huge batch of people’s…
Students of color are getting flagged to their teachers because testing software can’t see them
Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to…
PSA for US Congresspeople: here’s how to set your Venmo feed to private
Hello, yes, it has come to my attention that Matt Gaetz left his Venmo feed public and The Daily Beast has used this public feed to report a salacious story…