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On Friday, Mashable reported that Helium, a crypto project praised by The New York Times earlier this year and whose parent company is backed by investment firms like Andreessen Horowitz, …
Helium says its crypto mesh network is used by Lime and Salesforce it isn’t Read More
Apple is planning to show ads in the App Store’s Today tab and on individual app pages, according to MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider. The two new ad placements will expand …
Apple is planning to put ads right in the App Store’s Today tab Read More
Handing over your phone — full of photos, texts, and other personal private info — to a repair person can feel dicey. After all, the horrifying reality of having your …
Samsung has a new feature that will hide your pics during a phone repair Read More
Automated birthday emails are a constant of modern life, right up there with death, taxes, and computer updates with poor timing. Once a year, my inbox fills to the brim …
Is that a birthday greeting or are you just trying to sell me something? Read More
Instagram might be walking back its horribly received TikTok-style redesign and cutting down on the app’s constant avalanche of recommendations, but that won’t prevent recommended content from appearing in your …
How to turn off Instagram’s feed recommendations for an entire month Read More
Valve’s Steam Deck has been in high demand from the moment reservations went live last year, but if you’re still waiting for an order email to come through, good news: …
Valve says you’re getting your Steam Deck by the end of the year Read More
Climate change made the record-smashing heatwave in the UK last week at least 10 times more likely, new research has found. The analysis was published yesterday by the World Weather …
The UK’s extreme heatwave would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change Read More