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Tech NewsGadgetsDomino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over
Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers. Announced earlier this week, the … Continued
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Tech NewsCrypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype
After cryptocurrency prices soared this week amid hype leading up to Coinbase’s direct listing, the market took a nosedive over the weekend. Bitcoin prices tanked by roughly 14% in 24 hours, from $61,530 to $52,829, the token’s biggest one-day drop since February, before rebounding slightly, according to the cryptoasset price-tracking site CoinMarketCap. Prices of other … Continued
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Tech News2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree
Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the north of Houston on Saturday. Authorities said that the Tesla, which was only identified as a 2019 model, was traveling at a high speed … Continued
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Tech NewsAdobe Co-Founder and Inventor of PDFs Charles Geschke Dies at Age 81
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of the leading software company Adobe who invented PDFs, died Friday at age 81, the company said in a statement. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityU.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months
U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov, a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months. According to Reuters, the breach has affected an unknown number of the company’s … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsRegulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill ‘Immediately,’ and Peloton Is Pissed
In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households with small children or pets. To date, at least 39 safety … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsPeloton Resists Federal Safety Recall for Treadmill Tied to Child’s Death
Peloton is pushing back against a request from federal regulators to recall its Tread+ treadmill after the product was involved in a child’s death last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which launched an investigation shortly after the incident, plans to issue a new consumer safety warning as soon … Continued
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Tech NewsEdward Snowden’s NFT Self-Portrait Sells for $5.4 Million in Charity Auction
The latest big name to get in on the NFT craze is former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who on Friday auctioned off an original NFT art piece for roughly $5.4 million worth of the cryptocurrency Ether. Titled “Stay Free”, it’s a digital self-portrait made out of pages from a U.S. Court of Appeals … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsHere’s What’s Going on With the Roku Remote Pro’s Streaming Buttons
If you go all-in on Roku’s new Voice Remote Pro, you may end up getting one sans the Apple TV+ button seen in marketing materials. When I was shipped a Voice Remote Pro last week, the one I received had four streaming buttons on the wand: Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Sling TV. But marketing images … Continued
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Tech NewsAndrew Yang Hath Wrought Havoc on My Email
On approximately January 14, a soft rumble undulated across my inbox. It sounded like: “ANDREW YANG LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR NYC MAY…” Really, this should have read: “!!!!SEEK SHELTER: SEVERE ANDREW YANG STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOVEMBER 2ND 2021, 100% CHANCE OF YANG-SIZED HAILSTONES INCOMING!!!!!” This is to say that from late winter to early … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerceAmazon Might Make Its Drivers Assemble Your Furniture
In yet another bid to completely dominate all things e-commerce, Amazon’s reportedly begun testing a premium service that lets its customers opt into having their deliveries assembled once they reach their door. The service is planned to first hit shoppers based in Virginia and “two other markets,” according to an internal Amazon presentation leaked to … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityLeaked Data Reportedly Shows Cops Donated to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Legal Defense Fund
A new investigation from The Guardian shows police and other public officials have been financially contributing to the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old “Kenosha shooter” and rightwing icon currently on trial for the deaths of two people. Rittenhouse became infamous last summer after traveling from his home in Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThis Mini Modular Computer Helps You Build Gadgets From Scratch
DIY modular gadgets are nothing new, but they’ve had varying amounts of success over the years. Some devices managed to pick up steam, like AIAIAI’s TMA-2 headphones, while others, like the Blocks smartwatch and Google’s modular phone, crashed and burned. Mixed success in designing and launching these devices isn’t stopping others from creating new modular … Continued
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Tech NewsCultureResearchers Get a Deeper Look at Some of the Oldest Color Photos Ever
Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no pigments or dyes of any kind in his work. They sought to identify the original colors captured in Lippmann’s photographs and recreate the images using a similar process to that of the 19th-century photographer. The paper was published … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Smart Home May Finally Be Unified Under One CHIP
The tech industry loves a coalition. Sometimes those coalitions lead absolutely nowhere, but in one particular case, the big companies working together is actually beneficial for consumers. Or at least that’s the hope for Project CHIP, an open-source initiative introduced in 2019 as a unifying smart home standard across all ecosystems. According to The Verge, … Continued
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Tech NewsInternetApple Music Says It Pays Artists an Average of a Penny Per Stream, Which Is Somehow Good
We now have a clearer picture of how Apple Music compares to Spotify in terms of royalties. Citing a disclosure letter sent to creators on Friday through Apple Music’s artist dashboard and posted in full by 9to5Mac, the Wall Street Journal first reported that the service pays artists an average of a penny per stream—which … Continued
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Go Full Retro-Photography Geek With This 3D-Printed, DIY Camera
As far as DIY projects go, building a usable street camera sounds pretty daunting. That said, the RUHAcam, a new project by Ping-Hsun “penk” Chen and Ruha Cheng, definitely looks like a fun weekend project for folks who want to create a standalone camera from scratch. The project uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W connected … Continued
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Tech NewsTake a Nostalgic Journey Through This Collection of Classic Apple Mac Death Chimes
You’re probably very familiar with the sounds your computer makes when it starts, which are comforting noises that everything is working as it should. But your Mac used to make some troubling sounds. Podcaster and Apple collector Stephen Hackett recently shared a collection of the chimes older Apple Macintosh computers used to indicate a serious … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Misled Android Users About Location Data, Australian Court Finds
In the first ruling of its kind, the Australian Federal Court announced on Friday that Google violated the country’s laws surrounding consumer safety when it misled Australian Android users about the location data that their phones were collecting. The decision was a partial win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—or ACCC—that first raised charges … Continued
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Tech NewsFedEx’s No-Phone Policy Prevented Indianapolis Shooting Victims From Calling Loved Ones
FedEx is facing pressure to reconsider its policy of forcing employees to lock up their phones during work, following Thursday night’s deadly shooting at a ground facility in Indianapolis. CNN reported that, around 11 p.m. ET, a man opened fire in the parking lot at the facility, killing eight and injuring several others before dying … Continued
