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UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021
Gizmodo says it will begin responsibly publishing the Facebook Papers with help from partners including NYU, Marquette, and the ACLU in redacting sensitive info
IPCC Scientist Survey Shows Most Expect Climate Catastrophe Soon
Pixel 6 review: fantastic cameras and great battery life but Tensor SoC lags Snapdragon 888 in multi-core tests and in-screen fingerprint reader could be faster
The Ocean Cleanup Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Seas Is Still Alive
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds a $100/month tier with RTX 3080 GPUs, hosted inside a bespoke SuperPod server, offering 1440p games at 120fps
What to expect from Google's event on Tuesday: Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro with Tensor custom SoC, improved cameras, bigger batteries, and more colors
Ashley Gjøvik, who raised concerns about vaporous toxic chemicals under Apple's Sunnyvale office, says the company used leaking as an absurd excuse to fire her
Tile revamps its lineup with IP67 water resistance, longer ranges, and safety features to avoid unwanted tracking, and announces Tile Ultra with UWB support
How WhatsApp became a popular messaging app in the Global South, driven by high device compatibility and telecom partnerships
A Bitcoin Mining Operation Started a Secret Power Plant, It Did Not Go as Plannd
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio review: gorgeous, unique design, 120Hz display, good battery life, and Thunderbolt 4, but heavy and pricey with few ports
200k-Year-Old Hand Art Found Near a Tibetan Hot Spring
Google announces a range of features for Android, Google TV, Assistant, and Gboard, including some that were previously Pixel exclusives
Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal
Hacker News · 4 months ago
Anonymous claims to have hacked Epik, allegedly leaking "a decade's worth of data", including Epik's client information; Epik says it's not aware of any breach
California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the "Hacktivist's Advocate" and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old
GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines
Twitter Is Rolling Out Paid Audio Rooms to Select iOS Users
Online Trolls Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds
Trump's Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains
Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online
Amazon Third-Party Sellers Reportedly Hound Customers Who Leave Bad Reviews
Hacker News · 5 months ago
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions
Revisit ’80s Classic ‘The Print Shop’ in Your Browser
Grindr has a track record of saying that data shared with brokers is encrypted and unidentifiable, despite the use of such data to out a Catholic priest, others
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
What Is the Most Damaging Conspiracy Theory in History?
The U.S. Wheat Crop Is in Trouble
In an attempt to keep ahead of China's regulations, Tencent says it'll use a facial recognition system to prevent minors from playing games late into the night
Hands-on with Apple's watchOS 8 public beta: a welcome focus on helping users reduce stress induced by gadgets with a rebranded Mindfulness app, Focus, and more
Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine
Aliens Wouldn't Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
How Fighter Jets Lock On, and How the Targets Know (2014)
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19
Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100
UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone "hunted down" and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Branded Tech School
Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey
Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook collects to sell ads
After an investigation found 800+ Etsy listings for weapons, porn, other items violating its policies, Etsy says it'll invest ~$40M in policy enforcement in '21
Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law
Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
Weird Tweet From U.S. Strategic Command Actually Sent by Small Child
Dangerous Android App Pretends to Be a System Update to Steal Your Data
There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army
Reddit · 10 months ago