Twitter and Facebook tell Hong Kong authorities to get bent (for now)
Oh hey would you look at that: Twitter and Facebook just did something good. The two tech giants took a stand, albeit a temporary one, for their Hong Kong users…
Hungry wolf shows up on bear cams, scarfs dozens of fish
Alaska’s Brooks River, home to the livestreaming bear cams, is the dominion of big, fat bears. Yet early Saturday morning, when the waterfall where the bears feast was quiet, a…
Bird says it didn’t apply for a PPP loan. The government’s response is…confusing.
A trove of juicy financial data just became public, but it could have some major errors. The Small Business Administration released a massive spreadsheet listing the companies that received a…
ICE to foreign students: If you’re just taking online classes, you can’t stay in the U.S.
The coronavirus pandemic has made education hard enough with the abrupt shift to online learning that schools, teachers, and students have had to suddenly make these past few months. Now,…
How to enable and use Gmail’s AI-powered Smart Reply and Smart Compose tools
Leading up to Gmail’s 15th birthday last year, Google added a lot of productivity and machine learning tools to its email service. (It may also have been trying to make…
How to change your inbox layout in Gmail
Gmail offers you several customizable formats — so many that you can have multiple Gmail accounts and they can all look completely different. For example, you can have all of…
ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that in order to remain in the country for the fall 2020 semester, international students must take in-person classes at their schools.…
Slack’s new notification schedules give you your weekends back
Slack is now letting you choose when you get notifications on a per-day basis, meaning you can finally stop getting Slack pings over the weekend. Previously, Slack let you set…
Microsoft may get Mortal Kombat and LEGO if it buys WB Games
Credit: NetherRealm Studios Rumor has it that Microsoft is one of the parties interested in acquiring WB Games, the game publishing arm of WarnerMedia. If true, it could mean that…
Why Boba Fett’s Sound Was a Mystery for Almost 20 Years
Boba Fett and Darth Vader, rocking some helmets in The Empire Strikes Back.Photo: Lucasfilm If I say “Bad Guy in Helmet from Star Wars” first you think of Darth Vader…