US Judge Blocks Montana’s ‘Anti-Chinese’ TikTok Ban
A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that…
CT Scans Show Why Fake Apple AirPods Sound So Awful
Image: Lumafield Have you ever seen AirPods that look exactly like Apple’s, but the box would say something like ‘Abble AirPods?’ Sometimes, manufacturers of counterfeit products don’t even change the…
Sundar Pichai Defends Google Paying Billions to Remain Top Search Engine
Google CEO Sundar Pichai upheld the company’s decision to pay out billions of dollars to remain the top global search engine at the U.S. anti-trust trial on Monday, according to…
All the Ways Rupert Murdoch Left His Grubby Fingerprints on Tech
Rupert Murdoch has sat in the public light for decades, though he can’t quite escape his failures to become the biggest name in digital media.Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth (AP) The big,…
Harrison Ford Says Punch Nazis, Just Like Indy Would
“That was a black-and-white world,” Ford continues. “And as evil presented itself to the world … it’s incalculable that this vision of evil not be confronted.” Advertisement Advertisement Jones fought…
Proton Expands Its Privacy Ecosystem With a Password Manager
Encrypted email company Proton has announced one of the biggest new additions to its growing suite of privacy-focused apps: Proton Pass, an end-to-end encrypted password manager. TikTok Bans Are Dumb…
RIP Red Envelope: After 25 Years, Netflix is Killing Its DVD Rentals
Photo: karen roach (Shutterstock) After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs…
Daredevil’s Mark Steven Johnson Looks Back on the Divisive 2003 Flick
Image: Marvel/20th Century Films Before Charlie Cox fought dudes in hallways and made frequent blind jokes in the MCU, 2003’s Daredevil movie hung over Matt Murdock for years. The Ben…
Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for $5 billion
Yahoo and AOL are changing hands again. Verizon, which purchased AOL in 2015 and Yahoo in 2017, is now selling them to private equity company Apollo Global Management for $5…