Scandinavian YouTube Responds to GM’s Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad. Reddit’s 5-second Superbowl ad. Twitter results: $1b quarter; warns of user slowdown coming. Bluesky: @Jack envisions an app store for social-media algos. The EU looks set to follow Australia’s lead by demanding Google and Facebook pay for news articles. Amazon-box birthday cake. TikTok Sale to […]

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Windows 10 Microsoft details its legacy Edge browser phase-out strategy Windows 10 Version 2004 is Finally Reliable Enough for Everyone Microsoft 365 Microsoft outlines plans for Viva, an employee-experience platform anchored in Teams Microsoft Adds Two New Power Apps to Teams Microsoft to add new webinar and ‘meeting intelligence’ capabilities to Teams via Teams Pro […]

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The Galaxy S21+ features an edge-to-edge 6.7″ AMOLED 2X Infinity-O display, a 64 MP camera system that can record 8K video, and 5G capabilities, but can the middle child of Samsung’s latest flagship devices stand out on its own from the Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra? Jason Howell gives his review. Get the Samsung Galaxy […]

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Software Heritage is an extraordinary, yet necessary effort to save all the world’s software in all its versions and generations for all time. This effort is to help make historical source code accessible to everyone, but this initiative does come with many challenges. Naturally, Software Heritage is started with open source code and principles. Doc […]

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Android 12 is getting a significant UI update including a theming engine. Xiaomi’s concept phone has a quad-curved waterfall display that makes Ron smile. Metalenz announced new camera tech that could change smartphone photography. Google Fit turns your phone into a heart-rate monitor with no extra hardware. People mistake Clubhouse for a different app and […]

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Facebook says it’s getting better at detecting bullying and harassment on its platforms. Between October and December of last year, the company nearly doubled the number of posts it took down for breaking its rules. The social network shared the new…

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Post Malone, best known for contributing “Sunflower” to the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack, will help the Pokémon franchise celebrate its 25th anniversary. On February 27th, the Pokémon Company will host a virtual concert headlined by t…

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Over a decade after it was announced, Six Days in Fallujah will arrive on PC and consoles later this year. Highwire Games — whose developers who previously worked on the likes of Destiny and Halo — is reviving the controversial Iraq War game as a tac…

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Diamonds haven’t always been a girl’s best friend. Before the 1930’s, they were no more synonymous with weddings than opals, rubies and sapphires which had been routinely used in engagement rings for centuries. It really wasn’t until DeBeers — the S…

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Apple’s Fraudulent Website Warning feature has long relied on Google’s Safe Browsing database to protect Safari users from phishing scams, but starting with iOS 14.5, Apple will proxy the service through its own servers to limit the amount of informa…

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