You Can’t Opt Out Of Ad Personalization On Reddit Anymore
Reddit has made some changes to its ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings — and one specific update has Redditers up in arms. The company is forcing ad personalization based on your activity on its users, and most users can’t opt out. The head of privacy at Reddit posted in r/Reddit, where the company […]
Dyson Is Fixing One Of The Airwrap’s Biggest Problems With Its Newest Attachments
It’s no secret that the Dyson Airwrap’s biggest competition is the Shark FlexStyle. For folks with curly or wavy hair, the latter has offered something the former simply could not: a diffuser. That is, until now. That’s right — Dyson listened and finally, people with wavy, curly, and coily hair can actually use the Airwrap […]
iPhone 15 Durability Test Is In: Did It Shatter Like The iPhone 15 Pro?
Dropping your phone is a part of life — if you’re like me, it’s something you likely do once per day. Thus it has become a rite of passage for phones new to the market to go through extensive durability tests online. Zac from the YouTube account JerryRigEverything recently performed a serious durability test for […]
Twitter/X Just Fired Half Of Its Election Integrity Team
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is making it quite clear that its priorities don’t lie in making sure potentially harmful disinformation doesn’t spread on its platform. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s social media company cut half of its election integrity team, according to a report from The Information. This firings saw X completely gut […]
AI’s Exclusion Of Indigenous Voices Is History Repeating Itself
The global arena of AI design and implementation continues to diversify, with flourishing interest in user-friendly generative AI leading its growth. Still incubating: AI’s role in furthering accessible spaces, both online and off. Meggan Van Harten is a strategic leader and partner at Design de Plume, an Indigenous-owned, women-led creative agency based in Canada. Design […]
Richest Billionaire Elon Musk Says He’s Not That Cash-Rich As Projected: ‘It’s Not A Giant Pile Of Cash’
The world’s richest billionaire, Elon Musk, has a net worth of $252.6 billion on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list. On Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, the Tesla boss has a net worth of $232 billion. In both indices, Elon Musk is way ahead of the second richest, Bernard Arnault, who briefly reigned as the numero uno until […]
Microsoft Ends Free Upgrade From Windows 7 to 11
Microsoft is ending its upgrade offer from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 or 11, the company recently announced. While Microsoft officially sunsetted the offer in July 2016, users were still able to upgrade their operating systems to 11 using old Windows 7/8 keys. Now, this loophole is no more; users can’t upgrade to […]
Tom Hanks Warns About AI Dental Plan Video Hoax
Actor Tom Hanks posted a warning to Instagram over the weekend about an AI-generated version of him being used to promote “some dental plan” without his consent. “There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me,” he captioned the image on Instagram. “I have nothing to do with it.” […]
Forget Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. We Tested Cheaper Ones That Support ChatGPT.
“Pfft! I bet this is yet another pair of music-playing smart glasses,” I yawned when I saw the AirGo 3 spectacles on display at CES 2023. I’ll admit I was a little jaded. At the annual Las Vegas tech trade show, Paula Abdul was hawking her own pair of audio-emitting smart glasses, and I was […]
How To Preorder The Meta Quest 3
UPDATE: Sep. 28, 2023, 4:20 p.m. EDT The Meta Quest 3 (starting at $499.99) is now available for preorder at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and in the Meta Store ahead of its official launch on Oct. 10. Target’s listing still hasn’t gone live yet. After months of teasers by way of Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram account, […]