Samsung brags about remotely disabling 'looted' smart TVs
When it comes to so-called smart gadgets, owning just isn’t what it used to be. Samsung made that clear earlier this month when it told customers that it can, at any time, remotely disable any and every Samsung TV connected to the internet. The Aug. 6 announcement came in response to the theft of an […]
PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles to get another restock. But you better hurry.
Walmart has announced that PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are going to be restocked online Wednesday, Aug. 25. Starting at 6 pm P.T./9 pm E.T., the consoles will get a small restock every ten minutes through the hour, ending at 7 pm P.T./10 pm E.T. The Xbox Series X Halo Infinite limited edition […]
Introducing the sculpture that truly moves with the wind — Future Blink
Cedar Point Reeds is an interactive sculpture on display in Denver, Colorado. It downloads the latest wind data every minute to update the sculpture’s movement.
How to find stalkerware on your smartphone
Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. The digital window to your soul might just have a Peeping Tom. Say hello to stalkerware, a noxious class of software designed to surreptitiously run in the background of smartphones. Its purpose […]
Samsung phone catches fire on airplane five years after Galaxy Note 7 debacle
The last five years have felt like 20. Samsung’s mysterious case of exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphones might as well be ancient history, but for the 129 passengers and six crew members on an Alaska Airlines flight, it was anything but. Alaska Airlines flight 751 from New Orleans to Seattle had a scare after it […]
OnlyFans realizes the whole purpose of the site was explicit content and backtracks
Well, that was fast. Just days after OnlyFans announced that it would ban sexually explicit content on the site, the company has reversed its decision. On August 19, the platform announced it would ban sexually explicit content on the site starting on October 1, 2021, leaving many sex workers struggling to find alternative places to […]
Typewise will have you rethinking your phone's standard keyboard
When I started texting on a smartphone years ago, I thought I had learned where all the punctuation marks are. So I was flustered when I was texting a friend the other day, and I suddenly had no idea where the darn quotation mark button was. I was using a new digital keyboard called Typewise […]
Add moisture to the air and ease your sniffles with this humidifier on sale
TL;DR: Create the atmosphere you want in your home with the Missed Global Stella Humidifier on sale for $62.99 — a 15% savings — as of Aug. 25. Fall is coming, and with it, all new allergens to potentially wreak havoc on our sinuses and fragile emotional states. Indoor humidity levels are an important factor […]
Charge multiple Apple devices at once with this dock on sale
TL;DR: The Loma Living Wireless Charging Dock is on sale for just $101.99 as of Aug. 25 — a 30% savings. Remember when Marie Kondo had everyone tidying up their homes? Well, it’s been a couple years now, and some of that clutter might have crept its way back into your house. It’s not a […]
Got YouTube Premium? Here's how to enable picture-in-picture on the iPhone
Back in June, YouTube announced that picture-in-picture mode — the feature that lets you watch a video even when the YouTube app is closed — is coming to iPhone and iPad. The rollout was gradual, coming first to YouTube Premium subscribers in the U.S. as an experimental feature, but now 9to5Google has noticed that it’s […]