Small business owners reveal just how much the Facebook outage affected them
Yesterday, the world experienced several hours without Facebook — and those hours unwittingly revealed just how much of our digital and physical lives depend on the platform. Across the world, the indispensability of Facebook was felt, while Twitter and other platforms got to enjoy the spotlight in its absence. The outage had Facebook messenger, Instagram […]
These 2-in-1 Chromebooks from Lenovo are ideal for students — and under $300
Save up to 30%: As of Oct. 5, the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 ($130 off) and Lenovo Chromebook C330 ($50 off) are both on sale at Amazon. Each laptop costs less than $300. The school-is-already-boring-and-it’s-only-October rut is definitely a thing. If the same old laggy laptop isn’t doing your productivity levels any favors, a new […]
Save almost $75 on a pair of Powerbeats Pro for a limited time
SAVE $73.97: As of Oct. 5, the Powerbeats Pro are $73.97 (30%) off their usual price for a limited time, bringing the total down to $175.98. Don’t get us wrong, we love AirPods. They’re convenient, stylish, zeitgeist-y — all that good stuff. But one thing they notoriously aren’t good for is exercise. Unless you’re a […]
Start early holiday shopping with great deals on Echo devices
Best deals on Echo devices as of Oct. 5: Echo Dot (3rd Gen) — $24.99 (save $15 or 38%) Echo Show 8 (1st Gen) — $69.99 (save $40 or 36%) Echo Dot (4th Gen) Kids — $39.99 (save $20 or 33%) Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) Kids — $59.99 (save $35 or 37%) Yes, holiday […]
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio is a near-perfect Windows 11 laptop
It’s not enough for Microsoft to release the first new version of Windows in six years. On top of that, the company’s got a slew of new Surface devices rolling out this fall, and its flagship Surface Laptop Studio is very close to being the ideal way to jump into Windows 11. As sort of […]
Russian film crew launches into space to shoot movie on International Space Station
Sorry, Tom Cruise, but it looks like your plans to shoot the first narrative movie in space may have just been scuppered. On Tuesday morning at 5:55 a.m. ET, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying actor Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They’re heading to the […]
Android 12 gets a tasty new dessert name
The dessert names are back! After abandoning dessert names for new versions of Android in 2019, when Android 10 was launched, Google is bringing back the somewhat silly custom with Android 12, or should I say, Android Snow Cone. The news was revealed by Google’s VP of engineering for Android, Dave Burke, who shared the […]
Take an extra 15% off these already-discounted USB-C cables, hubs, and accessories
USB-C, billed as the one-size-fits-all solution for future cable needs, is slowly starting to take over. MacBooks completely ditched all other ports in favor of USB-C only. The new iPads have adopted the USB-C over the Lightning. Samsung switched over a few years back. There’s just one problem: Many of our devices still need other ports as well. We’re in a […]
Stephen Colbert gleefully mocks Facebook's massive outage
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and even Oculus were all down for hours on Monday, with the social media giant going through one of the longest outages it has ever experienced. Even Facebook’s internal communications system and building access badges weren’t working, hampering employees scrambling to fix the problem. “As the panic grew, Facebook ‘did not say […]
Facebook apologizes for that massive outage, says no user data was compromised
Guess who’s back after a 6-hour outage? It’s Facebook, and the company is sorry. In an oddly short update on its engineering blog, Facebook explained the root cause of the outage that saw half the world suddenly post memes on Twitter, and the other half realize WhatsApp (another Facebook service that was down) isn’t a […]