Gaming headset maker Turtle Beach is acquiring Neat Microphones. Neat, if you’re unfamiliar with them, is best known for making whimsical desktop USB microphones that
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YouTube suspends Trump’s account, disables comments “indefinitely”
Enlarge (credit: YouTube / Getty / Aurich Lawson) YouTube, following in the path of very nearly every other social media platform, is suspending President Donald
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A Man Injected Himself With Mushrooms and the Fungi Took Over His Blood
A man found himself in the hospital with severe organ failure after grossly misunderstanding how to consume psychedelic mushrooms. Instead of ingesting the psylocibin, he
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Airbnb is canceling all Washington DC inauguration week bookings
Airbnb announced today it’s canceling all Washington DC metro area reservations throughout inauguration week. The company will also block its users from making a new
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Oxford Report Highlights Rise of ‘Disinformation-For-Hire’ on Social Media
Social media manipulation by political actors appears to be an industrial scale problem.
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Ring starts offering end-to-end encryption to (some) of its users
Ring is announcing that end-to-end encryption (E2E) is rolling out to all users, in the form of a technical preview, starting today. The video doorbell
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