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- Get a year of PlayStation Plus for just $39 this weekend
- With official Matter support, Eero mesh routers could soon run your smart home
- T-Mobile delays shutdown of Sprint 3G network
- Will Apple’s Mini LED MacBook Pros avoid the iPad Pro’s downsides?
- Urbanista Los Angeles review: solar-powered headphones deliver on a lofty promise
- A new Facebook whistleblower has come forward with more allegations
- Twitter’s research shows that its algorithm favors conservative views
- Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
- How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone
- Google Meet hosts will be able to keep participant mics and cameras off
| Get a year of PlayStation Plus for just $39 this weekend Posted: 23 Oct 2021 10:05 AM PDT  For this weekend, you can get a whole year of Playstation Plus at Eneba for just $39 by using the code 365USVERGE at checkout. Anyone who owns a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 should consider becoming a PlayStation Plus subscriber. By becoming one, you get access to a variety of perks, including online multiplayer, cloud storage for saves, and complementary games every month, as well as exclusive discounts. This discount is only valid through Saturday, October 23rd, though, so you'll have to move fast. A sharp, new entry in the Logitech arsenal of gaming accessories is the Logitech G305, which is currently available for just $40 at Amazon, bringing it down to its lowest price since January. This false ambidextrous, wireless mouse...  |
| With official Matter support, Eero mesh routers could soon run your smart home Posted: 23 Oct 2021 09:35 AM PDT  We are literally right now celebrating The Verge's 10-year anniversary in New York City, but we couldn't throw an epic two-day event without also bringing you a teensy bit of tech news — and Eero co-founder and CEO Nick Weaver just did that at On The Verge. Weaver says that Eero, an early adopter of the Thread protocol, will be upgrading all its Thread-equipped Wi-Fi routers to fully support Matter as well. Matter is the upcoming 2022 standard that should allow for easier setup of smart home devices, with any compatible Matter host able to discover and work with any Matter client. Amazon smart home rivals Apple and Google are also on board with Matter. "It does feel different this time," Weaver says, asked about his company's long...  |
| T-Mobile delays shutdown of Sprint 3G network Posted: 23 Oct 2021 07:07 AM PDT  T-Mobile said it will delay its planned shutdown of Sprint's 3G network by three months to ensure its "partners" have time to help customers with the transition. It had originally planned to phase out the network in January; that date has now been pushed to March 31st, 2022. "Recently it's become increasingly clear that some of those partners haven't followed through on their responsibility to help their customers through this shift," the company said in a statement. "So, we're stepping up on their behalf." T-Mobile's statement doesn't mention it by name, but likely is referring to Dish Network. The two sides have tangled over T-Mobile's announcement it was shutting down Sprint's legacy network, because of the impact it would have on...  |
| Will Apple’s Mini LED MacBook Pros avoid the iPad Pro’s downsides? Posted: 23 Oct 2021 07:06 AM PDT  When Apple announced the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Mini LED backlighting earlier this year, I knew it was time to upgrade from my 2018 model. And I wasn't disappointed. The improved brightness (especially when watching movies in HDR) and superior contrast have made the purchase worthwhile — even if iPadOS continues to underwhelm and disappoint in other ways. It's a wonderful screen that makes me want to use the iPad wherever I can instead of my laptop. As a refresher of what Mini LED is, there are thousands of tiny LEDs behind the display — much smaller than those in conventional TVs or LCD displays — that allow for more precise backlighting. In turn, this leads to deeper black levels and all of the other benefits mentioned above. Apple's...  |
| Urbanista Los Angeles review: solar-powered headphones deliver on a lofty promise Posted: 23 Oct 2021 06:00 AM PDT |
| A new Facebook whistleblower has come forward with more allegations Posted: 22 Oct 2021 05:37 PM PDT  A second Facebook whistleblower has come forward with a new set of allegations about how the social media platform does business. First reported by the Washington Post, the person is a former member of Facebook's integrity team and says the company puts profits before efforts to fight hate speech and misinformation on its platform. In the affidavit, copies of which were provided to The Verge, the whistleblower alleges, among other things, that a former Facebook communications official dismissed concerns about interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election, assisted unwittingly by Facebook. Tucker Bounds said, according to the affidavit, that the situation would be "a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy. And then...  |
| Twitter’s research shows that its algorithm favors conservative views Posted: 22 Oct 2021 03:00 PM PDT  A post on Twitter's blog reveals that Twitter's algorithm promotes right-leaning content more often than left — but the reasons for that remain unclear. The findings drew from an internal study on Twitter's algorithmic amplification of political content. During the study, Twitter looked at millions of tweets posted between April 1st and August 15th, 2020. These tweets were from news outlets and elected officials in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US. In all countries studied, except Germany, Twitter found that right-leaning accounts "receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left." It also discovered that right-leaning content from news outlets benefit from the same bias.  |
| Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision Posted: 22 Oct 2021 02:10 PM PDT  Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago. All of this goodwill could be about to come crashing down, thanks to a storm that's brewing in the .NET community — Microsoft's flagship development toolkit and core software framework. A controversial business decision inside Microsoft has left many questioning the company's commitment to open source. Multiple sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that it has also angered lots of developers inside the company but that they've effectively...  |
| How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone Posted: 22 Oct 2021 12:30 PM PDT  Mobile spam calls have been a nuisance for years. I get between four and six robocalls daily, and a quick survey of friends shows that I'm not alone. Every waking day brings with it a new barrage. Robocallers have upped their game by masking their spam with local, genuine-looking phone numbers. Sometimes their nonsense is amusing — like when you get a threatening voicemail about your impending arrest over owed back taxes — but the vast majority of the time, it's an unwelcome distraction. It's all too easy for these scammers to wield the power of the internet and fire off countless calls with ease. And once even just a few people fall for a scam, they've made enough profit to cover their trivial expenses. Estimates put the number of...  |
| Google Meet hosts will be able to keep participant mics and cameras off Posted: 22 Oct 2021 12:25 PM PDT  Google Meet hosts will soon be able to turn off participants' microphones or cameras and prevent them from turning them back on, the company announced in a Workspace blog. The feature could be a useful way for hosts to keep noisy or rowdy attendees from continually interrupting meetings even after they have already been muted. The microphone and camera lock feature will be off by default; hosts will have to turn it on during meetings if they want to use it. If your meeting has breakout rooms, any audio and / or video locks made in the main will apply in those, too. The opposite isn't true, though, meaning that locks applied in individual breakout rooms won't apply to other breakout rooms or the main room.  |
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