By Kate Knibbs The streaming service’s decision to temporarily pull the film from its roster isn’t suppression—it’s an opportunity to recontextualize. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max
By Jess Grey From mobile lenses to shotgun mics, here’s everything you need to assemble a portable, pro-grade photo studio. Source:: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-photo-video-accessories-for-iphone-android
By Karl Bode For years now, AT&T has imposed arbitrary broadband monthly usage caps and costly overage fees — but not if you use the …
By Angela Watercutter When TV and film production restarts, the industry has an opportunity to fix its long-entrenched inequalities and invest in black and brown …
By Alaina Yee These days, just about everyone’s streaming to Twitch or YouTube. But getting started doesn’t require one brand-new, extremely powerful desktop. You can …
By Tim Cushing There’s some national-level police reform on the way, courtesy of Democratic lawmakers. Unfortunately, it’s going up against a party that holds a …
By Jared Newman You can’t get Music Choice without cable, but there are several streaming services like it. Source:: https://www.techhive.com/article/3562388/how-cord-cutters-can-listen-to-free-music.html#tk.rss_all
By Michael Ansaldo Not everyone needs a super-sophisticated robot vacuum. If you have simpler cleaning needs, this budget-priced model will deliver domestic tranquility. Source:: https://www.techhive.com/article/3561472/ilife-a4s-pro-robot-vacuum-review.html#tk.rss_all
By Timothy Geigner One of these days, we writers at Techdirt will put our collective and enormous heads together, and come up with an actual …
By Louise Matsakis Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, the company is stopping law enforcement from using its most controversial product. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-facial-recognition-police-one-year-ban-rekognition
By Hayden Dingman Once upon another lifetime, E3 would’ve been this week. We would’ve already seen the Xbox Series X in all its glory, would’ve …
By Karl Bode Despite the pandemic suspending most major league sports play, cable TV consumers continue to pay for programming they can’t watch. For fifteen …
By Mike Masnick While in Congress and then in the White House, Joe Biden was no friend of the internet. Indeed, while he was a …
By Michael Simon After canceling its planned Android 11 Beta Show YouTube livestream for June 3, Google Wednesday dropped the first public Android 11 beta …
By Cory Doctorow Not long ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its …
By Mark Hachman On Wednesday, Microsoft announced two new features headed for Windows users: audio capability for the Your Phone app, and a nested virtualization …
By Lauryn Hill Lynsey Weatherspoon, Alexis Hunley, and Darrel Hunter capture the narrative and moral identity of Black protesters in an era of misinformation and …
By Tim Cushing With demonstrations against police brutality occurring all over the nation, cops dealing with protests are saying dumb things about encryption. The NYPD …
By Lily Hay Newman The latest update to Google’s operating system has a host of privacy and security improvements. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/android-11-security-permissions-updates
By Mark Hachman On Wednesday, Intel officially announced two “Lakefield” chips, otherwise known as the 9-watt “Intel Core processor with Intel Hybrid Technology,” which will …
By Karl Bode Major ISP Cox Communications has begun throttling the connections of entire neighborhoods for what the ISP deems “excessive usage.” More specifically, the …
By Jeffrey Van Camp The latest home theater speaker from Sonos sounds better than almost any soundbar you can buy. Plus, it has major smarts. …
By C. Brandon Ogbunu The debate over Covid-19 and the uprisings against police brutality share perilous pasts and uncertain futures. Together, they can teach us …
By Jon L. Jacobi Right up front, kudos to whoever designed the enclosure of the Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSD. From gray-slate monolithic goodness, to tasteful …
By Tim Cushing I thought there was still a Drug War being fought in this county. I guess it’s not as important as billions of …
By Darryn King Videogame developer Naughty Dog was racing to finish the sequel to its blockbuster set in a post-pandemic dystopia. Then it was hit …
By Glenn Fleishman This compact surge protector hugs the wall, so it takes up much less space than an outlet strip. And it has integrated …
By Michael Simon Anyone shopping for a new Android phone right now is surely looking at camera, screen size, design, and price, but another key …
By Ryan Kerschner This dual-strip kit offers diffused lighting for a soft and smooth glow throughout your case, and the flexible strip material makes routing …
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh A German-based sourced was able to get more detail about the future flagship- the RTX 3090. There is also some information …
By Timothy Geigner Two years ago we wrote a post about famed burger-slinger In-N-Out’s bullshit strategy for keeping its trademarks in Australia active and valid. …
By Louise Matsakis Multiple influencers told WIRED that their videos had been copied from other platforms and reposted to Zynn without permission. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/zynn-hot-new-video-app-stolen-content
By Karl Bode Thanks to a laundry list of lazy companies, everything from your Barbie doll to your tea kettle are now hackable. Worse, these …
By Karl Bode Thanks to a laundry list of lazy companies, everything from your Barbie doll to your tea kettle are now hackable. Worse, these …
By Leigh Beadon COVID-19 has thrust old questions about privacy into the spotlight, often with new and different framing, and has raised the big question …
By Mark Hachman Microsoft says it has patched a bug that may have prevented some of its most recent Surface devices from receiving the Windows …
By Tim Cushing I have written at least two (admittedly) incendiary posts for this site responding to the response (and — one level further — …
By Daily Deal The Limited Edition Mac Bundle includes 11 award winning app for productivity, photography, privacy, and more. It features Parrallels Desktop, which lets …
By Arielle Pardes Mentoring and networking advice aren’t enough to solve the industry’s dismal diversity numbers, say business leaders: Firms need to “Make the hire. …
By Michael Simon Sonny Dickson reports that new iMacs will possibly adopt a new slim-bezel design. Source:: https://www.macworld.com/article/3562089/pro-display-xdr-inspired-imac-redesign-for-wwdc-teased-by-noted-apple-leaker.html#tk.rss_all
By Ian Paul Malwarebytes in brief: P2P allowed: Yes Business location: Santa Clara, California Number of servers: 245+ Number of country locations: 31 Cost: $60 …
By Matt Simon Aquarist Mac Bubel takes you into the rarely seen “jelly lab” to explore how she raises these sensitive, hypnotic creatures. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/behind-the-scenes-monterey-bay-aquarium-jellyfish
By Karl Bode Another day, another electronic voting system that’s simply not up to the task. Over the weekend, researchers at MIT and the University …
By Jeffrey Van Camp, Adrienne So Amazon has four different ebook readers and a ton of older ones. Here’s how they stack up and which …
By Michael Simon A new Bloomberg report says Apple will announce a transition away from Intel at WWDC in June. Source:: https://www.macworld.com/article/3561594/apple-might-be-dumping-intel-sooner-than-we-think.html#tk.rss_all
By Tim Cushing Civic leaders are finally at least talking tough about reforming the police departments they’ve barely overseen for years. Protests — some of …
By Martyn Williams It’s well made, very inexpensive, and it picked up all major local TV stations in our tests. Source:: https://www.techhive.com/article/3561593/channel-master-flatenna-35-review.html#tk.rss_all
By Ben Patterson There’s light, and then there’s light, and the Dynabook Portege X30L falls into the latter category. Weighing a mere 1.8 pounds, the …
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh HWInfo introduced a new feature which exposes underhanded methods in some X570 motherboards, eventually shortening the lifespan of the AMD Ryzen …
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh AMD and Intel’s joint effort for the Kaby Lake-G processing units seems to have stopped, by the looks of it. According …
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh While it too early to say anything, a leaked 3DMark graphics, a 3DMark 11 graphics test revealed the scoring of the …
By Tim Cushing We can disagree (vehemently and at length) about the most effective means of societal change. But we’ve seen a blend of tactics …
By Bob Buskirk For this month’s contest we have teamed up with our friends over at Corsair to give away a 32GB kit of their …
By Bob Buskirk Over the weekend some pretty interesting photos appeared over on Chiphell. They are of an alleged NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card, which …
By Mark Hachman Google showed off a live demo of its new noise-cancellation feature for Google Meet on Monday, and well, it’s just amazing. Unfortunately, …
By Timothy Geigner If I had to come up with a more 2020 headline than the above, I’m not sure I could. Still, this is …
By Mike Masnick We’ve posted a bunch of times when John Oliver has said pretty much exactly what we’ve been saying here at Techdirt, but …
By Cecilia D’Anastasio With the Xbox Series X on the horizon, Microsoft’s head of videogame hardware sees a future where consoles may no longer be …
By Kate Tummarello It may be the tech giants that dominate the headlines when it comes to privacy, but it’s startups that stand the most …
By Tim Cushing A whole lot of attention — and thousands of cellphone cameras — are focused on law enforcement officers. Nationwide protests sparked by …
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