Month: May 2022

Retrotechtacular: Clay Pipe The Hard Way

Troll YouTube long enough and chances are good that you’ll come across all kinds of videos of the “How It’s Made” genre. And buried in with the frying pans and treadmills and dental floss manufacturers, there no doubt will be deep dives on how pipe is made. Methods will vary by material, but copper, PVC,

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How to put a song on repeat on Spotify

There’s something to be said for a song you enjoy so much you could listen to it again. Spotify is home to an immense amount of music, and when you find a song that just clicks with you in a certain time and space, sometimes you can’t help but just put it on repeat. If

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Meta says it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to the market open on June 9 (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Meta says it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to the market open on June 9  —  – Meta announced Tuesday that it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to market open on June 9.  — Facebook rebranded to Meta in October, saying it was

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Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will change its stock ticker to META on June 9th

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When the company formerly known as Facebook announced its plan to rebrand last October, it also announced a new stock ticker. At the time, execs said that after ten years as FB, its NASDAQ listing would transition to MVRS for the metaverse. However, after the investment fund listed

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How to change your Spotify profile picture

Keeping up appearances is a good thing. If people associate you with a photo that you use on other platforms, like Facebook or Instagram, adding that same profile photo to your Spotify account can help them identify you. At the same time, if you want to switch things up and go with a different photo

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Safari now has an estimated 1B+ users, making it the second browser to pass the milestone, behind Chrome’s 3.37B+, but ahead of Edge’s 212M+ and Firefox’s 179M+ (Atlas VPN)

Atlas VPN: Safari now has an estimated 1B+ users, making it the second browser to pass the milestone, behind Chrome’s 3.37B+, but ahead of Edge’s 212M+ and Firefox’s 179M+  —  Browsers can connect you to any place on the internet.  It retrieves and renders data to show it nicely on your screen.

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Remote Screen Viewer is Text-Only

Have you been slowly falling down a rabbit hole of Stallman-like paranoia of computers ever since installing Ubuntu for the first time in 2007? Do you now abhor anything with a GUI, including browsers? Do you check your mail with the command line even though you’re behind seven proxies? But, do you still want to

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Netflix’s anti-password sharing experiment in Peru reportedly leaves users confused

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix’s test to crack down on password sharing has reportedly left some users confused, according to a report from Rest of World. The streaming service started experimenting with password-sharing solutions in Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica in March, prompting subscribers in these markets to pay an additional fee

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How to turn captions on or off on Instagram

Instagram is the ideal platform for sharing visual content like photos and videos. As you may know, whenever a user posts a photo to their Instagram account, they publish a caption with it that describes the content, gives it context, and is optimized with hashtags. However, did you know that you could see captions—or subtitles—on

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How to add songs to a playlist on Spotify

A playlist is an amalgamation of various songs that are organized in an easily accessible way. Spotify allows you to download music through playlists, and you can add up to 10,000 songs to those playlists at any given time. In order to build any kind of playlist, you need to know how to add songs

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SCOTUS blocks Texas’ social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg Law)

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Law: SCOTUS blocks Texas’ social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court  —  The US Supreme Court blocked a Texas law that critics say would fundamentally transform Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook …

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Supreme Court blocks Texas social media moderation ban

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images A Texas law that would have banned much social media moderation is once again on hold. In a 5-4 ruling handed down today, the Supreme Court vacated an earlier decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, meaning that HB 20 — which forbids banning, demonetizing, or downranking Texas users’

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TikTok is testing a “clear mode” feature that removes usernames, captions, audio information, and more for a distraction-free scrolling experience (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing a “clear mode” feature that removes usernames, captions, audio information, and more for a distraction-free scrolling experience  —  TikTok is testing a new feature that would allow for a distraction-free scrolling experience on the app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

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Sources: the FTC has revamped its Amazon antitrust probe, shaking up the investigative team, re-interviewing potential witnesses, and asking about the MGM deal (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: the FTC has revamped its Amazon antitrust probe, shaking up the investigative team, re-interviewing potential witnesses, and asking about the MGM deal  —  The US Federal Trade Commission has revamped its antitrust probe of Amazon.com Inc., shaking up the investigative team …

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Elon Musk: “Starlink 2.0 satellites are almost an order of magnitude more capable than Starlink 1.0” and weigh 4.8X more, needing the upcoming Starship rocket (Passant Rabie/Gizmodo)

Passant Rabie / Gizmodo: Elon Musk: “Starlink 2.0 satellites are almost an order of magnitude more capable than Starlink 1.0” and weigh 4.8X more, needing the upcoming Starship rocket  —  The generation 2 satellites are meant to be more powerful than their earlier counterparts.  —  Alerts

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Salesforce reports Q1 revenue of $7.41B, up 24% YoY, vs $7.38B est., net income down 94% YoY to $28M, and operating cash flow up 14% YoY to $3.68B; stock up 6%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce reports Q1 revenue of $7.41B, up 24% YoY, vs $7.38B est., net income down 94% YoY to $28M, and operating cash flow up 14% YoY to $3.68B; stock up 6%+  —  – Salesforce earnings beat expectations on the top and bottom lines.  — The Dow Jones Industrial Average component changed

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The Best Ways To Avoid 5 Common Marketing Mistakes

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 out of 10 new businesses close in the first year of operation, and 9 out of 10 startups fail (Startup Genome data). Despite entrepreneurs’ colossal motivation and a strong urge to make a great product, they often make mistakes that could have been avoided. CEO &

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Dell’s 32-inch 4K videoconferencing monitor costs just as much as a Studio Display

Dell’s 32-inch display comes with a focus on video calls. | Image: Dell Dell has finally revealed the $1,599.99 price attached to the UltraSharp 32-inch 4K video conferencing monitor it previewed at CES (via 9to5Mac). If that price sounds familiar, it’s because Apple’s 27-inch Studio Display costs almost the exact same amount — only Dell

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TikTok is giving some users a less cluttered viewing experience

TikTok’s testing a “clear mode.” Some TikTok users have started noticing a “Clear Mode” option, which lets them watch a video without the UI overlay that usually shows things like the favorite and comment buttons and other info about the video. TikTok confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s currently testing the feature, but it’s unclear how

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Researchers told Microsoft on April 12 of an RCE Windows exploit being used in the wild; Microsoft now calls it a critical flaw, but it’s still unpatched (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers told Microsoft on April 12 of an RCE Windows exploit being used in the wild; Microsoft now calls it a critical flaw, but it’s still unpatched  —  All supported versions of Windows affected.  —  A critical code execution zero-day in all supported versions of Windows …

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Apple releases iPadOS 15.6 beta 2 to developers

If you want to get in on the developer beta of iPadOS 15, here’s how to do that! iPadOS 15 is here with new features that require third-party developer input. As such, the company is releasing developer betas so that software engineers can get a head start on making great software for you. Apple occasionally

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Star Wars stands with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram amid racist fan backlash

Moses Ingram as Reva Sevander / the Third Sister. | Image: Disney Plus/Lucasfilm In response to a swift and all too predictable wave of racist backlash from Star Wars “fans” dismayed by the idea of Black people existing in space, Disney has issued a statement supporting Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Moses Ingram. Though Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first

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