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Last week, Google sent a one week warning to Android developers requiring removal of SDK code from location data broker Predicio, after Dec. ban of X-Mode's SDK (Joseph Cox/VICE)

Joseph Cox / VICE: Last week, Google sent a one week warning to Android developers requiring removal of SDK code from location data broker Predicio, after Dec. ban of X-Mode’s SDK — Predicio is linked to a supply chain of data involving Venntel, which sells location data to ICE. Google’s move comes after a Motherboard

3D Printed Butterfly Valve Helps Automate Fume Extraction

It’s not something we always think about, but there’s plenty of hazardous fumes in the average workshop that can be deleterious to human health. Whether its soldering, lasercutting, or 3D printing, all of these processes release nasty chemicals into the air that are best filtered for health reasons. To help build out a working filtration

London-based Nothing, a consumer electronics startup from a OnePlus co-founder working on wireless headphones, raises $15M from GV (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)

Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: London-based Nothing, a consumer electronics startup from a OnePlus co-founder working on wireless headphones, raises $15M from GV — – Nothing will release headphones, other products this year — GV backs startup’s ‘Series A’ funding round with $15 million London-based Nothing, a consumer electronics startup from a OnePlus co-founder working on

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters: 44% strongly agree and 41% somewhat agree that social media plays a role in radicalizing people (Ashley Gold/Axios)

{$inline_image} Ashley Gold / Axios: Survey of 1,000 registered US voters: 44% strongly agree and 41% somewhat agree that social media plays a role in radicalizing people — A majority of Americans think social media “has played a role in radicalizing people,” according to a new poll from Accountable Tech and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner shared

Let People Enjoy the Things You Hate

I have a friend who recently shared an Instagram post from a wildly problematic figure. I understood my friend to be unaware of who this person is—unlike me, my buddy isn’t plugged into the latest skirmishes in the social media culture wars—so I told him that he should probably take the post down. Read more…

Tuesday's Best Deals: Acer 2-in-1 Chromebook, Hitman 3, Adam & Eve Sale, ComfiLife Seat Cushion, Jim Beam Coffee Pods, TaoTronics Air Purifier, and More

Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | Media Read more… Tuesday's Best Deals: Acer 2-in-1 Chromebook, Hitman 3, Adam & Eve Sale, ComfiLife Seat Cushion, Jim Beam Coffee Pods, TaoTronics Air Purifier, and More Source: Life Hacker

Is Not Wearing a Mask on a Flight Worth $250 to You?

At this point in the pandemic, we shouldn’t need to tell you (again) why it’s important to wear a face mask while on a plane. This is not a new concept—but what is new is the fine structure the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced on Friday. Read more… Is Not Wearing a Mask on a

‘Little Nightmares II’ made me dread every moment. And I loved it.

In “Little Nightmares 2,” you’re rarely ever safe. That’s one of the best things about it. ‘Little Nightmares II’ made me dread every moment. And I loved it. Source: Washington Post Tech

Teardown: Bug Zapper Bulb

Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, mosquitoes and other flying pests are the last thing on anyone’s mind right now. The only bug that’s hindering gatherings at the moment goes by the name of COVID-19, but even if we weren’t social distancing, insects simply aren’t a concern at this time of year. So it’s little

Visible customers can now get 5G and use eSIMs

eSIM makes it possible to activate your device with a new carrier without waiting for a physical SIM card. | Image: Visible Visible, the Verizon-owned MVNO, is adding some new services that make using it just a bit more like subscribing to one of the big wireless carriers. Starting today, Visible now supports activating service

How to Ward Off Spoilers on Twitter

Hearing that there’s been some kind of eye-opening twist on WandaVision might make you anxious about logging into any kind of social media. We’ve already talked about a number of techniques you can use to avoid spoilers on social media, but here’s a new one to add to the mix: Hide Twitter Trends. Read more…

Zendure’s 100W power bank is down to its lowest price yet

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Zendure’s SuperTank power bank is $100 at Wellbots today, which is the lowest price we’ve seen that doesn’t require a coupon code. It will ship for free and is a tax-free purchase for people who live outside of New York state, as well. This battery’s best feature

Branded, which consolidates smaller e-commerce businesses on marketplaces like Amazon, raises $150M led by Target Global (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Branded, which consolidates smaller e-commerce businesses on marketplaces like Amazon, raises $150M led by Target Global — There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute … Branded, which consolidates smaller e-commerce businesses

Armis, which provides IoT device security software, raises $125M led by Brookfield Technology Partners at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $300M (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Dylan Martin / CRN: Armis, which provides IoT device security software, raises $125M led by Brookfield Technology Partners at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $300M — ‘We are building our business with the support of Brookfield now, the folks at Insight and CapitalG, towards an IPO … Armis, which provides IoT device

Should You Let Your Kids Do Extreme Sports?

When your child is born, you imagine all the possibilities that await them over what you hope will be a long, healthy future. You might mentally fast-forward past their childhood from time to time, daydreaming that they’ll grow up to be a doctor, an engineer, a business owner, an accomplished chef. They might write… Read

Uber, Walgreens team up to get people to COVID-19 vaccine appointments – Roadshow

The partnership will give people in underserved communities free rides to Walgreens vaccine clinics. Uber, Walgreens team up to get people to COVID-19 vaccine appointments – Roadshow Source: CNet

SentinelOne, which analyzes security data using AI, acquires Scalyr, a high-speed logging startup, for $155M in stock and cash (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: SentinelOne, which analyzes security data using AI, acquires Scalyr, a high-speed logging startup, for $155M in stock and cash — SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr, SentinelOne, which analyzes security data using

Sources: Amazon is developing a wall-mounted Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a smart home control panel, video chat device, and media player (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is developing a wall-mounted Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a smart home control panel, video chat device, and media player — – Lab126 unit developing new device with touchscreen and Alexa — Product to be thinner than Echo Show, come with video chat Sources: Amazon

Fabric, which offers a "headless" e-commerce platform for enterprises, raises $43M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Fabric, which offers a “headless” e-commerce platform for enterprises, raises $43M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners — Fabric, a startup powering e-commerce for companies like GNC and ABC Carpet and Home, has raised $43 million in Series A funding. Fabric, which offers a "headless" e-commerce platform for enterprises, raises

How Black communities shaped the internet

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge An interview with Charlton McIlwain, author of Black Software Continue reading… How Black communities shaped the internet Source: New feed

Icons8 isn’t just a stock photo library. It virtually lets you create your own stock photos

TLDR: With an Icons8 Photo Plan, you can fully edit and customize more than 100,000 professionally-photographed stock images for all your image use needs royalty-free. Few sites do have the time or resources to create the perfect image from scratch for every story. And that same crunch goes for companies making promotional materials, people assembling

Some things Jeff Bezos can do with his $193 billion

Illustration by William Joel | Photo by Franziska Krug / Getty Images Jeff Bezos announced on February 2nd that he’d be leaving the CEO job at Amazon. In the announcement, he signaled he’d be pursuing his “other passions,” which include the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, and The Washington Post. Well,

DLive is under congressional scrutiny over Capitol attack

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool After last month’s deadly pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, lawmakers are investigating the role DLive, one of the video-streaming platforms used to broadcast the riot, played in financing the violence. In a letter to DLive’s chief executive officers Tuesday, Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Jackie Speier

Give Your Grilled Cheese Sandwich a Parmesan Crust

I am a bit of a grilled cheese purist. I like mine on white bread, slathered with butter (not mayo), and filled with gooey, processed American cheese. A good havarti is also acceptable if the mood dictates a touch of luxury, but harder, acidic cheeses like cheddar or parm are not allowed—unless you’re putting them

Sunrise Over the Pacific

This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth’s horizon was taken as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile. Sunrise Over the Pacific Source: NASA

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