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Mozilla acquires NYC-based Fakespot, which offers shopping tools to help identify fake or unreliable reviews, and plans to add its features to Firefox over time (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Mozilla acquires NYC-based Fakespot, which offers shopping tools to help identify fake or unreliable reviews, and plans to add its features to Firefox over time — Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews.

New Drivers for Ancient Webcam

For those of us who are a little older, the 90s seem like they were just a few years ago. The younger folks might think that the 90s were ancient history though, and they might be right as we’ve been hearing more bands like Pearl Jam and The Offspring playing on the classic rock stations

Airbnb announces Rooms, single rooms averaging $67 per night, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout, affordability, and more (Diana Li/Bloomberg)

Diana Li / Bloomberg: Airbnb announces Rooms, single rooms averaging $67 per night, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout, affordability, and more — Airbnb Inc. is revamping the home-rental platform in an effort to ease mounting tensions between guests and hosts ahead of what it expects to be a busy summer

Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M — Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando, a startup developing fulfillment management technologies …

Op-Amp Challenge: Reliable Peak Power Measurement

As part of our Op-Amp Challenge we’re seeing a wide diversity of entries showcasing the seemingly endless capabilities of these extremely versatile parts. Another one comes from [Joseph Thomas], who when faced with the need to measure the properties of an automotive spark plug, came up with a precision peak detector to hold on to

Several Pixel 7a units spotted on eBay ahead of launch

Credit: Twitter A number of Pixel 7a phones have ended up on eBay. Some of the units have been sold and some are still on sale. The Pixel 7a is expected to launch next week. As we inch closer to Google I/O, anticipation over the Pixel 7a’s release only continues to build. While many are

TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue — New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue

IoT’s Changing Role in the Development of Smart Cities

As the global population continues to grow, and more people move to urban centers in search of better opportunities, city planners and authorities must turn to IoT smart technology to address the issues of large-scale urbanization. From public transport to waste management. Security systems to lighting and heating. Ensuring that the residents of today’s sprawling

Gmail adds blue checkmarks for brands, indicating verified senders that adopted Google’s Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Gmail adds blue checkmarks for brands, indicating verified senders that adopted Google’s Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard — After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails.

Where’s the director’s commentary on streaming?

Illustration by William Joel In the height of the DVD era, director’s commentary was a staple of movie watching. But if you look at any of the streaming services today, almost all fail to include these treasured bonus features. Audio commentaries have been included in physical media since 1984, starting with the Criterion Collection’s release

Now Gmail has blue verified checkmark icons too

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gmail will start displaying a familiar-looking blue checkmark next to a sender’s name to verify their identity. In a blog post, Google says the feature is supposed to help users figure out whether the email they’ve received is from a legitimate source or a scammer. The verified checkmark

Microsoft tells IT admins that Edge will soon open links from Teams and some Outlook accounts to “help increase productivity”; Enterprise IT admins can opt out (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft tells IT admins that Edge will soon open links from Teams and some Outlook accounts to “help increase productivity”; Enterprise IT admins can opt out — Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat …

Love music? Love Plex? With ChatGPT powerup, Plexamp becomes a personal DJ.

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Plexamp has a new feature called Sonic Sage powered by ChatGPT. Sonic Sage works with your Tidal account to create playlists using natural language prompts. You’ll need Plex Pass, a Tidal account, and an Open AI account for this to work. ChatGPT is already proving useful for a

NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, and the Intricacies of RTG-Based Power Systems

Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been operating non-stop for over 45 years, making their way from Earth to our solar system’s outer planets and beyond. Courtesy of the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) which provided 470 W at launch, they are able to function in the darkness of Deep Space

Final Cut Pro could finally come to the iPad, here’s when

Apple is working on a desktop-class Final Cut Pro for the iPad according to a new Twitter rumor.

Google Is Letting You Claim a .Dad Dedicated Domain. Cue the Dad Jokes

Google’s new dedicated domain lets you join the growing sites dedicated to puns, pets, and mowing the lawn.

Android’s Finder Network could help you find third-party tracker tags

Android’s Finder Network could use ultra-wideband connectivity. At least three companies are working to make their tracker tags compatible with Finder Network. Samsung and Tile could be a part of the network, but there’s no evidence at the moment. Last month, we learned that Google is working on a way for Find My Device to

The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing data of those under 18, accusing the company of violating a 2020 privacy order and COPPA (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing data of those under 18, accusing the company of violating a 2020 privacy order and COPPA — – The Federal Trade Commission proposed to bar Facebook parent company Meta from monetizing kids’ data after it says the company violated a 2020 privacy order, the

Here’s what’s new in beta 4 of iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, macOS 13.4, watchOS 9.5, and tvOS 16.5

Here is what’s new in Apple’s latest round of betas.

Exploring Woodworking Mysteries with Strain Gauges and Raspberry Pi

If you’re not a woodworker, you might not have heard of the “45-degree rule.” It goes like this: a clamp exerts a force that radiates out across a triangular region of the wood that forms a right angle — 45 degrees on each side of the clamp’s point of contact. So, to ensure that force

Google plans to change Chrome’s URL bar lock icon, introduced to show HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, saying HTTPS is now present on malicious websites (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google plans to change Chrome’s URL bar lock icon, introduced to show HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, saying HTTPS is now present on malicious websites — Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness …

Apple M2 performance obliterated by AMD’s new laptop chip (says AMD)

AMD says that its new low-power laptop chip can best Apple’s M2 and by some considerable margin.

Airbnb launches new Rooms category with more details about hosts

Image: Airbnb Airbnb is making a bigger push into Rooms, the option that lets you rent a private room in someone’s home. In a blog post posted on Wednesday, the platform announced that it’s launching a dedicated Rooms category, where it will now provide more details about the host you’re staying with on each listing.

iPhone Flip: Inside Apple’s first foldable phone

The next evolution of Apple’s iPhone is in the works. Could a foldable version be part of the lineup?

How Oracle is taking on AWS, Snowflake with Autonomous Data Warehouse updates

Oracle is set to cut storage pricing and add major updates to its cloud data warehouse service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, in an effort to take on competing services from rivals including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Snowflake. The updates to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, announced Wednesday, will be available from the Oracle

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