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Researchers and ex-Twitter staff: physical attacks in the US track with Twitter spikes in some hate speech, notably anti-Semitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Researchers and ex-Twitter staff: physical attacks in the US track with Twitter spikes in some hate speech, notably anti-Semitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric — SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this month, the FBI charged a Florida man with making detailed online threats to murder 100 gay people.

Samsung may put its free TV Plus streaming app into other manufacturers’ TVs

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung TV Plus, the app that houses hundreds of free channels, could eventually make its way to other, non-Samsung TVs. That’s according to media tech reporter Janko Roettgers, who writes in his Lowpass newsletter that Samsung’s in talks to bring its streaming app to TCL TVs. Introduced in

Hackaday Links: January 22, 2023

The media got their collective knickers in a twist this week with the news that Wyoming is banning the sale of electric vehicles in the state. Headlines like that certainly raise eyebrows, which is the intention, of course, but even a quick glance at the proposed legislation might have revealed that the “ban” was nothing

Sources: activist investor Elliott Management bought a multibillion-dollar Salesforce stake; Elliott partner: the firm has “a deep respect for Marc Benioff” (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Elliott Management bought a multibillion-dollar Salesforce stake; Elliott partner: the firm has “a deep respect for Marc Benioff” — Elliott Management makes a multibillion-dollar investment in the business-software provider

Minimalist Homebrew Hardware Recreates Arcade Classics

Classic video games might look primitive by today’s standards, but the addictive gameplay of Breakout or Pac-Man remains fun no matter what decade you were born in. Keeping the relevant hardware running becomes harder as the years pile up however, so when [Michal] decided to introduce his kids to classic video games, he didn’t dig

PCB Pen Holder is Over the Top

Like most of us, [Arnov] used a spare coffee mug to hold pens on his desk. But there has to be a better way, right? Surely if you build a better mouse trap… or, in this case, a pen holder. He’d be the first to admit that he might have gotten a little carried away,

Merriam-Webster acquires popular Wordle clone, Quordle

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Quordle, the word-solving game that emerged at the height of Wordle’s popularity, has been acquired by Merriam-Webster, as first reported by TechCrunch. The game now lives directly on Merriam-Webster’s website, rather than on its own. “I’m delighted to announce that Quordle was acquired by @MerriamWebster,” a post on

The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The age of great third-party Twitter clients may be over. After Twitter cut off their API access and changed its rules to bar apps that compete with its own, The Iconfactory has announced that it’s discontinuing Twitterific, Fenix has been pulled from app stores, and Tapbots has posted

The Most Notable HR Trends That Will Reshape The Labor Market In 2023

The world of work has changed a lot in the last few years, and employees are constantly keeping employers and human resources teams on their toes as they demand better work benefits and higher wages. Amid macroeconomic problems, employees have been playing hardball with their bosses with the majority of workers demanding better pay. According to the U.S.

Step aside emulation, I restored my old Nintendo instead

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority As a twelve-year-old, my first brush with modern console gaming was with Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance SP. It wasn’t the first video game I’d played, but growing up in India, it was rare to have access to the latest and greatest consoles. The Game Boy Advance introduced me to

Off-Grid Van Build Uses 3D Scanning For Smarter Planning

Folks who refurbish and rebuild vans into off-grid campers (especially with the ability to work in them remotely) put a fantastic amount of planning and work into their projects. [Rob] meticulously documented his finished van conversion and while he does a ton of clever work, we especially liked how he shows modern tools like photogrammetry

Finally, a solution to the Switch’s Joy-Con drift

Gulikit’s joystick replacements use Hall effect sensors that make them less likely to wear down. | Image: Gulikit After years of dealing with Joy-Con drift and no satisfactory answers from Nintendo, we may finally have our solution. A company called Gulikit created a set of Switch joystick replacements that promise to banish stick drift once

The Amazfit Falcon flirts with premium watch territory

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Amazfit Falcon is a very attractive device. For an Amazfit wearable, it also comes at a relatively high price. Whether the watch piques your interest or not, one thing is clear: Amazfit is extending its reach in the smartwatch space. The company quite literally sent the Amazfit T-rex

How some US incarcerated people use contraband mobile phones to educate themselves, make TikToks, find love, publicize prison conditions, earn money, and more (Keri Blakinger/The Marshall Project)

Keri Blakinger / The Marshall Project: How some US incarcerated people use contraband mobile phones to educate themselves, make TikToks, find love, publicize prison conditions, earn money, and more — Despite the security concerns of administrators, incarcerated people use phones to hustle, make TikToks or publicize prison conditions.

The Amazfit Falcon flirts with premium watch territory

Analysis: Apple timed the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and HomePod launch to boost this quarter’s revenue, while avoiding supply issues during the holiday season (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Analysis: Apple timed the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and HomePod launch to boost this quarter’s revenue, while avoiding supply issues during the holiday season — Apple timed the launch of the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini and HomePod to shore up its current quarter’s revenue …

The next MacBook Air and iMac could come with a 3nm M3 chip

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s working on a MacBook Air and iMac with an M3 chip built using the more efficient 3-nanometer fabrication process, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While it’s not clear when the two upgraded devices might launch, Gurman expects the M3 chip to arrive later this

Sundiro Honda x Muji MS01 Test Ride ($700): Stylish, but Underpowered

Two of Japan’s heavy hitters teamed up to build a limited-edition, super-cheap, China-only electric moped: We took it for a spin.

Retrofitting my rented home with SwitchBot smart home tools has been a lifesaver

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority In the summer of 2022, I moved across the United States from Connecticut to California. I landed in a small, two-bedroom rental house. The house itself was built by the owner as a pandemic-era project. Since it is brand new construction and I am his first tenant, he

Designing a Simpler Prosthetic Finger

Prosthetic limb design is an area where desktop manufacturing has made huge strides, but there’s always room for improvement. For example, take a look at [Ian Davis] and his attempts to design a simpler prosthetic finger. [Davis] favors his aluminum partial hand prosthetic for its strength, but because it was scratch built for his particular

The Amazfit Falcon flirts with premium watch territory

How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System

Trust us, it’s safer this way.

Coros Apex 2 Pro Review: For Practical Outdoors People

It might lack a few snazzy features, and it’s not as navigationally capable as a Garmin, but this sports watch gets the basics right.

A Microsoft foldable doesn’t make sense anymore, or does it?

Credit: David Imel / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Microsoft hasn’t released a new Android device since 2021’s Surface Duo 2, but a new report may have shed some light on the company’s future plans. Windows Central reported that Microsoft ditched the dual-screen design of previous Surface Duo devices in favor of developing

A look at Mittens, a ruthless Chess.com bot with a kitten avatar introduced on January 1 that is driving more people than ever to play in the site’s history (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A look at Mittens, a ruthless Chess.com bot with a kitten avatar introduced on January 1 that is driving more people than ever to play in the site’s history — A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy — The heels of the chess world have included Soviet

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