Category: Hardware
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Meta is no longer paying creators to post on Threads. The company quietly ended the Threads bonus program, which offered some creators thousands of dollars a month in bonuses, earlier this year, Engadget has confirmed. The company hasn’t officially commented on why it stopped the payments, but an Instagram support page that once listed details…
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Belief in conspiracy theories is often attributed to some form of motivated reasoning: People want to believe a conspiracy because it reinforces their worldview, for example, or doing so meets some deep psychological need, like wanting to feel unique. However, it might also be driven by overconfidence in their own cognitive abilities, according to a…
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Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition made me hungry with a food-themed category. The blue category might be tricky for some folks, but you should be able…
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Democratic lawmakers are taking multiple routes to try to revive the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule after an appeals court blocked it on procedural grounds right before it was set to take effect. Democrats already introduced legislation earlier this month to codify the rule, which would require subscription services to let customers cancel as easily…
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A massive prototype cooler from AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series has surfaced online, sparking speculation that AMD once considered a true RTX 4090-class GPU during the RDNA 3 era. The leak originated from Korean forum Quasarzone, where a user named FP32 shared images of a mysterious shroud purchased from the Chinese marketplace Xianyu. At first…
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Palmer Luckey might have found his next area of focus: laptops. Luckey rose to prominence with the founding of Oculus in 2012. He sold the virtual reality company to Facebook in 2014, and after he was reportedly fired in 2017, he co-founded a military tech firm called Anduril Industries that has primarily focused on the…
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While Microsoft has sold Surface Pro and Surface Go tablets with cellular connectivity before, that capability hasn’t come to the Surface Laptop yet. But on August 26, Microsoft will launch the Surface Laptop 5G as part of its Surface for Business line. The 5G laptop is a variant of the existing 13.8-inch Surface Laptop for…
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Microsoft is officially working on a new “PC-to-PC” migration tool for Windows 11, reports Windows Latest. A few months ago, the Insider Dev version of Windows 11 gained a new (but undocumented) feature in Windows Backup that made it easier to move files between two or more PCs, including from Windows 10 to Windows 11.…
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After years of testing air fryers, we’ve found that while these appliances are versatile and efficient, they’re not ideal for every ingredient. Many foods — like salmon filets, hot dogs and burgers — cook beautifully thanks to the rapid convection heat, often rivaling results from a grill or oven. But other foods fall short, either…
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There’s a lot going on in the world of Pokémon — and you can play at least one of them right now. During its latest Pokémon Presents presentation, the Pokémon Company surprise launched Pokémon Friends, a puzzle game with daily challenges, an increasingly common style of game. In a cute Pokémon twist, solving puzzles earns…