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California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (386+ words) California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit data brokers" ability to store and sell their personal information. While state residents have had the right to demand that a company stop collecting…...
Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (819+ words) Clicks Technology, a company known for making physical keyboards for smartphones, is launching two new devices ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. In addition to a new, $79 slide-out keyboard for smart devices, the company is…...
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1103+ words) Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its goal is to benefit the public, rather than shareholders. Mastodon might…...
Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (904+ words) TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. As a result, U.S. users have often found…...
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (961+ words) OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that…...
You may soon be able to change your Gmail address
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (205+ words) Anthony Ha is TechCrunch's weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a VC firm. He lives…...
As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help
1+ week, 2+ day ago (908+ words) In recent years, people have been increasingly looking for new ways to form platonic connections, as loneliness and social isolation have become more prevalent. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General went so far as to label this issue a public health crisis....
The year data centers went from backend to center stage
1+ week, 4+ day ago (452+ words) There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of interest for folks outside of the…...
Apple pauses app store changes in Texas after court blocks age assurance law
1+ week, 4+ day ago (461+ words) After a federal judge on Tuesday blocked Texas from implementing a new age verification law for app stores, Apple announced it will pause previously announced plans for the state as it continues to monitor the "ongoing legal process." Apple said…...
Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
1+ week, 5+ day ago (218+ words) Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify's music library, and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna's Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them. The…...