1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (149+ words) What started as a simple keyword filter quickly snowballed into users deliberately testing the restriction and posting variations of the blocked term. Accounts that included "Microslop" in their messages first got banned from messaging again. Not long after, access to…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago  (788+ words) Have you bought and set up a new phone for someone else lately, especially someone less technologically savvy? It's a bit of a nightmare, with an endless list of confusing steps and dark patterns trying to trick you into signing…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (175+ words) I've been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. " Tony S. An absolute horror…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (693+ words) This must be a universal experience at this point for people who aren't swayed by the latest and greatest marketing hype around new phone models: there's just nothing out there that fits one's needs. When I walked into a phone…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (167+ words) I had no idea this used to be a thing, but it obviously makes a ton of sense. If you can have a conversation by stringing a few tin cans together, you can obviously do something similar across metal barbed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (400+ words) What does it look like when a hardware and software company descends into an obsession with recurring services revenue to please its shareholders? Look no further than Apple, who has turned its Apple News service into a vehicle for scam…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (245+ words) As part of our efforts to use more sovereign digital solutions, the European Commission is preparing an internal communication solution based on the Matrix protocol," the spokesperson told Euractiv. Matrix is an open source, community-developed messaging protocol shepherded by a…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (886+ words) I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don't appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting. Taking steps to reduce it leads to inconvenience and, with the present state of technology, even the most…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (198+ words) We need to consume. The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a'recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016. While squeezing as much life out of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (463+ words) Only a few months ago, Google announced it was going to require that all Android applications " even those installed outside of the Play Store " had to be verified. This led to a massive backlash, and it seems our protests and…...