Test Your Android Phone’s Water Resistance With This Handy App
Today I learned that you can test the water resistance of a smartphone without throwing it into a giant pool. All you need is a water...
Gillmor Gang: TV Clubhouse
The Gang spends a lot of time these days on the streaming wars, so it seems appropriate that Congress wants to get into it. With Netflix’s...
USPS to Issue Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp This Month
The United States Postal Service announced that it will be issuing an Ursula K. Le Guin stamp that will go on sale nationwide on July 27,...
Netflix’s Witcher Prequel Recasts Sophia Brown in the Lead Role
A bard knows better than anyone: the show must go on. Netflix has announced that Sophia Brown (The Capture) has been cast in the lead role...
Petcube’s New Lite Treat Slinger Is Half the Cost of the Original
Petcube is back and ready to help you reward (or yell at) your pets, even when you’re not at home. Its new Bites 2 Lite treat...
OnePlus Admits It Throttles Popular Apps on Its Flagship Phones
After a recent investigation by Anandtech pointed out that a number of popular apps were experiencing sluggish performance on the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro,...
Ban Mansions
Individual choices about consumption won’t solve the climate crisis alone. But for the richest among us, some forms of polluting pleasure are going to have to...
Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group’s website
In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users’ data to the U.S. National Security Agency under the so-called PRISM program, according to highly...
Peter Boyce II has left General Catalyst to start his own $40M fund
Peter Boyce II has left General Catalyst to start his own firm, a little over a year after the venture capital firm promoted him to partner....
Instacart hires Facebook executive as new CEO ahead of expected IPO
Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO, just seven months after she joined the grocery delivery company’s board of directors. Simo, formerly...
