Nissan has revealed its 2022 Leaf EV, which not only comes with more standard features than last yearâs model, but is priced significantly lower as well â like more than $4,000 lower. In fact, the Leaf is now the cheapest EV in the US market, as Endgadget pointed out. And from our research that does seem to be the case, with the next car on the budget list being the... Read more âș
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If youâre using Google Drive, you probably received an email earlier this week about a new security update to the file storage and sharing platform. According to the email, âDrive will apply a security update to make file sharing more secure.â True to the promise, the change is a security upgrade for some of the Google Drive files you might have shared in the past. It will make it harder... Read more âș
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When I started using computers as a child, I naturally gravitated towards making weird drawings and strange shapes on Microsoft Paint. But there were a ton of apps that were popular before that. Programmer Vikrum Nijjar has resurrected one of them called Kid Pix in a browser window. The app was originally released for Macs in 1989. If the name doesnât sound familiar, it might be because the app was... Read more âș
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While many celebrated the potential emissions reductions achieved during a year and a half of life in quarantine, the summer of 2021 alone has seen wildfires raging across the US Pacific Northwest, Turkey, and Greece, and extreme flooding across Germany, China, Uganda, and India, just to name a few. Not to be a debbie downer, but itâs certainly not the time to let âhot vax summerâ overshadow âhot af climate... Read more âș
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who keep their tabs neat and tidy and those who drown in an endless sea of microscopic slivers atop their browser. Actually, scratch that. I donât think Iâve ever met someone who keeps their tabs tidy. I certainly donât. Oh, Iâve tried. Over the years Iâve various tab grouping methods. Iâve tried double-layer horizontal tabs. Iâve tried various extensions that... Read more âș
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Researchers and lawmakers have slammed Facebook for disabling the accounts of academics who were analyzing political ads on the platform. The company on Tuesday shut down accounts, apps, pages, and platform access associated with the NYU Ad Observatory, which investigates the transparency of online political ads. Facebook said the teamâs data collection methods violated the social networkâs rules around user privacy. Laura Edelson, one of the researchers whose accounts was... Read more âș
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MIT researchers have used AI to predict which technologies are rapidly improving â and which ones are overhyped. In a new study, the team quantitatively assessed the future potential of 97% of the US patent system. The fastest-improving domains were predominantly software-related. They then converted their findings into an online system in which users can enter keywords to find improvement forecasts for specific technologies. Their research could give entrepreneurs, researchers,... Read more âș
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TLDR: You can protect up to six devices in your home from power surges with this Smart Power Strip with Surge Protector from Gosund, now at almost 40 percent off. Power surges happen all the time. And while there are a number of factors that can lead to an unexpected surge of power in your home electrical system, the most common source of power spikes is the most obvious one:... Read more âș
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TLDR: This Smart TV LED Backlight casts a cool light halo around your TV screen, offering fun lighting options as well as helping alleviate eye strain during extended viewing. Sometimes, that home theater youâve assembled isnât all itâs cracked up to be. Sure, having a glorious giant screen display with ultra-vivid resolution and color makes settling in for movie night in your darkened living room a true theater-esque experience.  But... Read more âș
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Despite the pandemic, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 43% in 2020. Total EV sales in China were 1.3 million, an increase of 8% compared to 2019, and 41% of all EVs sold worldwide. Though Europe sold more than China for the first time since 2015, China is still the worldâs biggest national market for EVs. The best-selling EV in China is not Teslaâs Model 3, but the... Read more âș
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DHL Express is teaming up with all-electric aircraft manufacturer Eviation to build the worldâs first electric air cargo network. On Tuesday, the courier giant announced the order of twelve âAliceâ aircraft from the Seattle-based company to be delivered by 2024. Credit: DHL An impression of the DHL Alice aircraft. Alice is an all-electric nine-seat aircraft, designed to transport passengers and freight alike. It can be flown by a single pilot... Read more âș
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Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by several kinds of organizations. They take the form of deceptively labeled buttons, choices that are difficult to undo, and graphical elements like color and shading that direct usersâ attention to or away from certain options.... Read more âș
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Thereâs no secret that Facebook loves ads. It has stuffed the blue app and different features of Instagram with them. And the company has contemplated many times inserting ads in WhatsApp. Now the company is trying to make a match of an odd pair: encryption and ads. According to a report from The Information, the tech giant is building a team of AI researchers to explore possibilities to analyze data... Read more âș
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A phone screen with no notches, bezels, or cutouts â thatâs the dream, right? Manufacturers have tried stuff like pop-up cameras in the past, but everyone wants to achieve a workable under-the-screen selfie camera thatâs practically invisible. To that end, Oppo has unveiled its new imaging tech and claims its updated selfie camera doesnât compromise â the integrity of the screen.â The company said it had solved issues of the... Read more âș
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Five months after he was carjacked while driving for Uber, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage to his car, David Morrow finally received an offer of assistance from the company: $1,000, the amount of his insurance deductible. But there was a catchâMorrow would need to sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to not sue Uber, disparage the company, or talk any further about his carjacking or the details of his... Read more âș
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WhatsApp is joining the disappearing photos and videos club. The company today officially began rolling out a âView Onceâ feature that allows content to disappear from your phone. The feature had previously been available in beta, but is only now reaching more users. As you mightâve guessed, you view the photo or video once, and poof! Itâs gone. This new type of disappearing content will be labeled with a new... Read more âș
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I know people think reviewers should be completely unbiased, but anyone who says they are is kidding themselves. We all have our preferences and prejudices, and as much as we try to keep those in check, they inevitably affect the way we go about a review. Either that bias makes us see a product through rose-colored lenses, or it causes us to overcorrect in the name of objectivity. I can... Read more âș
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Spotify is testing a cheaper subscription tier that gives users more control over their listening but still features ads. Known as Spotify Plus, the plan was first reported by The Verge. The streaming giant confirmed the trial in a statement: Weâre always working to enhance the Spotify experience and we routinely conduct tests to inform our decisions, Weâre currently conducting a test of an ad-supported subscription plan with a limited... Read more âș
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Twitter is applying the bug bounty model to machine learning. The micro-blogging site has launched the industryâs first algorithmic bias bounty competition. The challenge was created to identify potential harms in Twitterâs notorious image cropping algorithm, which was largely abandoned after exhibiting gender- and race-based biases. The company now wants to incentivize the community to find further unidentified risks of the algorithm. The winners of the challenge will receive cash... Read more âș
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TLDR: Get full VPN coverage with a 2 or 3 year subscription to one of the most popular VPN services around these days, Surfshark. The threats to your security are out thereâŠand they are very real. Even if they arenât targeting you specifically, make no mistake â shadowy forces on the web are taking aim at the very infrastructure you enjoy. Cyberattacks arenât just going after banks and tech giants... Read more âș
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