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This pocket-sized gadget helped cut down our editor's screen time - and it's on sale

ZDNet

This pocket-sized gadget helped cut down our editor's screen time - and it's on sale

Brick can curb your screen time, and it's on sale for a limited time.

ZDNet

Echovane Raises $1M to Run Market Research To Answer The Big Questions for P&G, Haleon & Kantar

Hacker Noon

Echovane Raises $1M to Run Market Research To Answer The Big Questions for P&G, Haleon & Kantar

Market research exists to make companies faster and the machinery of it has spent forty years making them slower. A single ambitious study at a consumer goods company can combine qualitative and quantitative methods, narrow participant…

Hacker Noon

Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough

Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a…

Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.

Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.

Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods section in Google Play settings and use their Venmo wallet, connected bank accounts, or cards to pay for apps, games…

US court allows thousands of lawsuits against tech firms over social media addiction

South China Morning Post

US court allows thousands of lawsuits against tech firms over social media addiction

A US appeal court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta ⁠Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and other ⁠social media companies over claims they designed their products to ⁠be addictive to young…

South China Morning Post

Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow

The Verge

Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow

Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don't care…

The Verge

TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro?

TechRadar

TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro?

TSMC reportedly holding roughly $1 billion of finished A20 Pro wafers that cannot be packaged because the DRAM they must be integrated with has not yet arrived The bottleneck exists because Apple moved the A20 Pro to TSMC's WMCM packaging…

TechRadar

Zuckerberg spokesperson says his yacht did not hear call for maritime assist

Zuckerberg spokesperson says his yacht did not hear call for maritime assist

A yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg didn't respond immediately to a call for help from a small skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, but a maritime law expert said Monday the crew may not have been obligated to after the Coast…

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and…

Ukrainian drone attack on an oil hub deep inside Russia kills 13, officials say

Ukrainian drone attack on an oil hub deep inside Russia kills 13, officials say

Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia’s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 78 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war.