How to shop wisely on Prime Day

How to shop wisely on Prime Day

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are October 8th and 9th, which means this week will be one of the biggest shopping days of 2024. Outside of Black Friday, Amazon Prime Days are when you will find some of the best prices on the things you’ve been looking for and even the things you had no … Read more

Free Software Foundation Celebrates 39th Anniversary

Free Software Foundation Celebrates 39th Anniversary

“Can you believe that we’ve been demanding user freedom since 1985?” asks a new blog post at FSF.org: Today, we’re celebrating our thirty-ninth anniversary, the “lace year,” which represents the intertwined nature and strength of our relationship with the free software community. We wouldn’t be here without you, and we are so grateful for everyone … Read more

Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram

Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram

“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at low cost, and also makes it virtually impossible to snoop on the network graph,” Poberezkin wrote in a company blog post published in 2022. SimpleX’s policies expressly prohibit “sending illegal communications” and outline how SimpleX … Read more

A very underrated horror movie sequel is streaming on Max

A very underrated horror movie sequel is streaming on Max

Warner Bros. In terms of traumatic childhoods, few movie characters have ever had it as bad as Danny Torrance. The young psychic child at the center of The Shining is not only relentlessly preyed upon one winter by the malevolent ghosts of a haunted hotel, but he and his mother are also nearly killed by … Read more

How to Turn On the Flashlight on Android

How to Turn On the Flashlight on Android

Whether you have trouble finding your home keys in the dark or you want to brighten up your path, turn on your Android phone’s camera flash and use it as a flashlight. We’ll show you three different ways to do that. Use Quick Settings to Turn On Android’s Flashlight A quick way to activate your … Read more

Taiwan says device parts not made on island

Taiwan says device parts not made on island

The Taiwanese government has said none of the components in thousands of pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah that exploded in Lebanon earlier this week were made on the island. Fragments of the pagers that blew up had labels which pointed to Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo. But the firm denied making the devices used … Read more

I tested the first Android phone with Qi2 wireless charging, and its best feature caught me off guard

I tested the first Android phone with Qi2 wireless charging, and its best feature caught me off guard

ZDNET’s key takeaways The HMD Skyline is the first Android phone to support Qi2 wireless charging, which means it can be magnetically attached to compatible accessories. It’s also user-repairable, with the company offering spare displays, batteries, and other parts for at least seven years. At $500, tradeoffs are to be expected, such as the middling … Read more