Walid Halabi

The hoops you'll have to jump through to use your domain with AMP

For three years, AMP pages have appeared with Google’s domain in the address bar. Now, there’s a way around it. We explore how hard is it to get your domain back.

Trolls and Consequences: What Twitter needs to learn from Reddit

Twitter and Reddit are both huge, anonymous networks. But only Twitter has earned a reputation for abuse like rape and death threats. How does Reddit keep the trolls behaving?

The futuristic war tech in America's newest aircraft carriers

Entering its final testing phase, the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier is bristling with bleeding edge technology that will set standards for decades to come.

Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it

Google’s AMP project is supposed to speed up your web site. But what do you do when it makes your site slower? Do publishers have a real choice about using it?

Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years

For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.

Block ads in apps on Android (including video ads)

Regain your sanity by learning how to block ads in apps on Android, including video ads.

Shady Netflix, blocking ads, and other mischief in the Android App Underground

There’s a whole hidden world of apps that Google doesn’t want you using on your Android phone. Luckily it’s easy to get them, and you can do some pretty incredible things with them.

In Europe, cars automatically call for help if they crash

New cars sold in the EU are required to include a device that can record audio and track the car’s location. It’ll save lives, but will it impact privacy?

Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts

For a decade, Google has tried to speed up updates to Android phones. For a decade, they’ve failed. Even worse, updates are getting slower every year.

Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on the page at all

An undocumented ranking method can result in sites appearing in Google search results for queries that don’t appear on the page.

Bill Gates casually chats with people on Reddit when he isn't saving the world

It’s not every day you chat to a billionaire, but on Reddit you might just throw some words at Bill Gates without even realizing.

Twitter algorithm appears to prefer white people for thumbnails

Dozens of Twitter users experimenting with Twitter’s automatic thumbnail generation have been stunned to discover the site appears to favor the faces of white people

"The Prime Minister and his husband": Gay leaders around the world

Meet the trail blazing LGBT politicians elected to lead their countries.

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with shady Uber code texts

We’re used to companies securing our accounts by sending us SMS codes - but they aren’t as secure as we think.

The ludicrousness of being forced to watch YouTube in 480p on a 4K TV, and other YouTube bug wrangling

A wealth of long-standing bugs, AI clumsiness, and experience issues make using YouTube’s app a frustrating experience

The best white laptops

We researched the best white laptops available in 2021, for those who prefer a clean, minimalist design to the typical, boring silver or black laptops.

The best laptop for writers

Writers and journalists need a laptop with a different balance of performance, portability, and features than those aimed at the general market. We explore these needs and guide you through the best laptop for writers in 2020.

You might be procrastinating for good reason

Putting off work seems like an irrational, emotional thing to do. But there might be logical reasons why you’d rather be doing something else.

How Google is getting between readers and publishers

Google’s harvesting of information from the web is fundamentally changing what publishers produce, but are publishers bearing an unfair burden, and is the web better this way?