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Text: In a long thread on Twitter, dozens of stunned users are posting strips of photos of people of multiple races - usually multiple portraits of a black man and a white man arranged variously, and in most cases, Twitter seems to be picking out the white person to show in the thumbnail. In attempts t...
Text: To watch YouTube videos from my phone, which is where I find them, on my TV, which is where I want to watch them, I’ve long since thrown up my hands and given up using the Cast function of the app. Every time I do, the video shows in 480p, even though I have a fiber connection on which YouTube ne...
Text: [commission-disclosure][/commission-disclosure] [info]We’ve updated our list of laptops for writers for 2022. The MacBook Air still takes the prize, now with the shockingly efficient and powerful Apple M2 processor.[/info] The most crucial component of a laptop for writers or journalists is the k...
Text: The United States Navy’s next-generation aircraft carriers are rolling off the assembly line, with one massive flagship finally ready to begin operations, one fitting out, and three more on the way. Though plagued with unforeseen issues in some of their innovative components, these floating fortr...
Text: [commission-disclosure][/commission-disclosure] [info]We’ve updated our list of white laptops for 2022. The best is still the Dell XPS 13 in Frost White, but is now available in a 2-in-1 form factor with a 10th generation Intel processor, from Amazon. For a more recently released option, the LG G...
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Text: Since its earliest days, the core of Google’s search algorithm - and its greatest innovation - has been ranking a page by the amount and quality of the links pointing to it. For almost as long, businesses have fought to climb to the lucrative top positions on search result pages, with some resort...
Text: 1.5 million people are injured in traffic accidents on EU roads each year. Of those, 30,000 people lose their lives. Many of those deaths could have been prevented, had faster action been taken. According to a Swedish study cited by the European Commission, of the preventable fatalities, 5% of th...
Text: This is part of a series of articles on the repercussions of AMP adoption. AMP is being given special attention due to its potential to centralize control of the way the web is built. Read more: Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there’s no choice but to use it An infuriatingly hacky situatio...
Text: On our laptops, we’re used to being able to install anything we want. We download an app from the web, double-click that bad boy, and install it. In recent years, Microsoft or Apple may warn us against installing something outside of their stores, but they won’t stop us. On our phones, however, t...
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Text: The latest version of Android was released in August 2018. By late October 2018, the date Google published their most recently available statistics, it wasn’t even on 0.1% of devices, 81 days after release. The preceding version, 8.0 Oreo released in August 2017, was running on 21.5% of devices 4...