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Someone Lost $6.5M Trying to Claim $2K of 'Free' Crypto
A bad actor swindled $8 million in bitcoin and ether by scamming users of Uniswap, a popular crypto exchange. Of all the bewildering aspects of crypto, airdrops may be the most stupefying. Airdrops are when tokens are rewarded to crypto traders for free. The value of these airdrops can be immense: In April, Bored Ape Yacht Club owners recieved a cryptocurrency airdrop worth around $100,000 for ... Read more
2022-07-12 03:54:09
Amazon Prime Day Chromebook Deals: Big Savings from HP, Asus and More
If you're in the market for a Chromebook, this Prime Day sale is your chance to snag one for less. Over the past few years, Chromebooks have become far more popular and one of the main reasons for that is the affordable price tag that's often found alongside them. With Windows PCs and Apple's MacBooks much more expensive, Chromebooks fill a void for a lot of people. Amazon Prime Day deals have ma ... Read more
2022-07-12 03:53:47
Apple TV 4K Drops to $109 as Amazon Prime Day Deals Heat Up
Yesterday we saw Best Buy drop the price of the Apple TV 4K as part of its Black Friday in July sales event, and today when the official Prime Day deals kicked off we saw Amazon beat the price. Right now, you can pick up this 4K media streamer for just $109, which is $70 less than it normally costs. This is a new all-time low, and that makes it the absolute best Apple TV deal you can consider righ ... Read more
2022-07-12 03:53:20
TikTok Will Teach Small Businesses How to Build a Following
The social media platform says companies have been "transformed" after using it. TikTok has announced a new training program, called Follow Me, aimed at helping small businesses use the social media platform. The six-week program was created to "empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok," according to a press release Monday. The platform has become a tool for buildi ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:52:07
Meta AI Tool 'Sphere' Could Help Curb Fake News
Facebook parent company Meta on Monday launched Sphere, an AI information verifier that validates the strength of claims in web entries, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The tech news outlet provided a demo showing how the software could work on Wikipedia. In a video, Sphere scans citations and then displays whether the information failed or passed verification. Though Wikipedia is interested ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:43
Samsung's Next Metaverse Move Is a Roblox Game
Samsung Space Tycoon is a game where you collect Samsung products What is a metaverse again? Maybe, just a game. Samsung's newest "metaverse" move is a game on Roblox, called Samsung Space Tycoon. Its mission? Collect virtual Samsung products. Samsung used to make VR headsets for its phones and has been quiet on the smart glasses front for now. Instead, the company's metaverse aspirati ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:27
NASA's Webb Space Telescope Stuns With Most Detailed View of the Cosmos Yet
The most powerful space telescope delivers the highest-resolution image of the infrared universe we've ever seen. Less than a century ago, we — humans — believed the universe ended at the very edge of the Milky Way. At the point where the last starlight of our home galaxy winked out, an endless nothing began. Until Edwin Hubble. The famed astronomer diligently scoured the sky for blinking stars ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:51:06
WatchOS 9: The Best New Apple Watch Features From the Public Beta
All Apple Watches from the Series 4 onward will get the new update. The Apple Watch is getting a major software update with WatchOS 9, adding in-depth running metrics, new watch faces and some clues to what we might see in the rumored Apple Watch Series 8. The WatchOS 9 public beta has just arrived along with iOS 16, which means we get to preview most of the new features ahead of the general rele ... Read more
2022-07-11 19:50:19
Apple's Lockdown Mode: Why There's a New Level of Security for Your iPhone
Three years ago, Apple put up an ad in Las Vegas, showing the backside of one of its devices, with the phrase "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone." It was a bold, if cheeky, claim. But Apple is increasingly living up to it. The tech giant has been ramping up its commitments to privacy and security with a string of new features that cybersecurity experts say are amounting ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:45:50
Why You Need to Stop Using These Dating App Phrases ASAP
Searching for a match? Here's your official glossary of the phrases to avoid on dating apps. It took a mere three swipes on Bumble to land on a profile bio with the sentence, "I'm an open book, just ask." That might be the least surprising lede I've ever written for an article. If you've spent any time on The Apps, you've likely noticed there's a sameness of language that pervades many ... Read more
2022-07-10 23:44:59