IRANIAN women’s rights groups have for months faced a deluge of bots following their Instagram accounts and disrupting their digital outreach operations. Activists say that while they have repeatedly asked Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to stymie the flood of junk followers, more keep coming, totaling in the millions across dozens of organizations operating in Iran… Continue reading Instagram Slow to Tackle Bots Targeting Iranian Women’s Groups
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Qualcomm’s New Smartwatch Chips Promise Big Battery Life Gains
One such example is moving Bluetooth (5.3) into the coprocessor, which no longer needs to wake the main processor up when you simply receive a notification alert from your smartphone. Qualcomm says this translates to 57 percent lower power consumption for notifications compared to the last-gen Wear 4100+ chip. Some always-on health features can also… Continue reading Qualcomm’s New Smartwatch Chips Promise Big Battery Life Gains
TikTok Starts Layoffs in Company-Wide Restructuring
TikTok has begun a global restructuring of its business that includes layoffs, according to five people with knowledge of the process. The short-form video app, owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, has rapidly expanded both its user base and workforce in recent years. Despite tensions with the Trump administration over fears it could be a… Continue reading TikTok Starts Layoffs in Company-Wide Restructuring
Twitter Has Entered the Elon Musk Twilight Zone
The other two outcomes, which are together much more likely, Ives says, would see Musk either buy Twitter for the agreed $44 billion, or walk away after reaching a settlement in which he pays the company damages of between $5 billion and $10 billion. “The stock is factoring in some significant chance that Musk will… Continue reading Twitter Has Entered the Elon Musk Twilight Zone
The Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection
Vinyl’s biggest selling point isn’t the sound. It’s the physical experience: shiny, delicate records; liner notes writ large; covers you want to frame and hang on your wall; and the way the stylus spins across the jagged surface, reproducing your favorite artists’ music as if by magic. Maybe you’ve always been interested in building a… Continue reading The Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection
‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend
The Covid-19 pandemic is considered by many experts to be a mass disabling event. Though most people fully recover from a battle with the highly infectious coronavirus, a significant chunk of patients develop lingering, sometimes debilitating symptoms—aka long Covid. Estimates of how many Covid patients endure long-term symptoms vary considerably. But the US Centers for… Continue reading ‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend
Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants
The websites you visit can reveal (almost) everything about you. If you are looking up health information, reading about trade unions, or researching details around certain types of crime, then you can potentially give away a huge amount of detail about yourself that a malicious actor could use against you. Researchers this week have detailed… Continue reading Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants
Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
Check out our guide on the best mirrorless cameras, and dive deep into all of WIRED’s camera coverage. The Unmentionables Twitter may be a nightmarish dumpster fire even when it’s not being sabotaged by a bored and horny billionaire. But luckily, now you can remove yourself from some portion of the toxicity that thrives on… Continue reading Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
15 Prime Day Deals on Coffee Gear, Subscriptions, and More
Amazon’s Prime Day has finally arrived and that means deals on just about everything. It’s a deluge of deals, a veritable apocalypse of deals, and it can be really overwhelming to try and sort through them all, so we’ve done that for you. Here are the best deals on coffee gear, espresso machines, coffee subscriptions,… Continue reading 15 Prime Day Deals on Coffee Gear, Subscriptions, and More
Twitter’s Case in India Could Have Massive Ripple Effects
In June Twitter received an ultimatum from the Indian government to remove some 39 accounts and content from its platform. Sources familiar with the order say it outlined that if Twitter refused to comply, its chief compliance officer could face criminal proceedings. They say it also stated that the company would lose its “safe harbor”… Continue reading Twitter’s Case in India Could Have Massive Ripple Effects