Amazon is reportedly barring the sale of foreign plants to the US, following reports that people across the country this summer have been receiving suspicious, unsolicited packages of seeds, many of which are postmarked from China. Amazon’s new policy went into effect on Thursday, according to an email viewed by The Wall Street Journal, which …
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Trump retweets video of apparent supporter shouting ‘white power,’ then deletes it
President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a video of an apparent supporter shouting “white power” and then deleted it about three hours later amid internet backlash. The edited video, which appears to be taken at a retirement community in Florida called The Villages, shows protesters yelling insults at people wearing Trump shirts driving by in golf cars adorned with Trump …
Read More »iPhone 12 will likely come without earbuds and power adapter
We already knew Apple’s future iPhone 12 might ship without the white wired earbuds we’re used to seeing in the box with all new iPhones. But now it looks like iPhone 12 will arrive without a power adapter as well. Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who last month predicted iPhone 12 would arrive without wired EarPods, now adds that he expects …
Read More »That Instagram habit might not be making your teen depressed after all
Social media use is nearly ubiquitous among today’s teens, as is smartphone ownership, which has led many experts to wonder if the resulting screen addiction is leading to a spike in depression and other mental health problems. Well, a research study published Friday suggests that such fears may be overblown. A study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, …
Read More »Best Buy Canada reportedly posts Pixel 4 product page, briefly
Sure, we’ll find out everything we need to know about Google’s updated flagship phones, the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, in just a couple days at the company’s big Tuesday event. But it’s apparently never too late for a product leak (and there have been many for Pixel 4). Best Buy Canada on Saturday briefly posted a preorder page for the …
Read More »YouTuber who gave man toothpaste
It’s hard to not get down on the state of humanity when you learn about the YouTuber who reportedly filmed himself tricking a homeless man into eating Oreos filled with toothpaste and then joking that the cookies would make him clean. (They made him vomit.) But some might take comfort in the story’s end. Barcelona prankster Kanghua Ren, 21, known …
Read More »Apple WWDC could bring big iTunes change
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s long been suspected Apple’s iTunes — that clunky tool we’ve used for almost two decades to play, download and manage our media — is set to be replaced, or at least relegated to a legacy application for synching data between old iPods and …
Read More »Facebook is adding petitions to your news feed
Feeling passionate about a cause? Facebook is launching a tool that lets users post and sign online petitions right in their news feeds. The social network will start rolling “Community Actions” out to its US users on Monday. It’s been testing the feature for several weeks in a couple of markets, TechCrunch first reported Sunday, and is building on that …
Read More »Snapchat unleashes lenses for your pup
Riley tests out one of Snapchat’s new lenses made specially for dogs. Lindsay Taggart/Snapchat Think of it as our belated Christmas present to you… the latest in Snapchat filter news for your pets. This week the popular social network introduced lenses specifically for your pooch. Dog Lenses come on the heels of October’s release of Cat Lenses. They launched just …
Read More »Twitter testing Facebook
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday touted two new features the platform is “playing with” in an effort to make it more conversational. They’re called reply threading and presence. Reply threading shows responses as nested, indented tweets, similar to Facebook or Reddit. Some replies are color-coded, too. Twitter is testing out reply-threading (note the indented, color-coded reply) and presence (note …
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