July, 2021

• 28 July

  Twitter tests banners showing when your account is suspended or locked

  

  Before now, if your Twitter account was suspended or locked, you’d receive an email. But you might not check it before trying to send a tweet. Now, at least for some users, Twitter doesn’t leave any room for guessing what’s wrong, thanks to a new banner.  The social media giant is testing a banner that …

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• 28 July

  Save $40 and charge basically everything with this massive Anker battery

  

  If you are returning to a traveling lifestyle for the first time in almost two years, there’s a good chance you need a good battery backup. It’s easy to find big batteries for cheap, but finding good battery backups are a different challenge. For the sake of simplicity, you really do want a single battery that can charge all of …

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• 28 July

  Ferrari F8 Tributo: An homage to the paddle shift

  

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• 28 July

  Surface Duo 2 images leak, Instagram turns on default privacy for teens

  

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• 27 July

  Portable projector pros and cons: Read this before you buy one

  

  Battery-powered portable projectors have come a long way in recent years. These tiny PJs can fit in a backpack yet create TV-sized images on any flat surface. Prices have dropped, yet battery life and brightness have both increased. Many even have built-in streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus.  We’ve reviewed a bunch of these little light-throwers recently and while they’re …

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• 27 July

  Facebook pauses sales of the Oculus Quest 2 due to face irritation concerns

  

  Facebook said on Tuesday that it’s temporarily halting sales of the Oculus Quest 2, a month before a planned update to a new entry-level model with more onboard storage. The move comes after several reported cases of skin reactions to the headset’s included foam faceplate, the social media giant confirmed. In a Facebook post on the issue from earlier this …

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• 27 July

  Leaked Surface Duo 2 images show a three

  

  Microsoft is expected to jump back into the foldable phone game this fall, and leaked images appear to give us an idea of what we can look for in an upcoming Surface Duo 2. The source of the images is unknown, but Windows Central called them credible.  The photos show a three-lens camera inside a typical camera bump. The photos, …

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• 27 July

  Meet Nothing, the startup betting on earbuds

  

  Back in September, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei started to contact friends in the tech industry to tell them he wanted to start something new. Since then, Pei has dropped small teasers for his new company, Nothing, even as the details were still wrapped in mystery. On July 27, we’ll see the first product from his venture — the Ear 1 …

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• 27 July

  Disney’s cryptic ‘The Streamer’ hype is a new streaming

  

  Disney’s cryptic hype around an event and an account identified as “The Streamer” predictably stoked the company’s rabid fanbases into fits of speculation — but this mystery is all marketing, literally.  Disney Plus’ Twitter account posted an inscrutable eyes-emoji-only tweet Monday afternoon directing followers to a new account called TheStreamer, which was virtually empty except for a little blue verified …

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• 27 July

  Instagram will make accounts for teens private by default

  

  Facebook-owned Instagram said Tuesday that it’ll make accounts for some teenagers private by default, a move that comes amid concerns from US politicians that social media could have harmful effects on young people.  Instagram users under the age of 16, or 18 in some countries, will have their accounts set to private by default when they join the social media …

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