Yik Yak, the free, anonymous social media app, has returned to the Apple App Store after a four-year hiatus. For now, Yik Yak is only available for iPhone in the US, but the app plans to expand its availability, according to a Monday tweet from the company. Released in 2013 and shuttered in 2017, Yik …
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TikTok is partnering with Audius, a streaming platform for musicians, to give artists a new way to upload their music, according to a report Monday from Rolling Stone. TikTok Sounds will reportedly let artists export songs already housed on Audius to TikTok with one click. Audius is one of the third-party apps to integrate with TikTok’s Sound Kit, first announced in …
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AlgorithmWatch, a German research and advocacy group, shut down its Instagram monitoring project after what it says was a “thinly veiled threat” from Facebook. But the social network says it made no such threat and that the group’s project ran afoul of Facebook policies around data collection. The advocacy group says it’s “committed to evaluating and shedding light on … …
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The latest step in the graphics card pas de deux between AMD and Nvidia is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU. It’s also the current entry-level model in AMD’s line of graphics processors for gamers specifically looking for speed or higher quality in 1080p resolution. The RX 6600 XT’s nominal $379 price and performance slots seamlessly between Nvidia’s $329 …
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Update, Sept. 28, 2021: Amazon announced several new Echo and Ring devices during the annual fall product launch event. We also got a first look at several new health-related products, including the Halo View fitness tracker and two health platforms: Halo Nutrition and Halo Fitness. Original story follows. Amazon’s Halo fitness band is a wearable that’s designed to track everything from your movement and sleep patterns to your …
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If you’re still using a first- or second-gen Amazon Kindle e-reader, you may want to download as many titles from your reading list as you can fit — soon, the devices won’t be able to connect to the internet at all, Amazon warned customers this week. “Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are phasing out their 2G and 3G networks,” an Amazon …
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We’ve written about Visible wireless before and also how you can get the prepaid unlimited service from Verizon for as little as $25 a month. This time around the deal gets even sweeter, with the first month of Visible costing only $5 when you sign up with an eSIM using promo code eSIM5. This offer ends July 29. Sign up at Visible …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday for 12 hours after she violated the social media platform’s rules prohibiting the sharing of coronavirus misinformation. “We took enforcement action on the account … for violations of the Twitter rules, specifically the COVID-19 misleading …
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The OnePlus Nord 2 is on its way in just a few days and the latest news about the new phone comes in the form of leaked renders from Ishan Agarwal and Evan Blass on Twitter showing that the Nord 2 could come in three colors, Blue Haze, Gray Sierra and Crimson Red. The rumored renders came as a movie …
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Sitting between the Independence Day celebrations and the back-to-school rush, July has always been a slow month when it comes to deals, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t savings out there to be had. We’ve managed to round up all the discounts we can find to get you through the summer months. Don’t plan a trip or hit the mall …
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