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This App Will Help You Spot Scams on Amazon
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the savviest person when it comes to shopping online. Sure, I can spot obvious scams without much work, I’ll sometimes spend hours poring over product reviews and still end up falling for products that faked their way to earning five stars. While I can’t stop shitty sellers … Continued
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eBay and PayPal Finally Break Up for Good
It looks like the nearlytwo-decade-long relationship between eBay and PayPal has quietly come to a close. On Monday, the auctioneering giant quietly updated its terms of service to let sellers know that pretty soon, any funds they rake in will no longer be credited to their PayPal account. If sellers want to keep getting paid, … Continued
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Florida Is Already Getting Sued for Its Probably Illegal Social Media Ban
For a snapshot of current U.S. politics, picture this: A politician passes a draconian, poorly thought-out, maybe illegal regulation, designed mostly as a symbolic gesture to his base but that will likely help none of his actual constituents. Then, a pro-business lobby jumps in to decry the law as a threat to society and reflexively … Continued
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I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector
By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up … Continued
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Clever Modder Upgrades an Old Wacom Into a Pricier Drawing Tablet With $80 Worth of Parts
Wacom’s cheapest drawing tablet, the 13-inch Wacom One, will still set you back $400. So instead of upgrading, Akaki Kuumeri built their own by creating a strap-on screen for an older Wacom tablet using $80 worth of purchased and 3D-printed parts. The key to the affordability of this particular hack is that Kuumeri already had … Continued
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If You Use Twitter’s New Tip Jar Feature, Make Sure You Don’t Accidentally Send People Your Address
If you decide you’re game enough to use Twitter’s new feature to send strangers on the internet money, do your best not to accidentally send them your residential address, too. To explain, you may have heard something about “Tip Jar,” which the company soft launched Thursday, heralding it as a way “for people to send … Continued
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Why You Should Use a Physical Key to Sign Into Your Accounts
The benefits of two-factor authentication (2FA) are clear: A person trying to get into your accounts will need something else besides your username and password, which makes it more difficult to hack you. That something else is often a code sent via SMS or through an app, but there’s another option: a physical security key. These keys … Continued
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Facebook’s Long-Stalled Digital Currency Could be Tested This Year: Report
Facebook hopes to launch a trial of its long-stalled digital currency project by the end of this year, according to a new report from CNBC. The currency, first announced in 2019 as Libra and then renamed Diem after some bad publicity, will now be pegged to the U.S. dollar, provided the tech giant can actually … Continued
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There’s a Black Market for Ketchup Packets Now
If you’re one of the fast-food aficionados left reeling from stories of the current nationwide ketchup shortage, then get a squirt of this. People are now putting their unopened packets up for sale across eBay and Facebook Marketplace right now, for prices ranging from $1 per pack to over $1,000 for just a few. The … Continued