Netflix is launching a free tier, but only in one country
A US version seems doubtful
Nearly half of Americans get their news from social media
Social media is a popular hub for news gathering
Amazon is showing more sponsored products when you search, charging advertisers extra
You could now see up to six sponsored products in Amazon's search results
Elon Musk: SpaceX Starlink service will go live next month
The "Better Than Nothing Beta" is coming to an end
Amazon hits over 600 Chinese electronic brands with the banhammer
Consumer-friendly or anti-competition?
Unicode Standard Version 14 brings users new characters and images
Unicode Consortium gives birth to 37 new emoji characters
Alphabet's Project Taara beamed 700TB of fiber-like Internet with 99.9 percent uptime
The new system is five times cheaper than an equivalent fiber optic backbone
Netflix is making a heist series called Jigsaw that you can watch in any order
Netflix's latest experiment sounds more like a Mega Man game than a television series
Corsair teams up with Opera to integrate RGB lighting with a web browser
Next up, RGB integration with Excel
Leaked documents show Facebook understands how harmful Instagram is to teenage girls
Despite often saying otherwise
This Quake clone is just 13 kilobytes and plays right in your browser
This mini version of Quake is just 13 kilobytes
Zoom plans to add real-time translation for 12 languages next year
With automated speech transcription for over 30 languages later on
Litecoin spikes 34 percent in 15 minutes on fraudulent Walmart press release
Walmart is not accepting Litecoin
Brazil's President restricts which posts social networks can remove
New decree stops social networks from removing misinformation
5 Google Chrome Alternatives That Do Things Better
The Chrome browser is stable and secure, but that comes at the expense of RAM usage and privacy, since Google can see most of what you do on it. Here are 5 top alternatives to Chrome and why you should consider them.
Panama may soon follow El Salvador in making cryptocurrencies legal tender
Besides Bitcoin, Panama's "Crypto Law" would also declare multiple other cryptocurrencies as legal tender
ProtonMail criticized for handing activist's IP address to authorities, leading to their arrest
The company says it is obliged to obey Swiss laws
Chia miners are trying to sell potentially degraded plotting drives
Chia miners sow the seeds of discontent in the used hardware market, list degraded SSDs as "new"
Nintendo could add Game Boy, Game Boy Color titles to Switch Online service 'really soon'
Adding even more value to Nintendo Switch Online
Firefox closes the gap on Edge in the browser market
But will things change when Windows 11 rolls out?
Reddit is reportedly gearing up for an early 2022 IPO
Reddit hopes to be worth north of $15 billion by the time its IPO rolls around
Reddit bans subreddit accused of spreading Covid-19 disinformation after refusing to take it down
Members of r/NoNewNormal were brigading other subreddits and continued to do so after being warned
Sony to stream PlayStation 5 games showcase on September 9
What's coming to the PlayStation 5 this holiday season and beyond