2025-01-07
EcoFlow’s Solar hat is better for the planet than your style
Another CES, another opportunity for the technology industry to lob a trebuchet’s worth of molten lead at the last vestiges of my dignity. This year, it’s EcoFlow that is showing off this delightful solar hat that does more for then planet, and your phone, than it does your p [...]
2025-01-07
Govee’s new desktop display is reserved for pixel art
Govee, maker of all manner of smart lights, has a new product it showed off at CES 2025 that creates a quirky new product category. The Gaming Pixel Light displays still or animated pixel art set to 8-bit soundtracks. In addition, it can also display weather updates, sports sched [...]
2025-01-07
Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a big shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta will be suspending its fact-checking program and will move to an X-style Community Notes model on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.<br /> In a video, Zuckerberg said [...]
2025-01-07
Instagram blocked LGBTQ hashtags and treated them as ‘sexually suggestive content’
Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict “sexually suggestive content.” The blocked hashtags included stuff like #le [...]
