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2024 was shaping up to be the year Congress regulated how kids engage with social media, particularly through one bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). A debate about its risks to free expression still raged, but the voices of the bill’s advocates seemed to ring loudest in senators’ ears. The momentum was there. The…
The Petal camera offers over a month of battery life that can be extended nearly indefinitely using a solar panel. | Image: Wonder Bird Buddy’s camera-equipped smart feeders helped make bird-watching more accessible and easier by autonomously documenting all the wildlife that stopped by to eat. The company’s new Petal camera is designed to do…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Amazon “hostile” based on a rumor that its site will adjust to show how tariffs affect the total cost of a product. The statement comes just hours after a report from Punchbowl News suggested that the ecommerce giant will display the added fees right next to a product’s…
The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans and Democrats in agreement over anything, but both sides saw the app as a…
Several years ago, a young man by the name of Devin Howard came to my non-profit, Project H.O.O.D., on the South Side of Chicago. Like most kids around here, Devin grew up in a world of violence and poverty where one wrong turn or false move can have dire consequences. However, Devin always had the…
President Donald Trump delivered his second Inauguration Day speech on Jan. 20, when he previewed the steps his administration would take to unleash “the golden age of America,” which stretched from locking down the border and streamlining the federal government through the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “From this day forward, our…
On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites. With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create their own mega…
The LG Wing (pictured) was one of the last phones released by the company before it exited the industry in 2021. Time is running out for people who are still using LG phones to download any remaining Android updates before their devices are fully retired. After closing its Android phone business back in 2021, Android…
On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world. An initial outage started at about 6AM ET, as tracked by Downdetector, lasting about 40 minutes, and then things crashed again at about 8AM. Bluesky experienced another major outage on April 24th that…
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s rule changes may not be loved by baseball purists, but the proof is in the pudding. As the length of games has significantly shrunk in recent years, Major League Baseball saw increased attendance in back-to-back years for the first time since the early 2010s in the last two seasons. A Dodgers-Yankees…