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Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 24, 2024
This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu

FCC passes auto safety spectrum rules
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 21, 2024
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to finalize new spectrum rules that will push cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications technology

Dozens of states ask Congress to un-doom the Kids Online Safety Act
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 18, 2024
A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled

WhatsApp now lets you save message drafts
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 15, 2024
WhatsApp dropped the most “I can’t believe this wasn’t already there” feature this week: message drafts. Now, WhatsApp lets you

Twitter’s succession: all the news about alternative social media platforms
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 12, 2024
Bluesky says it won’t use blockchains even though it’s funded by Blockchain Capital. Its $15 million funding round was led

There’s a lot more Red Hulk in the new Captain America: Brave New World trailer
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 9, 2024
The Brave New World preview opens on Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) visiting one of the first supersoldiers, Isaiah Bradley (Carl

The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 6, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabber, an online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using

Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . November 3, 2024
That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a

The iPhone 17 might use Apple’s own Wi-Fi chips
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . October 31, 2024
Apple’s journey to making its own wireless chips has been a long one, but the end might be in sight.

Gmail will now help you write an email on the web with AI
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . October 28, 2024
Google is expanding “Help me write” to Gmail on the web, allowing users to whip up or tweak emails using