Month: June 2020

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] ET Deals: Corsair PCI-E 4.0 NVMe 500GB SSD $114, Alienware Aurora AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Desktop for $1,206, Roborock S4 Robot Vacuum $299 This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. By taking advantage of PCI-E 4.0, … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Microsoft Is Closing Its Retail Stores Permanently Due to COVID-19 This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has announced it will close all of its physical store locations. Officially, this is due to COVID-19. The … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] MaxiVPN Is Offering Full Online Security Protection For Less Than $25 A Year This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. You may not have heard, but Australia is under attack. While bombs aren’t raining over Brisbane … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Astronomers Find Two Super-Earths Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The hard work of astronomers around the world using instruments like the Kepler Space Telescope has shown there’s no shortage of … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Twitter Should Not Stay in Its Lane Twitter has, in the case of Trump’s false tweets about voting by mail, appended a link for people to “get the facts about mail-in ballots,” which leads to a point-by-point refutation, authored by Twitter, of the president’s … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Apple announces macOS Big Sur, new silicon chips, and iOS 14 Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn welcome back Verge alum and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to discuss the big announcements from Apple’s developer conference this week. Verge news editor Chaim Gartenberg joins … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] ‘Mysterious new creature’ unearthed in Australia is bear-sized wombat cousin The animal would’ve been roughly the size of a bear, with teeth that suggest a plant-based diet and powerful limbs for digging. Peter Schouten There’s a lot to love about wombats. They’re sturdy creatures, … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Disgraced Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Headed Back to Jail Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist whose corruption became a symbol of the excesses of Washington influence peddling, is set to return to jail for violating the law that was amended in response to his earlier crimes, … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] YouTube Music Charges You to Play Your Own Music on Your Own Speakers This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As streaming services have become more ubiquitous, they’ve begun treating people who actually own content in … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Why Are There Fireworks Every Night? Twitter Has a Theory. Randall Horvath, the owner of the wholesale retailer OCFireworks, told me that his company has seen about 60 percent more orders than usual. “Of those, buyers are spending on average 30 to 40 percent … Read more

   [responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ pitch=”1.2″ volume=”0.8″ voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Story in Audio”] Amazon creates team to go after counterfeiters Amazon sets up a Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Angela Lang/CNET After coming under pressure from lawmakers to go after knockoffs being sold on its sites, Amazon on Wednesday said it set up a Counterfeit Crimes Unit to address … Read more