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Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Netflix is on to your shenanigans, and by golly it's going to do something about it. The streaming behemoth is taking new steps to stop the dreaded scourge of account sharing this week, demanding an unspecified number of users prove it's their account watching all those Great British Baking Show reruns. According […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Clubhouse has a safety problem. The invite-only social media app, which lets people gather in audio-only "rooms" for free-flowing discussions, is in the midst of an explosive growth spurt. With reportedly over 10 million users as of mid-February, the demand for accounts is so high that people are trying to sell them […]

Some things are best left a mystery — at least as far as Coinbase is concerned. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has been preparing to go public since last year, and in a Thursday prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) it listed a number of issues that could harm its business. Notably, one of those risk factors is the future identification of Satoshi Nakamoto. For the unaware, […]

Your #content will definitely be worth every penny. During a Thursday investor call, Twitter announced a plan to let users charge followers for access to "exclusive content." Dubbed "Super Follow," the service will bring an element of Patreon-like monetary support to a social-media ecosystem that up until now has largely been fueled by the social capital of likes and retweets. While the final details may change, the example shown during […]

Facebook knows it screwed up. The social media giant published a blog post Thursday detailing the previously delayed privacy policy updates coming to WhatsApp, the messaging app Facebook purchased in 2014 for around US$16 billion. In the post, which is designed to assuage users worried about WhatsApp sharing their data with Facebook (which it has for years), WhatsApp acknowledged that things didn't go so well in the communication department. "We've […]

While not necessarily impartial, your smartphone is one hell of an observer. An Alabama man found that out the hard way this week when he was sentenced on Monday to 16 years in prison for killing his wife. While there were numerous factors leading to Jeff West's conviction in November on charges of reckless manslaughter, AL.com, an Alabama news site, reports that data from his smartphone's health app played a […]

Because when you work for Donald Trump, preparation is overrated. As former President Trump's second impeachment trial charged ahead in the Senate on Tuesday, his lawyer Bruce Castor made all the wrong kinds of waves. In a rambling, and at times incoherent, speech, the former district attorney wowed the world with his seeming commitment to the bit of a flummoxed man suddenly awakened from an Ambien sleepwalk to find himself […]

"Fuck Robinhood." Members of the increasingly popular subreddit r/wallstreetbets were in a fighting mood Wednesday, pointing to a thirty-second video the stock-trading app Robinhood currently plans to run during this year's Super Bowl. At issue, argue the redditors, is the seeming disconnect between the ad's celebration of retail investors (theoretically like them) and the fact that Robinhood prevented them from buying GameStop shares just last week. At the time, the […]

It's surprisingly easy to file an investor complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you had a legitimate, well-founded complaint against a stock-trading app. Maybe, and this is just a hypothetical, the app — seemingly to protect its own interest against that of its users — locked you out of certain trades. That'd be a bummer, right? In addition to any potential financial […]