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Samsung Galaxy S25 Makes Waves With AI Companion

AI is the major focus for the new Samsung Galaxy S25 line. See what’s being added and how the hardware is changing to support it.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 24, 2025

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Get Ready To Pay More For Netflix Again

Love Netflix? Get ready to pay more next month for your favorite shows and movies. See what the latest Netflix price hike looks like.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 23, 2025

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Meta Wants to Pay You to Switch From TikTok

Want to leave TikTok and earn a bonus for doing it? Meta wants to pay you $5000 to switch to their Breakthrough Bonus Program.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 22, 2025

X and Bluesky app logos on Samsung phone.

X and Bluesky Launch TikTok Style Video Feeds

Ready for a TikTok alternative? See how X and Bluesky are adding new video feeds to mimic TikTok’s popular style.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 21, 2025

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TikTok Ban Rollercoaster: What’s Next?

The TikTok ban is here, but is the popular social network actually gone? Find out why it may be back at least temporarily.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 19, 2025

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After a Long Wait, the Nintendo Switch 2 Is Finally Coming Soon

Ready for an upgrade to your Nintendo Switch? See what’s coming soon with the Nintendo Switch 2, with an official announcement.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 17, 2025

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Bluesky Gets an Instagram Makeover With Flashes App

Love Bluesky, but wish you had an Instagram alternative too? See how the Flashes app may be exactly what you need.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 16, 2025

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Ready to Revisit 2024? Just Open Your Spotify Playlist in a Bottle

Want to remember what kind of music you loved most last January? Your 2024 Spotify Playlist in a Bottle is finally ready for you to open.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 15, 2025

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TikTok Could Be Elon Musk’s Next Investment

TikTok may be banned soon, but Elon Musk could become the new owner. China is considering selling TikTok to Musk.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 14, 2025

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Amazon Prime Members Losing Try Before You Buy

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you’re about to lose another benefit. See what’s happening to Try Before You Buy.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 13, 2025

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Google Launches Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers Project

With a possible Chrome and Google split on the horizon, Google announces the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers project.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 10, 2025

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TikTok Alternative Lemon8 Could Be Banned Too

Flocking to Lemon8 to avoid the TikTok ban? Learn why the TikTok alternative app could be included in the looming ban.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 9, 2025

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Meta to Adopt X’s Moderation System

Meta’s moderation system is changing drastically. Find out what’s changing and why Zuckerberg is making the changes.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 8, 2025

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Microsoft Bing Spoofs a Google Makeover

Microsoft Bing wants you to keep using it over Google. See the latest strategy to keep you from moving to Google.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 7, 2025

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Free High-Speed Starlink Internet Coming to United

Wish you had free and reliable high-speed Internet while flying? See how the United Airlines and Starlink partnership makes this real.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 6, 2025

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Samsung Bespoke Fridges May Soon Buy Groceries For You

Wish your fridge could also grocery shop for you? The new line of Samsung Bespoke fridges may offer this functionality soon.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 3, 2025

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Want to create your own works based on classic films, music, and art? See which classics just entered the public domain on Public Domain Day.

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 2, 2025

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Bluesky Experiences Massive Growth in 2024

What helped Bluesky’s growth in 2024? And, even more importantly, how will the platform keep growing in 2025?

By Crystal Crowder – Jan 1, 2025

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The Most Memorable News Stories of 2024

Let’s revisit the most memorable tech news stories of 2024 and examine how they have already changed tech and all of our lives.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 31, 2024

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U.S. Treasury Department Hacked By China

The U.S. Treasury Department was recently hacked. Find out why, what may have been accessed, and who is behind it.

By Crystal Crowder – Dec 31, 2024

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

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When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

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When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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