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Making matters worse, there’s a new cryptocurrency brewing called Chia. Chia mies cryptocoins on your storage drives, and if it takes off, hard drives and SSDs could become as scarce as graphics cards. If you’re looking to buy an SSD, consider buying it sooner than later, especially larger

Is Newly Launched American Social Media Platform, WawWoo, Really Better Than Facebook? Internet users around the world is all excited about the launch of the n

For testing only - but new distro compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux getting close to release

The software blight and security nightmare that is Flash has all but died. In theory it is dead already, with support for Adobe Flash Player having drawn to an end last year and Microsoft having pushed out an update to carve it out of Windows. But the com

Robinhood experienced a partial cryptocurrency trading outage during a spike in Dogecoin prices. This is the second time it's happened in under a month.

Customers are the losers in Google's very public tussle with Roku over YouTube TV.What you need to knowRoku removed the YouTube TV app from its app store after negotiations with Google fell through.Google responded to the action, maintaining its posit

Some experts say this innovation could open Pandora's box.

Fry's Electronics, a longtime computer chain headquartered on the west coast, will close its doors for good, according to a new report from TV station KRON 4 in San Francisco. The report seems to confirms rumors from Twitter that started appearing lat

Email app Hey reveals that two-thirds of the messages it handles contain the hidden trackers. Emails pixels can be used to log: if and when an email is opened, how many times it is opened, what device or devices are involved, the user's rough physical location, deduced from their internet

A Project Veritas-leaked Facebook conference call shows CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemingly violating his own platform's current rules, saying he didn't understand the long-term effects of "modifying people's DNA and RNA," in reference to th

Critics of Big Tech have repeatedly accused online giants of abusing and dominating smaller news outlets, conservative voices, and any site or app that might be seen as competition. Now one local West Virginia newspaper is facing down a couple of tech Gol

Google-owned YouTube has banned blacklisted LifeSite News, one of the top online pro-life news sources.

Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgruntled Robinhood users organized campaigns to give the app a one-star review on Google's Play Store and A

The earliest Trump could regain control of his account is Jan. 27—a week into Joe Biden's presidency.

Parler on Thursday urged a US judge to order Amazon to restore the company's account, saying Amazon had no evidence the social media platform was used to incite last week's storming of the Capitol. At a hearing in Seattle federal court, Parler'

Merkel's spokesperson called the removal of Trump

Recent reports claim that 70 terabytes of user data from social media network Parler have been leaked online.

Social networking service Parler sued Amazon.com Inc on Monday, accusing its web hosting service of breaking anti-trust laws in taking off the platform that is popular with many right-leaning social media users. (Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru

Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant

Google and Apple have recently removed Parler from the store and now, Amazon has officially stopped hosting them as well.