Gizmodo

Sadly, people aren’t always as nice as they could be, and that’s where you need to turn to the various blocking and reporting features on the digital platforms you frequent. Overall, these features work well and effectively put up barriers between you and those you don’t want to hear from.

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Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.

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Gen Z social media
If TikTok is banned in the US, young people will need somewhere else to go.
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Symbolic photo: The Snapchat app is displayed on a smartphone
Snapchat's Solar System feature will now be off by default, though paid subscribers can turn it back on.
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This week saw a tragic event as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came crashing down after a cargo ship crashed into it.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled
Imagine your boss, Mark Zuckerberg, sending you a stern email. Yikes.
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Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attends the drivers meeting prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 19, 2024 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attends the drivers meeting prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 19, 2024 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Gizmodo : Politics

Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a company that tracks congressional investments. Among the 352 members of the House…

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