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DC is relaunching its mobile app to focus on comics

DC is shaking up its comics app on January 21st and relaunching it as DC Universe Infinite. The original DC Universe featured television shows and comics, but now that DC shows have moved to HBO Max, the company has decided to refocus the app on comics and the “fan community,” while keeping the same $7.99-a-month… Read more

Biden plans Inauguration Day Snapchat filter alongside locked-down live event

With an ongoing pandemic and an unprecedented lockdown of the nation’s capital, Joe Biden’s inauguration will look different from those that came before it. The Biden inaugural committee has already planned a week of extensive televised events — like live performances from Lady Gaga and Fall Out Boy — but to try to recreate the… Read more

Asus presents ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000, Wi-Fi 6E routers arrive

The routers that adhere to the WiFi standard 6E can also take advantage of the 6 GHz band, as well as the 5 and 2.4 GHz ones. This allows you to have up to 7 extra channels from 160 MHz and greatly expanded device functions. by Rosario Grasso published 11 January 2021 , at 12:… Read more

Intel is discontinuing pure Optane memory drives for end customers

Intel has informed its customers via Product Change Notification (PCN) that most of the SSDs for end customers will be discontinued with Optane memory. This concerns the Optane 905 P, Optane 900 P and the hybrids of Optane Memory and classic NAND the Optane H 10. Intel takes the last orders in mid-January. Only the… Read more

GitHub admits ‘significant mistakes were made’ in firing of Jewish employee

GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back. The news comes after the company hired an independent law firm to investigate the termination, and found that “significant mistakes were made.” The company’s head of HR, Carrie Olesen, is also resigning. “Yesterday evening, the investigation reached… Read more

Corsair CX650F RGB in the test – good all-round power supply with ARGB interface

Page 1: Corsair CX 648 F RGB in the test – good all-round power supply with ARGB interface Corsair has with the CX-F RGB Series recently added an interesting range of mid-range power supplies that can come up with RGB lighting for the fan. That doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but the RGB lighting can not… Read more

Unlike Airbnb, VRBO reportedly won’t cancel reservations in DC during inauguration week

Short-term rental site VRBO does not plan to cancel reservations in the DC area during the inauguration next week, even though competitor Airbnb has already done so. First reported by BuzzFeed News, VRBO said in a blog post Friday afternoon that it was “encouraging hosts to cancel bookings during this time,” if they believed a… Read more

Facebook is blocking events near the White House through Inauguration Day

Facebook won’t let people create events that take place “in close proximity” to the White House, the US Capitol building, or any state capitol buildings through Inauguration Day, the company announced on Friday. The move builds upon Facebook’s previously announced Inauguration Day preparations aiming to prevent the platform from being used to organize a violent… Read more

GitHub still won’t explain if it fired someone for saying ‘Nazi,’ and employees are pissed

GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, DC to stay safe from Nazis. The employee was chastised for using divisive language, according to news first reported by Business Insider. Now, GitHub workers are saying “Nazi” repeatedly in Slack, in regards… Read more

iDSD Diablo is iFi’s new flagship portable DAC/headphone amp

Home News (Image credit: iFi) iFi is kicking off 2021 with the self-proclaimed best battery-powered DAC/headphone amp it has ever produced – the iDSD Diablo. Engineered to sit proudly at the top of iFi’s range of mobile and transportable devices, the Diablo is, says the firm, built for purists. Similar in size to other amps… Read more

Bumble disables politics filter after Capitol rioters spotted in app

Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature which allowed users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings, the service has announced. The feature allows users to identify and filter matches with options such as “Apolitical,” “Moderate,” “Liberal,” and “Conservative.” In a statement given to Mashable, Bumble said it had temporarily removed the… Read more

Internet of Things: HiveMQ 4.5 rewrites Kafka

The German company HiveMQ has released version 4.5 of the MQTT broker of the same name. A major focus for the release is on performance optimization. On the technical side, a Kafka-to-MQTT transformer and the expandable REST API are worth mentioning. The current version is an LTS release that will receive guaranteed support until January… Read more

Instacart will give shoppers $25 when they take time off to get the coronavirus vaccine

Instacart will give its shoppers — the workers who pick and fill grocery store orders for customers — a $25 stipend for the time they take off to get a coronavirus vaccine, the company announced Thursday. Beginning February 1st, any full-service Instacart shopper in North America who has shopped at least five batches — which… Read more

Brief information: CES, environmental protection, Ubiquiti, Twitter

CES 2021: More chance than crisis The US electronics industry is starting the new year with some confidence despite the corona crisis. Because of the pandemic, consumers at home are particularly reliant on technology to cope with everyday work, education and entertainment, said the industry association Consumer Technology Association (CTA). “The pandemic has pressed the… Read more

GM unveils electric delivery van with 250 miles of range as part of new spinoff business

General Motors announced Tuesday it will be spinning out a new delivery and logistics business called BrightDrop, the first products of which will be an electrified pallet and delivery van. Both vehicles, which will be powered by GM’s Ultium battery platform, are slated for release this year. The announcement of the new logistics business comes… Read more