How to secure your phone before attending a protest

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How to secure your phone before attending a protest Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. It was revised two years later when people were taking to the streets to protest the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade (and we

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Apple is fixing a voice dictation bug that substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘racist’

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Apple is fixing a voice dictation bug that substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘racist’ Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that briefly displays “Trump” when someone says the word “racist.” The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a video demonstrating the strange substitution went viral on TikTok and other social media. The company provided…

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We finally know who’s legally running DOGE

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We finally know who’s legally running DOGE The White House has named Amy Gleason as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The news, delivered by an unnamed White House official to CNBC and other media outlets, follows days of obfuscation in courtrooms, the press, and the pseudo-department itself. It designates Gleason a likely target for the nigh-con…

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Samsung’s first Pro series Gen 5 PCIe SSD arrives in March

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Samsung’s first Pro series Gen 5 PCIe SSD arrives in March The first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from the likes of Seagate and Crucial began hitting the market nearly two years ago, but Samsung has been notably absent with its own model. That will change in March with the arrival of the Samsung 9100 Pro series, its first consumer-ready pure PCIe Gen 5 SSD built with

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Razer’s new Blade 18 offers Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and a dual mode display

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Razer’s new Blade 18 offers Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and a dual mode display Razer is adding a fresh gaming laptop to the pile of new models up for preorder today: the Blade 18. Like its smaller (but far from small) Blade 16 cousin, the new Razer Blade 18 will come with Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. But one major way it differs is its

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‘We’re nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16’ says Framework CEO

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‘We’re nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16’ says Framework CEO Two years ago, the last time Framework had an event in San Francisco, California, the highlight was the Framework Laptop 16 — a laptop promising the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics cards, and easily one of the most ambitious laptops ever made. But today, the Framework Laptop 16 got little mention at its new event,

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