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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has blocked several hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, but won’t be removing the videos using the hashtags from its platform, the BBC reported. The video sharing app has blocked the terms “QAnon,” “QAnonTruth” and the related phrase “Out of Shadows,” which are used by QAnon believers.But as the BBC reports, the QAnon videos themselves could still appear among TikTok’s For You suggestions

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has blocked several hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, but won’t be removing the videos using the hashtags from its platform, the BBC reported. The video sharing app has blocked the terms “QAnon,” “QAnonTruth” and the related phrase “Out of Shadows,” which are used by QAnon believers.But as the BBC reports, the QAnon videos themselves could still appear among TikTok’s For You suggestions

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple manufacturer Foxconn has started building iPhone 11 units in a facility near Chennai in India, TechCrunch reported, the first time Apple has made one of its top-tier phones in that country.Apple has manufactured lower-priced iPhone models in India since 2017, and reportedly has been considering moving production of its more premium models there for some time.India was the second-biggest smartphone market in the world in 2019, ahead of the US and

In a free-wheeling interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his Twitter direct messages are mostly made up of memes, and he isn’t overly worried about them being hacked.Musk’s was one of more than 100 high-profile Twitter accounts compromised as part of a July 15th Bitcoin scam. The company has said the attackers may have downloaded the private direct messages and personal information of some people in the process, although Twitter said none of t

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The easy startup ideas have all been done — the ones that just required some homebrew hardware hacking or PHP dorm-room coding to get off the ground. These days, you might need multiple advanced technical degrees to accomplish something significant. At least that’s what Danny Crichton muses grimly this week, in an essay entitl

Rebecca Jones, of London, recently pulled up Amazon.co.uk to search for a phone adapter. She was reading through the reviews for one she was considering buying, when suddenly she started noticing mentions of what a great taco holder the product was. “The taco holder got great reviews, but there wasn’t much for my phone adapter,” said Jones by email. “You do sometimes see reviews for slightly different items appear on a listing, but this was definitely a new one for me.&r

Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images With Major League Baseball’s season shortened to just 60 games this year, Amazon won’t be broadcasting any New York Yankees games this season, Bloomberg reported.Amazon was slated to stream 21 Yankees games beginning April 17th with several high-profile games —including three against the Boston Red Sox— on the list. Amazon Prime members in New York state, northeast Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and central New Jersey would have been able to st

An ongoing global outage at sport and fitness tech giant Garminwas caused by a ransomware attack, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident.
The incident began late Wednesday and continued through the weekend, causing disruption to the company’s online services for millions of users, including Garmin Connect, which syncs user activity and data to the cloud and other devices. The attack also took down flyGarmin, its aviation navigation and route-planning service.
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 app has arrived in the Play Store, and a look at its features shows new gestures to silence alarms, take a picture, or answer an incoming call, 9to5Google reported (via XDA Developers)Rotating your wrist while wearing the watch will allow you to mute alarms as well as incoming calls, and clenching and unclenching your fist will answer a call. To take a photo or video with the Camera Controller app, make a fist, then open your ha

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A congressional hearing with the chief executives of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple has been rescheduled for noon Eastern time on Wednesday. Originally scheduled for Monday, the hearing was bumped back a few days to allow members of Congress to pay respectsto the late Rep. John Lewis, who died July 17th. Lewis will lie in state at the US Capitol next week.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pi

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $54

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The coronavirus pandemic has led to significant disruption to school education in England. Teachers have made a concerted effort to use digital technology and remote teaching and learning to lessen the impact of this disruption on their students. However, thanks to a decade of unambitious government policy, many have faced an uphill struggle. A general lack of preparedness for digital technology in England has left many children without the tools they need to access and benefit from remote lear

Test tubes filled with blood samples, awaiting antibody tests in Amsterdam in July | Photo by Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On January 8th, I asked The Verge’s science team to keep an eye on early reports of a new virus that had recently emerged in China. When I dropped an article about that new virus from The Washington Post in Slack, someone joked that 2020 was off to a strong start, clearly jinxing the entire year for the rest of humanity. Whoops.Jokes aside, t

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the latest instance of iOS 14’s beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior, some users reported that they were seeing the green “camera on” indicator while using Instagram when they were just scrolling through their feeds, not taking a photo or video.Casually browsing Instagram when suddenly the new iOS 14 camera/microphone indicator comes on. Then control panel ratted out the app behind it. This is going to change things. #iOS14 p

Baseball is back. But the MLB will look a little different in the COVID-19 world, with empty stadiums full of silent cardboard cutouts instead of thousands of screaming fans in an effort to avoid spreading the virus. That is unless you’re watching on Fox Sports. Starting this weekend, the network will not only be piping in fake fan audio, but it’ll also be filling the stands with digitally rendered fans for its MLB broadcasts, starting with this Saturday’s Yankees-Nationals gam

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TLDR: The training in The Ultimate Data and Project Management Certification Bundle helps you understand the process and tools driving data analytics and project tracking. It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia of your day to day business. In fact, it’s probably not uncommon for you to realize that most of your day was spent dealing with in-the-moment hassles and today’s latest crisis while the big picture issues that could shape the course of your company and your future

If you’ve ever wanted to build a real and working Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft, now is the time. A new VM Computers mod has been created for Minecraft that allows players to order computer parts from a satellite orbiting around a Minecraft world and build a computer that actually boots Windows 95 and a variety of other operating systems.
The mod uses VirtualBox, free and open-source virtual machine software, to run operating systems like Windows 95. Within Minecraft you simply place a PC

Destructuring is one of my favorite tools in JavaScript, in simple terms, destructuring allows you to break down a complex structure (like an array or an object) into simpler parts, though there’s a bit more to it than that. Let’s see it better in an example: Now, some people have been using this feature for some time, perhaps while building React apps, but they don’t quite understand it, for others it may be the first time. So I’ll guide you from the start so that by th

TL;DR: As of July 25, you can take half off a lifetime subscription to QLango Language Games — dropping the price to just $44.99.Now, more than ever, people who want to learn a new language are turning to their mobile devices for help. Because yes, there's an app for that. In fact, there's an overwhelming number of apps for that. But if you're looking for one that really shakes up the learning experience in an exciting way, check out QLango Language Games. 
QLango has earned 4.4 out o

All Android smartphones come bundled with earphones for you to get listening to your favorite music or podcasts immediately, but they're rarely a great set of earphones. It's a better idea to purchase a separate pair of headphones or earphones that suit your needs, providing you know what to look for.
First of all, consider when you're going to be using your headphones most often. Do you want to block out background noise while you're on your daily commute? Do you want a pair that are great whil

Many adults have security blankets. They just come in the form of the absolute need to sleep under a comforter or a sheet, even on nights when it's hotter than the kitchen on Chopped. 
The explanation is similar to the science behind weighted blankets: Blankets are associated with higher levels of serotonin and dopamine. Feeling even the slightest bit bundled can cause deep pressure stimulation, which helps to regulate your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems (the things in char

You and the kiddos have already put together and taken apart every puzzle you own more than once and you've stepped on so many LEGOs you're ready to toss them in the trash. What's next for your stay-at-home 2020 lifestyle? 
Since bikes are sold out almost everywhere and it's approximately one million degrees in many parts of the country, maybe opt for something like these Arckit Model Building Kits. Dubbed as the "architect's LEGO," these model kits will let you build anything from football

TL;DR: Switch up your desk accessories with a Planetary System Set for $109.95, a 14% savings as of July 25.Let's face it: sometimes work is boring. You often find yourself daydreaming (about literally anything else) during your Zoom calls, or thinking about what you'll have for dinner while writing up an important email, or even longing to explore bigger things – like the unknown reaches of space – while your boss is going over this quarter's data. 
We get it. Sometimes you nee

TL;DR: Improve your skills with The Ultimate Data and Project Management Certification Bundle for $39.99, a 98% savings as of July 25.While everyone else is sitting around complaining about the current state of affairs on Twitter or making up silly dances on TikTok, you could be using this time to get ahead. In your career, we mean. 
Staying home means you have a lot of free time on your hands, and you have the choice of how you want to spend that time. If you're looking to make some moves

With all the extra time at home these days, growing your dream garden doesn't have to be off the table. After all, it's 2020. There are grow kits, planters, and even classes like The Combined Urban and Zen Gardening Mastery Bundle that can provide you with the tools you need to become a master planter. Take notes and order what you need below. 
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On March 23, 2020, jury trials in England and Wales were suspended in response to COVID-19. This was done to protect public safety as social distancing measures were difficult to implement in courtrooms. Since then, several proposals, such as remote trials, have been put forward to address how jury trials might continue, and how to tackle the backlog of crown court cases which currently stands at over 40,500. Jury trials are used in the most serious criminal cases and are generally seen as fair

TL;DR: The Complete Guide to Puppy and Dog Training bundle is on sale for £23.57 as of July 25, saving you 97% on list price.Remember March? Although it feels like a lifetime ago, it has somehow only been four months. That's when we all started realising just what lockdown really meant: loneliness. As a result, pet adoption inquiries boomed and many centres actually ran out of adoptable animals. Seriously. It was the feel-good pandemic story we all needed.
If you're one of those new pet ow

TL;DR: The Build a Battle Royale with Unity and Blender course is on sale for £11.85 as of July 25, saving you 92% on list price.Last year alone, the larger-than-life battle royale video game Fortnite reeled in over £3 billion. It's unsurprising, as its unique and addictive gaming style appeals to people from all walks of life.
Fortnite isn't the only one either. Games like PUBG and Call of Duty are also massively popular. These games are only going to bring in more money as everyone

When a deranged conspiracy theory with potential for real-world harm rears its head on your viral-video platform, it's time to take action. Or if you're TikTok, sorta kinda take a baby step towards curbing its influence. 
Late Friday TikTok confirmed to Rolling Stone that it would stop returning search results for QAnon-related words and phrases. Notably, TikTok is still allowing hashtags associated with the "deep state"-obsessed fiction on its platform. The phrases aren't banned, and neith

Image: WalkingCat on Twitter Earlier this week, we got our first look at what appeared to be a new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset thanks to an apparent marketing image shared on Twitter. Since then, more images — including ones of the device in the wild, and a rumored release date — have appeared online, indicating the headset could launch soon.The new images posted on Friday reinforce that this new Quest may look pretty similar to its successor but could come in a black-and-w

Have you ever wondered how those photos of missing children, aged-up to show what they’d look like today, are made? These images are often the work of multiple skilled forensic artists, who create them by hand with the assistance of Adobe. To date, they’ve helped hundreds of children be found. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is one of the most well-known organizations dedicated to helping find missing children. If you’ve ever seen a pos

Welcome back to Tech at Work, a bi-weekly roundup and analysis of labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. 
This week, we’re looking at Uber’s anti-racism commitment, Shipt shoppers walking off the job, Facebook’s diversity report and Black gig workers organizing against tech companies. Also, hear from CODE2040 CEO Karla Monterroso on tech’s response to the recent racial justice uprising in the U.S.
“There are a lot of really well-intentioned people, but the

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Many iPhone and iPad models let you unlock your device with your face using Face ID, but on a Mac, you still need to type in your password, set up your Apple Watch to auto unlock your Mac, or, depending on what model of Mac you have, use your fingerprint with Touch ID. But code reportedly discovered in the latest beta of macOS Big Sur by 9to5Mac suggests that Face ID could be coming to Macs at some point in the future, too.
The code in the beta apparently refere