GameStop stock market squeeze attracts attention from Congress

Posted on 29/01/2021 by Engadget

The Senate Committee on Banking will hold a hearing “on the current state of the stock market,” after Reddit’s GameStop squeeze ignited a fiery debate that pitted retail investors against hedge funds.“American workers have known for years the Wall St...

Robinhood hit with class action lawsuit after it restricts GameStop stock

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Engadget

Robinhood can now add a class action lawsuit to its growing list of headaches after it said it would restrict users from trading GameStop and other stocks. A class action lawsuit was filed in New York Thursday, alleging that Robinhood “deprived their...

Discord bans Reddit’s WallStreetBets for hate speech as scrutiny intensifies

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Engadget

Discord has banned the server used by the controversial subreddit r/WallStreetBets for what it says are repeated violations of the company’s hate speech policies. The ban comes as the subreddit’s moderators briefly took the group private, saying they...

Facebook criticized for not doing enough to enforce its Holocaust denial policy

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

Last year, Facebook finally banned Holocaust denial content, after tacitly allowing it to fester on its site for years. And today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the company touted efforts to connect people to “credible information about...

Reddit bans ‘r/donaldtrump’ subreddit for ‘repeated policy violations’

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

Reddit has banned the r/DonaldTrump subreddit. While not directly affiliated with Trump or his campaign, the group is one of the largest communities dedicated to the president. Axios was the first to report on the news. Like Facebook and Twitter did...

A Redditor is squeezing entire movies onto a single floppy disk

Posted on 29/12/2020 by Engadget

Sure, you can have an 8K TV displaying incredible visuals and a top-of-the-line sound system pumping out crystal-clear 22.2 channel audio. But why bother when you can fit an entire movie onto a floppy disk and use a custom VCR to play it?A Redditor n...

FTC demands Amazon, Facebook and others explain their privacy practices

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Engadget

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine social media and video streaming companies to provide details about their privacy practices, including how they collect and use personal information. It has also asked Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance, Disc...

Reddit snaps up TikTok rival Dubsmash

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Engadget

Reddit has acquired short-form video platform and TikTok rival Dubsmash for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced. Dubsmash will keep its current platform and brand, while Reddit will integrate Dubsmash’s video creation tools. “Dubsmash provide...

A Redditor got Stadia to run on an iPhone

Posted on 28/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Although Apple cracked open the door for game streaming services to run on iPhone and iPad earlier this month, you can’t use Stadia, xCloud or GeForce Now on those devices yet. Well, at least not officially.Members of the Stadia subreddit have been t...

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