Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious inconvenience to those cut off from these services, […]
Enlarge (credit: Ron Amadeo) The latest smartphone OEM to be caught playing games with device power is OnePlus. Depending on who you want to believe, the company is either benchmark cheating or “optimizing performance.” But everyone—OnePlus included—seems to agree that OnePlus is taking control of app performance out of the hands of users and deciding […]
Enlarge (credit: MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images ) Is it safe to open schools? From the moment it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic had set up shop in the US, answers to that question have been scrutinized, analyzed, and even politicized. Lost in all of this is the realization that it’s a terrible […]