Utah sues TikTok over child safety issues and its links to China

Utah has sued TikTok over child safety issues and the company's China-based ownership,

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                        Google brings back smart speaker grouping after Sonos lawsuit victory

If you have several Google Nest speakers, Chromecast and smart displays, you can add each of them to several different groups in the Google Home app again. The company implemented changes last month, which would allow certain devices to be added to only one speaker group at a time in response to Sonos' paten

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                        Duolingo's gamified music lessons are launching this fall

Duolingo is launching its new music course sometime this fall. The educational tech company first announced that it was gearing up to add music lessons to its repertoire back in September, promising "hundreds of bite-sized lessons" that can teach you music with the help of over 200 tunes. Duolingo, of course, has turned music learning into a g

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                        The best webcams for 2023

Whether you’re working from home most of the time now or going into the office a few days a week, there’s a good chance you’re using your webcam weekly — if not, daily. Video calls on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other platforms are a standard part of life for many people now, and while built-in cameras on laptops and desktops are getting better, they still can’t hold a candle to external webcams that have higher resolutions, better autofocus and extra features like ligh

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                        Meris MercuryX is a modular reverb pedal for the sonically adventerous

Last year Meris took its digital effects prowess and built a ludicrously powerful guitar pedal, the LVX. Now the company is back with another modular creation, the MercuryX, but instead of delay it's all about epic reverbs.

Like the LVX the MercuryX is buil

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                        California's 'right to repair' bill is now California's 'right to repair' law

California became just the third state in the nation to pass a "right to repair" consumer protection law on Tuesday, following Minnesota and New York, when Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 244. The California Right to Repair bill had

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                        The 35 best Amazon Prime Day deals to shop for right now

Amazon's second Prime Day sale event for 2023 kicked off in the wee hours this morning, and it's turning out to be a great opportunity to shop for your holiday gifts early — or get something for yourself. And if you missed out on any of the deals from Prime Day in July, this year's "

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                        The 32 best Amazon Prime Day deals to shop for right now

Amazon's second Prime Day sale event for 2023 kicked off in the wee hours this morning, and it's turning out to be a great opportunity to shop for your holiday gifts early — or get something for yourself. And if you missed out on any of the deals from Prime Day in July, this year's "

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                        The SEC is said to be investigating a Twitter security flaw from the pre-Musk era

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly looking into how Twitter (now X) handled a security issue in 2018 that led to users' personal information being exposed. The bug allowed people to view email addresses when passwords were reset, potentially exposing user identities, according to

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                        Rocket League will remove player-to-player item trades in December

Rocket League’s player-to-player trading is going away. Developer Psyonix announced Tuesday that peer transactions will be removed from the title on December 5 at 4PM PST. The beloved feature added a game-outside-the-game element as players sought trade partners, often using third-party websites to find suitable swaps. Psyonix says it will consider those sites “fraudulent” moving forward.

Psyonix wrote that the decision was based on parent company Epic

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