Twitter Circle is now available to everyone: Here’s what it does and how to use it

Twitter has announced that as of today, all users now have access to Twitter Circle. The feature first debuted to a limited number of users in May, but now anyone with an account can create a Circle.

Twitter Circles are essentially a group of a user’s most trusted followers. The user gets to decide which followers get let into their Circle. When a user marks a tweet for their Circle, none of the user’s other followers outside the circle can see the tweet, and any replies

Homomorphic encryption could revolutionize data privacy—so what is it?

You want to take a DNA test to get a genomic health report, but there’s a problem: you don’t feel comfortable just handing over all your health and genomic data to that big biotech company. As an analogy, you might think of your data like gold, and the company like a jeweler. The jeweler will make you a gold necklace—produce your genomic health report—but you might not notice if the jeweler also takes a bit of gold themselves, or

Comcast and Charter face a grim new reality: Actual competition

For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting: Charge a steep price on home internet service, and enjoy soaring profits thanks to little or no competition.

That strategy may now be in jeopardy. Comcast’s internet subscriber growth was essentially flat last quarter, while Charter

The 3 secrets of buying a great Windows laptop at the right price

Even if I had no concept of how calendars work, I would know it’s back-to-school season right now. That’s because friends, family, and people I haven’t heard from in ages have all been coming out of the woodwork to ask about laptops.

I don’t mind. As a reasonably technical person with almost zero noteworthy skills or abilities outside the world of technology, it’s the very least I could do to give back.

Now, the interesting thing about people a

Notion overhauls search and document sharing to attract bigger teams

Notion has just launched a handful of new features for its modern document editor, all of which are aimed at bringing onboard bigger businesses.

The update includes a long-overdue overhaul to document search, along with a new sharing function called “Teamspaces” that gives organizations more control over who sees what. Notion’s also adding new access controls for IT managers, such as the ability to re-assign content when an employee leaves the company.

As a

NASA’s Space Launch System—whenever it comes—will mark the end of an era for U.S. spaceflight

After a scrub Monday of the first flight of its massive Space Launch System rocket, NASA will regroup and aim to do something it last accomplished in 1981: inaugurate a rocket built to its design to

Used Teslas are in high demand—but selling them can be complicated

Few companies, much less automotive companies, have a following quite as loyal as Tesla.

The sometimes cult-like devotion of buyers has created a market in which they will happily wait months to spend between $70,000 and $135,000 on a new vehicle and pay staggering amounts for a used one. But for people looking to sell their Teslas,

Misinformation played a deadly role in both the COVID and HIV/AIDS pandemics

Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may have

Why economic downturns are the ideal moments to take a risk

I have uncanny timing in switching industries right before a crisis. Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned that careers are like

4 easy ways to make your rental home smarter

Landlords, eh? All you want to do is bring your rented home into the modern era, but these property-owning party poopers won’t let you replace your locks, upgrade your light switches, or even tear out those 1950s wall sockets. They give you some nonsense about liability, about how your lease forbids you from rewiring things, and how they really don’t want you attacking anything with a screwdriver. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to add some


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