Cloudflare Says It Never Meant To Block LGBTQ Sites

Cloudflare’s traffic-filtering Gateway service is meant to protect browsers from accessing malware-ridden sites or obvious scams. Until this week, it also let customers filter out sites hosting queer content—a feature the company blamed on one of its third-party partners.

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Who Has the World's Greatest Geek Acting Career?

A lot of actors have taken on multiple roles in genre projects—sci-fi, fantasy, horror—but one stands out as possibly the most prolific in this particular area. Which actor has had the most work in geekdom? io9 is here to offer evidence that it’s one Ralph Ineson.

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Android 12 Preview: A Phone That's Perfectly Customized to You

Android 12 is bringing a new design called Material You, and it’s the most significant design change to Android since Google introduced the original Material Design in 2014.

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As F-150 Lightning reservations climb, Ford tackles the big EV bottleneck

Ford has taken more than 44,500 reservations for its F-150 Lightning pickup, though while production isn’t set to begin until 2022 the automaker is already taking steps to ensure battery supply keeps up with EV truck demand. The all-electric version of the F-150 opened up for reservations earlier this week, with would-be owners staking a place in line with a … Continue reading

No quantity of alcohol is safe when it comes to protecting your brain

When it comes to brain health, a new study from the University of Oxford has found that there’s no such thing as a safe amount of alcohol consumption. The study joins a growing body of research into alcohol and its potential impact on different aspects of health, some of which have suggested that alcohol intake guidelines may need to be … Continue reading

Microsoft's plan to improve meeting rooms includes larger displays and spatial audio

Microsoft has shared a new video detailing how it sees its Teams software fitting into hybrid work models.

The popemobile is going all-electric thanks to Fisker

The EV maker is building a custom vehicle based on its Ocean SUV.

How Apple built the new iPad Pro's Liquid Retina XDR display

5G. The M1 chipset. Loads of RAM. Thunderbolt support. All of these help make Apple’s new, 12.9-inch iPad Pro an almost startlingly capable tablet, one that seems well-equipped to compete against more traditional laptops. (Well, apart from iPadOS’s limitations, anyway.) But if there’s one area where the iPad Pro clearly outshines the rest of Apple’s portable computers, it’s that screen.

Musician And Pioneering Lesbian Activist Alix Dobkin Dead At 80

Dobkin is known for an iconic 1975 photo where she wears a t-shirt that reads “The Future is Female,”

Construction Halted At Amazon Warehouse After 7 Nooses Found

There is a $100,000 award for information leading to the identification of the culprits.