Jul 19
Danny Koker is a singer, actor, and car fanatic all at once, so it’s no surprise the star owns a large collection. Here are some of his priciest cars.
Jul 19
Alienware and Dell deliver gaming laptops with new AMD graphics and display tech, like the m17 R5, with a 480Hz display and AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU.
Jul 19
Uber now has to pay an unspecified millions of dollars over allegations it was milking every cent it could from disabled riders who dared take an extra minute or two longer to get inside a car.
Jul 19
Amazon’s long-running campaign against fake reviews just enjoyed some success. TechCrunchreports that Amazon has sued the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups for attempting to coordinate fake reviews in exchange for free products or money. The group operators tried to recruit people in the US, UK, four European countries and Japan. One of the larger examples, Amazon Product Review, tried to avoid detection by “obfuscating” letters in phrases used to detect activity like this. Meta pulled the 43,000-member earlier this year.
The legal action comes after roughly two years of pinpointing rogue Facebook groups. Amazon said it would use info obtained during the discovery process to identify the perpetrators and pull fake reviews stemming from these communities.
Amazon has been suing fake review peddlers since 2015, and ramped up its efforts in recent years. The online shopping giant reported over 1,000 paid review groups to social networks in the first quarter of 2021, or three times the volume it reported a year earlier. The company argued that reports and lawsuits weren’t enough to stop fake reviews, however. It believed that a more permanent solution would involve a stronger “public-private partnership” between online shops, social networks and law enforcement.
Whether or not Amazon can meaningfully deter fake reviews is another matter. This latest bust underscores the scope of the problem — it’s easy to create a social media group that goes undetected for long enough to do significant damage. UK regulators certainly aren’t convinced Amazon is doing enough, and have opened an investigation into the firm’s approach to bogus review content. Amazon is fighting a battle that might be difficult to win under ideal circumstances, and it’s not clear if the company’s existing strategy is effective.
Jul 19
With a net worth of $1.7 billion, it’s no surprise Michael Jordan owns a superyacht. Here are some features of the multimillion-dollar vessel.
Jul 19
The Atari brand recently turned 50 and the latest way that its current owner, Atari Interactive, is marking the occasion is with a Lego kit for its most popular console. The Atari 2600 set will be available on August 1st and it costs $240/€240.
The Atari 2600 debuted in 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (the name was changed in 1982). The Lego kit is based on a four-switch version that arrived in 1980. The set has 2,532 pieces. It includes a moveable joystick that Lego says feels like the original.
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There are cartridges for Asteroids, Adventure and Centipede that you can slot into the main body. There’s a matching buildable mini model for each game and the cartridges can be stored in a holder. Sliding open the front panel reveals a pop-up scene of an ’80s gaming room, which is a fun detail.
Atari is celebrating its milestone in other ways. For one thing, it teamed up with Cariuma for a sneaker collection. This fall, it will release a collection of 90 games from the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, ST, Jaguar and Lynx on the Atari VCS mini PC, modern consoles, Steam and the Epic Games Store.
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Jul 19
If there was any doubt that Lego is leaning hard on nostalgia to empty the pockets of kids who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, its latest video game console recreation is a brick-built Atari 2600 that includes a collection of classic carts and that all important faux wood grain finish.
Jul 19
Finance expert Karen Firestone had an unexpected co-star in her “Squawk Box” interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Jul 19
Foam darts have been Nerf’s mainstay for decades, but in recent years, the company has been expanding to other foam projectiles, like the tiny balls its powerful Rival blasters fire. But today, Hasbro revealed a new twist for Nerf: a blaster that instead fires tiny pre-hydrated super absorbent polymer rounds that…
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