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COVID-19 Has Caused an ‘Explosion’ of Plastic Pollution
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge amount of new plastic pollution, says the charity Surfers Against Sewage. Apparently, we’ve all gone back to single-use plastic in droves, and some inconsiderate gits are leaving it on the beach or throwing it into rivers, alongside their used face masks. Lovely. Starting this month, the charity will…
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Facebook Says Apple’s iOS Changes Could Cut its Ad Revenue in Half
Apple has made some changes to the upcoming version of iOS, iOS 14, that Facebook says will lose it a tonne of money. Tiny violins at the ready, everyone. The changes mean that users will be outright asked if an app can collect and share their data. This means those ads that follow you around…
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Braille Lego Bricks are Finally Launching
The ingenious idea of using the studs on top of Lego bricks to spell out words in braille has been around for some years now, originally spearheaded by ad agency Lew’LaraTBWA for the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil. Lego finally announced early last year that it’d be making its own official set (while acknowledging the original…
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Sounds Like the Samsung Galaxy S30 Will Be Missing One Big Camera Feature
Now that Galaxy Unpacked has finally been and gone, we thought we’d get a breather from Samsung leaks for a bit. But no! For this is Hell Year, and in Hell Year all things are terrible (except cats). The usual “people familiar with the matter” have been talking about what we might expect to see…