Robinhood has a glitch that’s letting users borrow far more than they should
A glitch in the stock trading app Robinhood is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, and the company doesn’t appear to have found a fix as of…
A glitch in the stock trading app Robinhood is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, and the company doesn’t appear to have found a fix as of…
The goal of Project Silica, which began in 2016, is to create a solution ideal for cold storage -- data that needs to be stored but rarely accessed for long periods of time. Archived master copies of films are usually only taken out of storage for remastering projects. Between their infrequent use and the volatility…
The rumors were true: Facebook has decided that a rebranding is in order. The company has introduced a new corporate logo and brand strategy that it hopes will more clearly distinguish Facebook the company and its individual apps. There's not much to say about the logo in question, as it's just "Facebook" written in a…
The company's newly unveiled Office app is an attempt to put everything you might need in one place. Instead of grabbing separate apps for Word, Excel and Powerpoint (aka the Office Triforce), today's public preview puts them all together.The app also includes a new Actions pane that should be especially effective for document editing on-the-go.…
Jabra Elite 65t ActiveJabra's Elite 65t earbuds are a long-running favorite here at Engadget. The Active update added some elemental protection to the mix, with an IP56 water resistance rating to ensure it withstand a little sweat. (There's a two-year warranty included, too.)While recent models have supplanted these buds as the best overall true wireless…
To work around this, companies have had to get creative. The biggest advances have all come from ways to stack or combine multiple images in the phone. Depending on how many images are stacked, and how clever the algorithms, this technique can be used to reduce noise, boost the tonal range, take clear shots in…
In the 15 years since Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, the platform has undergone more than a few costume changes. It’s grown from dorm room hijinks to measure the relative hotness of Harvard undergraduates to the online pulpit of American politics. When Facebook filed to go public in 2012, Zuckerberg explained that Facebook was never meant…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey engaged in a bit of cross-platform trolling last week, announcing that his company would ban political advertising from the platform, and adding a snarky subtweet aimed at Facebook’s stated policy of tolerance for paid political misinformation. Yet there’s something very strange about the centrality of paid ads in our ongoing debate…
In the spring of last year, cybersecurity researcher Takeshi Sugawara walked into the lab of Kevin Fu, a professor he was visiting at the University of Michigan. He wanted to show off a strange trick he'd discovered. Sugawara pointed a high-powered laser at the microphone of his iPad—all inside of a black metal box, to…
Happy Monday, welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s pop-culture news roundup. What’s happening today? Well, we have good news and bad news. We’ll start with the good news, which is sure to make your spidey senses tingle. Let’s get going!Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Is Getting a SequelFirst off, here’s some news pretty much…