On Thursday, Samsung announced plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.”
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Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote
Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees.
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Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits
Joe Biden’s administration made its first move on gun control on Thursday, issuing executive actions for the Department of Justice to develop rules regarding so-called “ghost guns” and attachments that turn high-powered pistols into rifles, as well as write model legislation to keep volatile individuals away from…
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MacBook and iPad Production Reportedly Hit by Component Shortage
MacBook and iPad production have reportedly been impacted by an electronics component shortage.

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The Best Office Chairs Under $300, According To Our Readers
Top Pick: Nouhaus ErgoFlip | $230 | Amazon
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Pinterest Makes Moves to Be the Least Hellacious Hellhole Online
You might not think of Pinterest as being as creator-driven as some of its contemporaries, but that’s an image the company clearly wants to change. This week, the company rolled out a buffet of new creator-focused features in the moderation space, with a focus on playing nice.
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Scientists Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Natural Cyan-Blue Food Coloring
Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant that could eventually replace synthetic versions.

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Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users
Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on…
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11 Apple Watch Apps You Need to Install ASAP
If you’ve finally splurged on a brand new Apple Watch (or been the lucky recipient of a very nice gift), you’re probably wondering: Now what? The Apple Watch comes with plenty of great built-in features, but you should hit the watch’s App Store to find third-party options that can make the device even more useful.

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Goodbye, Asteroid Bennu, It's Been Real
Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the asteroid Bennu for the last time, ending its two-and-a-half-year relationship with the space rock. But OSIRIS-REx is still lingering in the asteroid’s vicinity, as if hesitant to embark on its roughly 200-million-mile return to Earth. That trip will begin in early…
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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year
Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows.
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There's Now a Tiny Washing Machine to Clean Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds
If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside them and yet too disgusted to clean them at home, you better believe there’s a Kickstarter product to solve that. Imagine a washing machine miniaturized to sit on a desk that cleans earbuds instead of clothing.…
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Spider-Man Movies Will Stream on Netflix First Thanks to New Sony Deal
For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. Warner Bros. has one strategy, Disney another, and Paramount yet another. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix.
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The 10 Best Deals of April 8, 2021
Thursday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals

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Brazil's President Mocks Claims He's 'Genocidal' While Doing Nothing About Covid-19 Killing 4,000 People a Day
Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, but the country’s sweaty, fashy president, Jair Bolsonaro, refuses to do jack shit about it.

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New Beginnings: The Sobering Journey To Restore My Game Boy Micro
We all have our coping mechanisms. Last summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mine was reliving my childhood by purchasing old models from Nintendo’s long-retired Game Boy lineup. While I’m not a particularly nostalgic person—hell, I didn’t even grow up with half the consoles I’ve collected over the…
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This $47,500 Watch Contains a Tiny Moon
Lunaphiles, rejoice! Arnold & Son, a luxury watchmaker that traces its origins back to the creator of the first ship’s clock, has released a unique watch that shows the phases of the moon in a unique way. The trick? They almost magically rotate a marble-sized moon right inside the movement, something that only a few…
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General Grievous' Clone Wars Debut Remains a Masterclass—But Not for the Reason You Think
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars Clone Wars micro-series is remembered—deified even—for its action. It is all killer, no filler: the dialogue is spartan, its themes layered but simple. This is Star Wars and you are here for tight, explosive, bombastic action unlike anything the franchise had dared to dream of before,…
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Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism, and, of course, our powerful brains. But it turns out that our cognitive ability didn’t evolve as early as previously thought, according to new research by an international team of researchers.

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Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam
For anyone who doesn’t think a year spent trying to work and socialize through video calls could get any worse, behold the Eyecam: an anthropomorphic robotic webcam designed to look like a human eyeball that even blinks and looks around the room. Maybe telephone calls and email weren’t so bad after all?
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Spotify Will Use Your Voice To Pummel You With Ads
For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make acquisition after acquisition and product update after product update in order to establish a foothold in the ad-targeting space. Now, the company’s embarking on a new dataset for this purpose: your voice.
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Voyagers' Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar
Voyagers, the new sci-fi film from writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent), begins with an interesting twist on a tried and true premise: Earth is screwed. Disease, climate change, and more have doomed humanity unless it can find a new home. Which, luckily, it does. The problem is it’ll take 86 years to travel there.
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Lenovo's Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today
While I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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Methane Has Never Risen This Fast in the Atmosphere
There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began—and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time.
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Well Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
We’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning photo showing two vehicles—the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter—in a single shot.
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