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I sat on a cheap gaming chair for years and, as someone who works in front of a computer all day, it was a big mistake. My back hurt often, and those foam chairs trap so much heat that … well, you know. Sweat. In 2020, I waded into the world of office chairs and bought a Herman Miller Embody—going …

Luke Little / Android Authority Corsair isn’t holding back when it comes to Prime Day. On the second and final day of the Amazon sales event, you still have time to save as much as 37% on some of the best gaming gear on the market. Whether you’re looking to complement your battle station with a new gaming mouse, keyboard, …

Richard MacManus / The New Stack: A look at Meta’s plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, what makes ActivityPub attractive, and the technical challenges and social pressure Meta will face  —  From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta’s Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn’t the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone.

Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the volume of attacks fell in 2022. But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again. Data from cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis indicates that victims have paid ransomware groups $449.1 million in the first …

TL;DR The HONOR Magic V2 has been launched in China. HONOR says it’s the world’s thinnest foldable at 9.9mm thick when folded. We’re expecting a global launch later this year. HONOR is no stranger to foldable phones, launching the China-only Magic V in January 2022 before bringing the Magic Vs to global markets back in February. Now, the company has …

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Adobe: US customers spent $6.4B on Amazon during Prime Day’s first 24 hours, up 6% YoY but below estimates; Numerator: average orders were up 7% YoY to $56.64  —  US consumers spent $6.4 billion online in the first 24 hours of Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Day, according to Adobe Inc. That’s up 6% …

More than a decade ago, Steve Jobs likened the computer to a truck, suitable for the heavy lifting of serious work and intensive tasks. It holds true, even in 2023. Most of us who work at an office for a living still need the computer’s keyboard and multitasking abilities. If you’re ready for a new laptop or a few upgrades …

When we — Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac, both longtime tech journalists — got an assignment from our editor last week to review Threads, the new social network from Meta, it was like a blast from the past. Both of us have written about social networks for over a dozen years. In the last half dozen of those years, …

With the durability question more or less answered, foldable phones have set their sights on a familiar new frontier: thinness. Normally, making a phone thinner and thinner means less available space for big batteries, worse thermal performance, less impressive cameras, and an overall flimsier device. With the HONOR Magic V2 Ultimate, HONOR is tackling all of these problems at once. …

Ercan Ersoy / Bloomberg: Banking and insurance startup Papara became Turkey’s first fintech unicorn after its Beka Finance deal; startups.watch: Turkish startups raised $111M in H1 2023  —  Turkey’s Papara became the country’s first fintech firm to reach unicorn status following a recent deal with Spain’s Beka Finance SV SA.