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According to reporting by TechCrunch and others, Threads is tapping into one of Blueskys best new features: starter packs of people to follow. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag (!), posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. You can see an early version of the tool by pasting installedbarcelona://recommended_follow_lists into Safari on iOS if you have the latest Threads app. The version likely coming to Threads should work like Blueskys version. The lists of users are handpicked by people on Threads and can be about pretty much anything. (Engadget has its own starter pack with many of its writers and editors follow along!) Threads has pulled in several Bluesky features this year. The platform recently rolled out custom feeds and the ability to change the default feed to people you follow. Mat Smith Get this delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The biggest tech stories you missed Steams Autumn Sale has deep discounts on Steam Decks and select games Shuhei Yoshida is leaving PlayStation in January after three decades The 50 Black Friday tech deals worth shopping right now Bluesky has a verification problem The company is trying to verify more accounts, but its approach is flawed. Bluesky has its own problems. As the upstart social media service surges, the platform is facing some growing pains, like a wave of scammers and impersonators. Unlike many of its rivals, which offer checkmarks and official badges to government officials, celebrities and other high-profile accounts, Bluesky has a more hands-off approach to verification. The company encourages users to have a custom domain name as their handle to self-verify. Engadget currently has the Bluesky handle engadget.bsky.social. But if we wanted to verify our account, we could change it to Engadget.com. Its more complicated than just switching your handle, demanding a string of text to the DNS record associated with the domain. Its all manual and complicated. Continue reading. Investigators say Chinese ship deliberately dragged anchor to cut undersea cables Russian intelligence is suspected to be behind the operation. European investigators believe a Chinese-owned commercial ship deliberately dragged its anchor to sabotage the two undersea telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea earlier this month. However, Western law enforcement and intelligence officials dont believe the Chinese government was involved the probe is focusing on whether Russian intelligence persuaded the vessels captain to drop anchor. Continue reading. Casetify's latest AirPods case is a giant Gundam head If your giant robot tastes are a little more retro than Evangelion. Casetify Sure, there are cases and lanyards and MagSafe chargers, but lets be real: Its all about this giant pointy Gundam head case for AirPods. Continue reading. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-121931628.html?src=rss
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The Federal Trade Commission has put Uber in its sights once again. Bloomberg reported that the regulator is investigating complaints about the Uber One subscription program. Customers alleged that the company signed users up for the service without their consent and made it difficult to cancel their subscriptions. According to documents seen by Bloomberg, the Commission opened this inquiry earlier this year. "We will continue to answer any questions the FTC may have about our cancellation policies, Uber representative Noah Edwardsen told the publication. "The Uber One cancellation process follows both the letter and the spirit of the law: Uber One members can easily cancel their membership in the app in fact, the majority of those cancellations take 20 seconds or less." Earlier in 2024, the FTC ratified a "click to cancel" rule that requires companies make it as easy to end a subscription as it is to start one. The regulator sued Amazon and Adobe for similar claims around their subscription products within the past year. This also isn't the first time the FTC has examined the rideshare company. Uber agreed to a settlement with the agency in 2017 around questions of exaggerating driver income to encourage recruitment. In 2018, the company also reached an accord around a data breach and misconduct in trying to cover up the scope of the problem.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/the-ftc-is-investigating-uber-for-its-subscription-policies-232453366.html?src=rss
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A bathing innovation from the 1970 Osaka World Expo is making a comeback, reimagined for the digital age. Science Co., Ltd. has unveiled the Future Human Washing Machine, an automated bathing system that will debut at the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025. Unlike its predecessor, the Ultrasonic Bath displayed in Sanyos pavilion over 50 years ago, this next-generation device aims to revive body and mind through an intricate combination of sensors and environmental controls.The machine monitors a users heart rate and other vitals throughout the bathing experience, using the data to control water flow and select visuals projected inside the space. Science Co., Ltd. claims the optimized environment allows people to emerge feeling revived and rejuvenated. Its development team includes Eiji Yamaya, one of the original Ultrasonic Bath engineers.While the original 1970s concept never achieved widespread adoption, its fine bubble technology made its way into showerheads sold by Science Co., Ltd. Beyond next years expo, the Future Human Washing Machine could deliver real value to understaffed care facilities, where time for assisted bathing is frequently under pressure. Given the choice, patients might welcome a gentle and unrushed cleansing experience provided by an automated tub.
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