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Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts

Mastodon 4.4 is out now, and it brings a bunch of changes for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts. With profiles, you can now feature specific hashtags so that people can see all the posts you’ve tagged with those hashtags, the Mastodon says. Mastodon is also making a […]

El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)

Jack Ryan / Bloomberg:
El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March  —  Tether Holdings SA, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, has its own vault in Switzerland to hold an $8 billion stockpile of gold …

The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025

Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day 2025 is officially underway. If you’re looking to make the most of the four-day shopping extravaganza, we’ve put together a guide to the best Prime Day deals you can get. It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is […]

Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations

Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Teams communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested feature in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded conversations for Teams users to enable. The Microsoft Teams threads integration debuts in the channels section of the app, where it works a little differently […]

Play a fly with a short lifespan and a long bucket list in Time Flies

Time Flies — a game in which players step into the shoes (er, wings?) of a common housefly with a brief lifespan and a long bucket list — finally has a release date. Publisher Panic (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game) and developer Playables (KIDS, Plug & Play) first announced the game during 2022’s Summer Game Fest, […]