🎧 Apps and Gadgets to Help You Cope With Tinnitus

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Apps and Gadgets to Help You Cope With Tinnitus

When the house falls silent in the dead of night, or after the kids have gone to school in the morning, I can hear a high-pitched, occasionally oscillating sound. If I focus on it, the noise grows louder and can even keep me awake. (Simon Hill via WIRED)

Andrew @AndrewCrow

I've had tinnitus due to longterm exposure to playing loud music. It sucks. Being in a heavy metal band with long hair and leather pants will do that to you. Hopefully some of these solutions and tips can help others, too.

WIRED @WIRED

If you suffer from ringing in your ears, tech can provide some relief. https://t.co/zxM3xEQ1tp

It's pronounced 'neft'

We're a month into 2022 and the NFT market is still scorching hot. Already this year we've had Coachella NFTs, Lamborghini NFTs, NFT profile pics on Twitter, NFT teasers from YouTube and Meta, and the usual raft of ill-advised NFT projects that… (Corin Faife via The Verge)

Corin Faife @corintxt

I'm doing service journalism.

The Verge @verge

It’s pronounced "neft" https://t.co/N9IqLhqPoQ https://t.co/FZYLl2p4Ya

We're Thinking About Endemicity All Wrong

By now, we've all heard some version of how this ends. The same story has certainly been told often enough: We missed our chance to wipe the new coronavirus out, and now we're stuck with it. (Jacob Stern & Katherine J. Wu via The Atlantic)

Ed Yong @edyong209

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." @KatherineJWu and @jdkstern13 on the misuses of "endemicity".

theatlantic.comEndemicity Is MeaninglessThe coronavirus will be with us forever. But we still have no idea what happens next.

Alphabet is set to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell

Alphabet reports fourth-quarter results following a year of outperformance for shareholders as the stock topped the rest of Big Tech in 2021. The company announced expansions during the quarter in real estate investments and in testing for Waymo… (Jennifer Elias via CNBC)

Meg Graham @megancgraham

Google ad revenue was $61 billion in Q4. Up from $46 billion year-over-year.

cnbc.comAlphabet reports big fourth-quarter beat; stock popsAlphabet reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.

Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A 'Cyber Warfare' Startup That Hacked WhatsApp

Since its founding in 2017 in San Diego, startup Boldend has kept a low profile. That's because, according to two company insiders, it has to, with a mission to create tools that assist in cyber warfare missions with a focus on automation. (Thomas Brewster via Forbes)

Surveillance Killjoy @hypervisible

“Thiel, one of Facebook’s best-known financial backers, is now an investor of a company that has tried to hack the technology of a Facebook-owned company.”

forbes.comBillionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsAppAs Israeli spyware dealer NSO Group is facing renewed scrutiny over the abuse of its WhatsApp hacking tools, an American startup could also reportedly bypass the messaging app’s security. That startup was secretly backed by the millions of billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.

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