Top Hackernews posts from www.engadget.com

1. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017) (www.engadget.com)
   987 points by seesawtron about 3 years ago | 351 comments
2. PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds (www.engadget.com)
   814 points by I_am_tiberius over 2 years ago | 311 comments
3. US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years (www.engadget.com)
   810 points by jaarse about 2 years ago | 545 comments
4. 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing (www.engadget.com)
   779 points by osmanbaskaya 9 months ago | 387 comments
5. EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices (www.engadget.com)
   604 points by geox over 2 years ago | 999 comments
6. YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations (www.engadget.com)
   544 points by dredmorbius almost 2 years ago | 418 comments
7. Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline (www.engadget.com)
   482 points by jmsflknr 3 months ago | 303 comments
8. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down (www.engadget.com)
   441 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 495 comments
9. Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code (www.engadget.com)
   365 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 227 comments
10. Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it (www.engadget.com)
    341 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 380 comments
11. Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards (www.engadget.com)
    328 points by walterclifford about 2 years ago | 373 comments
12. AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB (www.engadget.com)
    319 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 290 comments
13. Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store (www.engadget.com)
    312 points by gsibble about 1 year ago | 164 comments
14. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App (www.engadget.com)
    287 points by camhart over 3 years ago | 201 comments
15. IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution (www.engadget.com)
    276 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 179 comments
16. California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers being cheaper elsewhere (www.engadget.com)
    265 points by em-bee about 2 years ago | 126 comments
17. Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter (www.engadget.com)
    255 points by solenoidalslide over 2 years ago | 599 comments
18. Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office (www.engadget.com)
    243 points by randycupertino over 3 years ago | 273 comments
19. Microsoft reveals IRS notice asking for $28.9B in back taxes (www.engadget.com)
    241 points by shurco 11 months ago | 8 comments
20. Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid (www.engadget.com)
    235 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 109 comments
21. Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns (www.engadget.com)
    225 points by mikhael 5 months ago | 175 comments
22. Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings (www.engadget.com)
    222 points by firstSpeaker over 2 years ago | 218 comments
23. New York City bans TikTok for government employees (www.engadget.com)
    213 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 139 comments
24. Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team (www.engadget.com)
    208 points by alexrustic about 3 years ago | 182 comments
25. Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company (www.engadget.com)
    192 points by cpeterso over 3 years ago | 294 comments
26. Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI (www.engadget.com)
    191 points by firstSpeaker about 1 year ago | 106 comments
27. Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory (www.engadget.com)
    173 points by bb88 about 1 year ago | 86 comments
28. Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents (www.engadget.com)
    173 points by baskethead almost 2 years ago | 121 comments
29. T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades (www.engadget.com)
    169 points by mfiguiere almost 2 years ago | 288 comments
30. Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed (www.engadget.com)
    168 points by rexreed about 3 years ago | 99 comments
31. Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room (www.engadget.com)
    163 points by alexrustic over 3 years ago | 200 comments
32. Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules (www.engadget.com)
    158 points by marban about 1 year ago | 2 comments
33. Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records (www.engadget.com)
    150 points by barbacoa 10 months ago | 31 comments
34. IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months (www.engadget.com)
    145 points by nkjoep over 3 years ago | 57 comments
35. Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger (www.engadget.com)
    138 points by bubblehack3r almost 2 years ago | 173 comments
36. Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach (www.engadget.com)
    134 points by vanburen about 2 years ago | 64 comments
37. Details on Xiaomi EV (www.engadget.com)
    132 points by EA 9 months ago | 289 comments
38. 'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma (www.engadget.com)
    130 points by cf100clunk over 1 year ago | 110 comments
39. Google adds a guitar tuner to Search (www.engadget.com)
    125 points by jonbaer almost 3 years ago | 159 comments
40. Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables (www.engadget.com)
    124 points by bookofjoe 11 months ago | 206 comments
41. NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISS (www.engadget.com)
    117 points by CapitalistCartr almost 3 years ago | 88 comments
42. French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics (www.engadget.com)
    116 points by mysterypie about 1 year ago | 108 comments
43. eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce (www.engadget.com)
    112 points by bartekrutkowski 8 months ago | 125 comments
44. Facebook, Google other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law (www.engadget.com)
    108 points by LordAtlas over 2 years ago | 99 comments
45. Apple turns monitor height adjustment into a $400 upsell (www.engadget.com)
    108 points by karmaniak over 2 years ago | 148 comments
46. When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (2014) (www.engadget.com)
    108 points by QuarkForMrMark about 2 years ago | 67 comments
47. Meta reportedly plans more job cuts (www.engadget.com)
    105 points by signa11 over 1 year ago | 80 comments
48. GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues (www.engadget.com)
    104 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 85 comments
49. Atari revives unreleased arcade game that was too hard for 1982 players (www.engadget.com)
    103 points by isaacfrond almost 2 years ago | 102 comments
50. Formula E Gen3: The world’s most efficient race car (www.engadget.com)
    97 points by RickJWagner over 2 years ago | 93 comments
51. FTC fines supplement maker $600k for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings (www.engadget.com)
    97 points by Stratoscope over 1 year ago | 43 comments
52. Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' (www.engadget.com)
    91 points by ProAm about 2 years ago | 200 comments
53. Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts (www.engadget.com)
    90 points by jimt1234 about 1 year ago | 101 comments
54. Thailand bans meme coin and NFT: “no clear objective or substance or underlying” (www.engadget.com)
    88 points by giuliomagnifico over 3 years ago | 96 comments
55. Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers (www.engadget.com)
    86 points by wpietri over 3 years ago | 1 comments
56. Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me (www.engadget.com)
    86 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 132 comments
57. Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank (www.engadget.com)
    84 points by amichail about 1 year ago | 28 comments
58. SpaceX is getting ready to test its Starlink satellite-to-cell phone service (www.engadget.com)
    84 points by FinnKuhn over 1 year ago | 59 comments
59. Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents (www.engadget.com)
    83 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 87 comments
60. Sony completes $3.6B deal to buy Bungie (www.engadget.com)
    82 points by afrcnc about 2 years ago | 36 comments
61. Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs (www.engadget.com)
    81 points by lxm over 2 years ago | 149 comments
62. Elon Musk reportedly had his own tweets prioritized out of jealousy (www.engadget.com)
    79 points by yoelo over 1 year ago | 55 comments
63. The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI (www.engadget.com)
    77 points by atlasunshrugged over 1 year ago | 125 comments
64. Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down (www.engadget.com)
    74 points by thunderbong over 2 years ago | 60 comments
65. Twitch removes every member of its Safety Advisory Council (www.engadget.com)
    73 points by keploy 4 months ago | 81 comments
66. Remembering Virginia Norwood, the ‘Mother’ of NASA’s Landsat Program (www.engadget.com)
    72 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 3 comments
67. The FCC wants to make robocalls that use AI-generated voices illegal (www.engadget.com)
    71 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 42 comments
68. Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct (www.engadget.com)
    70 points by T3OU-736 about 2 years ago | 13 comments
69. Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras (www.engadget.com)
    69 points by danboarder about 3 years ago | 14 comments
70. Windows 11 now comes with its own adware (www.engadget.com)
    69 points by gulced 5 months ago | 49 comments
71. Twitter has reportedly laid off product manager Esther Crawford (www.engadget.com)
    68 points by tlogan over 1 year ago | 105 comments
72. Tesla sued by ex-employees who claim that mass layoffs violated federal law (www.engadget.com)
    67 points by fairytalemtg about 2 years ago | 53 comments
73. Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear lab (www.engadget.com)
    67 points by wannacboatmovie 10 months ago | 53 comments
74. Japan will try to beam solar power from space by 2025 (www.engadget.com)
    66 points by signa11 over 1 year ago | 94 comments
75. Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions doubled since Messi's arrival in US (www.engadget.com)
    64 points by mgh2 about 1 year ago | 72 comments
76. The 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers (www.engadget.com)
    63 points by Timothee 10 months ago | 178 comments
77. Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them (www.engadget.com)
    57 points by mariuz over 1 year ago | 36 comments
78. Sony discontinues its last DSLRs (www.engadget.com)
    56 points by throw0101a over 3 years ago | 70 comments
79. India orders Twitter to pull tweets criticizing its Covid-19 response (www.engadget.com)
    55 points by sodrick over 3 years ago | 26 comments
80. Jack Dorsey says that he's not on the Bluesky board anymore (www.engadget.com)
    55 points by gulced 5 months ago | 20 comments
81. Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1, 2024 (www.engadget.com)
    54 points by JohnTHaller over 1 year ago | 27 comments
82. Jack Dorsey caused an uproar with a bizarre Web3 Twitter rant (www.engadget.com)
    53 points by riffic over 2 years ago | 30 comments
83. Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support (www.engadget.com)
    53 points by axiomdata316 over 2 years ago | 12 comments
84. Apple dropped built-in noise cancellation on the iPhone 13 (www.engadget.com)
    52 points by fortran77 over 2 years ago | 14 comments
85. Former ByteDance exec claims company used bots to inflate TikTok engagement (www.engadget.com)
    52 points by firstSpeaker over 1 year ago | 11 comments
86. New York passes law that will ban all gas-powered car sales by 2035 (www.engadget.com)
    50 points by yboris about 3 years ago | 84 comments
87. Sony and other music labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing old records (www.engadget.com)
    50 points by SerCe about 1 year ago | 41 comments
88. Garry's Mod faces deluge of Nintendo-related DMCA takedown notices (www.engadget.com)
    50 points by intunderflow 5 months ago | 27 comments