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Mashable Mashable / May 5, 2021

Australian office supply store chain Officeworks has pulled Apple's newly launched AirTags from sale amid safety concerns surrounding its button battery. As first reported by Gizmodo Australia, shoppers hoping to purchase AirTags from Officeworks this week quickly discovered the long-anticipated tracking devices were unavailable both in-store and online.

Mashable Mashable / May 5, 2021

Privacy-oriented messaging app Signal tried to run a very candid ad campaign on Facebook-owned Instagram, but it wasn't meant to be. Signal explained how it went down in a blog post Tuesday. The idea was to post ads on Instagram which use the data an online advertiser may have collected about users, and basically show the user what that data might be for them.

Mashable Mashable / May 5, 2021

Just like its founder Elon Musk, Starlink's satellite-based internet service is erratic. That's according to new data from Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence published Wednesday. (Note: Ookla is owned by Ziff Davis, Mashable's parent company.) An analysis of connectivity metrics collected from users show Starlink is delivering internet download and upload speeds that are sometimes faster, and sometimes slower, than the median of what's available in those same areas.

Mashable Mashable / May 5, 2021

Night gathers and our watch begins anew: HBO has finally released pictures from the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon . This show is the second Thrones prequel greenlit and the first to be ordered to series after that untitled Age of Heroes pilot went nowhere, so it's been a while since new Thrones images showed up to stoke hype for HBO's Westerosverse.

Mashable Mashable India / May 5, 2021

Elvis got publicly vaccinated for polio in 1956, inspiring many Americans to protect themselves against the viral scourge. Today, the crippling disease no longer exists in the U.S. What will become of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19? While it's currently not possible to completely eliminate this highly transmissible global virus, it can be largely suppressed.

Mashable Hindustan Times / May 5, 2021

American technology conglomerate Facebook has partnered with the Indian government to roll out a vaccine finder tool on its mobile app in India, which will help people identify places nearby to get vaccinated. According to Mashable, earlier this week, Facebook announced a USD 10 million grant for emergency response efforts for the Covid-19 situation in the country.

Mashable Mashable India / May 5, 2021

Galaxy smartphones can actually be used with Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers. But what do they do? Well, you can use the controllers as camera shutters. This is not all that groundbreaking as most smartphones can connect with Joy-Con controllers, but not all of them use the buttons on the controller to control the camera.

Mashable Mashable India / May 5, 2021

We'd heard about Google accidentally revealing the existence of a new budget-oriented pair of Pixel Buds and they've done it again, this time, only more explicitly! The official Android account on Twitter last night tweeted a photo of the "Pixel Buds A-Series" and said the earbuds "have arrived" ( as spotted by 9to5Google ).