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Dave LeClair

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  • Managing News and Engagement Editor and Golf Writer, Tom's Guide
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Managing News and Engagement Editor and Golf Writer for @tomsguide

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TCL Stylus 5G Review

TCL Stylus 5G Review

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The Best Cheap Phone Plans for 2022

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How (and Why) to Charge Your iPhone With USB-C

How (and Why) to Charge Your iPhone With USB-C

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3 Big Changes Coming to Apple Maps That Commuters Will Love

3 Big Changes Coming to Apple Maps That Commuters Will Love

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Amazon's $60 Fire 7 Tablet Doubles Down on Battery and RAM

Amazon's $60 Fire 7 Tablet Doubles Down on Battery and RAM

In the world of affordable tablets, Amazon's stalwart Fire 7 has long been the deal to beat, but until today …

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Amazon's $60 Fire 7 Tablet Doubles Down on Battery and RAM

Amazon's $60 Fire 7 Tablet Doubles Down on Battery and RAM

In the world of affordable tablets, Amazon's stalwart Fire 7 has long been the deal to beat, but until today …

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30 days without streaming — The money I saved and the shows I was lost without

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By Dave LeClair Verified
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Add ESPN for sports and suddenly your monthly bill is more than $160 per month — which is more than most people spent on basic cable when that was still the main way to consume entertainment. So I decided that rather than picking and choosing which services to keep, I dumped them all and went with a mix of free options and just not watching as many shows and movies as I normally would.
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Instagram was down — Live updates on massive outage affecting DMs

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By Dave LeClair Verified
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Instagram app logo on a phone display. Thousands of users flocked to Downdetector today, reporting problems with the popular social media platform Instagram. When the outage first started, we saw a massive spike in reports, with more than 2,000, which is significant so early in the downtime. Reports reached a high of around 4,000 today. As far as we can tell, Meta never acknowledged the outage on its status page.
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Instagram was down — live updates on massive outage affecting DMs

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By Dave LeClair Verified
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Thousands of users flocked to Downdetector today, reporting problems with the popular social media platform Instagram. When the outage first started, we saw a massive spike in reports, with more than 2,000, which is significant so early in the downtime. Reports reached a high of around 4,000 today. As far as we can tell, Meta never acknowledged the outage on its status page . Though it appears that the issue with Instagram mostly extended to DMs, which weren't going through.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Touch Gen, an iPhone gaming website.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

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