Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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Piiano Data Privacy•
500+TechCrunch / 5h
Tel Aviv-based Piiano wants businesses to keep their customers’ data private. The company is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $9 million funding round led by YL Ventures, together with a group of angel investors that include Snyk founder Danny Grander, Armis co-founder Nadir Izrael, Papaya Global co-founder and CEO Eynat Guez, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica, as well as well-known angel



1KGizmodo / 7h
Elon Musk, America’s dumbest smart guy, saw his net worth rise $36.2 billion on Monday, all thanks to a surge in the price of Tesla’s stock, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index . The record-breaking rise in wealth, which puts Musk at the top of the list with $289 billion, comes as proposed taxes on the wealthy… Read more...



American Airlines is changing how elite status is earned. You'll be able to earn status with most of your activity in the program, not just flying. And they've actually created a fairly simple system, where almost everything counts and the "Loyalty Points" you earn over the course of 12 months determines your status. Continue reading ...

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Enlarge Somehow, Motorola smartwatches are still happening, though they won't be from Motorola Mobility's current owner, Lenovo. There's a long and complicated story about how a company you've never heard of is manufacturing "Motorola" smartwatches, but as Android Police has been tracking, the group, called CE Brands, is indeed planning to release three new watches soon. Ever since Motorola stopp



Gizmodo / 7min
Joe Biden has, after nine months, nominated Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission. While longtime Commissioner Rosenworcel filled in as the acting chair, we’ve been banging our heads against the desks wondering why Biden wouldn’t just pull the trigger. While Biden waited, the FCC has… Read more...



Lifehacker / 7min
Apple tends to update their devices at the same time, so in addition to its massive macOS Monterey update , the company also released iOS 15.1. The iPhone already had its macOS Monterey moment with iOS 15 , but that doesn’t mean iOS 15.1 is an update to sneeze at. In fact, there are some awesome new features packed in… Read more...



The new American Airlines elite status-earning program that goes into effect next year is going to make some flyers very happy. Anyone who can spend a lot on credit cards is going to find status-earning much easier. In fact, you can earn Executive Platinum status with $200,000 in spend alone. It turns out that in addition to having a longer period in which to do credit card spend, you don't even



TechCrunch / 11min
In its first-ever Congressional hearing, TikTok successfully dodged questions about what it plans to do with the biometric data its privacy policy permits it to collect on the app’s U.S. users. In an update to the company’s U.S. privacy policy in June, TikTok added a new section that noted the app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content, including thi



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Right now, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus Credit Card, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Credit Card and the Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card are offering sign-up bonuses of up to 100,000 bonus points: 50,000 bonus points after spending $2,000 on purchases within the first three months of account open



Gizmodo / 13min
At the end of Dune: Part One , Zendaya’s character Chani told the audience “This is only the beginning” and now that’s officially true. Legendary, the company behind Dune , as well as Paul Attrides himself, Timothée Chalamet, tweeted out the news that Dune: Part Two is officially going to happen. Read more...



Mashable / 13min
Influencers are not new, but the harm they're spreading might be. The concept of influencers — people whose ideas and presence shape how we move within the world — have been around since before Shakespeare . But in the millennia before social media, influencers were celebrities, playwrights, and politicians so far removed from ourselves that their impact was blurred and shadowed by their distance



Mashable / 13min
Sandra Bullock plays a woman previously incarcerated, who is struggling to redeem herself in Netflix's upcoming drama The Unforgivable . When Ruth Slater (Bullock) is released from prison after serving a 20-year sentence for a violent crime, she has a difficult time adjusting to her new life. Society refuses to forgive her for her actions, leaving her with only the hope of finding the estranged s



TechCrunch / 18min
DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India, where farm produce yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. Sofina and Lightrock co-led the 10-year-old startup’s Series D financing round. Temasek and existing investors Prosus



Lifehacker / 21min
The most successful bakers are the most methodical and least impulsive, or they have at least learned to channel their impulsiveness into other pursuits. Baking requires a small amount of forethought, a tiny bit of planning, and a crumb of patience. Baking requires certain ingredients to be at certain temperatures… Read more...



Gizmodo / 25min
For all the talk of democratizing finance , the vast majority of Bitcoin continues to be owned by a relative handful of investors. Read more...



msulibraries : In celebration of the spookiest season, Special Collections’ current exhibit, “A Cabinet of Curiosities,” features some of our favorite weird items! The case above features Minié balls (a type of bullet) from Vicksburg, a 1612 manual for identifying witches (detailed in this post ), an 1829 book about magic and miracles, and a lacquer box and eggs from Russia. This taxidermy oddity



Gizmodo / 37min
It’s not often that an award-winning author and screenwriter decides to direct a TV series adapted from his own beloved novel, but that’s exactly what Niccolò Ammaniti has done with Anna (set to air on AMC+). Based on his 2015 book, the six-episode series takes a science-fiction dystopia —a world where a mysterious… Read more...



Puerto Rico US Island•
Puerto Rico has weathered a lot in recent years, from Hurricane Maria — the worst storm in decades, which killed thousands and destroyed most of the island’s power grid — to earthquakes and a debt crisis. For TPG news and deals delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter . The island also hasn’t been spared from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic , but it’s still quie



Mashable / 41min
Save $260: The Alienware 27-inch AW2720HF gaming monitor is on sale for $299.99 from Dell as of Oct. 26. This 46% discount marks the lowest price we've seen so far on this model. You'll also get free next-day delivery. Early Black Friday deals are prime time for any gamer ready to upgrade their PC gaming rig. At this point, you could spend hours browsing deals at Amazon and Best Buy , but you'll



Mashable / 41min
Sealed Lips is Mashable’s series on pelvic pain, an experience rarely discussed but shockingly common. When I first started experiencing pelvic pain , the worry that I was alone exacerbated the anguish. No one talked about it, whether in real life or in the corners of the internet I frequented. What I discovered as I sought out treatment, however, was that my assumption was certainly not the case



Mashable / 41min
In 2014, I was 16 and my Tumblr was four years old. There were thousands of posts: reblogged vintage photographs of Paris in the '70s, of window sills littered with poetry books, of black boots against grunge city landscapes. The occasional indie song lyric (think The 1975's brooding poetry) made a guest appearance every now and then. This was the world of Tumblr at the pinnacle of its popularity



How-To Geek / 42min
Have you ever had extra spaces appear in your Google Sheets data? Whether this happens after importing a file, mistakenly pressing the Space bar, or pasting data, unnecessary spaces in your text can turn into a problem. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



How-To Geek / 42min
In a very Microsoft-like move, the company recently started pushing the PC Health Check app onto all Windows 10 users through regular software updates. This once optional app said whether or not devices can run the new Windows 11 release, but now it looks like Microsoft is being more aggressive with the rollout, aiming to nudge owners to upgrade. Read This Article on Review Geek ›




How-To Geek / 42min
Believe it or not, but Google still doesn’t know how to launch a product. The company is cancelling tons of Pixel 6 orders, often without any explanation. And worse, some people aren’t getting a refund for their cancelled orders. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Sequoia Capital VC•
TechCrunch / 47min
Sequoia Capital is debuting a big shift in strategy as they look to boost their returns amid increased competition in the market for startup financing. The storied venture capital firm announced in a blog post today that they’re breaking with tradition, abandoning the traditional fund structure and their artificial timelines for returning LP capital. The firm’s future investments will soon all fl



Ars Technica / 49min
Enlarge / Epidemiologists analyzed all 25 James Bond films to assess 007's health risks while traveling around the world. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A graduate student in epidemiology working in the field leads a perilous life, as Wouter Graumans discovered when he came down with a serious case of food poisoning while visiting Burkina Faso to study infectious diseases. He may have als



TechCrunch / 54min
Jacob Tveraabak Contributor Jacob Tveraabak is the CEO of StrongPoint . The current driver shortage in the U.K. highlights the precarious and unpredictable nature of home delivery logistics in e-groceries. Although the market for e-groceries is bigger than ever, the shortage of drivers might trigger a new e-grocery megatrend in the U.K. Costs of both first-mile and last-mile delivery are going to



Bezos Blue Origin Space•
62Futurism / 58min
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced plans this week for a “mixed use business park” in space called Orbital Reef, a lavish commercial space station. If Bezos’ ultimate dream being a coworking space in orbit sounds a little pedestrian, you’re not alone. “Jeff Bezos just announced that he’s going to try to build the first commercial space station and his vision is literally for a suborbital ‘mixed us



Verizon Amazon Kuiper•
Verizon and Amazon have announced a new strategic collaboration which will see the US telecom leverage the ecommerce giant's Project Kuiper to deliver improved connectivity to rural and remote communities in the US. Just like Space X's Starlink , Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase broadband access on a global scale by using a constellation of 3,326 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) aro



Unless you have one of those preternaturally tidy young children we have occasionally heard about but still are not convinced exist, you could probably use some help limiting the mess in their room. And while we can’t make your child clean up after themselves, we do have a few organizational tips that can help make… Read more...



Gizmodo / 1h
Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes; some are large enough to earn the title of dwarf planet, while others are about ostrich-sized . These wandering rocks are incredibly important objects for scientists seeking information about the formation of the solar system and even life on Earth. Some meteorites (the space… Read more...



It’s been a very busy week for American’s AAdvantage loyalty program. On Tuesday, the airline announced a new currency, Loyalty Points, that’ll determine where you land on the revamped elite status qualification table. But buried in the detail is some exciting news for existing elites who might be wondering what’s going to happen to their expiring upgrade certificates. Want more airline-specific



When you're buying a smartwatch for the first time, understandably your primary focus will be on what that smartwatch can do, whether it works with your phone setup and it's the kind of smartwatch that grabs attention for the right reasons. Creating an attractive smartwatch does of course extend to the strap that keeps it securely wrapped around your wrist. But it’s not just about matching up tha



Enlarge / The Surface Laptop Go. (credit: Jeff Dunn) Microsoft may have another Surface announcement to make before the end of the year, according to a rumor from Windows Central . The report claims that Microsoft is working on a low-cost, education-focused device, codenamed "Tenjin," designed to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The laptop could be "announced before the end of this year if pl



Enlarge (credit: Yubico) Because of its power delivery, high transfer rates, and Thunderbolt capabilities, USB-C has become ubiquitous on modern devices. The European Union even wants to force the use of USB-C . So security keys that serve as a form of multi-factor authentication or passwordless login need to play well with the port. Hardware authentication company Yubico is addressing that need



Returnal Photo Mode•
Returnal made some waves when it launched for PlayStation 5 earlier this year, and now the game is being updated to version 2.0. Returnal developer Housemarque detailed the version 2.0 update today, and while it doesn’t seem to be an extensive update, it does add two big features. The first is a “Suspend Cycle” feature that will allow users to … Continue reading



Gizmodo / 1h
I assume you’re well aware of Disney World’s $6,000 Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel/high-end LARPing experience. If you’ve been hoping for a Marvel Cinematic Universe equivalent, you’ll have to settle for lunch. But, if it makes you feel any better, it’s surely going to be an extremely expensive lunch, as the… Read more...



Adobe Max is the software giant's equivalent of Apple's WWDC, and some of the event's most exciting announcements have been for its popular photo editing package Lightroom . Photoshop is likely the more famous app of the two, and has just stolen some of the Adobe Max headlines with the arrival of Photoshop for Web . But Lightroom is the organizational and editing bedrock of many photographers' wo



Even though Valve usually keeps the dates of Steam sales close to the chest until almost the time they go live, the details usually end up leaking anyway. This time, though, Valve is getting ahead of the curve. It confirmed when the next three sales will take place. As spotted by Eurogamer , the Steamworks Documentation page notes that the Steam Halloween sale is this weekend and it runs between



Gizmodo / 1h
Sen. Joe Manchin has all but forced Democrats to abandon their best tool to combat climate change in the reconciliation bill. Now he’s reportedly turning his eye towards another proposal to address one of the easiest climate fixes. Read more...



Avianca is making some major changes to its narrow body fleet, including introducing a very unusual-looking new premium seat. Avianca adds lots of seats to Airbus A320s Avianca is undergoing a restructuring, as the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2020. As part of this restructuring, Avianca is trying to become a more efficient airline, and compete with Latin America’s gr



It’s been three years since the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) landed, but now finally we have a new model, in the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2021). Three years is a long time in the wider tech world, so you might expect a lot to have changed here, but on the other hand progress is often slow when it comes to ereaders. In the case of the Kindle Paperwhite 2021 the reality is somewhere in the midd



Qualcomm Snapdragon•
Now that 5G phones are more affordable , Qualcomm wants to make those low-cost devices more desirable. The company has introduced three new systems-on-chip that all promise improved performance for budget 5G hardware. The star is easily the Snapdragon 695. This 6nm-based sequel to the 690 adds much faster millimeter wave 5G (important for carriers like AT&T and Verizon) while delivering up to 30




Biden Rosenworcel FCC•
The FCC has its first-ever woman as Chair of the agency, Jessica Rosenworcel, who has been serving as acting Chair since the beginning of the year. President Biden officially appointed her to the position today, and nominated her for a new term — as well as FCC veteran and tireless policy advocate Gigi Sohn, who if confirmed would become the first openly LGBTQ+ Commissioner in history. The appoin



Apple One iPhone 17•
Apple is expanding its all-in-one Apple One Premier subscription bundle to 17 new countries on November 3rd. The service will be available in Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. In these countries, Apple One Premier will include Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple A



Samsung SmartThings•
Gizmodo / 1h
If you a lot of Samsung devices in your home, the company announced that your Galaxy smartphone, Samsung TV, and even your Samsung-made fridge can all act as controllers for smart home gadgets that will support the Matter standard . It doesn’t matter quite yet, as the new smart home standard won’t launch until 2022 .… Read more...



Gizmodo / 1h
A radio transmission that appeared to come from the Proxima Centauri system, home to the nearest star to the Sun, was likely an artifact produced by human technology, according to researchers with the Breakthrough Listen project. Read more...



librarycompany : Happy #NationalPumpkinDay! The poem on this ca. 1840-1880 comic valentine reads: “Gentle squash-head, (don’t be shocked), Mind your eye, Else some day you may be knocked Into pie.”



Breeze Airbus A220•
It’s a big day for Breeze Airways, as the carrier has formally unveiled its new domestic workhorse, the Airbus A220. Breeze took the wraps off its first A220-300 during a ceremony held at the Airbus manufacturing plant in Mobile, Alabama, on Tuesday morning, with a group of executives, dignitaries and select media in attendance. (Photo by Zach Griff/The Points Guy) While Tuesday marks the first t



Finding a way to connect with people who might buy from you, while spending less time pursuing those who will never be interested, is something akin to a holy grail of the world of sales and marketing. Now, a startup called UserGems , which has built a platform that combines AI with data mapping to help identify the most likely candidates for B2B sales and marketing prospecting — by making it eas



Facebook automatically adds alternative text (alt text) to images you upload, but the descriptions aren’t always accurate. You can make your images more accessible to visually impaired users by writing accurate alt text for your images. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Why isn’t there a battery-powered Wyze Cam V3? I’m not sure, but the new Wyze Lamp Socket lets you power the Cam V3 from any outdoor lighting fixture, and it only costs $10 plus shipping. And for those of you with a Wyze Cam Outdoor, there’s a new Solar Panel that extends its battery life so you can spend less time charging and more time catching porch pirates. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Why wait for Black Friday when you can treat yourself right now to some big discounts from Wyze. Today, the company announced several deals, including that users would get three months of Cam Plus service for free by purchasing a Wyze Cam v3, Wyze Cam Pan v2, and Wyze Cam Outdoor, to name a few. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



While Black Friday is still over a month away, you can score epic deals right now on Amazon's best-selling Blink security cameras. Amazon's early Black Friday sale includes record-low prices on the all-new Blink Mini and Blink indoor and outdoor security cameras. Today's early Black Friday deals on Blink cameras also include a limited-time discount on Beams lighting products. When you purchase a



Vanguard DualSense•
Activision’s Sledgehammer Games has outlined how the upcoming Call of Duty: Vanguard will use the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback of the PS5 DualSense controller. It’s exciting news for PS5 owners, as the adaptive triggers bring a greatly enhanced sense of immersion to first-person shooters, by simulating the trigger weight of real-world weapons, while haptic feedback will make you feel vib



After introducing the $80 YubiKey Bio and $85 YubiKey C Bio at the start of the month, Yubico’s latest physical security is for those who want a no-frills option. At $29 or €29, the Security Key C NFC comes with almost everything you could want from a security key at a decent price. As the name suggests, it’s a USB-C key with NFC support built-in. Out of the box, it works with FIDO-compatible web



A Quiet Place Game•
Gizmodo / 1h
Through two movies in the Quiet Place universe, fans have basically only seen the story of one family . But the invasion by deadly aliens who are hypersensitive to sound is, we imagine, happening all over the world . That means there are an infinite amount of stories to tell in that universe—and next year, you will be… Read more...



NASA SpaceX Dragon•
500+Futurism / 1h
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, said that he’s planning to assign cosmonauts to fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. It’s a striking reversal in tone given Rogozin’s strained relationship with NASA and particularly SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The director recently invited Musk for tea at his home in Russia last month, marking



There are two schools of thought in the world of travel rewards — and both hold weight. If you’re in the market for a new credit card , on one hand, you may want to diversify what’s already in your wallet by getting a card that earns a different type of rewards currency. Whether it’s airline miles, hotel points or transferable credit card points , all are subject to significant and sudden changes



YouTube Low Quality Kids•
Gizmodo / 2h
Continuing its crackdown on subpar content designed explicitly for young people, YouTube is warning creators that it will begin demonetizing channels that consistently upload low-quality kids’ videos next month. Read more...



Gizmodo / 2h
Many moons ago, photo editing was accomplished with razor blades and steady hands. In a major update to Adobe Photoshop today, slicing up a photo will soon be as easy as browsing the web, because like hyperlinks, the object you want to select becomes almost instantly highlighted the moment your cursor hovers over it. Read more...



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20TechCrunch / 2h
Rent the Runway is expected to price its IPO later today and trade tomorrow morning, provided that all things go as planned. Udemy is also on the way to the public markets . Allbirds, too. And this week, Sweetgreen threw its hat into the ring . Sweetgreen is a food chain best known for salads that are popular with the office-lunching crew. I can safely say that as a longtime member of that cohort




Citi is a TPG advertising partner. There’s an all-new card on the market. If you’re tired of keeping track of category bonuses, this new cash-back card makes it as simple as can be. Citi is no stranger to rewarding cash-back products. For instance, the no-annual-fee Citi® Double Cash Card offers 2% earnings on all purchases — 1% when you buy and another 1% as you pay. The issuer’s latest card wor



As businesses of all sizes look to recover and thrive following the pandemic, getting the most out of their data will be critical. But in an enterprise world rapidly moving towards hybrid working and cloud-first approaches, finding the most effective way to do that can be a significant challenge. Splunk has long positioned itself as a key helper for businesses looking to streamline or upgrade the



Smart home company Wyze has announced two new products to kick off its birthday week celebration: the Wyze Solar Panel and Wyze Lamp Socket. These two new products are designed for use with the company’s Wyze Cam v3 and Wyze Cam Outdoor security cameras. The solar panel features a micro USB cable for powering the Wyze outdoor camera, while the … Continue reading



Did you know that many useful Apple Watch health alerts are disabled by default? There are several useful features like fall detection, walking steadiness alerts, and noise alerts that you’d probably want to enable immediately after setting up your Apple Watch, if only you knew about them. We’ll run through 10 of our… Read more...



World of Hyatt’s new peak and off-peak award pricing is now live. This new pricing structure applies for stays as of March 1, 2022. That means for the time being you can still consistently book stays at the standard award costs, as long you travel by February 28, 2022. Let’s go over all the details of this new World of Hyatt award pricing structure. Details: Hyatt peak & off-peak awards World of



SAVE 22%: Back up your files with the Toshiba Canvio Advance Portable External Hard Drive , which is on sale as of Oct. 26 for $54.39 (down from $69.99). For as much as we rely on our computers these days (WFH, anybody?), we should all have a little extra security. This Toshiba Canvio Advance External Hard Drive is a nifty little compact that automatically backs up your data to make sure that you



One of my favorite budget synths just keeps getting better . After adding three new amazing oscillators earlier this year, Arturia is bringing custom wavetables to the MicroFreak as a free firmware update. The MicroFreak already had a wavetable engine built in, so this isn't a huge stretch. But being able to import your own wavetables opens up a the ability to really build your own unique sounds.



Vercel , the well-funded company behind the popular Next.js React framework, today announced the launch of Next.js 12 during a keynote at its annual conference . While Next.js, by default, mostly focuses on helping developers build static sites, Next.js 12 introduces what Vercel calls ‘middleware’ that makes it easier for developers to provide users with personalized content. Next.js 12, which Ve



Biden Rosenworcel FCC•
Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee on December 05, 2019, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla) President Biden finally made his picks for the Federal Communications Commission today, ending a baffling delay that forced Democrats to operate in a 2-2 deadlock with



Samsung 11 Galaxy Three•
Enlarge / Samsung Galaxy Pro 360 5G. (credit: Samsung ) With Windows 11 out, PC makers have an excuse to update their lineups, and Samsung is hoping that consumers pick up one of its three new Galaxy laptops announced this week to try out the latest operating system. The company is offering a few buzzy features to help entice customers. The Samsung Galaxy Pro 360 5G and Samsung Galaxy Book Odysse



The social media giant is making bonkers money. But it aims to turn itself inside out to get more young people.



Verizon Amazon Kuiper•
Gizmodo / 2h
Rural broadband in the U.S. still sucks. However, Verizon and Amazon announced today that they’ll be collaborating to expand the carrier’s rural 5G and 4G LTE networks via Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the company’s version of SpaceX’s Starlink. It’s a move that, if successful, could challenge Elon Musk’s satellite internet… Read more...



A Quiet Place Game•
No one in their right mind would actually want to live in the world of A Quiet Place , where denizens walk around barefoot and move as silently as possible to avoid incurring the wrath of highly noise-sensitive aliens. But, if you'd like to find out how well you might cope in that universe, you can test your nerves in the franchise's first video game, which is scheduled to arrive next year. Publi



Reihaneh Irani-Famili knows a little about the fault line running through just about every business today: the IT/OT divide. Now vice president of emergency planning and business resiliency at gas and electricity company National Grid, Irani-Famili was in previous jobs a translator of sorts between information technology, which manages data and applications, and operational technology, which mana



49Gizmodo / 2h
You’ve probably seen the deluge of damning news stories about Facebook from multiple outlets this past week. Those came thanks to Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen, who recently leaked thousands of internal documents, including internal employee discussions, memos, research, and presentations, to a… Read more...



It’s a little embarrassing, but we’ve all had the thought at one time or another: “What is my phone number?” Maybe you recently got a new number or you’re just having a mental lapse. The good news is you can find in the settings on your iPhone or Android device. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Capital One has quickly gone from being an underdog to a leader in the transferable points space. Not only does Capital One offer one of the largest and most diverse collections of transfer partners, but most transfers now process at a 1:1 ratio . Of this large list of partners, one of the most valuable is Turkish Miles&Smiles . It was first added as a transfer partner in April 2021, but it’s a l



New York LaGuardia, New York JFK and Washington National airports are 'slot controlled'. That means there are limits on the number of takeoffs and landings at each airport, and the right to use those have been given (free!) to incumbent airlines as a property right. That's a huge subsidy to incumbent carriers. Normally slots come with 'use it or lose it' rules. If an airline doesn't make use of t



Blaseball Short Circuits•
Major League Baseball is experimenting with robot umpires to make games more interesting, but when it comes to sporty shenanigans, Internet League Blaseball has got you more than covered. After going on hiatus at the end of its public beta, the free, browser-based, absurdist baseball simulator is coming back. On November 1, the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated game will launch Short Circuits, a “short,



When Vipul Patel lost half of his college credits while transferring from Florida Institute of Technology to Boston University, he began digging for answers. Patel soon stumbled upon equivalency tables , where universities track which courses from other institutions can be counted for credit during a transfer process. While seemingly innocuous, the tables gave him key data of where Boston Univers




It’s officially TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 eve, and tomorrow is a big, busy day for everyone involved with or interested in building the next generation of SaaS startups. Top-line industry experts will cover vital SaaS topics — from fundraising and building to securing and scaling. You need a pass to SaaS: Buy your pass today and save before the price goes up tomorrow at the door. The SaaS agenda fea



Save $26.01: Go wire-free for cheap: Get a pair of TOZO T6 True Wireless Earbuds at Amazon for just $33.98 (down from $59.99) and save $26.01 as of Oct. 26. AirPods are the first choice of many for Bluetooth headphones. But if you’re on a budget, you can get a solid (though probably not comparable) pair for much less. As of Oct. 26, the TOZO T6 True Wireless Earbuds on sale at Amazon for $33.98.



If you've got your eyes on the new Google Pixel 6 or 6 Pro, you might want to make a purchase very soon. That's because they will be leaving their pre-order period at 11.59 pm on Wednesday, October 27. Unlike some other brands, Google has made their pre-order offer very tempting, throwing in a free pair of headphones worth over £300. These headphones are the Bose 700 - a pair that we gave a 4.5-s



Microsoft Twitch Xbox•
Microsoft has launched a new Xbox Preview, and it’s a big one. For starters, the new preview going live today adds Twitch integration to the Xbox dashboard. While users have always been able to stream using the Twitch Xbox app, it’s been a while since they were last able to start up a Twitch stream through the dashboard itself. The … Continue reading



Tiger Global and Falcon Edge Capital are looking to double down on their bets on DealShare, becoming the latest high-profile investors to go all-in on India’s nascent but growing social commerce trend. The two firms, both of which are already an investor in Jaipur-headquartered startup (AWI, which is managed by Falcon, is an early investor in DealShare), are in advanced stages of talks to co-lead



SAVE $500: Best Buy has a 21.5-inch Apple iMac (Intel Core i5, 256GB SSD) for just $999 as of Oct. 26. That's 33% off its suggested retail price of $1,499. Those colorful new 24-inch iMacs have been so gosh darn stubborn . They've hardly gone on sale at all since they came out this spring, much less been featured in any retailer's early Black Friday sales . We'll be on the lookout in case that ch



Save 24%: Grab a pair of the Samsung Galaxy Buds Live at Amazon for just $128.35 (down from $169.99) as of Oct. 26. Look, we know "bean-shaped" probably does not top the features wishlist for your dream pair of earbuds. But as Mashable tech reporter Alex Perry wrote , "The Galaxy Buds Live may look weird at first, but there's a method to the madness." Right now is a particularly opportune time to



Rosenworcel FCC WH•
The FCC might soon have its first permanent woman leader. President Biden has nominated current acting chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to a permanent position, making her the first female to lead the commission if confirmed. The nomination isn't be a surprising move given her existing title, broad support and alignment with White House policies on issues like net neutrality , but it still represen



If you’re looking for an easy way to make your iPhone play nice with your KDE desktop, today is your lucky day, as KDE Connect is finally available as an iPhone app (click the article titled “KDE Connect iOS Enters Public TestFlight Testing!”), albeit in beta form. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



It’s new TV season, baby. Amazon is running a big Black Friday blowout sale on TVs from TCL, Samsung, and Sony. Now’s the perfect time to replace your crappy old TV, or buy an affordable new smart TV for a young family member. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Verizon Amazon Kuiper•
Verizon Communications Inc. and Project Kuiper (from Amazon.com Inc.) revealed an expansion of their existing partnership today. They’ve suggested that they will pair Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network (Project Kuiper) with Verizon’s terrestrial mobile network to expand internet access or deliver internet access to unserved and underserved communities. They want to make this technol



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Pee Problems The saga of the broken space toilet continues. More than a month after the Inspiration4 space tourists encountered a problem with their Crew Dragon capsule’s toilet , SpaceX has announced a redesign of the latrine’s mechanics. Bill Gerst, a consultant for the company and former NASA human spaceflight chief, said that the issue occurred when a tube that sends urine into a container br



NASA Planet Galaxy•
Extragalactic Astronomers may have spotted thousands of exoplanets in different star systems, but they had yet to find evidence of exoplanets in other galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. Now, using data collected by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Telescope, an international team of scientists may have found evidence for the existence of a Saturn-sized planet in the Messier 51 galaxy, the BBC reports , some



Logicbroker , a Connecticut-based e-commerce company focused on cloud fulfillment, secured a $135 million growth round from K1 Investment Management. Its software provides drop ship and marketplace automation capabilities to brands, retailers, suppliers and third-party logistics providers. As CEO Peyman Zamani explained it, “drop ship” is a way that packages get from the seller to the buyer. For



Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. The American Express® Gold Card makes TPG’s top charts every year as the best card for dining and takeout at restaurants. The card comes with food-focused bonus categories and a slate of other valuable perks that can help you save big — no matter if you’re at home or on the road. (Photo by Isabelle Raphael/The Points Guy) While the a



Fall brings with it one of life’s simplest pleasures: long evenings spent curled up in front of the fireplace. But once the final embers have burned out for the night, what’s left behind is a pile of ashes you might be tempted to simply scoop up and throw out. Wait! Those ashes can be used in more ways than you may … Read more...



SAVE $100.99: As of Oct. 26, the Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop is $100.99 off at Amazon ahead of Black Friday. That's a savings of 7%. How are we supposed to save up money to spend on Black Friday when the deals are already so good? It's impossible. We recommend just starting your shopping now. Gamers should consider this Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop , which is currently on sal



Save $10: As of Oct. 26, buy a six- or 12-month Book of the Month gift subscription and save $10 using the code EARLY10. This drops six-month subscriptions to $79.99 and 12-month subscriptions to $159.99. If you know an avid reader who isn't already subscribed to Book of the Month , we've found the perfect gift idea for you. Select Book of the Month gift subscriptions are on sale for $10 off as o



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As well as being a brilliantly tense show that's managed to break records and set trends , Squid Game is also packed full of twists. We get sucked in with the life-or-death games and the creepy pastel colours, and then bam — something happens completely out of the blue that pulls the rug right out from under us. The biggest of these, of course, is the revelation in the show's final episode ( spoi



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Regardless of what other details about Paramount’s forthcoming Sonic the Hedgehog sequel drop ahead of the movie’s launch , people are going to want to check it out—if only to witness a new version of Knuckles the Echidna voiced by one Idris Elba of The Suicide Squad and Luther fame. Read more...




VoIP UK DDoS Attack•
Several companies have been targeted in recent weeks, according to an industry body.



Enlarge / Light's depth perception relies on trigonometry and allows it to measure the distance to each pixel out to 1,000 m. (credit: Light) So far, almost every autonomous vehicle we've encountered uses lidar to determine how far away things are, just as the winners of the DARPA Grand Challenges did back in the early 2000s . But not every AV will use lidar in the future; there are other sensors



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One of the main complaints players had about Returnal , aside from the high level of difficulty, is that, until now, there was no real way to save your game in the middle of a run. Sure, you could leave your PS5 on or put it in rest mode, but if there was a power outage or an overnight automatic system software update, you'd lose all of your progress. Given that runs can last several hours, not h



An as-yet-unidentified threat actor has been observed exploiting a vulnerability in time and billing system BillQuick to deploy ransomware . Cybersecurity sleuths at Huntress were triggered by a malicious incident at a US engineering company managed by one of its partners. Investigating the incident, the researchers discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in BillQuick Web Suite 2020. “Our team w



We're sure many of you will be hunting for the best Black Friday deals closer to the event itself, but we've spotted an unbelievable discount on Star Wars Squadrons right now, so much so that it's even cheaper than your lunch. If you've been looking at this game in particular, then you won't need to wait until November 26 for the sales period to kick off, as it's at the lowest price we've ever se



Save $80: As of Oct. 26, Insignia's eight-quart multi pressure cooker is only $39.99 at Best Buy. That's nearly a 67% discount, which drops the larger model $20 below the price of the six-quart. Making six-hour slow-cooked green beans in 15 minutes is a luxury we all deserve. You know we love our Instant Pots around here. But when it comes to food-making functionality, multicookers are pretty ide



Qualcomm Snapdragon•
Since the first 5G phone launched in 2019, we've rapidly seen an increase in the number of next-gen handsets launched, and in late 2021 very few 4G mobiles still get released. But one tech company still thinks there's a place for them. Qualcomm is a big company that's known for making the chipsets used in most premium phones, with companies like OnePlus, Samsung, Xiaomi and Motorola using its sil



Qualcomm Snapdragon•
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While Google has moved away from Snapdragon and shifted to its in-house designed Tensor chip for the Pixel 6, Qualcomm is forging on with a new line of mobile chips designed to suit a wide range of budget- and mid-range devices. Read more...



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Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 million, in Series B funding. Camber Creek and Storm Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the Toronto-based startup’s total raised to more than CAD$35 million. Nine Four Ventures also put money in the round, along with exi



The 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge is the automaker’s first EV-only vehicle. Of course, it shares most of its design and all of its powertrain with the XC40 Recharge. But it sets itself apart with a fastback design that makes it both a more distinct vehicle and more efficient than the XC40 Recharge. Starting at $58,750, the C40 Recharge has a range of 225 miles and includes the new Range Assistant featu



Adobe Photoshop NFT•
If you're going to buy NFT art , it's important to know that you're buying the real thing — and Adobe thinks it can help. It's updating Photoshop on the desktop with a beta Content Credentials feature that, among other upgrades, helps you establish the authenticity of your NFTs. Once artists link their crypto wallets and social media accounts to Content Credentials, buyers can check that the wall



When I’m marathon training (brag), I wake up far earlier than I do for my usual weekend runs. My post-run ritual on those days is to conk out for a mid-morning nap soon after, or else doom myself to low energy levels for the rest of the day. I know I’m not alone in feeling post-workout fatigue; as this runner on Reddit Read more...



Paddling solo across the Atlantic Ocean is no ordinary mission. It requires unwavering determination, years of preparation, and cutting-edge equipment. That, and a custom-made and carefully engineered sea kayak. The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



Ever been clicking around in your Microsoft Word document and ended up dragging text to the wrong place? If so, disable dragging and dropping for text to prevent that. We’ll show you how to do that in Word. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Nashville is known for many things — bachelorette parties, hot chicken and country bars, for starters. And classic Nashville properties like the behemoth Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (a Marriott Bonvoy property) and The Hermitage Hotel, open since 1910, may already be on your radar. Among the hotel giants — including more Marriott Bonvoy and Hilton Honors properties — eyeing the ci



UK GCHQ AWS Amazon•
GHCQ, the UK’s cybersecurity agency, has awarded a cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its classified material, according to reports. First shared by the Financial Times , the deal is estimated by industry experts to be worth £500 to £1 billion over the next decade, and will reportedly boost the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence ( AI ) for the UK's intell



Early Black Friday TV deals are dropping at Samsung, and we've just spotted a massive price cut on this stunning 75-inch QLED TV. Right now, you can grab Samsung's Q80A QLED 4K Smart TV on sale for a record-low price of $1,899.99 ($2,699.99). That's a massive $800 discount and a fantastic early Black Friday TV deal on a premium 2021 display. Samsung's early Black Friday deals are limited-time off



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It felt like something of a coming-of-age party for the Chicago startup scene, a city that has long held a leading position in the larger Midwest market, when Sprout Social went public . The company would go on to become a breakout IPO success, pricing at $17 per share in the closing days of 2019 to a value of more than $123 per share today. Sprout has put together a $6.6 billion company, mostly



The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



Delve into London’s underground solution to growing food. The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .




In a remote corner of Namibia, a group consisting of community members, researchers, rangers and engineers is using tracking technology to keep tabs on desert lions, a programme aimed at managing and reducing human-lion conflict. The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



You've been conditioned to believe conspiracy theories. Or have you?! The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



The race to make cell-grown meats mainstream. The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



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Kris Holt Contributor Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget . More posts by this contributor You can preorder the Xbox Series X Mini Fridge on October 19th YouTube removes R. Kelly’s official channels Amazon is said to be working on a live audio app that sounds like it will let anyone be the DJ of their own radio show — including music. Project Mic, as the app is currently known, will re



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The U.S. is the meat in a bomb cyclone sandwich. (Ewww.) The West Coast was blasted by a monster storm on Monday and now the East Coast is being struck by a similarly fierce one. Read more...



Sometimes, you don’t need the full version of an app. Photoshop is a potent image editing tool, but the desktop version is more than you need for many purposes. To fix this, Adobe has announced a new Photoshop web app that provides a limited version of the full app’s tools. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the cash dispenser used by a popular ATM manufacturer that can be exploited to make cash withdrawals. The vulnerabilities in the Wincor Cineo ATMs with the RM3 and CMD-V5 dispensers were discovered by Positive Technologies ’ Vladimir Kononovich and independent researcher Alexey Stennikov. The researchers managed to bypass the p



If you’re short on cabinet space or are looking for a new way to organize your pots and pans, a pot rack is often a great solution for big and small kitchens alike. And you can hang one yourself using just a few tools and an hour or two of your time. Read more...



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Anytime a Doctor is about to leave the TARDIS and people start speculating about the next incarnation of the United Kingdom’s favorite time-traveler, the BBC turns into MI-6—trying to keep any possible clues or secrets of what future seasons of Doctor Who might hold out of the public’s consciousness. So while a lot of… Read more...



Amazon Clubhouse PM•
Amazon is said to be working on a live audio app that sounds like it will let anyone be the DJ of their own radio show — including music. Project Mic, as the app is currently known, will reportedly focus on the US market at first, though the launch timeline is not clear. Creators will be able to play songs from the vast Amazon Music library, according to The Verge . Along with music, it seems pro



With Juno, Up in the Air , and Young Adult , Jason Reitman made a name for himself as a fine craftsman of whip-smart comedy. Then, he hit a rough patch with a string of duds, scorched by critics ( Labor Day, Men Women and Children ) or ignored by audiences ( Tully , The Front Runner ). Perhaps smarting from this slip, he seems to have run home to get help from his dad, Ghostbusters director Ivan



It’s a big day for American Airlines frequent flyers as the carrier is out with a completely revamped elite program. Though the benefits aren’t changing, the way you achieve status is getting a big overhaul. In the days leading up to the announcement, TPG spoke with Heather Samp, managing director of member engagement, to learn more about the changes. “We are really trying to imagine and redefine



Pokemon Arceus Zoroark•
Last week, The Pokemon Company published two new trailers for Pokemon Legends: Arceus. If we want to be technical about things, they were actually the same trailer, but the video and audio were garbled the first time we saw it. When the full trailer was finally revealed, we were offered a glimpse at two new Pokemon: Hisuian Zorua and Hisuian … Continue reading



Pimax Reality QLED VR•
Facebook looks ready to reveal a brand new Oculus Quest device at its Facebook Connect event in just a few days, but now its thunder may have been stolen by rival Pimax. The premium VR headset brand has just announced what looks to be the best VR headset ever made – unfortunately, it also costs an eye-watering $2,399 (around £2,000 / AU$3,700). At its first-ever Pimax Frontier event , the company



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Whether you’re launching a brand new company or trying to revive an iconic brand , it seems like the easiest way to quickly get the first product out the door now is to release a pair of wireless earbuds —and that’s exactly what the startup behind the Palm brand is doing with the new Palm Buds Pro . Read more...



In a recent earnings call, Seagate ’s CEO Dave Mosley confirmed that it is ramping up production of its yet-to-be announced 20TB hard drive disk ( HDD ). Seagate already has a portfolio of 20TB HDDs based on the heat-assisted magnetic recording ( HAMR ) technology that it has made available only to select customers . On the other hand, the new drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) tec



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It’s long past time to face that dreaded seasonal question: What am I going to be for Halloween? The guide below is designed to help you avoid some of the most common Halloween costume pitfalls and provide tips for truly impressing the guests at your upcoming Halloween Social/Apple Bob-a-Thon. Read more...



People can be your most important catalyst for digital transformation—or the greatest obstacle. When people-related challenges to transformation progress emerge, the problems are usually very easy to identify but much harder to solve. The challenge is not awareness. Organizations realize that cloud transformations are hard and that they need highly skilled, motivated staff to carry out the projec



Earning American Airlines AAdvantage elite status is getting a big overhaul. The airline is introducing a new rewards currency, called Loyalty Points, that you’ll have to accumulate in order to hit the airline’s four elite levels. To unlock top-tier benefits, you’ll also need to fly at least 30 segments with American or its partners in a year. There’s lots more to learn, much of which was already



Paging all American Airlines flyers: The carrier is completely overhauling its elite-status program. Rebuilt from the ground up, American’s AAdvantage loyalty program is bidding farewell to its various elite-qualifying metrics in favor of a new currency, Loyalty Points. To quell your doubts, this isn’t a heartbreaking change that makes elite status totally unachievable. But, if you’ve been on the




The 65-inch LG G1 Gallery OLED TV (OLED65G1) is one of the best OLED TVs – nay, best TVs – out there right now, while the LG GX soundbar is an equally great audio accompaniment for such a high-end home cinema display. Unfortunately, both products are eye-wateringly expensive on their own, but John Lewis is now offering you the chance to grab the pair together for a fantastic bundle price. The 65-



Apple Fitness+ SharePlay•
Apple has launched a new way for Fitness+ users to work out or meditate with people in other locations through group workouts powered by SharePlay. The tech giant first teased the feature at its September 14 virtual event. Fitness+ subscribers can use SharePlay to start a group workout or meditation session with up to 32 other people while using FaceTime on an iPhone or iPad. The Fitness+ session



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Crossbeam founder and CEO Bob Moore founded his startup to help companies building sales partnerships understand their overlapping accounts, using a process called account mapping. He knew that eventually the company would benefit from a network effect as customers attracted other partners to the network. As that vision has come to fruition, it has caught the attention of investors and today the



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The labor market is changing. More workers expect to keep working in a remote manner, even if many large employers are reticent to support the movement . The longer the pandemic drags on, the more it appears that work will look quite different in the future. As TechCrunch has reported, startups have already cast their lots in with a remote future , often building their early teams across time zon



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From Legacy of Kain to Silent Hill, these franchises were killed off too soon.



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Virtual reality fitness games have become a thing. It’s rumored that Oculus is working on getting Apple Health to track VR workouts , and a leaked HTC Vive concept shows that getting sweaty in VR is definitely something headset makers are thinking about. Now popular VR fitness game Supernatural is adding a new workout… Read more...



An awesome tech gift doesn’t have to be expensive. You can buy a creative and memorable gift for less than a hundred bucks. From fun gadgets to useful tech, here are the best tech gifts for under $100 this holiday season. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Apple MacBook Pro Notch•
The new MacBook Pros came with a somewhat controversial addition – namely the notch, as previously seen on the iPhone – and an Apple exec has been defending this particular design decision. The notch is in both the new MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch , with the webcam situated in the notch atop of the display. As MacRumors spotted, in an interview in the Same Brain podcast, Apple’s Shruti Haldea,



Apple MacBook Pro Notch•
Apple’s new MacBooks are out and reviews are glowing, especially with the return of ports that’s sure to help pros in their workflows. However, a big bone of contention for many has been the notch. It’s at the top of the display which houses the camera while not getting in the way of you doing work. While we didn’t see an issue with it in our MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) review , some are still wan



New MacBook Pro price got you down? There are a couple of fantastic Dell XPS 13 deals on sale right now over at the official Dell store that will give any MacBook a run for its money - and come in much cheaper too. First up is this Dell XPS 13 for $685.99 (was $949.99) , rocking a whopping $264 discount that makes it an absolute steal considering its specs. Inside its 11th gen Intel Core i5, 8GB



“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. “You are cordially invited to join New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon, and Nicola Yoon in Realms of Ruin, a collaborative fantasy epic filled with dark magic, intrigue, and unique characters — launched online in a



Warning upfront — make sure you’re sitting down, because this is huge. American AAdvantage has completely reimagined how elite status is earned . Say goodbye to elite qualifying miles and elite qualifying dollars. Instead earning AAdvantage elite status will be significantly simplified, and won’t just account for how much you fly with American, but also how much you engage with American’s partner



Craigslist OneDrive•
A new email phishing campaign is seeing malicious actors abusing a vulnerability in the Craigslist mailing system to distribute malware . According to the report from INKY, a malicious actor (or multiple actors) somehow managed to compromise the Craigslist mailing system and started sending out notifications to active users of the platform. The email notification, a simple message with just a few



The story of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is a saga that has run and run and run all year – but there are signs that the phone is finally going to see the light of day before too long, including a hint from Samsung itself. As spotted by noted tipster Roland Quandt (via GSMArena ), support documents for the Samsung SM-G990B/DS device – believed to be the Galaxy S21 FE – have started popping up on var



GM General Motors 40000•
General Motors said it will install up to 40,000 electric vehicle chargers across North America as part of an ambitious plan to pour nearly $750 million into charging infrastructure that will help attract drivers to its electrified models. Under the program, GM will supply the charging equipment to auto dealers across the U.S. and Canada. Those dealers won’t deploy the chargers on their property



GM General Motors 40000•
GM is hoping to take charging headaches out of EVs, with a plan to install more than 40,000 destination chargers around the US and Canada and potentially give some communities their first taste of electric vehicle infrastructure. The Dealer Community Charging Program will see each dealership across GM’s brands given up to 10 chargers each to deploy, at key locations … Continue reading



You might have heard of “headless” content management systems, whereby you can run a CMS without being locked into a front-end platform. Well, a similar movement is coming to e-commerce. The latest incarnation of this movement is the news that “headless checkout” startup Rally Commerce Inc. has secured $6 million in seed funding. The wider idea here is to “decentralize” e-commerce ecosystems by a



Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. There is one certainty when it comes to Disneyland travel: Ticket prices always go up and never go down. Today, they went up again with a surprise October 2021 price increase. Theme park tickets are often the largest part of the cost of a Disneyland vacation . It’s vital to understand all the options as you plan a trip to the “happie



Enlarge / The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission is lifted above the Space Launch System rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. (credit: NASA) Last week NASA and its myriad contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft reached a significant milestone—creating a full stack of the rocket and deep-space capsule for the first time. The completed lau




Verizon Amazon Kuiper•
Amazon's internet satellites will be put to work expanding rural broadband coverage. CNBC reports Verizon is teaming with Amazon to improve fixed wireless internet access in rural areas in the US. The alliance will initially concentrate on expanding Verizon's LTE and 5G service using Amazon's Project Kuiper for "backhaul," boosting coverage in areas with little or no high-speed data. Amazon and V



Drone technology has moved from military bases to the wider world, and it’s already changing much of what we do in our daily lives. If you’re wondering why drones are everywhere, this Black Drone with Dual HD 4K Camera will help you take to the skies, shoot amazing footage, and see just why so many people love drones. And you’ll get $5 in credit in our store to use on more gear for your shoot. Ge



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Jon Fingas Contributor Jon Fingas is a contributing writer at Engadget . More posts by this contributor LG will cover nearly the entire cost of GM’s Chevy Bolt EV recall Lyft now lets you pay for your Tinder date’s ride Amazon’s internet satellites will be put to work expanding rural broadband coverage. CNBC reports Verizon is teaming with Amazon to improve fixed wireless internet access in rural



Starting in early November, more than 100 Best Buy stores will start offering same-day repairs on Samsung Galaxy phones, which will create a more Apple-like experience. With this many stores offering the service, there’s likely one near you. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Over the past decade, Testlio has grown exponentially and positioned itself as an “Elance for Software Testing.” In addition to its own team of 150 or so, the company now commands an army of 10,000+ vetted freelance testers across 150 countries



NASA is talking about a new joint project it’s going to be conducting with the Naval Research Laboratory that’s dedicated to studying the origin of solar energetic particles. The mission is called the UVSC Pathfinder, UVSC is short for Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph Pathfinder. The mission is ready to launch and will head into orbit by tagging along with STPSat-6, which is … Continue reading



This may come as some surprise, but Palm hasn't actually been very active in the past decade or so. Now, however, the company is back with a new product: a pair of wireless earbuds called the Palm Buds Pro . A very short history of Palm: The company was renowned for its smart handheld devices until Apple's iPhone pretty much destroyed that entire category. Palm then struggled and changed owners u



Amazon Kindle Paperwhite•
Confession: I've finished a startlingly low number of books since I finished high school. It's not that I dislike books or struggle with comprehension or anything like that. Instead, my particular brand of ADHD makes it difficult to find motivation to start and focus when I do, plus I just don't like holding books in my hands that much. Depending on their size, both paperbacks and hardcovers can



Posts from Reddit's many relationship forums have become so ubiquitous that it's not uncommon to see people using their format as a meme on places other than Reddit: someone in conflict with another person in their life lists their age, the other person's age, then asks for advice. Tweet may have been deleted It's a simple format that's had a ripple effect on the internet. Popular Twitter, Instag



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Benedict Cumberbatch reports on the status of Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor are teaming up for a new sci-fi romantic comedy. Meet Claire Redfield in a new Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City featurette. Plus, updates from Doctor Who , Percy Jackson , and… Read more...



Mozilla Firefox API•
Mozilla's Firefox browser team has cracked the whip on malicious add-ons , blocking access to them despite their large user base of about 455,000 installations. Mozilla hasn’t shared what led them to the offering software, but its developers discovered that the malicious add-ons were misusing the proxy API in the popular web browser , which helps govern how it connects to the internet. In a blog



The Adobe Max virtual creativity conference has just kicked off, with the revelation that a pair of smart new AI masking features are coming to Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic . The new AI-powered masking tools for Adobe’s photo editor are RTX accelerated, so those with Nvidia GPUs benefit from snappy performance, and they come in the form of ‘Select Sky’ and ‘Select Subject’ tools. Read ou



A couple of years ago at Adobe MAX, we saw the company launch the Content Authenticity Initiative. This allowed content creators to take ownership over their work while at the same time preventing theft and potentially even stemming the flow of misinformation. Today, two years after the Content Authenticity Initiative was introduced, Adobe announced that it’s expanding the feature with … Continue



Adobe Photoshop AI•
Adobe has unveiled its latest Photoshop update on desktop and iPad for its Adobe Max 2021 event, and as with the last few versions, the most interesting features are powered by AI. Chief among those is the "Hover Auto-masking Object Selection Tool" that allows you to select a scene object simply by hovering your mouse over it. The feature is really as simple as that, as Adobe's Sensei AI kicks in



The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2021 is finally out, with a handful of aesthetic upgrades and a few long-awaited improvements to one of the best ereaders on the market, which hasn’t been updated since the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2018 . The big upgrades to the Kindle Paperwhite 2021 are a much larger 6.8-inch e-ink screen than the 6-inch display on its predecessor. The ereader also has a USB-C port,



Photoshop has been given a generous set of upgrades during the Adobe Max 2021 conference – and the big news is that Adobe is bringing its photo-editing beast to web browsers with the beta launch of Photoshop on Web. This isn't the first time Adobe has launched an online version of Photoshop, with the now-defunct Photoshop Express web app a previous option for amateur photographers. Adobe Spark al



Oura Smart Ring Tracking•
Smart ring company Oura has announced a new version of its tiny fitness tracker, with big upgrades that should make it a viable alternative to wrist-worn fitness trackers from the likes of Fitbit . The new ring is a successor to the Oura 2 , which currently holds our top spot as the best sleep tracker of 2021 thanks to its accurate metrics (made possible by frequent measuring of heart rate from y



Warehouses and distribution centers are already blanketed in security cameras, but unless someone is actively monitoring them, a lot of the footage goes unexamined. Voxel wants to change that by inviting its on-premises pixel-peeping machine-vision robots to take a closer look, notifying managers when something isn’t up to snuff. The company just raised a $3 million seed round to continue buildin



Adobe Photoshop Cloud•
Adobe has announced that it's taken "a major step forward for collaboration" by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web. The idea is not to do let you do complex work from a web page, but allow collaborators to open and view your work from a browser to provide comments and feedback — much as you can with a Google Doc. It's currently possible to store your work in Adobe's Creative C



Oura Smart Ring Tracking•
It’s been four years since Oura launched its second-generation smart ring , but the company hasn’t been out of the spotlight in all of that time. Oura rings found themselves on the fingers of a number of high-profile figures and a number of studies used it to determine if wearable technology could predict COVID-19 symptom s. Now, the Finnish company is announcing its third-generation ring with an




Amazon Kindle Paperwhite•
One thing you can definitely say about Amazon’s Kindle: It’s not the kind of device you need to upgrade often, even if you’re an avid reader. I’ve been using the same one since late 2015, and it’s still going strong. But Amazon caught my attention with the 5th-generation Paperwhite . For the first time since the original came out, Amazon increased the display size to 6.8 inches from 6 inches, and



Adobe MAX Lightroom•
At its annual Max conference, Adobe detailed some enhancements that are coming to its Lightroom and Lightroom Classic software suites . To start, the company is introducing a “re-envisioned” set of selective adjustment tools. Set to make their way to all devices where you can access Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, the tools are accessible via a newly added masking button. Much like you can do in



Adobe Fresco has given artists and designers the ability to draw and paint with lifelike digital materials for two years now. Last fall, the company expanded the app to iPhone , but this year the updates are much more robust. With the additions announced today at its annual Adobe Max design conference, the company gives its free-to-use drawing and painting app handy tools that expand how and what



Game Two Shantae Half•
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What tabletop games did our ancestors play in 1000 BC? A new research project wants to find out, and make them playable online too.



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In 200 million years, our far-flung continents may join up again. It reminds us of humans' tiny place in this intergalactic drama.



Oura Smart Ring Tracking•
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You might have seen headlines last year about a smart ring being used by NBA and WNBA players as part of reopening plans to keep athletes safe during the the pandemic. Maybe you read a few studies that mentioned a smart ring that might be able to detect infections —including covid-19—early. Or perhaps you saw it on … Read more...



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Sony may have been the first big company to get ebook readers with electronic ink screens into the hands of consumers, Amazon’s Kindle has since become the de facto e-reader of choice for most buyers. The newest Kindle Paperwhite, the fifth generation of Amazon’s flagship e-reader, remains the best E Ink device you… Read more...



Adobe Photoshop Cloud•
While Adobe MAX is always a big day for Photoshop fans, it looks like it’s a big day for Illustrator users as well. Adobe today announced new features for Illustrator across both the desktop and iPad implementations of the app. In addition, Adobe announced new collaborative features for Creative Cloud that will see Illustrator heading to web browsers in some … Continue reading



Adobe Photoshop iPad•
Adobe MAX is here, and the company’s most popular editing software is unsurprisingly getting a host of updates for the occasion. The most significant updates are landing on Photoshop for desktop, but we’re also seeing some big new features ship for Photoshop for iPad. As we’ve frequently seen over the last few years, Adobe’s Sensei AI is behind many of … Continue reading



Cordless vacuums have grown up. No longer merely accessories to a good clean, models like LG’s new CordZero A939 are powerful, long-lasting, and flexible enough to be your daily go-to, rather than just tidying up around the edges. For maximum convenience, though, this $999 vacuum – and its imposing All-in-One Tower base station – promises to empty itself. It slots … Continue reading



For 2021, Amazon is splitting the Kindle Paperwhite line in two. Yes, there’s a new $139.99 Paperwhite model, with a bigger display and longer battery, but it’s joined by the first Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition. At $189.99 it promises to better bridge the gap between Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis, including the long-awaited addition of some new features. Both the regular … Continue reading



DeFi Cartesi Immunefi•
35TechCrunch / 5h
Traditional Web site and app bug bounty platforms, such as HackerOne and BugCrowd, have been successful in that old-world model. But there is a massive difference between the existing “Web 2.0” bug bounties and the new era of “Web 3.0” bugs associated with blockchains and crypto. In the era of Decentralised Finance (DeFi), Web 3.0 bug bounties take on the critical nature of being associated with



Oura Smart Ring Tracking•
21TechCrunch / 5h
In early 2017, Motiv captured the tech press’ imagination by demonstrating how wearable fitness tracking could live beyond the wrist. Ultimately, however, exercise wasn’t enough for the company, which quickly looked to expanding into things like biometric device unlock. For Oura, on the other hand, health has been more than enough. In fact, the company had a banner 2020, as organizations sought a



As computing power increases exponentially, the ability to secure our data against brute force and other types of attacks gets more complicated, with the scale and sophistication of cyberattacks continuing to challenge companies’ ability to implement effective data access control and encryption. T o increase data security, Canberra, Australia-based quantum cybersecurity solution provider Quintess



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HiveWatch , an LA-based startup that uses multi-sensor fusion to help companies better respond to physical security threats, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain . The former Twitter execs — Costolo as CEO and COO, and Bain served as COO — say HiveWatch resonated with them because of the pain they experienced scaling their own physical security programs. ”



Admix Raises Series•
Last year we covered adtech startup Admix’s $7 million Series A funding. The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited. Today Admix is doubling



Adobe Photoshop Cloud•
Over the course of the last few years, Adobe has gone all-in on AI. At its MAX conference this year, that’s once again on full display across updates for virtually all of its products, powered by its Sensei AI platform. Those range from smarter masking tools and preset recommendations in Lightroom to the ability to transfer colors between images in Photoshop, all the way to a body tracker in Char



Amazon Kindle Paperwhite•
I just pulled my iPhone off my Qi charger and tossed on the new Kindle. Honestly, not a sentence I ever expected to write. I realize this isn’t an exciting sentiment — certainly not in 2021 — but let’s face it, the pace of e-reader innovation is downright glacial compared to the rest of the industry. This is due, in no small part, to the fact that the competition has dwindled. Formerly big player



Adobe is launching new tools in beta today to help creatives ensure that their work isn’t stolen and for the public to see how images were created (and potentially manipulated). The company, together with a set of partners, first launched its Content Authenticity Initiative two years ago. Today’s work expands on this mission to preserve provenance and attribution data for digital content in order




Adobe Behance Adds•
At its annual MAX conference , Adobe today announced a number of interesting updates to its Behance portfolio site for creatives. According to Adobe over 160 million people visited the site in the last year and viewed the work of the creatives on the site over 2.25 billion times. That’s a highly active community and it’s maybe no surprise then that the company is adding a number of new features t



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As every parent knows, children are master negotiators who are good at identifying (and capitalizing) upon your weaknesses. “Kids are amazing at picking up signals,” said Gaëtan Pellerin, a negotiation expert and author of the book “ Mindful NEGOtiation: Becoming More Aware in the Moment, Conquering Your Ego and… Read more...



While “zero-day attacks” are bad enough—they’re named that because developers have had zero days to deal with the vulnerability before it’s out in the open—zero-click attacks are concerning in a different way. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



If you’ve always wanted a Bugatti Chiron, there’s still hope. Bugatti’s 500-unit production run for the Chiron is entering its final phase. The automaker will only produce 40 more Chirons before calling it a day, but there’s a catch: You only choose between Chiron Pur Sport and Chiron Super Sport. What’s the difference, you say? Both vehicles are derivatives of … Continue reading



Record Video Camera•
Visual communications company Prezi has rolled out a range of new features for its video presentation software in an effort to combat issues encountered by remote employees during the pandemic. The Prezi Video update builds upon the foundations put in place over the last 18 months with additions designed to create a new “user experience”, the company says. For example, it’s now easier to toggle b



U-Boat Worx has revealed its latest addition to its fleet of submarine models called the Super Sub. The design features a long tail and advanced wing, making it the most hydrodynamic submarine on the market. U-Boat Worx also integrates four thrusters delivering 60 kW of power for steep 30-degree climbs and dives. The manufacturer says the submarine delivers smooth and … Continue reading



Eight years ago, Nike decided it was time to expand the Nike Sports Research Lab (NSRL), which was housed in the Mia Hamm building across company headquarters. Now a full five times the size of its former self, the NSRL, which occupies the top floor of the brand-new LeBron James Innovation Center, is big enough to allow collaboration among athletes, researchers and innovators as they develop the



Apple One November 3•
Apple announced their own subscription-based workout service called Apple Fitness Plus service last year alongside the Apple Watch 6 . Initially launched in only 6 countries, Apple has now confirmed it'll be landing on iPhones and other gadgets in 15 more countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE on November 3. The workout service brings in popular workouts to one service, including HIIT, yoga



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Wealthier countries are going to be several years late in delivering their promises to give money to poorer countries to help adjust to the impacts of climate change, the United Nations said Monday. A new report shows where wealthier countries could start finding extra money: their increasingly beefy military budgets. Read more...



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Anyone purchasing something online has had that one instance where the delivery method failed. Across Latin America, e-commerce purchases are expected to grow by double-digits annually by 2024. That means finding trustworthy — and cost effective — ways to deliver those packages will become more important. Enter Skydropx , a Mexico City-based logistics management company that enables businesses to



24Lifehacker / 6h
With the IRS still sending out a slew of letters relating to 2020 tax returns, you might be wondering if the letter you’ve received is legitimate and not a scam. The short answer is to verify directly with the IRS if you get a letter that asks you for personal information or a payment for back taxes, but there’s also… Read more...



Mars Folding Bike New•
25Mashable / 6h
The electric bike scene is booming . In the past few months, new battery-powered two-wheelers have come out each week claiming to be faster, lighter, and more battery efficient than the next. But it's the tech hidden within the frame that's defining the newest crop of powered bicycles. More bikes are connected to smartphones and mobile apps with sensors for everything from fall detection to crash



As you probably know, VPNs are like disguises for the data you send from your computer, your phone, your tablet, and any other internet-connected device. Your ISP sees that you’re sending encrypted traffic to a VPN server, but they have no idea what’s inside. VPNs also help protect your sensitive data from cybercriminals when you’re on public networks and using websites that aren’t equipped with



The long-rumored news has finally rung true: Marriott Bonvoy will transition to dynamic award pricing. You read that right. Starting in March 2022 (the exact date remains to be announced), the hotel group will remove its award charts with set redemption rates. When this happens, hotels will be able to change their award pricing night by night. The good news is that you have until March 2022 to lo



NYSE-listed e-commerce platform Jumia experienced a shift in shopping habits across its markets in Africa last year, as more shoppers bought everyday products as opposed to electronics. Shopping for essentials such as foodstuff, fashion and beauty products, saw Jumia’s total sales value of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods grow by 13 percentage points last year from 44% in 2019, according to the newly r



It’s a huge day for Marriott Bonvoy. In addition to the program announcing that elite status will be extended , it has also been announced that major changes will be made to Bonvoy award pricing, and odds are that OMAAT readers aren’t going to be happy… Marriott Bonvoy is eliminating award charts Marriott Bonvoy will be eliminating its current award charts, instead moving towards “flexible points



2022 Marriott Bonvoy MB•
Some major Marriott Bonvoy updates have been announced today. In addition to the introduction of dynamic award pricing , Marriott is also extending elite status, points, free night certificates, suite upgrades, and more. Let’s go over all the details. Marriott Bonvoy elite status extended through February 2023 Last year we saw most loyalty programs extend elite status by a year due to the pandemi



Marriott is extending elite status again, extending free night and suite upgrade certificates, and making free night certificates easier to use. And they're getting rid of award charts, moving to a more revenue-based redemption system starting in March. Continue reading ...



Pimax Reality QLED VR•
Virtual reality games and hardware have increased in popularity over the last few years, leading many fans of VR to hope for improved hardware. Pimax has revealed a new virtual-reality headset with impressive specifications called the Pimax Reality 12K QLED. That headset has eye-tracking, full-body tracking, and up to 200-hertz refresh rates. Pimax says the goals with its new headset … Continue r



Master & Dynamic has staked its name on its mix of refined design, premium materials and crisp, clear audio quality. The company has a number of models under its belt, including wired, wireless and noise-cancelling headphones , in addition to true wireless earbuds and a concrete speaker . Now M&D is venturing into uncharted sonic territory: gaming headsets. With the MG20, the company has built a




Three years after releasing a teensy phone designed to act as a companion for your primary device, the latest incarnation of Palm is back with a new product: a set of true wireless earbuds. Former designers from Beats by Dre and Samsung created the Palm Buds Pro. Palm says it researched which features consumers want most from wireless earbuds, and it seems to have checked off a lot of the right b



We talked before about one lucky collector who reached out to Lamborghini’s Polo Storico, the arm of the automaker responsible for customizing vehicles and asked for something quite a bit different. The collector wanted Lamborghini to completely re-create the 1971 Lamborghini Countach LP 500 show car used to reveal the now iconic Countach to the world. Unfortunately, the original show … Continue



If you had asked me the other week which consumer electronics companies have yet to get into the wireless earbud business, I probably would have stared at you blankly for a while. Over the past few years, it seems like everyone has launched at least one pair of Bluetooth buds. There was, however, at least one hold out. Remember Palm? Or, more specifically, remember when TCL heloed launched a Palm



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Misinformation and disinformation content has continued to increase across social media channels, and its effects have impacted every type of organization, from the public to private organizations. A Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup called Cyabra has built a SaaS platform that measures authenticity and impact within the online conversation, detects false information and its authors, and further ana



From our stacks: “Masks inspired by the study of fish heads. 1. Fish that was born with a crown-plate. 2. Fish that sobs. 3. Singing fish. 4. Fish that pricks. 5. Sensual fish. 6. Fish with frowzy fins. 7. Sea sprite. 8. Fish with the bulbous nose.” By Jean Goodwin, from Research - Design in Nature . Field Museum of Natural History, School of the Art Institute. Chicago 1924-25. Chicago: John Gilb



23Lifehacker / 6h
People love to denigrate the sexy costume. “Why does a lobster need to be sexy?” they will ask, clutching their pearls and shouting to God in heaven. “Why would someone want to dress up as a horny Bob Ross ?” Read more...



21Wired / 6h
Spacecraft help researchers monitor environmental problems on Earth, like the overgrowth of nonnative species and deforestation.



20Wired / 6h
The prosthetics industry and military have a long history that doesn’t serve most people with limb difference. It’s time for a justice-oriented approach.



Gizmodo / 6h
If there was ever any doubt that video games are a lucrative business, the fact that Master & Dynamic—a company known for its beautifully crafted headphones that sound amazing and cost a small fortune—is introducing its first set of wireless gaming headphones is proof that everyone wants a piece of the action. Read more...



Android and Google go together like peanut butter and jelly, but not everyone likes peanut butter. Avoiding Google’s prominent apps in Android is tough, but there are plenty of alternatives out there. We’ll show you the best of the bunch. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Lawmakers pressed the executives on the mounting concerns that their services harm children and teenagers.



We're barely out of the pre-orders phase but Amazon's early Black Friday deals have already yielded a price cut on both the new Apple MacBook Pro 14 and Pro 16 - now starting at $1,949.99 . Ok, so $50 off across the board isn't the biggest price cut in the world, but it's the first discount from this retailer and to date the lowest price possible on these stunning new ultrabooks. We've seen Amazo



Blackstone GSR T. Global•
Medable , a patient-focused clinical research company offering a cloud offering for adoption of digital and decentralized clinical trials, brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding — its fourth round since 2020 — to give it a valuation of $2.1 billion. Medable’s software-as-a-service connects patients, trial sites and clinical trial teams to streamline the design, recr



Bentley Mulliner is on a roll. The British automaker’s in-house bespoke division has now unveiled the Bentley Bentayga Speed Russian Ballet collection. Bentley Mulliner showcases a six-car collection inspired by Russian ballet, all based on the Bentley Bentayga Speed luxury SUV. Bentley recently teased us with a nautical-inspired group of Bentaygas, Continental GTs, and Flying Spurs at this year’



Anomaly $17M Healthcare•
Anomaly, a company looking to simplify medical billing, announced a $12m Series A round on Tuesday. Anomaly is a young company – it was only founded in 2020 . But it has its eye set on an old, gargantuan problem: wasteful spending in the US healthcare system. Anomaly’s platform is designed to detect irregularities in medical bills. It’s A.I.-driven process comes as a result of working with “massi



Sony’s smartphones have never quite set the world on fire. It’s one of the last storied tech companies still willing to try to sell phones, despite the dominance of Apple and Samsung. The company seemed to turn a corner with its Xperia 1 series — phones that leaned into Sony’s camera knowledge, both when it came to sensors it’s made for years and software smarts. We’ve got a review incoming for t



NASA has announced that scientists have discovered a planet transiting a star that lies outside the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. The exoplanet candidate was discovered orbiting a star in a spiral galaxy called Messier 51 (M51). That galaxy is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive appearance. Any planet outside of our solar system … Continue reading



Windows 11 10 Microsoft•
Microsoft's new Windows 11 software suite could soon enjoy better security protection than ever thanks to a rumored new release from the company. A new version of Windows Defender Preview for Windows 11 has been spotted online, offering a significant upgrade in terms of the safety tools on offer for users. Although little is known about what features the new antivirus upgrade will offer, it is th



Microsoft is working to enable users of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to customize a new authentication mechanism in a bid to further extend its anti-spoofing protection. Named Authenticated Received Chain (ARC), Microsoft has already enabled the new authentication mechanism for all Office 365 hosted mailboxes to help preserve authentication results even when an email hops through multiple in



The Sony WF-1000XM4 Wireless Earbuds sit at the top of our best true wireless earbuds list, and we awarded them five out of five stars when we tested them. But how do the crème de la crème of earbuds compare to the brand new Apple AirPods 3 ? In this guide, we'll put the Sony WF-1000XM4 Wireless Earbuds and the Apple AirPods 3 head-to-head. As a quick refresher, Apple brought out the original Air




20Mashable / 7h
When you think about VPNs, gaming consoles don’t usually come to mind. A VPN is a type of cybersecurity software that sends your web traffic on a detour through an encrypted tunnel and away from your ISP’s watchful eye. In the process, it helps protect your data when you connect to public networks or use sites that don’t prioritize security. Best of all, it can enhance your online experience whet



Roku Nielsen Digital•
Gizmodo / 7h
Roku is best known for the adorable set-top boxes and compact streaming sticks it sells, but ads have been Roku’s real cash cow for a while now. The company, which has 55.1 million active accounts, reported $532 million in revenue from its platform business, which includes advertising, in Q2. So it’s no surprise that… Read more...



Sony Xperia Pro 1 Camera•
It's finally happened – Sony's Xperia, Cyber-shot and Alpha teams have teamed up to make a phone that, for the first time, Sony considers a worthy member of its camera lineup. That phone is the Sony Xperia Pro-I, and it's a symbolic moment that's been a long time coming. But it's also a phone that feels out feels out-of-step with its computational point-and-shoot rivals. There's nothing wrong wit



Pipefy Series C SoftBank•
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Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 million since its 2015 inception. Steadfast Capital Management, Insight Partners and Redpoint eventures also put money in the round. The San Francisco-base



Multirotor drones are now commonplace and advanced enough that anyone can fly them, yet most people probably don’t understand how they stay in the air. Understanding basic drone flight physics can make you into a better drone pilot. It’s simple! Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



63Wired / 7h
Measures aimed at influencer and celebrity culture will reach into the screens of young people.



36Wired / 7h
It’s a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas—and climate change—like never before.



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It’s the perfect introduction to Age for new players, but veterans may be underwhelmed by its campaign offerings.



Devo $250M Funding TCV•
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Devo , a Boston-area startup focused on log management and cybersecurity, announced this morning that it has closed a $250 million round of funding. The new capital values Devo at $1.5 billion. Dubbed a Series E by the company, TCV led the new investment, while two other new investors — General Atlantic and Eurazeo — also took part. As is common with rounds of this size, a bevy of prior investors



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Amazon continues to be the 800-pound gorilla in the room for companies in the retail sector. Today, a startup called Fabric , which is building technology to help those other retailers — big and small — compete more squarely against that muscle specifically in fulfillment with robotics technology, “micro-fulfillment” centers and last-mile operations, is announcing $200 million in funding. It’s a



Samsung 11 Galaxy Three•
Samsung has revealed the trio of new PCs that all slot into its Galaxy Book family of offerings. The new machines include the Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Odyssey, and Galaxy Book Pro 360 5G. The three machines all run Windows 11. The first is the Galaxy Book. The thin and light machine promises a balance of value and features utilizing … Continue reading



Windows XP Microsoft•
Microsoft’s long-defunct Windows XP operating system (OS) is still alive and kicking, despite turning 20 years old this week, new data shows. According to the latest figures from Statcounter, Windows XP is still used by 0.59% of Windows users, who make up 75.4% of the desktop market. Rough estimates suggest there are now more than two billion laptops and computers in circulation worldwide, which



Samsung Galaxy S22•
The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is already leaking incessantly, despite the fact that we're not expecting to see the phones for another few months, but not all leaks are good. Case in point, it's starting to sound like the S22 Ultra won't exactly have many camera improvements. Prolific (and reputable) leaker Ice Universe tweeted out a camera specs list for the S22 Ultra complete with lens and senso



Few pieces of software have become more important during the pandemic than videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom. All Zoom Meetings accounts are getting updates that will make them significantly more useful for anyone who’s ever had difficulty understanding what someone in the meeting is saying. With the new feature, as someone speaks during a meeting, live automatic captioning is created … Co



Motorola CMA ESN UK•
Motorola has rejected suggestions that its position as both the owner of the existing Airwave public safety radio system and a supplier for the 4G Emergency Services Network (ESN ) is a conflict of interest following the launch of an investigation by the UK competition regulator. Airwave has been used by police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews since 2000 and was acquired by Motorola in



With cyber-threats evolving on a daily basis, talented workers being extremely difficult to find, and security tools being subpar compared to the arsenal of malicious actors, many organizations nowadays don’t feel confident in their ability to respond to incidents, or staying compliant with rules and legislation. These are the conclusions in a new research paper from Rackspace Technology, which a



“Contactless” appears to be the most noteworthy trend to gain attention over the past year and a half, and consumers across the globe are gravitating towards the quick, easy, and contactless shopping experience they can get online. With the boom in eCommerce , it’s clear that card-not-present (CNP) payments will likely become the norm within the next few years. In fact, recent data from Mastercar



Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer has just launched a transfer bonus for converting credit card rewards points. This is only the second such promotion we’ve ever seen from the program, and it stacks nicely with another promotion being offered from KrisFlyer at the moment. KrisFlyer’s 12-15% credit card transfer bonus The Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program is offering a bonus when you convert credit



FDA Pfizer COVID 11•
On Tuesday, a panel of experts at the FDA will meet to discuss whether Pfizer’s covid vaccine should be approved for 5-to-11-year-olds in the US . If that group says yes, the decision will go to the CDC’s immunization advisory board, known as ACIP, which meets next week. According to Anthony Fauci, if both those groups give the thumbs up, vaccinations for millions of children could begin in early




The biggest challenge for a sustained human presence on Mars or the moon is how to bring enough supplies to sustain humans. One of the biggest challenges is bringing enough fuel for the rocket transporting the crew to Mars and having enough left over for the return trip. Many scientists believe the answer to that question is to harvest some … Continue reading



100+Wired / 8h
The renowned author says his genre should inspire solutions. In his new novel, he tackles our most existential crisis.



The best blenders ensure you can blitz fresh produce into refreshing drinks in under 60 seconds. They’re certainly among the most popular items on Black Friday , as they can be a costly purchase, so a good blender deal is always welcome. In the UK, Amazon has slashed 17% off the price of the Ninja Nutri Slim Blender and Smoothie Maker QB3001UK , reducing it to £49.95, down from £59.99 . While thi



E-bike company Velotric (led by one of the founders of e-scooter hire company Lime) has launched a new electric bike that can keep running for up to 80 miles, and is far cheaper than other bikes in the same ballpark. After a successful crowdfunding campaign , the Velotric Discover is now in production with deliveries expected to begin in December. Backers will pay a reduced price of $1,299 (about



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A bizarre video message from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted to Facebook on Friday was finally deleted early Monday morning because it was spreading misinformation about covid-19. What did Bolsonaro say in the video that could be so bad it needed to be deleted for breaking Facebook’s rules? Bolsonaro claimed… Read more...



Nintendo Switch 64•
When Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack was announced during the September 23 Nintendo Direct presentation, most fans delighted in the company finally adding both N64 and Sega Genesis / Mega Drive titles to its roster of retro game collections. The hype soured a bit when the Expansion Pack's pricing was quietly announced during the following Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct, which showed t



Potential spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home follow. You have been warned. Spider-Man: No Way Home fans are at odds over the identity of a new mystery character following another tease from star Tom Holland. Speaking to Empire Magazine about the webslinger's upcoming third MCU movie, Holland revealed that No Way Home included "one of the coolest scenes I've ever shot". That sequence, Holland sa



Microsoft KB5005463 10 11•
Microsoft has started to roll out a fresh update for Windows 10 that will preload the divisive PC Health Check app onto your device via the latest Windows Update (KB5005463) , mentioning that the update won’t be pushed out to people already using the new operating system. This app is used to quickly inform users if their device meets the requirements to upgrade to the new Windows 11 OS, but given



Lucid came out of nowhere. The California company - formerly named Atieva - initially supplied EV batteries and powertrains for other vehicle manufacturers and Formula E racing. In late 2016, it unveiled the Lucid Air - a high-performance luxury battery EV - after hiring Peter Rawlinson (Tesla's Model S Vehicle Engineer) and Derek Jenkins (Mazda's head of design), and announcing it was building a



AI NextGen Supply 2022•
With the supply-chain disruptions of the past two years showing no signs of easing anytime soon, businesses are turning to a new generation of AI-powered simulations called digital twins to help them get goods and services to customers on time. These tools not only predict disruptions down the line, but suggest what to do about it. Desperate companies struggling with the collapse of just-in-time



Apple’s MacBook Air 2022 revamp has already been rumored to be arriving mid-2022, and now a heavyweight Apple leaker has underlined this, stating that it could be out in about six to eight months. This is the latest from Mark Gurman’s newsletter, as highlighted by MacRumors , in which he asserts that he expects the launch to take place in said timeframe, meaning that the MacBook Air 2022 could ar



Apple 2022 iPhone 3•
The iPhone SE (2020) is well over a year old now, so we had hoped we might see the iPhone SE 3 soon, but the latest leak suggests that’s not to be. According to leaker Ross Young , the iPhone SE 3 has been delayed until 2024, so it might not land for years. Apparently when it does land though it will have a larger 5.7 - 6.1-inch LCD screen. That’s up from 4.7 inches on the iPhone SE (2020). Young



TL;DR: The 2022 All-In-One Digital Marketing Bundle includes 12 courses — worth $2,400 altogether — for just $39.99. That's a discount of 98% as of Oct 26. Marketing is the key to making any type of business profitable, which is why using a marketing firm to spread your message is so dang expensive. If you can't afford to shell out thousands of dollars to a third-party organization, you can teach



TL;DR: Prinker's Tattoo Device is only $379.95 as of Oct. 26. Any real party-goer knows that the most popular person at the function isn't the one handing out drinks; it's the person with the tattoo kit. But adding a bit of pizazz to any party doesn't have to come with a health risk. With Prinker's Tattoo Device , you can customize and print any tattoo design , then transfer it directly to the sk



TL;DR: This 6-in-1 Transformer Table Dining Set expands and contracts to fit anywhere from 1 to 12 guests, and it's on sale now for $2,499.99 — down 21% from retail price as of Oct. 26. Formal dining rooms have been headed toward extinction over the years. Whether space is scarce , mealtime is more flexible, or that traditional values are subsiding is an argument for another time. The fact of the



TL;DR: The Memo Box Mini Smart Pillbox is only $34.99 as of Oct. 26. Whether you have to take a plethora of pills daily, or you just worry about someone who does, there is a way to get peace of mind for something that is usually more stressful than it needs to be. If you're a caregiver or just have a handful of your own medications to manage, it can be difficult to remember which pills have alrea



Autochek Seed Africa•
African automotive company Autochek has secured a $13.1 million seed round almost a year after raising $3.4 million pre-seed in November 2020 . The company, led by CEO Etop Ikpe , has seen astonishing growth in demand since launching in August last year, not just from a consumer perspective but also from its business and banking partners. And who else to lead the seed round other than pan-African



Samsung Galaxy Tab S8•
27Mashable / 9h
When Apple launched the iPhone X , the first iPhone with the notch, competitors made fun of it, and then proceeded to copy it on all of their phone models. Now, we may be entering a new era, in which non-Apple companies start launching laptops and tablets with a MacBook Pro -like notch. Leaker of tech things Steve Hemmerstoffer aka @onleaks , together with 91mobiles , has published purported rend



The best 1440p monitors might just be that sweet spot you’re looking for, and not just for PC gaming. Most 4K monitors are still expensive and limited to the 60Hz refresh rate, and while 1080p displays are still widely used, that 1920 x 1080 is slowly on its way out. Their 1440p peers, on the other hand, combine a higher resolution with fast refresh rates at affordable prices. If you want better



US Chinese Home Depot•
Engadget / 10h
Home Depot and Best Buy have pulled the products of Chinese tech surveillance makers linked to human rights abuses from their shelves, according to TechCrunch . Both US retail giants have stopped selling products from Lorex and Ezviz, while Lowe's no longer carries products by the former. Lorex is a subsidiary of Dahua Technology, whereas Ezviz is a surveillance tech brand owned by Hikvision. As




Mashable / 10h
Sometimes an effective trailer doesn't even need words to make its impact. That's certainly the case with Shudder's silent tease for Ryan Glover's The Strings , which sees weird things happening to a musician after she goes to a remote cottage to work on some new material. Extra points for that haunting musical score, and the silent presence of a lone figure who seems to keep getting closer and c



Chalo Amazon Shuttl•
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Chalo, a startup that is digitizing bus commutes in India and which recently raised $40 million in a financing round , has acquired Amazon-backed app-based office commute bus aggregator Shuttl in an all-cash deal, the two said on Tuesday. Chalo founder and chief executive Mohit Dubey said the acquisition of Shuttl, which operates thousands of buses aimed at working professionals, will help his st



Gone, apparently, are the days when cheap phones would have murky cameras and rubbish specs, as it's been confirmed that yet another low-budget handset is getting a super-high-res 108MP camera. Xiaomi has posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo regarding its upcoming Redmi Note 11 and Note 11 Pro, which are due to be launched on October 28; the company shared a teaser of the phones with an



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While fitness trackers have been around for years, the events of the past year or two have only served to make people more acutely aware of the state that their bodies are in. The assortment of sensors in smartwatches also reveals how much of our own body’s “output” can be used to indirectly measure our health or even our stress … Continue reading



Microsoft Twitch Xbox•
Engadget / 11h
Streaming to Twitch on the PS5 is relatively easy, but not so much on the Xbox Series X or S — you currently need to download the Twitch app and run through a series of steps. However, Microsoft is introducing "Console Live Streaming" on its latest update Xbox Insider preview, making Twitch access easier and more direct. It also added an Xbox Cloud Gaming beta to Xbox One, giving users of older c



The firm posts strong profits as it continues to face negative press over leaked internal documents.



Tesla $1 Trillion Wedbush•
The electric carmaker becomes the fifth such company to reach the milestone after its shares rise 12%.



An enormous new analysis of the wiring of the fruit fly brain is a milestone for the young field of modern connectomics, scientists say.



One of the most pressing questions is whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will significantly add to the company’s woes.



Ecosia World Fund Europe•
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You might have previously thought that Ecosia was a nice-to-have search engine that planted trees when you punched-in a search term. Lovely. How nice. But no. Ecosia’s founders and the network around it are far more serious about climate change than that superficial assessment might sug


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