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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal. The 'Home Alone' house is on Airbnb.



Home Alone House Airbnb•
3KMashable / 9h
The ultimate '90s holiday movie is moving from reel life to real life. This December, the original house from Home Alone is available to book for a one-night stay through Airbnb, if you're lucky. That's right, the house where Kevin McCallister spent one significant Christmas (while the rest of the family jetted off to Paris), will be the home of one lucky group of people who manage to book the fa

Anchor gets $15 million seed funding to expand its B2B autonomous billing solution


Anchor $15M Seed Rapyd•
500+TechCrunch / 11h
Companies often spend an incommensurate amount of time chasing overdue payments, which distracts them from their core businesses, and brings forth cash flow issues. The time wastage and other challenges suffered during payment collection mainly stem from a reliance on manual billing cycles and processes, which are laborious, time-consuming, and prone to mistakes and fraud. These are the gaps that

The US government is trying to save Christmas from PS5 and RTX 3080 scalpers


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100+TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
A group of Democratic lawmakers introduced the Stopping Grinch Bots Act on Monday November 29 to try and prevent bots from buying up scarce, in-demand products like PlayStation 5 consoles and the latest generation of Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards, and reselling them for an eye-watering markup. Playfully referred to as 'Grinch bots', this frustrating scalping tactic is anything but fun, using

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Square is rebranding itself as 'Block'


Engadget / 16min
Payments firm Square plans to change its name to Block as cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies become a bigger part of its business. On Wednesday, the company announced it will move forward with the rebranding on December 10th. “The name has many associated meanings for the company — building blocks, neighborhood blocks and their local businesses, communities coming together at bloc

FluBot banking malware is spreading like wildfire over SMS


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 18min
Authorities in Finland are warning that the FluBot Android malware is once again being distributed by SMS to users in the country. Finland's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-FI) recently put out an alert that scam messages are being sent out with the hope that unsuspecting users will click on a link contained within them. Clicking on this link takes them to a website that requests permission

Twitch’s “ban evasion” flag is a bigger anti-hate tactic than you might think


Ars Technica / 20min
Enlarge (credit: Twitch ) Twitch, the livestreaming service that largely caters to gamers, has exploded in popularity since being acquired by Amazon in 2014—but toxicity on the platform has also increased. This week, Twitch took an important step toward getting a handle on its applause-like "chat" feature, and it goes beyond the usual dictionary-based approach of flagging inappropriate or abusive

Deal alert: Peak season flights to St. Thomas, USVI, starting at $222


The Points Guy / 28min
With overseas travel still a bit chaotic with ever-adjusting protocols, and the new omicron variant of the coronavirus potentially adding to the turmoil, choosing a destination that has minimal entry requirements for tourists could be high on your personal travel priority list. The U.S. Virgin Islands certainly fits the bill for American travelers. The chain of islands offer the tranquility and r

Black Friday saw a huge jump in malware attacks


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 32min
As expected, cybersecurity researchers have reported a massive increase in malware attacks over the Black Friday weekend, with the number of websites attacked 50 times a day registering a jump of over 300%. Crunching the numbers collected by Capture Labs , analysts at VPN provider Surfshark noticed that the attacks on websites grew from 15 million at the start of November to 60 million on Black F

Trump Tested Positive for COVID Before Breathing His Germs on Hundreds of People


100+Futurism / 32min
A new book penned by one of former President Donald Trump’s high ranking staffers claims that the commander-in-chief tested positive for COVID-19 before interacting, mostly maskless, with countless hundreds of people in the fall of 2020. As The Guardian reported , the forthcoming book from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows describes a tense scene aboard Air Force One when it emerged

Reddit adds real-time conversation features, live upvote counts, and more


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Ars Technica / 35min
Enlarge / The Reddit logo on a mobile device. (credit: Getty Images | stockcam ) Reddit is yet again making some changes and adding features to make it more modern and competitive with other social websites and apps. For ages, comment and vote counts on Reddit posts would only update when you refreshed the page or you were the person upvoting or downvoting something. Now, a small animation will p

Report reveals which sealed NES games are the rarest of the rare


Ars Technica / 35min
Enlarge / Some copies of The Legend of Zelda might be worth less if they were made of real gold... (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images ) This summer, when a copy of Super Mario 64 sold for over $1.5 million , no one could say for sure just how rare it was to find a copy in such pristine, unopened condition. That's because Wata Games—the company that's come to dominate the market for professiona

Respawn pulls Titanfall from sale with vague promises for the future


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SlashGear / 46min
Respawn/Electronic Arts Respawn Entertainment today announced that it has delisted Titanfall, effectively removing it from sale. Titanfall was the first game Respawn Entertainment made as a new studio back in 2014, and now it seems the title is being retired. It isn’t all bad news, though, as those who own the game will still be able to play it even after it … Continue reading

Biden Admin Calls for a New Kind of Global Space Governance


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Gizmodo / 52min
About two weeks ago, Russian authorities conducted a massive missile test that blew up one of its own orbiting satellites, sending at least 1,500 pieces of dangerous debris showering across space and forcing both astronauts and nearby spacecraft to careen out of their path. Now, the Biden Administration is calling for… Read more...

OnePlus 10 will come with new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 54min
Less than 24 hours after the reveal of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 we've already had five confirmed manufacturers that will be including the new chipset in flagship phones over the next few months. The latest name to join that list is OnePlus, and it's set to feature in a handset that we expect to be called the OnePlus 10 . OnePlus CEO Pete Lau confirmed on Weibo , a Chinese social networking site, th

4 Incidents Shared Within 24 Hours Remind Just How Fun Air Travel Can Be


View from the Wing / 1h
The most common complaints on airline twitter seem to be about delays - flight delays, long lines, long hold times to get through especially when there's a flight change or cancellation. The most common things we see photos of are damaged bags, dirty planes, and other passengers not wearing masks. Positives on twitter are fewer and farther between but usually focused on the trip itself, the happy

The Matrix Reloaded Has Always Been Divisive and It Absolutely Should Be


Gizmodo / 1h
The world’s excitement for the 2003 release of The Matrix Reloaded was quantifiable. When the original Matrix opened in 1999, it grossed a respectable $28 million on its opening weekend. Four years later, Reloaded grossed almost three times that to the tune of about $92 million, one of the biggest opening weekends… Read more...

How Marriott Titanium and Ambassador Elites can claim United status in under five minutes


The Points Guy / 1h
If you refer to Marriott’s elite levels and benefits page , there’s a benefit that comes with Marriott Titanium Elite and Ambassador Elite status that’s easy to miss: United Silver elite status. This perk is granted through Marriott’s “RewardsPlus” partnership with United . This reciprocal-benefit program grants those with United Premier Gold status (or higher) complimentary Marriott Gold Elite s

Square is changing its name to Block


Jack Dorsey Square Block•
20TechCrunch / 1h
The fintech giant , effective December 10. The name change, which has been in the works for over a year , is intended to house the company’s various products — including music streaming service Tidal, Cash App, TBD, and of course, Square — under one brand. This announcement comes just days after Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down from his CEO role at Twitter, which he also co-founde

Gift Guide: The smarter home


TechCrunch / 1h
If you’re just starting to build out a smart home, look no further than Zack Whittaker’s excellent starter kit guide , which should lay the groundwork for a connected home experience. But if you’ve already taken the plunge and find yourself with the key ingredients in place for a smart home, let’s look at some options that can take it to the next level for a truly divine digital domicile. For the

What's an Audio Aura? We asked an aura expert about Spotify Wrapped's new feature


Mashable / 1h
Spotify Wrapped is here, and one of its new 2021 features is " Your Audio Aura ," a reading of your two most prominent moods as dictated by your top songs and artists of the year. Spotify collaborated with Megan Michaela Firester , a celebrity psychic medium and aura reader known professionally as Mystic Michaela , to create these personalized auras for users. On Spotify, every song you listen to

Jack Dorsey’s Square Is Now Block


Jack Dorsey Square Block•
60Wired / 1h
Payments company Square has a new name befitting its CEO's blockchain obsession.

New Amex Offers are here — save money or earn bonus points on purchases at Airbnb, Uber Eats and more


The Points Guy / 1h
As we typically see on the first day of the month, many new — and truthfully quite amazing — Amex Offers appeared in my American Express account today. And from the looks of it, many of these offers are widely available, which means there’s a good chance that your Amex Membership Rewards-earning credit card is about to save you some money or earn you bonus points. And while not necessarily new, m

Siberian Cave Yields Oldest Fossils Belonging to Enigmatic Human Species


Gizmodo / 1h
The Denisovans, a mysterious group of extinct hominins closely related to Neanderthals, didn’t leave much fossil evidence behind. A fresh dig at their former stomping grounds in Siberia has now yielded three new fossils—the oldest yet found of this species. Read more...


Google’s quantum processors take stable time crystals beyond just theory


SlashGear / 1h
Google Quantum AI Time crystals are back in the news, and not the ones from TimeSplitters. A study recently published in Nature builds upon previous research released earlier this year on time crystals, a new phase of matter that holds significant promise for the future of quantum computing. This time around, the researchers say Google’s Sycamore quantum hardware was used to observe a … Continue

NASA Scientists: SpaceX Starship “Revolutionary” for Exploring Solar System


Futurism / 1h
NASA scientists are really starting to get fired up about the idea of SpaceX’s Starship, a massive spacecraft with the goal of lugging unprecedented amounts of cargo and passengers to distant corners of our solar system, Ars Technica ‘s Eric Berger reports . “You can really take advantage of the Starship architecture and get to the outer Solar System in ways we haven’t thought about before,” NASA

Influential Astronomers Call Out NASA For Telescope With Offensive Name


Futurism / 1h
J*mes W*bb Space Telescope The controversy continues for NASA’s newest space telescope. The American Astronomical Society (AAS), an influential organization of professional astronomers, has penned a letter to NASA head Bill Nelson asking for a report on the agency’s investigation into the naming of the controversial James Webb Space Telescope. “At the Nov AAS Board meeting, a letter to NASA Admin

Hubble Space Telescope Calls Out “Hot Mess” Galactic Collision


100+Futurism / 1h
Hot Mess NASA is throwing shade at some colliding galaxies as they merge into what’s known as “interacting galaxies,” which is astrophysics speak for when galaxies, uh, collide . “This galaxy is kind of a hot mess,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tweeted in reference to galaxy ESO 239-2, which is located a cool 550 million lightyears away from Earth. The account noted that eventually, galaxy ESO 2

A Day Before the Bankruptcy Leak, Musk Quietly Hinted at Taking SpaceX Public


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100+Futurism / 1h
So we’re doing this whole thing again, huh? About two months ago, a Twitter user posted screenshots of a 2013 email SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent to employees, in which he elaborated on why he wanted to keep SpaceX private. Then, the day before yesterday, Musk suddenly replied to the months-old tweet, saying cryptically that “a lot has happened in eight years” — perhaps a hint that the billionaire is

These ancient HP printer security flaws are still exposing 150 models to attack


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
In a quest to hone their skills by analyzing a HP multifunction printer ( MFP ), cybersecurity researchers have encountered a couple of bugs that can be exploited to gain remote code execution rights. According to the researchers, the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-39237 and CVE-2021-39238, exist in the unit’s communications board and font parser. Worryingly, they date back to at least 2013

Microsoft is testing a few ways to improve Windows 11's Start menu


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Engadget / 1h
Microsoft isn't ready to backtrack on Windows 11's major design changes yet, but at least it's testing out a few new ways to customize the OS. With the latest Windows 11 Insider build (22509), you can have the revamped Start menu show more pinned apps, or more recommended apps and files, in addition to the default mode which balances the two. That's not a return to the Windows 10 Start menu that

Steve Carell shares what it was like directing his first episode of 'The Office'


32Mashable / 1h
Steve Carell is on a whole other level. Not only did the actor grace our screens as Michael Scott for seven seasons and write some fan-favorite episodes in the series (looking at you, "Casino Night"), but he tried his hand at directing on The Office , too. On the latest episode of the Office Ladies podcast , former co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey chatted all about the Season 5 episode, "

7-Eleven to make deliveries with self-driving cars in Google's hometown


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Mashable / 1h
7-Eleven just got more convenient for some California snackers. Residents of Mountain View, California (where Google is based) can order 7-Eleven goodies that will arrive in autonomous vehicles from robotics company Nuro. To start, orders will arrive in Nuro’s modified Toyota Priuses with a safety driver up front. Eventually, 7-Eleven plans to use Nuro’s autonomous bot, the R2, a smaller vehicle

Renfield Recruits Awkwafina to Take on Dracula


25Gizmodo / 1h
If you’re going to try and move against not just any lord of the night, but Nic goddamn Cage’s lord of the night, you’re going to need a team—and Universal’s latest spin on its monstrous world is starting to build one. Read more...

Microsoft is finally dropping a fix for a frustrating Your Phone issue on Surface Duo 2


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
Microsoft’s Your Phone app is finally getting a fix for one of its more frustrating limitations on the Surface Duo 2 : it can now connect to multiple Windows 11 PCs. Version 1.21111.176.0-beta_3060351 of the Your Phone app is rolling out on the Google Play Store, allowing users to choose "Add computer" when connecting their mobile phone with their PC through the Android phone app. The process isn

Looks like Razer might have its own Steam Deck soon


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
While we're still waiting on the Steam Deck , and it seems like Alienware's Concept UFO is vanished into the aether, it looks like Razer has its own handheld coming up, according to some leaked slides. Some slides from Qualcomm and spotted by VideoCardz detail a Snapdragon G3x handheld developer kit, which can apparently "play all your games". The device apparently has a 120Hz HDR OLED display, a

37 Percent of the World's Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds


Gizmodo / 2h
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population now have the opportunity to waste away their life online just like you. Specifically, around 2.9 billion (or 37%) of the world’s population have still never used the internet, with the vast majority of those people residing in developing countries. Those figures are part of… Read more...

What's the Best Way to Tell Your Kids the Truth About Santa?


Lifehacker / 2h
I may not remember much about my childhood, but I do remember this: Third grade. Mrs. Cannon’s class. She’s reading Beverly Cleary’s Superfudge . Partway through, she stops and says, “OK. Anyone who still believes in Santa, step out into the hall.” Read more...

New Google Photos Widget Puts Your Friends on Your Home Screen


How-To Geek / 2h
Google has announced many new features for Android, including a new Google Photos widget that lets you pick a friend, loved one, or pet and have their images featured on your home screen. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

AWS wants to make it easier to get to grips with machine learning


AWS Amazon SageMaker•
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Getting to grips with Machine Learning (ML) technology could soon be much easier thanks to a new service from Amazon Web Services. The company has launched Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a free, no-configuration version of its SageMaker program that lets users build and deploy ML models, in an attempt to break down barriers to the technology. AWS is also launching a new $10m AWS AI & ML Scholarship

Here's how much US consumers spent per minute on Cyber Monday


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
The holiday shopping season is far from over but we now know what products were the most popular and exactly how much consumers spent on Cyber Monday 2021 according to a new report from Adobe. As part of its Adobe Digital Economy Index , the company, known for its Creative Cloud software suite, provides a comprehensive view into the ecommerce market in the US by analyzing direct consumer transact

DAOs as the future? Hard pass, thanks


TechCrunch / 2h
Bob Greenlee Contributor Bob Greenlee is the COO of Tusk Holdings and has advised the Tezos Foundation, Circle, Neema, eToro and others in the crypto space. It seems like just yesterday that exchanges like Coinbase opened the eyes of the traditional economy to the benefits that cryptocurrencies offer as an asset class. Cryptocurrencies and other decentralized technologies have created application

Meta allows more cryptocurrency ads


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Engadget / 2h
Meta is backing away from its longstanding (if not absolute ) ban on cryptocurrency ads . As CNBC reports , Meta has greatly loosened its ban by expanding the number of regulatory licenses it accepts from three to 27. The crypto landscape has "matured and stabilized" enough to justify the change of heart, the company said, including an increased amount of government regulation that sets "clearer

Six state treasurers want Activision Blizzard to address its toxic workplace culture


Six Treasurers Blizzard•
Engadget / 2h
Following scrutiny from state and federal regulators , Activision Blizzard and its CEO Bobby Kotick now face pressure from an unexpected source. Per Axios , state treasurers from California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon, Delaware and Nevada recently contacted the company’s board of directors to discuss its “response to the challenges and investment risk exposures that face Activision.” In a le


Congress quizzes Facebook whistleblower on potential Section 230 reforms


Facebook Haugen Congress•
Engadget / 2h
Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee turned whistleblower, testified in Congress for the second time in less than two months. Speaking to the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, Haugen once again urged Congress to act to rein in Facebook. Unlike Haugen’s last Congressional hearing, during which she briefed senators on Facebook’s internal research, Wednesday’s hearing was meant to be f

10 Best Ebikes of 2022 for Commuting and Fun


Futurism / 2h
Since ebikes emerged onto the scene some 20 years ago, they’ve only grown in popularity as people look to abandon their cars for greener and healthier alternatives to commuting. Improvements to battery technology have made these power-assisted bikes lighter while improving their range. Batteries and motors have also become smaller, allowing them to fit into sleeker-looking bike frames, making ebi

An Omicron Cryptocurrency Started Spiking, Because We Are Doomed


500+Futurism / 2h
Omicron First there was the “Squid Game”-inspired crypto token that ended up being a sham . Then we got Thanksgiving parade balloons being used to sell NFTs . Absolutely nothing is sacred, with the crypto world sticking its fingers in practically every pie. In fact, not even the deadly COVID-19 pandemic is safe — one new cryptocurrency hit the crypto market this month with the same name as the sc

The Comet Leonard, the Christmas Star, and Other Things to See in December’s Night Sky


Lifehacker / 2h
There’s a lot going on in the night sky in December, from the spectacular Geminids meteor shower to Venus at its brightest. Here are some of December’s most impressive star-gazing highlights to mark on your calendar. Read more...

The US National Space Council Is Back and Focused on Security


US Biden Space Russia•
64Wired / 2h
Led by vice president Kamala Harris, the first council meeting of the Biden administration drew attention to keeping space safe for NASA and industry players.

Your Chromebook's Webcam Can Now Scan Documents, Here's How


How-To Geek / 2h
Your Chromebook’s neglected Camera app just got a lot smarter. Google is rolling out a ton of genuinely useful new features for the Chromebook Camera app, including the ability to scan documents with your webcam or crop the video feed from external cameras. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

American Express taps Opy for its first US third-party BNPL offering


American Express Opy•
TechCrunch / 2h
Credit card companies are seeking to push further into the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) market. American Express (Amex) announced today that it plans to partner with Opy, the U.S. subsidiary of Australian fintech Openpay, to allow all of its U.S. cardmembers to pay in installments for qualifying purchases in the healthcare and automotive segments. The partnership is American Express’s first third-

Coining it the modern way with this innovative crypto trading system


Popular Mechanics / 2h
The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .

See Trippy Photos Taken by a Nano Camera


Gizmodo / 2h
A team of engineers has built a camera about the size of a salt grain that’s capable of taking images of similar quality to an ordinary camera 500,000 times its size. The super-small camera takes advantage of a combination of flat optic technology and artificial intelligence to produce its images. Read more...

Ahead of public market debut, Better.com lays off 9% of its staff


TechCrunch / 2h
One day after announcing an amendment to its SPAC agreement , digital mortgage lender Better.com confirmed today that it is laying off roughly 9% of its nearly 10,000 person staff. Doing the math, that amounts to about 900 people. The company declined to comment beyond the following written statement from CFO Kevin Ryan: “A fortress balance sheet and a reduced and focused workforce together set u

'Battlefield 2042' is getting a cleaner UI and a ton of bug fixes


Engadget / 2h
Since it launched last month, Battlefield 2042 has gained a reputation for being a buggy mess, instead of a return to form for the long-running shooter franchise. So it's not too surprising to see EA rush out with a slew of post-launch fixes — let those problems fester too long, and they risk losing dedicated players to Call of Duty and Halo Infinite . With its third update, which arrives on Dece

10 Reasons to Stop Using Google Chrome


25SlashGear / 2h
Google is perhaps THE Internet company, with dozens of products and services that revolve around the technology that has kept us connected for decades. For most people, the gateway to that Internet is, in fact, another Google product, with Chrome taking up the lion’s share of the browser market. It’s arguable that Google Chrome is the most used piece of … Continue reading

Give the gift of reliable backup electricity with EcoFlow Portable Power Stations


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Alt. text: Christmas Sale of $1100 off portable power station that looks like a home in a wintered forest Electricity is at the heart of so many gifts during the holiday season. So give the gift that will keep all those other gifts running. Give the ones you love EcoFlow portable power stations. Designed to be sleek and stylish, EcoFlow’s portable power stations provide reliable backup power to a

Facebook details its takedown of a mass-harassment network


Engadget / 2h
Meta/Facebook is today updating the world on how its efforts to remove fake and adversarial networks from its platform are going. The social network has released a new report saying that it has successfully closed down a number of networks for Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB). But in addition to networks of fake profiles all working in tandem, the company has also shed some light on how it

Match settles legal fight with Tinder founders for $441m


Match Tinder $441M•
20BBC News - Technology / 2h
Dating app Tinder's founders claimed in court that Match had undervalued the firm by $10bn in 2017.

This Summer's Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Roasted the Christmas Tree Crop


Gizmodo / 2h
Climate change is the latest combatant in the war on Christmas. This summer’s record-smashing heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was an all-out assault on Christmas trees, and the impacts could reverberate not just this winter but for years to come. Read more...

How Hackers Tricked 300,000 Android Users into Downloading Password-Stealing Malware


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25Lifehacker / 3h
A recent report from cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric reveals that over 300,000 Android users installed trojan apps that secretly stole their banking information. While the apps have been removed and deactivated by Google, the developers used unique methods to deploy the malware that all Android users need to be wary… Read more...

16 mistakes cruisers make on cruise ship sea days


The Points Guy / 3h
If you’re new to cruising and notice sea days on your itinerary, you might wonder what you could possibly do on a day when your ship does not stop in a port of call but instead stays out in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. Rest assured, sea days are anything but boring. In fact, experienced cruisers often seek out itineraries that have several sea days. On these special days you can

Renewables are set to soar


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MIT Technology Review / 3h
Construction of solar farms, wind turbines, and other sources of renewable power will soar over the next five years as nations set stricter climate policies and more ambitious emissions targets. New renewable electricity capacity will set another record this year, at 290 gigawatts, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. That’s roughly equivalent to building nearly 300 nuc

How to Turn Off Your Nintendo Switch


How-To Geek / 3h
Although putting your Nintendo Switch to sleep is easy, powering down your Switch off completely (or restarting it) requires an extra step that’s not obvious. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›


First Case of Omicron Variant Detected in the U.S.


34Gizmodo / 3h
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has officially reached the United States. This afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of the worrying variant, involving a California resident who recently returned from South Africa, where the variant was first identified. The patient… Read more...

Omicron found in US—plus 23 other countries in 5 of 6 global regions


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Ars Technica / 3h
Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to the president, delivers an update on the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The first case of the omicron variant in the United States has been confirmed today in California. (credit: Get

CDC: COVID-19 Omicron is in the US


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SlashGear / 3h
Image: Crocothery / Shutterstock The first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant has been identified in America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed today. A coronavirus infection in California was diagnosed as the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) using genomic sequencing at the University of California, San Francisco. Details of the specific case are still in short supply

Godfall leads the final batch of PlayStation Plus games for 2021


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23SlashGear / 3h
With the beginning of December comes a new batch of PlayStation Plus games. 2021 has seen some solid months for PlayStation Plus and others that may have fallen short of expectations, but it seems that the service will end the year on a high note. As usual, there will be three games up for grabs in December, but they’re joining … Continue reading

Windows 11 Will Get Taskbar Clocks on Multiple Monitors Soon


25How-To Geek / 3h
Microsoft has announced Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509, and it brings with it some much-needed taskbar and start menu improvements, including showing the clock on multiple monitors. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Thousands of AT&T Subscribers Infected With Data-Pilfering Malware, Researchers Say


59Gizmodo / 3h
Unpatched, years-old vulnerabilities in networking devices have allowed a noxious malware to infect thousands of AT&T customers in the U.S., a new report from a Chinese cybersecurity company claims. The malware basically functions as a backdoor, one that could allow an attacker to penetrate networks, steal data, and… Read more...

What’s With All The Hype About Austin? (Jon Stewart Figured It Out 7 Years Ago)


View from the Wing / 3h
Austin is cheaper and administratively easier than heavily taxed and regulated California, and cheaper and warmer than New York. And it's still a place that Californians and New Yorkers are willing to call home. Continue reading ...

I like Microsoft Edge. But if it doesn’t get less annoying, I’ll switch again


Ars Technica / 3h
Enlarge / If Microsoft really wants to "put you first," it needs to tweak its strategy with Edge. (credit: Microsoft) I've been a Microsoft Edge user for a little over two years now, starting right around when the first macOS preview version was released. As with many decisions, I arrived at it using a combination of evidence-based reasoning (it works on all the platforms I use, it retains the sp

The one thing that American should fix about long-haul business class


38The Points Guy / 3h
American’s international business-class offering can be boiled down to one word: inconsistent. And no, I’m not talking about the inflight service or the food and beverage offerings. Those things vary on American (and its competitors) depending on the crew, caterers and more. Rather, I’m referring to the “hard” product: the seat itself. Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free new b

Hawkeye Just Gave Us a Crucial Marvel Origin Story and a Whole Lot of Action


Gizmodo / 3h
The third episode of Disney+ and Marvel’s Hawkeye peaked before Clint Barton or Kate Bishop were ever on screen. Titled “Echoes,” the episode began with a flashback origin story of sorts for Maya Lopez, the character we met at the very end of the second episode and who has her own Marvel Studios series called Echo on… Read more...

You Deserve a Big Ol' Pan of Baked Brie


40Lifehacker / 3h
Brie en croute is an excessive dish. Brie, on its own, served at room temperature without adornment, is already delightful: soft and spreadable, creamy and a little funky, a cheese that does not need to be melted. Read more...

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth


200+Futurism / 3h
DIY Geoengineering Surprise: It’d actually be much cheaper to artificially change the world’s climate than you probably think. So cheap, in fact, that one scientist believes that some countries might soon geoengineer the planet in response to climate change. Kate Ricke, a climate scientist and researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told Wired that since geoengineering is actually

Bad News, Boys! Vaping Linked to Erectile Dysfunction


1KFuturism / 3h
Scientists have discovered yet another reason why vaping sucks, and this time, it’s affecting a whole different organ from your lungs. A joint study conducted by New York University and Johns Hopkins has found that men who smoke e-cigarettes are more 2.4 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction than their non-vaping counterparts — a sorry state of affairs for those who use e-cigs because th

How to execute an amplified marketing strategy


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TechCrunch / 3h
Lindsay Tjepkema Contributor Lindsay Tjepkema is the CEO of Casted . Content marketers today face a constant struggle between keeping up with the volume of content they’re expected to produce and getting creative to produce rich, quality work that deeply impacts their audience. Content marketing is recognized as a powerful tool, driving higher conversions than traditional marketing. However, the

Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds


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New research this week finds that people hospitalized with severe covid-19 often pay a heavy price afterward. The study concluded that these survivors were more than twice as likely to die in the subsequent 12 months compared to people who had tested negative for the virus. This relatively increased risk of death was… Read more...

How the Intel VPro Platform® Helps IT Pros Become IT Heroes


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Barnes & Noble releases its first Nook GlowLight e-reader in four years


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Barnes & Noble hasn't done as much lately to push e-readers forward as some of its rivals , but it's starting to catch up. TechCrunch notes the bookseller has launched the Nook GlowLight 4, its first entry in the mid-tier e-reader line since 2017's GlowLight 3. A lot has changed in four years, if not as much as you might think — this is as much about dragging the device into the modern era as any

Amazon Lex brings automated call transcript review to chatbot building


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Today, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced the Amazon Lex automated chat bot designer in preview , a new feature that simplifies the chatbot training and design process by bringing a level of automation to it. “We are excited to announce the Amazon Lex automated chat bot designer, a new capability that reduces bot design from weeks to just hours,” Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Ama

A RISC-V Raspberry Pi rival is about to hit the market


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Shanghai-based StarFive has announced a new single-board computer (SBC) based on the RISC-V architecture, which is being touted as the spiritual replacement for the cancelled BeagleV . StarFive hails the upcoming VisionFive V1 as the world's first generation of affordable RISC-V boards designed to run Linux , just as it did with BeagleV at the start of the year, before shelving the project in Jul

Saga of Tiny Drill Hole in the ISS Continues as Russia Sends Investigation to Police


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The results of a Roscosmos investigation into a hole in the International Space Station have been handed over to “law enforcement authorities,” Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti claims . The incident happened three years ago, when a leaky drill hole was detected in the Russian Soyuz MS-09 module. Further… Read more...


Who is writing Spotify Wrapped's cringe copy? I just want to talk.


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There's a lesson I learned in eighth grade, back when I thought buying aggressively colorful, collared shirts from Aéropostale was going to make me cool. That lesson? There are very few things less cool than trying to being cool. That's what comes to mind when I look at Spotify's latest campaign for its annual year-end product, Wrapped. The music service had its big day on Wednesday, Dec. 1, when

New York’s Attorney General Demands Amazon Rehire Worker Who Protested the Company's Covid-19 Conditions


Gizmodo / 3h
Amazon’s awful treatment of warehouse workers is in law enforcement’s crosshairs yet again. This time, New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the e-commerce giant requesting that the state’s courts mandate it take better protocols to protect its workers—and… Read more...

Facebook Mobile Mixed Reality updates may change the way you see VR forever


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Meta has announced the final software update of 2021 for the Meta Quest – formerly known as the Oculus Quest – and it seems like it’s a big one. Playing into the “metaverse” angle behind Facebook’s name change to Meta, there actually isn’t a ton that has to do with VR gaming in this update. Instead, much of it is … Continue reading

This all-new version of Microsoft Teams will take over your working life


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Small businesses will now be able to utilise video conferencing software and online collaboration tool much easier with the launch of the first ever stand-alone version of Microsoft Teams . Available now, Teams Essentials provides small businesses with an affordable meeting solution that is ideal for hybrid work environments. At just $4 per user per month, the software giant's new offering is one

[FINAL WEEK] Southwest Credit Cards Have Gotten Better, With A Biggest-Ever 100,000 Point Offer


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Chase Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credit cards are receiving several new features, and their consumer cards all have new 100,000 point initial bonus offers, all without taking anything away or raising annual fees. Continue reading ...

T-minus three days left to save on passes to TC Sessions: Space 2021


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Countdowns aren’t just for space launches, you know. They’re also for serious savings on passes to the all-virtual TechCrunch Sessions: Space event which, no spoiler alert here, also includes expert presentations on the business of space launches . Right now, you have only T-minus three days left to save $100 on the price of admission to our two-day conference designed specifically for the vision

AWS launches new SageMaker features to make scaling machine learning easier


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At its annual re:Invent conference , AWS today rolled out a slew of new features for SageMaker, the company’s managed service for building, training and deploying machine learning (ML) models. Swami Sivasubramanian, the vice president of machine learning at Amazon, said the new features aim to make it easier for users to scale machine learning in their organizations. Firstly, AWS launched a new S

New trailer for The Matrix Resurrections is heavy on the déjà vu


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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise their respective starring roles as Neo and Trinity in The Matrix Resurrections . We're just a few weeks away from the release of The Matrix Resurrections , and Warner Bros. is whetting our appetites with a shiny new trailer. As we've reported previously , series writers/directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski didn't originally intend to make another Matrix fil

Get more from your points with these 7 transfer bonuses — including new offers from Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines


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Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. If you truly want to maximize your miles, periodic transfer bonuses can offer lucrative opportunities for fantastic points redemptions . You can sometimes get up to 50% more value from your points by transferring them to a specific airline or hotel partner during one of these bonuses. To help make it easier for you to track these off

The PR Firms Doing Big Oil’s Dirty Work


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Oil companies haven’t acted alone in deceiving the public and stopping climate action. They’ve had a major assist from some of the world’s most profitable public relations companies, a relationship that has gone largely unexamined until now. A study released Tuesday in the journal Climatic Change is the first to… Read more...

This Drone Uses Piercing Talons to Perch—or Snatch Things


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What do you get when you slap 3D-printed raptor legs on a quadcopter? A robot that can land like a falcon to keep an eye on the forest.

18 Hours of Omicron Chaos at Schiphol Airport


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On November 25, two planes took off from South Africa for Amsterdam. By the time they landed, the Omicron variant had thrown the world into chaos.

This Extension Lets You Finally Play YouTube in the Background on Mobile


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YouTube on mobile has never been an ideal experience. Unlike watching YouTube on a computer, where you have the flexibility to leave videos playing in the background, YouTube on mobile is usually locked to the app or website you’re using to view it. And if you want all the bells and whistles—such as ad-free streaming—… Read more...

How to Create a Gmail Account


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By creating a free Gmail account, you get access to all of Google’s products. This includes cloud storage, an email service, an online office suite, and more. Here’s how to make a Gmail account on desktop or mobile. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

3D printing company Essentium set to go public via SPAC


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The world of additive manufacturing is not immune from the SPAC craze. Desktop Metal, Shapeways, Markforged and Velo3D have all either completed or announced plans to go public through the process. Austin-based Essentium this week highlighted plans to add its name to the growing list, courtesy of a reverse merger with Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corporation. The deal would value the combined com

2022 Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Blackline gives luxury a sinister twist


SlashGear / 4h
Bentley’s Mulliner division has introduced a new Blackline model for the 2022 Continental GT. The latest Blackline trim is available for both the coupe and convertible versions of the Continental GT. It features an exclusive array of distinctive, black-themed accents instead of the typical bright chrome trim you expect from a six-figure grand-touring coupe. Bentley claims its newest Blackline res

Sounding Board lands Series B to move coaching beyond services and into SaaS


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Sounding Board , which started as a platform to connect leaders to coaches through a marketplace, realized early in the pandemic that mentorship needs a refresh. “We’ve always delivered coaching in this traditional services format,” said Christine Tao , Sounding Board CEO and co-founder.” “Well, we’re not in the office anymore so we actually have to speak differently about how we’re developing ou

Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos


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Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yester

CVS Pharmacy now offers audio prescription labels across the US


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Following a trial in 2020 involving 1,700 locations across the US, CVS is expanding the availability of its Spoken Rx audio prescription labels to all 10,000 of its pharmacies nationwide. The accessibility feature is available through the CVS Pharmacy app. It uses your phone to scan Rx bottles equipped with special RFID labels that then allow the device to read the label, including any instructio

Mercedes reveals Virgil Abloh’s stunning Project MAYBACH coupe concept


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Mercedes-Benz has revealed the four-wheeled results of its collaboration with Virgil Abloh, the iconic fashion designer who died in late November. Project MAYBACH, unveiled according to the wishes of Abloh’s family, is a ground-up reinvention of the flagship luxury brand, combining electrification with a coupe body and off-road intent. Built entirely from scratch, rather than borrowing an existin


Phase Four aims to roll out its next-gen plasma thruster in the first half of 2022


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Space startup Phase Four will be rolling out the next generation of its Maxwell radio-frequency plasma propulsion system next year, which the company says offers key performance improvements to allow spacecraft using it a wider range of maneuverability in orbit. In general, when moving a satellite around in the vacuum of space, one cares about two key performance metrics: thrust and “specific imp

Razer Gaming Laptops Will Cost More Next Year, Razer CEO Says


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There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Buying gadgets this year has been a nightmare. Products are out of stock, bots are reselling them at exorbitant markups, and there is no firm timeline for when the chip shortage—the major cause of this entire disaster—will improve. Read more...

Puerto Rico deal alert: Nonstop fares from NYC, LA, Chicago & more from $233


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Puerto Rico is known for its rich culture, savory food and irresistible beaches. So when you get a chance to book a ticket at a great price, you don’t think about it; you just do it and pack your bags! You can find drastically reduced fares to the popular Caribbean destination from several U.S. cities, including Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland. A good number of routes are nonstop. Mo

AWS launches SageMaker Studio Lab, a free tool for learning machine learning


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At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced SageMaker Studio Lab , a free service to help developers learn machine learning techniques and experiment with the technology. Studio Lab provides users with all of the basics to get started, including a JupyterLab IDE, model training on CPUs and GPUs and 15 GB of persistent storage. In addition, Amazon also today launched the AWS AI & ML Scholarsh

How to Get What You Actually Want for Christmas


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If you’ve ever received a windbreaker branded with the name of the company your spouse works for, a toilet seat, or an emoji pancake pan because “it would be fun for the kids” on Christmas morning, we’d understand your desire to make sure it never happened again. Because we all know that presents that are clearly… Read more...

Facebook Unblocks Kyle Rittenhouse, Says He Can Open Accounts Now


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Facebook has rescinded its block on searches for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenaged gunman who killed two and wounded another with an AR-15-style rifle during Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The decision comes after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of two counts of murder… Read more...

Elon Musk Tersely Addresses SpaceX Bankruptcy Leak


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Fixer Upper It’s rare to find SpaceX CEO Elon Musk not in the mood to crack a joke on Twitter — but it turns out one of the few things he won’t wisecrack about is his company’s money issues. Yesterday, an internal email Musk sent to his SpaceX employees leaked and revealed that the company is, in Musk’s telling , on the brink of bankruptcy. Th e key issue seems to be lack of progress in the devel

Italy’s ITA Airways Orders 28 Airbus Aircraft


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In mid-October ITA Airways was launched , which is Italy’s new national airline that replaces Alitalia. Several weeks ago we learned about the carrier’s fleet plans, and an order has just been finalized with Airbus today. The basics of ITA Airways As of October 15, 2021, Alitalia ceased operations , after years of financial struggles. The airline was replaced by Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA), whic

Hackers Are Using RTF Files in Phishing Campaigns


25How-To Geek / 4h
Hackers are increasingly using an RTF template injection technique to phish for information from victims. Three APT hacking groups from India, Russia, and China, used a novel RTF template injection technique in their recent phishing campaigns. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

How to Watch Movies With Friends on iPhone and iPad Using SharePlay


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Watching a movie together with a friend or a date over the internet using an iPhone or iPad is easy. From discussing a scene or pausing it for breaks, the new SharePlay feature makes it possible over FaceTime. Here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Pixel 6 Won't Charge? It's Probably the Cable's Fault


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As reported by our friends at 9to5Google, tons of Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro owners are complaining that their phone won’t charge with some cables or power adapters. It seems that the Pixel 6 will simply ignore some charging accessories, even if these chargers work fine with other devices. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

Judge blocks Biden vaccine rule, citing “liberty interests of the unvaccinated”


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Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks about the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 on November 03, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer ) A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, granting a request for preliminary injunction filed by Republican attorneys general from 14 states. US D

Save $73 on a pair of Jabra Elite earbuds, a solid AirPods alternative


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SAVE $73: As of Dec. 1, the Jabra Elite 75t True Wireless earbuds are only $76.99 at GameStop. That’s $73 off their usual price of $149.99. If you want to finally jump on the wireless headphones bandwagon or you're just looking for an earbuds upgrade without an AirPods price tag, here's a deal for you. The Jabra Elite 75t True Wireless earbuds in Titanium Black are only $76.99 at GameStop. These

In viral TikTok, a young woman tells the story of a foul-smelling post-COVID reality


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Natalia Cano can't eat her favorite foods anymore — not hamburgers, french fries, or California rolls. She doesn't enjoy most beverages, except Dr. Pepper, and even water is difficult to swallow. It's not a new diet or temporary illness, but instead a debilitating reality that began after she got COVID-19 earlier this year. The twenty-year-old film student has an increasingly common post-COVID sy

Microsoft reveals a standalone version of Teams for small businesses


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Microsoft has unveiled Teams Essentials, a version of Teams aimed at small businesses. It's a standalone product that nestles between the free Teams plan and the features that come with a Microsoft 365 subscription. Teams Essentials costs $4 per user per month. It includes unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours and as many as 300 participants, compared with a 60-minute time limit and a maxim

Hackers are guessing your credit card details - and there's nothing you can do about it


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Cybersecurity researchers have revealed hackers have discovered a way to find card numbers without breaking into a database, and there’s also a booming underground black market for them. Researchers at popular VPN service provider, NordVPN analyzed statistical data that was collated by independent researchers from dark web markets and learnt that most of the card numbers sold on the dark web are

Guillermo del Toro Discusses Inverting the American Dream in New Nightmare Alley Featurette


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Though Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming feature Nightmare Alley from Guillermo del Toro definitely looks and sounds like an otherworldly thriller , del Toro’s insisted from the jump that his latest project is a straight-up classic noir as drenched in ennui as it is (ordinary) thrills to terrify you. Read more...

How to (Finally) Actually Move on From a Relationship


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Every relationship is different, and so is every breakup. I mean, at one point or another, haven’t we all typed, “ how long get over breakup timeline ” into our search bar? Sadly, there is no mathematical equation to calculate a finite timeframe to recover from heartbreak (at least not according to Oprah Daily ). Read more...

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get monthly Halo Infinite bonuses


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Microsoft has revealed that subscribers to the Ultimate tier of its Xbox Game Pass service will get access to monthly bonuses in Halo Infinite ’s multiplayer. In a blog post covering some of the new titles that will be coming to Game Pass over the next month, the company says, “It’s an awesome time for Perks because we’re excited to reveal that Ultimate members will be locked in to get monthly Ha

Microsoft’s Adaptive Kit for making Surface devices more accessible is now out


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Microsoft’s Surface Adaptive Kit, which is designed to make Surface devices more accessible to everyone, is now available to purchase at the company’s online store. The kit is a bunch of tools which make the Surface more easily usable for people with disabilities, and it includes translucent labels for keycaps which highlight keys visually and have tactile indicators to find them by touch. Plus t


These Snack Containers With Clever Lids Keep Fingers Completely Clean


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The thought of picnics or snacks at the park will no longer bring up dreaded images of fingers covered in crumbs and sticky goo thanks to a clever new product called the Monchi , which is a snack container that integrates a set of finger-operated silicone tongs into the lid. Genius. Read more...

Review of The Norman hotel in Tel Aviv, a boutique stay on Hyatt points


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20The Points Guy / 5h
When it came time to pick a hotel for my recent stay in Tel Aviv, the decision was easy. As a loyal World of Hyatt top-tier Globalist member, I almost always try to stay at one of the chain’s properties. Hyatt’s footprint is small (but growing), so I’m often out of luck in smaller cities. While Hyatt itself doesn’t have any properties in Israel, a non-branded boutique hotel came up in my search —

AI proves a dab hand at pure mathematics and protein hallucination


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One of the reasons artificial intelligence is such an interesting field is that pretty much no one knows what it might turn out to be good at. Two papers by leading labs published in the journal Nature today show that machine learning can be applied to tasks as technically demanding as protein generation and as abstract as pure mathematics. The protein thing may not sound like much of a surprise

Best-Ever Southwest Airlines Credit Card 100K Points Offers (Last Chance)


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Southwest Airlines is one of the most popular airlines in the United States, thanks to its extensive domestic route network, lack of change and cancelation fees (though other airlines have largely matched in the meantime), two free checked bags, and generally great customer service. It’s no wonder that the carrier’s co-branded credit cards are popular as well. Several weeks ago we saw some huge e

Match will pay Tinder founders $441 million to settle lawsuit over financial deception (updated)


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Tinder's founders just won a partial victory in their lawsuit against Match Group over alleged financial trickery. Match has agreed to settle the case by paying $441 million from its cash reserves. In return, the Tinder co-creators will dismiss the claims from both the lawsuit and linked arbitration. The court battle began in 2018, when the plaintiffs accused Tinder's parent organizations Match a

Give the gift of always-hot coffee with this Ember mug on sale


Mashable / 5h
Save $30: Ring in December with endless hot cups of coffee and tea. The Ember Mug 2 is on sale for just $99.99 at Best Buy, for a 23% markdown of its usual list price as of Dec. 1. It's December, which means three things: it's cold, it's gift-giving season, and you are hurtling toward the end of the year in a stressed out, overwhelmed blur while also trying to shop for thoughtful gifts for your l

'Mario Party Superstars' is still on sale after Cyber Monday


Mashable / 5h
LET'S A-GO: Amazon's Cyber Weekend deal on Mario Party Superstars was still available at the time of writing. Order a physical copy for $54.99 (normally $59.99) and you'll get it in time for Christmas. What are the holidays without a little friendly competition between family and friends? (Note: We cannot be held responsible for anything that happens after the second round of eggnog.) If someone

$25 gift idea: A Lenovo Smart Clock and smart bulb bundle on sale at Walmart


Mashable / 5h
Hey Google, save me 64%: As of Dec. 1, a Lenovo Smart Clock and smart bulb bundle at Walmart is on sale for $24.88 compared to its usual $69.99. You'll save $45.11. Bundles are already a great way to score two products for less. One Walmart bundle takes the whole "two for one" theme even further: For $24.88, you can be the proud new owner of a Lenovo Smart Clock Gen 2 and a Lenovo smart bulb . At

AA miles begin expiring again at the end of this month — here’s how to keep them alive


29The Points Guy / 5h
It’s almost unbelievable that airline miles (or hotel points, for that matter) still have expiration dates . It’s like saying that dollar bill in your pocket can only be used for a year or two after you earn it. Still, many airlines enforce expiration terms on their frequent-flyer miles, and one of the largest to do so is American Airlines. Like most other frequent-flyer programs, American Airlin

Amazon is working to fix its broken Appstore on Android 12


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Over the last month, Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S21 have noticed the Amazon Appstore doesn't work with Android 12 . And we say it doesn't work, we mean it's almost entirely broken. Most people report they can't run any of the software they've downloaded from Amazon. Yet others say they don't see any apps when they visit the marketplace. An Amazon forum post spotted by The Verge succinctly ca

Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data


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Scientists say they have made a major step forward in storing information in molecules of DNA.

Bus Simulator 21: We should really pay bus drivers more


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Ars Technica / 5h
Bus Simulator 21 Enlarge / This is Chinatown in Angel Shores, a substitute for the Bay Area in Bus Simulator 21 . (credit: Astragorn) Have you ever had a game you really wanted to love, but it just didn't work out? For me, Bus Simulator 21 is that game. News of its impending release caught my eye in late summer, and I knew I had to try it. Almost all of my gaming these days involves a handful of

Why Newsmax and OAN Support Biden’s Democratic FCC Picks


Gizmodo / 5h
The internal skirmishes between the new and old guards of conservative political power continue, this time colliding over the future of a Democratically controlled Federal Communications Commission. Though Republican lawmakers have spent months opposing Biden’s efforts to fill two open FCC seats with Democrats, at… Read more...

AWS introduces DMS Fleet Advisor to simplify data migration to Amazon cloud


TechCrunch / 5h
Two years ago at AWS re:Invent, then AWS CEO Andy Jassy made it clear that he was tired of the slow pace of change and he wanted to find ways to get companies to move to the cloud faster. At yesterday’s opening keynote, in fact, new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky stated that the pace is still pretty pokey with only between 5 and 15 percent of workloads having moved to the cloud thus far. Part of the probl

These Are the Worst Christmas Gifts Lifehacker Readers Have Ever Received


Lifehacker / 5h
I recently went down a Reddit rabbit hole in which commenters described the worst gift they’d ever received—everything from miniature butter knives (at age 7) to used magazines to...a thrift store jock strap? It was all pretty terrible, so of course I then asked you about the worst gift you’d ever received and holy… Read more...

Very Large Telescope spots Earth’s new nearest pair of black holes


SlashGear / 5h
Via ESO Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) use the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to scan the heavens in search of stars, black holes, galaxies, and planets to study. Recently, astronomers used the VLT to spot the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever discovered. Eventually, the black hole duo will merge into a single gigantic black hole. The … Continue reading

Scientists Say the Sun May Have Kinda Sprayed the Earth With Water


500+Futurism / 5h
Scientists may have answered a longstanding question about exactly where Earth’s huge supply of water came from. A new study published in Nature Astronomy postulates that there may have been an additional step to the commonly-held theory that terrestrial water comes from carbonaceous asteroids — and it involves the sun. The root of the initial question about Earth’s water, which covers about 70 p

Python could soon rival JavaScript for web applications


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There’s a new project that’ll reportedly enable the Python programming language to run within web browsers with the help of WebAssembly . The CPython on WASM project, which will build the default and most popular implementation of the Python language written in C is developed by Berkeley-based software developer, Ethan Smith. According to The Register , the project was created with the help of co

The creator of the iPod says products are designed all wrong these days


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Tony Fadell, inventor of the Apple iPod and smart thermostat Nest, has said he believes too many companies approach product design with the wrong priorities. During a panel at Slush 2021 , attended by TechRadar Pro, Fadell explained he thinks even some of the brightest entrepreneurs lack the sense of timing necessary to build truly iconic products. “It’s vital to understand what people need, or w

Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure


45TechCrunch / 5h
Vijay Menon , a statistician by trade, began his career at Microsoft. It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even go through to begin with due to payment-related issues. He became intrigued by the problem, and solving it. Ultimately in 2016 alone, he helped the company recover over 10 million Xbox Live subscriptions, which resulted in


Sony's $9,000 drone for its Alpha cameras is available for pre-order


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Engadget / 5h
A few months later than originally planned, Sony has opened pre-orders for its first drone for professionals. The company says the Airpeak S1 is the smallest drone that supports a full-size, mirrorless Alpha camera. The debut model in the Airpeak line works with several Sony cameras , including the Alpha 1, Alpha 7S series, Alpha 7R series and Alpha 9 series. The company says the S1 has proprieta

Black Friday and Cyber Monday online spending falls - but holiday season records are still broken


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Online spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday was down this year for the first time. That's according to data from Adobe Analytics , which shows that the extended sales period led to more people shopping earlier in October and November, rather than limiting their purchases to just the Thanksgiving week. Adobe reports that consumers spent $8.9bn on Black Friday. That's a dip of 1.3 per cent com

AWS launches a new tool for diagnosing and fixing database issues in its cloud


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AWS today announced a new service that makes it easier for its users to detect, diagnose and resolve issues in their relational databases. DevOps Guru for RDS, AWS’s fully managed relational database platform, is part of AWS’s DevOps Guru family, which launched last year with a service for detecting issues with machine learning services. As Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, Amazon AI, argued in his keyn

Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun


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Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon’s servers represents one of the first attempts to do modeling on the cloud and could… Read more...

Digital car keys arrive on Pixel 6 and Samsung Galaxy S21


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Google has revealed a slew of features and updates for Android 12 . Starting today, the digital car key function that was announced at Google I/O in May is available on Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S21 for compatible BMW vehicles in select countries. You can use your phone to lock and unlock the doors, and start the engine. The feature is likely coming to other vehicles later — Google

8 Privacy Settings You Should Change on LinkedIn Right Now


Lifehacker / 5h
LinkedIn, like all social networks, uses a lot of your personal information to show you ads and sponsored content. Just as you’d be wary about sharing more of your data with Facebook, you should also exercise restraint when sharing information with LinkedIn. If you haven’t been doing that so far, now is the time to… Read more...

Today’s best deals: Google Chromecast, top noise-canceling headphones, and more


Ars Technica / 6h
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, but if you didn't get everything you want, today's Dealmaster roundup still has a number of the better deals from those events . Our top 4K streaming stick , Google's Chromecast with Google TV, is 20 percent off , for instance, while close competitors in Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Roku Streaming Stick 4K are still

It’s back — pay just $49 to match your airline (or hotel) elite status to Frontier through Dec. 31, 2022


100+The Points Guy / 6h
If you missed out on it last year, Frontier Airlines is offering up its status match opportunity again — and it’s now available to even more travelers, as first reported by View From the Wing . With this promotion, you can match status from 30 total programs — 15 airlines and 15 hotels — to earn up to top-tier status with Frontier for the small price of $49. You’ll have until Dec. 31, 2021 to app

Match settles lawsuit with Tinder co-founders for $441 million


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TechCrunch / 6h
Dating app giant Match has settled its lawsuit with a group of Tinder founders and executives for $441 million. The suit, filed in 2018, had alleged that IAC and its then-subsidiary Match Group had manipulated financial data in order to create a false, “lowball valuation” of the dating app when Tinder was merged into IAC in 2017. The employees also said they had been unlawfully stripped of their

Now You Can Start Your Car With Your Android Phone


Gizmodo / 6h
After announcing a digital car key feature for Android earlier this year, Google has finally flipped the switch: Now you can lock, unlock, and start your car using your Android phone—if you’re using a Google Pixel 6 , Pixel 6 Pro, or Samsung Galaxy S21 with a compatible BMW, that is. For the handful of you out there… Read more...

It Is Once Again Time for Spotify Wrapped


Gizmodo / 6h
It’s December 1st, and you know what that means: Spotify Wrapped is here to deliver its annual year-in-music-review, and the deluge of social media shares from friends being roasted by the app for their listening proclivities is nigh. Read more...

Google’s New Flight Search Hack


View from the Wing / 6h
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading ...

We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month


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100+MIT Technology Review / 6h
The discovery of the omicron variant of covid-19 in southern Africa shows how sequencing the genes of a virus can give an early alert to dangerous-looking changes in its genome. Omicron has more than 30 mutations, some of which have previously been seen in other variants and are thought to make viral transmission faster. Others are alarming because researchers have no idea what they mean. The wor

Your Next Android Phone’s Camera May Always Be On


21How-To Geek / 6h
Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor for flagship Android phones, and we were all excited about it. However, there’s a detail tucked in the announcement that has us concerned—the processor will let a phone’s camera be on at all times. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

How to Remove Large Link Previews in Google Sheets


How-To Geek / 6h
In Google Sheets, when you hover over a hyperlink, you see a large preview of that link. This preview hides the cells beneath, which might annoy you. Luckily, you can hide this large preview in Sheets, and we’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Wyze Cam Web Viewer Finally Arrives, But It's Not Free (Yet?)


How-To Geek / 6h
Back in October, Wyze announced that it would finally deliver camera webview support, something owners have wanted for years, and now it’s here. The Wyze webview public beta is live for all, letting users view camera live feeds and recordings from any web browser, but it’ll cost you. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

Chrome OS update turns Chromebooks into scanners


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20Ars Technica / 6h
(credit: Valentina Palladino) Chromebook cameras just learned some new tricks, as Google started pushing out Chrome OS 96 on Tuesday. As detailed by a Google blog post , the update brings the ability to use your camera to scan images and convert them into PDFs or JPEGs. If your Chromebook has a webcam and front-facing camera, as the HP Chromebook x2 does, you can use the feature with both cameras

Broken Amazon Appstore on Android 12 may mean trouble for Windows 11


SlashGear / 6h
It might not exactly be common knowledge, but Amazon, despite its notorious rivalry with Google, actually distributes Android devices and apps. In fact, it actually rivals Google in that area as well, with its own ecosystem of Android apps and services revolving around its own Android Appstore. That said, Amazon may not actually be known in the Android world for … Continue reading

Matrix Resurrections' New Trailer Delivers Some Trippy Deja Vú


100+Gizmodo / 6h
The Matrix Resurrections ’ new trailer is less about what we can expect from a return trip to the cyberspace of the Matrix, and more about what it means that everything looks so familiar... with just a little difference . Read more...

Impressions From Our Trip San Miguel De Allende


29One Mile at a Time / 6h
I recently traveled to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for a long weekend. I already reviewed the Rosewood San Miguel de Allende , and I wanted to share some basic impressions about our time in the city. This blog is primarily about airlines and hotels rather than destinations, so I didn’t go around the city trying to photograph everything in order to review it. Nonetheless I’ll share my thoughts,


Need a second PS5 controller? Pre-owned picks from DualSense are $20 off at GameStop.


Mashable / 6h
SAVE $20: The PlayStation 5 DualSense controller is as "next-gen" as it gets, and you can get a pre-owned one for $20 off the original price at GameStop as of Dec. 1. You'll pay $49.99. As any gamer knows, one controller simply isn't enough. Whether you want to play co-op with a friend or just need a backup for when your main controller runs out of battery, eventually adding a second one to your

GM to form new joint venture with POSCO Chemical aimed at key battery component


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TechCrunch / 6h
General Motors is deepening its commitment to operate a vertically integrated battery supply chain with the announcement that it would form a joint venture with South Korea-based POSCO Chemical to build a new cathode active material facility in North America by 2024. Cathode active materials comprise around 40% of the cost of electric vehicle batteries, and the majority of both cathodes and anode

8 best drinks to order with a cruise ship beverage package (and 3 to avoid)


58The Points Guy / 6h
If you’re going to spend $60 to $130 per day for a cruise ship beverage package , you will want to make sure you’re getting the best value. Order the right drinks and you can make sure to get your money’s worth. Choose the wrong drinks, and you’ll end up spending more money than necessary. The most cost-effective option is to get a cruise line drinks package free as a booking perk. If not, focus

Here’s why Elon Musk asked his SpaceX employees to work Thanksgiving


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200+Ars Technica / 6h
Enlarge / The first test firing of a flight version of SpaceX's Raptor rocket engine. (credit: Elon Musk/Twitter) Last Friday, as most Americans slept off their tryptophan hangovers, headed to the mall for Black Friday shopping, or tried in vain to avoid political discussions with visiting family members, SpaceX founder Elon Musk was instead at work. Not finding things to his liking, Musk dashed

15 Potent Gifts for the Weed Enthusiast in Your Life


Lifehacker / 6h
We’re in a place where you can finally get weed on demand, even delivered right to your doorstep in many states. This means that instead of just herb shopping for personal reasons, people can and should be giving it as gifts, too. What weed-loving (or weed curious) person wouldn’t want to open a pretty box to find… Read more...

Sony’s $9,000 pro drone starts shipping Christmas Eve


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24TechCrunch / 6h
You’d be forgiven if the AirPeak S1 slipped your mind. It’s been a long, weird 13 or so months since Sony first teased the pro-level drone. After a November 2020 reveal, the company offered some more information on its first profession UAV way back this year’s all-virtual CES in January and an official “launch” in June . Since then, it’s been mostly radio silence. That is, until this morning, whe

Best Gaming Chairs For All-Day Play


Futurism / 6h
Serious gamers will tell you that the key to any dynamic gaming session is comfort. So with that in mind, it makes sense that having a designated gaming chair will be crucial for long hours in front of your computer monitor or television screen. While on the surface most gaming chairs look pretty similar to your standard office chair, there are a number of cool features and premium bells and whis

Elon Musk Says Starlink Satellites Had to Swerve Out of the Way of Debris


300+Futurism / 6h
Heads Up! SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed yesterday that some of the company’s internet-beaming Starlink satellites had to swerve out of the way of space debris, which also forced NASA to abruptly call off a spacewalk on Tuesday. “We had to shift some Starlink satellite orbits to reduce probability of collision,” Musk wrote on Twitter , notably declining to say the origin of the debris. “Not great,

Verizon and Bang & Olufsen made soundbars with Android TV built-in


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Engadget / 6h
Verizon (Engadget's former parent company) isn't just relying on no-frills media players to push its Stream TV platform. The carrier has unveiled the Stream TV Soundbar (shown below) and Stream TV Soundbar Pro (at top), both of which mate Android TV with Bang & Olufsen's audio know-how and some high-end features to match. All of them include Dolby Atmos surround sound and content-sensitive sound

US hacker jailed for role in multimillion-dollar SIM swapping campaign


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TechCrunch / 6h
The final member of an international hacking group known as ‘The Community’ has been sentenced for his role in a multimillion-dollar SIM hijacking campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week. Missouri resident Garrett Endicott, 22, became the sixth member of the hacking group to be sentenced. He was given 10 months in prison for his part in the campaign — which saw millions

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Hits 10 Gigabit 5G Speeds


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How-To Geek / 6h
Qualcomm had a busy day, as the company announced the next flagship processor, which is called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. It sounds like an incredibly powerful chip with impressive performance for processing and 5G download speeds. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Save 50% on your first BarkBox and treat your pup this holiday season


Mashable / 6h
SAVE $17.50: BarkBox is the ideal way to show your furry friend how much you care about them. As of Dec. 1, sign up for a monthly BarkBox subscription through Amazon and get the first box for half off: just $17.50. If you haven't bought gifts for the dogs in your life yet, you're definitely not done with your holiday shopping. Yes, it might seem crazy to non-dog parents to buy gifts for dogs whil

Reddit's new update makes upvotes more dynamic


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Mashable / 6h
Reddit is changing how it displays votes and comments, making them more dynamic to encourage user interaction and make the platform feel more "lively." Previously, Reddit's vote and comment counts were displayed as static numbers which would only update when users refreshed their page. Now, vote and comment counts will be animated, with redditors able to see the numbers go up and down in real tim

Halo Infinite has come a long way since the days of Craig


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 6h
The campaign launch trailer for Halo Infinite has been posted to the official Halo YouTube channel, and it's a gorgeous preview of what to expect when the game's campaign launches on December 8, 2021 for Xbox Series X /S, Xbox One and PC, as well as for Xbox Game Pass subscribers on day one at no extra cost. Originally set to launch in 2020, Halo Infinite was pushed back a year following criticis

GTA Trilogy fiasco worsens with physical release delay, even as worst bugs get a fix


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 6h
The physical releases of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive edition have been delayed on consoles. Rockstar confirmed on Twitter that the PlayStation and Xbox versions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy have been delayed to December 17, and the Nintendo Switch version is now coming sometime “early 2022.” The physical release was originally set to arrive on December 7. The release dates

AWS launches four new storage services aimed at improving data management


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TechCrunch / 6h
At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs and helping customers better protect their data. The first option is a new Amazon S3 Glacier storage class that is designed to offer milliseconds access for archived data. AWS says that with this storage class, customers can achieve the lowest-cost storage i

B&N NOOK GlowLight 4 has a pair of big advantages over Kindle


SlashGear / 6h
Barnes & Noble has revealed its latest ereader, and if you’re still not on Team Kindle then the NOOK GlowLight 4 could prove persuasive. Headed to shelves on December 8, the newest NOOK takes the core features of the GlowLight 3, and upgrades design, battery life, and charging. So, there’s now a USB-C port for recharging the ereader, replacing the … Continue reading

Reddit adds real-time typing and reading indicators to posts


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Engadget / 6h
Reddit is introducing a handful of new features designed to make its social network feel more interactive. Starting today, you’ll notice the vote and comment counts on posts and feeds will increase (as well as decrease) in real-time. Additionally, you’ll see new typing indicators that will tell you when two or more people are replying to a comment. Similarly, another set of real-time indicators w

Blue Origin’s Ariane Cornell is coming to TC Sessions: Space 2021


TechCrunch / 7h
It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that Blue Origin had a banner year in 2021 — the company flew people to space for the first time using its reusable New Shepard launch vehicle. The company has now sent up passengers (including Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, and Captain James T. Kirk) on two separate launches, and it has another planned for next week. A lot of hard work and preparati

Don’t miss what’s happening tomorrow at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021


TechCrunch / 7h
Tomorrow’s the day, folks! Join more than 1,600 attendees at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021, a free , day-long series of masterclasses focused on AI, ML and the data solutions that power and improve them. If you don’t have your pass yet, register here to reserve your seat. If your slice of tech heaven involves AI and ML, you don’t want to miss this conference. It’s packed with presentations, p


US government agencies bought Chinese surveillance tech despite federal ban


TechCrunch / 7h
This story was reported in partnership with video surveillance news site IPVM. At least three U.S. federal agencies, including the military, have purchased China-made video surveillance equipment banned from use in the federal government. Purchasing records seen by TechCrunch and video surveillance news site IPVM show the agencies collectively spent thousands of dollars on purchasing video survei

Reddit introduces new real-time features including typing and comment indicators


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TechCrunch / 7h
Reddit is rolling out several new real-time features including voting and comment count animations, typing indicators, reading indicators and new comment indicators. The new features are rolling out globally across Reddit’s desktop, iOS and Android apps starting today. With this latest update, Reddit says voting will no longer be a static number on posts and feeds, as users will now see dynamic a

Avoiding brand risk in podcast advertising


TechCrunch / 7h
Lisa Utzschneider Contributor Lisa Utzschneider is the CEO of Integral Ad Science , a global leader in digital media quality. During the pandemic, more consumers turned to music and podcasts for entertainment from the comfort of their homes, driving exponential growth in audio media. In fact, eMarketer estimates that U.S. radio and digital audio services will pull in $16.8 billion in ad spending

When to See the 'Cold Moon' in December


27Lifehacker / 7h
November’s bloody eclipse of the beaver moon was spectacular, but do not discount the full moon of December. Know as the “cold moon,” December’s full moon will rise on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. It will be brightest at 11:37 p.m. ET. Brrr. Read more...

We Baby Bears' Premiere Will Ring in the New Year


39Gizmodo / 7h
While We Bare Bears ’ ursine brothers have had their fair share of adventures as adults living in the Bay Area , We Baby Bears —Cartoon Network’s upcoming prequel spinoff series created by Manny Hernandez—is set to explore how the trio’s lives were much more magical and anime-inspired back when they were kids. Read more...

Netflix's True Story Went Hard on the Ugly Side of Obsessive Fandom


33Gizmodo / 7h
In Netflix’s new limited series True Story —created by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman—Kevin Hart stars as Kid, a barely-fictionalized version of himself who’s at the top of his comedic game and in the thick of promoting a new superhero movie that’s poised to rake in a cool $1 billion at the box office . Read more...

How Science Will Solve the Omicron Variant’s Mysteries


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Wired / 7h
So far, panic about the mysterious new Covid variant has outpaced actual information. Here’s what scientists around the world are trying to uncover.

How to Count Characters in Microsoft Excel


How-To Geek / 7h
Unlike Word where you can easily get the document’s character count using a tool in the menu bar, you’ll need to use the LEN function if you want to get a character count in Excel. Here’s how to use it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Spotify Wrapped 2021: How to Hear Your Year In Review


How-To Geek / 7h
Music fans rejoice—Spotify Wrapped 2021 is finally here! The end-of-year recap is available for Spotify users worldwide and includes a ton of fun new features, including a music-based card game and a free reading of your “audio aura.” Here are all the new Spotify Wrapped features, plus instructions to get Wrapped working on your device. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

Nothing Ear 1 Review: They Now Come in Black


How-To Geek / 7h
Nothing, led by Carl Pei of OnePlus fame, launched the Ear 1 earbuds to a bunch of fanfare and hype. The company focused its marketing campaign on its partnership with Teenage Engineering and the product’s transparent design, but how do they sound? I’m here to tell you that they’re pretty damn good. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

Deal alert: California dreaming for less than $200


100+The Points Guy / 7h
There is no bad time to visit Los Angeles. Between the typically amazing weather and a cornucopia of things to do, the City of Angels is an evergreen travel destination. I go often for work and for leisure, and never have trouble finding something new to enjoy. Of course, L.A. isn’t cheap (what big American city is?) so when you can save some money on your airfare, you have to jump at the opportu

Meta explains its approach to user safety following delayed rollout of end-to-end encryption


TechCrunch / 7h
Meta (formerly Facebook) recently announced its plans to delay the rollout of end-to-end encryption across its messaging service until sometime in 2023, citing concerns from child safety advocates who warned the change would shield abusers from detection. Today, the company offered more details about how it plans to approach the need for harm prevention alongside the eventual rollout of end-to-en

Salesforce now has two co-CEOs once again


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 7h
Salesforce has adopted a new co-CEO leadership model. Almost two years after co-founder and current CEO Marc Benioff took sole leadership, he will soon be joined by Bret Taylor, the company announced. The decision is effective immediately, with Taylor, who has been the company’s COO and president since 2019, also promoted to vice chairman of the Board. "Bret is a phenomenal industry leader who ha

Many people would do almost anything to avoid a return to the commute


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 7h
Modern workers hate commuting so much that many say they’d do almost anything else instead, a report from RingCentral has found, claiming many would rather have their in-laws stay for the weekend or even clean toilets, than return to the office full time. To say employees prefer working remotely would apparently be an understatement, with RingCentral’s report confirming two-thirds (66%) want just

2022 Mazda CX-5 starts at $27,125: Here’s what the price bump gets you


SlashGear / 7h
Mazda unveiled its best-selling 2022 CX-5 crossover a few months ago, but the Japanese automaker failed to mention pricing and trim levels. As it turns out, the 2022 Mazda CX-5 gets new trim designations and a mild price hike. In return, the updated CX-5 receives standard all-wheel-drive (AWD) across the board, with base prices starting at $27,125 (including $1,225 destination … Continue reading

This Philips OLED TV deal is the best Black Friday sale still going


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 7h
Currys is still feeling the Black Friday TV deal fever, with a number of brilliant offers still available – including one Philips OLED TV deal you won't want to sleep on. The 55-inch Philips OLED 706 is an entry-level OLED screen that launched this year. You're getting the same P5 Gen 5 processor as high-end sets, as well as 4K HDR and a 120Hz panel – and that's all for just £979 after a £420 dis

The iPhone SE 3 Could Launch in Just a Few Months With 5G


31Gizmodo / 7h
Apple is reportedly just months away from launching the iPhone SE 3, the next addition to its budget-friendly smartphone line. Read more...

Niantic buys gameplay recording app Lowkey to improve its in-game social experience


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40TechCrunch / 7h
Mariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget . More posts by this contributor Apple’s mixed reality headset may be a standalone device GMC will begin Hummer EV deliveries in December Niantic has acquired another company to help build out its augmented reality platforms. The company has announced that it’s acquiring the team behind Lowkey, an app you can use to easily

Xbox Game Pass December 2021 adds Halo Infinite, Stardew Valley, Among Us


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SlashGear / 7h
Today we kick off the final month of 2021, and with the arrival of December comes news of more additions to Xbox Game Pass. December is shaping up to be a big month for Microsoft’s subscription service, thanks in no small part to the arrival of Halo Infinite. The latest game in Microsoft’s flagship franchise will be joined by some … Continue reading

The best 2-in-1 laptops you can buy


Engadget / 7h
The perfect hybrid machine that’s just as good a tablet as it is a laptop still doesn’t exist. But, in 2021, companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google continued to improve their operating systems for machines that do double duty. Windows 11 has features that make it friendlier for multi-screen devices, while Android 12L is on the horizon and promises an optimized experience for larger displays.


Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas: Where chic meets laid-back in the desert


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57The Points Guy / 7h
Ever since I walked into a Virgin Megastore in the late ’90s, I’ve been a big fan of the Virgin brand started by Richard Branson. I’ve flown Virgin Atlantic several times during my trips to London, loved Virgin America when it was still operating and encountered the Virgin brand everywhere on soft drinks when I traveled to the Philippines in the late 2000s. It’s a brand that evokes fun and packs

Use These Clever Mental Tricks to Make Your Run Less Boring


Lifehacker / 7h
“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.” Read more...

GM reveals deal to make a key EV battery element in North America


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SlashGear / 7h
You can’t build electric cars without batteries, and GM is announcing a new joint venture that it hopes will bring down costs and boost performance as it launches EVs at $30,000 and below. The automaker plans to source, process, or manufacturer the majority of its Ultium electric vehicle batteries in North America by 2025, with the aim of reducing reliance … Continue reading

Russia Legally Threatens NASA Astronaut for Allegedly Sabotaging Space Station


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500+Futurism / 7h
Drill, Baby, Drill The saga of the hole in the International Space Station (ISS) could come to a head as Russia might soon press criminal charges against a NASA astronaut for allegedly sabotaging a module of the station. Roscosmos, the country’s space agency, said it has completed its investigation into the 2018 incident in which its cosmonauts discovered a hole drilled into its Soyuz spacecraft,

Urtopia e-bike is basically a computer on wheels


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TechCrunch / 7h
James Trew Contributor James Crew is an editor-at-large at Engadget . The electrification of the bicycle has historically meant just that: A bike, but with an electric motor. You might find some other smart conveniences on higher-end models, but “less is more” has usually been the way. Urtopia , the latest e-bike brand from China, has other ideas. Its debut ride is, on paper, one of the most tech

Cannabis and banking vets launch credit card for dispensaries


TechCrunch / 7h
Most consumer cannabis transactions are done in cash, legal or not. Since the United States classifies cannabis as a Title IV drug, the banking industry is unwilling and unable to provide services to cannabis operations. That leaves dispensaries managing and protecting massive sums of cash, and the stores cannot offer a modern retail payment system to the consumer. SuperNet has a solution. The co

The World’s First Digital Watch Gets a Matrix Facelift


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72Gizmodo / 7h
Looking for a decidedly unsmart watch that does nothing but tell the time and maybe promote a 22-year-old film franchise that’s returning to theaters this month with another sequel? Hamilton Watches is once again resurrecting the world’s first digital watch but with an updated display that now pays homage to the… Read more...

How to Find Your Spotify Wrapped 2021


How-To Geek / 7h
As the year comes to a close, the popular streaming service has launched Spotify Wrapped 2021. You can look back at the songs, artists, and podcasts you listened to the most over the past year and share them with friends. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Have we reached peak founder-friendliness?


TechCrunch / 7h
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday episode when we niche down to a single topic, looking to expand our understanding of one particular technology trend or another. Today? We discussed if the era of founder-led companies is coming to a close, and if we have reached the peak o

Microsoft Edge buy now pay later scheme met with criticism


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59BBC News - Technology / 7h
Its Edge browser has added a credit scheme - which users have labelled as "exploitative".

How to double dip your 2022 elite bonuses with an American Airlines credit card


The Points Guy / 7h
Earlier this fall, American announced it would overhaul how you earn elite status starting next year. The elite qualifying metrics we’ve come to know over the years — miles, segments, and dollars — will disappear and be replaced by a single benchmark called “ Loyalty Points .” Among the many changes that will unfold, there is one that is particularly notable for American cobranded credit cardhold

Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness May Rise Again Thanks to Streaming


500+Gizmodo / 7h
If director Guillermo del Toro has a single passion project—although he seems to have many—it’s his movie adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novella At the Mountains of Madness . He’s been working on it for 15 years, to no avail, but it turns out that might have inadvertently worked in the Academy Award-winning … Read more...

12 Hidden Google Messages Features You Should Be Using


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Lifehacker / 8h
Google’s Messages app is an Android smartphone’s answer to Apple Messages , and it has become so ubiquitous on those devices, you might not give it a second thought. It’s pre-installed on most Android smartphones, and can be used as the default messaging app on any Android device. Read more...

GHA Discovery: The Biggest Hotel Program You’ve Never Heard Of Has Added Rebates, Made Status Easier


View from the Wing / 8h
GHA Discovery is probably the biggest hotel loyalty program you may never have heard of. They cover 37 brands which is more than Marriott and they'll soon hit 20 million members. GHA - the Global Hotel Alliance - covers numerous smaller chains that skew towards luxury. The Discovery program is relaunching to become much more rewarding. Against the trend in the industry, the new program actually c

You Can Apply to Test Future Xbox Features Right Now


How-To Geek / 8h
Microsoft is looking for a handful of Xbox fans who want to test future Xbox features through its Alpha and Skip-Ahead Insiders programs. If you’re interested in seeing what’s coming to the Xbox in the future, you can apply right now. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

The Best Smart Thermostats of 2021


How-To Geek / 8h
Upgrading to a smart thermostat is a great way to save money on your annual energy bill and automate your home. Choosing the right one for your home, however, isn’t an easy process. Here are our favorite smart thermostats currently on the market. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Charge Your Laptop at Top Speed with Satechi's Discounted USB-C Power Bricks


How-To Geek / 8h
Did you know that the power supplies included with laptops like the MacBook Air don’t actually support their device’s top charging speed? If you want to charge your devices as fast as possible, you’ll need a powerful third-party charging brick. Thankfully, Satechi is offering all of its chargers for 20% off with coupon code CHARGERS20. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

What's New In PHP 8.1?


How-To Geek / 8h
PHP 8.1 was released in November 2021 as the latest minor version of the PHP language. It adds several new language features alongside some smaller improvements and performance enhancements. There are a few breaking changes to be aware of but most upgrades from PHP 8.0 should be straightforward. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›

The Best Stocking Stuffers for Holiday 2021


How-To Geek / 8h
Looking for some simple stocking stuffers for the holidays this year? Tech or not, these products are great additions to your seasonal shopping list. From LEGO cars and cameras to Bluetooth speakers and smartwatches, here are the best stocking stuffers for 2021. Read This Article on Review Geek ›

Markai raises $4M from Pear VC, Sea Capital and others to buy Chinese e-commerce brands


TechCrunch / 8h
China has attracted yet another e-commerce roll-up to enter its gargantuan e-commerce market. Markai , founded by two Stanford business school grads, has joined the fray to buy out Chinese brands seeking global consumers. So-called brand roll-ups, or e-commerce aggregators, have cropped up in Europe and the U.S. over the past few years. Usually venture-backed, they acquire small e-commerce seller


Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app


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34TechCrunch / 8h
Goalsetter , a financial education platform for kiddos, has announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Seae Ventures , with participation from Fiserv , Mass Mutual , Citizens Financial Group , Astia Fund , NBA stars Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony, and actors Anthony Anderson and Lance Gross. The startup was founded by Tanya Van Court who had her own st

Look, another Nook


TechCrunch / 8h
Let’s be honest: the e-reader market isn’t what it used to be. Amazon has long dominated the market, and Kobo is still doing its thing — but even then, it always feels like an unexpected surprise when a new device arrives from either. Market forces aren’t exactly driving mind-blowing innovation here. Barnes & Noble is still plugging away, too, turns out. In fact, the company just revealed its sec

Report: United States To Add New Restrictions For International Travel


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97One Mile at a Time / 8h
Just a few weeks ago the United States overhauled its entry and testing requirements for travelers. Then as of the beginning of this week, the United States added a new Africa travel ban . It looks like we could see even further changes, with an announcement expected as early as tomorrow. New COVID-19 testing rules for international travel The Washington Post reports that the Biden administration

Here’s who should buy the new GoPro Enduro battery


SlashGear / 8h
Taffpixture/Shutterstock Action camera company GoPro announced a new accessory called the Enduro battery in late October. Enduro is designed for the HERO9 and HERO10 Black action cameras, replacing the stock batteries to offer improved performance. Though it’s not a necessary accessory, Enduro will drastically improve the GoPro experience for certain users. Enduro battery The GoPro Enduro is a 17

Ultrahot Jupiter exoplanet orbits its star in 16 hours


42SlashGear / 8h
Image: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon We all know that it takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the Sun, marking an entire year. In our solar system, a year on other planets varies greatly depending on how close they are to our star. Mercury, which is both the smallest planet and the closest planet to the sun, takes 88 days to orbit the star. By … Continue reading

China banning foreign IPOs would be pretty unsurprising


TechCrunch / 8h
Didi’s U.S. IPO is one of several key moments of the recent regulatory shift inside China regarding its leading technology companies. The other is Ant’s IPO that never happened , pulled in the wake of criticisms of the Chinese government’s handling of newer technologies by the previously prominent Alibaba founder Jack Ma. It’s been a busy year for changes to how the autocratic Chinese government

Nothing's 'Black Edition' brings a modern touch to its funky Ear 1 buds


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Engadget / 8h
Earlier this year, Nothing released a pair of relatively cheap $99 Ear 1 earbuds with a fun transparent case, wireless charging and decent sound quality. Now, the company (created by OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei) has unveiled the new Ear 1 "Black Edition" that retains the transparent case and funky design, but adds a smoky finish and black matte colorway. Nothing also announced that the Ear 1 is no

DNA testing firm accidentally spills information on two million customers


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A US-based DNA testing company has been breached, and a database with personally identifiable information on more than two million customers stolen, the firm has announced. DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) said the breach took place between late May and late July this year, while its internal investigation ended in late October this year. The investigation revealed that whoever was behind the attack

Capstone Connected Thin Cast Smart Mirror Review


SlashGear / 8h
Star Trek: The Next Generation promised me hidden displays in every wall, and now Capstone Connected claims to have delivered with its Thin Cast Smart Mirror. At first glance a regular mirror, it’s only when the hidden touchscreen wakes up behind the glass that you realize the tech functionality baked inside. Capstone has two sizes of mirror, the Standard ($799) … Continue reading

New Glowlight 4 Proves Reports of the Barnes & Noble Nook’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated


31Gizmodo / 8h
Like Paul Newman’s character in Cool Hand Luke who gets up again and again after being repeatedly knocked down in the film’s infamous fight scene, the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader is somehow back again with a fourth iteration of the Glowlight sporting modern upgrades and a thick retro-looking screen bezel. Read more...

Here’s how to use (and track) your December Amex statement credits


The Points Guy / 8h
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. Mo’ credits, mo’ problems reasons to keep your American Express cards at the top of your wallet. It’s the start of a new month, which means that all of your monthly Amex credits have just reset. Amex first introduced these various credits as a way to continue providing cardholders with value during the pandemic — and it worked. Depen

'Fortnite' Party Worlds are purely social experiences made for the metaverse


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Engadget / 8h
Epic has made acquisitions and otherwise signalled plans for a Fortnite metaverse , but its latest move is one of the most obvious yet. The developer has introduced Fortnite Party Worlds, or maps that are solely intended as social spaces to meet friends and play mini games. Unlike Hubs, these environments don't link to other islands — think of them as final destinations. The company has collabora

Twitch unleashes AI tool to spot banned users


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26BBC News - Technology / 8h
Twitch's suspicious-user detection system uses machine learning to spot those trying to evade bans.

TikTok adds creator monetization features, including tips and video gifts


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27TechCrunch / 8h
TikTok is today introducing new ways for its creators to make money from their content. While already, the short-form video platform allowed creators to accept virtual gifts from fans during TikTok LIVE videos, a set of new features will allow creators to accept payments and gifts when they’re not livestreaming through the addition of Tips and Video Gifts. These features are rolling out alongside

Frontegg raises $25M for its user management platform


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Frontegg , a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners . Existing investors Pitango , which led the company’s $5 million seed round, and Global Founders Capital also participated in this round. The service describes it

When Paying for More iPad Pro Storage Might Actually Be Worth It


Lifehacker / 8h
If you’re in the market for an iPad Pro, you likely aren’t ignorant of the cost. The high-refresh rate, Mini-LED HDR displays, Apple’s incredible M1 chip, and LiDAR sensor, among other key features, set a premium price for the Pros that you don’t see on other iPads. As such, you might be eyeing a smaller storage size… Read more...

Updates From The Matrix: Resurrections, Batgirl, and More


26Gizmodo / 8h
A high-tech new Zorro movie could be on the way. Swear-y new Peacemaker footage sees the honor of Aquaman defended. Star Trek: Discovery takes a trip to a classic location. Plus, Sabrina Spellman checks into Riverdale , and what’s next when Chucky returns in 2022. Spoilers get! Read more...

Republic acquires the UK’s Seedrs in $100M deal to push into Europe


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77TechCrunch / 8h
UK equity crowdfunding business Seedrs – who’s merger with rival Crowdcube was earlier blocked by competition regulators – has been acquired by start-up investing platform Republic in a $100m deal.The move comes after Seedrs criticised the the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority earlier this year as stifling the UK’s potential to boost startups. Seedrs was the first ever regulated equity crowd

Frontier Airlines Launches Status Match Promotion


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41One Mile at a Time / 8h
Frontier Airlines has just launched a status match promotion. This has the potential to be quite lucrative, especially as you can match based on both airline and hotel status. Frontier Airlines status match basics Frontier Airlines is offering a limited time status match promotion ( find the full FAQs here ): You need to apply by December 31, 2021 If you apply and are successful, your matched sta

Are your Microsoft Office files refusing to open? This could be why


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A new version of Microsoft’s endpoint security platform is preventing users from opening some Office files and launching various applications, Microsoft has confirmed. The company says Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (version 1.353.1874.0) is triggering false positive security alerts relating to Emotet malware , blocking certain files from launching. As reported by Bleeping Computer, multiple adm


Hawkeye episode 3 recap: Marvel's latest TV show lands a bullseye


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About this episode - Episode 3 (of 6), 'Echoes' - Written by Katrina Mathewson and Tanner Bean - Directed by Bert & Bertie ★★★★★ Spoilers for the first three episodes of Hawkeye follow. You've been warned. For a TV show named after the “World’s Greatest Marksman” – though we’re pretty sure Green Arrow would dispute that – the first two episodes of Hawkeye were relatively light on the bow-and-arro

How to watch Super Bowl 2022: date, channels, free live streams online, halftime show and more


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 8h
Every drop of blood, sweat and tears shed over the past few months and beyond count for nothing without the Vince Lombardi Trophy to show at the end of it. But only one team, once coach and one QB is worthy of the sport's highest honor. Read on as we explain all you need to know about Super Bowl LVI - including early details of how to get a 2022 Super Bowl live streams all over the world. Super B

Attack surface management startup CyCognito raises $100M Series C on $800M valuation


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32TechCrunch / 8h
As companies look for ways to prevent cyber attacks, one strategy is to be proactive and find vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach in an approach called “attack surface management.” A number of companies have taken this approach, and one, CyCognito , announced a $100 million Series C today on an $800 million valuation. The Westly Group led the round with participation from new investors Th

Niantic buys gameplay recording app Lowkey to improve its in-game social experience


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Engadget / 8h
Niantic has acquired another company to help build out its augmented reality platforms. The company has announced that it's acquiring the team behind Lowkey, an app you can use to easily capture and share gameplay moments. While you can use any screen capture application — or even your phone's built-in feature — to record your games, Lowkey was designed with casual gamers or those who don't want

Urtopia e-bike is basically a computer on wheels


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Engadget / 8h
The electrification of the bicycle has historically meant just that: A bike, but with an electric motor. You might find some other smart conveniences on higher-end models, but "less is more" has usually been the way. Urtopia , the latest e-bike brand from China, has other ideas. Its debut ride is, on paper, one of the most tech-heavy bikes we’ve seen. The spec sheet reads more like a phone’s than

Spotify's 2021 Wrapped is here to chronicle your year in music


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Engadget / 8h
In early December, Spotify rolls out its Wrapped year-in-review so that users can relive their go-to artists, songs and podcasts from the last several months. Today, the service is debuting the 2021 installment with some familiar features and a number of new additions, both of which are personalized to each listener's streaming habits. Like before, you'll get all the info on your top artists, gen

Samsung Galaxy A13 5G is the company's cheapest 5G phone yet


Mashable / 9h
Samsung is launching a new member of its Galaxy smartphone family, the cheapest to feature 5G yet. The Samsung Galaxy A13 5G is a 6.5-inch phone with a 90Hz Infinity-V HD+ display, the "V" part meaning it has a V-shaped front camera wedge on top (instead of the typical punch-hole design). The phone is powered by the octa-core MTK Dimensity 700 chip, and is running on Android 11. On the back, ther

Spotify Wrapped's latest feature reads Your Audio Aura


Mashable / 9h
Your 2021 Spotify Wrapped is finally here, and it’s one of the first attempts to create colorful cohesion out of a disjointed year. According to Spotify, the theme for this year's Wrapped is "the soundtrack to the new normal." So what does that new normal look and sound like for the app's estimated 400 million users around the world? Spotify is embracing the mercurial mood swings of 2021 with new

Speak in (Many) Tongues With This Pocket Translator


Wired / 9h
Pocketalk’s mobile device acts as a real-time translator so two people can hold a conversation while speaking different languages.

Samsung's New Galaxy A13 Is One of the Cheapest Ways to Get 5G


Gizmodo / 9h
Samsung’s new $250 Galaxy A13 5G is here, and it’s one of the most affordable ways to upgrade to 5G. Read more...

The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 bundled with a smart light is on sale for $25 right now


Engadget / 9h
Lenovo found success in the Google smart display space with its tiny smart clocks thanks to the devices' simplicity and affordable prices. The company introduced the modestly updated Smart Clock 2 this year and now Walmart has one of the best deals we've seen on it since its debut. You can pick up the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 plus one of the company's smart light bulbs for only $25, which is about $4

7 Ways You Should Prepare Your Car and Home Before the Snow Starts


Lifehacker / 9h
With winter weather approaching, getting ready for the chore of ice and snow removal is an essential prep. Digging out your car and clearing paths and walkways can be frustrating and time consuming, not to mention tough on your lower back, but you can save yourself some time and hassle this season if you think a… Read more...

Samsung Galaxy A13 5G gives AT&T a $250 5G option worth considering


SlashGear / 9h
Samsung has revealed its most affordable 5G phone in the US, with the Galaxy A13 5G carrying a mere $249.99 price tag. Headed to AT&T at the end of the week, the A13 pairs a trio of rear cameras with a sizable display, and despite the low price still uses a 90 Hz adaptive refresh rate panel. That panel is … Continue reading

How to Stream Every ‘Matrix’ Movie


How-To Geek / 9h
As audiences get ready to return to the world of The Matrix, it’s the perfect time to revisit the Wachowskis’ groundbreaking sci-fi vision, which remains hugely influential. Here’s how to stream every movie in The Matrix franchise. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

5 expert tips when booking award travel to South America


31The Points Guy / 9h
South America is an amazing continent — and I learned a lot about award travel to the region when I lived in Brazil for five years. Using your points and miles to visit sandy beaches, go to Carnival festivals or explore the jungles can be amazing. But award travel to and within South America also can be tough to get the hang of, especially since you’re relying on foreign carriers to fly you aroun

Going on vacation soon? Make sure you have the right COVID-19 test


91The Points Guy / 9h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Antigen test. Rapid test. PCR test. RT-PCR test. Antibody test. If you’ve taken a COVID-19 test during the pandemic , you might have been bewildered by the sheer number of options. There are several names for COVID-19 tests, and keeping track of which one you need for travel can seem daunting. But there ar

Amex Offers: Bonus Points For Airbnb Spending


One Mile at a Time / 9h
The Amex Offers program often has promotions that can save you money on hotel stays, especially with co-brand credit card partners Hilton and Marriott . For those who prefer different kinds of accommodations, there’s a great new Amex Offers deal for Airbnb. Spend $250+ with Airbnb, get 5K Amex points There’s a new targeted Amex Offers deals for Airbnb stays. With this, you can receive 5,000 bonus

You Should Definitely Make Some Christmas Tree Syrup


Lifehacker / 9h
Somewhere in the middle of the pandemic I fell down a rabbit hole, and learned all about tree tapping to make syrup. Yes—amongst us commoners, in neighborhoods all across America, there are people who tap their own trees to produce their own maple syrup. Read more...

Thousands of AT&T customers in the US infected by new data-stealing malware


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100+Ars Technica / 9h
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of networking devices belonging to AT&T Internet subscribers in the US have been infected with newly discovered malware that allows the devices to be used in denial-of-service attacks and attacks on internal networks, researchers said on Tuesday. The device model under attack is the EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller , an appliance used by small

How To Learn A New Language In As Little As Three Weeks


Futurism / 9h
If you’re a travel lover like us, one of the best parts of seeing the world is getting to know the people and all the amazing things that you can find. The coolest hole-in-the-wall, a gorgeous tourist-free beach, or the winding paths of an old-city bazaar filled with color are just a few of the places that you’ll experience once you’ve left the beaten path. That’s no simple feat though, and it he


7-Eleven and Nuro begin autonomous vehicle deliveries in California


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Engadget / 9h
7-Eleven has teamed up with Nuro for autonomous vehicle deliveries in Mountain View, California. Residents can place orders through the 7Now app and an AV might bring the items to their location . Autonomous deliveries won't cost customers anything extra. They're available from 8AM until 9PM PT every day, and the companies say orders should arrive in around 30 minutes. When the AV arrives, custom

How do jellyfish find their food – and how do they poop?


Popular Mechanics / 9h
The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .

The oracle : compliments of Chase & Sanborn, tea & coffee importers. Advertising pamphlet for W.D. Earnley, advertising...


Music, Arts & Literature / 9h
The oracle : compliments of Chase & Sanborn, tea & coffee importers. Advertising pamphlet for W.D. Earnley, advertising Chase & Sanborn coffee. Title from cover. Includes information on palmistry, fortune-telling, horoscopes, superstitions, birthstones and the meaning of dreams. Printed on back: “For sale by W.D. Earnley, 840-842 3rd Ave., Detroit, Mich. Copyright 1897 by the Gray Lith. Co., N.Y.

Nuro and 7-Eleven to pilot autonomous delivery service in California


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20TechCrunch / 9h
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven is pairing up with Nuro to pilot a commercial delivery service using autonomous vehicles in the Silicon Valley enclave of Mountain View, California. The service, which customers can access beginning December 1 through 7-Eleven’s 7NOW delivery app, will initially use Nuro’s self-driving Priuses. Eventually, the service will use Nuro’s R2 delivery vehicles, which we

Apple launches new Watch faces and Apple Pay promotion for World AIDS Day


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64Mashable / 9h
In 2006, Apple partnered with (RED) to launch a line of red-colored products, whose purchase triggers a donation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria . (RED) is a company that teams up with popular brands to raise awareness about AIDS and raise donations to the Global Fund which are invested in HIV/AIDS programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Now, coinciding with World AIDS Day, App

Ericsson increases 5G adoption estimates to 600m subscriptions by end of 2021


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The volume of data carried across mobile phone networks around the world has increased by 300 times over the past decade, with more generated during the third quarter of 2021 than the entirety of human history before 2016. Ericsson’s latest mobility report attributed the dramatic but unsurprising increase to the greater availability of 4G and 5G services, noting that more than 5.5 billion smartph

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch grabs $175 million in token sale


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TechCrunch / 10h
1inch , a popular aggregator of decentralized protocols, has raised $175 million in what it calls a Series B funding round. It isn’t a traditional venture round as the company isn’t selling a stake in exchange for money. Instead, 1inch has sold $175 million worth of 1INCH tokens in a private token sales with institutional investors. If you’re not familiar with 1inch, it’s one of the most popular

A rind is a terrible thing to waste: Spoiler Alert leaps to the rescue


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TechCrunch / 10h
We spend such a tremendous amount of our resources growing, processing, transporting and selling food items. In a world where not everyone has enough to eat, it’s a disgrace that in the US, 30%-40% of food that is produced is never consumed. That’s the problem Spoiler Alert has set its crosshairs on. The company just raised $11 million to really start scaling its operations and save more food fro

Bitly makes first acquisition with QR code leader Egoditor


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TechCrunch / 10h
Link management company Bitly announced Wednesday its acquisition of Germany-based QR code company Egoditor GmbH whose flagship product is the QR Code Generator . Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Toby Gabriner, CEO of Bitly, disclosed that it was a cash-and-stock deal that, when completed, will result in a combined company that has over 325,000 paying customers, more than 5 millio

Transfer Amex Points To Virgin Atlantic With 30% Bonus


27One Mile at a Time / 10h
The Amex Membership Rewards program has just introduced its latest transfer bonus, valid through the end of the year. In the past I would have taken advantage of this in a heartbeat, but with Japan continuing to be closed to visitors, this isn’t quite as valuable at the moment, in my opinion. Transfer Amex points with a 30% bonus The American Express Membership Rewards program in the United State

HUGE: Frontier Airlines Will Status Match Almost All Airline OR Hotel Elite Members – Up To Top Tier


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70View from the Wing / 10h
Do you have elite status with an airline - or even a hotel chain? You might even have this just from having a credit card. Frontier Airlines wants to match your status and depending on your current elite level will even give you top tier in their program. Frontier offers super cheap airfare with a lot of add-on fees. But Frontier's top level waives all fees and even makes tickets refundable . Bas

How to Make Chrome Use Less RAM


40How-To Geek / 10h
Google Chrome is a very popular web browser, but people have one common complaint—it uses a lot of RAM. It’s hard to fix the problem completely, but there are some things you can do to reduce Chrome’s memory usage. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Things are heating up for Costanoa Ventures; closes two oversubscribed funds


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TechCrunch / 10h
Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. Greg Sands started the firm in 2012 as a sole general partner and told TechCrunch that all the way back to the first fund, it invested in companies, like Intaact,

PS5 update fixes major app absence – a year after Xbox Series X


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
BBC iPlayer has finally come to PS5 , bringing the popular UK streaming service to the latest PlayStation console. While the PS5 is mainly for gaming, there's no denying that the vision of a multimedia center console in the living room has come to pass, and it's increasingly important for gaming machines to support a wide variety of streaming apps – especially for smart TVs that fall behind in th

EU lawmakers agree data reuse rules to foster AI and R&D


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TechCrunch / 10h
It’s just over a year since the European Union’s executive proposed legislation aimed at encouraging widespread sharing and reuse of industrial data and protected public sector data-sets — such as health data, environment, energy, agriculture, mobility, finance, manufacturing, public administration and skills. Yesterday the bloc’s co-legislators reached agreement on the DGA after trilogue discuss

Don't worry, the best Sony headphones are still on sale for Cyber Monday


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Amazon was the place to shop this year for Sony WH-1000XM4 Black Friday deals as well as Cyber Monday headphones deals in general. But if you thought you missed your chance to shop for some of the best headphones in the world, we have good news for you – as the online retail giant is still discounting these fantastic Sony cans. Despite the Cyber Monday deals period having passed for this year, bo

Xbox gamers will soon be able to share gameplay clips via public links


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Engadget / 10h
Xbox video game clips are about to become much more easily shareable via unique public URLs on the Xbox mobile app, according to a tweet from Microsoft's Larry Hryb (@majornelson). Those links will also be collected into a new "trending content" area so you can see what others are doing. The features are now being tested in the app and will "soon' roll out to all users, Hryb said. Link sharing an

Anti-Vaccine Televangelist Marcus Lamb Dies of Covid-19 at 64


100+Gizmodo / 10h
Marcus Lamb, televangelist and founder of the Christian TV network Daystar, died Tuesday of covid-19 after being hospitalized with the disease, according to a new report from the Star-Telegram . Lamb, whose network regularly denounced covid-19 vaccination efforts as the work of evil forces, was 64 years old. Read more...

The FDA has narrowly backed Merck’s covid pill—but it’s not that effective


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65MIT Technology Review / 10h
The news: A US Food and Drug Administration panel has voted by 13 to 10 to recommend that the government authorize Merck’s antiviral pill for patients with early covid-19 who are at high risk for severe infection. The drug, called molnupiravir, has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death, although by less than previously thought. Initial results in October found it cut the risk


Steam Deck won’t get exclusives that leave other PC gamers out in the cold


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If you were wondering whether Valve might consider having exclusive games for its incoming Steam Deck handheld, the answer is no. The clarification comes from Valve’s Steam Deck FAQ for game developers, in the wrap-up section at the end, where one question is: “Would Valve be interested in having any Steam Deck exclusive titles?” The answer is a simple: “No, that doesn’t make much sense to us. It

The lightest AMD laptop ever just came out and no, it’s not a new Dell XPS 13


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
At 885g, the Lifebook U9311A is not the lightest laptop on the market, that award goes to the Asus ExpertBook B9 at 870g. Fujitsu’s latest notebook however, is powered by AMD and it is therefore the lightest Ryzen laptop on the market right now with options for either the hexa-core Ryzen 5 4500U or the 8-core Ryzen 7 4700U. The latter is about twice as fast as the Intel Core i7-10510U that powers

The Morning After: DJI's newest drone is all about the cameras


Engadget / 10h
DJI’s newest, technically impressive (and expensive) drone is here. It addresses issues with visual quality, short flight time and a simplified flying experience. Judging by Associate Editor Steve Dent’s review, it’s an incredible drone, even if some features were missing at launch. The Mavic 3 is peerless when it comes to image quality — so that speaks to who it’s aimed at. It’s definitely not f

Inside Edge Season 3: Where to watch? What to expect?


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
Cricket in itself is drama. But when cricket and its ecosystem is shaped into a drama for the screen, the excitement doubles. We got to experience that in the first two seasons of the popular Amazon Original Series Inside Edge . Set in India and around the fictional cricket club of Mumbai Mavericks, Inside Edge looked at the unsavoury aspects of the cricketing world - spot-fixing, doping, player

Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential


500+Ars Technica / 10h
Enlarge / A rendering of SpaceX's Starship traveling to the Saturn system. (credit: SpaceX) Jennifer Heldmann stared at the computer screens on her desk, watching as a rocket's upper stage slammed into a crater near the South Pole of the Moon. In the name of science , a 2.3-ton chunk of steel struck the Moon with the force of 2 tons of TNT. It was October 2009, and Heldmann tracked the impact fro

Researchers Have a Method to Spot Reddit’s State-Backed Trolls


41Wired / 10h
Academics claim they can sniff out the telltale signs of troll-like behavior. But is it really as simple as monitoring cute animal postings?

More Companies Offer Fertility Benefits. It’s Only the Beginning


26Wired / 10h
Employer support for staff who wish to freeze their eggs has great potential—but broader support for parents still lags behind.

These Startups Deliver Groceries Fast—Without Gig Workers


100+Wired / 10h
Facing a tight labor market and even tighter schedules, some companies are hiring employees, with benefits.

'Squid Game' star Lee Jung-jae takes on Stephen Colbert in the dalgona candy challenge


100+Mashable / 11h
Remember the dalgona candy challenge from Squid Game , in which competitors had to use a pin to cut a shape out of honeycomb? The trend swept the internet after the Netflix show went viral , and it appears it hasn't been overlooked by Stephen Colbert. During Tuesday's Late Show the host spoke to Squid Game lead Lee Jung-jae, and he couldn't resist breaking out the dalgona at the end of their chat

Steam Deck’s Nintendo Switch-like gyro controls could be a game-changer promises Valve


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Valve is recommending future Steam Deck developers try out gyro controls for their games. In a Steam Deck FAQ post , the Half-Life publisher also said that “when combined with the joystick or the trackpad, [gyro controls] are ideal for a large class of games and something many players will want to use.” Valve went on to explain that gyro controls offer finer precision for gamers who are used to u

Has Microsoft gone too far with its latest Edge feature?


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A new feature in Microsoft Edge that gives users the option to use a ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) service called Zip, has begun appearing in the web browser for some people offering an alternative way to pay for things – and it’s not going down well with people. A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced the feature in a blog post , saying that it was partnering with “Zip (previously Quadpay) to offer a

Rocket League mobile is now a thing, and we're not terribly impressed


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Rocket League Sideswipe is now available on Android and iOS devices, offering a free-to-play mobile alternative to the online multiplayer phenomenon. Rocket League Sideswipe maintains the orange vs. blue head-to-head setup of its console counterpart, but instead takes place from a side-on perspective, as opposed to a fully 3D environment. As reported by GSMArena , Rocket League Sideswipe looks to

Smart mug maker Ember raises $23.5M, as it looks toward medical storage


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TechCrunch / 11h
Back in February, Ember’s new consumer CEO (ex-Dyson) Jim Rowan outlined for TechCrunch the company’s plans to expand beyond the temperature-controlled smart mugs that bear its name. At the time, the executive cited the cold chain – specifically medicine transport – as a potentially important category for the startup, going forward. Seems Ember is now ready to start making good on that promise, c

AI-powered competitive enablement platform Klue lands $62M led by Tiger Global


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TechCrunch / 11h
Klue , an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Vancouver-based company combines intel collection capabilities with a modern approach to content distribution aimed at providing users with the insights needed to drive revenue and business impact. The platform automatically gathers

Nothing's Great Cheap Earbuds Just Got a Fresh Coat of Paint


Gizmodo / 11h
Unless you spent most of 2021 in a cave—a choice that no one would judge you for—escaping news of former OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei’s startup Nothing and its first product was impossible. The Ear (1) wireless earbuds were one of the most hyped gadgets of the past few years , and if you thought the hype train had run… Read more...

5 Websites Every Linux User Should Bookmark


How-To Geek / 11h
There’s no shortage of Linux websites hyping the trendiest distributions (distros) and dishing on the latest developer drama. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated a few sites worth your time that offer relevant news, useful information, or both. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

How Cute Cats Help Spread Misinformation Online


1KNYT > Technology / 11h
A mainstay of the internet is regularly used to build audiences for people and organizations pushing false and misleading information.

Microsoft will be required to disclose sexual harassment cases after shareholder vote


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Engadget / 11h
Microsoft's shareholders have forced the tech giant to write up an annual report that would detail how it handles sexual harassment cases within the company. Investors voted in favor of passing a proposal requesting the annual report at their recent meeting despite the company's recommendation that they vote against it. According to The Wall Street Journal , Microsoft has been planning to disclos

Peter Dinklage shows off impressive singing voice with moving 'Cyrano' song


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400+Mashable / 11h
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage joined The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner for a romantic, moving performance on Wednesday. The actor performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday with a song called "Your Name," from the upcoming film Cyrano . Directed by Joe Wright, the adaptation is based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac , which has been since made into sev


iPhone SE 3 rumored to launch before the end of March 2022


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 11h
When is the iPhone SE 3 going to see the light of day? A new industry analyst report suggests it will be sometime during Q1 2022 – so January, February or March, and it's likely to be more towards the end of that time frame than the start. The prediction is from Taiwanese research firm TrendForce (via MacRumors ), and fits in broadly with what we've heard before. The second-generation iPhone SE m

Could Starfield surprise us twice over?


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 11h
Bethesda's space RPG Starfield is still a full year away, but a new teaser trailer has offered a key insight into the way the game might be structured. Game Director Todd Howard, Studio Director Angela Browder and Art Director Matt Carofano all sat down for seven-minute YouTube video to talk about the upcoming game, which is set to release in November 2022 on Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S and PC

Benedict Cumberbatch seems wrong for 'The Power of the Dog,' but proves wickedly right


44Mashable / 11h
When you think "rugged American cowboy," the image that pops to mind probably isn't of Benedict Cumberbatch. Though the English actor has played a wide array of roles — from Doctor Strange to Alan Turing and Sherlock Holmes — there's frequently a common thread of posh intellectualism therein. When Cumberbatch strides into Jane Campion's new Western, The Power of the Dog , wearing buffalo-skin cha

What we can all learn from 'trauma dumping' online


48Mashable / 11h
Like most controversies these days, the outcry over "trauma dumping" started with a viral TikTok. A therapist overlaid an image of herself with the words: "When a client wants to trauma dump the first session" paired with a caption that read "not happening on my watch ever again." The therapist, who's since deleted the TikTok account where she posted the snippet in October, gained attention for a

Why Mars-bound astronauts may go to Iceland first


BBC News - Technology / 11h
With a similar landscape to other worlds, it could aid research into extra-terrestrial missions.

Hawkeye episode 3 may have just confirmed the return of a fan-favorite character


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Potentially major spoilers follow for Hawkeye episode 3. Hawkeye episode 3 has landed on Disney Plus – and it seems that the Marvel Phase 4 TV series may have already revealed its big secret. The show is now halfway through its six-episode run and, ordinarily, MCU projects don't tend to reveal their major surprises until their second half. A couple of key scenes and lines of dialog in Hawkeye epi

This Italian-made e-bike could keep rolling for up to 200km


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Italian company Noko has unveiled a trio of new e-bikes that it claims can keep running for up to 200km (or 124 miles). That's not the greatest range of any e-bike (the WAU Bike , for example, can run for up to 215 miles with its extra power pack fitted), but Noko's bikes will also be exceptionally light, making them far more practical for commuting and storage. While the WAU tips the scales at a

The Matrix Is the Best Hacker Movie


100+Wired / 12h
Most people point to Sneakers or WarGames. They’re all wrong. The Wachowskis actually invented the ultimate cyber superhero.

Welcome to the (Synthetic) Meatspace


100+Wired / 12h
Reactor-grown nuggets, human-edited genetic code, and new mRNA technologies could change our relationship to life itself.

WIRED Peers Into the Future of Reality


100+Wired / 12h
Two decades after The Matrix, technologies have emerged that make us question what is real—in ways stranger, if less sinister, than the movie imagined.

The Most Efficient Way to Debug the Simulation


52Wired / 12h
Look, some of these tickets just have to be marked WONTFIX so everyone can move on.

What The Matrix Got Wrong About Cities of the Future


45Wired / 12h
Where the movie foresaw a distinction between digital and physical reality, modern cities are merging them, and not necessarily in a good way.

It’s Time to Reimagine the Future of Cyberpunk


37Wired / 12h
In the 20th century, the genre imagined the body modifications and protective streetwear that could save us from our own future. Now it needs to envision humanity anew.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Is Ready to Blow Your Mind


66Wired / 12h
The actor isn’t just the new Morpheus. He’s the future of Hollywood.

Razer’s next gaming laptops will be pricier thanks to chip shortage


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Razer has announced that its next-gen gaming laptops coming out in 2022 will be more expensive than current models. The bad news was delivered by the CEO of Razer, Min-Liang Tan, who tweeted to warn would-be buyers that there have been ‘significant increases’ in the cost of hardware components that go in these notebooks, so price hikes would be necessary due to that. Just had a long meeting to re

Jimmy Kimmel mocks Mark Zuckerberg with brutal Elf on the Shelf parody


100+Mashable / 12h
You know Elf on the Shelf, that mildly creepy game where people set up a toy to watch over their children at Christmas time? Well, Jimmy Kimmel's thought of something even creepier. Introducing "Zuck on a Truck", a miniature Mark Zuckerberg who knows far more about you than whether or not you've been naughty or nice. "With the power of Facebook's massive database, your personal Mark Zuckerberg kn

Latest Oculus Quest 2 update lets you film yourself in VR – if you own an iPhone


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
The latest Oculus Quest 2 update brings mixed reality casting to the VR headset, effectively allowing you to film yourself in a virtual reality space. So far just six of the best VR games are compatible – like Beat Saber and Pistol Whip – but the new feature is able to quite convincingly film you superimposed over the game you're playing. As reported by RoadToVR , this new Quest and Quest 2 featu

Major update to Twitter's privacy policy - digital rights activists unimpressed


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Twitter has got a new CEO . And with him comes some major changes to the social media platform's privacy policy. Most of it welcome. But some parts of it are vague, and hence a bit worrisome. The new policy targets the sharing of photos and videos of private citizens without their consent. In an announcement , Twitter said: “sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violat

Which upcoming phones will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1?


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TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is official, and it's set to power some of the very best smartphones of 2022. Flights and accommodation for this launch event were funded by Qualcomm, but the views reflect the writer's own independent opinion. But which upcoming phones will be using the new chipset? We've now had the first manufacturers confirm compatbility, and we expect to hear from more And


Tesla made a $50 'Cyberwhistle' and it's already sold out


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Engadget / 12h
As he showed with the Flamethrower , Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a knack for selling weird gadgets that often have little to do with the company's main business. The latest example is a $50 " Cyberwhistle ," a collectible whistle in the form of Tesla's Cybertruck, and it's already sold out. Blow the whistle on Tesla! https://t.co/c86hLA0iQK — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2021 $50 is a lot for a

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE leak shows off all the phone's color options


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE has traveled a long and winding road on its journey to being launched, but it seems that it's now very close to being officially unveiled – and in the meantime, we've got a sneak preview of all the colors it's going to arrive in. These images – which look like official renders – come courtesy of the ever-reliable WinFuture , and show the Galaxy S21 FE in black, white, pi

How Cute Cats Help Spread Misinformation Online


1KNYT > Technology / 12h
A mainstay of the internet is regularly used to build audiences for people and organizations pushing false and misleading information.

Big Tech ‘Amplification’: What Does That Mean?


37NYT > Technology / 12h
Some lawmakers from both parties argue that when social media sites boost the performance of hateful or violent posts, the sites become accomplices.

How to Store Your Covid Vaccine Card or Test Results on Your Phone


200+NYT > Technology / 12h
To plan for safe travels and gatherings this holiday season, here are some simple ways to take your Covid-related health data with you.

What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse?


28NYT > Technology / 12h
Mark Zuckerberg wants us thinking about visual art when we contemplate his company’s new venture. Artists should tak