Tuesday, December 07, 2021

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Charlie Cox Daredevil•
Marvel chief Kevin Feige has seemingly confirmed that the studio plans to bring Charlie Cox on board to reprise his role as Daredevil in the MCU – suggesting a Daredevil Disney Plus series could be on the way. Speaking to CinemaBlend on the press tour for Spider-Man: No Way Home , Feige said: "If you were to see Daredevil in upcoming things, Charlie Cox, yes, would be the actor playing Daredevil.



Pinterest Video Vochi•
1KTechCrunch / 18h
Pinterest is further investing in creator tools and video with today’s news that it has acquired the video creation and editing app Vochi for an undisclosed sum. The company will be bringing in both the IP at Vochi and its 40-person team, including its founders, to expand Pinterest’s set of video creation tools and to help its creators make more dynamic videos. Over the past year or so, Pinterest



3KGizmodo / 13h
Assisted suicide booths, a longtime fixture of sci-fi, may soon be a thing in Switzerland. Swiss outlets report that the manufacturer of a 3D-printed assisted suicide pod called the Sarco capsule has received legal approval to be used by the public. Read more...




Samsung Han SET New•
TechCrunch / 17min
Samsung Electronics announced today it has merged its mobile and consumer electronics units and unveiled its new leadership to replace its three major divisions leaders, effective starting today (Dec.7), in the company’s biggest shake-up since 2017. Jong-Hee (JH) Han, head of visual display business, was promoted to vice chairman and co-CEO and will lead the newly merged mobile and consumer elect



Adam Mosseri, the head of the company, is expected to face questions from lawmakers this week about whether social media harms children.



Engadget / 21min
Instagram has launched a number of new and experimental features meant to make its app a safer place for teens ahead of Adam Mosseri's Senate testimony . To start with, it's launching the previously announced " Take a Break " feature in the US, UK, Canada and Australia today. Now, when a user has been scrolling Instagram for quite some time, the app will ask them to take a break and to set remind
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TechCrunch / 39min
By today’s standards, $10 million isn’t a lot of capital to invest. But Iterative , which describes itself as a YC-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia, says the $10 million it has raised from a cadre of Silicon Valley bigs — including investor Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, Chi-Hua Chien of Goodwater Capital, and Qasar Younis, the cofounder of Applied Intuition and former



100+Gizmodo / 57min
Life360, a popular tracking app that bills itself as “the world’s leading family safety service,” is purportedly selling location data on the 31 million families and kids that use it to data brokers. The chilling revelation may make users of the Tile Bluetooth tracker, which is being bought by Life360 , think twice… Read more...



The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



Samsung Consumer Han•
Samsung has merged its mobile business, the company's biggest moneymaker , with its consumer electronics division in a major restructuring meant to "strengthen its business competitiveness." In addition, to combining divisions, the tech giant has also replaced all of its CEOs. Jong-Hee Han, the head of its TV business, has been named as Vice-Chairman and co-CEO of the newly merged mobile and cons



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FREE ONLINE COURSE: The QuickBooks Pro Course is a comprehensive bootcamp that starts at the basics and offers plenty of tips for advanced users. This course is available for free on Udemy with the voucher code 5A46A491151386712216. QuickBooks Pro offers everything you need to effectively handle your personal finances or those of your company. It's not something that everyone can handle without s



TL;DR: A one-year subscription to Setapp is on sale for £52.03 as of Dec. 7, saving you 36% on list price. You bought a Mac to help you be more efficient, but sometimes you still need a little extra boost. After all, your productivity problem isn't just coming from your desktop setup — it's coming from you. If you've been searching for a way to be more productive and focused, there is software th



Hong Kong WeLab Indonesia•
A virtual bank is soon coming to Indonesia. WeLab, a Hong Kong-based fintech unicorn , announced Tuesday its acquisition of Bank Jasa Jakarta (BJJ), an Indonesian commercial bank. With the deal, WeLab is planning to launch a digital bank to capture the country’s enormous unbanked population in the second half of next year. A consortium led by WeLab has raised $240 million from existing and new in



Intel Mobileye Unit•
The chip maker’s Israeli subsidiary builds driver-assistance technology for major automakers and is now testing self-driving cars.



Tile Location Data•
Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup has learned, however, that the app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it. Through interviews with t



Rohingya Facebook Myanmar•
The social media giant is accused of fuelling violence against the persecuted minority in Myanmar.



Intel Mobileye Unit•
Intel plans to take Mobileye, the advanced driver assistance and automated driving subsidiary it acquired for $15 billion more than four years ago, public next year. Spinning Mobileye out into a separate publicly traded company could increase value for Intel shareholders, its parent company said in an announcement that went out late Monday. A source told TechCrunch the IPO is expected to take abo



Yes, you can be anonymous on LinkedIn. Also, if you didn't know, other users may be able to see when you viewed their profile. Kinda creepy, right? But going anonymous is a perfect feature for checking out other profiles who may have reached out to you. Using this feature, LinkedIn won't let them know that you viewed them. And if anyone finds your profile while you're browsing LinkedIn as anonymo



TMR Neo Matrix Trailer•
400+Mashable / 7h
Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections , and it looks like Neo (Keanu Reeves) is trapped in a dull life within the titular false reality once more. Of course, that likely won't last long. "They taught you good," says Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, taking over the role originally played by Laurence Fishburne). "Made you believe their world was all you deserved. But



Indian firm Byju's faces allegations of pursuing hyper growth using high pressure sales tactics.



Donald Trump Social•
At the weekend the Trump Media and Technology Group said it had secured $1bn of investment.



Zero Cloudflare One•
The web infrastructure company and CDN provider Cloudflare has announced that it is expanding its Zero Trust firewall capabilities to help organizations secure their entire corporate networks. While traditional firewalls consist of hardware boxes installed on company premises, they weren't designed for employees working from home or for cloud applications. In order to meet this challenge, some or




Mandy Moore's father just flew his last flight as a Captain for American Airlines . After 42 years of flying Captain Don Moore reached age 65 and mandatory retirement for a commercial airline pilot. Continue reading ...



Chase Air Canada Aeroplan•
Air Canada and Chase launched an awesome new partnership this year for those in the United States. In August, Air Canada Aeroplan became a Chase Ultimate Rewards transfer partner . Air Canada and Chase have now partnered to launch a co-branded credit card, the Aeroplan® Credit Card , which opened to applicants in the past few days. In this post I wanted to take a more detailed look at the card. F



Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. New York City is the first U.S. city to extend partial vaccination requirements to children between the ages of 5 and 11 wishing to eat indoors or attend entertainment and fitness establishments starting Dec. 14, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Dec. 6. Children ages 5 to 11 will be required to show proof of at least one dose come D



United 2022 Status•
I am writing this from the first-class cabin of a United Boeing 737, flying to Houston, Texas (IAH), from Cancun, Mexico (CUN). My upgrade cleared while I was buying coffee at the airport. On my last flight, I was already settled into an Economy Plus seat I selected at check-in when I was notified that my upgrade had cleared. I earned entry-level United Premier Silver status in September, and sin



The first year of a free trade deal in Africa has spurred investment, but more needs to be done.



343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios Halo Infinite‘s campaign is landing in just a couple of days and our full review of the game – encompassing both the single-player campaign and multiplayer – is ready for you to read. Once you’ve finished reading the review, come back here for some additional tidbits of info. Don’t worry, this list is spoiler-free, too, so you can read on … Continue reading



Beaches, beautiful rain forests, Mayan ruins and a renowned barrier reef are but a few reasons why Belize should be in your travel sights. Add to that the fact that Belize is the only Central American country that is primarily English-speaking. And did we mention that you can get there for a song, thanks to these deals from United and American Airlines ? Airfares from U.S. cities are available fo



100+Gizmodo / 8h
Batman’s world is expanding, and its star power is rising. A few months back , news broke that Warner Bros. was developing a show centered on the new iteration of the Penguin from the upcoming Matt Reeves film The Batman . Colin Farrell plays Penguin in the film but, at the time, it was unclear if the star would reprise… Read more...



Shang-Chi Destin Cretton•
400+Mashable / 8h
Marvel has confirmed that a sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is in the works, once again written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. "Flopped so hard we got a sequel!!" star Simu Liu tweeted on Monday , referring to online commentators who incorrectly predicted the film would do badly before it was even released. He also linked to an article by Variety reporting on the news.



Gizmodo / 8h
Donald Trump’s effort to launch a MAGA-centric tech firm to rival the likes of Google and Facebook landed a new CEO on Monday. It also disclosed that it’s under investigation by the feds. Read more...



A new, elaborate fraud campaign involving airdropped tokens, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, and the MetaMask wallet has been spotted targeting naive cryptocurrency holders. Airdropped tokens are tokens (or crypto coins) that the project’s developers distribute to the wider community. It is a common practice in the blockchain industry, as it allows participants to better acquaint themsel



Microsoft OneDrive M1•
Enlarge / The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Microsoft has announced a public preview of OneDrive sync for ARM devices, signaling that a public release of a native version of OneDrive on M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max Macs will arrive eventually. 9to5Mac first discovered and reported on the announcement after Microsoft's Ankita Kirti posted



Devin Nunes Congress Trump•
200+Mashable / 9h
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is logging out of Congress and logging in to Trump's new media company. On Monday, news broke that Congressman Nunes was going to retire due to a recent opportunity he "could not refuse." Not long after those reports, multiple news outlets confirmed the offer: CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). The company also released a statement. In the social media world, Re



Hello and welcome back to Max Q! There was a TON of space news this week so I won’t ramble too much, other than to remind you that many of the people mentioned below will be at TC Sessions: Space on the 14th and 15th! That includes Peter Beck , CEO of Rocket Lab, Nanoracks’ Jeffrey Manber , and many, many others. It’s going to be a really great event and we’d like for you to be there — more detai



To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here . Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 6, 2021! The holiday news slowdown is very much not here yet. With changes at Alibaba, big startup news, SEC queries and a crypto selloff the other day that is still reverberating through markets, it’s busy out there.



Rblfmr/Shutterstock New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a major new COVID-19 vaccine mandate that will cover the city’s entire private sector. Under this mandate, anyone who works in the megacity will be required to show proof of vaccination, something de Blasio says will ensure “every employer is on a level playing field.” NYC vaccine mandate hits private sector … Continue reading



Turkish Airlines’ Miles&Smiles frequent flyer program is becoming increasingly useful, and if it’s a program you’re not familiar with, it’s probably worth taking a look. Why you should care about Turkish Airlines’ loyalty program Why should you care about the Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles program? There are a few reasons: It’s becoming increasingly easy to earn Turkish Airlines miles with transfe



54Gizmodo / 9h
Star Wars ’ current canonical era—where the series is bigger and more expansive across film, TV, books, comics, and video games than ever, and yet also everything simply must align and matter to the rest of its wider universe—makes for a weird mix. It means that we’ve gone from, say, a side character in a series of… Read more...



Norwegian Omicron 17•
Enlarge / MARSEILLE, FRANCE - 2020/05/25: The Norwegian Getaway cruise ship arrives in Marseille. (credit: Getty | SOPA images ) A Norwegian Cruise Line ship with 3,200 passengers and crew disembarked in New Orleans Sunday amid an onboard COVID-19 outbreak that includes a suspected case of the omicron coronavirus variant. So far, a total of 17 people who were aboard have tested positive. The news



In case you missed it, United quietly extended Premier elite status for many of its frequent flyers this weekend. Officially, the airline said that only those impacted by closed borders, international travel restrictions and company travel constraints received another year of status, through January 2023. But the vague terms left everyone wondering who exactly was selected and why. If you’re wond




UK US Covid PCR One•
The headlines on Sunday about a Norwegian Cruise Line ship sailing in the Gulf of Mexico were alarming. There was an “outbreak” of COVID-19 taking place on the brand’s giant Norwegian Breakaway, as many news outlets put it, and the vessel was just hours away from docking in New Orleans. To a casual observer, it may have seemed like we were right back to early 2020 when the just-emerging coronavir



Patriots Bills NFL•
Championship Game spoiler alert! Not quite, but this Pats vs Bills clash is a showdown between what many fans believe are the two best teams in the AFC. Buffalo broke the curse of Belichick emphatically last season, and you can guarantee a backlash. Read on as we explain how to get a Patriots vs Bills live stream and watch NFL Monday Night Football online no matter where you are today. New Englan



Google Pixel Repair•
Sending your Android smartphone in for repair can be stressful enough as it is but one unlucky Google Pixel owner also had her device hacked in the process. As reported by The Verge , game designer and author Jane McGonigal sent her broken Pixel 5a to an official Pixel repair center in October. Unfortunately though, Google claimed it had never received the phone and she was charged for a replacem



British Airways Executive Club has had some major issues over the past few weeks. The program experienced scheduled downtime in late November , where Avios bookings and other website functions were scheduled to be down for four days. This quickly turned into a more extended downtime, and a couple of weeks later some Executive Club members still aren’t able to log into their accounts. This means s



Microsoft Chinese Nickel•
The group was likely using the websites to install malware that helped it gather data from government agencies and other groups, the company said.



Microsoft Chinese China•
37TechCrunch / 9h
Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese government-backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCI) said on Monday that a federal court in Virginia had granted an order allowing the company to take control of the websites and redirect the traffic to Microsoft servers. These malicio



51Gizmodo / 9h
Researchers in the UK are beginning an important clinical trial of a relatively new type of weight loss, or bariatric, surgery. The minimally invasive procedure is designed to reduce the production of the so-called “hunger hormone” called ghrelin, but with less cost and upkeep than existing bariatric treatments.… Read more...



Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bet_Noire ) T-Mobile has been incorrectly rejecting rebate requests from customers who purchased new iPhones, according to an article yesterday by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman . T-Mobile acknowledged the problem and said it is being fixed. Gurman experienced the problem himself when he traded in an iPhone 12 Pro Max for an iPhone 13 Pro Max. He was promised a $79



TMR Neo Matrix Trailer•
Official trailer #2 for The Matrix Resurrections . Not even a full week has gone by since we got an exciting new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections , but with the film's premiere just two weeks away, Warner Bros. is clearly intent on amping up the excitement. The company released another trailer on Monday, and while new footage is in short supply, everything we've seen thus far is finally put i



300+The Points Guy / 10h
When it’s time to catch some Z’s on your next Delta flight, you’ll be in for a surprise. The Atlanta-based carrier is cutting its partnership with Westin that has historically offered premium-cabin flyers a plush pillow and blanket from the hotel brand’s Heavenly bedding line . Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free new biweekly Aviation newsletter! Going forward, Delta is phasin



200+The Points Guy / 10h
Just in time for holiday travel shopping, Alaska Airlines is offering a buy one, get one free promotion. You’ll just have to pay taxes and fees on the second ticket. Among the deals? You could fly between the West Coast and cities like New York or Newark for as low as $374 round-trip for two adults. You’ll need to act fast. This deal expires at midnight on Tuesday, Dec. 7. For more TPG news deliv



Arrival Charlotte NC•
100+Engadget / 10h
British-American vehicle manufacturer Arrival today announced it plans to establish an $11.5 million battery plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The factory will be the company’s third overall facility in the city. It will be located just steps away from its soon-to-be-complete North American headquarters. Once the plant is operational, it will supply batteries to the company’s Van “Microfactory,



49Gizmodo / 10h
James Cameron’s Spider-Man . It’s a phrase film fans have heard and thought about for years . The idea of one of the greatest blockbuster filmmakers in history tackling one of the most popular, cinematic superheroes ever is incredibly enticing. And, in the mid-1990s, it almost happened . Cameron was aggressively trying… Read more...



Tesla Musk Autopilot•
400+Futurism / 10h
Blow the Whistle Nineteen Tesla engineers went public earlier today about their concerns over the safety of Tesla’s Autopilot features, saying that CEO Elon Musk hasn’t been upfront about the risks to drivers and the public. The automaker promised to the herald in the future of driving through Autopilot, a system of features designed to steer, brake and accelerate the electric vehicles without hu



BTS Members Instagram•
100+Mashable / 10h
The seven members of BTS launched individual Instagram accounts today, Dec. 6, and it goes without saying that they've already racked up tens of millions of followers. RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are indeed verified on the app and posting A+ content. V, who has 15 million followers and counting, has already mastered the subtle art of the photo dump , while leader RM has wasted n



400+Gizmodo / 10h
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North America, where a bombardment of blue dots made it look like the coastline was being assaulted by white sharks. Read more...



United Airlines appears to be planning a new club lounge concept in Denver for the ‘B East’ concourse addition there, between gates B61 and B63. Continue reading ...



None of us would willingly hand our phones over to someone if we thought they were going to steal and leak our personal data—but recent reports indicate some Apple and Google repair staff are doing just that. Read more...



UK US Covid PCR One•
300+The Points Guy / 10h
As of Monday, Dec. 6, the U.S. is requiring all incoming air travelers over the age of 2 to submit a negative COVID-19 test taken within one day of departure . To ensure you get test results in time, consider using an at-home COVID-19 that can be administered remotely while abroad. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently accepts three major at-home tests for use by inbound p



Gizmodo / 10h
One of the top executives of a gargantuan texting contractor has been accused of running a secret surveillance business, the likes of which sold access to the company’s partner networks so that governments could spy on various users. Read more...




Arrival North Carolina•
Arrival, the electric vehicle manufacturer that aims to break up the assembly line in favor of multiple microfactories, is investing $11.5 million to build a high-voltage battery module assembly plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The plant will provide batteries for electric buses and vans produced at the company’s microfactories in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Charlotte, respectively. Earlier



The long-awaited successor to Fastpass at the Disneyland Resort finally has a launch date! For guests who have had no way to shortcut long attraction lines since Disneyland reopened last spring, this change comes at a crucial time right before the busy holiday season. On Dec. 8, 2021, Disney Genie, Disney Genie+, and Lightning Lane will make their debut at Disneyland. These services have been ope



2 Chernobyl S.T.A.L.K.E.R•
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, which comes out on PC and Xbox Series X/S April 28, 2022, will be quite the beefy download at launch, so you may want to make sure your SSD can handle it. Originally it was revealed by developer GSC Game World that the installation size would be an already huge 150GB of SSD . But according to the recently updated Microsoft Store pre-order page , that file siz



After all that worry about Transportation Security Administration screeners, Customs and Border Protection officers and vaccine mandates, it looks like most are getting their shots after all. The Department of Homeland Security on Monday posted a detailed update on its compliance with the Biden administration’s vaccination executive order, and all of its agencies boast a greater than 90% complian



the United States Covid•
A few weeks ago the United States overhauled its entry and testing requirements for travelers. Then last week the United States added a new Africa travel ban . Now there’s a new testing restriction for international travelers, which kicks in as of today, so I wanted to recap it. Personally I view this as being silly, even though it shouldn’t be a huge deal. New COVID-19 testing rules for internat



Google Pixel Watch•
Gizmodo / 10h
As a longtime Android user, I’ve spent the better part of a decade on the sidelines of an entire product category, awaiting a wearable that could rival the Apple Watch . From startups to traditional watchmakers, many companies have promised a worthy alternative, only to release smartwatches with crippling compromises.… Read more...



SEC Tesla Whistleblower•
72Engadget / 11h
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Tesla following a whistleblower complaint alleging the company failed to disclose a variety of safety risks associated with rooftop solar panels from its SolarCity division . Per Reuters , the agency acknowledged the probe in a Freedom of Information Act request made by Steven Henkes (pictured above), a former Tesla employee. He contacted



SlashGear / 11h
Tada Images/Shutterstock Microsoft plans to push some of its customers away from monthly subscriptions, according to a new report, by increasing costs for those who won’t commit to an annual option. The change is set to happen next year and will, alleged internal documents show, force customers to pay for the full year of Microsoft 365 even if their needs change before … Continue reading



Europe 2030 Hydrogen•
500+Futurism / 11h
Educated Opinion A key climate researcher published an op-ed late last month declaring that hydrogen-powered cars are a bad idea — and a terrible way to solve the climate crisis. Anthony Patt is a professor in Zurich, Switzerland in the department of environmental systems science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Writing for the institute’s website, he opined that fossil



NFT Arakelian Art Basel•
200+Futurism / 11h
Egg Head Non-fungible tokens meet artificial insemination — in a piece of art that’s for sale at the renowned Art Basel art fair this week. Artist Narine Arakelian, as Page Six reports , is including a contract promising one of her eggs to whoever buys her NFT, entitled “Live,” at the Miami art exposition. The digitized piece of art comes from a physical “Live, Laugh, Love” triptych, The Daily Be



Gizmodo / 11h
While we sometimes mistakenly think of old Hollywood as being a relatively chaste place (compared to the modern film industry), where the Hays Code forced studios to self-censor sexuality and anything that bucked American social norms, that’s not at all the case. Read more...



400+The Points Guy / 11h
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Xbox Windows App Game•
Microsoft is beta testing a new feature for the Xbox app on PC that seems so obvious that it’s incredible it hasn’t come to every PC gaming storefront. The app’s beta will now tell you right away if a game will run well on your PC, making it infinitely easier to make purchasing decisions. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



UK US Covid PCR One•
If you’re planning an international trip (or if you’re on one right now), it’s time to brush up on the COVID-related regulations, because testing requirements changed, and they take effect today . Also, remember how the Biden administration decided in early November that country-based travel bans are a bad idea ?… Read more...



Warzone Raven QA CoD•
400+Ars Technica / 11h
Enlarge / Taking the leap. (credit: Activision Blizzard ) A group of developers at Call of Duty: Warzone developer Raven Software are walking off the job to protest what they see as unfair treatment of members of the quality assurance team who were let go unceremoniously late last week. In a public statement , the group of contractors and full-time employees says it will be "walking out with a si



SlashGear / 11h
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock When it comes to your home internet service, you may think that the connection speeds you’re paying for are consistent with the speeds you’re getting throughout the day. Annoyingly, this is not the case. The reality is that speeds fluctuate throughout the day, and if your service provider enforces data caps or throttles connections in order to maintain overall network



Trump Media SEC FINRA•
20TechCrunch / 11h
Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) announced in a recent filing that it has received questions from the United States government regarding its anticipated combination with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). TechCrunch covered the SPAC’s planned combination with the company associated with former U.S. President Donald Trump here . We were broadly skeptical of the deal , product goals and g



Black Friday Shoppers•
If you had trouble scoring that new smart TV or Xbox Series X this Black Friday, bots and fake users could be to blame according to a new report from the cybersecurity firm CHEQ. The firm's new “ The Impact of Invalid Traffic on Marketing ” report revealed that bots and fake users made up 35.7 percent of all online shoppers on Black Friday 2021 . To compile its report, CHEQ polled over 42,000 web



If you’re flying this month, this new offer for American Express cardholders will help you pass the time at the airport. An airport restaurant, that is. From now until Dec. 31, cardholders can earn a one-time $10 statement credit after spending $40 or more at a sit-down restaurant at airport terminals across the country. It’s a good reason to forgo the grab-and-go line and treat yourself to a sit



24Gizmodo / 11h
The world dumps some 17.6 billion pounds (8 billion kilograms) of plastic into the ocean every year —and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map… Read more...




Toyota North Carolina•
42TechCrunch / 11h
Toyota Motor will build its first battery factory in the U.S. in North Carolina, the company and state officials confirmed Monday, as more automakers seek to take control of the supply chain with in-house battery manufacturing plants. Toyota will invest $1.29 billion in the plant, which will be called Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC), with production anticipated to commence in



Devouring salty, crackling poultry skin is one of my favorite things about eating birds but, once cooled, it can go from transcendentally crisp to upsettingly gummy in a matter of minutes. Depending on the size of your bird, trying to eat all the skin before it cools can come off as a little creepy, but you don’t have… Read more...



Toyota North Carolina•
500+Engadget / 11h
Toyota has selected a site for its proposed $1.29 billion US battery manufacturing facility. On Monday, the automaker said it would build the plant on the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, a tract of land located in Randolph County in central North Carolina. When the facility is complete sometime in 2025, it will consist of four production lines, each capable of producing batteries for 200,000 vehicl



500+Gizmodo / 12h
In just a few days, the sixth and final season of Amazon’s beloved sci-fi series The Expanse will premiere. This new season is only going to be six episodes, so you know it’s going to hit the ground running—and you gotta be prepared, beltalowda! Here’s a crash course for fans on where things stand . Read more...



Futurism / 12h
The digital camera on your phone might be impressive, but if you’re ready to move beyond what it can offer, you’ve come to the right place. The best digital cameras let you capture the world with crystal clarity, and there’s a wide variety and price range to choose from. From rugged outdoor models to those that let you walk the bridge into pro territory, you’ve got some decisions to make. The opt



Google Pixel Repair•
400+Futurism / 12h
Repair Nightmare Game designer and author Jane McGonigal says someone hacked into her Google Pixel 5a after she sent it off to Google for a repair. McGonigal tweeted about the disaster on Saturday, advising consumers not to send their phones to the company. “Last night someone used it to log into my gmail, Drive, photos backup email account, dropbox, and I can see from activity logs they opened a



DoorDash New York City•
22Engadget / 12h
DoorDash is piloting an ultra-fast grocery delivery service in Manhattan, with the goal of delivering items to customers in less than 15 minutes. The service will initially be available at a new DashMart outlet in Chelsea, and DoorDash plans to expand ultra-fast deliveries to more locations and partners over the coming months. The company opened its first DashMarts last year to provide a central



Switching between the open Safari tabs on your iPhone doesn’t have to be a pain. Safari lets you jump or slide between tabs quickly using either a swipe gesture or the Tabs button. We’ll show you how to do both. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral . But in recent days, the company has angered many of its core users with news that it’s reusing Feral’s technology platform and many of its assets to enter the crypto-gaming space with a metaverse game called Cinder , powered by the



40TechCrunch / 12h
When it comes to scaling online communities, Platzi CEO Freddy Vega thinks that edtech can take a few notes from the video game industry. League of Legends, for example, doesn’t require players to come to its universe art at a certain time and certain place; instead it lets players naturally connect with others who are learning, and playing, the video game at the same time. Vega, alongside co-fou



21Lifehacker / 12h
I read a lot of historical fiction as a child—most of it in the American Girl Doll series. I don’t know how they do it now, but back in my day each doll had six matching books (each sold separately!), and all of the books had nearly identical titles—the only part of the title that would change from doll to doll was… Read more...



67Gizmodo / 12h
Among the ongoing cavalcade of lawmakers and laypeople concerned about whether social media algorithms might be rotting their user’s brains, TikTok’s faced a fair amount of scrutiny, and for good reason. Despite the app’s ballooning usage across the globe—with ballooning revenue figures to match—there’s still a hell… Read more...



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Disney is all in with Destin Daniel Cretton . The co-writer and director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has just signed an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Marvel Studios and Hulu’s Onyx Collective which includes a sequel to Shang-Ch i as well as programming for Disney+. Read more...



Most airline sales aren't really sales, but this is legit. It's a bit of an odd marketing play, though, since you don't have to buy a Starbucks drink to get 'buy one get one'. You don't get a gift card for a drink when you buy one, get one. There's no Starbucks tie-in whatsoever except, it would appear, some marketing dollars from Starbucks to cobrand the promotion. This strikes me as a genuinely



It’s impossible for thoughtful parents to not to worry about their child’s popularity. You can’t remember your own Lords-of-the Flies -with-hairspray high school social experience and not wonder whether you’ve prepared your child to navigate the fraught social landscape of not-quite-adulthood. Read more...



While the White House did not impose the most draconian measures being considered just last week, the White House did decide all incoming air travelers to the U.S. are now required to submit a negative COVID-19 test within one day of departure back to the U.S., marking the strictest domestic COVID-19 protocols thus far (aside from outright bans). For more TPG news delivered each morning to your i



Google has announced a bunch of new features coming to Pixel phones. While none of them will blow you away on their own, when you look at all of them, it’s a pretty solid drop from Google that should make Pixel owners very happy. Read This Article on How-To Ge


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