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TechCrunch / 24min
Multinationals like Amazon and Alibaba have leveraged logistics infrastructure such as UPS and FedEx to create large businesses. It’s not the same in Africa, where few third-party infrastructure players exist to provide end-to-end logistics to e-commerce companies. PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics serv



Samsung Galaxy S8 Ultra•
Mashable / 29min
Samsung's upcoming flagship tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, isn't likely to be officially revealed until Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event, scheduled for February 8. It appears, however, that Samsung itself has leaked an image of the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra a little too early. The image appeared on Samsung's Bixby support page (spotted by 91Mobiles ), and is still visible at writing time.



It's almost automatic: you're signing up with a VPN , the 'Check to confirm you agree with the Terms and Conditions' message pops up and, within a nano-second, you've clicked the box. Because getting on with your day is far more appealing than scrolling through 5,000 words of confusing legal jargon. You're not alone. We regularly do it, too. But it could be a mistake. A VPN's terms and conditions



The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



Lattice $3B Valuation•
TechCrunch / 38min
Lattice , a platform that helps with workforce people management — tools to run performance reviews, employee feedback, and praise; tools to set and track goals and other long-term career plans; and analytics to get a bigger picture of how a workforce is working — has really come into its own as a business in the last two years, as our concepts of “office” and “team” have been stretched by the ch



Amazon Illinois Warehouse•
Engadget / 51min
Amazon is being sued by the family of delivery driver Austin McEwan who died in the Edwardsville, Illinois warehouse struck by a tornado last month, CNET has reported. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon was negligent, citing the fact that it told people to keep working through extreme weather warnings. It also makes claims of negligence against contractors who helped build the warehouse. McEwan was



Mashable / 58min
Twitter can be an assault on the eyes, and not just because of its frequently distressing content. The microblogging website's default white theme can sometimes feel harsh and blinding, particularly if you're waking up in a cold sweat to check your notifications in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the microblogging platform offers a dark mode to help make those late night scrolling sessions



A Royal Society report recommends against censoring scientific misinformation online.



QED Gbenga Ajayi Africa•
In a move rarely made by Western venture capitalists, QED Investors announced today that it has hired an African partner, Gbenga Ajayi . He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. Last September, the fintech-focused venture capital firm announced closing $1.05 billion for its oversubscribed seventh fund. TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million ea
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AT&T Verizon FAA US•
Airlines have pushed for postponement, saying risks from 5G will force them to cancel flights.



Tesla Autopilot Two•
A Tesla owner is facing the first felony charges filed against someone using a partially automated driving system in the US, according to AP . The defendant, Kevin George Aziz Riad, was driving a Model S when he ran a red light and crashed into a Honda Civic at a California intersection in 2019. It ended up killing the Civic's two passengers, while Riad and his companion sustained non-life threat



Kenyan Copia African•
Kenyan B2C e-commerce company Copia Global has raised $50 million in a Series C equity round led by Goodwell Investments. The new financing round welcomed new investors such as Zebu Investment Partners, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and Koa Labs, as well as past investors Lightrock, German development finance institution DEG, and Perivoli Innovations. The round com



24TechCrunch / 3h
Bikayi is in talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, four people familiar with the matter told me, as the Indian startup looks to scale its platform that helps small businesses set up and run their e-commerce stores. Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India are holding conversations with the Indian startup to lead its Series B round, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the



20TechCrunch / 3h
Kenyan fintech Zanifu is set to upgrade its platform and grow the number of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) it extends stock-financing to after securing $1 million in Seed funding. Saviu Ventures, which invested in the startup’s pre-seed round early 2020, Launch Africa Ventures, Sayani Investments and a number of angel investors from Kenya and Nigeria participated in the round. This l



NFT 2022•
TL;DR: The All-in-One NFT Masterclass for Artists and Entrepreneurs Bundle is on sale for £25.66, saving you 98% on list price. You’ve surely seen or heard the term “NFT” by now, whether on social media, a podcast, or even the news. But if you’re like most people, you still have absolutely no idea what it means. Experts insist NFTs are sticking around, though, so you might want to figure it out —



TL;DR: The 2022 Complete Power Coder Bootcamp Bundle is on sale for £25.66, saving you 97% on list price. The job market is scorching hot at the moment. The power has shifted from employers to potential hires, with them having the upper hand in almost all stages of the employment process. It's happening across all industries, especially tech. Experts say that today's job market situation is remin



SAVE 68%: NordVPN can reliably bypass even the toughest of geo-restrictions from streaming sites like Netflix. A two-year subscription to NordVPN is on sale for £2.74 per month, saving you 68% on list price. We're all still tired from the festive period, the weather is grim, and frankly, nobody can be bothered to do anything other than sit at home and binge-watch whatever is available. That's wha



Pyxis One, now Pixis , closed on $100 million in Series C funding to continue developing what it touts as “the world’s only contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimization.” SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by new investor General Atlantic, and existing investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest and Chiratae Ventures. The fresh capital comes just four mo



Microsoft Sony Nintendo•
The deal would be a major step for Microsoft's Xbox gaming brand in its battle against Sony's PlayStation.



America’s newest airline is one step closer to becoming a reality. Anchorage-based Northern Pacific Airways on Tuesday revealed its livery on its first Boeing 757-200 at hangar event in San Bernardino, California. The most important thing about the livery, designed by Edmond Huot, is how it symbolizes Northern Pacific’s Alaska home, CEO Rob McKinney told TPG in an interview. Want more airline-spe




With most students heading back to the classroom at the end of the month, it’s time to get ready to go back to school . And while online learning may not be returning (yet), there’s still homework to do at home, and now could be a good time to get a deal on a new laptop. Dell’s official store on Amazon has you sorted in this department, particularly if you’re most comfortable on a Windows machine



Lyft has already splashed out $14.4 million towards a likely November ballot measure in Massachusetts which would cement its drivers as contractors, rather than employees — and the vast majority of those funds were paid in a single, $13 million donation, the largest in the state's history by a considerable margin. It's an unambiguous opening salvo in what will likely be a bitter and protracted ba



Philippines BillEase•
Buy now pay later (BNPL) startups are proliferating around the world and the Philippines is no exception. Today, one of the country’s biggest BNPL providers, BillEase , announced it has raised an $11 million Series B. The round was led by BurdaPrincipal Investments, growth capital arm of Hubert Burda Media. Other participants included Centauri, a joint investment vehicle between MDI Ventures and



Politics and tech are certainly strange bedfellows. The Gang loves to talk about filibusters and the fall of democracy, but forget it when I try to bring up my fascination with live audio. That is understandable; we never talk about the little stuff until there’s a battling billionaire angle. So it was that Jack Dorsey’s joust with Marc Andreessen over what the meaning of web3 is is brought all t



OpenSea Dharma Labs•
NFT marketplace OpenSea is putting some of its freshly raised funds to good use, buying up crypto wallet startup Dharma Labs, the company announced today. The announcement follows a report earlier this month in Axios that detailed OpenSea was in talks to buy the startup for between $110 million and $130 million. Dharma’s Ethereum wallet allowed users to connect their bank accounts, and buy and sw



Better Vishal Garg Zoom•
After a month-long “ break ,” Better.com CEO Vishal Garg is back at the helm of the mortgage tech company he co-founded in 2016, according to an internal memo that circulated today that has been shared with TechCrunch. In the memo, the Better board of directors said it was “moving forward with strong, dynamic CEO leadership.” The move comes just weeks after the company announced it was laying off



AT&T Verizon FAA US•
25Mashable / 8h
While conspiracy theorists spread wildly false claims about 5G spreading COVID-19 or causing human beings to "spontaneously combust," the airline industry is worried about a more reasonable problem: How 5G could potentially screw with your air travel . Earlier this month, major wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon postponed a huge, new rollout of 5G services across the United States. Why? There wer



New Privacy Major Limits•
35TechCrunch / 8h
A new bill seeks to dramatically reshape the online advertising landscape to the detriment of companies like Facebook, Google and data brokers that leverage deep stores of personal information to make money from targeted ads. The bill, the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act , introduced by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in the House and Cory Booker (D-NJ) in the Senate, would



Image: Samsung After much recent speculation surrounding it, Samsung has officially announced its Exynos 2200 (E2200) SoC. The big news with this launch is this year’s Exynos chip dumps ARM’s Mali GPUs for a custom GPU Samsung has co-developed with AMD that features RDNA2-based graphics. There’d been recent speculation that Samsung had an insufficient yield of the new chip to make it … Continue r



Enlarge / Sure, they look like they're just taking a friendly swim, but these two dolphins are actually aroused. A recent study found that female bottlenose dolphins have large erectile bodies that fill up with blood, large nerves with nerve bundles that end right under the skin, thinner skin on the clitoris body, and genital corpuscles known to be involved in the pleasure response. (credit: Dara



500+Gizmodo / 9h
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel star Charisma Carpenter has responded to recent comments from the creator of those shows, Joss Whedon . And she doesn’t seem too happy. Read more...



Microsoft AB Blizzard•
Some players, unhappy with Activision in recent years, said the Microsoft deal could reverse a decline in quality.



Mr.Mikla/Shutterstock Canalys has released its latest statistics for the smartphone market, and it’s great news for Apple and Samsung. Apple came in first place with 22% of worldwide shipments in Q4 2021, while Samsung came in second place with 20%. Unfortunately for other smartphone makers, there was a huge chasm between the top two companies and the rest of the market. … Continue reading



A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a specific form of identifier which can be safely deemed unique for most practical purposes. Two correctly generated UUIDs have a virtually negligible chance of being identical, even if they’re created in two different environments by separate parties. This is why UUIDs are said to be universally unique. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›



28TechCrunch / 9h
Christine Tsai Contributor Christine Tsai is the CEO and founding partner of 500 Global . This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board . Deal activity is at record highs. Last year, a total of $643 billion was invested globally, according to Crunchbase News , compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year. Beyond



38Gizmodo / 9h
A set of gold and silver tubes found 125 years ago in the northern Caucasus are likely drinking straws, not scepters, according to a re-analysis of the ancient artifacts. Read more...



Reddit is “revamping” its block feature so that blocking on Reddit functions more like other social platforms. With the change, blocking a user on Reddit will not just block that person’s posts from your view, but will also prevent them from being able to see or interact with your posts. That may sound obvious, but up until now, blocking on Reddit has been more like a “mute” feature in that it on



White House Free COVID•
50Mashable / 10h
Well that didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after the United States Postal Service launched an official website for Americans to request free rapid coronavirus tests, websites with suspiciously similar URLs are trying to lure people into purchasing pricey tests. That's right, the scammers are here. For the record, the official government website for ordering free rapid tests is https://www.cov



I’ve traveled a lot over the years, and have experienced some customer service highs and lows. Sometimes there are individuals who have such a positive outlook on life that they can’t help but put a smile on your face, and in this post I wanted to recognize one of those people. The Capital One Lounge DFW has amazing service Several weeks back I reviewed the new Capital One Lounge DFW , which is f



SlashGear / 10h
Bloomberg/Getty Images Twitter, as a community, has a tendency to lose its mind over just about anything—but this time, the reason really is quite mind-blowing. In a short Twitter exchange, Elon Musk pointed out that over 80% of the world’s population owns a smartphone. Are these numbers really that high, and more importantly, has anyone ever expected this to happen? Elon’s tweet … Continue readi




44TechCrunch / 10h
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 January 18, 2022! Today kicked off the working week with a bang, thanks to Microsoft and another public company. But will all deals announced become deals completed? We’ll see. We also have an acre-feet of startup news items fo



Hong Kong Hamsters•
72Ars Technica / 10h
Enlarge / Workers with Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department inspect the Little Boss pet store in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) Authorities in Hong Kong are planning to cull around 2,000 small animals after a pet store employee and several imported hamsters tested positive for COVID-19, according to a report by the Associated



100+Gizmodo / 11h
Last night, Marvel Studios properly lifted the lid on its next Disney+ streaming series, Moon Knight , starring Oscar Isaac as the titular avatar of moonlit justice . But the character of Moon Knight is arguably perhaps one of the more esoteric of the heroes coming in the studio’s slate this year —and with a very… Read more...



YouTube Susanne Daniels•
20Ars Technica / 11h
Enlarge (credit: YouTube ) Variety reports that Google's original video content group, YouTube Originals, is dead. The YouTube division was founded six years ago to make exclusive, original content for the pay-per-month YouTube Premium service. Now, the group is being shuttered, and YouTube's global head of original content, Susanne Daniels, is leaving the company in March. Just after the news br



20Mashable / 11h
Meditate on this massive rock garden: Several boulders once perched atop a Martian ridge have cascaded down the slope, leaving dimples in the soft sunken valley below. The European Space Agency, which recently shared this snapshot, described the scene as “geology in motion.” The image was taken by a camera on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter in August 2020. The result is a dramatic Ansel Adams



Our Flag Means Death•
Mashable / 11h
"Why can't one be a gentleman and a pirate?" That's the question posed by Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), the main character of HBO Max's upcoming comedy series, Our Flag Means Death . A pampered aristocrat, Stede abandons his life to captain a pirate ship. Misadventures on the high seas ensue. Our Flag Means Death co-stars Leslie Jones, Fred Armisen, Joel Fry, Nat Faxon, Game of Thrones' s Kristian N



Tesla FSD Monthly FS•
Mashable / 11h
The price of the Tesla option known as "Full Self-Driving," or FSD, just rose by $2,000 — even as concerns arise over the unproven and still widely unusable technology. Earlier this month Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the price hike would kick in on Jan. 17, and in an admittedly rare occurrence, hit his self-imposed deadline. The $10,000 add-on is, as of Tuesday, listed on the Tesla website as $1



Rocket Lab SolAero•
27TechCrunch / 11h
Rocket Lab is on a mission to vertically integrate space solutions. On Tuesday the launch and space systems company announced the close of a deal to acquire SolAero Holdings, a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures, for $80 million in cash. Buying SolAero, a 24-year-old, New Mexico-based company, means Rocket Lab now has another key supplier in-house for its sa



Chinese Beijing Olympics•
76Gizmodo / 11h
An app that visitors to the 2022 Olympics Games in Beijing are obligated to download is also a cybersecurity nightmare that threatens to expose much of the data that it collects, according to a new report. Read more...



100+The Points Guy / 11h
Starting this shortened week with a fresh deal to Costa Rica — which sounds like something I should book myself with the snow outside my window on the East Coast right now. Flights are available departing from various U.S. cities to both Liberia and San José, Costa Rica, starting as low as $186 round-trip. (Photo by Matt Champlin via Getty Images) Today’s deal was originally sent out from Scott’s



Nintendo Switch Consoles•
Japanese video game giant Nintendo has warned its customers of the existence of a fake site that claim to offer huge discounts on Nintendo Switch consoles and games. Just like with other fake sites used to trick unsuspecting consumers, this site impersonates Nintendo's official website and uses the company's logo to convince users of its legitimacy. At a time when Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microso



Gizmodo / 11h
Google has reportedly changed Google Assistant’s white noise audio track, and folks who rely on it to fall asleep are extremely unhappy about it. Read more...



56Futurism / 11h
Think your town is bad? At least you don’t have such a bad crow problem that officials are planning to use lasers to get rid of them — that is, unless you live in Sunnyvale, California. First reported by San Jose’s Mercury News , Sunnyvale isn’t the only Bay Area city to be experiencing an uptick in “murders” — that’s the technical term for a group of crows, believe it or not — but it is the firs



Tesla Driver Autopilot•
200+Gizmodo / 11h
California prosecutors have issued the first felony charge for a person using Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance feature. Two counts of vehicular manslaughter were levied against the driver who allegedly had Autopilot engaged when his vehicle ran a red light and killed two people in 2019. The charges, first reported… Read more...



Kids and their devices, am I right? Parents are constantly worrying about whether and how to limit screen time. But maybe we need to accept the inevitable—it’s really hard to keep them off of their phones, especially when we are always glued to own own, whether through necessity (for work) or due to our own bad habits… Read more...



Microsoft Blizzard Xbox•
Engadget / 11h
It was cute at first. When Xbox head Phil Spencer took the stage at E3 2018 and announced the acquisition of five notable studios – Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games and The Initiative – the air inside the Microsoft Theater turned electric. It felt like the company was righting a wrong in its business plan and finally building an internal roster of exciting games that



Microsoft Blizzard•
What are the odds that on the very day Microsoft announced its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Entertainment , the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice would announce their joint plan to review merger guidelines? It was a coincidence, but the two departments couldn't sidestep the serendipity during a virtual press conference on Tuesday where more than one repor



Acer 11 TravelMate•
SlashGear / 11h
Image: Acer Acer’s latest laptop is a spin on its TravelMate branding and it’s built specifically with students in mind. The Acer TravelMate Spin B3 is a new convertible laptop and Acer says it features military-grade durability. That should make it strong enough to withstand any bumps and bruises it might pick up in a student’s backpack or just from normal use. … Continue reading



U.S. antitrust leaders said they would focus on the tech industry’s free services as they strengthened the review process for corporate consolidation.



62Ars Technica / 11h
Enlarge / A Roku streaming box. It seems these ads aren't appearing on Roku's own hardware like this device; instead, they're appearing on TVs that license Roku's software platform. Some Roku smart TV owners are seeing banner ads appear over live content, according to a thread on the r/cordcutters subreddit . A user named p3t3or posted the following message: Welp, this is the last time I purchase




35Mashable / 11h
"Parkour! PARKOUR!" When Office fans hear the word "parkour" they don't just think of the viral internet sensation that inspired people around the world to, in the words of Jim Halpert, "get from point A to point B as creatively as possible." They think of the Season 6 cold open, in which Michael, Dwight, and Andy put their utterly dreadful parkour skills to the test and tear up the workplace in



200+Mashable / 11h
Concert promoter Live Nation decided to cyberbully millennials on Tuesday, Jan. 18, when it announced a new music festival with a devastating name: The "When We Were Young" festival. How dare you, Live Nation ( goes back to tweeting and knitting ). The one-day event is set to take place in Las Vegas and will feature bands that were most popular in the early to mid-2000s and fall under the banner



Apple Google Senate•
Engadget / 11h
With the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled to discuss the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act this week, Apple and Google are stepping up their opposition to both bills. According to CNBC , Apple recently told lawmakers the legislation would make iPhone users less safe. “The bills put consumers in harm’s way because of the real risk of privacy and security br



300+The Points Guy / 11h
Despite a slow start, wintery weather all over the country means ski season is well underway. Over the weekend, for example, some parts of the Northeast received well over 2 feet of snow, courtesy of Snowstorm Izzy. But if you’re chasing fresh powder, you probably know that weather is just one hurdle: Planning a ski trip can also be really expensive. Although you can often offset the costs of hot



Microsoft Edge Zero-Day•
Microsoft Edge has added new security functionality to its upcoming beta version, promising security against unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that malicious actors could be exploiting to distribute malware , ransomware , or other nasties. According to the browser patch release notes, admins will be able to apply the following Group Policies to end-user desktops in Windows, macOS, as well as Linux



SlashGear / 11h
THINK A/Shutterstock Electric cars are the future of the automobile industry, with virtually every manufacturer already building electric vehicles (EVs). Many manufacturers have even gone a step further, committing to an all-EV lineup in the near future. Despite how quickly the industry is pivoting to EVs, range anxiety is still the biggest issue slowing down faster adoption. For example, one stu



Volkswagen Bosch Europe•
34TechCrunch / 11h
Volkswagen and Bosch have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a joint venture dedicated to providing Europe with battery equipment solutions. The two companies aim to supply integrated battery production systems and on-site ramp-up and maintenance support for battery cell and system manufacturers, Volkswagen said. The JV is expected to help VW reach its goal to build six cell factorie



It’s a sign of the times that on the very same morning, the FTC and Justice Department announced a thorough review of corporate merger policies with an eye to preventing anti-competitive acquisitions — and a megacorp announced a $69 billion deal that would further consolidate an industry already dominated by a handful of players. That’s not to say that the Microsoft-Activision deal is necessarily



Rhys Darby Taika Waititi•
1KGizmodo / 12h
Vampires , werewolves, rock bands, superheroes , even Nazis . Taika Waititi has made all of them funny. And next he’ll try and do it so on the seven seas with a very offbeat band of pirates. Read more...



Intel Bitcoin Mining BM•
74Gizmodo / 12h
Crypto mining is loathed by gamers and anyone who cares about the environment , but that isn’t stopping Intel from getting into the bitcoin-harvesting business. Read more...



Asteroid Earth Today•
Mashable / 12h
There's no lack of outsized, growing problems for humanity . So we certainly don't need any news sites twisting the truth about the looming menace of colossal asteroids supposedly coming to threaten Earth. Yet, it's happening again. "A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid more than twice the size of the Empire State Building will make close pass by Earth," wrote CBS Tuesday morning . We'll spare you



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 Monday Tuesday show, our short ramp into the week where we talk about the larger picture to get our feet wet. We’re a day late due to an American holiday, and later in the day thanks to my schedule. But, better late than never; here’s what we got in



Apple Severance Adam Scott•
Engadget / 12h
Apple's latest TV+ sci-fi series is decidedly stranger than usual — but also one of its most star-studded. The tech firm has released the first trailer for Severance , a Black Mirror -like thriller depicting the horrors of trying too hard to achieve an ideal work-life balance. The show stars Parks and Recreation 's Adam Scott as Mark, an office worker who volunteers for surgery that completely sp



100+Gizmodo / 12h
People’s fish oil supplements may be even fishier than they’d want them to be, according to a new report from independent testing company Labdoor. The company claims to have found that a substantial number of supplements sold on the market are heavy in oxidized oils, which can make them taste rancid and smell rotten,… Read more...



Whether you’re looking to take a national park vacation or travel to Europe, there’s likely a Choice Hotels property where you’re going. And you can maximize your stays with Choice during the next few months with a new Choice Privileges promotion. Specifically, you’ll earn at least 8,000 Choice points for every two stays with arrival between Jan. 18, 2022, and March 12, 2022. Based on TPG’s valua



1KFuturism / 12h
Now Hiring For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly warned that humanity is headed towards a catastrophe due to collapsing global fertility rates . “We should be much more worried about population collapse,” Musk reiterated in a tweet today. And that could bode badly for his bold plans to create a city on Mars one day. “If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be



US Airlines Warn Ground•
300+Futurism / 12h
Grinding to a Halt US airlines are warning that cutting edge 5G technologies could force the industry to its knees, The Guardian reports — and it has nothing to do with bogus 5G conspiracy theories . The reasoning: the C-Band 5G tech that the telecom industry is eager to push out to airports could interfere with various airplane instruments including radio altimeters, equipment that tells the air



500+Futurism / 12h
An options trader-turned-economic philosopher is slamming Bitcoin, calling it a “disease.” In a series of tweets this week, Nasim Nicholas Taleb, NYU risk engineering professor and author of the 2007 book “The Black Swan,” called Bitcoin a “ contagious disease ” built on bringing in “suckers” to build up a fragile speculative bubble that’s now set to burst. Given that Bitcoin is expected to reach



US Alibaba Cloud Security•
The US government is reportedly reviewing the cloud computing arm of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba to determine whether or not it poses a risk to national security. As reported by Reuters , the Biden administration launched the probe to find out more about how Alibaba Cloud stores the data of US clients including personal information and intellectual property and to see if the Chinese governmen



AMD Radeon RX 6000•
An AMD Radeon RX 6000 series refresh may be on the way, a little over a year since the original RDNA 2 graphics cards came out in late 2020. A leak from user Wjm47196 on the Chiphell forums suggests that AMD is planning to release new graphics cards based on Navi 21 and Navi 22 GPUs – the same GPUs that power Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards like the RX 6800 XT – and will allegedly replace the curre




So you survived your first day at the gym and you’re ready for the next step—or maybe you’ve mastered the dumbbells and machines but never quite figured out what to do with barbells. Either way, here are all the basic things you’ll need to know on your first day working with barbells. Read more...



SlashGear / 12h
Apple’s AirPods are the most popular wireless earbuds on the market (via Apple). In fact, according to BusinessofApps, the company sold some 110 million in 2020 alone. One of the things that make AirPods so popular is the way they integrate with the rest of Apple’s ecosystem — extending it, and adding additional features. For example, Siri integration is much … Continue reading



SlashGear / 12h
Image: SlashGear There was a time, not too long ago, when Huawei almost took over the smartphone world. Bagging marketing contracts with big Hollywood names like Henry Cavill, Scarlett Johansson, and Gal Godot, the company seemed poised to be the next big thing in the global market for mobile phones. When it managed to surpass Apple in global sales numbers back in … Continue reading



Nearly two years into the pandemic in the United States, it’s finally possible to order free at-home coronavirus test kits, and the process is easy. Request four free coronavirus tests Households in the United States can now order free coronavirus test kits directly to their homes via USPS: You’re limited to one order per residential address The order includes four individual rapid antigen COVID-



Mashable / 12h
A zero-emission propulsion system powers this water shuttle that can be used to cut down congestion in cities, or carry freight.



Mashable / 12h
SAVE 27%: Stay hydrated and cut back on single-use plastic with the Brita Stainless Steel Water Filter Bottle , which is on sale at Amazon as of Jan. 18. You'll pay $19.79. Struggling to stay hydrated throughout the day? A good water bottle might help. This one from Brita has just what you'd expect from the brand synonymous with water purification: a built-in filter. Brita's filters work to reduc



Patch Tuesdays are exciting because Microsoft fixes all those nagging minor issues and security problems that have popped up. However, sometimes things go sideways, which happened recently, as a Windows patch made some types of VPNs stop working. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Moon Knight Oscar Isaac•
Engadget / 12h
Disney+ is finally close to releasing Moon Knight . The Marvel series is now set to debut March 30th, and the trailer shows just how the streaming service will handle the mercenary turned superhero. Oscar Isaac stars as Steven Grant, a gift shop worker who has trouble distinguishing not just between dreams and waking life, but between identities — he learns he shares a body with the mercenary Mar



NFT Animoca Brands•
Animoca Brands , an eight-year-old, 600-person Hong Kong-based outfit that has managed to put its stamp on many of the world’s most popular NFT and metaverse brands, has raised roughly $360 million in fresh funding at a valuation of more than $5 billion, the company announced today. It’s a big leap from the $2.2 billion valuation the company was assigned in October when it raised a $65 million ro



It is not tomato season. Unless you are in the southern hemisphere, you have absolutely no business buying beefsteak tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, or really any tomato other than the little bitty ones. I know you can acquire Vine Ripe and Roma tomatoes with ease during the winter months, but let’s be real: They suck. Read more...



500+Gizmodo / 12h
If you thought 2020's 23-week-run of Lower Decks into Discovery was a considerable amount of Star Trek to consume, well, 2022 is looking like it’s going to dunk your head into a holodeck and not let go for quite some time. Read more...



SlashGear / 12h
Image: Lenovo Lenovo has unveiled two new tablets focused on giving students more learning tools. Both tablets are powered by Windows 11, and the company says they will deliver more than enough power and performance for educators and students alike. The first new t


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