Tuesday, January 25, 2022

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InstaDeep AI Google•
200+TechCrunch / 2h
A recent survey carried out by CNBC reported that 81% of executives worldwide say AI will play a prominent and critical role in how their businesses operate this year. Companies are phasing from the first generation of AI, which deals with pattern, text and image recognition, to decision-making AI, which helps them make timely decisions in complex spaces. InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based ente



Young Spotify Rogan•
200+Engadget / 59min
Canadian musician Neil Young is not pleased to be sharing Spotify's platform with podcast star Joe Rogan , according to Rolling Stone . In a now-deleted letter, Young reportedly asked his management team and record label to remove his songs from the platform. "I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death to those who believe [it]," he sa



100+Mashable / 3h
Last week Meat Loaf, the singer and actor famous for "Bat Out of Hell" and his roles in the likes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight Club , passed away at the age of 74 . During The Late Late Show on Monday, James Corden paid tribute — but he did so in his own, unique way. "For me personally, he'll always have a special place in my heart," Corden says in the clip above. "You see when I wa




TechCrunch / 4min
In a letter published today by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, the executive suggests the video-sharing platform may embrace Web3 technologies, including NFTs — or non-fungible tokens, a way to certify digital assets stored on the blockchain — as a means of helping YouTube creators make money. While no concrete plans were shared, nor any sense as to when YouTube may begin testing NFTs on its site, Wo



Engadget / 5min
It's not always easy to find deals for the Nintendo Switch , so this latest bargain might be worth a look. Woot is selling the blue-and-red LCD model for $280 to Amazon Prime members, or $20 below the official price. The company's return policy isn't the same as Amazon's, but you'll have until February 28th to take advantage of the discount. Buy Switch at Woot - $280 In a sense, the hardware is a



How-To Geek / 10min
Google is introducing some significant changes to the way it tracks you in web browsers. The company is ditching the maligned Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) and replacing it with a new tracking method called Topics. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Gizmodo / 11min
It may be January, but Amazon already has very silly plans for a Chris Evans /Dwayne Johnson holiday movie team up. Chukwudi Iwuji gives an intriguing tease for his Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 character. Plus, a few more snippets of The Batman footage , and Ethan Hawke talks Moon Knight . To me, my spoilers! Read more...



The markets may be experiencing a volatile start to the year, but 2022 is gearing up to continue the adoption pace of crypto that 2021 set. Looking to the future, crypto is experiencing some exciting developments in the redefining of ownership and value transfer. With these advancements, specific sectors are catching the attention of investors with certain cryptos being in the centre spotlight. C



300+The Points Guy / 17min
The highly transmissible omicron variant continues to spread around the world, causing destinations to scramble to respond and keep travel going during the pandemic . Some destinations have shifted gears by changing the definition of “ fully vaccinated ” — having both doses of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccine — to include a booster dose. That means travelers who would be co



Lifehacker / 18min
Here’s a fun thought experiment; picture the amount of personal data you think tech companies keep on you. Now, realize it’s actually way more than that (hmm, maybe this isn’t that fun). Even as privacy and security become more talked about in consumer tech, the companies behind our favorite products are collecting… Read more...



There’s a lot of misinformation and very bad advice on the internet, so I suppose this should hardly be singled out. But it’s travel specific, and since Travel + Leisure can’t help itself, I guess I can’t help myself either. Do airlines upgrade people who dress up? No, of course they don’t, that’s absolutely ridiculous. Why would anyone think so? Oh, because Travel + Leisure Tweeted today about a



Threat actors are increasingly turning towards Microsoft PowerPoint files to distribute different types of malware . New Netskope research found that since the end of 2021, numerous hacking groups started using legitimate cloud services to host PowerPoint files which, with the help of the dreaded macros, can deploy all kinds of nasties into target devices. Netskope says that three families of mal



Amazon US Suburbs MC•
Engadget / 34min
You might not have to venture downtown (or to a grocery chain ) to visit an Amazon Go store. USA Today reports Amazon plans to open a new version of the cashierless store designed for suburban areas. The locations will still focus on essentials, ready-to-eat food, drinks and snacks, just with layouts more suited to these outlying regions. The shops will still rely on computer vision to detect wha



Today Wordle Day•
20Wired / 41min
Once a day may not be enough. Try these 14 alternatives.



SlashGear / 41min
Image: Chris Davies / SlashGear.com Molekule’s Air Pro is unlocking some hidden talents, with a software update activating a handful of new sensors along with making the air purifier more responsive in auto mode. The upgrade – which will be free to existing Air Pro owners – comes amid increasing attention being paid to air quality, both from those who suffer allergies and anybody with … Continue



We know that changes as coming to the IHG Rewards program as of March 2022. To coincide with that, there are also changes coming to IHG Rewards’ co-branded credit cards , and I’d say the news is overwhelmingly positive. IHG credit card changes as of March 2022 Changes are coming to the portfolio of Chase & IHG Rewards credit cards as of March 24, 2022. Often when there are changes to credit cards



Intel Alder Lake i7-12700H•
Ars Technica / 44min
Enlarge / Intel's 12th-generation Core chips are coming to laptops. (credit: Intel) We came away impressed when we tested Intel's top-tier 12th-generation desktop chips . Though still power-hungry compared to competing AMD Ryzen processors, their combination of big performance cores (P-cores) and clusters of small efficiency cores (E-cores) helped them shine under all kinds of workloads, includin



NASA Webb Telescope Earth•
Ars Technica / 44min
The James Webb Space Telescope as it will appear in orbit. (credit: NASA ) I met John Grunsfeld outside a coffee shop in Houston, across the street from Johnson Space Center, a little more than five years ago. He had only recently retired from NASA after a long and storied career. Over the course of nearly two decades, Grunsfeld had flown into space five times, the latter three of which were miss



Apple iPhone 13 Macro•
Mashable / 45min
Apple's got a new challenge for iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max users: macro photography. The challenge, which kicks off on Jan. 25 and ends on Feb. 16, requires users to take macro photos with their iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max (other iPhone models are not eligible as they don't have macro mode), and share them on Instagram, Twitter, or Weibo, using the hashtags #ShotoniPhone and



YouTube NFT Shorts•
Mashable / 45min
It's that time of year again for YouTubers: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has published this year's annual letter to the video platform's community and the big focus is clear: 2022 is going to be all about YouTube Shorts. According to Wojcicki, YouTube Shorts content has hit "5 trillion all time views" on the platform. It appears clear in the letter that YouTube is very happy with how it's built-in



Amazon has reduced the prices on its excellent Fire TV Stick range of streaming devices down to Black Friday levels today. First up, the standard 3rd-generation Amazon Fire TV Stick, which is half price at just $19.99 ( was $39.99) - an absolute bargain sum for one of the best 1080p streaming devices on the market. If you're looking to kick-start your HD 1080p streaming setup on the cheap, this i



Earlier this month, IHG announced that a host of major updates would be coming to its loyalty program. But beyond revealing new elite status thresholds , IHG was pretty tight-lipped about other forthcoming changes. Today, we now know more about how IHG’s lineup of Chase cobranded credit cards will evolve. Come March 24, 2022, three products will be in the IHG Rewards portfolio, including two rebr



Delta is rethinking many aspects of its onboard experience with sustainability in mind. The Atlanta-based carrier announced on Tuesday an overhauled inflight service concept, which will see new amenity kits, bedding, cutlery and beverage selections available across most of its flights in the days and weeks to come. The nose-to-tail product revamp was completed with two goals in mind: to reduce si




How-To Geek / 46min
If you’re participating in a group text in Messages with devices that use SMS (such as Android phones), you can’t leave the group chat, and that makes iPhone owners vulnerable to abuse and bullying. Apple should fix this immediately—here’s how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



YouTube NFT Shorts•
Engadget / 46min
YouTube is the latest platform eyeing a move into NFTs. In a new letter to creators about YouTube’s 2022 priorities, CEO Susan Wojicki said the company is exploring how its creators could benefit from the digital collectibles. In the letter, Wojicki said that Web3 — a term used by crypto enthusiasts to refer to the collection of blockchain based technologies they believe will usher in a new era o



Engadget / 46min
The Apple TV 4K has many things going for it, but its relatively high $179 price tag isn't one of them. We consider it to be the best premium streaming device thanks to its feature set but also its price tag. But now you can get the latest set-top box from Apple for $20 less — Amazon has the 32GB Apple TV 4K for $160 thanks to a sale and an automatically applied coupon that knocks another $10 off



Lifehacker / 47min
After brushing and flossing, mouthwash completes the trifecta of daily dental care. But do we really need all three steps? Dentists wouldn’t dare tell you to skip flossing or brushing, but it turns out they’re a lot more equivocal about mouthwash. Read more...



TechCrunch / 47min
Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. The startup also plans to expand its



TechCrunch / 47min
Okta released its eighth annual ‘Business at Work’ report today, looking at which apps and cloud services on the Okta identity platform were the most popular for the period November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021. The report found that for the most part, Okta users tend to favor best-of-breed over the single vendor approach of the past. Microsoft Office 365 remains the most popular service with AWS



AMP Dyspatch Email•
TechCrunch / 47min
Some marketers believe that to make more money, you have to send more emails, which Matt Harris, founder and CEO of Dyspatch , refers to as the “law of email.” “All of those emails are leading to a decline in open engagement rates,” he told TechCrunch. “In addition, there is a new generation entering the workforce that isn’t email centric, and is having to learn how to email.” Most marketers don’



TechCrunch / 47min
Bokksu CEO Danny Taing has always been passionate about Japanese food and culture, so he moved to Tokyo after college and lived there for four years. When Taing moved back to NYC, he brought a suitcase full of his favorite Japanese snacks and shared it with his friends. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S. Taing



TechCrunch / 47min
Visual work communication tool CloudApp has raised $9.3 million in Series A funding led by Grayhawk Capital and Nordic Eye. The round also includes previous investors Kickstart Fund, Cervin Ventures, New Ground Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and new entrants Peninsula Ventures & Forward VC. It also features CloudApp customers Peter Kazanjy, the CRO of Atrium, and Derek Andersen, the CEO of Startup Grin



Hunters SOC $68M Platform•
TechCrunch / 47min
Cybersecurity startup Hunters today announced that it has raised a $68 million Series C round led by Stripes. New investors DTCP, Cisco Investments and Databricks also invested in this round, together with existing investors YL Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, U.S. Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital and Snowflake Ventures. This new round brings Hunters’ total fun



Luminar Mercedes-Benz•
SlashGear / 48min
Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz has taken a major step forward in its efforts to produce self-driving cars, partnering with Luminar to include the latter’s Iris lidar technology in Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The partnership will give the company a significant technological advantage over some of its rivals while helping it build on the success it has already enjoyed in the self-driving market. Self-driv



Along with a of IHG Rewards elite status Chase is making changes to their IHG co-brand credit cards, effective March 24, 2022. The primary consumer card will improve points-earning, offer new benefits, and rewards for hitting spending targets (including top tier elite status). Meanwhile the no annual fee card is improving, and a revamped business card is coming too. Continue reading ...



55The Points Guy / 53min
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with the latest promotions. Marriott Bonvoy just launched its newest global promotion, where you can score bonus points and double elite night credits on your upcoming stays. With this Marriott promotion, you’ll earn 1,000 bonus Marriott points per night, with no cap. Plus, you’ll get to fast-track Marriott elite status by earning an addi



Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners. Existing investors Sapphire Ventures (which also led the company’s $135 million Series D round last year), Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Cisco Investments also participated in this round. The company says this preemptive ro



The Apple Car project may have lost another key team member as its head of software engineering departs for Silicon Valley rival Meta ( formerly known as Facebook). As reported in Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter , Joe Bass, who had been the Lead Engineering Program Manager for Autonomous Systems at Apple since January 2015, recently changed the employment details on his LinkedIn profile . Accordi



Exhibiting emotional intelligence is more important than ever in the workplace. We are in the midst of the Great Resignation , and people are increasingly less likely to stick with jobs where they do not feel seen, heard, or valued. Employees want to work with and for people who exhibit high degrees of emotional… Read more...



Saints & Sinners TWD•
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is getting a sequel, its developer Skydance Interactive has confirmed. It doesn't come as a surprise — the title quickly became one of the most popular games for the PlayStation VR since it launched in 2020, and it swiftly made its way to other platforms, including the Oculus Quest 2 , Viveport and PC. Skydance has also revealed, along with its announcement that



The surgeon had put an image of a patient's X-ray on a website that sells NFTs without her consent.



Twitter Flock Up To 150•
Twitter is testing a new feature called Flock, that will seemingly allow you to tweet to followers in a closed group. Social networks are, by their very nature, largely shared social experiences. But there are also options available on different platforms that make it possible to limit who can see what you post. On the likes of Facebook, this is a simple matter of configuring your audience to any




YouTube Gwanghwamun AI•
Wired / 1h
The future of artificial intelligence needs less data and can tolerate ambiguity.



21Wired / 1h
Researchers find that densely packed neurons play an outsize role in quantitative skill—calling into question old assumptions about evolution.



Marriott Bonvoy has just revealed the details of its first global promotion of 2022, offering bonus points and bonus elite nights for every night you stay. Register now for Marriott Bonvoy’s 2022 promotion Bonvoy members can register for Marriott’s latest global promotion, offering 1,000 bonus points plus one bonus elite credit for each paid night stayed : The promotion is valid for stays between



The pandemic brought about plenty of odd circumstances for road warriors. Many found themselves grounded overnight instead of following the weekly cadence of business travel. As the pandemic stretched on and companies kept their employees off the road, it became clear that many wouldn’t requalify for elite status the conventional way in 2020. Airlines started extending status and then ultimately



View of ferry crossing Detroit River in wintertime;, pathway cut through ice. Written on ferry stern: “Lansdowne of Windsor.” Printed on front: “Crossing the Detroit River in winter. Copyright 1905 by Detroit Photographic Co.” Handwritten on front: “61.” Handwritten on back: “1/25/07.” Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library



Bayer Battlefield Cellino•
Cellino Bio’s founder Nabiha Saklayen didn’t initially intend to enter TechCrunch Disrupt 2021’s Startup Battlefield – it was her PR advisor who threw the startup’s name in the ring as a wildcard entry. But after a busy weekend for the team, Cellino walked away with the prize anyway. Just a few months later, Cellino has more momentum in the form of a $80 million Series A. Cellino is looking to au



Google Topics Chrome•
FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google’s controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead. In its place, Google today announced a new proposal: Topics . The idea here is that your browser will learn about your interests as you move around the web. It’ll keep data for the last three we



It turns out the fashion industry is quite a wasteful industry, contributing an estimated 13 million tons of textile to landfills per year. One of the ways some startups have helped is making the resale of clothing easier by moving it online. However, Emily Gittins and Ryan Rowe, co-founders of Archive , saw some clothing brands being left out of the action. They launched their company in Februar



30TechCrunch / 1h
Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. It was then that he realized their “good jobs with 401ks” would never be enough for them, he told TechCrunch. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On that



Woflow , a data infrastructure company, raised $7.3 million in Series A funding to continue developing its automated approach to bring offline data online. The company helps customers with antiquated inventory systems power their merchant onboarding data, like restaurant menus and images, with APIs to structure data in a way that when someone’s food order requests “no mustard,” it is recognized p



Google Topics Chrome•
23Engadget / 1h
With the demise of third-party cookies on the horizon, advertisers and the internet's gatekeepers are scrambling to come up with better ways to serve users relevant ads. Google launched its Privacy Sandbox in 2019 to look into suitable alternatives, announcing FLoC (or Federated Learning of Cohorts) last year. The plan to roll out FLoC was delayed , and Privacy Sandbox faced regulatory scrutiny i



Gizmodo / 1h
If you’re a gamer who uses Steam, then you also have access to the Remote Play service, which essentially beams gameplay around your home or across the internet to other laptops, phones, tablets, and even big-screen TVs. It’s not difficult to set up, and it means that you can keep on gaming even if you move to another… Read more...



Marriott is out with their first gambit: to make elite status-earning easier in 2022: double elite qualifying nights, and 1000 bonus points per night, February 8 – May 4, 2022. Continue reading ...



Beats headphones don't usually come cheap, but this brilliant deal from Amazon makes the brand's wireless over-ear cans more budget-friendly for one day only. Amazon has slashed the price of the Beats Studio 3 by 50% , reducing them from $349.95 to $174.95 – that's a saving of $175. (Not in the US? Scroll down for the best prices in your region.) While that price isn't quite as low as the prices



Discover everything about your file system mount points with the Linux findmnt command. It’s an all-in-one tool with a very easy syntax. We show you how to use it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



When you’re new to making espresso or other coffee-based drinks, words like “microfoam,” “frothing,” and “steaming” can get a bit confusing. If you love hot, foamy coffee drinks, but find the learning curve a bit steep, we can help. The first thing you need to know is the difference between frothed and steamed milk. Read This Article on LifeSavvy ›



Nvidia Arm Bloomberg•
26TechCrunch / 2h
Steve Dent Contributor Steve Dent is an associate editor at Engadget . More posts by this contributor Amazon is opening its first physical clothing store Opera launches a dedicated crypto browser NVIDIA has reportedly made little to no progress in gaining regulatory approval for its $40 billion purchase of ARM and is privately preparing to abandon the deal, according to Bloomberg ‘s sources. Mean



It's almost here. Now airing its sixth and final season, This Is Us is ready to conclude its notoriously emotional journey into our hearts — and as is tradition, we're gonna sob . The cast are well aware of this, as Milo Ventimiglia (who plays Jack Pearson) told Seth Meyers on Late Night on Monday. But the audience won't be the only ones having a weep. "I'm sure those last moments, everyone's goi



Nvidia Arm Bloomberg•
100+Engadget / 2h
NVIDIA has reportedly made little to no progress in gaining regulatory approval for its $40 billion purchase of ARM and is privately preparing to abandon the deal, according to Bloomberg 's sources. Meanwhile, current ARM owner SoftBank is reportedly advancing a program to take ARM public as an alternative to the acquisition, said another person familiar with the matter. NVIDIA announced the deal



IBM Quantum Jülich•
Quantum computing, the next wave of computational power, is a little limited right now. Don't just take that from us: IBM itself has said so in a research paper that proposes a method for increasing the applications available for quantum power. "Quantum computers are promising for simulations of chemical and physical systems, but the limited capabilities of today’s quantum processors permit only




Fall Guys Monopoly•
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has its own monopoly set and you can buy it right now via Amazon . Announced via the game's official Twitter account, it's currently only available in the US, but will release worldwide at a later undisclosed date. Considering Fall Guys in concept is much closer to game shows like Takeshi's Castle and Wipeout, it doesn't really seem like a good fit for something as sl



You can again use the annual companion certificate included with the Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card and Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Cards on domestic flights with the airline’s flagship Delta One seats in business class. The news — first reported by Eye of the Flyer — comes as a surprise because the airline restricted Delta Reserve companion certificates to do



Fintech Creditas Fidelity•
Brazilian lender Creditas announced today that it has raised $260 million in a Series F funding that values the company at $4.8 billion. That’s up from the fintech’s $1.75 billion valuation at the time of its $255 million raise in December 2020. With the latest financing, São Paulo-based Creditas has now raised more than $829 million in funding over six rounds, with the bulk of that capital ($745



If you've been waiting for a great PS5 SDD deal, Amazon has dropped the price of one of the best PS5 SSD s to its lowest-ever price. The WD Black SN850 1TB Gaming SSD with heatsink was on sale last week, and has now returned to its lowest-ever price of just £149.99 . That's a huge saving of 42% on an SSD which comes with PlayStation 5’s lead system architect Mark Cerny 's seal of approval. If you



72Engadget / 2h
Panasonic’s relationship with Tesla has been a successful one. Last year, the Japanese electronics company was able to spin its $30 million stake in Tesla into $3.6 billion , but the team-up continues. A higher-capacity next-gen battery for Tesla vehicles could go into production next year , boosting EV ranges by over 15 percent. Although the battery is said to be twice as big as previous version



Future Forum Hybrid Work•
We're nearly two years into working from home as a result of the pandemic and employees are loving the flexibility that the new normal provides – and will move companies to keep it. That's the findings from a survey of 10,7373 knowledge workers in the US, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK conducted by Future Forum, a consortium established by Slack and others to promote new ways of working. Whil



Twitter Flock Up To 150•
20TechCrunch / 2h
Mariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget . More posts by this contributor US regulator rules that Google infringed on Sonos speaker patents Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down Twitter is still working on a feature that will give you a way to blast tweets that can only be seen by the friends you choose. In July last year, the social network rev



Modern dating is in its flop era. Intimacy is dead, daters are burned out after two years of swiping, and apps introduced a decade ago are starting to show their age. A new app, Snack, wants you to break up with photo-based dating apps. And while it's designed with Gen Z in mind, it may also be a godsend for millennials who are tired of swiping to find love. Snack CEO Kim Kaplan knows dating: She



Hisense is offering awesome specials on its most popular TVs, providing big savings. · Click here to find out more about these incredible Hisense TVs now. All specials are available from 24 January until 8 February 2022 and are valid while stocks last. Learn more about these amazing Hisense deals below. Hisense A6G 4K TVs (Image credit: .) Hisense’s A6G range of 4K TVs have a bezel-less design an



41Wired / 2h
Lawmakers want all websites to use a similar “Ask App Not to Track” function, but Apple's system might not be as clear-cut as once believed.



33Wired / 2h
While the space agency didn't actually develop Tang, its R&D includes everything from robot gloves to vertical farming—with commercial benefits back home.



Wired / 2h
Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the game cartridge, isn't quite a household name. A podcast aims to shed some light on his life and accomplishments.



If you work at home, even just a few days a week, there is nothing better than having multiple monitors for getting productive. Here’s everything you need to know to set up your workspace with more than one monitor in Windows 11. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Grab your sunscreen and get ready for some fun in the sun thanks to round-trip flights to Mexico for less than $300, many of which are nonstop. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter . Cozumel, Mexico. (Photo by Diego Mariottini/EyeEm/Getty Images) Deal basics Flights are available to Cancun (CUN), Cozumel (CZM) and San Jose del Cabo (SJD) — the l



Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017 . The following year, the no-code robotic software firm raised $6.8 million , followed by another $30 million in June 2020, as excitement around automation continued to build as COVID slowed manufacturing to a crawl. Today the firm returns with a healthy $84 mill



Nvidia AMD GPU Prices•
Popular graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia are starting to fall in price after many months of suffering from artificial inflation. While still selling for over the MSRP (manufacturers recommended retail price), 3DCenter reports that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series is currently selling for around 77% over MSRP vs the 87% over from last month. The AMD Radeon RX 6000 series is also seeing a si



Horizon Forbidden West 's narrative director Ben McCaw has said that the game has been designed so it's possible to focus purely on the main story, suggesting that you'll be able to skip most of the side content. Speaking with IGN , he said "We wanted to make sure that there's a certain path through this game, where if players want to experience the main quest and kind of get to the end of the st



Garmin and the University of Nottingham are working together on a global research project to study the effects of Covid-19 on running, training and recovery – and you can join in. The Running Through study is open to both runners and walkers from around the world, and will look into the effects of long Covid on fitness symptoms on running performance, the potential impact of running on Covid reco



100+Engadget / 2h
If you're looking to buy new microSD cards, external hard drives or flash drives, you may want to take a look at Amazon's deal of the day sale. You'll be able to get SanDisk and WD storage products for up to 40 percent off their usual prices, including the SanDisk 256GB Extreme microSDXC card for its all-time low price of $32. That's $6 off its original retail price of $38 and is the lowest we've




Zelda Ocarina of Time•
A fan-made PC port of the classic Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has almost finished development and is expected to release by mid-February. The fully functioning PC port comes from Harbour Masters, a group of community developers who say the game is approximately 90% complete (thanks, VGC ). They expect to launch its first iteration by the middle of next month, before iron



HP G9 New Desktop One•
HP has unveiled new All-in-One (AIO) PCs, desktops, and workstations , built for business professionals , students, and those in need of a high-performing device. The PC maker says its new devices will help people stay productive while working remotely , sporting high-end specs, Windows 11, and a videoconferencing suite of tools called HP Presence. Today’s hybrid and dynamic work environment migh



Intel ARC Alchemist•
Details of Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards for laptops have been leaked, with five different models of these GPUs incoming, assuming this info is correct, naturally. The spillage is provided by one of the regular hardware leakers on Twitter, HXL, who posted what looks like official spec details of the five cards which are ‘NB’ or notebook SKUs. pic.twitter.com/ldHJS3eonP January 24, 2022 See



Virgin Media O2 has switched on the UK’s first multi-site private mobile network, delivering dedicated 4G connectivity across three of British Sugar’s manufacturing sites. A private cellular network provides dedicated access to a specific customer, using either licensed, unlicensed or shared spectrum, with no resources shared by any third party. By pursuing this route, customers can define the sc



The enthusiasm to find paying customers for artificial intelligence continues in China. AInnovation, a Chinese computer vision and machine learning startup backed by Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation Ventures and SoftBank, is trying to automate China’s massive manufacturing industry. Merely four-year-old, the startup has filed to go public in Hong Kong, and its prospectus is offering a rare glimpse into th



The post appeared first on Popular Mechanics .



Light Spike Story Event•
Techland has announced a story event for Dying Light , which looks like it might be a bridge between the first game and the upcoming sequel. The developer has announced the Spike’s Story: Last Call event which seems to be bringing a little narrative content to the franchise in its time of transition. That being said, you will have to get moving. The free event is in two parts, and Part 1 is curre



Twitter Bot Wordle•
23Mashable / 3h
Twitter has suspended @wordlinator, a bot that spoiled the game with clues for the next day's puzzle and generally rude messages to Wordle fans. The bot caused widespread irritation for Wordle players on Twitter, and considering that the world can't stop playing the daily word game, there were a lot of unhappy users. People even took to their own accounts to warn people about the Wordle-ruining b



Our DJI Mavic 3 review discovered that the drone was almost certainly rushed to market last November, but another big firmware update has plugged all of the remaining feature gaps in DJI's flagship. The new Mavic 3 firmware (v01.00.0500), which is available now, brings four key features: QuickShots (which are DJI's automated flight modes), QuickTransfer (which lets you directly connect the drone



If you’re someone who primarily plays their Nintendo Switch in handheld mode, the G-Case could be the perfect accessory for you. The G-Case is an all-in-one modular case that’s already exceeded its Kickstarter goal by a considerable margin – and it’s easy to see why it’s been so popular with backers. The case, which sort of looks like a Gundam, is compatible with the Switch and Nintendo Switch OL



Valve Steam Deck Cloud•
We’re just weeks away from the expected February 2022 launch of the Steam Deck , and this latest Steam update has us more excited than ever to try the device out for ourselves. While Valve’s handheld PC-console hybrid has yet to release, the team have been hard at work updating its Steam platform to ensure it’s ready to support the Steam Deck. Some expected changes have included new store tags fo



Young Spotify Rogan•
38Gizmodo / 3h
Neil Young wants all his music pulled from streaming service Spotify as quickly as possible, according to an open letter the veteran rock musician posted to his website that’s since been deleted. What’s the problem? Young doesn’t like the misinformation about vaccines being peddled by Joe Rogan, the podcast host who… Read more...



Sea Thieves 2022 Preview•
Rare will host a 2022 preview event for Sea of Thieves later this week. It will be shown on YouTube on Thursday, January 27 at 6pm GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST and Friday, January 28 at 2am ACT. In the announcement video, Rare promises 2022 to be Sea of Thieves' biggest year yet, with the event to outline the content fans can expect from the next season and beyond. No specifics have been given yet, o



Batgirl Aquino DC A. Yeoh•
Transgender actor Ivory Aquino has joined the cast of Batgirl, marking a landmark moment for the DC Universe. She will play the transgender character Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of Leslie Grace's Barbara Gordon (Batgirl), in the upcoming HBO Max movie. The casting was first reported by Variety . The appearance of Yeoh will mark the first time a live-action feature film adaptation of a DC Comics



29Mashable / 4h
Is there anything groundbreakingly new in Shudder's latest horror trailer for Abel and Burlee Vang's They Live in the Grey ? Well no, not really. But it still looks terrifyingly fun. Following a social worker with a Sixth Sense -style ability to see ghosts, They Live in the Grey features possession, objects moving of their own free will, and creepy children aplenty. Yes, we've seen a lot of it be



Developers iCloud Apple•
If you use an Apple device, there’s a good chance that you use iCloud, its service of syncing your content across multiple devices, alongside streaming files and your tasks in certain apps that also use the service. However, you may have experienced some issues where your content on one device, isn’t showing on another. This has begun to be known as the 503 error - where iCloud syncing isn’t work



Elden Ring Stressful•
It sounds like Elden Ring may not run up your blood pressure as high as Bloodborne , Sekiro or Dark Souls 3 , as producer Yasuhiro Kitao explains that elements of the game have been developed to actively keep player stress levels low. As reported by IGN , Kitao stressed this notion in a lengthy interview during the Taipei Game Show 2022. "With the game's world being so large, that can produce rea



You’d think that platforms offering jobs listings couldn’t be innovated on much these days, but London-based Otta wants to prove that theory wrong. It has a platform for matching jobs at tech companies with candidates by aggregating a lot of information about the company (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) with the roles offered. Think a sort of “CrunchBase for Jobs”. It’s now ra



Samsung Galaxy Tab S8•
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 isn't much of an enigma, as we've seen countless leaks regarding the series over the last few months. Some new renders reveal the lowest-end member of the family from all angles, though it's nothing we haven't seen before. These come from popular leaker Evan Blass, who recently also revealed a poster for Galaxy Unpacked which said it'd fall on February 9 - that's the lau




TL;DR: Worth $2,200, the 2022 Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle is on sale for just $29.99 as of Jan. 25 — that's 98% off. You’ve likely used Microsoft Office casually in your life thus far. But there’s a pretty good chance you didn’t devote any time to learning what lies beneath the surface of each program. Diving a little deeper could actually save you loads of time and ene



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Google Pixel Notepad•
We’ve heard whispers of a Google Pixel Fold for a while now, but finally we’re starting to get some real information about the phone, with the latest being the possible price. This comes from 9to5Google , which also recently revealed that the phone might be called the Pixel Notepad . According to two independent sources “familiar with Google’s ongoing planning”, the Pixel Notepad will apparently



Google Pixel 6A May•
The Google Pixel 6a is now expected to be landing in May 2022 (that's according to a leak a few days ago) and another report shares with us some of the specs we can expect on the upcoming smartphone. According to leaker @Shadow_Leak on Twitter, the Google Pixel 6a's specs will include a 6.2-inch 60Hz display, a Google Tensor chipset and 30W fast charging. Take all of this information with a pinch



The Batman was almost as long as Zack Snyder's Justice League, according to a new report regarding the movie's runtime. Per The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision newsletter , audiences may have had to sit through another lengthy DCEU film , with The Batman originally clocking in at a whopping four hours. According to THR, Warner Bros. held test screenings to gauge viewers' opinions on a rough cut



Amazon has slashed 30% off the price of the iRobot Roomba J7+ robot vacuum, reducing it from $849.00 to just $599.00 – a record-low for the robovac, which is self-emptying. (Not in the US? Scroll down for the best robot vacuum deals in your region.) The best robot vacuums let you outsource the chore of floor cleaning completely, allowing you to put your feet up. However, they can be a costly purc



Samsung Galaxy S22•
Though a Galaxy Unpacked has been confirmed for February 2022 , we still don't know for sure when this Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8 launch event will happen. Thanks to a popular leaker, we've now got a very good guess. Reliable leaker Evan Blass has shared a seemingly official invitation poster for Galaxy Unpacked 2022 which, if accurate, gives away the game for the upcoming tech launch. Evan Bla



Samsung One IC Payment•
300+Engadget / 5h
Samsung has revealed what it calls the "industry's first" all-in-one fingerprint security chip (IC) for payment cards. The S3B512C chip reads biometric information via a fingerprint sensor, stores and authenticates data with a tamper-proof secure element (SE) and analyzes it with a secure processor. While primarily designed for payment cards, it could also be used for "student or employee identif



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Vodafone UK 2023 Year•
Vodafone will retire its 3G network next year and refarm the spectrum to improve the speed and coverage of its 4G and 5G services. The company's 3G network launched 17 years ago and has coexisted with Vodafone’s 4G and 5G infrastructure in order to provide additional coverage in areas that LTE can’t reach and to customers whose handsets are not compatible with modern standards. However, as 4G has



Veriff EU Delivery•
42TechCrunch / 6h
Starship Technologies , one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like, boxy delivery vehicles that self-drive around cities — has been on a roll during Covid-19, providing extra (unmanned) horsepower to distribute food and other goods between stores or restaurants and consumers, at a time when consumers were either reluctant or being ordered to sta



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Twitter Flock Up To 150•
Twitter is still working on a feature that will give you a way to blast tweets that can only be seen by the friends you choose. In July last year, the social network revealed that it's considering letting you designate "trusted friends" so some tweets would only be visible to them. Now, developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has unearthed evidence that the feature is currently in devel



Today Wordle•
Wordle fans , cast your square-addled minds back to sometime last week when the Wordle of the day was "PRICK". Did you doubt yourself? Did you forget that the word "prick" has a legitimate meaning that's neither an insult nor an old-fashioned word for penis? You, my friend, might have a dirty mind, and that mind will probably enjoy Lewdle. As you might have guessed, Lewdle is a lovingly filthifie



Barty Pegula Australian•
We're down to the last eight at Melbourne Park. Local hero and top seed Ashleigh Barty will take to home turf at the Australian Open today to get past America's Jessica Pegula in search of her first AO title. Today's quarter-final is expected on Rod Laver Arena at 8am GMT / 3am ET. Here's how to watch a Barty vs Pegula live stream online and on TV wherever you are - including ways to see the matc



Meet Zoi, a new French startup that wants to combine routine medical checkups with preventive care through a mobile app. The startup has been co-founded by Ismaël Emelien , former special advisor to Emmanuel Macron during the early days of its presidency, and Paul Dupuy, who previously worked on Workwell . Before I tell you more about the product and vision, it’s also worth noting that the compan



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Beatles John Lennon’s•
John Lennon's eldest son Julian will keep the physical items as he sells digital versions of them.



Mental Intellect Asia•
81TechCrunch / 11h
Mental health app Intellect’s founder and CEO Theodoric Chew Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health startup focused primarily on Asia-Pacific markets, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. The company’s services, including self-directed mental wellness programs in 15 languages and online therapy sessions, are available through two channels: as an employee benefit and throug



28Mashable / 11h
What did we do before the Notes app on our iPhones? How did we make grocery lists? How did we jot down that one thing we need to remember? How did celebrities apologize for the latest PR disaster? It really is a useful app. I've used it for everything from writing down the ingredients for New Year's Eve dinner to composing a best man speech. SEE ALSO: https://mashable.com/article/how-to-create-ta



87Engadget / 11h
Isaiah Thomas is a 20-year-old Amazon worker at the company's Bessemer, Alabama facility, BHM1. He is also a vocal supporter of unionizing the warehouse. In a conference with press Monday evening, he described what he believed were surveillance and retaliation by his employer, solely because of his support for collective bargaining efforts. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)



SlashGear / 12h
SlashGear With Google juggling so many platforms, it’s not easy to keep track of them, much less figure out which one will eventually get axed. This is even more uncertain on the entertainment and multimedia side, where Google has already retired a few services and platforms in the


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