Sunday, February 06, 2022

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Delta Unruly Fly List•
Delta Air Lines is leading the charge when it comes to banning unruly and sometimes violent passengers. Delta confirmed to TPG that Chief Executive Ed Bastian wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland asking the Justice Department to help crack down on misbehaving passengers. His ask? He wants flyers who attack crew on planes or disrupt flights to be put on a “no-fly” list. You m



Seattle saw an unusual airline visitor yesterday… Uganda Airlines’ flight to Seattle Uganda Airlines is an interesting new airline, which operates a young fleet of two Airbus A330-800neos plus four Bombardier CRJ-900ERs. The A330-800neo is an incredibly rare jet , as very few airlines ordered it (the A330-900neo has proven much more popular). Currently Uganda Airlines’ only A330-800neo destinatio



1KArs Technica / 20h
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Chie Ferrelli loved her Subaru SUV, which she bought in 2020 because it made her feel safe. So when it was time for her husband, Marc, to purchase his own new car last summer, they returned to the Subaru dealer near their home in southeast Massachusetts. But there was a catch, one that made the couple mad: Marc’s sedan wouldn’t have access to the company's telematic




Instant Pot is the multicooker sensation that’s becoming a mainstay in homes around the world. It offers a wide array of cooking methods including slow cooking, pressure cooking and sautéing, I regularly use my Instant Pot for savory dishes including slow-cooked curries and stews, and for pressure-cooking rice and steaming vegetables, but I rarely use it to cook anything sweet. I tried my hand at
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A new generation of computer chips modeled after the brain’s neural network could be launched before the end of this decade thanks to a new material that has been developed. In a nutshell, it is the first electrochemical 3-terminal transistor manufactured with 2D materials. Scientists from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and from Stanford University revealed that memory components



TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to ShareDocView is on sale for £220, saving you 75% on list price. Attaching large files to emails isn’t just time-consuming for the uploader. It’s time-consuming for each and every downloader, too. Not to mention, there’s no real way of tracking who’s opened the file and who hasn’t. Even with Google Docs, Sheets, and the like, there are no real stats available to a



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100+Gizmodo / 4h
In recent weeks, the spotlight on Joe Rogan, host of the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify, has only grown brighter and hotter. After receiving a storm of criticism for promoting covid-19 vaccine misinformation on his podcast, all eyes are now on Rogan again after videos of him repeatedly using the… Read more...



NASA has big fiery plans for the International Space Station (ISS) and its retirement in 2031. While it’ll continue doing hard work for now, in about ten years, the company will happily burn it up during re-entry, then crash the remaining bits of the ISS into the ocean. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



The value of a currency is based on trust - how well it will hold value. So it makes me downgrade how much I value an Alaska mile. Although seeing the direction of award pricing with new partners I've begun to do that anyway, since they clearly appear to be on a downward trajectory (as I predicted would be the case as part of joining oneworld ), and I tend to expect that as bilateral contracts fo



As we edge over the halfway mark of the second season of Euphoria, last week's episode will prove to be a tough act to follow. Dealing with the direct aftermath of a chaotic whirlwind of cultural imitations and the inevitable comedown of Rue, Jules, Cassie and Cal, the season feels as though it's reaching its tipping point. One not to miss, here's where to watch Euphoria season 2 episode 5 online



Despite the Federal Aviation Administration’s public plea to “lose the laser” or face fines of up to $250,000 or five years in jail, people keep shining lasers at aircraft and causing serious safety threats. In fact, people – we imagine them all being 12-year-olds, but it’s likely they’re not – are shining lasers at airplanes more than ever before. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your



Gizmodo / 8h
It ended up being something of a busy week, which means you may have missed some of our Morning Spoilers . Have no fear, because we’ve got this video for some of the biggest stories this week that closed out January and began February. And as always, you can read new Morning Spoilers every weekday on io9! Read more...



100+Futurism / 8h
Dox3 If you’ve heard anything about the NFT craze that’s swept the web over the past year, it’s probably been about the premier project in the space, the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Bored Ape’s NFTs, which depict exactly what you’d expect from the name, have become one of the era’s strangest status symbols, picking up celebrity buyers ranging from Justin Bieber to Eminem . And now the tokens’ creators,



Shining Girls Moss•
Apple has shared the first trailer for its upcoming TV+ exclusive Shining Girls . Starring Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale fame as a Chicago reporter in search of the man who assaulted her, the series will debut on April 29th with the first three episodes of the series available to stream that same day. Subsequent episodes will follow every Friday for the next five weeks. Based



Anna Sorokin Netflix•
Netflix’s new drama Inventing Anna has all the makings of a must-watch show. The series stars Ozark’ s breakout lead Julia Garner in the true story of German fraudster Anna Sorokin, who conned wealthy New Yorkers, banks and hotels out of tens of thousands of dollars between 2013 and 2017. It premieres on February 11. The series comes from production powerhouse Shonda Rhimes, who stewarded Grey’s



747 British Airways•
Forget the mile-high club… romance has literally taken a front seat on this Negus 747. Now you can get married in its cockpit. The retired British Airways plane has been converted into a wedding venue and party plane among other things, thanks to a more than half a million-dollar makeover. Suzannah Harvey, chief executive of the privately-owned Cotswold Airport, in Gloucestershire, bought the cra



Peloton Q2 Netflix Stadia•
64Mashable / 9h
I wasn't impressed when the Peloton bike first arrived at my house in 2018, and it's because of how much that screen's potential feels wasted. Nothing against exercise or even filling up some of my precious house space with a large and expensive stationary bike. But once my partner's Peloton arrived and got set up, I instantly saw what simultaneously felt like the tech's great potential and great



29TechCrunch / 9h
Q5D’s proposition is a simple one: use robotics to automate the process of producing wiring harnesses for electronics. It’s one that — surprisingly — is often still executed by hand, owing to its overall complexity. It’s a process, the company is quick to point out, that hasn’t really changed all that much over the previous century. Turning things over to machines would help speed up the process



Amazon Nike Peloton•
23Gizmodo / 9h
After enjoying a lockdown-fueled peak during the pandemic, Peloton is now spinning out of control . Product recalls, plummeting stock prices, a major decline in demand and its bike’s dangerous cameos in not one, but two primetime TV shows have wiped roughly $40 billion from its market value in the last year. Read more...



James Webb 18 Telescope•
1KFuturism / 9h
First Light This week NASA released the thrilling news that as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its three-month alignment process, the Webb team saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the entire telescope, detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). At first, the Webb’s photos will be unfocused, but scientists will fine tune the telescope over time. NASA says a team of e



Enlarge / View of the fossilized skull of an extinct species of stargazer fish, showing preserved fecal pellets in the brain. (credit: Calvert Marine Museum) A fossilized cranium of an extinct species of stargazer fish was stuffed with tiny fecal pellets known as coprolites , according to a recent paper published in the journal Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia—the first known skul



Google Chrome 8 Years•
If you recently downloaded the latest Canary release of Google Chrome , you may have noticed the icon is different. The change marks the first time in eight years that Google has redesigned the symbol representing its iconic web browser. At first glance, it doesn’t look that different, but there’s more to the refresh than meets the eye. In a Twitter thread spotted by The Verge , Google designer E




A massive storm earlier in the week continued to make flying a challenge this weekend as airlines struggle to get operations back to normal. The storms have passed, but the impact lingers on. On Friday, more than 4,000 flights were canceled into, out of or within the U.S., according to flight tracking company Flight Aware. Get the latest points, miles and travel news by signing up for TPG’s free



Nearly 40% of the American Airlines schedule was cancelled on Friday. Thirty percent of its schedule was cancelled on Saturday. And that shouldn't come as any surprise. Texas experienced a severe ice storm, and American Airlines is headquartered at Dallas - Fort Worth airport. The problem isn't just that they couldn't take off and land on ice Thursday, or through continued challenging conditions



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Indonesia Bali February•
While Indonesia — including the island of Bali, one of the world’s most coveted pre-pandemic tourism destinations — officially re-opened to visitors from 19 foreign countries (including Japan, South Korea and China, but not the United States) in October 2021 , the archipelago hardly boomed with international arrivals. And that was due largely to the fact that there were no arriving international



I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! I’m taking my first international trip of the year, and am checking out a fairly new points property that has been on my radar, so stay tuned for my review of that. That’s all I’ll say for now. On the points & travel front, this week British Airways revealed some passenger enhancements, the new MGM Rewards loyalty program launched, Qatar Airways o



Ford Cut NA 8 Chip•
Engadget / 10h
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but a North American automaker is about to temporarily reduce its manufacturing output due to the ongoing global chip shortage . A Ford spokesperson told Reuters on Friday the automaker would cut or suspend production at eight of its factories across the US, Mexico and Canada. The shutdown will start on February 7th. Among other facilities, the decision wi



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Experian Credit One•
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. The idea of earning free flights and hotel stays just by signing up for the right credit cards seems too good to be true, and there are plenty of myths about how it all works . When you’re trying to introduce someone to the world of reward travel, you may have to dispel some of those misconceptions. One of the most c



Spotify Rogan Episodes•
74Ars Technica / 11h
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Cindy Ord ) Spotify on Friday removed 70 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from 2020 and previous years. Meanwhile, Rogan issued an apology after video showed him saying the n-word on various podcast episodes. The new episode removals weren't related to the COVID misinformation that led Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others to ask for their music to be pulled from Spot



76Futurism / 11h
Infra-restructure Forget seasonal blackouts like those in Texas and Memphis during exceptional winter storms — electric grid failures may become the norm in the US if we don’t sink some major investment into our infrastructure. A study published in Earth’s Future about increased energy usage in December of 2021 got some scary new context when lead authors interviewed for a new article this week b



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DeSantis GoFundMe Canadian•
100+Mashable / 11h
Donation platform GoFundMe has seized all funds from a campaign supporting anti-vaccine mandate protesters that have been congregating in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. In a statement from the company, GoFundMe said it had reason to believe the protest had turned dangerous. "We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police



Boondocks Reboot HBO Max•
Engadget / 11h
HBO Max is not bringing back The Boondocks for an additional two seasons. In 2019, before the streaming service was even available, WarnerMedia announced that it had greenlit a 24-episode revival of the beloved Adult Swim animated series that was supposed to debut in the fall of 2020. In the two years since that announcement, there’s been almost no news about the series. Until now. In an intervie



42Gizmodo / 12h
Because there’s no escaping creeps on the Internet, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has launched a new “Personal Boundary” feature for its virtual reality platforms to combat harassment. Read more...



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93Gizmodo / 12h
Since he first swung into the Marvel movies in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War, Tom Holland’s had a fairly busy life. Not only has he been caught up in various Marvel movies and animated flicks , but he’s also about to don the half-tucked shirt of Naughty Dog’s Nathan Drake for Uncharted . That’s a lot of work for… Read more...




If you are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or just somebody who prefers having subtitles while watching videos, it’s easy to turn on closed captions for your YouTube videos. Here’s how to do that on desktop and mobile. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. Located about 15 miles south of Seattle and 20 miles north of Tacoma, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the 10th-busiest airport in the U.S. according to Airports Council International-North America. It currently serves more than 50 million passengers a year. As of 2022, 31 airlines operate at SEA, serving 91 nonstop domestic a



Wordle Archive Play•
200+Mashable / 12h
Have you breezed through today's Wordle and tackled all the Wordle clones and alternatives ? Well, you can finally play the game's entire archive thanks to the aptly titled Wordle Archive website. The free daily word game Wordle blew up in popularity at the start of 2022 despite not having an app and only allowing players to tackle one puzzle per day. Both were intentional choices, as Wordle foun



Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new material using a new polymerizing process. The material, called 2DPA-1, a type of polyaramide, is said to be as light as plastic and as strong as steel; even better, it can be manufactured at industrial scale which bodes well for its go-to-market timeframe. The material, which is the first polymer to be polymerized



The IHG ® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card ( review ) is phenomenal — it’s worth getting for the very good welcome bonus, and it’s worth keeping for the long-term perks . We recently learned about some changes coming to the card as of March 2022, which is all the more reason to pick up the card now. In this post, I wanted to look at nine reasons to apply for this card. In no particular order: 125



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100+Mashable / 12h
When NASA astronauts next visit the moon, it'll be a dark and shadowy expedition. The space agency's renewed moon ambitions, a mission called Artemis, aim to bring astronauts back to our well-cratered satellite later this decade. They'll land in the South Pole, a place where the sun barely rises over the lunar hills. It's a world of profoundly long shadows and dim environs. NASA is preparing to t



House Passes US China•
Engadget / 12h
On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022 almost entirely along party lines. Among other measures, the sprawling 2,900-page bill allocates $52 billion in grants to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing. It also authorize


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