Thursday, February 10, 2022

Thursday Technology News and More...

Technology News and More...




Apple currently has three stores here in the UAE, two in Dubai at Dubai Mall and at Mall of the Emirates and one in Abu Dhabi's Yas Mall. Today the company announced that their fourth store is going to be on Abu Dhabi's Al Maryah Island. This follows on the footsteps of Apple completely revamping their Yas Mall store too. (Image credit: Apple) Apple opens all-new store at Yas Mall Abu Dhabi iPhon



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Commonwealth Esports•
Esports are to be included as a pilot event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.




A US company is speeding up the path to practical fusion energy using Google's vast computing power.



Tesla California Racial•
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Tesla on Wednesday alleging racial discrimination and harassment. The complaint, which was filed in state court, calls out issues at Tesla’s Fremont, California manufacturing plant. The California agency had received “hundreds of complaints from workers” and found evidence that the Fremont factory is a “segregated wo



It's estimated that 3.7 million Bitcoin have been lost - but hackers are helping owners get some of them back.



Peloton Ceo McCarthy•
Peloton laid off around 2,800 corporate employees as part of its attempt to get past its growth struggles following a meteoric rise to fame in the early days of the pandemic. Some of them are understandably upset and angry, and according to CNBC , some of them have crashed the company's first all-hands meeting meant to introduce the new CEO. In addition to letting 20 percent of its workforce go —



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Tiger Global is in talks to lead a new financing round in GoMechanic, an India startup that operates a network of technology-enabled automobile service centres, two sources familiar with the matter said. The proposed talks for the Gurugram-headquartered Series D funding values the startup at $1.2 billion, up from $325 million in Series C that it disclosed in June last year, sources said, requesti



A year ago, inside of the corporate leviathan Alphabet, Black Googlers and other Black Alphabet employees were invited to some informal programming around angel investing during Black History Month. It was organized by employees so that anyone interested could learn a bit more about how startup deals are structured, the typical timeline for a possible exit, and much more. The idea wasn’t to creat



Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts. Brick wants to simplify the process with a suite of APIs that connects financial apps to “hyper-local” so



Cashless payments are on the rise and Dubai-based fintech startup, Ziina, is on a mission to bring money online and simplify payments for consumers in the Middle East. Ziina’s newly launched digital wallet app allows instant cash transfers for users in the UAE. You’ll be able to pay back friends for dinners, split bills and request payments in a few taps by entering their phone number or username



TL;DR: The 2022 Master Your Finances Bundle is on sale for £14.74, saving you 98% on list price. Contrary to popular belief, becoming financially independent isn't just about earning more money, it's about knowing what to do with the money you do have. If 2022 is the year that you vow to finally learn about taxes, savings accounts, and more, you'll need help. And this six-course, 135-lesson finan



TL;DR: The 2022 Premium Interviewing Skills Bundle is on sale for £25.80, saving you 97% on list price. The start of a new year is the perfect time to ditch what doesn’t serve you and go after things that do — and that includes your job. 2022 could finally be the year you land your dream job, but first, you need to learn how to ace your interview. This Premium Interviewing Skills Bundle can help.



SAVE 84%: CyberGhost VPN is one of the best services for streaming and securing your online anonymity. A three-year subscription to CyberGhost VPN is on sale for £62.01 with an extra three months for free — save 84% for a limited time. CyberGhost VPN is offering new users the chance to extend their subscription for free. A three-year subscription is on sale for £62.01, and includes an extra three



Hanyu Axel Japanese•
89Mashable / 4h
Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu just tried to make history at the Beijing Winter Olympics, attempting to become the first skater to ever land a quadruple axel in competition. Unfortunately, it just wasn't his day. The two-time and currently reigning Olympic ice skating champion, Hanyu had previously shared his plans to attempt a quad axel in the lead up to the Beijing Games. The quad axel is



Chrome OS Raspberry Pi SD•
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has created a new Network Installer tool that allows Raspberry Pi owners to install an operating system onto their devices without the need for a separate computer. Previously, tinkerers needed to use another computer to run Raspberry Pi Imager or something similar to flash an OS onto an SD card when setting up a new Raspberry Pi. Now though, if you intend to use one o



If you'll indulge me for a moment, please cast your mind back to late 2017, when it when it was first announced that Disney would be creating a brand new live-action Star Wars series (with more to come) for its then-upcoming streaming service, Disney Plus . If you're anything like me, you were instantly filled with optimism about where Disney could take the franchise within the episodic televisio



Apple appears to be preparing to upgrade its datacenters with “next-generation” storage and server equipment according to a new job posting spotted online. As reported by The Register , the iPhone maker has posted a recruitment ad with the aim of hiring an “upbeat and hard-working hardware validation engineer” that will be tasked with developing, implementing and completing hardware validation pl



Dark Souls Elden Ring•
Dark Souls 3 developer From Software announced that the PC servers for all Dark Souls games will be offline until after February 25, when Elden Ring launches. The reason? A huge security exploit , called a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, was found in Dark Souls 3’s online servers. Considered one of the most dangerous of vulnerabilities, an RCE allows for a hacker to run any code on the



Xenoblade Chronicles XC3•
The much-anticipated Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has officially been announced in a new trailer during the latest Nintendo Direct , and will release in September 2022. The open-world action-RPG will be set in a new location in the Xenoblade series but will be connected to the first two Xenoblade Chronicles games, tying them together. The trailer (which you can watch below) showed off a handful of new




Mario Kart 8 Deluxe•
Nintendo has finally announced new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC . Released alongside the Nintendo Switch nearly five years ago, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has long been needing an update or a sequel. And, not one to go small, Nintendo today announced 48 new tracks are coming to the racing game. Some of the tracks are remastered versions of classic races, such as Coconut Mall from Mario Kart Wii, the N64’s Ch



Nintendo Switch NSS•
A new iteration of Wii Sports, the mega-hit family sports game, will return to the Nintendo Switch on April 29. Announced during the latest Nintendo Direct , Nintendo Switch Sports is a sequel to the original Wii game and recreates many of its classic minigames using the console’s Joycon controllers' motion support. It will feature six sports to play, three of which featured in the original Wii S



Kirby Forgotten M. Mode•
Look, Kirby’s been swallowing stuff for years. It’s kind of their thing. Naturally, in Kirby and the Forgotten Land we expected that the pink puffball would inhale some sizeable objects. It just wouldn’t be Kirby otherwise. But, in the latest trailer, shown during tonight’s Nintendo Direct , we saw mouthful mode and it’s quite the sight. Now Kirby can inhale real-world objects, such as cars, vend



Mario Battle League•
Mario and pals are coming back to the soccer pitch this year. Mario Strikers: Battle League was announced during the latest Nintendo Direct livestream and will hitting be Nintendo Switch on June 10 later this year. The third entry in the series, it looks to follow a similar format as the past two games: teams of five players will take control of classic Mario characters in arcade-like football ma



Fire Emblem Warriors Three•
The next game in the Fire Emblem Warriors series has been announced during the latest Nintendo Direct presentation. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes was revealed in a short gameplay trailer during Nintendo's live presentation and will be released on Switch on June 24 later this year. The tactical RPG will be set in the same story universe as 2019's Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Houses, taking the



No Man’s Sky Switch•
No Man’s Sky , the incredible procedurally generated universe sandbox, is coming to the Nintendo Switch . Announced as part of the latest Nintendo Direct , No Man’s Sky on Switch looks to be an entire port of the ambitious game. If that’s the case it will be an impressive job by developer Hello Games. Not only is the game’s universe vast, full of unique planets, plants, and wildlife, but the game



Legendary investor, Howard Marks, has publicly stated his opinion that selling an asset (even when you have made a profit) may be foolish. His justification for this statement is that, although taking profits never made anyone broke, selling an investment interrupts compound interest and can cause you to lose out on excess returns. Let’s explore why this sentiment holds true and how it can benefi



Samsung Bridgerton•
It was an admittedly cheesy idea: Take the hottest Netflix property this side of Squid Games and use it as a platform to introduce Samsung's new Galaxy S22 flagship smartphone. The 210-year distance between that fictional, Regency Period history and the current smartphone-obsessed society should've been fodder for both amusement and fascination. What would Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte make of the



ID.me IRS Facial ID•
The identity verification company ID.me has announced that it will make facial recognition verification optional for public sector government partners. The Virginia-based company recently made headlines after the IRS revealed its plans to require US taxpayers to submit a video selfie in order to create an account on its website. However, following backlash from citizens, privacy advocates and law



Horizon Forbidden West•
Ahead of Horizon Forbidden West 's release later this month, PlayStation has shared footage of the game running on a base PS4 for the first time. The footage was shared via a tweet from PlayStation's official Twitter account and you can see it for yourself below. You recently saw Horizon Forbidden West running on PS4 Pro. Now Guerrilla is excited to show a new clip of Aloy’s journey running on PS



Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan•
Enlarge / Ewan MacGregor stars in the hotly anticipated spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi , debuting on Disney+ on May 25, 2022. (credit: Disney+ ) Disney+ has dropped new poster art and announced a release date for its highly anticipated Star Wars spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi . The first episode will drop on the streaming platform on May 25, 2022. We can't wait. And yes, uber -fans, May 25 is the s



300+TechCrunch / 6h
Meal deliveries in Vietnamese cities typically take less than half an hour, but grocery deliveries are lagging behind, sometimes taking up to two to three hours, says Rino founder Trung Thanh Nguyen. By creating a vertically-integrated logistics infrastructure centered around “dark stores,” or stores set up for order fulfillment only, Nguyen says Rino can cut grocery delivery times down to just 1



No Man’s Sky Switch•
1KSlashGear / 8h
Nintendo/YouTube The latest Nintendo Direct for February 2022 has dropped its fair share of new announcements, including the news that Hello Games’ open-universe, procedurally generated, sci-fi survival and crafting game “No Man’s Sky” will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. A brief trailer shows off what looks to be in-game footage running on Switch hardware, though given what happened with the t



Gizmodo / 8h
The ending of Inferno —Jonathan Hickman’s farewell to direct writing involvement in the Krakoan age of X-Books —upended the secret status quo of the way the sovereign nation of Krakoa was governed by, well... making it not so secret. You might have thought the books might take a little break from all the headspinning as… Read more...



Decades of tech history are hidden in plain sight every time you watch a sporting event on TV. In this installment of How Did We Get Here , we'll walk you through the many ways sports have driven technological developments over the years.



Nintendo Switch 2022•
Every once in a while, Nintendo does this thing where it just leans in and gives the fans what they want. Less the news you're hoping to see and more the news you wouldn't have dared to even hope for. Our latest Nintendo Direct stream is one of those occasions. We got some blockbuster news, like reveals of Mario Strikers: Battle League and Switch Sports — yes, it's effectively a sequel to Wii Spo



4KSlashGear / 8h
Hulu Hulu caught “Futurama” fans off guard when it announced plans to revive the hit animated sitcom in a tweet published on February 9, 2022 — and yes, that means there will be new episodes. According to a report from Variety, the show is on the hook for 20 episodes and will be helmed by the series’ original creators David X Cohen … Continue reading



Enlarge / What better way to celebrate 43.3 million copies sold than to add some paid DLC? (credit: Nintendo ) Nintendo fans who watched the game maker's latest announcement-filled Nintendo Direct video may have hoped to see reveals of previously announced Switch sequels like Metroid Prime 4 or the sequel to Breath of the Wild . Sadly, those long-awaited games failed to emerge once again, but Nin



Nintendo Switch Sports•
Nintendo Because it was a pack-in game for a hugely successful console, “Wii Sports” is one of the most popular titles of all time. Even if you never owned a Wii, you probably played “Wii Sports” at one point or another, and now Nintendo is going to revisit the popular game in “Nintendo Switch Sports.” This new sports title brings some … Continue reading



75Gizmodo / 9h
Do you have an interest in making films, video games, merchandise, live events, or theme park attractions based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit ? If so, and you have a few billion lying around, you can do just that. Read more...




If you’ve decided to go to Disney World — congratulations! Deciding to take a trip to the “Most Magical Place on Earth” is the easy part, but picking among the hundreds of hotels in the Orlando area to figure out where to stay can be a bit tricky. There are trade-offs involved with each choice. Do you stay on Disney property and likely spend more money to enjoy all the Disney-specific perks, acce



Bermuda Covid Arrival•
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. With less than 700 miles and 90 minutes separating it from the U.S. East Coast, Bermuda is a worthy destination for travelers to consider, especially since the pink sand paradise recently made it easier for vaccinated travelers to visit starting next month. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily



Bitcoin 2016 Bitfinex•
100+Wired / 9h
A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work.



21TechCrunch / 9h
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 Wednesday, February 9, 2022! I just got a look at the initial run-of-show for Early Stage in April , and it looks wicked good. Also, I’m helping kick off our live podcast tapings tomorrow with the Equity crew . So, you know, sw



500+SlashGear / 9h
Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock Back in April 2021, Facebook (now Meta) asked its independent Oversight Board to weigh in on the matter of sharing users’ private residence information on Facebook and Instagram. The Oversight Board has since released its thoughts on the matter, stating that, among other things, Facebook should stop making exceptions for posts that share home addresses or photos of pr



EarthBound Nintendo•
Classic role-playing games EarthBound Beginnings and EarthBound will be available on Nintendo Switch Online starting today. Safe travels, Ness and friends. EarthBound Beginnings is also known as Mother , and it originally hit the NES (locally known as the Famicom) in Japan in 1989. Its sequel, EarthBound , is a SNES classic that hit Western markets in 1995, and the entire series has been pivotal



Mario Kart 8 Deluxe•
There was a mixed bag of news for Mario Kart fans during the latest Nintendo Direct . While there wasn't any word about the next game in the long-running series, Nintendo revealed it isn't done with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe just yet. The company is remastering courses from older games in the series and bringing them to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as paid DLC. The first batch of courses will arrive on March 18



Nintendo Switch NSS•
If you owned a Wii back in the day, you owned a copy of Wii Sports , packaged in with most versions of the console. It was a showcase for the motion controls, an all-ages advertisement for the system and just a plain great time. Its enormous popularity has led many to ask, “will there ever be a Nintendo-made sports collection for the Switch?” In today's Nintendo Direct we finally got an answer. N



44Gizmodo / 10h
Anthony Ramos, star of Lin-Manuel Miranda’ movie adaptation of Miranda’s musical In the Heights , has been cast in a very important, yet very secret role in the Ironheart TV series. What’s more interesting is that whoever he’s playing, he’s supposed to have a very important role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe going… Read more...



24Ars Technica / 10h
Enlarge / Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (credit: Getty | Pool ) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is standing by its mask guidance, despite more and more states easing recommendations as the wa



55Futurism / 10h
Planetary scientists believe they’ve unlocked not just one, but two of Saturn’s many mysteries while studying its atmospheric currents. A team of scientists led by Nahid Chowdhury, astronomer at the University of Leicester in the UK, says that it has found what powers the ringed planet’s spectacular but little-understood auroras in a study published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal. Be



59Futurism / 10h
Supply Chain Headache Well, this is a bad look. A CNBC report found that Tesla cut corners to deal with the rampant supply chain issues caused by the pandemic — putting yet another hurdle in the way to level three full-self driving cars. The Elon Musk-led electric car manufacturer removed one of two electronic control units in its Shanghai-built Model 3 and Model Y cars, two anonymous Tesla emplo



Chrono Cross TRDE Radical•
Engadget / 10h
A remaster of Japanese role-playing classic Chrono Cross is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Nintendo announced The Radical Dreamers Edition of Chrono Cross on Wednesday during its first Direct of 2022. Like many of Square Enix's recent Final Fantasy remasters, you can turn off enemy encounters so you can enjoy the story without having to fight countless battles to level



SpaceX 40 Satellites•
The geomagnetic incident resulted in the Starlink transmitters drifting back into Earth’s atmosphere, where they will burn up, potentially costing the company about $100 million.



Portal Nintendo Switch•
Engadget / 10h
Folks who have ordered a Steam Deck but won't get it until the end of this year might actually be able to play a pair of bonafide Valve classics on Switch first. Portal and Portal 2 are both coming to Nintendo's console later this year as part of the $20 Portal: Companion Collection . You'll get access to the single-player modes of both of the first-person puzzle games, as well as Portal 2 's co-



Splatoon 3 Salmon Run•
Engadget / 10h
The release date for Splatoon 3 is clarifying with each new Nintendo Direct , and the game is now slated to hit Switch this summer. Previously, all we had was "2022," so this is a nice little update. To accompany the tighter release window, Nintendo confirmed Splatoon 3 will have the cooperative Salmon Run mode popularized by Splatoon 2 . Traditionally, Salmon Run supports one to four players in



Mario Battle League•
SlashGear / 10h
Nintendo It’s been a long time since we last heard from the “Mario Strikers” series. In fact, it’s been so long that you’d be forgiven for forgetting the series even exists. Still, 15 years after the last “Mario Strikers” game, Nintendo is revisiting the series with a new game titled “Mario Strikers: Battle League,” and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch later … Continue reading



Vodafone Portugal Services•
Enlarge Vodafone Portugal is slowly working to recover following a "deliberate and malicious cyberattack" that brought down services used by millions of people and businesses in that country, including those for ambulances and other emergency services. Vodafone Portugal—a subsidiary of UK-based Vodafone Group with 4.3 million cellphone subscribers and 3.4 million fiber subscribers— said in a stat



Mario Battle League•
Engadget / 10h
Mario Strikers isn’t the most popular of the Mario sub-franchises, but it does have its devotees. Today was their day with the announcement of the latest game in the series, Mario Strikes Battle League , for the Nintendo Switch. This is only the third Mario Strikers game ever, following Super Mario Strikers on the GameCube and Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii, released way back in 2007. So yeah



Delta Checked Bags•
It’s often a flyer’s greatest dilemma: Do you opt for carry-on or checked bags? Some frequent travelers are staunch advocates of only traveling with a carry-on bag . Others don’t want the hassle and prefer to check a bag . Some flyers make the call on a flight-by-flight basis; a short business trip could require only a carry-on while a two-week Europe cruise might necessitate a checked bag. If yo




Gizmodo / 10h
Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays,… Read more...



No Man’s Sky Switch•
Engadget / 10h
Nintendo had an early surprise during its first Direct of the year: No Man's Sky is coming to Switch this summer, six years after it debuted on other platforms. For the first time (unless they've been playing it elsewhere), Switch owners will be able to explore procedurally generated worlds across a vast galaxy. No Man's Sky had a rocky debut — key aspects like multiplayer weren't available at th



Advance Camp Nintendo•
Engadget / 10h
Nintendo will release Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp on April 8th, the company announced today during its first Direct of 2022. The remake bundles together "reimagined" versions of Advance Wars and Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising . The two games first came out on the Game Boy Advance in 2001 and 2003. Nintendo had originally planned to release the game on December 3rd, 2021, but delayed the title



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



Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan•
Engadget / 10h
The Disney+ Obi-Wan series finally has a release date. Disney has revealed that the limited-run Obi-Wan Kenobi series premieres May 25th (no, sadly not May 4th) on its namesake streaming service. The company didn't share much more than new poster art, but some of the key details are already well-known. Kenobi has Ewan McGregor reprising his role as Obi-Wan, with Hayden Christensen portraying Dart



FINAL Pixel Remaster•
500+SlashGear / 10h
Square Enix In the second half of 2021, Square Enix started releasing Pixel Remasters of the first six “Final Fantasy” games. These Pixel Remasters essentially serve to bring those games forward into the current generation and give gamers a way to play them on modern platforms. The original plan was to have all six Pixel Remasters out by the end of 2021, … Continue reading



Mesa County Peters•
40Ars Technica / 10h
Enlarge / Tina Peters. (credit: Tina Peters' campaign website ) Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters—who was recently barred from overseeing an election and has promoted former President Trump's conspiracy theory that voting machines were manipulated to help Joe Biden win the presidency—was arrested at a bagel shop yesterday and accused of resisting a search warrant. The search warrant was for an iPad t



Vail Resorts is back this year with a three-day sale featuring ski resort rooms starting at $139 across their North American portfolio, with properties in Colorado, California, Utah, Vermont and Canada, among other destinations. Epic Pass holders also get an additional 20% off the already-discounted 96-hour sale rates, which can also be used for ski school and equipment rentals. For more TPG news



Metaverse Digital•
23TechCrunch / 11h
The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. More recently, the rise of virtual HQs, Meta’s investment in interactive social software, and a handful of acquisitions by Microsoft signal that the metaverse could play a role in the future of work a



Revenue in the last three months of 2021 was up 83 percent from a year earlier, the company reported.



1KGizmodo / 11h
Today, one show ends and another begins. On the day the most recent Star Wars show, The Book of Boba Fett , finished its first season, Disney just announced that Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi will be its next show . It’ll debut on May 25, the evening before Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA. Read more...



Apple AR/VR App Store•
Enlarge / Apple's global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images ) Software developers have discovered apparent references to a new Apple operating system called "realityOS" in App Store upload logs and in GitHub repositories used by the company. The references were shared widely by developers Rens Verhoeven and Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter. Verhoev



Samsung Android 12L•
Enlarge / The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, with S-Pen and outrageously slim bezels. (credit: Samsung ) Android tablets might be showing new signs of life thanks to Google's push with Android 12L, but Samsung never left the Android tablet market. Alongside Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S22 , the company is also revving its tablet line, and for the first time ever, it's supersizing Galaxy tablets wi



55Futurism / 11h
It was a highly controversial idea right from the start. Last week, the UK branch of the World Wildlife Fund rolled out “non-fungible animals,” an ill-advised take on the NFT trend purportedly aimed at saving endangered species. But the irony of the organization’s “T0kens for Nature” being indirectly based on the environmentally harmful Ethereum blockchain attracted a firestorm of criticism, with



Futurism / 11h
Nuclear (Plant) War Threats of Russian invasion have led the Ukrainian military to a bizarre training location — the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. As CNN reports , swaths of international journalists descended upon Pripyat, the abandoned town near the Ukraine-Belarus border that served the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant prior to its meltdown 35 years ago, to watch the Ukrainian military spectacle as R



Futurama Hulu Bender•
Engadget / 11h
Disney’s Hulu is bringing Futurama back. According to Variety , the streamer has ordered 20 new episodes of the animated series. Series creator Matt Groening will return to lead the project alongside writer and producer David X. Cohen. The entire voice cast outside of one critical player has agreed to reprise their roles. John DiMaggio hasn’t signed on to voice Bender again. The good news on that



It seems that Samsung’s webstore is a bit overwhelmed. Customers trying to pre-order a Galaxy S22 from Samsung are encountering an error, or worse, a blank screen. Affected customers say the website’s been acting up since Samsung’s Unpacked event ended at 11 AM EST. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Assange DAO Pak NFT•
70Wired / 11h
The WikiLeaks founder raised $50 million for legal fees, making him the latest public figure to benefit from decentralized autonomous organizations.



100+Gizmodo / 11h
The Book of Boba Fett has come to a close. Well, chapter one at least. Today brought the seventh and final episode of The Book of Boba Fett season one, meaning there’ll be no new Star Wars content on TV for at least a few months . The show also left behind lots of burning questions—though most of those don’t have much to do with the… Read more...



When Docker announced it was selling Docker Enterprise in 2019, it was a big surprise to industry watchers. Perhaps an even bigger surprise was that the buyer was Mirantis , a company best known for commercializing the OpenStack project. After the sale, Docker pivoted to a developer-focused company and reported last week it had $50 million in ARR last year. In a conversation with TechCrunch this




Ebola Brain Years Study•
Gizmodo / 11h
New research in animals seems to confirm the frightening resilience of the Ebola virus. The study found that the virus could routinely persist in the brains of monkeys following treatment with monoclonal antibodies, even sometimes resurfacing weeks later to cause acute illness and death. The findings, the authors say,… Read more...



53Lifehacker / 11h
For a while, I held out on getting an Amazon Prime membership. Fancying myself an advance planning wunderkind, I saw no need to pay $100 a year for free shipping on things I could get free shipping on if I thought ahead and bought them at least two weeks in advance. How hard was that? And then I had a third kid, got a… Read more...



MIT Material Steel•
1KSlashGear / 11h
Meaw_stocker/Shutterstock Chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new material that is stronger than steel but lighter than plastic, according to MIT News. The breakthrough happened after researchers at MIT crafted a two-dimensional polymer –- a molecular structure in which similar units are bonded together –- that self-forms into sheets. The new polym



Uber Year 2021 Revenue•
Today after the bell, Uber reported its fourth-quarter financial performance. The company saw $25.9 billion in gross platform spend, up 51% compared to its year-ago result, and revenues of $5.78 billion, up 83% compared to Q4 2020. The company also reported GAAP net income of $0.44 per share, though that number did include non-operating items relating to investments. Analysts had expected the com



There’s a lot of value to be had in getting the right business credit cards , as these cards can offer perks and rewards that you can leverage to get huge value, especially for travel. In many cases, the perks will more than justify the annual fee. In this post I wanted to take a close look at what I consider to be one of the most well-rounded business credit cards out there. This is an especiall



noelcollection : On this day in 1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar tragically passed away at the young age of 33 due to tuberculosis. In his short life, Dunbar’s exceptional literary talents earned him international fame and distinction. Though he was best known for his Black dialect poetry, he also wrote novels, short stories, musical lyrics, and poetry in other styles. The first edition of Dunbar’s Li’



400+The Points Guy / 11h
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new entry protocols on Feb. 9. Aruba, a Caribbean island just north of Venezuela, remains an attractive tropical destination for tourists thanks to an abundance of hotels redeemable by points and easy entry requirements. And those entry requirements became even easier as of Feb. 3, as vaccinated travelers no longer need to submit a pre-arrival COVID



Microsoft Xbox Store•
34TechCrunch / 11h
Microsoft is working to warm lawmakers up to its plans to bring a collection of the world’s most popular video games under its wing. The company announced its intention to buy Activision Blizzard last month in a deal that would be worth $68.7 billion — the largest gaming acquisition of all time, if the deal goes through. The acquisition isn’t exactly ill-fated, but it’s a risky time for Microsoft



Apple Stroumboulopoulos•
21TechCrunch / 11h
Oprah , Reese and now…Apple? The iPhone maker has just launched its own book club directly in its Apple Books app for readers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia, where it will curate both fiction and non-fiction titles for readers. But unlike Apple’s other editorial efforts in apps like Apple Podcasts or the App Store, the club’s selections aren’t curated by a nameless team of editors. Inste



Gizmodo / 11h
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Enigma Diamond Auction•
28Mashable / 11h
What does outer space, a 555.55 carat diamond, and cryptocurrency have in common? Well, a notorious 555.55 carat diamond that's potentially from outer space was just auctioned off for millions of dollars. And the buyer is paying with cryptocurrency. "The diamond has sold for £3,161,000 / $4,292,322," confirmed a Sotheby's spokesperson in a statement to Mashable. "The buyer has opted to use crypto



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2KGizmodo / 11h
Approximately 95 percent of the nerd news sites you may frequent will begin their articles announcing the return of Futurama with “Good news, everybody!” based on Professor Farnsworth’s iconic catchphrase on the show. So I hope you all with appreciate my restraint when I merely tell you that yes, Futurama has emerged… Read more...



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Air France continues to rebuild its service to the United States as it announces plans to resume its daily route between Paris-Orly (ORY) and New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) from March 27. The reopening of daily service between the two popular destinations means France’s flagship airline carrier will be operating as many as seven flights each day from Orly and Charles De Gaulle Airp



53Gizmodo / 11h
Everything is bigger in Texas—including, increasingly, its earthquakes. Read more...



My most successful adult birthday party was my most recent one. For my 35th year, I had friends and family gather in my newly-acquired backyard for eating, drinking, and general merriment. It was a potluck with a very simple theme: Dips & Drinks . Read more...



Amazon Fire TV Live•
SlashGear / 11h
Anne Quelhas/Shutterstock Amazon has announced a couple of changes now available on its Fire TV live channel guide, including the ability to add new channels from one’s favorite streaming apps. The expanded capabilities are intended to help users pull up the live guide faster and find the specific channels they want, ultimately providing a sort of hybrid experience between streaming and watching



83Mashable / 12h
When it came time to write one of most important episodes of The Office , showrunner Greg Daniels couldn't stop horsing around. On the latest episode of the Office Ladies podcast , former co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey spoke with Daniels about writing the Season 6 episode "Niagara: Part 1" with Mindy Kaling and a truly bizarre horse-related storyline that ultimately got scrapped. As a r



Samsung Bridgerton•
Engadget / 12h
Samsung's reputation for occasionally strange product introductions is alive and well in 2022. The company unveiled the Galaxy S22 at its Unpacked event with a Bridgerton crossover you can watch below. Yes, the Netflix tie-in is exactly as odd as it sounds. The S22 is introduced at an "inventor's ball" where creators try to impress the queen, who approves after demanding a dance to showcase a han




UK Fusion Record JET•
1KFuturism / 12h
Plasmagorical Scientists were excited to announce a major breakthrough in fusion energy research today. The UK-based Joint European Torus (JET) lab smashed its own 25-year-old record, producing 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds, roughly the equivalent of 30 pounds of TNT. And thanks to a camera mounted inside the reactor, now we get to watch an incredible display of glowing plasma whippin



Futurism / 12h
Video chats, conference calls, and live streaming are here to stay. Unfortunately, laptop cameras aren’t very flattering, especially when you’re trying to look professional or make a good impression. Webcams improve resolution, frame rate, focus, and almost everything else. However, these handy devices can get pricey. If you create content professionally, a premium webcam makes you look like the



300+SlashGear / 12h
Coco Coco has announced it is expanding its service, bringing its delivery robot to Austin, Texas after a successful launch in the company’s home city of Los Angeles. The expansion represents the company’s first foray outside of California, with more expansions soon to come. Delivery robots are becoming big business, thanks in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the … Continue reading



Scopio Labs $50M AI•
21TechCrunch / 12h
Today, if a hematologist wanted to dive into the exact organization and structure of your blood cells, they’d probably need a microscope in a lab. Scopio, an Israel-based startup that just closed a $50 million Series C round, argues that soon, a lot of that work could be done with nothing more than a laptop. Founded in 2015 , Scopio is an imaging company looking to re-imagine a common blood test



Messenger Vanish Mode•
Engadget / 12h
Splitting a restaurant bill or dividing the costs of a group trip can be tedious. Meta is attempting to make this easier by rolling out its Split Payments feature to all Facebook Messenger users. The feature, which was previously in testing , will likely be perfect for occasions when you are dividing the cost of something with two or more people. For example, dividing the purchase of a new microw



When Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone back in 2007, he pitched it as an all-in-one phone, web browser and music player. Fast forward 15 years later, and the device’s capabilities have grown exponentially — yet the tech giant isn’t resting on its laurels. Get the latest points, miles and travel news by signing up for TPG’s free daily newsletter . Apple announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing a



21Lifehacker / 12h
Following months of controversy surrounding Spotify’s business partnership with Joe Rogan, artists including Neil Young, India Arie, and Crosby, Stills and Nash are pulling their music from Spotify’s library, and users are migrating to other platforms. This exodus raises an important question: If you want to move to a… Read more...



1KSlashGear / 12h
Chris Davies / SlashGear I know I should be trying to decide if the new Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a Note-ified S or an S-ified Note, but I can’t get past the updated texture on the S Pen. Sweating the small stuff – like the tactile soft-touch finish on Samsung’s slender stylus – might at first seem like navel-gazing, but it’s the details … Continue reading



AC Ubisoft Assassin Creed•
Engadget / 12h
Ubisoft reportedly plans to repurpose an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansion into a standalone release. According to Bloomberg , the company is working on a game codenamed “Rift.” What started life as DLC for the latest entry in the company’s long-running historical franchise apparently morphed into a full game sometime late last year. Per Bloomberg , the game will star Basim Ibn Ishaq (pictured



Alfa Romeo SUV NFT•
Mashable / 12h
First it was a house , now it's a car. Alfa Romeo's new plug-in hybrid SUV, the Tonale, will come with a complimentary non-fungible token (NFT) when it arrives in 2023. At the global reveal on Tuesday, the cryptocurrency feature was announced. Each purchase will be linked to a digital certificate (that's what an NFT is, essentially) that will continuously update with information about the car. Al



Microsoft PlayStation•
Gizmodo / 12h
You can finally relax, PlayStation fans: Call of Duty isn’t going anywhere—at least not anytime soon. In an attempt to convince regulators to approve its $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition , Microsoft promised today to bring upcoming Call of Duty releases and other Activision/Blizzard games to the PS5 and … Read more...



The Raspberry Pi is getting a massive upgrade. Now, you’ll be able to install an operating system to the affordable computer without needing a second PC to get it up and running. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Few things are more time-consuming than setting up a Raspberry Pi for the first time. And even when you know what you’re doing, flashing an operating system on an SD Card and installing it on the Pi SoC is a pain in the neck. Thankfully, things are about to get waaaay easier. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Samsung Galaxy S22•
After countless leaks and rumors, Samsung has finally announced its 2022 flagship smartphone range, and the most exciting of the three is the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra . This is a top-spec'd phone that combines the attributes of two of the best phones Samsung has made over the past two years. It’s a bit of a monster. So how does it compare to its immediate predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra



People who donated to support the truckers currently participating in Canada's “Freedom Convoy” could have had their passport and driver licenses photos exposed due to a security lapse on the donation site GiveSendGo. While the protest that began in January initially accepted donations using GoFundMe , the crowdsourcing giant decided to freeze around $7.9m in donations following police reports of



Garmin Instinct 2 Solar•
SlashGear / 12h
Garmin Garmin has announced the latest release in its wearable lineup, the Instinct 2 Series. The company revealed the new smartwatches on February 9, 2022, touting better battery life, and Garmin’s full suite of health and wellness features. The new Instinct 2 and Instinct 2S will be available in multiple “purpose-built” editions, including a Surf, Tactical, and Camo edition. The different … Con



21TechCrunch / 12h
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: When is the H-1B lottery and what can I do if my STEM OPT run



Gizmodo / 12h
Step aside, Eleven from Stranger Things . There’s a new girl with powers so dangerous the government would very much like to capture her and use her as a weapon. And really, she was technically here first : it’s Charlie from Stephen King’s classic novel Firestarter , which has a new adaptation coming very soon, and just… Read more...



Reddit Audio Clubhouse•
After unveiling its Clubhouse clone last April , Reddit is adding new features to Reddit Talk that are intended to boost engagement. Among these additions are web compatibility, recordings of past sessions, live commenting during talks and a live bar at the top of the home feed (similar to Twitter’s) that shows what live chats are taking place. “In the last three months, we’ve seen more than 250%



Hyatt Resort Sardinia•
100+The Points Guy / 12h
World of Hyatt loyalists have a great reason to celebrate today: The brand is finally heading to the Greek isles , specifically on the dreamy island of Santorini. Set to open before the busy summer season, the Magma Resort Santorini will join The Unbound Collection by Hyatt, a collectio


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