Monday, February 14, 2022

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Eminem Super Bowl SB•
2KMashable / 7h
The Super Bowl LVI halftime show was a nostalgia bomb for Millennials and Gen Xers. The internet was loving it — while also grappling with the fact that we're old, now. The show featured a whole bevy of performers associated with Dr. Dre, who produced the show, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. So of course, when 50 came out and performed "In Da Club," or D



American Airlines KC•
American Airlines flight 1775 from Los Angeles to Washington National diverted to Kansas City after an "erratic" passenger tried to open the aircraft door during the flight. Passengers assisted cabin crew in subduing the man. One flight attendant hit him with a coffee pot, causing him to bleed, while passengers held him. Continue reading ...



Rocket Moon SpaceX 2014•
Enlarge / The Moon is safe from Falcon 9 rockets. (credit: NASA) About three weeks ago, Ars Technica first reported that astronomers were tracking the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket and were increasingly confident that it would strike the Moon on March 4. This story set off a firestorm of media activity. Much of this coverage criticized SpaceX for failing to properly dispose of the second stage




Horizon Forbidden West•
Ars Technica / 41min
Enlarge / So begins Aloy's journey into the forbidden west. (All images in this review were captured by Ars Technica on PS5 hardware, unless otherwise noted.) (credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment) This review of Horizon: Forbidden West includes as few spoilers as possible—and leaves most of the series' first game unspoiled, as well. Any review of new PlayStation-exclusive game Horizon: Forbidd



Horizon HFW FW West•
SlashGear / 42min
Nearly five years after hit "Horizon Zero Dawn" arrived on PlayStation, Guerrilla is back with "Horizon Forbidden West" -- and it's everything we'd hoped for.



Horizon Forbidden West•
Engadget / 43min
When Guerrilla Games revealed that Horizon Forbidden West would have underwater gameplay, I was not excited. I was in the minority with this feeling, but I have a ridiculous, lifelong fear of large things in deep bodies of water, and games in these settings genuinely freak me out. I’m still recovering from the shark scene in Batman Arkham Asylum . However, Forbidden West has won me over, thalasso



Gaia IVF $20M Atomico•
TechCrunch / 50min
Gaia is a startup that is effectively out to ‘de-risk’ the whole process of IVF fertility treatment, using products like personalized insurance and payment plans. It’s almost BNPL for babies — but not quite. It’s now closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by London’s Atomico. Previous investors were Kindred Capital, Seedcamp, and US-based Clocktower Technology Ventures. This means Gaia h



The Rings of Power•
Engadget / 55min
Amazon used Super Bowl LVI to show off the first trailer for its ambitious The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series. The 60 second teaser gives us our first look at some of the main characters, potential action and visual effects. "Haven't you ever wondered... what else is out there?" a voice intones to kick it off. As we learned earlier , the series is set in the Second Age of Middle Ear
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Metaverse 3D BUD Series•
Investors are justling to find the next killer app for the metaverse. BUD , an app that allows users to create their customizable 3D experiences and interact with others, said today it has landed $15 million funding in a Series A+ round. Featuring cuddly characters that are reminiscent of Animal Crossing, BUD only rolled out in November. Within weeks it shot to the top 10 social apps on Android i



Africa Stitch Raises•
Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. This news



India 54 Chinese Apps•
India plans to ban an additional 54 apps — including Tencent’s Xriver and NetEase’s Onmyoji Arena — with links to China, the latest in a series of similar moves over the past one and half years on ground of national security. Some of the newly prohibited apps, which include Sweet Selfie HD, Beauty Camera, Viva Video Editor, AppLock and Dual Space Lite are clones or share other similarities with m



TL;DR: The 2022 All-In-One Google Ads and Productivity Training Bundle is on sale for £22.12, saving you 98% on list price. As much as having periods of rest and self-care are celebrated, productivity is still essential in today’s workforce. Simply put, life moves pretty dang fast in the internet age. What was trending this morning may no longer be relevant. If you’re not making the most out of e



TL;DR: The Complete AppGameKit Unlimited Bundle is on sale for £36.87, saving you 80% on list price. The worldwide mobile gaming revenue is poised to reach an incredible $116.4 billion in the next two years, compared to $86.9 billion in 2020. It is also the biggest revenue segment of the worldwide gaming market. In other words, there’s money to be made if you’re willing to put in the work. Game d



Meta's Super Bowl 2022 ad focused on the Quest 2, but it didn't resonate with viewers the way the company had hoped, leaving many feeling despondent.



Eminem Super Bowl SB•
400+Mashable / 6h
The Super Bowl halftime show was, by nearly all accounts, a big success this year. The show, produced by Dr. Dre, featured a bevy of stars, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. For millennials, classic tracks like "Still Dre" and "In Da Club" delivered hardcore nostalgia . It was clear that we were the target audience for the Super Bowl halftime show now, afte



The Rings of Power•
56Mashable / 6h
After years of waiting and only the smallest crumbs of content to tide us over, we finally have our first trailer for Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Despite being called The Lord of the Rings , this series does not, in fact, tell the story of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. While those novels take place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, The Rings of Power bri



Super Bowl 2022 SB2022•
Super Bowl 2022 may not even be over yet but you can already watch highlights of the best of the sports and entertainment from the SoFi Stadium. Whether it's the halftime show, national anthem, America the Brave or The Rock's most electrifying introduction in Super Bowl history, it's all available online if you know where to look. Read on and we'll give the spoiler-free answers of where to watch



Burrow Rams Bengals•
Miller Lite joins in, too.



Super Bowl 2022 is upon us and automakers are dominating the ad breaks. What better way to promote EVs than have Dr. Evil embrace them for world domination?



Miller Lite joins in, too.



300+Gizmodo / 7h
Are you ready to go there, and back again? Amazon certainly hopes so. Read more...



Strange Multiverse•
Benedict Cumberbatch travels across realities in the forthcoming film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\ . Marvel Studios dropped a spectacularly psychedelic new trailer for the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness just as the Super Bowl was getting underway. (Some spoilers for prior installments in the MCEU below.) As I've written previously , we know that the new Dr.




Sopranos Super Bowl•
400+Mashable / 7h
The Sopranos already returned with the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark . But it made another comeback during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Chevy ran an ad featuring Jamie-Lynn Sigler , who played Tony Soprano's daughter Meadow in the classic HBO series, driving an electric Silverado. The spot effectively copied the iconic opening credits scene, where Tony drives from New York to New Jerse



Polestar Super Bowl•
The Volvo spin-off EV company Polestar aired its first Super Bowl ad Sunday, and it's blunt. For 30 seconds, we see the dark outline of the Swedish company's Polestar 2 electric sedan with a flashing list of things Polestar and its marketing team aren't willing to do to get people to go electric and buy its $45,000 (and up) car. The spot is silent save for some ominous background music, and start



Coinbase Super Bowl•
82Mashable / 7h
The early winner for the most effective ad during this year's Super Bowl might just go to Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange platform. The company ran a remarkably simple ad: It was just a bouncing QR code, just like the classic DVD logo scene from The Office. The ad practically begged you to scan the QR code on your TV and see where it led. It was so basic, a little thing bouncing around, cha



Strange Multiverse•
Marvel Studios debuted the full official trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness during Super Bowl LVI tonight, offering an even more substantial look at the upcoming film than we got from Spider-Man: No Way Home's post-credits sequence . Doctor Strange 2 sees the Sorcerer Supreme (once again played by Benedict Cumberbatch) come face to face with the consequences of his actions in



Polestar Tesla Super Bowl•
For its first Super Bowl commercial, electric vehicle maker Polestar skips the melodrama, but does manage to throw a little snark in Tesla's direction.



34TechCrunch / 8h
Papier , a startup leveraging technology to bring very non-tech products into the world, has raised some funding to continue expanding its business on the heels of strong demand for its personalized notebooks, planners, cards and other paper-based stationery that it sells online. The London startup has raised $50 million, a Series C that it will be using to expand into the U.S. and to continue gr



Fortnite players managed to solve a puzzle, and Epic has rewarded them with a new teaser trailer showing the two big Uncharted characters heading to the island.



Jamie-Lynn Sigler Sopranos•
1KMashable / 8h
Woke up this morning, charged your Silverado EV . HBO's classic series The Sopranos made an appearance during the Super Bowl along with Chevy's first electric truck. Nearly frame for frame, Chevy's 60-second ad matches the opening sequence of the 1999-2006 show with the late James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano in a Chevy Suburban. Except this is the 2022 version. In the driver's seat is Jamie-Lynn Si



32Mashable / 8h
There's a problem with the way you're talking about trauma online. Or at least that's what several critics have suggested, in one way or another, in recent months. The objectionable trends they've observed include people calling everything — even the slightest of personality quirks — a trauma response ; using the language of harm for just about anything, thereby diluting the clinical meaning of t



Moon Knight Oscar Isaac•
100+Gizmodo / 8h
Last month we got our first true taste of Moon Knight , giving us a look at Oscar Isaac’s duelling personalities as he discovers his potential as the moonlit titular hero. Now, our latest look at the series gives us a taste of the bloody work Marc Spector will be doing as the will of Khonshu . Read more...



Strange Multiverse•
300+Mashable / 9h
The first full trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has just arrived, and it looks just as chaotic as the title implies. It seems that messing with alternate universe isn't without consequences. With Benedict Cumberbatch returning as the titular sorcerer, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness follows on from the interdimensional shenanigans of Loki and Spider-Man



Strange Multiverse•
500+Gizmodo / 9h
Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has properly set up the dominoes, with some help from WandaVision and Loki , it’s time for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to knock them all down. As is the case with just about every year, Marvel released a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it confirms what was teased… Read more...



Over the years, the Apple Car has gone from an uncertain concept to a definite project, though it remains as mysterious as ever. Here's what we know.



SlashGear / 10h
Founded in 1952, BMW has risen to the top of the luxury car market. These models are among the most sought-after high-end vehicles on the market.



Obviously the pandemic has been incredibly tough for the travel industry. However, it seems like the hotel industry in particular is hell-bent on making the guest experience worse in the long run, essentially trying to take cues from ultra low cost airlines. We’ve seen Hilton’s CEO say that we should expect many service cuts to be permanent . We’ve also seen CEOs of major hotel investment compani



VR 31% Claims 2021 UK•
20Engadget / 10h
Meta’s Reality Labs VR division has yet to disclose how many Quest 2 headsets it has sold to date. What we do know is that it recently became more popular than ever. On Christmas Day 2021, the Oculus app hit the top of Apple’s App Store charts for the first time. The software achieved that milestone thanks to everyone who bought a Quest 2 headset to gift to their friends and loved ones. In anothe



200+The Points Guy / 10h
There are pretty cool-looking new train engines that Amtrak just rolled out on its iconic Empire Builder route. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter . (Photo courtesy of Marc Glucksman/River Rail Photo for Amtrak) The new locomotives began running trains westbound from Chicago to Seattle last week. Amtrak says, “Locomotives 301 and 302 are among



70How-To Geek / 10h
Recent drone footage on YouTube shows a Cybertruck prototype at the Freemont factory with several changes from earlier models, all while employees work on the vehicle. In January, Tesla confirmed the Cybertruck would be delayed until at least 2023, but it looks like the company is still hard at work on the electric truck. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



59Mashable / 11h
If flash memory wasn't already pricey enough before, it may get even more expensive now. According to data storage manufacturer Western Digital, the company has lost 6.5 billion gigabytes of flash storage due to contamination during production. Converted to other storage units we're looking at around 6.5 exabytes or 6.5 million terabytes. That's a lot of flash storage. The cause of the contaminat




SlashGear / 11h
The pandemic has stressed healthcare workers, and though that's not likely to change soon, researchers say only a few minutes in VR may offer some relief.



500+Mashable / 11h
When a Tennessee school board removed the Holocaust-set graphic novel Maus from its curriculum, citing spurious issues with the title, there was a well-deserved uproar. The reaction to a perceived book banning may not be all that surprising. But, the renewed interest in Maus seems to have surprised some; namely, its publisher, Penguin Random House. Now that Maus is on best seller lists, more than



India LIC IPO Sell 5%•
27TechCrunch / 11h
The Indian government-run insurer Life Insurance Corporation of India filed draft papers with the market regulator on Sunday, announcing its plans to sell 5% of its shares to raise nearly $8 billion in the country’s biggest IPO. The Narendra Modi’s government plans to sell about 316 million shares in the wholly-owned insurer, the draft prospectus said . Its IPO is the latest in Modi’s privatizati



Germany is known as the land of poets and thinkers, and unofficially known as the land of beer and sausage. No wonder it’s a top destination for tourists to travel to in Europe. American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair and Lufthansa are offering good deals under $500 round-trip throughout the year. Sign up for our daily newsletter for more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox. St. Pau



sovietpostcards : “Date Night” by Anatoly Kuvin (1956)



SlashGear / 11h
From common errors to lack of compatibility outside of Apple devices, there are many reasons to consider ending your relationship with Apple's Safari browser.



the Super Bowl 2022•
Super Bowl Sunday is here and we're just hours from kick-off for Bengals vs Rams. The stage is set at the SoFi Stadium. Are you ready with your Super Bowl live stream? The 2022 Super Bowl will air on NBC on cable TV in the US but you can watch the game without cable and for free in Australia and the UK. While Canadians will have to pay for their coverage. Read on for all the information you need



100+The Points Guy / 12h
Right now is a great time to visit Europe. Flights to some of the continent’s most desirable destinations are on sale, with some of the best prices available for travel to Portugal. Spain’s culture-rich neighbor is one of those countries everyone should visit at least once. Now you can visit places like Lisbon and Porto while saving big money on roundtrip itineraries. There are some nonstops avai



SlashGear / 12h
Netflix is about to remove several popular Marvel shows from its library, and it looks likely the content will make its way to Disney's own streaming service.



TBBF Star Wars Boba Fett•
400+Mashable / 12h
I'm still miffed about Han Solo's last name. In an early scene, Solo revealed that Han's surname is no family affair; it's just something he was handed by a terminally bored Imperial flunky who got uncreatively playful with our favorite Star Wars scoundrel's lack of a traveling companion. I groaned about it in the moment, and ever since. That's the vibe you're signing up for when you sit down to



Rocket Moon SpaceX 9•
63Engadget / 12h
This past January, astronomer Bill Gray said that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket would collide with the Moon sometime in early March. As you might expect, the prediction set off a flurry of media coverage , much of it critical of Elon Musk and his private space firm. After all, the event would be a rare misstep for SpaceX . But it turns out Elon and company are not about to lose face



Google Docs has no direct option to flip images, but you can paste your photos in its Drawing tool and then flip them horizontally or vertically. We’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



For our trip to Turks & Caicos , I booked two separate tickets. I booked one ticket from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale on Silver Airways , and then separately I booked a roundtrip on JetBlue from Fort Lauderdale to Providenciales. I was kind of excited about the JetBlue flight, since it was my first time flying a JetBlue Embraer E190, and it was also my first time flying with the airline since recipro



If you’ve had enough of the winter blues and chilly weather, then heading to Central America might be just what you need. Delta is offering deals to Panama City throughout most of the year from major U.S. cities for under $200 round-trip. Sign up for our daily newsletter for more


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