Monday, April 18, 2022

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39Gizmodo / 1h
Elon Musk, self-proclaimed free speech “absolutist” and unabashed troll, may or may not own Twitter soon. Worth some $270 billion, the Tesla CEO already holds 9% of the company’s stock, and he’s offered $43 billion for the rest, though he said, “I’m not sure I will actually be able to acquire it.” Twitter’s board is… Read more...



Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Other participating investors in this financing round include existing ones such as Vibe VC and new investors Earl Grey Capital and Packy Mccormick’s Not Boring Capital. It’s been only six months since Union54, whose API allows African software companies to issue and manage their debit cards



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The arrival of the iPhone 14 later this year will mean the iPhone 11 gets shunted out of Apple's smartphone range, according to one tipster – so if you want the older phone then you've got a few months left to get it direct from Apple. Sources speaking to iDropNews say that the iPhone 11 will be gone after the iPhone 14 range appears – not only due to its age but also because it potentially takes




I’m incredibly fortunate to be able to travel in first & business class pretty consistently thanks to miles & points. While international first class is always (well, almost always ) a treat, some flights are just on a different level. This weekend I had one of those flights, and I’m still pinching myself. Flying Emirates’ new first class from Washington to Dubai I rank Emirates’ new(ish) Boeing



Architectural rendering of the Covington Drive apartment building. Written on photo front: “Chas. N. Agree, architect.” With caption: “615 Covington Drive apartments, Detroit, Michigan.” On lower left-hand corner: “Covington Apartment Corp. owner, Detroit, Michigan.” On lower right-hand corner: “Chas. N. Agree, architect. 1140 Book Tower, Detroit.” Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, De



Engadget / 19min
The US Department of State is making it easier for people to explore cultural heritage sites from around the world thanks to a partnership with Google Arts & Culture . Announced as part of World Heritage Day, the dedicated section will let people virtually explore heritage sites from 1,100 Ambassadors Fund projects in over 130 countries around the world. "Cultural heritage sites, objects, and tra



If your primary internet activity is streaming video it makes sense to ensure you have enough bandwidth to enjoy it. Here’s a breakdown of how much bandwidth various streaming services and resolutions require. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Gizmodo / 21min
In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own… Read more...



Gizmodo / 21min
We’ve come a long way since the early days of SMS: 160 characters per message and not a sticker in sight. The chat apps of today come packed with functionality and features, including read receipts, so that you know when your sent messages have been seen—and so your contacts know when you’ve seen their messages too.… Read more...



Gizmodo / 21min
In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, employees at Facebook tasked with preventing “potential offline harm” found themselves under siege by a mob of a different sort. Reports of abusive content from users were flooding in. As one employee put it in an internal forum, many of the flagged posts… Read more...



Gizmodo / 21min
It is a comforting thought that the insights of the past can ferry us through the trials of the present. We look to famous, beloved leaders for advice, whether it’s Albert Einstein , Mahatma Gandhi , or Walt Disney . We search for them on Google. What we find, however, is not a pile of pearls of wisdom but a heap of… Read more...



Editor’s note: Welcome to Sustainability Week on The Points Guy. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, we’re publishing a series of articles focusing on the people, places and companies that are making travel more environmentally friendly and what you can do to make your next trip more sustainable. The following story is part of this series. From a distance, CopenHill, a shiny building in Copenhagen



Wired / 24min
Tokens like CityCoins could turn taxes into another investment vehicle, for better or worse.



Iberia business class awards are wide open for two passengers between New York JFK and Madrid. There's quite a bit of space in November and December, but things really open up for January and February 2023. Continue reading ...



NASA Black Hole Hubble•
Mashable / 34min
Astronomers have used Hubble Space Telescope data to identify a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a critical "missing link" between star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, according to NASA. Until now, the black hole, described as a 'monster' and nicknamed GNz7q, had gone unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky, the Great



A flaw in the operations of Beanstalk Farms, a stablecoin protocol, has allowed an unknown threat actor to siphon $182 million from the network, it has emerged. A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency token that’s pegged to a regular currency or another stable asset, such as gold. As such, stablecoins have a stable value compared to more volatile cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin. Beanstalk Farms is a s



The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox . Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. I headed out to Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah last weekend and spent a couple of days d



While we still know little about Sonic Frontiers, the first open-world adventure for the super-fast hedgehog, there is a good reason to hope it will be something special: one of the main writers on the title is Ian Flynn, a big name in the Sonic community, and chief writer on Archie Comic’s Sonic the Hedgehog series and lead writer on IDW Publishing’s Sonic the Hedgehog comics. Flynn’s path to So



Wired / 1h
Young artists like Latto, Vince Staples, and Doechii are subtly persuading listeners to rethink the way music genres can be interpreted.



26Wired / 1h
More than 27 million birds have died or been slaughtered, and wild birds are dying too. Without a shot, farmers have to rely on vigilance and culling their flocks.



Wired / 1h
Even if you're an intermediate golfer, Stix clubs might be your best fit. They’re a good value, they look sharp, and they can improve your distance.



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21Wired / 1h
With clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities.



Wired / 1h
The killer app for GPT-3 could help marketers lure clicks and game Google rankings.




If you buy a computer that runs Windows, it’s usually called a “PC.” But sometimes a Mac is called a PC, too. What’s going on here, and why is a PC called a “PC” anyway? We’ll explain. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Quantum Secure China•
27Engadget / 1h
Researchers in Beijing have set a new quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) world record of 102.2 km (64 miles), smashing the previous mark of 18 km (11 miles), The Eurasian Times reported. Transmission speeds were extremely slow at 0.54 bits per second, but still good enough for text message and phone call encryption over a distance of 30 km (19 miles), wrote research lead Long Guilu in Nat



I can’t count the number of times I’ve passed through Frankfurt Airport, though I’ve never visited the sole Priority Pass lounge in Terminal 1, which is Luxx Lounge. After spending the night at the Marriott Frankfurt Airport , and prior to flying Singapore Suites from Frankfurt to New York, I had the chance to finally check out this lounge. Luxx Lounge Frankfurt location & hours Luxx Lounge is un



Mobile SMS Phishing•
Mobile network operator T-Mobile has warned its users of an unblockable smishing campaign that aims to steal their personal information and passwords , or install malware . According to a BleepingComputer report, T-Mobile warned its users after the company was itself alerted by the New Jersey Cybersecurity / Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC), an arm of the Office of Homeland Security and P



Today Wordle April•
New day, new Wordle, y'all. You never know when you're going to need a little helping hand, so we've got the answer below, as well as a few hints to give you a chance to solve it before you get there. If you just want the answer, you'll find today's Wordle solution #304 right at the bottom of this post. If you want a few clues first to nudge you in the direction of the answer, as well as general



Health officials in the city of Shanghai, China reported three new deaths from covid-19 on Monday, the fatalities from the disease in over a year. The three people who died had not been vaccinated against covid-19, according to NPR. The last reported covid-19 death in the city was April 8, 2020. Read more...



IT departments are failing to keep hold of their best developers and struggling to attract new talent, the latest MuleSoft report suggests. The integration software company polled 600 CIOs and IT decision-makers and found that "The Great Resignation” has made it difficult to retain skilled developers for 93% of businesses. At the same time, 86% said it has become much harder to recruit new develo



Today Wordle April•
It's after midnight, so let's all get into a fresh new Wordle . You never know when you're going to need a little helping hand, so we've got the answer word below, as well as a few hints to give you a chance to solve it spoiler-free before you get there. If you just want the answer, please and thank you, you'll find today's Wordle solution 303 right at the bottom of this post. If you want a few c



If, in 2017, you had taken a gamble and purchased a comparatively new digital currency called Bitcoin, today you would be a millionaire many times over. But while the industry has provided windfalls for some, local communities have paid a price. Cryptocurrency is created by computers solving complicated mathematical equations—a process that took off after a Chinese company called Bitmain started



If the recent price hike on Amazon's Prime membership service didn't scare you away, you're in for a sales spectacular come Prime Day. Here's what you need to know about its return in 2022. What is Prime Day? Prime Day is an annual sitewide sale that Amazon puts on for its Prime members. First held in 2015 in honor of Amazon's 20th anniversary (with mixed success ), it was originally plugged as a



There's nothing like the promise of a new season to get you to make significant changes at home. With spring now underway, you may already be in the middle of your annual decluttering . So while you're at it, why not upgrade your bedding as well? After all, once you're done purging the necessary items in your home, it would be nice to rest on a bed with plush sheets and accessories. To help you o



TL;DR: As of April 18, the World Traveler Bundle , which includes a Rosetta Stone Lifetime Subscription and is worth $1,784, is on sale for just $179 with the code SPRING20. Traveling isn’t for the faint of heart — especially solo traveling. Between astronomical flight costs, language barriers, and balancing work with adventures, a lot of folks with wanderlust are discouraged from following their



TL;DR: As of April 18, you can get the Stamina X Magnetic Rower for $203.99 with the code SPRING20 . It's usually $279, so you're saving 26%. If your workout routine feels stale, you might need to spring clean more than just your closet. Instead of wasting more time and energy than necessary with a gym membership, secure your own personal rowing machine that you can work out on whenever you have



TL;DR: As of April 17, the C-MAX Chrono-Max Smartwatch is on sale for just $49.99, which is a whole 77% down from its regular price of $219. Sure, the Apple Watch has a bit of a cool factor to it, but it’s also expensive and won’t last a full day on a charge. Unless you plan on using all of its complex features to the fullest, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to drop hundreds on one — especia



For those of us who have less than 20 total Instagram posts (It’s me. I’m “those of us”), deleting posts the old fashioned way, one by one, isn’t a huge deal. But what if I had dozens, hundreds, dare I say thousands? Deleting posts one at a time would sound like something I’d do literally anything to avoid (and by literally anything I mean literally some things , but not things that involve risk



Mary Gundel loved managing a store in Tampa, Fla. But when she detailed its challenges on social media, the company — and fellow employees — took notice.



Windows 11 users are reporting some installation failures when trying to update the OS, with an uninformative error not throwing much light on the cause of the apparent problem – although it’s an issue that Microsoft is ‘closely monitoring’. Windows Latest reports that an error code 0xc1900101 is being produced for some folks when trying to update, and the operating system then rolls back to the




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Ford’s chief executive is about to introduce an electric F-150 pickup truck that could determine whether the automaker can survive and thrive in an industry dominated by Tesla.
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jareckiworld : Shinya Tamai — In the Moonlight (natural mineral pigment, japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2017)



nobrashfestivity : Richard Tepe , 1900-1930



weirdchristmas : I feel like he wants to hurt me.



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clawmarks : Description de l'Egypte - 1809 - via Internet Archive



florealegiardini : S t i l l L i f e w i t h S p r i n g F l o w e r s , c . 1 8 9 2 . A n n a M u n t h e - N o r s t e d t



indigodreams : Maggie Vandewalle



View of an advertising card for J.L. Hudson, depicting a rose and lilacs. Printed on front: “Easter greetings. J.L. Hudson, Detroit, Mich.” Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library



heaveninawildflower : White Rabbit (Japan, 1900 - 1910) by Ogata Gekkô. Colour woodcut with blind embossing. Rijksmuseum. Wikimedia



View of an advertising card for J.L. Hudson, depicting crocuses emerging from an eggshell. Printed on front: “Easter greetings. J.L. Hudson, Detroit, Mich.” Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library



uwmspeccoll : Pesach Greetings! For Passover 2022, we present some pages from a Haggadah with illustrations by the Lithuanian-born American graphic artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969) published in Boston by Little, Brown and Co. in 1965. Shahn originally created eleven of the twelve full-page color plates for this Haggadah over the course of six months circa 1930. The illustrations, like those executed



jinxysmidcentury : Caturday greetings



godzilla-reads : April 12, 2022 Technically, I rarely DNF books. What happens is I set them aside, forget about them, find them after weeks or months and then finish them 😅 So… I picked up this one again: 📖 If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura (trans. Eric Selland)



thekimonogallery : jada111 : Saco Takata さんの ❤ Cats Art ヾ(=ﾟ･ﾟ=)ﾉ ボードのピン | Japan



huariqueje : Cat with a ladybug - Arthur Heyer German-Hungarian , 1872-1931 Oil on cardboard, 35 x 50 cm.



yama-bato : Year Unknown | Shoe & Cat Photograph: Nina Leen Source: Google Arts & Culture/LIFE Photo Collection TheHistorialist



ymutate : Agnes Miller Parker (British, 1895-1980) The Challenge, 1934 wood engraving on paper 14.20 x 16.40 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art




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gatoiberico : More cats with big peepers 🐱 Lots of folks mentioned wanting a commission of their cat in this style, so these two were made as new examples for when I open commissions! I’ll most likely have a few slots available in the coming weeks 👀



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Swiggy Zomato India•
UrbanPiper, a restaurant management platform that processes 18% of all online food orders in India, has raised $24 million in a new financing round from a number of investors including Swiggy and Zomato, the three firms said Monday. The six-year-old startup’s Series B funding was led by existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global. Pankaj Chaddah, a founder of Zomato, Ankit Nagori of



This guide has been updated with new information. Travel to Greece is about to get a lot easier. Health officials announced, effective May 2, Greece will be suspending its COVID-19 travel restrictions. While not necessarily a permanent change, Greek officials do expect the country will be keeping its entry requirements off the books through the summer tourism months. They’re expecting heavy deman



TL;DR: The Complete Oracle Primavera P6 Software Training Bundle is on sale for £11.50, saving you 96% on list price. Getting access to new management software is great and all until you realise you're just using it for the bare-minimum features it offers. Dive into everything that the Oracle Primavera software management system has to offer with this quick, two-course bundle that breaks down all



Though it has been slow to do so, LG is releasing the Android 12 update it promised for some of its smartphones. The latest model to get the update is Velvet.



Some details about the upcoming Android TV 13 update have surfaced, and they include a couple of notable changes, including one for the PiP mode.



This explains a lot… The Centurion Lounge LAX’s unusual closure Amex is known for its network of Centurion Lounges , which tend to be excellent. In March 2020 (a few days before the United States largely shut down due to the pandemic), the Amex Centurion Lounge LAX opened, which many Amex Platinum cardmembers were excited about. As you’d expect, the lounge closed within days, as did all Amex Cent



The iPhone is a great way to stay connected, but sometimes you simply want silence, and that's where the highly customizable Do Not Disturb feature comes in.

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