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Samsung's new advert has been criticised by some women's running groups for being unrealistic.



48Mashable / 1h
Watching Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in interviews for their Grace and Frankie promo is always a delight, as the pair often fall into Odd Couple character to hilarious results. And their appearance on T he Late Late Show with James Corden was no different. The pair described what it was like to share a trailer on the set of the beloved Netflix show, which sees its final episodes landing Friday. "O



CDN provider Cloudflare has revealed it recently blocked one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever seen. Comprised of 15.3 million requests per second (RPS), the assault isn’t the largest application-layer attack on record, but it is one of the largest in the HTTPS category. HTTPS DDoS attacks are usually more expensive, and require more computing power, as establishing a secure TLS encrypted co




Casio has updated its classic G-Shock MT-G series with a line of redesigned watches that are slimmer and more colorful than ever. The new MTGB3000 series have a design that shaves 2mm off the previous thinnest MT-G. The extra-slim watch module features a new version of Casio's Dual Core Guard system that protects its components within a carbon-reinforced resin case. The metal bezel, lugs, and cas



Amazon on Thursday unveiled a slate of over 40 original and co-produced shows and movies in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages and launched its movie rental service in India as it looks to win and retain more users in one of the world’s largest entertainment markets. The Transactional Video-On-Demand (TVOD) Movie Rental service will allow customers to get early rental access to new Indian and fore



Windows 11 gamers now have a smart new customization option, namely the ability to easily adjust the intensity of the effect of Microsoft’s Auto HDR feature via the Xbox Game Bar . For those not familiar with Auto HDR, it’s a feature which takes a game that doesn’t have HDR support ( high dynamic range ) – in other words, one that uses SDR, or standard dynamic range – and it applies a simulation



Engadget / 14min
CNN is pulling the plug on its streaming service today, April 28th, instead of on April 30th like previously reported . The company has sent out emails to subscribers, and as Digital Trends reports, it clearly states that CNN+ streaming "will come to an end on April 28th." The service launched just a month ago on March 29th, but it was only pulling in 10,000 daily users who were willing to pay $6



Gizmodo / 16min
The U.S. has wasted millions of covid-19 vaccine doses since the pandemic began, with many more ready to be tossed in the garbage in the coming weeks and months as they expire, according to a damning new report from ABC News . Roughly 50,000 Americans are still getting their first dose each day. Read more...



The cause of a plane crash nearly six years ago has recently been revealed with greater certainty, based on a newly published report. Basics of the crash of EgyptAir flight 804 On May 16, 2016, EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 people onboard, including 56 passengers and 10 crew members. The flight was operating from Paris (CDG) to Cairo (CAI) using an Airbu



Nintendo Switch Sports•
With Nintendo Switch Sports on the cusp of release, Nintendo has issued a safety warning reminding players to exercise caution when playing the energetic game, which has also inadvertently conjured memories of hilarious Wii Sports accidents. Nintendo posted the information to its Japanese Twitter account, showcasing a selection of safety-related images for Nintendo Switch Sports . These demonstra



Laptops are boring. There, I’ve said it. This is because back in 2020, Apple launched the best laptop ever made – the MacBook Air (M1, 2020) , and even two years later, it hasn’t been beaten… until now (maybe). The LG Gram 14 has just been announced, and it’s the first time I’ve been excited about a laptop for a while. If LG nails it, this may be the laptop that convinces me to finally ditch the



Developer Raven Software has announced it’s investigating a bug in Call of Duty Warzone that’s currently preventing some players from logging into the game after the release of its third season of content. Following the rollout of Warzone Season 3, some Xbox players have reportedly been unable to log into the battle royale without an active Xbox Live Gold membership. When they try to join a multi



The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) juggernaut is definitely not slowing down any time soon. That's a sentence that's sure to make comic book movie naysayers bristle but, based on the latest news to emerge from CinemaCon, it's all but guaranteed. Speaking during Disney's presentation at the Las Vegas event, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that the company's executive team were about



Dell XPS 13 Plus Available•
Gizmodo / 39min
Dell’s newest edition to its popular XPS laptop family, the XPS 13 Plus, has arrived. Announced at CES in January, the XPS 13 Plus shares DNA with the standard model but was built from the ground up with a more streamlined chassis featuring a haptic touchpad, a capacitive function row, and an edge-to-edge keyboard. Read more...



Any fan of FPS games knows how important it is to have a responsive mouse. The Razer Basilisk V3 is the fast, consistent, affordable mouse that you won’t regret adding to your setup. It has every feature competitive gamers want and, in my opinion, stands with the best mice on the market. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Offer Paramount The•
Mashable / 48min
Part Hollywood tale, part gangster drama, Paramount+'s The Offer chronicles the making of The Godfather from start to finish, including behind-the-scenes drama with meddling studio execs — oh, and the Mafia. It's a fascinating story about one of the greatest films of all time, but it's just not enough to sustain a 10-hour long miniseries. Strange pacing and unnecessary subplots bog down The Offer



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Google Pixel Watch PW•
It's Pixel Watch leaks season now, as barely a day goes by without new news of Google’s upcoming smartwatch breaking, and today we have not one but two leaks. First up, it looks like there could be as many as three different Pixel Watch models, as model numbers GWT9R, GBZ4S, and GQF4C have all been certified by the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group). These are all Google devices and are belie



Netflix Games 2022•
If you're a fan of mobile gaming, Netflix probably isn't your first port of call when you're looking to try a new title. You'll probably use our lists of the best iPhone games or best Android games instead, of course. But it sounds like Netflix is trying to change that: it launched Netflix Games in late 2021, offering a few titles on its mobile phone app, and according to a new report from The Wa



Welcome to Thanks, I Love It , our series highlighting something onscreen we're obsessed with this week. There's magic to be found in movie monsters. Even when they're grotesque, grimy, and gooey, they are an object of imagination and fascination. In Hatching , a young girl fosters a found egg that grows huge, then hatches into a hybrid bird-person that regards her as its mother...with bloody res



If you have a hard time letting go of things for sentimental purposes, there’s a good chance you have an overflowing hard drive, an email account that’s reached its limit, and a constant “storage full” notification popping up on your phone. It’s hard to be nostalgic when our devices are always forcing us to let go. Fortunately, there are storage and backup solutions out there that let you be as s




TL;DR: As of April 28, The Complete 2022 Python Programmer Bundle , worth $1,791, is on sale for just $39. If a kid in elementary school can code their own robot , then you can take a beginner’s coding course at home and learn the basics. The good news is it’ll only cost you $39 and you can get started, like, now. With the Complete 2022 Python Programmer Bundle , you’ll get 46 hours of coding les



TL;DR: As of April 28, the Desklab Portable Touchscreen Monitor is on sale for $289.99, making it 58% off its regular price of $700. Once you work with a dual-monitor setup , you’ll never go back to squinting at your tiny laptop screen. Whether you’re a graphic designer, witer, gamer , coder, or just stare at a lot of documents throughout the work day, having two screens can be quite the game-cha



TL;DR: As of April 28, this 5-in-1 60W Qi Certified Multi-Device USB & Wireless Charging Dock is on sale for $45.99, meaning it's 34% off its regular price of $69. Arguing with someone you love over an outlet or charging brick is not a good look. But our devices are driving us bonkers. When one battery finally powers back on, another one is starting to get hungry — and the cycle never ends. But i



the App Store iPhone•
If you're not seeing all the Instagram features you think you should have, you might wanna try updating your app before hitting the panic button. Once you have the latest version, you won't be missing out on anything. SEE ALSO: How to tag someone on Instagram You can update your Instagram in just a few steps: 1. Open your app store 2. Tap the search icon in the bottom right corner and search "Ins



Raising Dion Netflix•
Another day, another cancelation from Netflix as the streaming giant axes yet another show. This time, Netflix have moved to cancel Pretty Smart, a new comedy which had been led by Emily Osment, who younger readers might know for her role as sidekick to Miley Cyrus on Disney Channel megafranchise Hannah Montana. The show premiered in October of 2021 and starred Osment as Chelsea, an aspiring auth



The global maritime industry oversees the movement and handling of over 800 million containers in various ports worldwide. Africa controls about 12% of this volume, with its clearing and forwarding market standing at almost $4 billion. That said, Africa’s freight space is stuck with numerous challenges. Some include congestion at ports, opaque processes of service providers, fragmented payments,



Avelo Airlines is celebrating its first birthday on Thursday with a big announcement: its third operating base. The Houston-headquartered ultra-low-cost startup is headed to Central Florida and opening its third base at Orlando International Airport (MCO), one of the country’s most popular leisure destinations. While Avelo already serves Orlando, operating bases are important at the airline. Each



Musk Twitter SEC Tesla•
Elon Musk won't be able to get out of his agreement requiring oversight of his tweets about the company, Bloomberg reported. A judge has rejected his request to drop the 2018 deal made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that required a company lawyer approve any Tesla-related tweets. The judge also denied Musk's request to block an SEC subpoena related to possible insider tradin



Heat waves are scorching India and Pakistan this week, breaking records as the region enters the hottest time of the year. Some states in India have seen temperatures top 43 °C (110 °F), with northwest India likely to see even higher temperatures in the coming days, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Extreme heat can be deadly, especially for a region where many lack access



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Dell XPS 13 Plus Available•
Dell's latest flagship ultraportable is now available for purchase. The Dell XPS 13 Plus is powered by Intel's 28-watt 12th-gen processors and features a clean, minimalist design. Its keyboard has no borders and no space in between its large keys that makes it ideal for touch-typing. The laptop's haptic touchpad blends into its palm rest and the function buttons at the top of the keyboard aren't



Sony might be on the verge of unveiling a slightly refined version of its new LinkBuds True Wireless Earbuds , if some new images leaked on Twitter are to be believed. Images that popped up from leaker account SnoopyTech on Twitter on April 21 purportedly unveil a new version of the Sony LinkBuds, codenamed the Sony LinkBuds S. Looking at the images, the new true wireless model trades out the hol



Ben Franklin once famously said that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. But that doesn’t make dealing with either particularly natural and easy. Tech is rushing in to fill that gap, and today a Berlin-based startup called Taxfix , which has built a popular mobile assistant to address the former of these, is announcing a big round of funding to fuel its growth



The big tech news of the week remains Elon Musk's offer to buy out Twitter for a massive $44 billion — a deal that looks all set to go ahead provided nobody backs out at the last minute. This huge acquisition has provided a ton of material for hot takes and despair, though as Late Show host Seth Meyers points out, it also highlights issues about the overwhelming power of billionaires. "I mean, wi



Oware co-founders Raza Kazmi and Adil Nisar Managing goods as they make their way through multiple warehouses and logistics providers is one of the biggest headaches that businesses in the supply chain face. After leaving his job at Careem, Adil Nisar founded a company that sources, manufacturers and distributes lights in Pakistan, and experienced those challenges firsthand. So he teamed up with



We’re knee-deep in the world of Bluetooth, and the average customer has absolutely zero interest in wired headphones or speakers. Still, they complain about Bluetooth, and I happily complain with them. Bluetooth audio is one of the biggest downgrades in tech history—outside of a few situations, it’s the worst possible alternative to a messy wad of headphone cables. Read This Article on Review Gee



Sony FE 24 G Master•
Sony's mirrorless cameras had a big head-start on their Canon and Nikon rivals – and its new zoom lens is a reminder that it still holds the edge on those two giants when it comes to glass. Canon and Nikon have done well to bolster the lens ranges for their RF and Z-mount cameras, which only arrived in 2018. They respectively now have 26 and 27 lenses available for their mirrorless cameras, even



Samsung Profit 51%•
Samsung has reported a massive rise in operating profit for the first three months of 2022, thanks in part to the robust demand for its memory chips and the strong sales of its new Galaxy flagship devices . The Korean tech giant has posted an operating profit of KRW 14.12 trillion ($11.12 billion), which is 51 percent higher than the same period last year, and a record consolidated revenue of KRW



Musk SEC 2018 Tesla•
The ruling comes just days after the world's richest person struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44bn.




Let’s get one thing straight: Anatomy of a Scandal is a ridiculous show. The first of many upcoming Netflix projects from Big Little Lies writer David E. Kelley, the series is a starry adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s best-selling novel, and tells the story of a Westminster politician (Rupert Friend) accused of raping his aide (Naomi Scott). The man’s wife (Sienna Miller) is utterly convinced of his



TL;DR: The Complete 2022 CompTIA Certification Course Super Bundle is on sale for £49.76, saving you 99% on list price. A certification from CompTIA is your ticket to a rewarding career in IT. Multiple certifications from CompTIA will help you find your niche in the IT world (as well as secure a higher salary). But first, you’ll need to learn the basics. And this Complete 2022 CompTIA Certificati



Android could soon run on RISC-V chips thanks to advances made by Alibaba Cloud in porting the operating system to the emerging instruction-set architecture (ISA). Last year, the Chinese cloud giant was successfully able to port basic functions including Chrome browsing in Android 10 to a RISC-V chip made by its subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor . Now though, Alibaba Cloud has taken things a step f



Baidu Beijing Pony.ai•
Chinese internet giant Baidu and autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai have received permits to provide driverless ride-hailing services to the public on open roads in Beijing, according to both companies. To date, numerous cities in China have allowed autonomous vehicle companies to test self-driving vehicles without a human safety operator in the driver’s seat, but this is the first time companies



There's a lot to like about the new Hummer EV, including a unique, subtle design element that was inspired by one of NASA's most notable space milestones.



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Parts of California are officially in a water emergency, according to a declaration from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. On Tuesday, the board of the Metropolitan Water District released a statement announcing “that a Water Shortage Emergency Condition exists in the [State Water Project]… Read more...



Used-car digital platforms have been proliferating across the world for a handful of significant reasons, but most of those are related to our recent pandemic. Among those reasons is the rapid digitization of the used car industry, as startups have flooded the market with easier-to-use platforms that the older e-commerce-style ones lacked. The other is that – with the pandemic straining supply ch



Raquel Urtasun founded Waabi in 2021 after spending nearly three years as Uber’s R&D head of Advanced Technology Group (ATG). Waabi’s mission is to develop an AI-first approach to speed up the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, starting with long-haul trucks. To do so, her company raised an $83.5 million Series A with Khosla Venture’s Sven Strohband leading the round. Both will speak t



Today Letter Wordle•
Morning Wordle rs! It's a new day and there's a spicy new guessing game to tickle your brain. We've come up with a few hints and tips to help you along if you get stuck, so read on for tasty clues (and, eventually, the answer). If you prefer to just find out the solution, you can scroll to the bottom of this article for April 28's Wordle answer. But if you prefer to work through it yourself, keep



John Lewis Bike Club•
Dat Bike founder and CEO Son Nguyen Dat Bike is on a journey to reduce the amount of gasoline used in Vietnam. The startup makes electric motorbikes with key components that it designs and produces domestically to reduce costs and improve performance. Today, Dat Bike announced it has raised a $5.3 million Series A led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Wavemaker Partners. Both are return



If you’ve ever wondered what a platypus- or kangaroo-inspired Pokémon might look like, this Australian fan-created 'Straya' Pokédex will blow your socks off. Traditionally, Pokémon games draw their inspiration from real-world regions, and with the new upcoming Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games theorized to be based on Spain, one fan has been fantasizing about what an Australian-themed Pokémon worl



Quantum Resistant VPN•
In preparation for a post-quantum world, the VPN provider PureVPN has introduced a quantum-resistant feature on its OpenVPN protocol to provide its users with more security and privacy than ever before. Specifically, PureVPN has partnered with integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum to deploy quantum-resistant encryption keys across its VPN service. By using Quantinuum’s Quantum Origin pl



NASA pulled off something seemingly magical when it shuttled the first humans to the moon, but not everyone believes the event played out as claimed.



Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. Takahiro Sumi (CEO) and Tomoya Ito (COO) co-founded Sumutasu four years ago to streamline the buying and selling of residential real estate. In Japan, where the real



Facebook Meta Quarter•
But Facebook owner Meta is struggling with its slowest revenue growth since at least 2012.



Minneapolis George Floyd•
The Minneapolis Police Department violated civil rights law through a pattern of racist policing practices, according to a damning report published today by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The report, which is the result of a two-year inquiry, found that officers stop, search, arrest, and use force against people of color at a much higher rate than white people, and covertly surveilled



A supernova is not just any cosmic explosion, but rather is distinguished as the largest explosion that happens in space. Not every star will end this way.



300+Gizmodo / 11h
With six months to go before “This Is Halloween” starts playing everywhere, I went to Coachella in Indio, CA to watch Nightmare Before Christmas ’ Danny Elfman —the legendary composer of such scores as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and most of Tim Burton’s catalog—perform. If there was ever a year that I was going to attend… Read more...



Despite all the hype behind Microsoft’s latest operating system, it seems to be struggling to get users to upgrade several months after its release. According to a survey by market analyst AdDuplex for April 2022, Windows 11 has had a growth of less than 0.4% month-over-month. This puts it at a 19.7% total user base, compared to 19.4% from last month. Meanwhile, Windows 10 21H2 has a total instal



Enlarge / Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presents a vaccine production device during a meeting September 2, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Musk met with vaccine maker CureVac, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines. (credit: Getty | Filip Singer ) Elon Musk has a "huge responsibility" to combat dangerous, potentially life-threatening health misinformation on Twit




Elon Musk Twitter Gadde•
Elon Musk may have already broken a key provision of the deal he made with Twitter. One day after Twitter disclosed the terms of its deal with Musk, the Tesla CEO is already raising questions about his willingness to adhere to a non-disparagement clause. According to an SEC filing shared by twitter on Tuesday, Musk is “permitted to issue Tweets about the Merger or the transactions contemplated he



To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here . It’s April 27, 2022, and here’s a thing we didn’t see coming: May. What the hell happened to this month, this year? As the summer equinox draws closer, the weather warms up and the days get longer, we long drinks with tiny rainbow umbrellas in them. If you’re readin



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Among the many premium credit cards out there is the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card . This cobranded hotel credit card doesn’t offer automatic top-tier status and comes with a pretty high $450 annual fee ( see rates and fees ). The truth is, cobranded hotel cards usually aren’t the best for maximiz



39Gizmodo / 12h
As Star Wars becomes increasingly invested in fleshing out the time between the fall of the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith and the time of A New Hope , one of its most frequent fascinations has been the long, dark arm of the Emperor and Darth Vader: the agents of the Imperial Inquisitorius . Before we meet them again in … Read more...



Did you know that getting bit by the wrong tick can result in an allergy to steaks and many other types of meat? Here's what the CDC has to say about it.



WhatsApp India Payments•
WhatsApp, the most popular smartphone app in India , is employing one of the most popular strategies that has proven to drive users in the world’s second largest market to a service: cash-back. The Meta-owned instant messaging service is running a campaign as part of which it is giving away about 11 Indian rupees, or 14 cents, up to three times to users if they send money to three different peopl



Meta announced during its Q1 2022 earnings call that Reels, its short-form video feature and TikTok rival, now makes up more than 20% of the time that people spend on Instagram. The company also noted that video, overall, makes up 50% of the time that users spend on Facebook. Although Meta didn’t specify how much of that time is made up by Reels, it noted that Reels are performing well on Faceboo



Comcast Charter Streaming•
Charter Communications and Comcast are joining forces to develop a brand new streaming platform and hardware to provide 4K streaming content. Both companies made it clear in the announcement that this is a “50/50 joint venture” with equal stakes as they each pitch in significant resources. The companies' broadband and cable businesses will not be a part of this joint venture and will remain separ



By working together with academic researchers, a Japanese jewelry firm has developed a new production method to create 2-inch diamond wafers that could soon be used in quantum computers . Adamant Namiki Precision Jewelry collaborated with Saga University in Kyushu to create its new “Kenzan Diamonds” which are pure enough to be used in quantum computing. While diamond wafers with the required puri



Fauci US Pandemic Phase•
100+Futurism / 12h
US officials are still struggling to communicate about COVID-19 with the public. Take president Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who attempted to say today that the US has weathered the storm, entering a new and less dangerous phase of the crisis. “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” he said during an interview with PBS NewsHour on Tuesday — a ra



Elon Musk Twitter Gadde•
500+Futurism / 12h
It looks like some well-known Nazi accounts that were previously banned on Twitter are already trying to come back to the platform since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to buy the entire thing in the name of “free speech.” Nick Martin, a reporter who covers extremism, posted screenshots showing four prominent accounts that were suspended pretty quickly after they-resurfaced. “A bunch of lon



Meta Reality Labs VR•
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of every Meta executive breathing a deep sigh of relief, because unlike last quarter , Facebook’s daily active users (DAUs) are up… a little. For the second time since its rebrand from Facebook, Meta has reported its quarterly earnings . Last time, the Facebook platform reported its first decline in DAUs in its 18-year history, but now, Facebook boasts 1.96 billio



Musk Tesla SolarCity•
500+TechCrunch / 12h
A Delaware judge has sided with Elon Musk in a hefty lawsuit brought by Tesla shareholders, which accused the executive of coercing the electric vehicle company’s board into buying SolarCity back in 2016. Seeking as much as $13 billion in damages, the shareholders alleged that Tesla’s $2.6 billion, all-stock SolarCity deal amounted to “a rescue from financial distress, a bailout, orchestrated by



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NASA declared that its Opportunity mission is over and the rover will remain on Mars for a long time,

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