Monday, April 25, 2022

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Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
15KTechCrunch / 11h
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is infamous for using Twitter to tease and tease out various ideas he has about his business interests, cryptocurrency, politics and life in general, but today it looks like he’s making good on one of the biggest of his musings. Twitter has announced that it has accepted Musk’s offer to acquire the publicly traded company at $54.20/share, valuing the social media platform at $



Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Jim Watson) Twitter's board of directors has agreed to sell the company to Elon Musk for $44 billion, the company announced Monday. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity



Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
3KMashable / 11h
There goes the neighborhood. Elon Musk officially secured an agreement to purchase Twitter Monday (April 25). News that a deal was in the final stages of discussion broke late Sunday, following weeks of public back-and-forth between the social media company and the world's richest person . "Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired b

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A McKinsey and Co. study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. This is in an economy that derives 23% of its GDP from agriculture, with 60% of its popula



Raspberry Pi projects have tempted me into buying (and shelving) lots of nerdy accessories before, but I've finally found one that might have some staying power – and promises to be much more fun that my annoyingly competent iPhone. The new 64MP Pi Hawk-eye Camera from ArduCam brings phone-style resolution to Raspberry Pi cameras for the first time. And thanks to modern bonuses like autofocus and



Questions have been raised over how the platform will change after being bought by the Tesla boss.



If you’ve ventured onto the internet this past week, you’ll know that Netflix discourse is flavor of the month. News of the company’s massive subscriber losses has sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry, with many – including those on Wall Street – heralding the end of Netflix’s decade-long reign as the streaming service supreme. Netflix itself has blamed the downturn on a handful of



Dorsey Musk Twitter•
500+TechCrunch / 1h
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and current Block Head , has weighed on how he feels about Elon Musk buying Twitter. In a tweet thread that starts out with a link to Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place,” Dorsey said that “in principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it bein



Nintendo Mario 2023•
You won't be able to see the long-awaited Super Mario Bros. movie in theatres for the holidays this year: Nintendo has pushed back the animated film's release date to April 2023 from December 2022. Acclaimed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has announced the delay on Twitter, along with film's the new premiere dates of April 28th in Japan and April 7th in North America. This is Miyamoto. Afte



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter looks set to go ahead, prompting less than enthusiastic reactions from many users . As Daily Show host Trevor Noah pointed out, Twitter has been an instrumental factor in movements such as the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo Movement, and Trump's presidential campaign. Putting this powerful social media platform under the control of Space



EE Nreal Air AR UK•
UK cell carrier EE is partnering with Chinese AR startup Nreal to bring the Nreal Air AR glasses to the UK. The glasses have been available in China, Japan, and South Korea since December 2021 , and will come exclusively to the UK carrier “later this spring” according to EE. The Air glasses are the (relatively) affordable, consumer-focused sequel to the Light glasses from Nreal. They feature the



47Gizmodo / 2h
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won’t be in theaters until next summer but you can now read about its first 15 minutes. Producers and writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller showed up to CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas this week to give theater owners a little taste of what’s in store for Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Miguel… Read more...



Google Pixel Watch•
We've been hearing rumors about the Google Pixel Watch since before the average Fortnite player was born, and every so often interest in it sprouts for a brief moment of time - that's happening again in early 2022, as people seem to think it's launching soon. This is especially the case because someone left a smartwatch in a restaurant, and photos of it made their way to Android Central . While I



Swvl Turkish Volt Lines•
Swvl, an Egyptian startup that provides shared transportation services for intercity and intracity trips, has expanded into Turkey with its recent acquisition of Volt Lines, a B2B transportation-as-a-service operator. The primarily stock deal, which was valued at around $40 million, gives Swvl access both to Volt Lines’ tech as well as its over 110 corporate client contracts. This reach will help



TL;DR: The Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription Bundle is on sale for £152.36, saving you 88% on list price. You can’t put a price on knowledge. But if you could, £152.36 isn't so bad — and that’s all it costs to get a lifetime of learning through Rosetta Stone and StackSkills for a limited time. First up in the Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription Bundle is lifetime access to Rosetta Sto



Dorsey Musk Twitter•
300+Engadget / 2h
Twitter co-founder and Block Head Jack Dorsey has made it clear that Elon Musk has his support as the new owner of Twitter. In his first public comments since Twitter and Musk announced the $44 billion deal, Dorsey said that “Elon is the singular solution I trust.” Dorsey wrote that Musk and current CEO Parag Agrawal were “getting the company out of an impossible situation,” and that the company



If you've seen any of Blue Origin's launches, you've probably noticed the rocket has a...familiar design. Experts say there's a good reason for that.



Asus PA147CDV 2022•
Asus has introduced multiple new displays, including a portable monitor with a unique aspect ratio that's designed for creative professionals.



200+Gizmodo / 4h
Former President Donald Trump says he’s not interested in rejoining “boring” Twitter even if he’s offered his account back under Elon Musk’s new vision for the company. Instead, Trump claims he’s focused on sticking it out on his already flailing social media upstart Truth Social. Read more...



E Ink has introduced a new electronic "paper" display that not only sports bright colors, but can also be used on ereaders that fold like actual books.



Apple Union Starbucks•
46Engadget / 5h
Apple hired Littler Mendelson — an anti-union law firm known for high-profile clients such as Starbucks, McDonald’s and Nissan — reported The Verge . The decision to retain the firm comes shortly after 100 workers at Apple's retail location in Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall petitioned the National Labor Relations Board last week to hold a union election. The tech giant has yet to formally respond to t



Agrawal Twitter Musk•
200+Engadget / 5h
Even Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal doesn’t know what Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company means for the service or its employees. That’s the biggest takeaway from accounts of the company’s first all-hands meeting following news of the $44 billion deal. Will Musk unban Donald Trump? Will there be layoffs? What about employees’ stock grants? For now, all those questions seem to be up in the air. Agra



Pony.ai China Guangzhou•
Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has been awarded a permit in Guangzhou to operate 100 robotaxis as traditional taxis. The license, which allows Pony to charge for rides in its autonomous vehicles, signifies another step on the path to commercializing autonomous ride-hail vehicles in China. WeRide, one of Pony’s competitors in China, has been running a partnered service with Guangzhou’s governm




This is a pretty significant development when it comes to the way that flight attendants in the United States are paid. Delta’s new flight attendant boarding pay Earlier in the year I wrote about how flight attendants in the United States generally aren’t paid for boarding , but rather start getting paid when the aircraft door closed. This of course sounds ridiculous, since you should get paid wh



Coachella 2022 was my first-ever music festival and in the weeks leading up to it, I kept asking myself: will it be the music version of Comic-Con? This year’s lineup included acts like composer Danny Elfman with a live orchestra and rock band, Marvel Studios ’ Eros aka superstar Harry Styles, Bond theme song Oscar… Read more...



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
300+Engadget / 6h
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk added Twitter to his stable of companies on Monday, purchasing the social media platform for $44 billion dollars. Whether he made this purchase to finally realize his aspirations as a " free speech absolutist " or just did it to put an end to his nemesis, @ElonJet , once and for all remains to be seen, but changes are abound for the internet's third-favorite hellsit



Today Wordle Answer•
Have you heard the good Wordle ? A new puzzle is ready for you to tackle today, offering you the chance to win a sense of accomplishment. As such, we've come up with a few hints and tips to help you along if you get stuck. If you prefer to just find out the solution straight up, you can jump to the bottom of this article for April 26's Wordle solution revealed. But if you prefer to work through i



Delta has made a move that's going to be a huge hit with employees, and engender jealousy across the industry. Flight attendants are getting a raise, and it's coming in the form of addressing a real sore spot in compensation. This could keep unionization at bay, while trolling employees of their biggest competitors. Continue reading ...



Solar storms are a pretty common occurrence, but they're not without risk. These events can impact satellites, disrupting services and missions alike.



The billionaire has called for a series of changes from relaxing Twitter's content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.



Reddit Community Funds•
33Engadget / 7h
You'll finally have a chance to host that r/legaladvice happy hour, or take your friends from r/animalpics to the zoo. Reddit is investing $1 million in its Community Funds program, which aims to help users get their projects and ideas off the ground. The program will officially open for applications in June, at which point Reddit’s entire community will be invited to apply. The platform will awa



How the pandemic may have jolted an old-fashioned banking industry to make changes.



Ape BAYC Instagram•
28Mashable / 7h
Another day, another crypto scam. This time, however, the targets were the $5 billion-valued Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and holders of its NFT apes. On Monday, the Bored Ape Yacht Club's official Twitter account announced that the company's Instagram account was hacked. Tweet may have been deleted "There is no mint going on today," tweeted the BAYC account. "It looks like BAYC Instagram was hack



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
100+Mashable / 7h
Elon Musk is buying Twitter . The CEO of Tesla , SpaceX , Neuralink , and the Boring Company will add another corporate feather to his bejeweled cap, after the social media platform announced Monday, April 25, that it intends to accept the self-described Technoking's approximately $44 billion purchase offer of $54.20 per share. Th reactions were decidedly mixed . How we got here Musk first began



Atlantis Paradise Island , located off Nassau in the Bahamas, is a legendary resort with an iconic design that’s recognizable around the world. It’s famous for its over-the-top waterpark with fear-inducing slides — some of which go through clear tunnels surrounded by sea life — and the Bridge Suites, located in the bridge between the main towers, where celebrities are known to drop big bucks for



WHO Hepatitis One 12•
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP ) At least one child has died of unexplained liver inflammation in a growing international outbreak of puzzling hepatitis cases in children, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak tally has reached more than 170 cases in 12 countries and is expected to continue growing. At least 17 children



Rocket engines are tough pieces of hardware to build, but it’s possible that 3D printing them could be the next big thing. Relativity certainly thinks so, and has raised about a billion dollars — now Launcher is ready to accept your money too, after demonstrating full thrust on its 3D-printed E-2 engine. Though they’re still a ways off from getting to orbit, a successful test like this is a huge



Trump Twitter Musk•
1KFuturism / 8h
Trump-L’œil Oh, how the mighty have fallen. In an interview with Fox News , former president and reality TV host Donald Trump has declared to all the haters and losers that even if Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk lets him back onto the site, he doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. Following news that Musk has purchased Twitter for a whopping $44 billion, the ex-president told Fox that he’d



100+TechCrunch / 8h
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 . The day is April 25, 2022. We spent most of the day keeping a close eye on Elon, but it seems (pending details and regulatory foibles), the deed is done . The sparky-space-sausage and battery-powered-car guy is now also the lucky owner of a bird-watching app. Alyssa



As you budget for a trip , the list of things to consider is long. There’s the airfare, the lodging, food, baggage, entertainment … and as any traveler knows, you could go on. It’s a calculation more families are making now than at any point since the start of the pandemic, as a surging number of U.S. travelers plan to not just hit the road this summer, but travel internationally after two straig



300+Gizmodo / 8h
Whether you loved The Batman or hated it or thought it had some charms but was way, way too obsessed with itself , there’s one thing I hope we can all agree on, and it’s this: The Batman would have been a lot of fun if original 1966 Batman TV series star Adam West had played the role of Bruce Wayne instead of Robert… Read more...



Bored Ape Instagram•
200+Gizmodo / 8h
The Instagram account belonging to the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was hacked on Monday. According to BAYC itself, the hacker used the access to launch a phishing scheme that stole millions of dollars in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the account’s followers. Read more...



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
The world’s richest man succeeded in a bid to acquire the influential social networking service, which he has said he wants to take private.




Musk Twitter Speech•
One prominent Republican, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, tweeted that free speech was “making a comeback.”



teencenterspl : View this post on Instagram A post shared by Smith Public Library YA Dept. (@splteenmachine) We got a new button maker that will be used in summer programming and then moved to our DIY/makerspace area and we mayyyyyyy have gotten a little carried away with it 😂 Anyway, for now, please enjoy our library and Dungeons & Dragons themed creations.



Ape BAYC Instagram•
200+Engadget / 8h
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs is investigating a phishing attack after a hacker stole nearly $2.5 million worth of NFTs through the official Bored Ape Instagram account. The company disclosed the hack on Monday morning in a tweet warning followers not to click on links or mint new tokens. This morning, the official BAYC Instagram account was hacked. The hacker posted a fraudulent link to



100+Gizmodo / 8h
The results of a small study this week may offer some hope to people struggling with prolonged symptoms following a case of covid-19. The study found that long covid patients taking part in a rehabilitation program in Ireland, conducted online, experienced noticeable improvements in how their fatigue affected their… Read more...



Sennheiser True 3 ANC•
26Engadget / 8h
True to its word , Sennheiser is debuting the latest Momentum True Wireless earbuds in April. Today, the company is officially unveiling the Momentum True Wireless 3 after an initial tease during an event last month. The third-gen version of the company's flagship earbuds pairs much of what made the previous model so great with a retooled design and was Sennheiser calls Adaptive Noise Cancellatio



Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy to have you with us and happy belated Earth Day. In this issue: No more ASAT operations for the U.S. NASA gives nearly $300 million in awards to satcom providers Mapping the moon using lidar This week with…Araz Feyzi Don’t forget to sign up to get the free newsletter version of Max Q delivered to your inbox. No more ASAT operations, VP Harris says The U.S. w



Electric vehicles and solar panels are more popular than ever, so why haven't automakers combined the two technologies? A bit of math reveals the answer.



100+Futurism / 8h
A Spanish man had a roundworm infection so bad that doctors could literally see the larvae slithering under his skin . A new case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine details the 64-year-old man’s rare “hyperinfection,” which was officially diagnosed as a side effect from the Strongyloides stercoralis nematode’s larvae. The horrific photos of the former sanitation worker’s infec



Bored Ape Instagram•
100+Futurism / 8h
Assuming Control Hackers took control of the Instagram and Discord accounts of Bored Ape Yacht Club, currently the second most valuable NFT collection by trading volume, and got away with more than ten million dollars’ worth of NFTs — yet another instance of blockchain collectors losing their at times extremely valuable assets to hackers and scams. At least 24 Bored Apes and 30 Mutant Apes have b



100+Gizmodo / 8h
Yes, the iPhone 13 recently underwent a minty green refresh , but now is not the time to buy Apple’s current smartphone if you’re hoping to get the best hardware. Apple’s developer conference is just around the corner, and more rumors about what’s on the horizon have sprouted up. If you can hold out another six months… Read more...



25Gizmodo / 8h
Trying to keep track of what Star Trek is coming right now feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before even more new series get announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the new Star Trek shows , the returns of familiar favorites, and what else is in the works right now. Engage! Read more...



Apple the App Store•
Enlarge / Apple's App Store. (credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images ) Apple plans to imminently remove games and apps on the App Store that have not been recently updated if developers don't submit an update for approval within 30 days. This news comes from screenshots and claims shared by various app developers and reporting by The Verge . Here's the text of the email that went o



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
42Mashable / 9h
Elon Musk just bought social media giant Twitter for an eyebrow raising $44 billion dollars, but what comes next?



A new 1,000-core RISC-V processor from Esperanto Technologies is currently being evaluated by Samsung SDS and other ‘lead customers”. According to a press release from the computer software company, its new ET-SoC-1 AI Inference Accelerator is undergoing initial evaluations by a number of firms ahead of its release. Esperanto Technologies itself was founded back in 2014 by semiconductor industry



If you get periods, you know about pre-menstrual syndrome. PMS, as it’s usually known, is the collection of physical and emotional annoyances that can occur shortly before your period is due. But for some people, that time of the month can include symptoms that feel like an actual illness. Read more...



An experiment to find out has just finished on the International Space Station.



Regulators are trying to clean up the murky truth in online reviews.



Access to the video-sharing app, along with online shooting game PUBG, will no longer be allowed.



Tired of suffering through the finicky temperature swings of the Northeast in April? Check out these cheap flights from cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia to the Bahamas , and enjoy the Caribbean nation’s turquoise waters and powdery white sand beaches. Beyond hypnotically gorgeous tropical beaches, Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, is home to some of the best casinos in North Americ



McGregor Darth Vader•
Fear leads to anger, according to Jedi Master Yoda. But for Ewan McGregor, the titular star of Disney Plus’s new Star Wars show Obi-Wan, coming face to face with an old foe also led to a need for some fresh underwear. Speaking to our friends at Total Film , McGregor described the moment he went toe-to-toe with the ultimate Star Wars baddie, Darth Vader, for Obi-Wan , summer’s big streaming event.




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When you go on a first date, you tend to present the best version of yourself. You’re clean, you’re groomed, you’re wearing a nice outfit, and you’re well within your rights to be doing all of that and more. But what happens if that date goes well, and so do the next few? Before you know it, you’re in a relationship,… Read more...



Trump Twitter Musk•
63Mashable / 9h
Worried about all the possible changes coming to Twitter after Elon Musk takes over? Well, if one of your concerns is the return of tweets from former President Donald Trump, you may have nothing to fear…if Trump himself is to be believed. According to Fox News , Trump told the outlet he would not be moving back to Twitter, instead opting to stay on Truth Social, his social media platform on whic



The Aston Martin Virage is a rare sight on the road, particularly if you live in the United States. Here's why this car was banned by the NHTSA.



300+TechCrunch / 9h
Twitter is smaller than you think. The company has around 7,000 employees , compared to other social media platforms like Meta, formerly Facebook, which has nearly 10 times as many employees. It means that a shake as large as we’ve seen today — with Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid winning him ownership of Twitter — has an outsized impact on the company. It also means that each Twitter employee has an



JetBlue's pilots have formally voted 'no confidence' in the airline's Senior Vice President for System Operations, after miserable flight operations and terrible recovery efforts in recent weeks and months. Here's what that means. Continue reading ...



This Week PlayStation 5•
Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) arrives on Sony's PlayStation 5 with a top-tier list of games that have official support right out the gate.



Having bad posture can lead to several health problems down the road, including back and neck pain. You can prevent these by using an ergonomic chair or actively paying attention to your posture until it becomes natural. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Smartphones have become more than just a minor distraction. Swiping through social media all day is mentally and physically exhausting, yet it’s almost unavoidable, as we’re all addicted to our phones. And while certain apps can help you curb your phone usage, it may be time to just ditch the smartphone and use an old-fashioned “dumb” phone. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



One crypto bro steps down; another comes to take his place. Just a few weeks after announcing his bid for Twitter, Elon Musk has entered a “definitive agreement” to purchase full ownership of the company. The deal is valued at around $44 billion, and upon its completion, Twitter will exit the stock market and become a private company. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



M2 M. Apple M3 iMac Pro•
If you believe recent reports, the Apple iMac Pro is a thing of the past, but a new report indicates the iMac Pro is not dead yet. According to Mark Gurman's latest newsletter for Bloomberg , there’s allegedly an M3 version of the iMac Pro in development right now, which is slated for release “at the end of next year at the earliest.” Of course, Gurman doesn’t believe that Apple will skip an M2 i



Musk Twitter Speech•
Incoming Twitter owner Elon Musk has emphasized his belief that “free speech” is critical to Twitter’s future, even noting in the press release announcing the deal today that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.” But there is one significant complication with running an unmoderated (or only lightly moderated) social platform supported by advertisers: and that’s the advertisers



Elon Musk's Twitter buy has sent the internet spinning with opinions, worries, and discussions of whether a new social network will benefit from a mass exodus.



PlayStation 5 This Week•
A new firmware update coming to PS5 this week will introduce variable refresh rate (VRR, for short) to the game console, Sony announced today . The firmware update is global, and may not arrive immediately for everyone, but it's started to go out and should land on your console soon. The long-awaited feature is at the top of the wish list for the PS5, especially when the Xbox Series X and Xbox Se



By this time next week, all of Greece’s COVID-19 entry restrictions will be suspended . As the country gears up for what’s projected to be a busy summer travel season, the Greek islands are sure to be one of the most sought-after destinations. Anyone who has ever looked at booking a trip to Greece’s beautiful islands , though, knows a ticket there can come at a hefty price. For more TPG news deli



100+Futurism / 9h
Rolling in the Deep Space is for the birds — to get the next-level adrenaline-inducing experience so many rich folks seem to be pining for, private submarine companies are looking to the depths of the ocean. A Dutch company that calls itself U-Boat Worx — yes, they share a name with the infamous German submarines from World Wars one and two — is now offering the wealthy a chance to do luxury deep



Mastercard Microsoft•
Mastercard has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to launch an enhanced identity solution aimed at tackling digital fraud . Although online shopping is quite convenient for consumers, it can be very expensive for businesses especially when they have to deal with fraudsters. Of the many types of online fraud, first-party fraud in which a legitimate purchase is made online and later is



Apple Foxconn China•
Taiwanese electronics company and major Apple supplier Foxconn is going to be shutting down two of its factories in the city of Kushan, China, as COVID-19 cases surge in the area. According to the South China Morning Post , the factories are near Shanghai, and to prevent COVID spillover, the city of Kushan enacted a citywide lockdown to prevent further contamination. On the surface, this appears



Exercise Depression•
100+Gizmodo / 10h
Research this month points to a mental health benefit from regularly exercising. The review found that people who reported being physically active were noticeably less likely to later be diagnosed with depression. This association was most apparent in people who appeared to meet the recommended amount of exercise a… Read more...



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
100+Mashable / 10h
Twitter has a new overlord: Grimes' ex-boyfriend Elon Musk . After a few weeks of deliberation, the platform is now a private company owned by Musk, who bought it for $54.20 per share in a transaction valued at around $44 billion. Here's how citizens of the Twitter technokingdom reacted to the news. And, for absolutely no reason at all, here's a guide to deleting your Twitter account . Tumblr inv




Welcome back to the East Village, cock-a-roaches. Russian Doll Season 2 is streaming on Netflix now. What's worse than getting stuck in an almost-endless cycle of dying and waking up in a weird bathroom? According to Russian Doll Season 2, the answer is "turning into your mother." Natasha Lyonne and a mustachioed Charlie Barnett return as Nadia and Alan, who find that New York isn't quite finishe



300+TechCrunch / 10h
Twitter, the platform that once helped fuel The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street is now owned by the richest man in the world, and you have to wonder what impact it’s going to have. There are so many open questions about how the company will change under Elon Musk’s leadership. Will he make it better, using his keen intelligence and business savvy to drive changes that have been overdue for yea



Elon Musk’s quest to buy Twitter came to a close today with a win for the technology mogul. Regardless of what we might have thought when Twitter was busy circling its wagons with a poison-pill defense against takeover the deal is done , and, well, here we are. After more than a decade on Twitter and several hundred thousands tweets to my name — deleted in batches of 100,000 or so, I am overdue f



Trump Twitter Musk•
300+TechCrunch / 10h
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will not be returning to Twitter if his account is reinstated, according to a statement he provided to Fox News . Trump’s comments about Twitter come on the same day that the company has announced that it accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the publicly traded company at $54.20/share, valuing the social media platform at $44 billion. The anno



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
The government most commonly intervenes when a company is buying a competitor.



As a Texas transplant living in New York City , I’m frequently reminded by my well-meaning mother that my rent is more than my parent’s mortgage. “And you don’t even have a garbage disposal!” It’s true, rent in New York — and many other cities in the U.S. and around the world — can often cost more than a monthly mortgage payment elsewhere. But you might be surprised to learn that the average hote



31Gizmodo / 10h
The most wonderful time of the year (Halloween, obviously!) is just six months away—so there’s no better time to stream some horror on your service of choice. Here’s our curated selection to get that countdown to spooky season going on Netflix , Hulu, HBO Max , Peacock , Paramount+, and Shudder. Read more...



vintagegeekculture : Once, by accident, Dennis the Menace had its caption switched with the Far Side.



Microsoft Windows 11•
After upgrading its own business PCs to its latest operating system, Microsoft has reached a rather unsurprising conclusion: Windows 11 is good. In a new blog post , Microsoft explained it has now upgraded almost the entirety of its circa 182,000-strong workforce to Windows 11, claiming it had no increase in support tickets in the process. Microsoft attributed the successful rollout to having far



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. It’s easy to justify paying hundreds of dollars in credit card annual fees when you can fully use card benefits like travel credits , dining credits , shopping credits and airport lounge access . But it’s harder to keep paying those fees if you carry multiple credit cards with similar benefits or are simply trying to



Book-banning is one of those nosy-neighbor hobbies that becomes popular in waves. We’re currently in one of those waves , with parents and concerned citizens “challenging”—and in some cases successfully removing—books from schools and local libraries. Books with Black and/or LGBTQ+ characters and authors are often the… Read more...



Ed Hallen Contributor Ed Hallen is the co-founder and chief product officer of Klaviyo , a unified customer platform for email, SMS and more that empowers online brands to own their data and grow on their own terms. I’ll tell you a (not so well-kept) secret that’s probably not a surprise to any of my former bosses: I wanted to become a founder because it sounded a lot more fun than getting a job



Adobe InDesign lets you export your InDesign file as a PDF. Depending on what kind of document you created, you may want to use different PDF presets. You can choose one of InDesign’s PDF presets, or just create your own. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for year number four. It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe! Here’s where you come into the picture. We’re looking for incredible voluntee



Members of the first all-private ISS astronaut team returned from their stay in low Earth orbit on Monday, parachuting down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Read more...



200+Gizmodo / 10h
Over the past few days, stories have been written (including on this website ) about how Alex Kurtzman , the director of the new series The Man Who Fell to Earth , really feels about working on 2017's The Mummy in the wake of a new Bingeworthy podcast interviewing the director. Not a huge surprise, but he feels... not… Read more...



In this week’s episode of Republican politicians past and present behaving badly, America’s most recent single-term ex-president Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $10,000 per day in fines after failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into… Read more...



Tesla Twitter Elon Musk•
2KWired / 11h
His weeks-long pursuit of the company has resulted in a $44 billion deal. But how did it happen, and what the hell comes next?



Martell Pentagon AI•
22Engadget / 11h
The Pentagon is still new to wielding artificial intelligence , and it's looking to an outsider for help. Breaking Defense has learned Lyft machine learning head Craig Martell is joining the Defense Department as its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO). He'll lead the American military's strategies for AI, analytics and data, and should play a key part in a Joint All-Domain C



Elon Musk Twitter Monday•
4KFuturism / 11h
It’s official: Twitter has agreed to allow a takeover by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the richest person in the world — a watershed moment in the history of social media, as well as a puzzling new twist for a billionaire best known for rockets and electric cars. The transaction is worth roughly $44 billion, a 38 percent premium compared to the stock price the day before Musk started investing




While the smartphones most of us carry in our pockets tell time without any trouble, they fail to deliver the aesthetic charm and offhand ease of the best watches. You could make a case that the watch is the classic outfit accessory — function meets jewelry. It almost goes without saying that great watches make outfits. But even in the cellphone era, a watch is still a useful accessory. Nurses, b



Reddit Community Funds•
Reddit is investing $1 million in its Community Funds program, the company announced on Monday. The company has been experimenting with its Community Funds program for the past six months and provided financial support to help Reddit users bring their ideas for events and projects to life. Throughout the duration of the experiment, Reddit funded 13 projects that were nominated by communities on i



Researchers studying seismic wave data from NASA’s InSight Lander have reported the planet’s largest ‘marsquakes’ yet, at magnitudes of 4.2 and 4.1. According to a NASA release , the larger quake was five times as energetic as the previous record-holder, a magnitude 3.7 event detected in 2019. Read more...



You can feel it brewing in the seconds leading up to a big argument. You temper flares, you feel flushed, and you’re suddenly ready to say aloud things you know you will never be able to take back. Blow-out fights—and even regular-sized bickering sessions—can irrevocably damage relationships of all kinds. If you… Read more...



The Apple iMac 24-inch is an all-in-one wizard for basic computing needs. Bonus being that it takes up very little space in one's parlor or office.



Two black holes slammed together, generating a "kick" that sent the resulting single massive black hole shooting away with a mind-boggling velocity.



An electric car company that courts controversy and appeals to the choosiest consumers? It sure does sound like Tesla, doesn't it? But it's not.



The Tesla and SpaceX CEO can now add another line to his resume, as a deal for him to purchase the social media platform has been reached.



PlayStation 5 This Week•
48Engadget / 11h
PlayStation 5 owners will gain access to the long-awaited variable refresh rate (VRR) feature in the coming days. Sony will this week start rolling out a system update that will enable VRR support. VRR (a feature that's been available on Xbox Series X/S since those consoles launched) improves visual performance by mitigating visual artifacts like screen tearing. It does so by dynamically matching



100+Gizmodo / 11h
After 993 days, Steven Donziger is finally free. Read more...



Meta Paying Retail•
44Mashable / 11h
The company formerly known as Facebook is getting into retail, and therefore, is starting to employ retail workers. Meta announced Monday (April 26) that it is opening its first brick-and-mortar shop, called the Meta Store. The 1,500 square-foot space in Meta's Burlingame, California campus will be a place where customers can try out and buy Meta's products, including the Quest 2 , Portal , and m



Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
You don't even need 280 characters to deliver this momentous news: Elon Musk just bought Twitter. The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder has been circling the popular social media platform for weeks, using Twitter itself as a medium to announce both his intentions and ongoing frustrations with the platform in its current form. Now, after lining up the funds (his own and hefty support from Morgan Stanle



Twitter Agrees Elon Musk•
Mr Musk, who made the shock bid just over a week ago, said he would "unlock" the social media firm's potential.



A man allegedly threatened to bomb the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary and gun down employees over the reference book’s definitions of “woman,” “girl,” and “female,” which he believed were “part of the Left’s efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language.” Read more...



The new Vivo X80 and X80 Pro are the latest in the Android smartphone-making company's international hero phone lineup. Will either one be up to the challenge?



53SlashGear / 11h
Ford's 2022 Mustang Mach-E is the new standard of luxury electric vehicles. Here's how it stands up to what the manufacturer promised.



Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
7KGizmodo / 11h
Elon Musk is already CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company, and the world’s richest person. Today he adds another title to his prodigious bio: Owner of Twitter. Read more...



You can perform many different mathematical operations in Google Sheets, including the addition of numbers. You can add numbers across columns or rows, or even numbers in different cells. Here’s how it’s done. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›




Quick Response (QR) codes are everywhere these days. You’ll find these two-dimensional barcodes in restaurants for the menu, and everyone probably remembers that Coinbase QR code Super Bowl commercial. Most people have used a QR code at some point, but have you ever seen an animated QR code? Read This Article on Review Geek ›



One of my favorite genres of hacks is “elevating” the store-bought. Making a box of cake or brownie mix taste homemade, zhooshing up mayo , using fast food chicken to make chicken salad —this kind of stuff is extremely my bag, baby. Read more...



Twitter Tesla Elon Musk•
1KEngadget / 11h
Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's buyout offer . Musk is purchasing the social media giant for $54.20 per share, or about $44 billion. The Tesla chief will take the company private, and also said he planned to upgrade Twitter by protecting free speech, open-sourcing algorithms , fighting spam bots and "authenticating all humans." Twitter's board unanimously approved the acquisition. The deal is ex



Everything old is new again. Someone leaves a prototype in a bar , prototype makes its way into some blogger’s hands, chaos ensues. It’s hard to imagine another device coming along soon that’s shrouded in the same layer of security as the iPhone 4 . Both gadgets and tech journalism have evolved since those halcyon days, but nothing like a high-profile leak to get the blood pumping in these old ty



Spelljammer: Adventures in Space : confirmed! But not until August 2022. Luckily psychedelic space-fantasy is everywhere and there’s more than enough to keep you entertained until then. I’ll admit it... this is mostly games . I have a niche, what can I say? Grab your dice , remotes, ebook readers, and headphones—here’s… Read more...



This fully digital tape measurer makes sharing measurements easy thanks to its accurate screen and an app that automatically uploads dimensions.



21SlashGear / 11h
Apple is selling a new water bottle that integrates with its gadgets to help users track their water consumption. Oh, and it has a rainbow LED light, too.



Hour One Raises $20M•
Synthetically generated versions of real people that can be can be programmed to say anything sounds like a scenario from the latest episode of “Black Mirror.” But in fact, production-grade video-based characters based on real people — which can talk about any product or subject at all, in a hyperlifelike manner — are arguably going to be part of the next wave in areas like e-commerce and remote



2KFuturism / 12h
Spotted A massive ten foot giant squid washed ashore in western Japan, giving an ultra-rare glimpse of one of the biggest cephalopods known to lurk the deep sea — and likely the first time a live specimen has ever taken into captivity . According to Japanese newspaper The Mainichi , the squid was miraculously found alive despite being a long way from home. It has since been transported to a local



Musk Hyperloop TBC•
100+TechCrunch / 12h
Elon Musk’s tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin “full-scale” testing of hyperloop, a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in autonomous electric pods through a tube at speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour. Musk tweeted out the update Monday, just a day after announcing the company would attempt to build a working hyperloop and less than a week since The Bor



After 142 years of service, Hong Kong ’s iconic Star Ferry may sail its last trip between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island — unless it gets help from big-bucks business investment. First launched in 1880 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, the Star Ferry Hong Kong has provided service for tourists, commuters and leisurely locals since before Hong Kong’s transformation into a commercial and financial hub. T



United Singapore Airlines•
Singapore Airlines joined Star Alliance 22 years ago. You’d expect that when they look to feed passengers to and from their U.S. flights they’d work hand-in-hand with United. Except that’s not what’s happened over the years. Continue reading ...



Facebook Meta Store•
not Enlarge / The first Meta Store won't necessarily be your one-stop shop for all things sold by Meta—as this artistic interpretation points to one thing not sold by the store until further notice. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On May 9, Meta will double down on its metaverse sales pitch by... making people drive to California to sample its wares at a single physical location. The uncre



Ink Gallery 3 ePaper•
36Engadget / 12h
E Ink has just announced its next-generation color ePaper panel, and it’s a major update for the nascent technology. Most significantly, the company has improved update times significantly. Its new E Ink Gallery 3 panel offers three color modes, including a “fast” one that can refresh the panel at 500 milliseconds. For the best possible colors, it needs 1.5 seconds to update. Black and white upda



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Frequent flyer programs were historically designed so that the person who is sitting in an airplane seat on an eligible paid ticket would be the one who earns the miles toward elite status and that next sweet award ticket redemption. But the origins of frequent flyer programs are now 40 years behind us, an



For many, summer is synonymous with the adventure of outdoor activities. Long hikes through the forest, morning runs along the beach, and picnics in the park are just some of the activities I will not be participating in during the next several months, though. That’s because for me, the season is synonymous with one… Read more...



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When we talk about early-stage startups, we tend to focus on the internals — and understandably so. It’s easiest to home in on the things you can control: developing products, building a team, finding the right investors. All are important and foundational to developing a startup, of course. But as much as we’d like to believe that the right product developed by the right team is enough to ensure



21Wired / 12h
The Digital Services Act has granted the European Commission unprecedented power over tech companies in times of war.




While web3, the metaverse and virtual HQs feel like the loudest features of the “future of work” startup category, WorkLife Ventures founder Brianne Kimmel has a more down-to-earth definition. The solo-GP has spent the past few years backing companies that will help modern workers, from virtual workspaces to networking tools to a video chat platform that hopes to feel more human than Zoom . “We d



Counting the number of distinct values in a spreadsheet is valuable in many situations. Whether it’s customer names, product numbers, or dates, one simple function can help you count unique values in Google Sheets. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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Leaked Sony Earbuds Vent•
41Engadget / 12h
If you thought Sony's LinkBuds let in too much of the outside world, don't worry — there may be a follow-up that helps you tune things out. As The Walkman Blog notes , established leak poster SnoopyTech recently shared purported images of WF-LSN900 wireless earbuds, possibly called the LinkBuds S. Unlike the open LinkBuds, this model would let you "seamlessly shift" from allowing ambient sounds t



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and card details. There’s no question that the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is one of my all-around favorite credit cards. Before the Chase Sapphire Reserve launched, I used the Sapphire Preferred for y


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