Thursday, July 21, 2022

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Millions of people are now experiencing the effects of climate change firsthand. Blistering heat waves have smashed temperature records around the globe this summer, scorching crops, knocking out power, fueling wildfires, buckling roads and runways, and killing hundreds in Europe alone. The dizzyingly quick shift from an abstract threat to an era of tumbling temperature records, megadroughts, and



Amazon appears to have identified another market to launch its fast and affordable internet service, Project Kuiper: India. Job listings show the American e-commerce group is looking to hire managers in India to launch the internet service, for which the company plans to use low Earth orbit satellite constellation. One position, based in Bengaluru , seeks to hire a manager to execute and handle t



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The country's cyber security watchdog launched a probe into the firm just days after its US listing.



Lenovo has unveiled its newest all-in-one PC aimed at helping small to medium businesses grow and prosper. The ThinkCentre neo 50a 24 is continuation of Lenovo’s neo desktop line , with the addition of innovative assisted features powered by built-in AI. These workstations are powered by 12th Gen Intel Core H-Series processors and feature Intel Arc A370M graphics and are set up with Windows 11 ou



After revealing Chelsea star Sam Kerr on its cover earlier this week , EA has unveiled the first trailer for FIFA 23 showing that women's soccer will finally be a key part of the game. It will include women's club teams from the top leagues in England and France, along with both the women's and men's competitions in both the 2022 Qatar World Cup and 2023 Australia/New Zealand World Cup. Internati
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Tesla's Bitcoin bet hasn't gone all that great. In its earnings report for the second quarter of 2022, the company revealed it has sold three quarters of its Bitcoin holdings. "As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet," says Tesla's latest shareholder deck . Tesla invested rough



Intel has already revealed that its Arc A380 discrete graphics card is optimized for the newest and most popular games, which is sure to please everyone except one group. As reported by Tom’s Hardware , YouTuber DJ Mines stated that they ran several popular Ethereum mining software like NiceHashMining, trex miner, lolminer, and teamreeminer, and none of them worked. It seems that the Arc A380 doe



Xbox Game Pass is arguably the best deal in gaming right now, and I managed to get three years' worth at a massive discount. While paying $14.99 / £10.99 / AU$15.95 a month for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate might seem like a good deal, I’ve got a trick that’ll really tickle your economical taste buds. After recently bagging an Xbox Series S for an absolute bargain on Facebook Marketplace , I was keen t



Zipmex , a digital assets exchange with operations in Singapore, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand, said on Twitter that it “would be pausing withdrawals until further notice.” The Singapore-headquartered company cited a “combination of circumstances beyond our control including volatile market conditions, and the resulting financial difficulties of our key business partners.” Due to a combinatio



Prerna A Jhunjhunwala and Nikhil Naik, founders of Creative Galileo People who work with kids know how difficult it is to keep them engaged with online learning content. Creative Galileo keeps children hooked by adding in their favorite cartoon characters. The Singapore-based edtech platform announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from Kalaari Capital, East Ventures, A



Enlarge / Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition in its graphite color. (credit: Dell) Dell is extending its love for Linux to the Dell XPS 13 Plus. The Developer Edition of the laptop has been Ubuntu 22.04 LTS-certified, Canonical announced today. That means the laptop will be sold starting in August with the latest version of Ubuntu, and owners of the XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition can download Ubun



Diablo Immortal now lets you regularly change character class, and won’t even charge you for doing so. The class change mechanic was rolled out in the latest Diablo Immortal update, allowing you to flexibly switch between classes completely for free. You’re now able to swap once every seven days and can keep switching between all six Diablo Immortal classes as many times as you like. In the updat



Just a couple of short weeks before its next Unpacked event , Samsung has revealed that it shipped "almost 10 million foldable smartphones" worldwide. In a post on the Samsung Newsroom, the company's chief of Mobile Experience (MX) Business, Dr. TM Roh, said that's a 300 percent increase from 2020 and that he expects what he calls "fast-paced growth" to continue. Most of its foldable customers, 7



TL;DR: The Ultimate Excel VBA Certification Bundle + Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 for Windows (lifetime license) is on sale for £66.12, saving you 87% on list price. Excel is often referred to as one of the most important pieces of software in the working world. Even if you have been using Excel for years, there is a chance you have not yet used some of its most advanced features. With



SAVE 70%: NordVPN can reliably access Prime Video from anywhere in the world. A two-year subscription to NordVPN is on sale for £69.36, saving you 52% on list price for a limited time. Prime Video is one of the toughest streaming sites to access with a VPN. This popular site often blocks users with a VPN, which can be especially frustrating if you're on an unsecured network or travelling through



The best-known HomeKit brand just debuted a fancy new motion sensor. For just $40, the second-gen Eve Motion adds an integrated light sensor, Thread support, and a more compact design. And better yet, it’s cheaper than the previous model. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



An Elden Ring player has just discovered a hidden attack that Starscourge Radahn has been sitting on for months. FromSoftware's soulslike came out in February, giving masochistic players an abundance of time for repeated playthroughs. Since its launch, the relationship between Elden Ring players and the game's bosses has been a rocky one. Updates have nerfed cheesing methods , as well as accident



Dell has been selling some of the best Linux laptops for over a decade now, and right on the heels of the HP Dev One, Dell is releasing an updated Linux variant of the premium XPS 13 Plus. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Buying a new TV is a trap. You’re forced to pick between thousands of different smart TVs, and they all have the same problems—they spy on you, shove ads down your throat, and run slower than a snail in a pile of boogers. But there’s one way to escape this trap; buy a “dumb” TV. Read This Article on Review Geek ›




Another Thursday has rolled around once again, and with it, a new Wordle to train (or strain) your brain. If you're finding today's a little hard, never fear. All you need is a little nudge in the right direction, and we're here to help. The answer to the July 21 Wordle, puzzle #397, can be found at the end of this article, or you can simply read on for a few tips, gentle hints, and strategies to



Netflix has made it clear that it plans to launch an ad-supported streaming tier, but it looks like it may not be able to offer all third-party content on it.



Most PC users are running either Windows 10 or Windows 11, but many are still on version 8.1. Now Microsoft is warning that will change soon, ready or not.



Despite the fractured nature of the political landscape, the majority of Americans agree on one thing: NASA and its various projects are a great investment.



The UK’s App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) staged a 24-hour strike Wednesday to demand Uber be held accountable for the findings of the Uber files , a trove of thousands of leaked confidential documents that show how the ride-hail company broke laws, secretly lobbied governments and exploited driver safety to expand aggressively from 2013 to 2017. The ADCU asked drivers not to open the app on



Baidu says its latest robo-taxi has the road skills of a driver with 20 years' experience.



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Today in " things we learned on the internet ," TikTok users are sharing a handy iPhone screenshotting tip. You may think you already know how to screenshot on an iPhone, but did you know you could screenshot an entire webpage on your iPhone, then save it as a PDF and revisit its contents whenever your little heart desires? Taking full-page screenshots on iPhones is super simple and helpful, yet



Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant that has plowed money into AI and autonomous vehicle technology, unveiled Wednesday a new all-electric robotaxi that it plans to deploy at scale across China. Baidu will add the Apollo RT6 EV – a cross between an SUV and a minivan that comes with a detachable steering wheel – to its Apollo Go ride-hailing service next year. The new battery-electric robotaxi



WhatsApp users are now able to freely move their chat histories between iPhone and Android devices, making the switch to a new handset less frustrating.



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Tesla plans to increase the price of its branded “full self-driving” beta software, the advanced driver assistance system that CEO Elon Musk has said will mean the difference between the company “being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.” Tesla vehicles today come standard with its driver assistance system called Autopilot. For an additional $12,000, owners can buy FSD — a feature that



The announcement comes as the value of the world's biggest cryptocurrency has plunged.



Cold Case Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Announced Monday in a news conference , authorities arrested and charged 68 year-old David Sinopoli with the murder of Lindy Sue Biechler in 1975. Leading the news conference, Lancaster County district attorney Heather Adams said that "this case was solved wit



Enlarge / Robert Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle ) The Food and Drug Administration has commissioned an external review of its food and tobacco programs in the wake of high-profile debacles—including bungled oversight of e-cigarettes, most nota



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Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Wednesday that the automaker aims to launch its long-awaited Cybertruck mid-2023. “We are still expecting to be in production with the Cybertruck in middle of next year,” Musk said during Tesla’s second-quarter financial report. “We’re very excited about that product. It might actually be our best product ever.” Although prototypes have been spotted on public roads s



If you've been hearing about BeReal a lot lately, there's a good reason. The app has been skyrocketing in popularity as an alternative to bigger platforms.



Wordle is back with another difficult solution that may leave you feeling frustrated. Even when using the best starter words, you may need some hints.



Meta is facing a lawsuit from another company called Meta, with the latter of the two claiming that Facebook (now called Meta) harmed it by rebranding.



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Forget teases, conjectures, and leaks. Samsung's own leadership has penned a blog post that primes the anticipation pump for multiple foldable devices that may "push the limit of what's possible," and will launch during Samsung Unpacked on August 10. In an editorial posted late Wednesday entitled, "The Mainstream Moment for Foldable Smartphones Is Here," Samsung President Dr. TM Roh, says that af



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Fate has course corrected to give Christina Ricci the role of Harley Quinn , a casting that makes perfect sense for Spotify and DC Comics’ upcoming podcast Harley Quinn & The Joker. The Addams Family and Yellowjackets icon will bring her sweetly creepy and chaotic energy to Harls in a new story that will refocus the… Read more...




While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12 million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformati



More and more of Samsung’s smartphones don’t jiggle, jiggle. They fold. At least, that’s the thesis shared by Dr. TM Roh, who serves as president and head of the company’s Mobile Experience Business. In a heartfelt blog post about smartphones and the folding thereof, the executive argues that the technology’s somewhat lackluster past is behind it, and that folding is the future. He also shares so



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Despite announcing that Tesla had sold 75% of its Bitcoin holdings in Q2, CEO Elon Musk disclosed in a quarterly investor call that the company also held Dogecoin and had not sold any of those holdings. “We have not sold any of our Dogecoin; we still have it,” Musk said in the call. Musk has detailed in the past that he personally owns Dogecoin but has not indicated that Tesla does, though the el



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The team behind Minecraft, one of the most popular games of all time, declared today that it won’t support NFTs. Gaming has been touted as a potential use case for NFTs, so the Microsoft-owned game’s stance on blockchain technology could have serious ramifications for such developers. “NFTs are not inclusive of all our community and create a scenario of the haves and the have-nots,” Minecraft dev



Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Pro-Russian threat actors are continuing their unrelenting pursuit of Ukrainian targets, with an array of campaigns that include fake Android apps, hack attacks exploiting critical vulnerabilities, and email phishing attacks that attempt to harvest login credentials, researchers from Google said. One of the more recent campaigns came from Turla, a Russian-speaking a



The MacBook Air after the teardown. [credit: iFixit ] The M2 MacBook Air has been arriving to those who pre-ordered it over the past few days, and repair supplies vendor iFixit is among those who received a unit. If you've been tracking iFixit's work after other Apple launches over the past several years, you know what that means: teardown time . Like the 24-inch iMac before it, the MacBook Air i



Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto ) After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Google formed its exit strategy from Russia, suspending all ads by March , then blocking Play Store app sales and removing most of its employees by May. After that, Google has only continued to provide free services to Russian Internet users, like Search, Gmail, Maps, or YouTube, and now, Google might b



Enlarge / Even the shade may not be enough to save your Nintendo Switch in extreme temperatures. (credit: Nintendo UK / YouTube ) One of the main perks of portable consoles is the ability to play them outside the house, a use we've seen emphasized in multiple marketing campaigns over the years. But as countries around the world have suffered through record-breaking heat waves in recent weeks, two



Enlarge / Discord and Xbox, seen here getting chummy by way of cute cartoon avatars attached to Discord iconography. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Discord) After trying, and failing, to acquire the popular chat platform Discord for $10 billion , Microsoft has opted for the next-best thing: directly integrating Discord's voice-chat capabilities into Xbox consoles. The news arrived on Wednesday on Xbox



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It’s an ambitious undertaking to serialize any vampire-related lore for television, and Showtime’s take on Let the Right One In looks up for the challenge. In the first images released exclusively on Entertainment Weekly , we get our first look and details on the upcoming series, which is based on the John Ajvide… Read more...



Unpatched security flaws in a GPS tracking system produced in China could have dire, “life threatening” implications, according to the researchers who discovered them. In short: hackers could track your car in real-time and even disable it while it’s still moving, the research suggests. Read more...



To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here . Oh hey, and welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday! Today, the whole office is proverbially abuzz with robotics. Proverbially, because we’re not sure we actually have an office at this point, and if we do, we don’t know who’s there. Maybe we are abuzz in Slack.



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Tesla released its 2022 Q2 earnings Wednesday and the results are mixed: Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker reported $2.3 billion in second-quarter profit, down from a record $3.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022. That’s the company’s first sequential decline in profits in over a year. Read more...



If you've seen a surreal image of three grinning chihuahuas on a taxi, an astronaut on a white horse, or a fox possibly painted by Monet, you can probably credit DALL-E , OpenAI's artificial intelligence-powered image generator, which is finally entering beta this week. Now in version two, DALL-E 2 is possibly one of the most talked about AIs since HAL 9000 . Its images, which are generated based



A class-action lawsuit represented customers who sought repairs for the troubled MacBook keyboard, released in certain laptops from 2015 to 2019. Many were frustrated by typing errors.



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NASA is already shifting attention to its next telescope project: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Yesterday, NASA announced that SpaceX has been contracted to provide launch services for the Roman Space Telescope, which is set to blast off in October 2026. Read more...



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The Overture Airline company Boom Supersonic has shown off brand new renders of its Overture aircraft , which it claims will become the "world's fastest airliner." The company unveiled the "production design" of the sleek jet, which includes four engines, a new fuselage, and fewer passenger seats compared to previous iterations. Needless to say, the aircraft is fast as hell, with a cruising at Ma



As summer rages through the world, everyone is flocking indoors to stay cool. And with the Summer Steam Sale, there’s no better indoor activity than gaming on a powerful, specced-out desktop PC. Tower-style gaming powerhouses are still the most popular choice for choosy PC gamers, and there are a handful on sale for hefty discounts, no less. If Prime Day sales left you cold, or you’re just lookin



NASA announced Wednesday that it is targeting as soon as late August for the first flight of the massive Space Launch System rocket, though agency officials stressed that the dates are tentative and dependent on teams completing remaining work. “It’s not an agency commitment,” Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development, said during a media briefing. “We’ll make t



Have you ever wondered how much airlines are reimbursed when you redeem miles for a first or business class ticket? I wanted to address that in this post. The fascinating economics of airline award seats It goes without saying that airline loyalty programs have evolved over the decades. When American AAdvantage was founded over 40 years ago, the intent was to reward travelers in order to encourag




Storage management is a chore , no matter the context. Google Photos is no exception: While the service once allowed unlimited photo backups, Google now counts all new photos and videos against your overall storage limits, regardless of their quality. That poses a problem for all users, but especially for those on… Read more...



Tesla’s mythical solar roofs may be on ice right now, but its conventional solar business is a whole ‘nother story. This afternoon, the automaker said the division notched its “strongest” quarter in more than four years, with a total of 106 megawatts deployed in Q2 2022 . “Although we continue to experience import delays beyond our control on certain solar components,” Tesla reported, “we have ex



The supply chain issues that have wracked the rest of the automotive industry for more than a year appear to have finally caught up with Tesla. The EV automaker announced on Wednesday's Q2 investors report that its automotive revenue has declined by more than 13 percent following last quarter's record-breaking mark despite ending the quarter with "the highest vehicle production month" in company



Tesla’s second-quarter earnings report tells a story of quarterly declines caused by production challenges and year-over-year growth. The company reported Wednesday a quarterly decline in revenue and earnings as supply chain constraints, inflation and an extended shutdown in China chipped away at its bottom line. The company’s share price increased rose as much as 4% and then settled up about 1.4



Reconnecting with an old friend you’ve lost touch with might sound like a challenge, but a recent study says it might be worth the effort. According to new research published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , the science actually says you should. You might think… Read more...



Tesla is receiving minimal blame for a fiery 2018 crash in South Florida, which killed two teenagers and injured another. A jury today found Tesla just one percent responsible for the crash, reports the AP , which means it's only responsible for paying $105,00 of the $10.5 million awarded to the teen's family. 90 percent of the blame was placed on the teen driver, Barrett Riley, while his father



Amsterdam Schipol airport was already in meltdown. Now its baggage systems have broken down. Continue reading ...



Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered heads to PCs with requirements that might break your bank if you're not already ready with a graphics-packed rig.



Alcohol has been banned in space, though there have been instances of drinking in the final frontier, including several spirit experiments.



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The Tesla Semi is an impressive machine that'll bring the automaker's autonomous safety features and EV tech to the long-haul trucking market.



Google has a new pair of smart glasses ready for testing, complete with a few privacy features in order to avoid the controversy that came with Google Glass.



Many drivers are very passionate about their favorite cars, and often have strong opinions about which brands they find the most unreliable.



The world’s largest maker of electric cars struggled with production problems in China.



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Mojang Studios, the makers of the ever-popular Minecraft , is taking a page from the old U.S. anti-drugs playbook , though it seems “Just Say No” works much better for blockchain-based money making schemes than it ever did for narcotics. Read more...



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There’s something about mushrooms and fungi that’s inherently creepy . They can grow just about anywhere, feed on anything, and wiggle their weird little mycelia into the cracks, corners, and crannies of any house, home, or body. It makes for very good horror . I’m excited to show you. Read more...



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Identify Theft Meta is now suing Meta. That may sound like a bit of a head-scratcher, but a smaller company known as Meta has announced that it's filing a lawsuit against the well known Meta that is Facebook's parent company, as spotted by The Verge . Founded in 2010, the smaller Meta creates and promotes live, multi-sensory art experiences — sometimes featuring virtual and augmented reality tech



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Freya the Conqueror No one does it quite like Freya, Sinker of Ships and solo travel icon. This colossal walrus, easily distinguished by an adorable pink spot on her nose, has been on a grand European tour, slumbering and sunbathing on a number of seaborne vessels as she's traveled. She's been spotted off the coasts of Germany, Denmark, and Scotland, as well as the Netherlands , where — we kid yo



Good news: There’s now a huge range of 3D printer filaments, allowing hobbyists and professionals to create an almost unlimited variety of objects. That includes not just a vast range of colors, but also filaments that provide realistic simulations of stone, wood, and metal. Without an understanding of the different 3D filament materials, results can be disappointing, so we’re taking an in-depth



Elon Musk apparently isn’t trying to hodl Tesla’s bitcoin during a crypto winter . During the company’s Q2 earnings report , the electric car company revealed it has sold 75% of its Bitcoin holdings this quarter. The company sold the coins for $963 million. Tesla said the value of its remaining “digital assets” is $218 million. In February of last year, the company announced it had purchased $1.5



Don't expect to buy a creeper skin as an NFT (non-fungible token) and plug it into your Minecraft server in the near future. Mojang has taken a firm stance against the massively popular game's involvement with NFTs and blockchain tech. "[To] ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our Minecraft client an




Apple could be set to expand its silicon offerings even further with the rumored launch of an M2 “Extreme” chip. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has apparently claimed some new Mac Pro models will be able to be outfitted with as-yet-unseen M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme options. Gurman adds that at one point Apple intended to create a new custom chip with 40 CPU cores (including 32 high-performance and 128 GPU



If you want to know what it feels like to hold the most powerful passport on earth, you’ll have to ask someone from Japan . According to the latest Henley Passport Index — which ranks passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa — a Japanese passport opens more doors than any other passport worldwide. For more TPG news delivered each morning to y



Cybersecurity researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered yet another batch of Android malware that was openly available on the Google Play Store and downloaded by hundreds of thousands of users before it was removed. This group includes dozens of apps that hid three major malware strains: Joker, Facestealer, and… Read more...



While some industries are still sussing out their opinions on NFTs, the video game community is making it clear : NFTs stand for "No F'n Thanks" in their industry. The latest company to take a stand against non-fungible tokens: Mojang Studios, the developer of the massively popular video game, Minecraft. In a statement put out today on the official Minecraft website, titled simply "Minecraft and



President Biden is still unveiling measures to combat climate change , and his newest efforts are aimed at preventing environmental crises. The President has outlined a string of executive actions that, notably, include the first "Wind Energy Areas" in the Gulf of Mexico. The 700,000 acres will allow for enough potential offshore wind power to supply over 3 million homes, according to the adminis



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The new MacBook Air is an excellent laptop, but one considerable shortcoming might dissuade power users from purchasing Apple’s least expensive notebook. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the latest model, then you know the limitation I’m referring to: heat management. Under a heavy workload, the fanless MacBook Air with… Read more...



Lyft has joined the ranks of tech companies trimming its workforce. The news of the layoffs, initially spotted in LinkedIn posts by now-former Lyft employees, has been confirmed by the company. Lyft said it has laid off about 60 people and dropped its in-house car rental service and is consolidating global operations. The Wall Street Journal was the first report on the layoffs. The cuts total abo



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The ACLU released a trove of documents showing how Homeland Security contracted with surveillance companies to scour location information.



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Deadline reports that Simon McQuoid will return to direct the Mortal Kombat sequel , which does not currently have a release date. The 2021 pandemic hit was McQuoid’s first feature film after a career spent working on video games and directing commercials for ad agencies. HBO used the film to gauge audience’s interest… Read more...



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Crash Course You may have seen him surfing on top of a drone like the Green Goblin through the streets of New York City . Hunter Kowald, daredevil and mechanical engineering extraordinaire, has repeatedly made headlines with a creation he calls the SkySurfer. But things don't always go according to plan. As seen in two new videos shared by Kowald on his Instagram account, the inventor crashed his



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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to provide testimony to a federal court to discuss their alleged involvement in the company’s notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal , over half a decade since it first captured the world’s attention. Read more...



Before the pandemic, Delta CEO Ed Bastian shared some lofty goals for inflight connectivity. Bastian promised in early 2019 that Delta’s goal was to “make Wi-Fi free with high-speed quality.” And now, just over three years later, the carrier is well on its way to delivering on that promise, even if it comes a few months after the initial timeline of one to two years. Want more airline-specific ne



In an attempt to speed up bag checking and save the environment, Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new electronic bag tagging program, a first for the United States. The airline is working with Dutch company BAGTAG to create these durable e-paper displays that will hold flight information and replace those long paper tags that we struggle to feed through luggage handles without accidentally sticki



Windows 11 is a significant step forward for Windows, but it still has many ongoing issues, especially with the all-new taskbar. Thankfully, many of the problems are being fixed ahead of the major 22H2 update. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Did no one tell European venture capitalists and startup founders that we’re supposed to be on the cusp of a global recession? With startups and VCs all heralding the doom of investment activity across the world, you’d think a market as large as Europe would be affected quite a bit. But European venture capital activity fell only slightly in the second quarter from the preceding three months. Wha



With midterm elections less than four months away, there’s more than a little concern growing about what may come before the first ballot boxes creak open. Sure, there are a few major topics that are driving the conversation leading into November. Sure, we still don’t know how much the “Big Lie ” will spur voters one… Read more...



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Heatwaves are roasting the entire northern hemisphere this week. Read more...



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I hope you aren’t tired of Everything Everywhere All At Once yet ( I’m not !) but we’ve got good news. A24's record-breaking film is back, bigger, weirder, and more absurd than ever. The Daniels’ sophomore film returns to theaters on July 29, this time including 8 minutes of unreleased footage in an expanded cut of the … Read more...



While every month of Netflix arrivals includes a little something for everyone, the most obviously anticipated August release is the big-budget, star-studded adaption of Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic The Sandman (Aug. 5). The cast features Tom Sturridge, Jenna Coleman, G


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