Monday, July 18, 2022

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The worst Marvel film is getting a sequel, according to a new Marvel Studios leak. Eternals , the lowest ranked Marvel film among fans and critics – though not in our Marvel movies in order guide – may get a follow-up, according to the moderators on the Marvel Studios Spoilers Reddit page. As teased in a new Tales From the Mod Queue thread , Eternals 2 "is on track" at Marvel Studios, though ther



Delta is the biggest airline in the United States that doesn’t currently have the Boeing 737 MAX in its fleet (which I’d consider to be a positive, personally, since I prefer the A321neo to the 737 MAX). For a couple of years now, there have been reports of Delta being in negotiations with Boeing for the purchase of 737 MAXs. The time has finally come, and Delta has announced a massive Boeing 737



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Google came under fire from Russian authorities yet again on Monday for the company’s ongoing flubs in removing content that the country had deemed illegal. Specifically, according to an official Telegram post from the Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecom regulator, the company had failed to pull down clips from Russian… Read more...




Snapchat, the long-time mobile-exclusive messaging app has finally launched a PC version called Snapchat for Web. However, it has one major flaw compared to Discord and other desktop-based messaging applications – you have to pay to use it right now. Just like the mobile original, Snapchat for Web will let users share snaps, talk in text chats, and even video calls, but now these can be done from



The groups were offering refunds for products purchased on Amazon once reviews had been posted.



If your Android smartphone or tablet keeps crashing, there are a few different issues that may be behind the problem. Google explains how to fix them.



Since 1926 or thereabouts, Mercedes-Benz has operated under the slogan "the best or nothing" (although let's not forget, Karl Benz introduced what's widely acknowledged to be the first petrol-powered car way back in 1886), and that certainly seems to have been the firm's approach here. Master & Dynamic is a much younger company (having been founded in 2014 in New York) and one that specializes in



TL;DR: A one-year subscription to a Matt's Flights Premium Plan is on sale for £25.10, saving you 69% on list price. Making travel plans doesn’t actually have to be miserable. It doesn’t even have to be hard. With the help of a travel planner subscription, you can get deals on flights that you may have never found otherwise. Matt’s Flights is one such subscription, and it can send deals on cheap



We'd like to introduce you to BBC iPlayer, one of the most popular streaming sites in the UK. Users get access to a wide range of dramas, original shows, and much more on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and smart TVs. BBC iPlayer services also feature no adverts for viewers, which is a nice bonus that we're sure everyone can appreciate. The only catch is that you must be covered by a TV licence to



SAVE UP TO 70%: Lovehoney is the top spot to find deals on a wide range of popular sex toys. Lovehoney has launched its summer sale with up to 70% off sex toys, lingerie sets, bondage gear, and essentials. Summer has well and truly landed in the UK, and it's not exactly pleasant. If you're looking to turn up the temperature even further for some inexplicable reason, Lovehoney has dropped a sizzli



If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so much copypasta, there’s a good reason: Fake reviews abound and people are getting paid to post them. Amazon filed a lawsuit Monday against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that coordinate cash or goods for buyers willing to post bogus product reviews. The glob



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GM unveiled Monday evening the Chevrolet Blazer EV, an all-electric SUV with up to 320 miles of range and a starting price of $48,000 that CEO and Chairman Mary Barra hopes will supercharge her bid to surpass Tesla in U.S. EV sales by 2025. The Chevrolet Blazer EV, which will go on sale in 2023 as a 2024 model year, isn’t the only impending GM electric vehicle. A slew of Cadillac and Chevy EVs ar



GM previewed its 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV today, adding the two-row mid-size crossover [in a variety of trims, including the SS performance model,] to its growing lineup of all-electric cars. As far as SUVs go, the Chevy Blazer hasn’t ever been the most eye-catching or highest rated . But the new Blazer EV could stand out as a solid, reasonably priced electric mid-sized SUV in a market filled wit



Apple Arcade is a great deal for iPhone and iPad owners who enjoy mobile games, but it looks like a bunch of titles will disappear in the near future.



The pandemic has triggered more demand for online shopping and fueled many smaller retailers to establish their own online offerings. Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. The Series D funding, whic



It's Tuesday once again, and that means — just like every other day — there's a fresh new Wordle to work on. If you're having a hard time finding the solution, though, we're here to lend a hand. The answer to the July 19 Wordle, puzzle #395, can be found at the end of this article, or you can simply read on for a few tips, gentle hints, and strategies to help you every day. Where did Wordle come



Russian regulator says the content included "fake" reports that discredited Russia's military.



In a recently released featurette for HBO Max’s Game of Thrones : House of the Dragon , showrunners Ryan J. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik along with book series creator George R.R. Martin dove behind the scenes into what some of the prequel series is all about. Read more...



A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of payment card issuers accuses Apple of illegally profiting from Apple Pay and breaking antitrust laws. Iowa's Affinity Credit Union is listed as the plaintiff in the complaint , filed today in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit alleges that by restricting contactless payments on iOS devices to Apple Pay and



An unreleased variant of Microsoft's Surface Duo folding smartphone made an appearance in an online listing, revealing what could have been a mid-range option.



Virtual reality has been around for years, but most people don't own a VR system, at least according to a survey we conducted. Will that ever change?



Most Android users keep their phone's Bluetooth turned on 24/7, but you may want to reconsider doing that due to the possible security risks.



Amazon is finally updating its Prime Video interface with some of the features users have been requesting for quite some time, making it easier to navigate.




Brydge's keyboards are the best iPad accessories we've ever tested, and effectively turn Apple's popular tablet into a MacBook Pro. Right now, you can save $60 on its Max+ keyboard designed for 12.9-inch iPad Pro models released between 2018 and 2021. Originally $249.99, you can now buy it for $189.99. The keyboard's aluminum frame perfectly matches the iPad 's aesthetics, and a series of magnets



The move settles claims that its wait time fees discriminated against passengers with disabilities.



Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Moment ) This is not the summer that Americans want to deal with an unknown number of cryptocurrency firms unexpectedly flooding the power grid. More Americans are already expecting to experience rolling blackouts as the nation's power grid strains against record heat and drought conditions currently spiking energy usage from coast to coast. Now, lawmakers ar



Portrait of Edmond de Belamy Enlarge / A woman looks at a work of art created by an algorithm by French collective named OBVIOUS, which produces art using artificial intelligence, titled Portrait of Edmond de Belamy at Christie's in New York on October 22, 2018. The piece sold for $432,500. (credit: Timothy A. Clary/Getty ) In just a few years, the number of artworks produced by self-described AI



Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Servers running the open source Asterisk communication software for Digium VoiP services are under attack by hackers who are managing to commandeer the machines to install web shell interfaces that give the attackers covert control, researchers have reported. Researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks said they suspect the hackers are gaining access to the on



Enlarge / There's not a lot to see in Google Wallet, just the usual NFC interface and a few loyalty cards. Today is apparently the launch day for Google Wallet—Google's fourth rebrand of its payment system. Users on Reddit report the app has rolled out to them, and a version has popped up on APKMirror if you want to sideload. Google also launched a ton of support pages today relating to Wallet. G



Glancing Blow NASA has released images of the mirrors of its James Webb Space Telescope after they were struck by a larger-than-expected micrometeoroid. While the size of the space particle, which impacted the observatory in May, was larger than the team had prepared for, the damage is fortunately isolated to just one of the observatory's 18 mirrors, as seen in images included in a yet-to-be-peer



Ever since “Space Invaders” took over arcades on two continents back in 1978, space has been the backdrop for games big and small. The Nintendo Switch hosts tons of great space games that span tons of genres, from action-packed cinematic adventures to cozy exploration sims. And because they’re on the Switch, you can experience the glory of the stars anywhere. Here’s a selection of our favorite pi



Electric and hybrid aircraft are under development which could cut the need for jet fuel.



Gbike , a South Korea-based micromobility Gcooter operator, is acquiring Hyundai Motor’s shared micromobility platform ZET as it wants to increase its market share and create technological synergies via ZET’s fleet management system. Gbike CEO Walter Yoon told TechCrunch that the deal, which is its first acquisition, will be completed in early August. The financial terms of the deal were not disc



Robotic learning has quickly become of automation’s most vibrant categories — and understandably so. Programming a robot has traditionally required a lot of technical know-how, but what if there was a simpler way for non-programmers/roboticists to teach these systems to do what we want? Imitation and reinforcement learning are two of the most popular methods at the moment. The first involves taki



The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening yet another special investigation into a Tesla vehicle crash, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. This time it involves the crash of a 2021 Tesla Model Y that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month. Reuters was the first to report the special investigation. This is the 38th special investigation of a crash invo



Slack, the chat platform that serves as an online watercooler for oh-so-many teams, is bumping up its monthly price and changing the way its free plan works. The company announced the changes via blog post this afternoon. Here’s what’s changing: If you pay for the “Pro” plan by the month, the price will increase from $8 per user per month to $8.75 per user per month. If you pay for the “Pro” plan



NGL is only the latest anonymous-messaging platform to take off by making explicit the subtext of most social media: We’re all judging one another. Why is it so hard to resist?



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Globally we are in the midst of the sixth wave of the covid epidemic, and with visitors to San Diego Comic-Con International coming from all over the world for the latest in pop culture , the convention has underlined its safety protocols for attendees . Read more...



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The company laid off some US staff and told workers in Europe and the UK that their jobs are at risk.



Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: The first images from James Webb Space Telescope are here Lunar Outpost eyes up moon markets News from ABL Space Systems, Skyrora and more By the way …we’re right around the corner from TC Sessions: Robotics , a full-day digital gathering of some of the world’s leading founders, technologists, engineers, researchers and investors in robotics and AI!



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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 . Presumably you’ve been in the nightclubs (or at least your living room with the music turned to 11) doing the Robot and other amazing dance moves all weekend. Continue the fun into your workweek! We’ve got a free (!) robotics event and here’s five lovingly curated



Fungal Provocateur Welcome to hell. According to University of Copenhagen scientists, a pathogenic zombie fungus (yes, you read that right) infects female houseflies and (sorry in advance) seduces male flies into mating with their undead corpses. The researchers' study, published The ISME Journal , purports that the fungus, called Entomophthora muscae, slowly eats infected flies alive from within



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In news that seems like it just might lead to a strange new superhero, Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with an injection of, well, bear serum. The secret, according to a press release from the University of Hiroshima , is bears' ability to hibernate for extended periods of time without losing muscle mass. Humans live with a "use it or lose it" rule when it comes




Amazon’s got a big fall season coming up, so the Prime Video app is getting overhauled ahead of time. The company formerly run by Jeff Bezos announced Monday that its streaming service would get a new user interface after years of looking the same. The update will start rolling out to streaming devices like Amazon’s own Fire TV line this week, with a vague “summer” promise for when everyone can e



As the crypto market continues to struggle, plenty of founders and investors are left wondering whether this latest bull run was all some grand fever dream or whether some of the trends of the past two years spell a new future for the consumer web. This week on TechCrunch’s crypto-centric podcast Chain Reaction , we caught up with Naveen Jain, the creator of a product called Yat, which sells what



After a quieter couple of weeks for flight cancellations following the chaos travelers experienced for much of June, those at airports Monday got a stark reminder of the problems a round of summer thunderstorms can cause. As storms hit the East Coast Monday — packing a particular punch in the New York area — cancellations and delays rapidly mounted. For more TPG news delivered each morning to you



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Federal agents have identified 244 victims who lost some $42.7 million to fake cryptocurrency apps during the past year, according to a Monday announcement from the FBI. There are plenty of ways to lose money on the internet, and, unfortunately, there are tons of people who fall for these scams, forking over ungodly… Read more...



The United Arab Emirates will pour more than $800 million into space initiatives through a massive new fund, with the first investment going toward the establishment of a remote sensing satellite constellation. That constellation, called “Sirb” (the Arabic word for a flock of birds), will use synthetic aperture radar technology to capture high-resolution images. The country listed border control,



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A novel nasal spray treatment appears to show promise in quickly clearing the coronavirus that causes covid-19 from our nostrils. In a recent Phase III trial in India, the spray was found to significantly reduce people’s nasal viral load within days and at a faster rate than those who received a placebo. Treated… Read more...



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Netflix announced today that it will begin testing a new “add a home” feature to charge users who share their account with others in select countries. The test marks the streaming giant’s latest effort toward cracking down on password sharing. The test will prompt users to pay an additional fee if they use an account outside their household. Netflix will begin testing the feature in Argentina, th



If you’ve been too busy for the last four months to see a supermoon, you can still catch the final one of the year. On Aug. 11, if you can spare a moment to gaze at the heavens, you will be able to see the full “Sturgeon Moon.” August’s full moon reaches peak illumination at 9:36 p.m. on the East Coast. It will be in… Read more...



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Working from home is great for so many reasons: no commuting, saving money by making your own lunch, a better work-life balance. And, of course, the spontaneities of life occurring all around you while you do a TV spot from your home office. However, that bonus might be more for us, the viewers, than the individuals themselves. Everyone knows about the now infamous "BBC Dad," Professor Robert Kel



Researchers have revealed what might be the first 'dormant' stellar-mass black hole ever discovered outside the Milky Way, complete with its own companion star.



The PlayStation 4 is a reliable gaming console, but that doesn't mean you won't run into any bugs. There are multiple possible ways to fix corrupted data.



Wordle is kicking off this week with a reasonably simple solution, one you can easily figure out if you make a couple of careful initial guesses.



Government officials in the U.K. just released commentary on their future regulation (or lack thereof) of loot boxes and similar random-pack items in games.



AI is becoming an increasingly common part of everyday life, and it powers many things, including digital friends some users form relationships with.



The Volkswagen Beetle was wildly popular until it was banned in America in 1977 for failing to meet safety regulations.



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I certainly hope that Peter Dinklage enjoys a tipple or two. Otherwise, I’m not especially sure why the actor, after playing Tyrion Lannister, the fan-favorite lush of Westeros, in Game of Thrones would want to play an arguably more infamous boozehound in another major genre series . Read more...



Uber is settling a Justice Department lawsuit accusing the company of overcharging riders with disabilities . The ridesharing company has agreed to pay at least $2.2 million to passengers who were charged wait time fees despite disabilities that required more time to enter a vehicle. The payout includes nearly $1.74 million for over 1,000 riders who complained about the fees and $500,000 for “oth



Worldwide, more than a billion people suffer from vision impairment and entirely avoidable blindness. Cataracts — and the surgery to correct them — is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world, with more than 28 million performed worldwide, every year. The problem is, even though the surgery is relatively simple, there aren’t enough surgeons, and not enough money to pay those surgeo



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New Wave While Europe is sweltering due to a deadly heat wave , other parts of the globe are grappling with the devastating effects of climate change in different ways. Take a shocking new video that shows a massive tidal wave sweep over the top of a two-story condo in Hawaii, amid what the National Weather Service (NWS) is referring to as a " historic " ocean surf. "The current and waves got rea



I'm Melting England is getting cooked by a deadly heatwave — literally, in the case of one Royal Air Force base, where it got so hot, the runway actually melted . As the UK's Sky News reports, planes had to be rerouted from the Brize Norton air base near London when the base had to shut down over the heat that reached record high temperatures. As Sky News ' Deborah Norton noted in a tweet thread




Glow Up It only happens once or twice per year anywhere on the planet, but one crew of sailors said in a New York Times interview published Saturday that their boat sailed right through it — a deep-water bioluminescent event know as "milky sea." Earlier this week, researcher and Colorado State University professor Steven Miller published a study in the journal PNAS that compared satellite imagery



Editor’s note: This story has been updated. TSA PreCheck has become more gender-inclusive. The Transportation Security Administration announced its popular trusted traveler program now allows travelers to select an “X” gender marker, providing an option for the first time for travelers who don’t identify as either male or female. Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free biweekly Av



With all the fees that hotels you’d think there’s nothing left to unbundle. However Hyatt’s Destination Residences Mauna Lani Point resort in Waimea has come up with a creative new fee I haven’t seen before. In a move sure to impress Monsieur Thénardier himself, the hotel actually charges guests for damage they haven’t even done to the room yet through a mandatory $79 damage waiver fee on each bo



Uber has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that the ride-hail company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by overcharging riders with disabilities. The company will offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were “charged discriminatory fees due to disability,” according to a statement from the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ ori



It’s the stuff of disaster movies and sensational headlines: An asteroid, meteor, or comet is headed toward Earth. Are we doomed? Isn’t this what took out the dinosaurs? Will we have enough lead time to put our differences aside, come together as a species and mount some kind of technological defense and/or effort to… Read more...



The issue of cloud sovereignty is increasingly becoming a sticking point for EU regulators, and it is something that businesses are starting to recognize, research from Capgemini has said. In a survey, it found over two-thirds (69%) of businesses cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws in a cloud environment as a potential issue. Another 68% cited a lack of transparency and control ove



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The British Isles were a very different place some 10,000 years ago . For one thing, the land mass was still connected to mainland Europe. The last ice age was ending, and glaciers were receding. And bison may have been roaming—specifically, a now-extinct species known as the steppe bison . (Even farther back, in the… Read more...



Amazon is introducing a new Prime Video interface that will be familiar to anyone who has used Netflix – or, for that matter, any other modern streaming service. To make the Prime Video experience “less busy and overwhelming,” the company has relocated the platform’s main navigation bar to the left side of the screen and arranged the icons into a vertical column. From top to bottom, the six menus



Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. For following a specific link you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones you’d earn for credit card spending. The number of bonus points you earn per dollar spent varies greatly by retailer , though in addition to those variable bonuses, there are often promotions that are avail



HireArt , which TechCrunch previously described as a “resume-killing” jobs marketplace , today announced that it raised $26.25 million in a Series B financing round led by Three Fish Capital with participation from over a “half dozen” angel investors. CEO Nick Sedlet said that the cash will be put toward product development and more than doubling HireArt’s 82-person headcount within the next year



The key to giving a great speech is actually writing a great speech. All the speech-related advice out there focuses on our collective (and completely rational) fear of public speaking . What if I told you that delivering a speech is a whole lot easier when you know that the writing is airtight and kick-ass? Welcome to… Read more...



There’s good news for Amtrak travelers who are hoping for maximum flexibility with trips this fall, as Amtrak is once again waiving its change fees for reservations made through October. This means that all Amtrak reservations made by Oct. 31 can be changed without an extra fee, regardless of fare type. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter . (Sc



If Intel’s long-in-the-pipe lineup of discrete GPUs were like childhood fantasies of Santa, then the most wise amongst us would ascribe to the axiom that “ seeing is believing .” As far as the rumored Arc A780 graphics card is concerned, it’s pretty much confirmed nobody’s going to be getting one in their stocking this… Read more...



The 16-inch MacBook Pro with its lid closed. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Second-generation refreshes of the current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro design could arrive as soon as this fall, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The updated laptops will feature more powerful chips based on Apple's M2, he claims. In his weekly Power On newsletter, the journalist—who has accurately reported on upcoming A



Enlarge / If GameStop's NFT business is gonna go "to the moon," total trade volume on the platform has been bending in the wrong direction so far... Last week, when Ars analyzed the first day of NFT sales on GameStop's heavily hyped crypto marketplace , some boosters were quick to suggest that this was just a starting point and that interest and trading volume might increase as time goes on and m



Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk urged the Delaware Court of Chancery to reject Twitter's motion for an expedited trial, saying he needs extensive time to analyze Twitter's spam-account data. While Twitter's motion sought a four-day trial to be completed in September 2022, Musk's court filing on Friday said the trial should begin on or after Feb



Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci attends the National AIDS Update Conference as it meets at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium on October 12, 1989. Fauci at the time was based in Maryland, but he became a frequent voice for Bay Area residents following the AIDS crisis, even before he became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984. (credit: Getty | Hearst Newspaper



Enlarge / Asahi Linux is now up and running on the Mac Studio and the first M2 Macs. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Unlike Intel Macs, Apple silicon Macs were designed to run only Apple's software. But the developers on the Asahi Linux team have been working to change that , painstakingly reverse-engineering support for Apple's processors and other Mac hardware and releasing it as a work-in-progress



Enlarge / Atop Falcon 9, CRS-25 lifts off on Friday night. Zooming in, you can see mosquitos dotted throughout the frame, backlit by the rocket exhaust. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) With little fanfare this weekend, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets. The first booster lifted off on Friday night and carried nearly three tons of supplies to the International Space Station, including two new space s



Enlarge / The buildings of the IHES. (credit: Dhananjay Khadilkar) Even before this year’s Fields Medal winners announcement, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) or the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, boasted a remarkable statistic. Since its founding in 1958, the institute has had 12 permanent mathematics professors; seven of them had won a Fields Medal, considered to b




On the same day it officially became a PlayStation studio, Bungie filed a lawsuit against a Destiny 2 player it accused of persistent cheating and making threats against its employees. The developer claimed Luca Leone violated the game's Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) on multiple occasions. It's seeking $150,000 in damages and an injunction preventing Leone from “harassing, stalking or



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Firefighters across southern Europe and northern Africa have been battling intense wildfires this week as areas across the region have experienced record-setting temperature spikes. Read more...



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This week, temperatures are soaring across Europe and North America . In the often gray and dreary U.K., the mercury is set to hit a record 100 F, and in the U.S., cities across Texas , Oklahoma, Colorado and Arkansas have already seen record temperatures. For those living without air conditioning, these temperatures can be extremely difficult to live with. The commute to work becomes more stress



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Do you love cheese? Do you love nuggets? Do you love tossing things in your air fryer and seeing what will happen? Well then, let me introduce you to Cheese Nuggets, also known as “air-fried halloumi.” Read more...



Some of digital health’s best-capitalized startups are struggling. A string of healthcare unicorns have announced layoffs over the past few weeks, including Ro, Cerebral, Forward and Calibrate. While these companies are all targeting different corners of the healthcare world — from direct-to-consumer healthcare to virtual mental health support — the layoffs show a similar response to the macroeco



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Apple Inc. is planning to slow down hiring and spending next year in some sectors, to better manage the looming economic downturn, according to a report from Bloomberg News. An unnamed number of anonymous sources with “knowledge of the matter” reportedly told Bloomberg about the forthcoming stall. Read more...



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Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) bring their blooming love for villainy back to Gotham with new master plan in the violent red band trailer for Harley Quinn . Get a kick out of the bombastic brutality as Ivy hopes to ascend by terraforming the city with a Green new plan which doesn’t seem too bad… Read more...



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Every now and then, NASA’s rovers spot things that don’t seem to fit with the usual Martian landscape: Just a few months ago, Curiosity imaged what appeared to be a doorway . A new image from the Perseverance rover is grabbing similar attention for capturing what appears to be a tangle of string. Read more...



Hulu has released a full version of "Angel in Flip Flops" from Only Murders in the Building Season 2. In the series, Steve Martin's character Charles-Haden Savage released the song in 1989, and it was huge in Germany. At least, until the Berlin Wall fell and stopped its track momentum. Womp womp. Now, many years later, we can enjoy the cheesy tune in all its glory, complete with a hilarious anima



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The M2 processor is certainly impressive, as we covered in our recent MacBook Air review, but there is more powerful Apple silicon on the horizon. In Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter, originally surfaced by 9to5Mac , Mark Gurman writes that Apple plans to launch new M2 Pro- and M2 Max-equipped MacBook Pros as soon as… Read more...



New records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its various divisions may be spying on people using smartphone location data. The ACLU got over 6,000 pages of records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, which you can read in its entirety on the organization’s website . The documents show how the DHS was ab



VC firms are holding on to their checkbooks as the investment market slows to a crawl, but fund managers are taking advantage of the lull to fill up their coffers to the point of overflowing. In the first half of 2022, U.S. venture capital firms raised a $121.5 billion , a stunning leap from the $74.1 billion raised in the same period last year, according to PitchBook . The year’s first six month



The latest bunch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass have been announced, and there’s a few big names among them. The most tantalizing game in the new Xbox Game Pass line-up is Torment: Tides of Numenera. It's the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment that harkens back to the early days of isometric RPGs. Expect a story rich in characters, lots of difficult decisions to bear, and an offbeat sc



Unmitigated control is what you’ll get when you harness the best 3D modeling software. With tool sets that appeal to character artists working on AAA games, architects creating opera-house floor plans, 3D-printing aficionados harnessing the power of lasers, and product designers detailing the curved heel of a sneaker, 3D modeling software is for the Donatellos just as much as it is for the techni



"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has spoken out about surviving two separate brain aneurysms while filming the HBO fantasy series in 2011 and 2013. Thanks to medical science, Clarke says she's subsequently made an almost full recovery — except for the large chunks of grey matter she had to part with during emergency surgical interventions following both events. "There’s quite a bit missing,"



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Free Space The James Web Space Telescope cost a whopping $10 billion to build — and it's already proving to be a worthy successor to NASA's historic Hubble observatory. But there's one line on its spec sheet that caught us off guard: the observatory has a minuscule 68 gigabyte solid-state drive (SSD), as IEEE Spectrum noticed earlier this month — only about half the storage of an entry-level iPho



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Now or Never It's been a troubling summer for the planet. Global heatwaves — likely a result of human-generated climate change , at least in part — have caused several wildfires and deepened drought conditions in some areas, while extreme summer storms threaten destructive flooding in others. The urgency of the situation has not been lost on UN Secretary General António Guterres. In a video messa




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Ground Control The James Webb Space Telescope has charmed starwatchers the world round . But as NASA scientists recently revealed, there was a brief moment of panic when they were worried the scope wouldn't make it. In a Science Channel special , NASA Mission Operations Manager Carl Starr admitted that the telescope's sunshield, a key piece of equipment that ensure s it doesn't get burnt by the S



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Craig McCraken , most well known for creating both the Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends , has announced that he will be returning to these properties in a deal with Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. Both shows are set for new animated series, with McCraken expected to lead both shows as as creator,… Read more...



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A micrometeoroid that hit the Webb Space Telescope in late May caused permanent damage to the spacecraft, according to a Space Telescope Science Institute report. Read more...



Egg wash is a culinary backup singer—you don’t notice it when it’s there, but you sure do notice its absence. Yet there’s always the moment mid-bake when you read ahead in the recipe and grunt, “Ugh, do I have to do the egg wash?” Yep, you kinda do. The egg wash is one of the most important steps in some recipes, and… Read more...



Google announced back in May that the Google Pay app would be renamed to Google Wallet, complete with a fresh modern design. The update is now starting to roll out to Android phones. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Sometimes, you may want to save a picture (often a document image) as a PDF on your device. Luckily, Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and iPad offer the feature of downloading images from the internet as PDFs. We’ll show you how to use those options. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Now you can be as creepy as Resident Evil 4 's famed, hunching merchant when talking with people on Instagram. “Over here, stranger. What’re ya buying?” Instagram’s parent company Meta announced Monday you can now buy directly from small business owners when chatting with them on Instagram. Read more...



Hilton Honors enthusiasts have a new luxury hotel in Mexico to look forward to, as this hotel recently started accepting reservations. Basics of the Waldorf Astoria Cancun The Waldorf Astoria Cancun is now accepting reservations for stays as of November 1, 2022. The resort will be located along 100 acres of Mayan coastline, and will be just 15 minutes from Cancun International Airport (CUN). The



Bypassing Internet censorship is among one of many updates coming to version 11.5 of the Tor Browser . Available to download from the Tor Project website , the latest version will “transform the user experience of connecting to Tor from heavily censored regions,” the company said in a release . The latest update can now automatically apply the right bridge configuration you need, based on what it



Last month, a federal judge in California approved a $45 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit a group of consumers brought against Monsanto for promoting and selling Roundup and other weed killers without disclosing that they contain an ingredient that has the potential to cause cancer. Read more...



Flying Blue — the loyalty program for both Air France and KLM — has a wide variety of mileage redemptions for flights to all over the world. Since both airlines are part of SkyTeam, you can redeem on alliance airlines like Aeromexico, Delta Air Lines and Korean Airlines. Plus, it has a handful of great non-alliance partners like Virgin Atlantic. Further, you can transfer points to Flying Blue fro



Australian labor law is insane. The government has ordered Virgin Australia to reinstate a flight attendant who was fired for napping on the job; watching a movie inflight; showing up late to work and violating uniform standards; and taking food meant for passengers. According to the government the decision to fire her was “harsh, unjust and unreasonable.” So what does it actually take to get fir



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A deadly cousin of the Ebola virus has made its way to a new part of the world. This week, World Health Organization officials announced that the African nation of Ghana is now experiencing its first documented outbreak of Marburg. At least two people have contracted the disease so far, both of whom have died. Read more...



There are a lot of different factors that combine to make a successful Airbnb trip, from scouting the most suitable location, to finding the lowest price, to ensuring everything is smoothly set up for your trip. We’ve got a few suggestions for tweaking every part of your Airbnb booking and travel process, so you can… Read more...



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In the tortured deal’s alternate reality, it makes sense for the company's leaders to try to force Musk to take over—but things will get tricky if they succeed.



So you're worried about what will happen if your brand new smart lock's power goes out. Good news: the company that made that lock prepared for this situation.



Insider tips and rumors suggest that Apple may be preparing to reveal and release two new MacBook Pro devices with M2 processors inside.



iPhone users can now edit, delete, and recover messages, just so long as they're willing to use the latest public beta of iOS 16.



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A decades-old Toyota classic will be returning to the U.S. for the first time in 50 years. But along with it comes new technology and a very unique style.



Speaking plainly, Prime Video is ugly as hell. Its menus are cluttered, its library is a muddled mix of free, paid and add-on content and its general user interface (UI) is about as friendly as those Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Thankfully, though, executives at the Amazon-owned platform have long been aware of its shortcomings on the design front, and Prime Video is finally getting a makeover




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If you have a food allergy or a medical condition that you might need to explain to others, traveling abroad brings new challenges. You have to figure out how to explain yourself in a language you may not speak well (or at all) to ensure you don’t eat something you shouldn’t. That’s where translated medical cards come… Read more...



Amazon is introducing a new Prime Video interface for streaming devices, smart TVs and Android devices that ditches text-based tabs on top for icon-based navigation on the side along with a dedicated tab sports on the home page for live and pre-recorded content in the category. The new redesign includes a bigger carousel for Amazon Originals with maturity ratings and top 10 charts for titles in t



EA has announced the cover stars for FIFA 23 and, for the first time in the series, a female player will feature on the Ultimate Edition, which will be available internationally. Chelsea's Sam Kerr is one of the two cover stars, along with Kylian Mbappé of Paris Saint-Germain. This will be the third straight year Mbappé has appeared on FIFA covers. Kerr is a more than worthy player to showcase on



This week nerddom descends on San Diego for the long-awaited return of Comic-Con , after several years away. But what is it that keeps people of all stripes, from comics creatives to actors and directors, coming back year after year—except for all those times we couldn’t in recent years? A new oral history about SDCC’s… Read more...



Want your Android phone to play your favorite song when you get a call? If so, set your song as the default ringtone for all callers or specific ones. We’ll show you how to do that on your phone. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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Just seven weeks after crypto exchange Gemini cut approximately 10% of its workforce due to “turbulent market conditions,” the startup has made a second round of layoffs, TechCrunch has learned, and there may be more on the way. The company had not widely communicated the extent of Monday’s layoffs internally, leaving employees to speculate on the exact number of co-workers laid off in this most



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Much has been made of how European countries are, on the one hand, supporting Ukraine in its fight against the heinous and illegal invasion by Russia but at the same time remaining heavily dependent on Russian energy sources. Many countries in the EU — currently experiencing a heatwave — have scrambled to switch to alternatives, such as renewables, which are considered one of the key factors of i



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Parsing the latest data on the startup fundraising market in Q2, TechCrunch has explored the global perspective , taken a closer look at fintech , asked how much dry powder VCs have and brought the latest from unicorn land . But we are not yet done. Later this week, we’re looking at the European venture market, which is faring a little better than many other major startup hubs. But Europe is not



London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) has asked airlines to cancel 10% of their flights while it deals with a “baggage mountain” that has grown at the hobbled hub. More than 15,000 passengers across 90 flights have likely been affected, according to reports. The “technical failure” — which occurred on Friday at Heathrow’s Terminal 2’s handling division — led to thousands of suitcases becoming stuck in



Despite the fact that it stars a cat, there’s no extra fluff in Stray . The game takes place under the dome of an artificial sky, in a futuristic city populated by robots and cut off from the natural world, and mechanically, it’s also perfectly contained. Every detail in Stray serves a purpose, whether it’s an environmental cue nudging players toward a specific path or the ability to meow at will



Looking for a summer vacation destination? Why not visit one of Canada’s beautiful national parks? Sure, the United States has a bunch of them , too, but maybe you’re not feeling too keen on the U.S. right now (relatable). Further burnishing Canada’s rep as the North American land of plenty: You can even visit said… Read more...



Security experts have recently discovered hackers on a particularly stealthy mission to compromise hotels in Latin America using OpenDocument text files. The unknown hackers are using a rarely seen phishing method that seems to be working out well so far, with the detection rate on VirusTotal for the malicious files being used was zero less than two weeks ago. The campaign itself has also raised



Digital mortgage lender Better.com , which began making plans to go public via a SPAC in May 2021 , has confirmed that it intends to move forward with its planned public debut, despite lackluster performance of blank-check combinations in recent quarters . Better.com has itself seen its fair share of turbulence since it announced its plans to merge with a SPAC, including botched layoffs and chang



Earlier this year, Verizon and T-Mobile started deploying 5G service on C-Band, a mid-band frequency that offers faster speeds at farther distances. Verizon is now preparing an upgrade that could make C-Band even better. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Nearly a full year after its launch, the Fitbit Charge 5 suffers from some odd and annoying bugs. And many of these problems, particularly battery drain and Bluetooth connection dropouts, were first reported in 2021. Now, it seems that Fitbit is addressing these two complaints with a firmware update. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



The mysterious image was revealed by an X-ray taken when conservationists at the National Galleries of Scotland examined Van Gogh's Head of a Peasant Woman (1885) ahead of a new exhibition called A Taste for Impressionism . A routine cataloging procedure of a painting by Vincent van Gogh at the National Galleries in Scotland yielded an unexpected discovery : a hidden self-portrait on the back of



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Stray Enlarge / The unnamed star of Stray poses in its strange, new world of mysteries and puzzles. (credit: Annapurna Interactive / BlueTwelve Studio) The indie gaming genre of "silly animal exploration" has produced a bunch of fun and unique experiences. We've loved pantomiming as the following: hellraising goats , car-driving bears , and (if you'll allow it into the genre) bendy, walking slice




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According to reports from SkyNews in the United Kingdom, the country’s largest Royal Air Force base—RAF Brize Norton—has ceased all incoming and outgoing flights as severe heat has allegedly caused the runway to melt. Read more...



Nvidia announced that Corsair will integrate the former’s Broadcast app into its iCue and Elgato software this week, including the Elgato Wave Link and Elgato Camera Hub. In order to take advantage of this new integration, according to the official Nvidia blog post, you’ll need a compatible headset, microphone or camera, and an Nvidia RTX GPU. The Corsair integrations of the app mean you won't ne



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When Godzilla wades ashore, he usually leaves a swath of destruction behind him. But if you’re traveling to San Diego Comic-Con , the only swath of destruction might be to your wallet, courtesy of Mondo ’s many Godzilla and Godzilla-adjacent releases. Don’t worry if you’re not attending the con: some of these will also… Read more...



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Twitter is officially suing Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the billionaire tried to buy the social media network for over $44 billion — before changing his mind and attempting to pull out of the deal. Now, legal experts are saying things aren't looking good for Musk in the courtroom, Insider reports . His claim that he's backing out of the deal because Twitter misled him about the number of bots on th



Can a mirror help you get better results? That’s what Fiture, which is billed as the “ultimate fitness mirror,” would have you believe. Fitness mirrors came to the market pre-COVID, but they hit their stride when gyms closed down, and everyone hunted for motivating home workouts. These relatively compact mirrors include a subscription to an accompanying app, where you can access workouts that ran



It’s easy to assume the files we download and install to our computers are exactly what they say they are. After all, an app with a high quality icon and a correct name to match looks legit: Why wouldn’t it be? Malware—and malware developers—thrive under these assumptions, since the goal is for you to open these… Read more...



Although you probably strive to format your Word document as you compose it, there may be a time when you need to rearrange items. This is common if you use images, objects, and for this guide, tables. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Between the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the newly announced Ioniq 6, Hyundai is on a roll right now. And to keep the momentum going, we’re now getting our first look at the Hyundai N Vision 74, a high-performance hybrid-electric hydrogen sports car. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



Ben Boissevain Contributor Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital , a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. and internationally. More posts by this contributor How to prepare for M&A, your most likely exit avenue Valuations in 2022 have been falling like a rock as the war in Ukraine rages, infl



Celebrities really are just like us, especially when it comes to technology. Captain America star Chris Evans said the quiet parts out loud this week as he lamented why his seven-year-old iPhone 6S didn't just keep working. Instead of singing the praises of his p


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