Friday, September 23, 2022

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3KSlashGear / 10h
Neptune's elusive rings are mysterious, and the new image will allow scientists to learn more about them and the planet itself.quite



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When you walk around an office or café, you’ll often see people using an array of items to cover up their webcam. Sometimes it’s tape, post-it notes, folded business cards, stickers, their thumb, or a marlin. I smear peanut butter over my webcam, but chunky peanut butter. It’s more secure than smooth. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



500+Mashable / 22h
Yes, James Corden and Kim Kardashian parodied House of the Dragon , and yes, it's every bit as ridiculous as you're expecting. In the Late Late Show clip above Corden plays a spoilt king while Kardashian is his murderous sister intent on the Iron Throne. There are some Keeping up with the Kardashians -style talking head interviews, plenty of drama, and a couple of (not exactly) surprise cameos. I




Mashable / 16min
It's happening, folks, and it was inevitable . A few weeks after Apple launched its iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, some Android smartphone makers, including Xiaomi and Realme, started openly discussing adding a feature similar to Apple's "Dynamic Island" to their phones. And now, thanks to an app called the DynamicSpot (via The Verge ), you can have something akin to the Dynamic Island on your And



Mashable / 16min
The National Football League (NFL) has announced Apple Music will sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2023, stepping in after longtime partner Pepsi dipped out earlier this year. It's the first time the Super Bowl has seen a new halftime show sponsor in a decade. It's a bit early to guess who might take Apple Music's halftime show stage during next year's Super Bowl LVII (that's 57 for those



Mashable / 16min
Friday's Quordle is as difficult as it gets, and I'll tell you that without any hesitation. I won't, however, spoil what makes it so hard, because that would be a hint, and you might first want to try some strategy before I start giving things away. And you've come to the right place for hints. There aren't just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and th
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Apple released its latest iPhone lineup and mobile platforms earlier this month, and a couple of annoying bugs quickly made themselves known to users. The good news is that the tech giant has quickly whipped up patches to fix the issues and has now released them as part of the iOS 16.0.2 update . One of the problems the update solves is the iPhone 14 Pro's compatibility troubles with third-party



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Wordle is tapping its spiritual side with today's puzzle, and if that doesn't make sense, we have some other hints to clear things up and help you win.



Apple’s pursuit of an N.F.L. media package has broadened to include a sponsorship of one of TV’s most-watched events.



A cloud kitchen — also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. This trend has been circling around the restaurant industry. More food entrepreneurs are turning to cloud kitchens to reduce their operation costs and capture the explosive growth of food delivery. A Manil



The rumors are true: Google launched a new, more affordable rendition of its Chromecast devices but it comes at the cost of a few features found in older models. Dubbed the Chromecast with Google TV (HD), inklings of this new device cropped up recently with some reports speculating the company is expanding support of hardware to non-4K TVs. And sure enough, that’s what’s happening. This new HD Ch



You're here! You made it! It's Friday, Friday, and while you don't gotta get down if you don't want to, you do have a new Wordle to solve and a (hopefully long) streak to maintain. Whether you're smashing it or struggling, we're here to help every day . If you just want the answer, you can jump straight to the end of this article for September 23's Wordle solution. If you'd rather work through it



Rad Power Bikes, a popular American e-bike brand that has raised over $300 million in the past two years, will start offering bikes as a subscription service next week. The company is partnering with Cycle, a Berlin-based e-bike subscription service that caters to couriers and last-mile delivery, to pilot the offering in Berlin. Starting September 22, Cycle will provide two cargo bikes, the RadRu



In the same way that garbage fills the oceans, the space around Earth is full of junk, including old satellites. The FCC says things need to change.



Shovel Knight Dig Enlarge / Dig deeply enough in Shovel Knight Dig , and you'll find trippy treasure just like this. (credit: Yacht Club Games) Shovel Knight Dig has been on our radar since its announcement in 2019—back when games could be revealed and immediately demonstrated at physical gaming expos. That many years ago, Dig was one of a few planned series spinoffs, and its demo at that year's



Need to debug an application running inside your Kubernetes cluster? Port forwarding is a way to connect to Pods that aren’t publicly accessible. You can use this technique to inspect databases, monitoring tools, and other applications which you want to deploy internally without a public route. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Enlarge / Face and upper body of one of two South American mummies that were likely murdered, based on a recent "virtual autopsy." (credit: A-M Begerock et al., 2022) An international team of scientists used CT scanning to conduct "virtual autopsies" of three South American mummies and found evidence of fatal trauma in two of them, according to a recent paper published in the journal Frontiers in



A Kenyan court has set a new date to hear submissions in a lawsuit brought against Meta and one of its outsourcing partners by a former Facebook content moderator, who accuses the companies of exploitation and union busting. Read more...



Imagine meeting the person you want to spend your life with—but you live in a community where partners are forcibly switched via a lottery on a regular basis, and no amount of true love makes any difference. That’s the premise of Heartless , an Icelandic sci-fi short directed by Haukur Björgvinsson, first spotted on … Read more...




Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. Torenberg, an early Product Hunt employee and the founder of investment firm Village Global, assumed the role only a year ago. But now, as On Deck returns to its founder-focused roots and spins off its second business, Torenberg is re



The search for wheat alternatives is being driven by a demand for healthier diets and food security.



If you’ve been anywhere near social media, local news, or late-night talk shows in the last few days, you’ve probably heard something about “Nyquil Chicken,” a supposedly viral TikTok “challenge” that’s exactly what it sounds like: cooking chicken in a marinade of cold medicine. News about the supposed trend is usually accompanied by vomit-inducing photos of raw chicken simmering in dark green sy



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Andor is a show about the messy side of the galaxy far, far away and the even messier people who inhabit it. Angry people, unpleasant people, liars and killers looking for any way to focus their frustrations at a universe in the grip of totalitarianism. But it’s also about the bell guy. Read more...



Enlarge (credit: Netgear ) Wi-Fi 6E products are available to consumers today, but you probably wouldn't know if you looked around the average household. Although supporting gear rolled out over the past couple of years, component shortages, satisfaction with Wi-Fi 6, and the impending arrival of Wi-Fi 7 have led many to overlook the latest wireless standard . Netgear is looking to make adoption



Enlarge / The Alliance for Open Media logo. (credit: Alliance for Open Media) Google can do basically whatever it wants regarding video and web standards. YouTube is the world's most popular video site. Chrome is the world's most popular browser. Android is the world's most popular operating system. Anything Google wants to roll out can immediately have a sizable user base of clients, servers, an



Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn , which received a US copyright registration. (credit: Kris Kashtanova ) In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork, according to their Instagram feed and confirmed through a public records search by Ar



Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems. Optus said in a press release on Thursday that an unspecified number of customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and addresses and identity document numbers, such as driver’s license or passport numbers, were taken in the breach. The telco did not say wh



Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under three minutes to convince them to take a meeting with you. In fact, for decks that fail to raise funding, investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds. That’s not a lot of time to make a first impression, so you’ve got to make it count. It’s pretty rare that I get to talk t



Some iPhone 14 users are reporting an annoying and particularly concerning camera bug when using apps like TikTok, but Apple is already here with a fix.



Before it exited the smartphone business, LG teased a unique model with a rollable display. The concept never hit shelves, but it has finally been reviewed.



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Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican Congressman and alleged sex criminal , is now on Twitch. Gaetz (or at least whoever runs his social media accounts) announced his arrival on the streaming platform in a tweet. “I’m joining @Twitch to bring my America First message to a new generation of viewers,” he wrote. 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 . Hey, folks! Chromecasts have been a hacker and nerd favorite for a moment or two, and we’re pretty psyched to see the price (with a remote!) dropping to $30 . Apropos hardware, Brian and Kirsten just published our Apple Watch Ultra first look review , so we’ve been



We last saw Copenhagen planks in our rundown of the best bodyweight exercises that actually build strength . But it’s an under-appreciated exercise, and deserves a spotlight of its own. The Copenhagen plank looks a bit like a side plank: You’re leaning on your hand or elbow, other arm away from the ground, trying to… Read more...



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Aiming to be the next Hunger Games by way of Pacific Rim — which admittedly does sound rather awesome — best-selling YA sci-fi fantasy The Iron Widow has been acquired by Erik Feig’s Picturestart. Read more...



Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan announced on Thursday, Sept. 22, the long-awaited news that Japan plans to fully reopen for foreign tourism on Oct. 11, Bloomberg reported . Japan is one of the last remaining nations with strict COVID-19 bans and restrictions on general tourism. While supervised group tours to Japan have been available for the past few months, the restrictions on travel disc



When Nothing was unveiled early last year, founder Carl Pei promised that the hardware startup had a full road map. Early stories about the London-based firm alluded to a pitch deck full of Pokémon characters, each representing a different product in the pipeline. Roughly a year and a half later, Nothing has delivered two major products: the Ear (1) and Phone (1) . It’s an impressive showing in a



Apple today released the first major update to its new iOS 16 mobile operating system ahead of schedule. Earlier this week, Apple confirmed it would roll out an update next week aimed at addressing a handful of bugs that have been plaguing users, including an annoying copy and paste permissions-related bug and another that saw the camera shake when recording video in a number of third-party apps,



Felix Krause's discovery that Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps can track iPhone owners across websites hasn't sat well with some people. Bloomberg reports users have filed two proposed class action lawsuits accusing Meta of evading Apple's privacy-oriented App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature and consequently violating both federal and state laws barring unauthorized data gathering. Meta sup



Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket ) Earlier this year, the International Organization for Migration reported that more than 3 million refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine were "at heightened risk of exploitation." Human trafficking cases, they warned, involved refugees more likely to leave home suddenly without secure financial resources and "less likely to be identified in th




Enlarge / The Hunga Tonga eruption started under water, yet still blasted straight through much of the atmosphere. (credit: NASA ) In January this year, an undersea volcano in Tonga produced a massive eruption, the largest so far this century. The mixing of hot volcanic material and cool ocean water created an explosion that sent an atmospheric shockwave across the planet and triggered a tsunami



Enlarge / Tesla has had to issue its largest-ever recall. (credit: Tesla) On Thursday, Tesla issued a recall for almost 1.1 million vehicles due to a problem with their windows. The problem is related to the windows' automatic reversal function, the safety feature that lowers the glass if it's being raised and encounters part of a human being. Unfortunately for the affected Teslas, during conform



DocuSign announced today that it has hired Allan Thygesen as its next CEO, effective October 10. Thygesen was most recently at Google where he was president of the Americas and global partners. He was in charge of Google’s $100 billion advertising business in the Americas, a rather significant business by any measure, and a position that should prepare him for his new job. He joins a company that



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Meta, the company founded on the principle of building connectivity and giving people a voice worldwide, did just the opposite last year and enforced speech policies that violated Palestinian’s freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. That assessment, which claims Meta’s policies negatively impacted… Read more...



When you open Google Maps, it’s usually either for somewhere you’ve never been before, or a location you visit all the time. The app makes it easy to find a new restaurant or venue or try, but it’s just as good for monitoring traffic on your daily commute. We all have a host of frequent locations we enter into Google… Read more...



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Close Listening Since 2018, NASA’s Mars InSight Lander has been keeping its ear to the ground, measuring Mars quakes with its sensitive seismometer. Now, the agency has released audio of four meteoroids crashing into the Martian surface — marking the first time a meteoroid impact has been detected on another planet, ever. You might imagine an extraordinary racket. Instead, the nature of the sound



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Sex in space is a fascinating topic — but the boffins at NASA are apparently more concerned about reproduction. In interviews with The Daily Beast , space health experts discussed NASA's official space sex and conception policies, which forbid astronauts from getting it on . "NASA’s official policy forbids [sex and] conception in space," emergency physician and space medicine fellow Dr. Dr. Haig



iOS 16 is making its way to smartphones worldwide. If you bought an iPhone 14 or iPhone 14 Pro, your phone already comes with it, and if you have an older iPhone, it should be available to download. If you’ve been holding out for bug fixes, though, iOS 16.0.2 has been released with a lot of them. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Mozilla has launched its next iteration of Firefox with a handful of new features that are designed to improve workflow and speed things up. One of five new features to come to version 105 of the browser is an improved printing interface which will now allow users to print the current page more easily, which could be handy for businesses printing single emails rather than entire threads. Mozilla



Cybercriminals are targeting businesspeople with an elaborate phishing attack aimed at stealing sensitive data , including credit card and other payment information, researchers have found. The attack also abuses a premium LinkedIn feature called Smart Link, which allows users of the social media site to send more than a dozen documents via a single link. Not only is it more convenient, but it al



With the Ultra, Apple has taken a page from its now-familiar playbook for how to broaden the appeal of its mobile devices and applied it to its watch lineup: Step 1: Introduce a solid but still not fully realized version 1.0. Step 2: Refine, refine, refine. Step 3: Make a “pro” version. The Ultra is the first truly new Apple Watch variant since the first one was introduced in 2015, and it fills t



Regional wildfire smoke is significantly lowering air quality for millions of people across the country. Read more...



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What, if any, is the impact of a severe hack earlier this week going to be on Rockstar Games’ business? The game publisher’s systems were breached just days ago in what some are calling the biggest hack of its kind in recent memory. Known for popular franchises like Red Dead the Grand Theft Auto , Rockstar said that it… Read more...



Meta is terrified of TikTok’s domineering presence in the social media market, and now it seems the company behind the app, ByteDance, is coming for Meta’s own stake in the Metaverse with a headset that’s the closest we’ve seen in price to the Quest 2. Read more...



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Facebook and Instagram are using a sneaky loophole to collect Apple iPhone users' data, according to two new class action lawsuits filed against the social network's parent company, Meta. According to the lawsuits, Meta has been injecting javascript tracking code into websites that users visit via the in-app browsers in Facebook and Instagram for iOS, but without user permission. In 2021, Apple r



Buying vegetables in bulk is a good way to save money on already cheap (or not so cheap) vegetables. Many of them will keep for weeks in a cool, dry place, but even the most zealous vegetable enjoyer can find themselves with too much of a good thing. In moments like these, you turn to your freezer. Read more...



Expedia Chairman Barry Diller called work from home “kind of stupid” as well as being “a crock.” He claims that ”sitting at a laptop computer at a dining room table” doesn’t lead to innovation. Diller has been bashing his own employees, and blaming them for lack of innovation, efficiency and profitability even before work from home. Work from home is just the latest excuse for the Expedia boss. C



We're closer than ever to the release of Google's Pixel 7 smartphones, and now a fresh leak has surfaced with some good news for future buyers.



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Initiating a successful rocket launch into space is all about timing -- and how much time there is depends on the mission at hand.




The red light plays ays a major role in helping astronomers optimize their night vision during periods without bright light around.



Tesla has recalled more than 1 million of its EVs over a power window issue found during testing, but the fix will be as simple as sending out some data.



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The U.S. Space Force can't catch a break. Following a Netflix show and quite a few jokes, it's now facing criticism over its newly revealed anthem.



Driving for Uber is a great way to earn a living or pick up some extra cash, but you'll have to follow these rules and regulations.



The Sun is a life-giving force that keeps the planet Earth happy and habitable, but what would happen if it got "turned off" or disappeared for a day?



Most people wouldn’t necessarily think of cleaning an electrical outlet, what with the risk of shock and all—but they can get dusty just like anything else in your home. Dust can build up on the surfaces and prevent cords from making contact, and can even cause fire in extreme cases. To keep your outlets looking and… Read more...



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Mahsa Amini Anonymous, the notorious hacking collective, is targeting the Iranian government amid widespread citizen protests sparked by the alleged murder of Mahsa Amini. "The Anonymous collective launches a cyber operation against the Iranian government," the collective tweeted on Tuesday . Amini, a 22-year-old woman, was taken into custody by Iran's morality police on Friday for wearing an "im



A new report from the American Association for Cancer Research this week offers a good prognosis about the state of cancer care in the U.S. More Americans than ever are surviving cancer, and the long-running decline in mortality has only sped up in recent years. At the same time, some groups continue to face a higher… Read more...



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If you’ve gone online this week or turned on the TV, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about the gross and potentially fatal practice of cooking chicken in NyQuil. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration warned about the “recent NyQuil chicken” challenge, and by the amount of coverage it’s gotten, you would think… Read more...



Voyager Space announced a new collaboration with Hilton, the American hotel and hospitality company. Together, the companies are planning to bring crew lodging to Starlab, Voyager Space’s upcoming commercial space station which will be consistently crewed by four astronauts. Read more...



Work burnout can take many forms: a general lack of enthusiasm for your work, cynicism about your co-workers, or the general fatigue associated with showing up every day to a job that has overworked you to the point of exhaustion. Depending on how bad the situation is, solutions can range from leaving the company… Read more...



There’s a lot happening with Marriott Bonvoy cobranded credit cards , so fasten your seatbelts and put your seats in the upright position. In addition to launching two brand-new credit cards, there are major updates to the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant™ American Express® Card , a more valuable free night award on the Ritz-Carlton™ Credit Card (no longer available to new applicants) and elevated welco



The main cruise ship dock in Turks and Caicos suffered damage Tuesday as a strengthening Hurricane Fiona roared across the island destination, raising questions about whether and when cruise calls can resume. Videos of the 200-foot-long pier at the Grand Turk Cruise Center on the Turks and Caicos island of Grand Turk posted on social media sites show that pieces of its infrastructure have broken



It can be hard to tell how venture capital firms are doing. Sometimes it’s easier after a big exit, like Figma’s last week , which gave us a window into the sizable returns some of its early backers, including Index Ventures and Greylock, could capitalize on. But VC firms are usually an opaque bunch when it comes to performance. So when the market started to sour in Q1, it was obvious we wouldn’t



Meta is facing a hefty bill after losing a patent infringement lawsuit. A federal judge in Texas has ordered the company to pay Voxer, the developer of app called Walkie Talkie, nearly $175 million as an ongoing royalty. Voxer accused Meta of infringing its patents and incorporating that tech in Instagram Live and Facebook Live . In 2006, Tom Katis, the founder of Voxer, started working on a way



The next iPad is rumored to launch at an event in October, and we’ve been hoping for a major redesign. One of the key changes was the expected removal of the home button, bringing the base model iPad in line with the iPad Air , iPad Pro , and just about every fancy iPhone Apple sells besides the bargain-basement iPhone SE . New rumors suggest the iPad 2022 model, the tenth generation of iPad tabl



A rather old unpatched Python security vulnerability has resurfaced, causing researchers to warn that hundreds of thousands of projects might be vulnerable to code execution. Cybersecurity researchers from Trellix have recently spotted CVE-2007-4559, a flaw in the Python tarfile package, first discovered back in 2007. However, back then, the flaw never received a patch, but rather just a warning



As part of my review trip , I just had the chance to fly Fiji Airways’ Airbus A350 business class, and what a treat it was. While I’ll have a full review soon, I wanted to share my initial impressions, since I know many are booked on the Los Angeles to Nadi route due to the amount of award availability we’ve seen (I booked my ticket with 55,000 Alaska Mileage Plan miles — what a deal!). Fiji Airw



The lock screen is often the first thing you see when you pick up your phone, and the clock is front and center. Depending on your Android device, you can customize the look of the clock. We’ll show you how. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



There are several ways to address a Netflix "unexpected error" message, including cache clearing for browsers or updating the app.




According to Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin is named because "... this is the blue planet and this is the planet that we have to save."



One out of every two BMW M2s is purchased with a manual transmission, so it doesn't make sense to shift gears to automatic only.



The new Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is one of those rare devices that's better than its predecessor and less expensive a the same time.



Into the Odd takes its taglines of rules-light and flavor-heavy very, very seriously. This Old-School Roleplaying (OSR) tabletop game has the veneer of a simple dungeon-delver, but once you dig into the book itself, the straightforward rules lead you into an incredible wealth of lore that emphasizes the… Read more...



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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is being circled by a bubble of hot gas, according to recent analysis by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration . The gas is whipping around the black hole at about 30% the speed of light. Read more...



It bears repeating that trying to emulate an iOS feature that isn’t native to Android often results in something too hacky to use daily. That’s how I feel about a new attempt to bring Apple’s dynamic island iPhone feature to Android. Read more...



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Star Trek: Lower Decks ’ third season has struggled to find a point for itself , regressing its ensign heroes and relying on the charms of its pastiche rather than the growth of its characters to find something to say—a charm that was beginning to quickly run out . Thankfully, at the season’s halfway mark it decided to… Read more...



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Donald Trump could be back to his old social media antics in just a few months. The two-year ban , barring the former poster-in-chief from Facebook, expires at the beginning of 2023. And Meta, Facebook’s parent company, hasn’t revealed whether it’ll be extending Trump’s virtual exile. Read more...



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SpaceX is expecting to see its gigantic Starship rocket take off on its first flight very soon. CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is gearing up to attempt the first-ever orbital test flight of the two-stage reusable system as early as late October, but with a launch in November being more “likely.” Read more...



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Apple’s major privacy update to iOS last year made it much more difficult for apps to track user behavior beyond their own borders, but a new lawsuit alleges that Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta kept snooping through a workaround. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and embedded below, alleges that Meta evaded Apple’s new restrictions



Image Credits: TechCrunch Welcome to Chain Reaction , where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious. For our Thursday episode where we discuss the latest in crypto news, we talked about the recent steep decline in Ethereum prices following its major network upgrade. We also discussed: The latest regulatory drama



Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new information. A key regional airline is trying something new to combat the pilot shortage and the high cost of earning the flight experience necessary to fly for an airline. Mesa Airlines, which operates as United Express and American Eagle, has purchased 29 training aircraft, and will use those planes to allow pilots to earn the 1,500 hours nece



Even if you’ve never once contemplated the flooring you walk on , buying a house will change that fast. There’s a reason everyone on House Hunters asks what kind of floors are in each house they visit: It’s because hardwood floors and laminate flooring are two very different things, but it can also be difficult to tell… Read more...



In case you weren’t aware, it’s nearly October, which means it’s almost time for Halloween. But you don’t need me to remind you of this fact; instead, just read the press release highlighting Paramount+’s schedule for the month, which inserts multiple puns (“A View From the Eeeeeeeek!”; “Peak Screaming”) to to… Read more...



Many people don’t like the camera cutouts that take up space on our smartphone screens. We’ve seen some ambitious applications for these cutouts in the past, like turning it into an old-school notification LED , but Apple takes the creative cake with the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island . And while it’s entirely possible… Read more...



Starlink satellite internet access has already spread to boats and RVs , and now it might accompany your child on the way home from class. SpaceX told the FCC in a filing that it's piloting Starlink aboard school buses in the rural US. The project would keep students connected during lengthy rides (over an hour in the pilot), ensuring they can complete internet-related homework in a timely fashio



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Aquatic Anomaly Scientists exploring the bottom of the Caribbean encountered several "blue goo" organisms resting motionlessly on the ocean floor, and they’re not quite sure what they are. Outwardly appearing like bumpy, globular blobs, these yet unidentified things look like if an unassuming massage ball turned out to be a fleshy wart. Since May this year, scientists aboard NOAA’s flagship explo



Mark your calendars, startup fans, because TechCrunch is returning — live and in person — to the beautiful City by the Bay to host our flagship event, TechCrunch Disrupt , on October 18–20 at the Moscone West Convention Center followed by an online recap event on October 21. TC Disrupt is the grande dame of tech conferences for many reasons, and today we’d like to highlight some of the companies



It was a big week for the customer experience market, with two major players in the marketing tool space taking swings to bring the idea to the next level. The pair of moves taken together could move customer experience closer to reality after a long period of ambition. “Customer experience” is kind of a vague notion . The idea is that you want your customers to feel good every time they interact



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. We’re all looking for an avenue to make air travel more comfortable and affordable. Benefits like upgrades, lounge access , early boarding, free seat selection and waived baggage fees are universally desirable but only applicable to the small percentage of flyers who hold elite status — or the right credit card . Mos




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They say if you’re going to cut, cut deeply so you only have to do it once. Alas, a growing number of companies are realizing that despite layoffs earlier in the year, they need to cut back more now. Klarna , the Stockholm, Sweden-based buy now, pay later outfit, finds itself in this camp. According to the outlet Sifted , the 17-year-old company told employees on Monday in a video message from CO



Let’s talk humanoids for a minute, shall we? Why do so many roboticists insist on creating robots that look like us? Get ready to see plenty more humanoid robots. The subject is top of mind for a few reasons. First — and most prominently — is the fact that Tesla plans to unveil a version of Optimus (aka Tesla Bot) that isn’t just a person in spandex. Tesla describes the project thusly: Develop th



Dr. Michelle Longmire, physician/scientist turned startup founder, founded Medable with the goal of transforming patient connectivity in the healthcare system. Along the way in raising $479 million, Sapphire Ventures invested in several rounds, providing Longmire with new relationships and opportunities within Sapphire Ventures’ network. Join Cathy Gao, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Longmire



One of the most pressing issues the U.S. has to prepare for, perhaps, is the future it faces after the toppling of Roe v. Wade. Come the midterm elections, voters will weigh in on candidates and, consequently, measures that will dictate abortion access and other human rights issues. The role venture capital must play in all of this is becoming clearer: There has been a push to fund more reproduct



The overturning of Roe v. Wade sent a huge shockwave through the U.S., and while the nation recovers slowly, the venture community is already beginning to act. Founders are reassessing where they open their businesses , not wanting to lure employees to a state that doesn’t support reproductive rights, and investors are considering adding healthcare to environmental, social and governance criteria



The first exclusive “Thursday Night Football” game on Amazon Prime Video was a win for the streaming service, with 15.3 million viewers, the company announced today. Amazon’s successful “TNF” game underscores the value that live sports bring to streaming services. On average, “TNF” games usually earn about 12.84 million viewers across Amazon, Fox and the NFL Network, which have all shared the NFL



The popular Mac application Pixelmator Pro today rolled out its latest release with the launch of Pixelmator Pro 3.0. The image editing app’s update included 200 new design templates, customizable mockups and a machine learning-powered feature the company is calling “Smart Replace.” The update comes after the company announced earlier this year that Pixelmator Photo would make its way to the Mac



If you were having trouble accessing Instagram earlier, it was because the social network was experiencing a partial outage. A spokesperson for the company had told TechCrunch in an email that Instagram was aware of the issue and that it was working to get the app back to normal. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram,” the spokesperson said. “We’re working to get th



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Cutting Remarks The company formerly known as Facebook is planning to cut expenses by reducing staff and reorganizing existing teams and departments — and larger-scale layoffs may be around the corner. First reported by The Wall Street Journal , these smaller staffing reductions at Meta Platforms could, per people in the know, likely precede larger layoffs, though the company has so far avoided u



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Alerta, Alerta There's never a dull moment in blockchain world. Case in point, a crypto exchange that's had its own brushes with the law is now alerting users that the cofounder of a "stablecoin" listed on its site is currently wanted by police in South Korea. "Note: South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant against the cofounder of Terra 2.0 (LUNA) on 14 Sep. 22," an alert on Binance's Lun



Meta has finally released the findings of an outside report that examined how its content moderation policies affected Israelis and Palestinians amid an escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip last May. The report , from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), found that Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinians’ right to free expression. “Based on the data reviewed, examination of individu



Link: Apply now for the Alaska Airlines Visa® Credit Card A couple of weeks ago we saw a fantastic limited time welcome offer rolled out on the Alaska Airlines Visa® Credit Card ( review ). I wanted to post a reminder of this, as it’s a great offer — if you’re eligible for this card, I’d highly recommend applying. Earn 50K Alaska miles plus a companion fare The Alaska Airlines Visa Card is offeri



More than a million Tesla owners will have yet another recall notice to deal with in the coming weeks. On Tuesday the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration filed a safety recall notice for numerous late model vehicles from across the EV maker's lineup because "the window automatic reversal system may not react correctly after detecting an obstruction," and as such, "a closing window may



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Enlarge (credit: Chesnot / Contributor | Getty Images Europe ) After Apple updated its privacy rules in 2021 to easily allow iOS users to opt out of all tracking by third-party apps, so many people opted out that the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Meta lost $10 billion in revenue over the next year. Meta's business model depends on selling user data to advertisers, and it seems that



Enlarge / The US Supreme Court building. (credit: Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan) Florida yesterday asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate its social media regulation law that made it illegal for sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians. Florida's petition said the Supreme Court should answ

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