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Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, updated with new information and offers. the United Airlines announcement of new T-Mobile benefits. Over the summer, T-Mobile announced its new “Coverage Beyond” suite of benefits for wireless subscribers. The benefits, which launched June 21, include free airline Wi-Fi and expanded high-speed international data coverage, as well as other perks such as fre



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Winamp was a popular media player application in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and it has received infrequent updates in recent years to address compatibility issues. Winamp 5.9 has now been released, marking the first major update since 2018. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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I'm a big kayaking guy. Anytime I go on a day trip or vacation in the summer, I want to kayak. It's the perfect activity, in my honest opinion. Who doesn't want to leisurely paddle down a river or lake in the sun with their best friends and their dog , all while drinking a tasty bev? (I don't condone sipping a beer or a cider while kayaking, but I don't not condone it.) I've been known to pay hun




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It's Saturday, and you know what that means for Quordle players! Not much, because there's a new game every day! Today's is a little tricky, because a common strategic hiccup in Quordle gameplay is unusually persistent in today's puzzle. Is that vague? Good. I don't want to give anything away in this opening paragraph. Well, it's not hard to find the Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this
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Investor Chris Olsen knows the West Coast VC scene. He spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013 based on the theory that the “most compelling emerging market is America, just outside of Silicon Valley,” as he told us early last year. Institutional investors have bought into that pitch. At least, they apparently trust that Olsen



PRIME VIDEO FREE TRIAL: Watch every episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for free with a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime . The third episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has dropped on Prime Video , and typically, discourse around the show has been measured. We joke. Debate has been absolutely unhinged. You either detest everything or you're in total awe. This is the



SAVE 75%: Disney is dropping a bunch of new releases to celebrate Disney+ Day. Until Sept. 19, a one-month subscription to Disney+ is on sale for £1.99 to mark the occasion — saving you 75% on list price. Disney+ Day is back with new releases and an impressive deal to tempt you to sign up. Disney claims the date is a global celebration of fans, and we believe it. Subscribers get a whole lot of ne



SAVE 49%: Access the massive library of content on the U.S. version of Netflix with ExpressVPN. A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £89.71 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. The U.S. Netflix library is absolutely stacked, with thousands of shows and movies on offer to subscribers. That's great news for those in the U.S., but what about subsc



Two years ago, news that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins was making a prequel to The Lion King made everyone scratch their heads. What the heck would that be and who asked for that? Well, finally, at the D23 Expo , Jenkins showed up to explain what it was about Mufasa: The Lion King that makes it unique. Read more...



Pixar has a pretty stellar track record when it comes to feature films, and at the D23 Expo the studio pulled back the curtain on the next three, as well as revealing a first in the company’s history: a TV series. Read more...



It's Saturday, it's been a long and strange week , but Wordle still remains a comforting constant. A new daily word puzzle has arrived for you to solve, and as always, we're here to help with some tips and hints. If you don't have the time, patience, or inclination to puzzle it out for yourself, you can jump straight to the end of this article for September 10's Wordle solution revealed. If you'd



Verily , the life sciences business under Alphabet, said Friday that it has raised $1 billion, capital that will be used to expand its data-driven healthcare products tailored to individuals. The round was led by Alphabet, the company said in its announcement . Verily also announced changes to its executive team that will go into effect January 2023. The company’s founder Andy Conrad will become



Just when you thought you’d never get “ Part of Your World ” stuck in your head ever again, The Little Mermaid ’s live-action remake is here to remind you that an earworm can last over three decades. We’ve got the first peek at the highly anticipated film courtesy of the D23 Expo, and while it doesn’t showcase much of… Read more...



Zipline has hired departing Verily CFO and Tesla veteran Deepak Ahuja as its first chief business and financial officer, an appointment that comes as the drone delivery and logistics startup accelerates its global expansion in Africa, the United States and other regions. Ahuja, who is leaving his post at Alphabet’s unit Verily Life Sciences, will start in the new role September 30. (Verily, which



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It’s been 15 years since Enchanted was released, but the musical comedy about an animated princess who blunders her way into the real world has never wavered in popularity—so now feels like as good as any time for a sequel . At the D23 Expo 2022, Disney+ shared the first teaser for Disenchanted . Read more...



Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys on the internet. This week, Hot Toys goes all in on Marvel with a Love and Thunder update and a surprising Spider-Man pull. Plus, Nerf gets classic, and the Pokémon card game comes up with the perfect Halloween idea. Check it out! Read more...



Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1. (credit: Getty | BSIP ) New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a " state disaster emergency " Friday after p oliovirus was detected in wastewater from a fourth county , indicating that the dangerous virus continues to spread, potentially in areas with abysmal vaccination rates. Today's emergency declaration aims to boost access to



This year’s Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida, brings a full slate of horror —tapping into both familiar and original frights to realize the nightmares in its haunted houses. io9 was invited to visit all of them in one night on an “RIP Tour” with other members of the press; it was an… Read more...



True crime podcasts have swiftly gone from a fringe hobby to a booming business, spurring not only a slew of shows, much merch, and a hit TV comedy series, but also a lot of questions about the ethics of civilians poking their noses into real-life tragedies . Everyone wants to be a hero. But what lengths might one go to get there? This is the winsome yet disturbing journey at the center of Susie



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We’re all pretty bored of plastic or aluminum capsules for coffee-making, and I guess buying pre-ground coffee, a beans-to-cup machine or just grinding your own beans is too much work for some folks. Swiss coffee brand Migros has launched the CoffeeB machine, which uses Coffee Balls instead of traditional capsules. It wants to carve out a space between the convenience of capsules and the green fa



For this week’s City Spotlight: Minneapolis , I had the honor of interviewing Mary Grove , managing partner of Bread & Butter Ventures , and Justin Kaufenberg , managing director of Rally Ventures , about their investment strategies. Both are based in Minneapolis, and they are using the city as a lookout tower for what’s happening across the U.S. Those not familiar with the Minneapolis ecosystem




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 . Fridaaaaaay. It was a short week, but it still dragged on a little. We’ve got some exciting Twitter Live action coming up on September 13, so mark your calendars! At 8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. EDT we are talking with Andrew Chan about why Gen Z VCs are trash, and a



Japan currently requires almost everyone without a Japanese passport to apply for a visa to enter the country. And for most of the pandemic, tourist visas weren’t available. Finally, in June, Japan began allowing tourists on guided package tours to apply for visas. Visiting Japan on a guided package tour wasn’t very appealing to me, however. I wanted control over what I saw. Plus, I wanted to red



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It’s been a rough year for animation—not because of a dearth in quality of material; if anything, there’s more great series and movies to watch in 2022 than ever before. But as the industry faces mistreatment and mishandling by corporate interests, it’s getting harder and harder for ideas to thrive. Which is why it’s… Read more...



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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that's notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection chain using polymorphic encoding. It also abuses le



Enlarge / Queen Elizabeth II of England reigned for a record 70 years. She died Thursday at the age of 96. (credit: Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty Images) The passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, signals the end of an era not just for Great Britain but for the world at large. That includes the global scientific and technological community. Over the course of her long r



Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia ) Nvidia announced yesterday that its upcoming H100 "Hopper" Tensor Core GPU set new performance records during its debut in the industry-standard MLPerf benchmarks, delivering results up to 4.5 times faster than the A100 , which is currently Nvidia's fastest production AI chip. The MPerf benchmarks (technically called "



Enterprise Enlarge / The crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . (credit: Paramount) Many people consider Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to be the finest Star Trek film ever made, and no small amount of credit goes to director Nicholas Meyer for that success. Now, Meyer has written a prequel to the movie that will stream in narrative podcast form. Meyer directed Star Trek II:



Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer / Staff | Getty Images News ) Both Google and Meta have taken steps to start paying US publishers for aggregating their news content, but neither tech giant has yet found a perfect solution that would fairly compensate publishers and potentially help combat the mass shuttering of newsrooms across America. The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook stopped its pro



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When last we left the world of Willow , a would-be sorcerer helped defeat an evil queen and put her rightful heir on the path to the throne. Now, decades later, Willow returns , this time on Disney+ , and the D23 Expo has several costumes from the show on display. Read more...



As he pushed an airline beverage cart 240 miles, from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to the site of the 2001 World Trade Center collapse in New York City, Paul Veneto thought it was just going to be a one-time tribute to mark a most somber anniversary. But something happened last September. “As I kept going,” he said, “people started coming out … we started realizing something different



The developer of a Google Chrome ad blocker extension has conceded that there isn’t “much point” to their latest release, as several key features have had to be removed. Raymond Hill, the brains behind the popular uBlock Origin Chrome extension, made the comment in his commit of the new version on GitHub, in reference to Google’s upcoming shift to its Manifest v3 (MV3) API. Hill cited the move to



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A huge satellite is about to take flight, spreading its giant antenna array to potentially block astronomers’ views of the cosmos. AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 is scheduled for launch on Saturday to test the company’s broadband network technology, but the prototype satellite is extremely bright and could interfere… Read more...



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Crushed For a company whose whole job is badass rocketry, SpaceX sure does flex — as new footage of one of its ground-based monstrosities, known as the "Can Crusher," demonstrates yet again. In a video posted to Twitter, NASASpaceFlight managing editor Chris Bergin showed SpaceX's "Can Crusher" testing apparatus, a brutally colossal gadget designed to test rockets by squeezing them with incredibl



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Cheat Day Proctorio — which admittedly sounds more like a Marvel villain than a computer program — is an expensive anti-cheating software that took off like wildfire during the pandemic. Kids were stuck at home for school, and teachers needed a way to hold them accountable during exams. But as spotted by Vice , a recent study shows that kids are actually pretty deft at getting around the program'



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Marvel has teamed up with Pokémon Go developer Niantic to create an augmented reality mobile game that will be available worldwide next year. In Marvel World of Heroes, you can create your own superhero in a Marvel game for the first time, according to a Niantic blog post . Players will be able to forge their hero's identity and origin story. They'll be tasked with patrolling their neighborhood t



BlueCruise, Ford's intelligent adaptive cruise control system, already offers drivers a number of assistive features such as lane centering, street sign recognition and hands-free highway driving along more than 130,000 miles of US roadways. On Thursday, Ford announced that it will begin releasing the program's version 1.2 update later this Fall beginning with the 2023 Mach-E and will include new



Overwatch 2 might very well change the way you play the game. If you thought you'd be gaining access to all new characters as they launch, you'd be wrong.



From Princess Diana to James Dean, automobile accidents have claimed the lives of many stars we love. Here's the story of the cars behind them.




Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. One of the questions I’m often asked is, “How much is a point or mile worth?” The true answer varies from point to point and person to person and depends on your travel goals and how well you can maximize a particular loyalty currency. Still, some rewards are clearly worth more than others — my goal is to



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Apple went to great lengths to keep the "Dynamic Island" a secret from trademark sleuths. According to a tweet from Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, the tech giant, which announced the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro this week , filed the trademark in Jamaica because of its unusual laws. Why did Apple make this curiously extreme move? Well, in order to search for trademarks filed in the Caribbean isla



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Marvel's Midnight Suns has a new release date, and it's sooner than you may have expected. It was revealed during the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase that the tactical RPG from Firaxis will hit PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on December 2nd. The Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will arrive at a later date. The game was initially slated for October, but publisher 2K ann



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The Lord of the Rings is a story about disparate societies coming together in the name of good—and casting aside generations of mistrust and prejudice to do so. Hobbits being unlikely heroes, Dwarves standing side-by-side with Elves, Rohan riding to Gondor’s aid, it’s an idea key to the fabric of the narrative, and so… Read more...



A healthy mouth may just help keep the brain healthy as well, new research out this week suggests. The study, a broad review of the existing evidence, found that poor dental health was linked to a later higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia. This increased risk was especially apparent for those missing some or… Read more...



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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't convinced of the long-term prospects of fusion energy, the long-deferred dream of fusing atoms together under extreme conditions as a way to generate green electricity. As cool as that sounds, though, the richest man in the world is put off by the logistics and cost. "Fusion would be expensive energy, given difficulty of obtaining and transporting source fuel,



Humans haven’t walked on the Moon since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago. NASA wants to change that sometime this decade with the SLS rocket, which the agency will try launching again in just a few weeks. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



As electric vehicles continue to rise in popularity, we’ll start seeing more used EVs available for sale. If you’re in the market for an electric car, you’re likely wondering how much mileage matters on a used EV. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



The X2 is an eVTOL developed by Xpeng Aeroht . The aircraft was revealed at an exhibition in Shanghai, China back in 2021 and has now completed its 2022 test flight . The X2 can hold up to two passengers and is piloted autonomously. Xpeng Aeroht plans to begin serial production of the eVTOL in 2024.



Every Fall, the Bird Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the diversity and beauty of the creatures that constitute class Aves . The contest is open to hobbyists around the globe, and in 2022 entrants submitted over 20,000 images of feathered friends of all kinds: Some swim, some soar, some burrow, and they… Read more...



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Researchers recently used CT scans to peer inside three mummies from South America, and they discovered evidence suggesting that two of the individuals were murdered. Warning: This article contains photos of one of the bodies that may be disturbing. Read more...



It seems that nine long months after a remastered bundle of Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: Lost Legacy debuted on PlayStation 5 , PC gamers will be able to find out what all the fuss is about . According to a listing on the Epic Games Store spotted by Twitter gaming deals maestro Wario64, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection will hit that storefront on October 19th. It



The old saying “cash is king” hasn’t really been true in ages. Card and app transactions represent about 60% of all purchases between $10 and $100, meaning cash is now used mainly for small purchases—and the occasional business that doesn’t accept credit cards or cash apps. But cash is also still very useful . When a… Read more...



Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Yuji Okumoto and Thomas Ian Griffith give us all the backstory we need before watching the new season. Season 5 premieres Sept 9th on Netflix.



Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have reportedly buried the hatchet in their dispute over NFT auction excerpts of Pulp Fiction . The quiet resolution brings an end to a legal skirmish that could have had profound implications in determining who gets paid for NFTs based on films if it had gone to trial. The settlement also… Read more...



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Monkeypox is currently spreading across the country (and the world at large), with over 21,000 cases reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of August 22. After a faltering initial response, the White House has taken a more aggressive approach in its response and… Read more...



The number of video game-related cyberthreats and attacks has seen a significant rise in recent months, research has revealed. New figures from Kaspersky suggests gamers should be on the lookout for a wide range of possible threats, from phishing scams to malware downloads masquerading as updates or bonus features. But far from embracing the newest and most advanced gaming platforms and titles, i



Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has warned that the company’s performance, which has underwhelmed of late, is likely to get worse before it gets better. Speaking at the Evercore ISI TMT conference, Gelsinger explained he expects Intel to continue to lose share in the server processor market next year, with recovery starting in 2025. After selling off its Optane memory business earlier this year, Intel is



I can probably count on one hand the times I’ve checked out of a hotel. I usually leave as discreetly and quickly as possible. I’m doubly unlikely to check out if there’s a queue at the front desk. And having never experienced backlash of any kind for skipping the process, it just seems wholly unnecessary, no matter how simple. Do you have to check out of a hotel? The quick answer is no — but rum




Launching today, a new app called OfftheGrid aims to bring a Tinder-like experience to the travel market, by having its users swipe and chat with like-minded travelers while also discovering unique places to visit. The app gives users a way to share photos and videos of their travels, post about an upcoming trip, arrange meetups with others and learn about new travel destinations. What’s most not



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Everyone has their own preferences when it comes to the hardware they game with. Some like giant arcade sticks, some prefer smaller gamepads, and the debate between symmetrical and asymmetrical joystick layouts will continue for centuries. What everyone can agree on is that a a controller that replaces every button with analog… Read more...



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Storms have formed off both the East and West coasts of the United States, breaking a rare streak of inactivity. Last month was the first August with zero named storms in 25 years. This is also the third time since records began in the 1940s that there were no named storms in the Atlantic, according to E&E News . This… Read more...



This post began life as a roundup of films built on female power—a good tie-in to the forthcoming release of the Viola Davis-starring historical epic The Woman King , about the all-female fighters of the Kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Benin) in the 19th century, no? But history has overtaken that idea with the death of… Read more...



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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a draft order that would require satellites to reenter Earth’s atmosphere just five years after their missions end, rather than the current 25-year deadline, in what is an effort to reduce space junk. Read more...



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The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Star Wars ’ much-anticipated Ahsoka series for Disney+ has found its Ezra Bridger in newcomer Eman Esfandi. Bridger was first introduced in Star Wars Rebels following the success of the animated series The Clone Wars . Ezra grows up on the show, transforming from a streetwise… Read more...



Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Fast-forward a year later, the startup has laid off multiple employees and now its CEO and COO have been relieved from their duties after allegedly mismanaging funds. Here’s what we know so far. Between June to July, several ex-employees of Egyptian



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Just days after Apple's iPhone 14 range was revealed, the company has the device collection available for pre-order in a variety of colors and prices.



The Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 is a slim and agile workhorse designed to give the modern worker on-the-go a productive and reliable laptop.



Today's Wordle solution isn't the sort you can't figure out on your own but having such a goal isn't exactly grounded -- the answer is basically the opposite.



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Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts has added verbiage to its terms and conditions that prevent customers from earning duplicate credits on back-to-back reservations. When you book a hotel through the American Expre




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