Friday, September 16, 2022

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Electrical extension cords are tremendously useful for powering devices when your gadget’s power cord isn’t long enough to reach an electrical outlet. Normal extension cords have a so-called male plug that goes into the wall and a female plug at the end where you can plug in your device. There’s absolutely no reason… Read more...



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A rover on Mars found a bit of organic matter in the red planet's Jezero Crater, giving NASA scientists a fascinating new mystery to explore.



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CAR-T therapy has been successful at treating cancer. Now, it’s driven lupus into remission in a handful of patients.




The pair, who say they are from Vietnam, wiped out IHG group data after a foiled ransomware attack.



TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the Complete Resoume AI Assistant Resumé Writer is on sale for £34.69, saving you 93% on list price. You've probably heard that you're supposed to customise your job materials for every job you apply to. In theory, it could be a great way of showing how your unique skills qualify you for every job you apply to. In practice, it's a lot of writing. Get the custom c



SAVE 60%: Until Dec. 15, new customers can get 60% off their first box of HelloFresh, then save 25% for two months and get three free gifts with the code HELLO60AFF . The food subscription box game is seriously competitive, with absolutely loads of services competing to offer you the best ingredients and recipes at great rates. The real winner in this competition is you, the hungry customer. If y



One could probably argue that Floodgate , the Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, punches above its weight. The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management — including a $150 million fund that it quietly closed in January — and it makes just a handful of new investments each year. Yet with investments in Okta, Lyft and Starkware, which was valued at $8 bil



Ladies and gentlemen (and everyone who's neither): The weekend. It's Saturday, folks, and what better way to celebrate than with a fresh Wordle ? 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 17's Wordle solution. If you'd rather work through it yourself, keep reading for some ti



Kubernetes has a reputation for complexity but modern releases are relatively straightforward to set up. The official cluster administration tool Kubeadm provides an automated experience for booting your control plane and registering worker nodes. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and nerdiest toy news. This week, Hasbro heads back to the Haslab with a flamin’ hot Marvel set , Mondo conjures up an X-Men icon, and much, much more. Check it out! Read more...



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Syfy’s new horror series Reginald the Vampire follows a freshly turned bloodsucker ( Spider-Man: No Way Home ’s Jacob Batalon ) who’s doing his best to figure out his new supernaturally enhanced life—something that’s far more complex that he initially realized. The show hits Syfy in October and at a recent press… Read more...



A U.S. District Court has ordered that Tesla must tell employees about a lawsuit alleging the automaker violated state and federal law by requiring workers to sign separation agreements. Two former Tesla employees filed the suit in July, alleging that the company required them to sign releases in exchange for less severance than federal and California state law provide. Attorneys asked the U.S. D



Russia appears to be the biggest country not on Starlink's waiting list, and that might not change any time soon.



The latest in a series of discoveries suggests that Saturn once had a moon called "Chrysalis" that was smashed into what are now planetary rings.



Not all automotive innovations go as planned -- and some have ended in outright disaster. These deadly defects resulted in recalled and lawsuits.



Uber just had a large lapse in social security as a single person protested low worker pay by posting on Uber's private chat channels and Twitter.



iPhone 14's eSIM feature is a convenient addition, but the eSIM-only nature of the phone is causing an unintended hiccup during the setup process.



Call of Duty is no stranger to vehicles of all types, but with Modern Warfare 2, the game is about to get its first-ever electric vehicle.



Now that Apple revealed the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, we asked our readers which new device they'd be upgrading to -- or if they'd be upgrading at all.



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Rejoice, Constantine fans : Deadline reports that Keanu Reeves is set to reprise the role of John Constantine in a continuation of the 2005 Warner Bros. DC film he starred in, which didn’t find initial box-office success but has since become something of a cult classic. Read more...



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First Star , backer of deep tech startups like Plus One and Fyto , aims to raise as much as $40 million for its third venture fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, First Star typically backs robotics, blockchain, AI and machine learning-focused startups at the early stage. The firm has not disclosed a first close for its planned third fund, per a filing with the Securit



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Singapore Airlines currently operates the longest flight in the world: a whopping 9,527-mile nonstop journey from New York to Singapore. The carrier also operates a five-times-weekly hop from Newark to Singapore (which is the world’s second-longest flight by about 2 miles) as well as another extremely long



If you've lived through the 2014 Austrian psychological horror film Goodnight Mommy , you're already furious it's been remade. For those who haven't, welcome! You're about to strike a match on the unnecessary nightmare that is a remake of a critically acclaimed and terrifying film about twin brothers who fear a vicious imposter has invaded their home. Written and directed by Veronika Franz and Se



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Uber has been hacked and boy does it look bad . The hacker, which boasted of their achievements via Telegram this week, claims to be an 18-year-old who allegedly gained such liberal access to the tech giant’s network that they were able to Slack the Uber workforce and post a picture of a dick on the company’s internal… Read more...



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Vom de Terre As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure. Per a new study, published in the journal Palaios , a team of researchers have indeed recovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric pile o' puke. And boy, are they happy about it — as they should be! It's a unique finding, and one that could reveal a l



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 . Fridaaaaay! Today, we will mostly be listening to this delightful end-of-week gratitude meditation , and contemplating all the weird and wonderful things that have happened this week. Because, by golly, has there been a lot of weird. And, for that matter, a lot of



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One of the alternative social networks to emerge out of the social media backlash of the Trump era is apparently going to try something new. Parler announced Friday that it has acquired a cloud company called Dynascale in order to expand its vision beyond offering an (ostensibly) anything-goes social app to provide infrastructure for businesses that run the risk of getting the boot from mainstrea



The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency that brought you great hits like airport facial recognition , kids in cages , and a short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, is setting its sight on another supposed hotbed of terror—video games. Read more...



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An alleged teen hacker claims to have gained deep access to the company’s systems, but the full picture of the breach is still coming into focus.



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The Karate Kid franchise is coming back to theaters. How or with whom , exactly, we don’t yet know. Sony Pictures just sent out a press release detailing some new additions and changes to its release schedule and right at the top was the following: “ Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures) – June 7, 2024" followed by the phrase… Read more...



Enlarge Graphics card manufacturer eVGA has made a name for itself manufacturing and selling Nvidia's GeForce GPUs for two decades, including some of the more attractively priced options on the market. But according to the YouTubers at Gamers Nexus, analyst Jon Peddie , and an EVGA forum post , EVGA is officially terminating its relationship with Nvidia and will not be manufacturing cards based o



Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. (credit: Shutterstock.com) Seeking ways to " monetize " AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography websites like Shutterstock. Searches for " AI generated " or " Midjourney " (a popular image synthesis service ) produce thousands of results on t



Enlarge / It may look empty, but the original PlayStation Vr ecosystem contained many games that will never move forward. (credit: Kyle Orland) A Sony executive confirmed Friday that the PlayStation VR 2 will not be backward-compatible with games developed for the original PlayStation VR. Sid Shuman, senior director of content communications at Sony Interactive, asked Hideaki Nishino, senior vice



Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) Elon Musk filed an amended countersuit against Twitter, claiming the allegations by Twitter's former security chief, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, give Musk new legal grounds to kill the merger deal. "Needless to say, the newest revelations make undeniably clear that the Musk Parties have the full right to walk away from the Merger Agreement—for numerous independ



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New Reality The Ethereum blockchain, the second-largest cryptocurrency by trading volume, has completed the "merge," switching from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake system. It's a major win for the environment, as it puts energy-intensive Ethereum mining operations out of business overnight. But that also means mining outfits are now sitting on massive piles of extremely power-hungry hardware. M



Wireless microphones can simplify your recording or live music setup by reducing the number of cables that need to be strewn around your studio or the stage. This is especially helpful when playing live music, as you’ll be able to move around without running the risk of tripping over a thick XLR cord. We often associate microphones with musicians and podcasters, but they’re also an incredibly imp



In a town hall with some members of their community, Launch House addressed the harassment and assault allegations surfaced by a Vox Investigation earlier this week. The startup, backed by a16z and Flybridge as well as a bevy of top investors, said that an independent investigation is underway. “We’ll let the investigation speak for itself, but we’re confident that it will show that we do not ret



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California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate a Virginia-based company revealed by the Associated Press to provide law enforcement agencies across the U.S. with access to cellphone tracking technology capable of mapping people’s movements “months back in time.” Read more...




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This fall, from the writer of Rogue One , The Book of Eli , and After Earth , a brand new sci-fi adventure is on the way. Set in a future where Earth has been conquered by giant alien mechs, a young woman finds a map that might hold the key to saving humanity. Sounds cool, right? Well, it’s called Gundog but can’t see it… Read more...



A newly discovered malicious campaign that distributes the RedLine Stealer infostealer comes with a very interesting self-propagation mechanism, researchers have found. Cybersecurity experts from Kaspersky uncovered new malware that logs into the YouTube accounts of compromised users and uploads a video to their channel, which distributes RedLine Infostealer. A victim, ideally a PC gamer, finds a



The Always-On Display feature launched with the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, forcing the lock screen to stay on and usable at all times. If you don’t want that, disabling the Always-On Display takes only a quick trip to the settings menu. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



National Drive Electric Week is right around the corner. Plug In America, the Electric Vehicle Association, environmental organization Sierra Club and Nissan (one of the main sponsors) are all backing the initiative, which aims to highlight the benefits of having an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid. Between September 23rd and October 2nd, EV owners will show off their rides and chat to folks cu



Chicago-based photographer named Alex Garcia was traveling back from Havana and overnighted in Miami on Thursday. After waiting for hours to clear passport control he headed to the baggage carousel for his luggage, but he couldn’t find his bag. He’d placed an AirTag in it, and he knew that it left the airport. Police there were uninterested. So he decided to chase it down himself. Continue readin



From time to time, there are some great promotions offered by hotel loyalty programs that let you save money and earn extra points. Likewise, you can save even more when you leverage targeted Amex Offers and Chase Offers . These offers generally give you a set discount on purchases with specific merchants; for example, $25 off a $100 purchase. Hotel brands are some of the most common merchants to



Nanoracks just made space construction and manufacturing history with the first demonstration of cutting metal in orbit. The technique could be critical for the next generation of large-scale space stations and even lunar habitats. The experiment was performed back in May by Nanoracks and its parent company Voyager Space, after getting to orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter 5 launch. The company



SpaceX and T-Mobile may have hogged the headlines with their flashy pre-announcement about Starlink connectivity last month, and Apple last week , but Lynk has been putting in the work and may very well steal their lunch with a satellite-to-phone connection that already works — with any device out there. In fact, they just got FCC approval for it , meaning it’s just a matter of selecting a mobile



Last month, Varo Bank celebrated the two-year anniversary of obtaining its national bank charter . The move made Varo the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. consumer bank. The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 bill



Horror films aren’t only for October, but if you’re going to release a reboot of Clive Barker’s seminal, franchise-launching, freaky S&M, goopy body horror classic Hellraiser , when else are you going to release it but in the run-up to Halloween? Hulu is doing just that, dropping director David Bruckner’s reimagining… Read more...



Five years ago this month, Hurricane Maria formed in the Atlantic Ocean, creating one of the U.S.’s most devastating humanitarian disasters of the 21st century. Read more...



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Believe it or not, at one point in time, the Nintendo 3DS was considered a large handheld with its XL model, but it’s just not when you compare it to newer portable consoles like the Switch. The 3DS XL is now relatively small, which was apparently a problem for one fan, who came up with a way to supersize it— dual… Read more...



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Halloween is a mere 45 days away, but there’s no reason to panic and start throwing fake cobwebs on the windows and covering the porch in decorative gourds. You’ve still got plenty of time to put together a haunted house that will drive trick-or-treaters to your door and fill your mailbox with passive-aggressive notes… Read more...



If you’re on the lookout for your next gaming monitor, you might come across some cool options and others that might be a little weirder. This newest one by Gigabyte, though, will be awesome if you’re the kind of person to have more than one computer on their desk. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Scammers are planting malicious advertisements in the Microsoft Edge news feed, according to new research from antivirus and VPN provider Malwarebytes. In a blog post by its threat intelligence team, the company claims that the scheme, set up to “direct victims to tech support scam pages”, has been in motion for at least two months. This particular scam operation has been particularly effective b



Google added a new feature to Chrome for Android that will keep your open Incognito mode tabs hidden away unless they’re unlocked with your fingerprint data. This new feature is similar to the “Privacy Screen” option found in the iPhone versions of Google apps like Google Authenticator, Drive, Fi, and the iOS Google… Read more...



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Video of a sidewalk delivery robot crossing yellow caution tape and rolling through a crime scene in Los Angeles went viral this week, amassing more than 650,000 views on Twitter and sparking debate about whether the technology is ready for prime time. It turns out the robot’s error, at least in this case, was caused by humans. The video of the event was taken and posted on Twitter by William Gud



Link: Apply now for the Citi Premier ® Card The Citi Premier ® Card ( review ) is one of the most rewarding mid-range credit cards. While many people might be familiar with the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card ( review ), the Citi Premier is an often overlooked competitor (or complement, depending on how you look at it). The card is even offering a limited time welcome bonus , so in this post I wan



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Starlink has made its way to the southernmost continent, beaming down broadband internet to a research center in Antartica. McMurdo Station, a research outpost run by the U.S. Antarctic Program, is testing out a Starlink terminal to enhance its connectivity. Read more...




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Saturn’s rings are one of the most iconic structures in the solar system, but their genesis has long been up for debate. New research suggests that the spectacular rings may have been born out of the death of an icy moon. Read more...



Sure, there’s nothing quite like visiting a bustling metropolis, from Tokyo and its neon lights to Paris and its historic architecture. But sometimes, you just want to get away from it all, to head out into the wilderness and connect with nature. In that case, an expedition to a remote corner of the globe might be the trip for you. Fortunately, you don’t need to pitch a tent and set up camp to sp



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Having the lights turn on as soon as you walk into a room is exactly how we envisioned the smart home. But it hasn’t been easy to configure unless you program a routine or a motion sensor around the house to trigger the lights. Signify, the makers behind WiZ and the Philips Hue smart bulbs, have figured out a way to… Read more...



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Big tech companies have spared no expense gobbling up competitors in recent years even as lawmakers hammer out historic antitrust legislation intended to curb their most anti-competitive impulses. Read more...



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The search for evidence ancient life on Mars is ramping up, as NASA's Perseverance rover has already secured some potentially revelatory samples containing organic matter. The presence of organic matter isn't slam dunk evidence of life on the Red Planet, but it is a distinctly promising sign — and, perhaps most tellingly, agency scientists seem uncharacteristically excited. Since July, the indefa



AI Provocateur A leading artificial intelligence expert is once again shooting from the hip in a cryptic Twitter poll. In the poll, OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever asked his followers whether advanced super-AIs should be made "deeply obedient" to their human creators, or if these godlike algorithms should "truly deeply [love] humanity." In other words, he seems to be pondering whether we sh



Tired of sponsored content on every platform? Well, you'll also be getting it from Amazon's Alexa voice assistant soon. Well, kinda. We'll explain. During the annual Amazon Accelerate seller's conference, the mega-retailer announced the launch of a new Alexa function called " Customers ask Alexa " that targets questions about products and brands. When users ask related questions, they'll now get



The intruder who claims to have hacked Uber might not have done much damage. The ridesharing firm has determined that there's "no evidence" the perpetrator accessed sensitive user data, such as trip histories. All services are functioning properly, and the company has restored the use of internal software it took down upon discovering the breach. Uber didn't say more about the reported culprit or



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An 18-year-old hacker has taken responsibility for hacking Uber and the details are not looking good for the rideshare company. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) On Thursday night, Uber announced that it had suffered a "cybersecurity incident" and that it was working with law enforcement on the issue. A report in the New York Times detailed the "incident" as a data breach that had



Buying eyeglasses can feel weirdly similar to buying a new car: Prices are often hidden from you, they cost more than they have any right to—and there are a whole bunch of mysterious upgrades pushed at you. Coatings. I’m talking about coatings: the anti-scratch, anti-glare stuff you can add to your lenses to make your… Read more...



House science committee leaders are asking the FAA to disclose more details as the agency investigates a recent incident involving the failed launch of an uncrewed Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. Read more...



Mashable's Senior Editor Stan Schroeder reviews Apple's iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max and breaks down everything you need to know about Apples latest iPhone models.



Let’s say you love the world of Pixar’s Toy Story but also are cool with letting a sentient robot live in your home that seems like it could, hypothetically, one day decide to kill you. If so, well, we have just the toy for you. Read more...



Dara Khosrowshahi is a star witness at the trial of Joe Sullivan, who has been accused of obstructing justice for failing to disclose the 2016 breach.



Getting a bunch of bananas and avocados from your favorite 15-minute grocery delivery company at 3 a.m. might be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but some of these companies are finding themselves in somewhat of a cost-related pickle in such a low-margin business. While covering the recent news of Misfits Market acquiring Imperfect Foods , Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh noted it



A new report have revealed JavaScript is no longer top dog when it comes to the world’s most popular programming languages. CircleCI's 2022 State of Software Delivery report found that TypeScript has now overtaken JavaScript to the number one position, toppling one of the biggest names in the industry. The company says the change is likely down to its developer-friendly features, like allowing th



Editor’s note: Citi is a TPG advertising partner. The Citi Premier® Card definitely receives less attention than other travel rewards credit cards, especially when you compare it to premium credit cards. It also lost the majority of its consumer protections and insurance benefits back in 2019 . With that in mind, you might wonder whether the $95 annual fee on the Citi Premier card is worth it. Le



When you create a signature in Outlook, you may want something that goes beyond plain text. You can easily get a professional signature complete with all your links and info using a Microsoft template. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



It’s frustrating to take your phone out of your pocket only to realize it’s been on the whole time, draining battery. Pixel owners, in particular, have been complaining about their phones unlocking in their pockets. And while it’s possible that Google will sweep in with a patch in the future, there are a few steps… Read more...




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Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new information. The annual “iPhone day” is here. Apple on Friday launched its latest generation of smartphones, the iPhone 14 family, with the new models hitting store shelves on Sept. 16. Pre-orders for the iPhone 14 began on Friday, Sept. 9, just two days after the company’s Far Out special event, where the tech giant unveiled its latest products



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Russia's delegation at the United Nations General Assembly released an eyebrow-raising statement condemning the United States for allowing private satellites to crowd Earth's orbit, arguing that they could become a "legitimate target" if they were to ever be used against Russia. While the statement doesn't directly name SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation by name, it's almost certainly the



With PS VR2 set to arrive early next year, Sony is starting to accelerate the hype train for its next-gen virtual reality headset. The hardware made its public debut at the Tokyo Game Show this week ( early impressions are largely positive ) and the company revealed some more titles that are coming to the platform during Tuesday’s State of Play . Some other important information just emerged, alb



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Pakistan’s 2022 monsoon season has been devastating, with 1,545 people dead, including 552 children, according to the latest update from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority. Tens of millions more have been displaced by the resulting floods, which at one point covered more than a third of the country. Read more...



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It often seems like polluters don’t get nearly enough attention and punishment from the government—but authorities cracked down on one oil and gas producer that had been shirking its cleanup duties this week in the unusual move of raiding its offices. Read more...



As Disney’s 100th year approaches, Disney Animation Studios is celebrating its fairytale lore with some major releases. Among them is author Emily Zemler’s Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara, a visual guide to the Disney Princesses, which will chronicle the impact Disney royalty has had on pop culture since 1937's Snow … Read more...



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The founder of Patagonia said this week in an exclusive interview with the New York Times that he’s giving away his company to support environmental protection. Yvon Chouinard, the rock-climber-turned-businessman who has long pushed his company as the face of progressive corporate environmentalism, told the Times that… Read more...



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The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) fledgling space program has made a new ally in the race to the Moon, partnering with China to help it land a rover on the lunar surface. The newly forged partnership, the first space sector agreement between the two nations, highlights their respective lunar ambitions. Read more...



After some 30 films and 16 TV series (depending on how you count them), I am growing numb to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m no snob, and I still think the movies are fun and that the lore is interesting—I just have trouble caring enough to actually keep pace. I think Disney knows this, which is why they keep… Read more...



Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp is stepping into the film business. Earlier this week, WhatsApp announced its first original short film “Naija Odyssey,” which tells the story of NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was born in Athens, Greece to Nigerian parents. “Naija Odyssey” will premiere on Prime Video on September 21, 2022. The short film signifies WhatsApp’s foray into entertainment, an



Enlarge (credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon, M.H. Wong, and the OPAL Team ) Saturn is an unusual planet in some obvious ways, most notably its extensive ring system. But it's also strange in some less obvious ways: The rings appear to be far, far younger than the planet, and they stay stably in the plane of Saturn's orbit while the planet's axis of rotation wobbles around dramatically. A new modeling st



Enlarge / Nearly every major site warns you about cookies, and it's a shame they share a moniker with one of life's great pleasures. (credit: Getty Images) Browser extension I don't care about cookies does one job and does it well. It automatically removes the annoying-but-mandated "This website uses cookies" notices from websites. People like it, donate to it, and don't ask more of it, a rare fi



While these GPUs were liquidated following 2018 flooding in China, they provide a good visual for the flood of GPUs hitting secondhand markets these days. (credit: Unwire HK ) For most of the world, yesterday's long-awaited Ethereum "Merge" —which took the cryptocurrency from proof-of-work mining to a proof-of-stake model —is notable for cutting Ethereum's energy consumption by 99.95 percent . Bu



Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. (credit: Getty Images ) On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a " prompt injection attack ," they redirected the bot to repeat embarrassing and ridiculous phrases. The bot is run by Remoteli.io,



Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images ) Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed by someone who announced the feat on the company Slack channel. The intruder, who sent screenshots documenting the breach to The New York Times and security researchers, claimed to be 18



Enlarge / 1) Enable the feature on the Chrome "flags" screen, 2) turn on the new setting that appears in "Privacy and security," and 3) you'll see this new lock screen when you leave an Incognito session. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Here's a fun new feature for Chrome for Android: fingerprint-protected Incognito tabs. 9to5Google discovered the feature in the Chrome 105 stable channel, though you'll have



Enlarge / Writer-director Joshua Newton and actor Roy Scheider. (credit: Tana Lee Alves / Contributor | WireImage ) This September, British filmmaker Joshua Newton prepared to rerelease his 2009 film Beautiful Blue Eyes . The 2022 premiere was important to Newton, as he’d waited more than a decade to finally share with the world a version of the movie that was previously lost. Roy Scheider starre



It's a strong-earning credit card, which earns valuable points, and is one of the better-integrated cards into a frequent flyer program out there. What's more it pairs with the newly-relaunched Aeroplan program which is hugely underappreciated as a tool for U.S. frequent flyers. Continue reading ...



Amazon is set to launch a new version of its multi-channel shipping software Veeqo that it says should save ecommerce firms a lot of money. Veeqo can integrate with users' sales channels, including Amazon but also third-party channels such as eBay, Etsy, and Shopify, to provide access to discounted rates on services like UPS, US Postal Service, DHL, and FedEx. In addition, Veeqo’s "rate-shopping"




It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up… The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep a lid on the gory details of a third party app audit that its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally pledged would be carried out, back in 2018 , as he sought to buy time to purge the spreading reputational stain after revelations about data misuse went viral at the



Launch House, a community-oriented startup that has built a brand around launching ideas out loud, is in the middle of a controversy after a Vox investigation surfaced multiple sexual assualt and harassment allegations. Some existing investors in the startup and its venture fund have issued public statements supporting the alleged victims and denouncing the alleged behavior described by Vox in it



Gaetano Crupi Contributor Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab . He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. More posts by this contributor Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession I pre



Intel has used the Celeron and Pentium brands for CPUs since the 1990s, but they're finally fading away — if not quite in the way you'd expect. The company is replacing both brand names for low-end laptop chips in favor of the simpler (if not exactly creative) "Intel Processor" badge starting in 2023. The move will help "simplify" the lineup, Intel VP Josh Newman said. The Core, Evo and vPro labe



As Amsterdam Schiphol Airport continues to deal with unrivaled operational issues even after the summer travel peak, the airport’s CEO is stepping down . Dick Benschop steps down as Schiphol Airport CEO This week, Dick Benschop has handed in his resignation notice as President Director & CEO of Royal Schiphol Group. The Supervisory Board has accepted his resignation, and is looking for a successo



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Smashing rotten fruit is fun, as long as you’re not afraid of getting detritus all over your clothes. But do you know what’s even more fun? Try standing at a distance and watching two pieces of putrid produce repeatedly slam into each other until they’re nothing but a gross paste. Read more...



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Last week ’s Rings of Power showed just how much strife can come from old prejudices and mistrust. This week’s shows just how toxic keeping secrets from those who should be allies can be—and sets the stage for the series to really get going as its myriad heroes realize it’s better to stand together in honesty. Read more...



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The iPhone camera is capable of shooting two aspect ratios—4:3 and 16:9. The 4:3 aspect ratio uses the full megapixels, whereas the 16:9 crops in for a wider view. We’ll show you how to swap. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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Null Self-Driving Tesla is being sued for misleading the public by calling its controversial driver assistance features "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving," Reuters reports . According to the complaint filed in a San Francisco federal court this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been deceiving its customers by promising that fully-fledged, autonomous driving is "just around the corner." And that's no



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If our immune system could easily detect cancer cells, it could supercharge new treatments for the disease . What if a drug could cause cancer cells to reveal themselves to the immune system, which could then target and kill them? That's essentially the approach that a burgeoning form of cancer treatment — yet to be tested in humans — is adopting, as described in a new study published in the peer



The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro are officially available starting today, and all the phones ship with the latest iOS 16 update installed. However, there’s a bug with activation and device migration, which requires a workaround or a software update. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Last month, the White House announced a sweeping plan to forgive the student loan debt of millions of Americans, canceling up to $10,000 in debt for some borrowers and $20,000 for those who received Pell Grants . If you took out student loans, they have an effect on your credit score no matter what (they are loans ,… Read more...



Someone seems hell-bent on denying the service of a specific company in Eastern Europe, and is carrying out some huge Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks to do so. After executing (and failing) the largest-ever DDoS attack ever seen in July 2022, the same group has returned with an even bigger assault, Akamai has reported. The company reports that the attack was against an unnamed enti



Some users are finding their iPhone 14 nearly ready to roll, but with one rather significant issue. What do you do when your new iPhone won't activate?



There are many asteroid or comet doomsday movies that have been created, but there is one that stands tall as one of the most scientifically accurate.



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View of an advertising card for Peter Koenig, depicting a woman wearing a hat. Printed on front: “Peter Koenig, wholesale and retail dealer in coal, coke, wood, charcoal. Main office, 368 Gratiot Ave. Telephone 345-2r.” Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library




Prior to announcing its intent to buy Figma for $20 billion on Thursday, Adobe’s largest deal was its $4.75 billion Marketo acquisition in 2018. Why go so far outside of its pricing comfort zone and pay twice as much as Figma’s most recent private valuation? The easy answer is that it’s about taking a potential rival off the market. Yes, Adobe XD is a similar product, but there could be more to t



Hollow Knight fans who tend to only play games on PlayStation can breathe a sigh of relief. The long-awaited sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong , will be coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 . The game had already been confirmed for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC, Mac and Linux. Silksong is also coming to Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming on its release day . Only trouble is, we sti



After a decade of encouraging customers to share their streaming accounts, services like Netflix now take the opposite stance. They claim that “password piracy” is detrimental to the industry and are struggling to fight the

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