Sunday, September 11, 2022

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The traditional startup fever dream goes something like this: You come up with a revolutionary idea for a startup in your dorm room. You quit school and take your idea to Sand Hill Road, where VCs shower you with cash. Your company grows quickly. You eventually get a valuation of over $1 billion and you go public to great fanfare. That’s the mythology anyway, but what if there were another way? W



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The Disney D23 Expo has had a solid amount of reveals and footage for various Marvel films and shows in production. Kevin Feige revealed the main roster for the upcoming Thunderbolts film. That cast is: Read more...



I’ve got a hankering for The Lord of the Rings but can’t seem to satisfy it. Ever since the Rings of Power made words like Númenor, Harfoots, and Morgoth part of my everyday vernacular, I’ve been hunting for a video game to supply the same cinematic Tolkien action. I had one specifically in mind: EA’s excellent 2004 real-time strategy game Battle for Middle-earth. I originally had the game on dis




FREE SPOTIFY PREMIUM: Spotify Premium lets you listen to your favourite tunes ad-free and offline. Until Dec. 8, you can get a three-month subscription to Spotify Premium for free — save £29.97 on list price. Spotify Premium offers ad-free listening of all your favourite tunes, with mobile and offline play, on-demand playback, and unlimited skips. All of that sounds great, but you know what doesn



SAVE 49%: Watch The House of the Dragon from anywhere in the world 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. With the fourth episode of House of the Dragon dropping at 2 a.m. on Sept. 12 in the UK, you might be wondering whether the time has finally come to see what all the fuss it about.



It's Sunday, and it's been a very long week full of big changes , 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 11's Wordle solution rev



It's true that sometimes the best things come in (very) small packages. Here are all the surprising ways nanotechnology is changing the world around us.



Leave it to James Cameron to turn the D23 Expo into a Dolby-powered 3D theater. The legendary director didn’t have a new trailer for fans, but he did bring Pandora to them by way of a curated selection of scenes from Avatar: The Way of Water in state of the art 3D. No really, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen and… Read more...



You thought there was a lot of Star Wars and Marvel news and footage today? You haven’t seen anything yet. The D23 Expo was just getting started. Read more...



Disney debuted a teaser for The Mandalorian 's third season during D23 Expo. Disney is holding its annual D23 Expo this weekend, and that means lots of teasers, trailers, casting news, and fun cameo appearances. The streaming platform's Star Wars offerings this year included our first look at the third season of The Mandalorian , as well as a final trailer for the limited series, Andor , and a tr



You don’t even realize it but you’ve already seen footage from The Marvels . At D23 Expo Saturday, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios broke news and showed footage for over an hour straight , culminating with the first ever footage from the Captain Marvel sequel, which also features Monica Rambeau and Ms. Marvel. Read more...



In addition to being one of the best games of the year, FromSoftware ’s Elden Ring features an absolute treat of a soundtrack. Tsukasa Saitoh, Shoi Miyazawa, Yuka Kitamura, Yoshimi Kudo and Tai Tomisawa crafted an orchestral score that pays homage to the studio’s past while offering something new, and now you can listen to their work without booting up the game. Publisher Bandai Namco has uploade



Warwick Davis is returning as the Nelwyn dwarf sorcerer in the new Disney+ series Willow . The 1988 fantasy film Willow was under-appreciated in its day, but it's now a fantasy cult classic. Disney+ is betting on the strength of its nostalgic appeal with the new fantasy series Willow , set decades after the events of the first film. And now we have an official trailer, which debuted at D23 Expo.



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The Arizona Cardinals will face the Kansas City Chiefs in a Week 1 matchup at the State Farm Stadium. Kickoff time for Chargers vs. Raiders is set for 4:25 p.m. ET on September 11. Experts predict a difficult opening day for the Cardinals and superstar quarterback Kyle Murray with Patrick Mahomes providing a threat for the Chiefs. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Kansa



The Los Angeles Chargers will host the Las Vegas Raiders at the SoFi Stadium as the two go head-to-head in their Week 1 matchup. Kickoff time for Chargers vs. Raiders is set for 4:25 p.m. ET on September 11. Both teams have improved since last year and will time to prove they are as impressive between the lines as they are on paper. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Los



The New York Giants head to Tennessee to face the Titans in their Week 1 clash at the Nissan Stadium. Kickoff time for Titans vs. Giants is scheduled for 4:25p.m. ET on September 11. Last year’s American Football Conference champions will provide a tough start to the new NFL regular season for Giants coach Brian Daboll. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Tennessee or New



The Green Bay Packers welcome the Minnesota Vikings at the U.S. Bank Stadium in their Week 1 matchup. Kickoff time for Vikings vs. Packers is scheduled for 4:25p.m. ET on September 11. The season-opening match will see top rivals in the NFC North go head-to-head with both teams tipped to have a strong chance of winning the division. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Min



For twenty years I've been writing that every article on how to get an upgrade is wrong. There's no secret phrase like 'revenue management' . And 'dressing nicely' doesn't usually matter because upgrades with most airlines are based on an algorithm - that may take into account (for instance) your frequent flyer status and the fare you paid. Then a Delta Air Lines gate agent goes and does this: ho



The Washington Commanders will face the Jacksonville Jaguars at the FedExField in their NFL opener. Kickoff time for Commanders vs. Jaguars is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. This will be the first time the Commanders have ever faced the Jaguars in a Week 1 matchup. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Washington and Jacksonville, most fans will need to stream the game t



The Baltimore Ravens will face the New York Jets in their season opener at the MetLife Stadium. Kickoff time for Jets vs. Ravens is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. The Ravens are heavily favored to win despite Lamar Jackson’s ongoing contract situation. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Baltimore and New Yok, most fans will need to stream the game to get in on the act



The Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints will go head-to-head in their regular season opener at the Mercedez-Benz Stadium. New Orleans will open the season in Atlanta against the Falcons for the first time since 2014. Kickoff time for Falcons vs. Saints is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. While the game will be available on local TV in areas around Detroit and Philadelphia, most fans will



The Houston Texans will host the Indianapolis Colts in the regular season opener at the NRG stadium. Kickoff time for Texans vs. Colts is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. Matt Ryan will begin the next stage of his football career with the Colts on Sunday after spending his entire 14-year career at Atlanta. The 37-year-old will be hoping to help end a streak of eight straight opening day losses f




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The Carolina Panthers will kick off their 2022 campaign playing host to the Cleveland Browns at the Bank of America Stadium. Kickoff time for Panthers vs. Browns is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. Baker Mayfield will make his first start at quarterback for the Panthers against his former team on Sunday admitting this week that “obviously, there is a lot of attachment there”. While the game will



I hope everyone is having a nice weekend! I’m still at home (as I’ve been for the last five weeks and change), though I’m thinking of taking my first review trip in quite some time this coming week. Stay tuned for the details of that. On the points & travel front, this week Emirates and JetBlue announced they’d end their partnership, United Airlines threatened to abandon JFK, Finnair unveiled a n



Following a landslide of leaks, Assassin’ Creed Mirage has finally been properly revealed, alongside a host of upcoming spin-offs. Taking Ubisoft’s time-hopping series back to its roots , Assassin’s Creed Mirage is described as a stealth-focused, narrative-driven game that will release in 2023. TechRadar Gaming was given a few morsels of information during a recent press briefing, confirming most



Just Dance is officially entering its live-service era with Just Dance 2023 . The latest iteration of Ubisoft's dance-along franchise will support online multiplayer for up to six people at a time, unlocking the full game to be played with friends. The studio promises regular free content updates "for years to come," including fresh game modes, songs and themed seasons. Ubisoft Just Dance 2023 is



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The game Assassin’s Creed fans have been asking for years is finally on its way. During its Ubisoft Forward event on Saturday, the publisher revealed Codename Red, a new entry in the series that will be set in feudal Japan. Franchise head Marc-Alexis Côté called Red the “next premium title” in Ubisoft’s open world series and said Ubisoft Quebec was leading work on the project, suggesting it will



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Ubisoft is bringing Assassin's Creed back to mobile devices with Jade , a new title set in China. The game takes place around 215 BC, filling in the timeline between Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Origins , and it's designed to feel like a mainline entry, parkouring and all. There's no release date quite yet and all Ubisoft has shown is the classic eagle-flying-over-a-settlement sequence. One thing



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During the post-credits scene of Spider-Man: Far from Home , it was revealed that Nick Fury has been taking a much-needed vacation in space after he and half the universe got dusted by Thanos. Now he's back from vacation and has to take on a massive conspiracy of shape-shifting aliens infiltrating human society. Bummer of a first day back. At Marvel's D23 Expo panel, the studio finally unveiled t



Happy Saturday, friends. Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we very quickly sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Want it in your inbox every Saturday AM? Get it here . This week saw two big events running in parallel: an Apple hardware announcement and Y Combinator’s Demo Day . Either one of those on their own would generally lead our traffic for the week



At The Points Guy, our staff of writers and industry experts travels the world in pursuit of news and trends, plus a bit of rest and relaxation while on vacation. Over the years, we’ve accumulated and shared many essential travel tips on how best to book and enjoy a trip, be it a cruise , flight , hotel stay or road trip . Some of our tips are helpful for those who may be new to the world of crui



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Assassin’s Creed Mirage , the next entry in Ubisoft’s long-running action-adventure series, will arrive in 2023. The publisher announced the release date today during its Ubisoft Forward event. Set two decades before the events of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla , the game will reunite fans with a Basim Ibn Ishaq and return the series to its stealth roots. In a briefing held before today’s presentation



Since it was first reported that Marvel was developing a Halloween special focused on the Werewolf by Night comic book series back in 2021, many have speculated which version of the character fans would get. Now we have our answer as Marvel has released its first trailer for Werewolf by Night at this year's annual D23 Expo. Gael García Bernal will star as Jack Russell, the titular character Werew



Mutants and fantastic families didn’t grace Saturday’s D23 presentation, though Kevin Feige had other snippets of information to reveal for the various Marvel projects in production. With the slate of Phases 5 and 6 still fresh in our minds from San Diego Comic-Con, Feige took the time to pull back the curtain a… Read more...



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Attendees at D23 were treated to the official trailer for Willow . The series, which will be streaming on Disney+, is a sequel show to the 1988 film of the same name and sees Warwick Davis reprise his role as the titular Willow Ufgood. The original saw Davis' Willow go on a grand, high-fantasy adventure that "explodes beyond the boundaries of his own hopes and fears." The movie also starred Val K



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With D23 underway this weekend, Disney had a lot to share with Star Wars fans. In all, the company debuted three trailers at the expo. First, there was a final look at Star Wars: Andor ahead of the show’s Disney+ premiere on September 21st . Then, we got to see Tales of the Jedi , a new animated anthology series that will begin streaming on October 23rd. But what you can here to see is the first



It's hard to imagine a pair of sisters more in sync than Tegan and Sara, the Canadian indie-pop duo who has been writing and performing music together for nearly 30 years. But before their Grammy nominations, world tours, and nine studio albums (and counting), the identical twins were in a desperate search to find themselves — without losing their bond to each other. Shake that up with teen angst



The Insta360 team has been busy so far in 2022, releasing its new modular One RS camera, a camera for drones, and much more. Now, the company is finally updating one of its most popular action camera lines with the new and improved Insta360 X3. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



You might already know that when sharing documents using Google’s own office apps you can leave comments to make collaboration easy. But did you know Google Drive offers the same comment feature for virtually any file, not just Google documents? Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



The New England Patriots will travel to the Hard Rock Stadium to face the Miami Dolphins in their third straight season opener against the team. Kickoff time for Dolphins vs. Patriots is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11. The Patriots will be hoping to put a rocky pre-season behind them under six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach Bill Belichick. Meanwhile, the Dolphins will be hoping for a strong



The Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers are gearing up to go head-to-head in the NFL season opener. Kickoff for Bears vs. 49ers is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11 at Soldier Field. The Bears will kick off the Matt Eberflus era with a win against the 49ers who will be without two starters in Verrett and Ward which will leave the visiting side thin on the opening game of the season. While th



The Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions will go head-to-head for their NFL regular season opener. Kickoff for Eagles vs. Lions is set for 1p.m. ET on September 11 at Ford Field in the Motor City. The Eagles will be hoping for a strong start to the season looking ahead to weathering the storm of a tough schedule later in the year and reaching double-digit wins in 2022. The Detroit Lions will hav



Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. In some ways, Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day is somewhat predictable: There will be Stanford dropouts, last-minute pivots, and, as always, promises of near-term profitability. We even made a bingo board about it. But one thing I can never guess ahead of time is



Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow



Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Since Delta removed its award charts in 2015 , the SkyMiles program has become significantly more unpredictable (and sometimes comically expensive). With long-haul business class flights routinely selling for more than 250,000 SkyMiles, it’s easy to feel like your SkyMiles points balance is effectively worthless. But



It may have taken over two years, but Delta is finally gearing up to launch its triangle route within South Africa. The Atlanta-based carrier filed plans over the weekend to commence service from Atlanta to Johannesburg to Cape Town. This so-called triangle route will operate four times a week beginning on Dec. 2, as first seen in Cirium schedules and later confirmed to TPG by airline spokesperso



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The Comic-Con trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was a somber, mournful affair that couldn’t be anything but after the sudden passing of Chadwick Boseman . And though much of the film will be about the film’s returning characters (and their real life stars) grieving , Wakanda Forever is going to show the wider … Read more...



Instagram is mimicking another social media feature and at this point, it's not even surprising. The Meta -owned company confirmed to TechCrunch that it's testing a repost feature that'll allow users to share others' content to their feeds. It's a very similar feature to Twitter's retweets (rolled out as a button back in 2009) or the reblogs and shares seen on Tumblr, Facebook, and Tiktok . Shari



Remember when airlines pushed messages through their apps, and in announcements, that your flight was both cleaned and sanitized prior to boarding? That was only just a few months ago. Continue reading ...



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The Federal Communications Commission wants to do something about space junk in low Earth orbit. On Thursday, the agency published a proposal (via Ars Technica ) that, if adopted, would put a deadline on how long non-geostationary satellites can stay in space. As things stand, voluntary NASA guidelines published in the 1990s recommend that dead satellites should be deorbited within 25 years. The



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Well, we still have to call it “Indiana Jones 5.” Today at the D23 Expo, Disney and Lucasfilm did not reveal the title of the upcoming film , but we did see a ton of amazing footage. Read more...



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The last season of The Mandalorian ended with Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) sending his son Grogu away to learn the ways of the Force by Luke Skywalker. But after being reunited in Book of Boba Fett , the duo are back to doing what they do best: making money in the galaxy, and occasionally getting pulled into situations… Read more...



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Using the options in PlayStation 4’s Safe Mode, you can resolve various issues, update the software, as well as reset your console to the factory settings. We’ll show you how to enter this mode and use various options in it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



The Aeroplan® Credit Card from Chase is one of the best new cards of the past year. They’ve had several different initial bonus offers already, and I like the newest one. Continue reading ...


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