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Amazon has launched a QVC-style livestream shopping in India, broadening its offerings in the key overseas market where it has deployed over $6.5 billion to win customers . The company on Friday quietly rolled out the new service, called Amazon Live, bringing an army of creators to host livestreams and plug products in the videos. The idea is, influencers, with already a large following, will dri



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About this episode - Episode 6 (of 8), 'Udûn' - Written by Nicholas Adams, Justin Doble, J.D. Payne, and Patrick McKay - Directed by Charlotte Brändström ★★★★★ Full spoilers follow for The Rings of Power episodes 1 to 6. The Rings of Power has made for a dramatically compelling, emotionally wrought, and occasionally lore expansive watch so far. However, the Prime Video show has been lacking in a




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This is not an easy Quordle for a couple reasons . Today's Quordle is not so much strategically difficult, as it is, well, a little bolder in some ways than usual. You'll understand what I mean when you're done. If it's a little too challenging, 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 there it i




A tsunami of new features is slated to crash onto Zoom , which will expand certain services and make some existing ones easier to use in order to, ideally, foster better communication. Two weeks prior to this announcement, Zoom implemented a new suite of features for the Team Chat tool while hinting at more. We thought the second round would've been revealed at the Zoomtopia event on November 8,



The word "Udûn" plays a large role in episode 6 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power . For one thing, it's the title of the episode. For another, it's the victory chant taken up by the orcs as Adar's (Joseph Mawle) plan for the Southlands finally falls into place. As episode 6 reveals, Adar didn't simply want the hilt of Sauron's old sword to wield it for himself. He wanted to use it to t



Sackboy: A Big Adventure is definitely coming to PC, and another leak points to a Returnal release for the platform too. It looked like Sackboy: A Big Adventure was heading to PC after an anonymous listing gave the game away a couple of weeks ago . And that's now official, with the PlayStation Latin America account uploading a – currently unlisted – trailer for the title. Sackboy: A Big Adventure



If you've been interested in buying a Samsung phone but want to save some money, then you've probably looked into buying a refurbished mobile – buying renewed tech has become a hugely popular way to save money on gadgets. Samsung's refurbishment program, called Re-Newed, doesn't actually sell the company's newest gadgets though. In the UK, the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 series are the only one



We nearly ran out of guesses while trying to figure out today's Wordle puzzle, but we're here with some hints to help you avoid that same struggle.



Two of the eBay executives who were charged for staging a cyberstalking campaign against the creators of the eCommerceBytes newsletter have been sentenced to prison . The Justice Department says that these execs, along with five other former eBay employees, worked together to intimidate David and Ina Steiner. They apparently hatched a scheme targeting the Steiners shortly after Ina published an a



After months of major gaming delays, one upcoming horror FPS is bucking the trend by releasing a whole week earlier than expected. Following a downright gross gameplay reveal two years ago, and another reveal during Summer Game Fest , twisted shooter Scorn will release on Friday, October 14. You’ll be able to hop into its twisted world of biomechanical abominations seven days earlier than previou



The weekend is almost here, but to tide you over while you wait, there's a brand new Wordle . But if you've used all your brain cells this week and are struggling with today's puzzle, never fear — 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 30's Wordle solution. If you'd rather work through it yourself, keep reading fo



This year, around 3.2 billion people — or about 40% of the world’s population — will play games, with total spending nearing $200 billion, estimates industry researcher Newzoo . The purveyors of web3 want a slice of this gargantuan market. Criticisms of the first generation of crypto games, dominated by the play-to-earn model, have already been well documented, so the question for developers now



Elon Musk tweeted that his Cybertruck would be able to serve briefly as a boat, but has yet to elaborate on how that will work.



Taking an ordinary screenshot on Android is simple, but many models have extra features for capturing everything from scrolling screenshots to animated GIFs.



It’s been only a few days since AMD rolled out its Ryzen 7000 processors with up to 16 Zen 4 cores and there are already rumblings of its next big CPU announcement. What appears to be the follow-up to the world’s fastest x86 processor - the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX - has appeared in a popular scientific computing project, einstein@home , as reported by prolific CPU chaser Benchleaks ( via To



After seven years, Daily Show host Trevor Noah will soon be Daily Show host no more. Announcing his departure during Thursday's episode, Noah thanked his team and reflected positively on his experience hosting the show, recalling covering the Trump presidency, the pandemic, and "more pandemic." "I've loved hosting this show," said Noah. "It's been one of my greatest challenges, it's been one of m



The Vision Fund, a venture capital arm of SoftBank, has launched a sweeping layoff process, cutting at least 30% of its workforce globally, or approximately 150 of the 500 employees, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news comes nearly two months after SoftBank chief executive officer and founder Masayoshi Son said the company would review the organization’s size and structure and that it pl



Enlarge (credit: Getty | REDA&CO ) The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed a long-awaited revision to the definition of the term "healthy" on food packaging—finally scrapping the mind-boggling criteria from the 1990s that made healthful foods such as nuts, salmon, avocados, olive oil, and even water ineligible for the label. The new definition is not immune to criticism, and Ame




The Kubernetes API is your route to inspecting and managing your cluster’s operations. You can consume the API using the Kubectl CLI, tools such as curl, or the official integration libraries for popular programming languages. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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At RE:WIRED Green, scientist Sylvia Earle and climate activist Sophia Kianni discussed ways younger and older generations can work together to face the crisis.



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In the closing session of Re:WIRED GREEN, the Louisiana lawyer urged the audience to join the front lines of climate activism.



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At RE:WIRED Green, actress Regina Hall and Sarah Shanley Hope of The Solutions Project spoke about the work being done by communities hardest hit by crisis.



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The RE:WIRED Green speaker explains how smaller, more efficient reactors will be the bedrock of energy independence.



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The UC San Diego researcher spoke at RE:WIRED Green about ways to use advanced control theory and machine learning to maximize sustainable energy sources.



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At RE:WIRED Green, San Francisco restaurateur Kayla Abe explained how her kitchen makes enticing meals from ingredients that would otherwise get tossed.



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The marine biologist told RE:WIRED Green about his team’s work to breed heat-resistant coral that can continue to support vibrant aquatic ecosystems.



A tranche of Elon Musk’s private messages have been made public as part of his ongoing lawsuit with Twitter. The messages, revealed in a court filing Thursday, shed new light on Musk’s behind-the-scenes negotiations with Twitter’s leadership, as well discussions with former CEO Jack Dorsey, and how Musk’s talks with CEO Parag Agrawal quickly soured. The messages include the moment Musk tells Agra



Alex Wiltschko has what he thinks is a big idea. He wants to build a company that digitizes scent. It’s a natural step for Wiltschko, who has a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard, where he studied how the brain processes odor. He didn’t wind up in this specific group accidentally, he suggests. It owes to a lifelong “obsession with scent and olfaction” that he came to study alo ngside Sandeep “Bob”



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A new, particularly juicy document has surfaced in discovery leading up to the Elon Musk v. Twitter trial, slated to take place in a few weeks. Behold : a trove of texts between Musk and key figures at Twitter, like founder Jack Dorsey, board chair Bret Taylor and current CEO Parag Agrawal, and other casual chats with investor Jason Calacanis and even Joe Rogan. There’s a lot to unpack here, so l



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Beyond Earth, there are likely other oceans in our solar system . Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's cracked, ice-blanketed moon Europa harbors a particularly voluminous sea, some 40 to 100 miles deep . Now, for just the third time ever, a spacecraft flew by the icy moon, swooping just 219 miles from Europa's surface. The other two flybys happened over two decades ago. NASA's Juno spacecraft,



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Tropical storms are increasingly likely to batter the US as oceans warm—and will continue to wreak havoc so long as climate change remains unaddressed.



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Google Colaboratory (Colab for short), Google’s service designed to allow anyone to write and execute arbitrary Python code through a web browser, is introducing a pay-as-a-you-go plan. In its first pricing change since Google launched premium Colab plans in 2020, Colab will now give users the option to purchase additional compute time in Colab with or without a paid subscription. Google says tha



Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. When Phil Libin co-founded Evernote he spent tons of money making the perfect working environment with chic offices, a shuttle bus and headphones to block out all of his employees’ distracting co-workers. He’s since seen the work-from-home light and co-founded mmhmm to make working remotely more efficient and even more fun. In t



Oracle NetSuite is unconcerned about chasing the leaders of the pack in sub-markets like CRM , despite its stake in these areas, the firm’s GVP of Strategy has said. In conversation with TechRadar Pro at SuiteWorld 2022 , Jason Cowan answered questions around the company’s ability to compete with Salesforce in the CRM market, as well as single-product vendors in other segments covered by its plat



japaneseaesthetics : Nishimura Goun -”Early Plum Blossoms”. Early 20th century, Japan



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In a last minute press conference, a billionaire space tourist and officials from NASA and SpaceX announced plans — albeit tentative and cautious — to launch a private mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. The billionaire in question, Polaris Program founder Jared Isaacman, played things pretty close to the vest. Along with the officials from NASA and SpaceX, he restricted his remarks to



The days of eavesdropping on the New York Police Department may be coming to an end. Read more...



A former employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) has been charged with attempting to transmit classified defense information to a representative of a foreign government. He was arrested on Wednesday and made his initial appearance at a federal court on Thursday. Read more...




Is it too much to ask for social media companies to come up with something new ? Apparently so, since all of them are determined to copy rival TikTok’s every move. The newest copycat is Twitter. Yes, that Twitter, the last platform in your mental list of places to go to watch “cool” or “interesting” videos. Read more...



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Have you watched a Marvel Studios show on Disney+ and thought “I wish this was just a movie?” Well that just happened with development of the upcoming Armor Wars . The show, which stars Don Cheadle as War Machine, was being developed as a follow up from the events in next year’s Secret Invasion but now, it turns out,… Read more...



The Stars Undying , the upcoming sci-fi debut from Emery Robin, introduces an interstellar princess forced into circumstances that’ll require every bit of royal strength she can muster to overcome. It’ll be released in November, but io9 is thrilled to share a generous excerpt from the book today. Read more...



Enlarge / The crew of Polaris Dawn, from left: Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, Sarah Gillis, and Anna Menon, pose in front of SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket in South Texas. (credit: John Kraus/Polaris Program) NASA announced Thursday that it plans to study the possibility of using SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle to boost the aging Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit. The federal agency has signed



Enlarge / MIT engineers built a battery-free, wireless underwater camera that could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change. (credit: Adam Glanzman) MIT engineers have built a wireless, battery-free underwater camera, capable of harvesting energy by itself while consuming very little power, according to a new paper published



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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising "numerous" organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft's name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus, which is bes



Now that Apple has taken the wraps off its next Apple Watch lineup, consumers are left with a big choice: keep their current model or upgrade to a new one.



Waiting to buy a pricey product until incentives are made available is common, but that may not be as much of an option for car buyers going forward.



Schwarzenegger paid $20,000 to ship a tank from Austria to the U.S., but, other than that, the tank was absolutely free.



Steven Tyler's all-black convertible Spyder, a Venom GT by Hennessey Performance, cost him $1.1



Only 16,000 Toyota Seras were ever produced in Japan, but they made a big splash for such a small car.



A lot of websites invite you to accept their cookies, but what is a cookie and what does it mean? Should you accept them? We've got all the info here.



Truepill , a platform that helps other companies offer diagnostics, telehealth services and prescriptions, has conducted its fourth layoff of the year. Sources say the layoff impacted around 65% of the existing staff across the engineering, human resources, design, IT and finance teams. The layoff comes around two months after its last round, which impacted about a third of the company, or 175 pe



Enlarge / Intel arrives at a crucial sub-$300 price for its medium-end GPU option. But will that bear out as a worthwhile price compared to its performance? (credit: Intel) Intel's highest-end graphics card lineup is approaching its retail launch, and that means we're getting more answers to crucial market questions of prices, launch dates, performance, and availability. Today, Intel answered mor



Enlarge / Let's see: Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia Geforce Now, Xbox again, and Steam Link. That's all the cloud streaming services, right? Nothing's missing. (credit: Logitech) It's not every day that you see the attempted birth of an entirely new category of video game hardware. But it feels like that's what we're seeing this month with the announcement of the Logitech G Cloud and the Razer Edge 5G



Enlarge / Illustration of magnetic levitation using a high-temperature ceramic superconductor. A paper that claimed to provide the first evidence of superconductivity at room temperatures has been retracted by the journal Nature, even as the paper's authors say they still have confidence in the results. The decision appears to come down to an issue of the experiment's questionable controls. High-



Editor’s note: This guide has been updated with the latest information. The end date of the Pay Yourself Back categories has been extended through Dec. 31, 2022. The latest Pay Yourself Back categories from Chase for Sapphire and Ink cardmembers — Airbnb, dining, and internet, cable and phone services — have been extended through Dec. 31, 2022. These categories were set to end on Sept. 30, but Ch



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Disaster Zone Hurricane Ian hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm yesterday, ripping through the region with sustained winds as high as 115 miles per hour and a storm surge so extreme that, like a tsunami, it drained the water from Tampa Bay's shores as it gathered power. While the damage is still being assessed, the portrait of Ian's destruction is already striking. Millions of homes an



SpaceX and NASA have signed a new agreement to study the feasibility of sending a commercial crew in a SpaceX Dragon to boost the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. If completed, the mission could extend the operational lifespan of the telescope by as much as 20 years. NASA officials cautioned that today’s news is not a mission announcement. For now, it’s just a feasibility study to consider wh



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 . Today we are mostly listening to acoustic covers of songs we love (a surprise Iron and Wine cover , perhaps?), and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. Which reminds us — did you know you can get 15% off passes with the DC discount code for being a




What’s the first thing that comes to your head when you think of a tech company executive? Is it a man wearing a light blue suit and union jack shirt driving a Mercedes-Benz spouting off about “fondling women” without much prompting? Then yes, you’re spot on. Well done. Read more...



Google is upgrading its Speech Services by Google speech engine, in a move it says will provide "clearer, more natural voices" for Android users using its text-to-speech services. All 421 voices in 67 languages have apparently been upgraded with a new voice model and synthesizer, “built using fresher speaker data.” This update will be rolling out to all 64-bit Android devices via the Google Play



Security experts have once again highlighted how it’s almost 2023 and we’re still holding on to the password as our number one cybersecurity measure. Despite a continued stream of headlines concerning businesses suffering tremendous losses due to poor cyberhygiene practices, most employees are still being reckless with their sensitive data, sharing them with other people, or simply keeping them a



While the federal government’s proposed rules for airlines say it’s not acceptable to disclose even optional fees like those for seat assignments and checked baggage during the purchase process – they must be available at the first instance a price is shown in a search – the government (through the Federal Trade Commission) says resort fees are fine as long as they are disclosed prior to confirmi



A group of House Democrats has unveiled a new bill that aims to put limits on the use of facial recognition technologies by law enforcement agencies across the United States. Dubbed the Facial Recognition Act , the bill would compel law enforcement to obtain a judge-authorized warrant before using facial recognition. By adding the warrant requirement, law enforcement would first have to show a co



Satellites in low Earth orbit can’t linger too long after they’ve finished what they went there to do, according to new rules passed by the FCC today. Now there’s a five-year limit on loitering in orbit , which should help keep the space debris problem more manageable in years to come. The FCC, for reasons beyond the scope of this article, is the de facto regulator for commercial satellite operat



It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack. The event comes just weeks after Y Combinator had its biannual D



The latest instance of House of the Dragon queer-baiting brings into focus the show’s resident lovable yet chaotic baddie Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), who exudes attraction to anyone (let’s be real). Fans already have noted the sapphic implications between Alicent and Rhaenyra as being at the root of their division , … Read more...



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New York is following in California’s tire treads, making drastic moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Empire State will entirely ban the purchase of new petroleum-powered cars by 2035. Read more...



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The war between Europe and Russia may be responsible for a new horror: a shockingly large release of damaging greenhouse gas. Read more...



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Steam’s seasonal sales are some of your best options to get PC games for cheap. From this point onward, though, those sales might be looking a little bit different, as Steam is changing its schedule around. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Packing efficiently is an art that all traveling teens should master early. With some thoughtful planning and a bit of parental supervision, young adults will find their journeys — whether it’s with family, friends or solo — more liberating if they concentrate on essential items, eliminate clutter and fine-tune their organizational skills. Of course, packing can be a challenge for even veteran gl



Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. Hurricane Ian smashed into the southwest coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday afternoon. The hurricane had been downgraded to a tropical storm as it crossed Florida, but has now strengthened into a hurricane once more. Many parts of Fort Myers and Naples are underwater, with 2 million people reporting power outages, a



Ahead of bringing its Arc desktop GPUs to everyone in a couple of weeks, Intel has revealed more details about what to expect from the graphics cards in terms of specs and performance. The A770, which starts at $329 , will have 32 Xe cores, 32 ray-tracing units and a 2,100MHz graphics clock. In terms of RAM, it comes in 8GB and 16GB configurations, with up to 512 Gb/s and 560 Gb/s of memory bandw



Experts at the University of Sydney have discovered a massive graveyard of dead stars that are now living either as neutron stars or black holes.



The scientific story behind deep fakes shows how the misrepresentation and malicious intent comment today wasn't meant to be that way.



Another Aston Martin car featured in a James Bond movie has been sold at auction for millions of dollars, and the funds will be going toward charity.



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Hurricane Ian appears headed for South Carolina as of Thursday, after already dealing untold damage as it cut a path across Florida Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. During its landfall in Florida, it was a Category 4 hurricane. It weakened while on land, but on Thursday afternoon it was upgraded from a topical storm to a Category 1 hurricane once again. In the lead up to its onslaught



Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | PM Images) The Federal Communications Commission today unanimously approved a rule that aims to minimize space debris by requiring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to be disposed no more than five years after being taken out of service. "The new rules shorten the decades-old 25-year guideline for deorbiting satellites post-mission, taking an important step in a new




We’ve previously written about why people shouldn’t overthink their running shoes . At the same time, knowing your body and finding the right shoe fit could make the difference between lacing up for a run and staying home. Read more...



Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are simplified versions of Photoshop and Premiere, respectively, intended for light video and photo editing. Adobe has now released 2023 versions of both apps with some new AI-powered features. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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The company will issue refunds as it shuts down its ambitious cloud gaming service.



Google Chrome extensions are set to see another year of support for enterprise use following the company’s decision to postpone their deletion from the Chrome Web Store until January 2024. The announcement on the Google Chrome Developers blog offers a stay of execution for sweeping changes to the Chromium engine that privacy advocates say will neuter web browser extensions designed to block adver



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Jackpot An upstate New York man claims he was able to exploit the state's gun buyback program by 3D printing more than 100 small firearms and selling them "back" to the attorney general's office to the tune of $21,000. Per Utica, New York's WKTV news station , a man who only identified himself as "Kem" to media said the idea dawned on him when scrolling on — where else — Twitter. Kem told the loc



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Back in my day, you turned devices off when you didn’t need to use them. But in the age of Amazon , your "smart" home and its ecosystem of gadgets will ideally always be turned on. That vision even has a cool-sounding name: ambient intelligence. It's A.I. with a new spin and the promise of a (corporate) bear hug. While I’m not anywhere near old enough to have truly earned my rose-tinted, geezer m



Videos on Twitter will now look a lot more like TikTok. The company announced that it’s switching to a full-screen “immersive” video player for watching clips. It’s also borrowing the now-familiar “swipe up” gesture that will allow people to endlessly scroll through more videos on the platform. The update will make watching videos on Twitter feel a lot more like browsing TikTok or Instagram’s Ree



It's only natural that a person's tastes and preferences change over time. So after years of thirsting for big, beefy gaming laptops with shiny lights, I've started gravitating towards more understated all-rounders that don't scream "Look at me." And for the last few generations, MSI's Stealth 15M line has been one of the best at balancing good performance with a discreet appearance. But unfortun



The company’s chief executive had signaled for several months that he wanted to rein in costs as he shifts attention toward the metaverse.



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Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter Thursday that his long-promised Cybertruck would be “waterproof enough” to operate as a boat, the day before Tesla will give a demonstration of its artificial intelligence capabilities. Read more...



The annual, all-genre film festival Fantastic Fest is wrapping up its latest event this week and, as expected, it was jam-packed with incredible genre movies. io9 was there for five of the eight days and saw 15 films in total, almost all of which we really enjoyed. Some of them are big studio films with release dates … Read more...



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Because Florida is in the news, we have to do this again. Read more...



More and more Americans across the country are living with obesity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The number of states and territories with high obesity rates has more than doubled since 2018. There are also wide disparities in obesity prevalence among different groups of… Read more...



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We now know the runtime for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever . According to the Hollywood Reporter , Disney has confirmed that the highly anticipated Marvel sequel has a two hour and 41-minute runtime, which is long but still shorter than Avengers: Endgame , which ran just over three hours. Read more...



Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information The long-rumored Delta One business-class-only lounge network will soon become a reality. Earlier this year, TPG learned that Delta would be opening its first exclusive lounge in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4, and with the latest news, the network is going to become bi-coastal — with a twist. The



Everyone's favorite text-to-image generator Dall-E has a new competitor from Meta : A video-to-text generator called Make-A-Video . The tool generates short, soundless video snippets based on the same type of text prompts you feed to Dall-E. But Dall-E is child's play compared to Make-A-Video, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta CEO noted in a Facebook post , “It’s much harder to gene



Ontario Power Generation has partnered with Ontario Tech University to test the capabilities of a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog to improve safety in the nuclear power sector. The robot can be sent on autonomous missions, conduct visual inspections, and even act as a first responding firefighter in the event of an emergency.



Lenovo has released a business-focused mixed-reality headset as it looks to help companies of all sizes explore the possibilities of the metaverse. The ThinkReality VRX all-in-one headset boasts a Snapdragon XR platform, pancake optics, four front-mounted cameras with 6DoF tracking, and two high-resolution passthrough cameras. "Our customers are looking for reliable, flexible and scalable gateway



The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning citizens that the number of SMS phishing attacks impersonating the tax office has gone through the roof lately. "So far in 2022, the IRS has identified and reported thousands of fraudulent domains tied to multiple MMS/SMS/text scams (known as smishing) targeting taxpayers," the IRS said in a recent warning . "In recent months, and especially in t



The new AMD Software: PRO Edition 22.Q3 Driver has arrived - and AMD claims it delivers the “most significant performance advancements to date in all OpenGL applications”. According to the CPU manufacturer, users can expect up to 72% performance uplifts compared to previous versions. The team has also ensured support for the Windows 11 2022 OS update. The redesigned OpenGL Driver follows a number




Meta’s researchers have made a significant leap in the AI art-generation field with Make-A-Video , the creatively named new technique for — you guessed it — making a video out of nothing but a text prompt. The results are impressive and varied, and all, with no exceptions, slightly creepy. We’ve seen text-to-video models before — it’s a natural extension of text-to-image models like DALL-E, which



After a decade of explosive growth, the company formerly known as Facebook is planning to trim down. Bloomberg reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to freeze hiring and restructure some groups within the company Thursday in an internal all-hands call. According to Bloomberg, Meta plans to shrink budgets widely within the company, including to teams that it was recently investing



The CDC recently issued an alert to healthcare providers about enterovirus D68, which has turned up in children who were hospitalized with severe respiratory illnesses. This virus can also cause a form of paralysis known as acute flaccid myelitis. Most illnesses with this virus do not cause the paralysis, but it’s… Read more...



Although the stigma surrounding mental health and therapy is fading , it’s still there. Many people think of therapy as something you turn to only when you’re actively struggling with your mental health, or as something only weak and unsuccessful people use. For folks who do go to therapy for one reason or another, one… Read more...



Twitter is adding new features to make it easier for users to watch and discover videos on its platform, the social network announced on Thursday. Most notably, the company is launching a scrollable TikTok-like video feed. In the coming days, users on iOS will be able to click on a video in their feed to enter the new scrollable video feed. Once you finish watching the video you clicked on, you w



Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. All this M&A activity and repricing in the public insurtech cohort left us wo



When insurtech company Metromile went public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in February last year, it was valued at over $1 billion. A year and five months later, Lemonade acquired the company for less than $145 million. As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations. Yet



As with many other industries, the tech sector has been feeling the squeeze of the global economic slowdown this year. Meta isn't immune to that. Reports in May suggested that the company would slow down the rate of new hires this year . Now, Bloomberg reports that Meta has put all hiring on hold. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also said to have told staff that there's likely more restructuring and downs



Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard on Android phones is frequently updated, but while the keyboard also has a version for iPhone, it hasn’t been updated for a year. Now we know why. Microsoft is officially discontinuing SwiftKey on iPhone and iPad, and pulling the app in a few days. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



If you want to encourage greater participation in your Google Meet calls, consider allowing participants to respond anonymously. You can do this for Q&A sessions and polls. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



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Plug into a rather unique take on the Wachowski siblings ’ The Matrix by way of Danny Boyle ( 28 Days Later ), who’s directing a staged dance interpretation of the 1999 sci-fi hit. Yes, you read that correctly— dance, because we’re clamoring for a choreographed, performance-art adaptation of the action movie franchise. Read more...



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Unlike its poster boy Mario, Nintendo cannot seem to jump high enough to clear accusations they are working to stomp out unions among contracting staff harder than a boot planted squarely on a goomba’s head. Read more...



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Stadia is not long for this world. Google’s cloud gaming service will persist for a few more months until it shuts down completely in January. The news came via a blog post by Stadia’s General Manager, Phil Harrison, where he goes into detail on how Google’s phasing out its cloud gaming service. Google will refund all… Read more...



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Hurricane Ian made landfall near Florida’s Punta Gorda yesterday as a category 4 storm, bringing huge storm surges and high winds. It has since weakened into a tropical storm but is predicted to continue flooding parts of Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center . Read more...



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If after six episodes it wasn’t abundantly clear, episode seven really hammered it home: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is not a narratively driven show. It’s a character driven show. For two weeks now the lingering questions of Jen’s supersuit and a Daredevil cameo have been hanging so that Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany)… Read more...



Google Stadia joins the company's long line of axed experiments as the technology behind the game streaming platform is spread to other Alphabet properties.



Sony has taken the wraps off its October games lineup for PlayStation Plus subscribers, and they'll be made available regardless of which plan you have.



Sony's string of recent PlayStation ports to PC is continuing, and this time, the exclusive being ported will likely be a surprise for pretty much everyone.



Actor Johnny Depp has been in the news a lot lately, but his car collection tends to fly under the radar. These are Depp's most impressive vehicles.



Several days ago I wrote about a strange thing going on with the intercoms of some American Airlines jets. Initially this was a total mystery, though clues are increasingly pointing in a certain direction… Reports of weird noises on airplane intercoms The always insightful @xJonNYC has a


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