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New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible


26KFuturism / 14h
Cosmic If you look closely at the photo that accompanies NASA's press release about the new director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, you'll see something both curious and delightful — that she's taking her oath not on the Bible, or any other conventional holy book, but on a copy of Carl Sagan's 1994 "Pale Blue Dot." Indeed, as NASA Watch 's Keith Cowing spotted following Dr. Makenzie Lystrup'


South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking developers from releasing games on rival’s platform
TechCrunch / 30min
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has fined Alphabet’s Google 42.1 billion won (~ $32 million) for blocking developers from releasing mobile video games on a Korean competitor platform called One Store. The KFTC said on Tuesday that Google allegedly required Korean video game companies to exclusively release their new games in the Play Store from June 2016 to April 2018. That means Googl


Twitter Circles bug has made semi-private tweets public
Mashable / 36min
Twitter Circles is leaking, with users reporting that posts meant for a limited audience are instead being pushed out to millions of strangers. You should always think twice before you tweet, but it's a good idea to be extra cautious now. Introduced in 2022 , Twitter Circles is a feature that (when it's working) allows you to restrict certain tweets to a carefully curated list of pre-approved fol



Graneet raises $8.7 million for its vertical SaaS for construction companies
TechCrunch / 1h
French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. And it has grown quite a lot since I first covered the company as the company has tripled its revenue over the past six months. That’s why the startup raised a €8 million Series A round ($8.7 million at today’s exchange rate) with its two main investors leading the round once ag


Why robotic worms could one day dig beneath your feet
BBC News - Technology / 1h
Simulating an earthworm's movement is difficult, but could have very useful real-world applications.


Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal, other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills
75TechCrunch / 2h
Former Twitter employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde, and ex-CFO Ned Segal, have sued the social network over alleged unpaid legal reimbursements. The lawsuit , filed in Delaware Chancery Court, alleged that Twitter has to pay over $1 million to the former executives for legal bills they incurred while at the company to respond to requests by the Department of Just


The World’s Longest Suspension Bridge Is History in the Making
20Wired / 2h
After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.


Quordle today - hints and answers for Tuesday, April 11 (game #442)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints. And you might need them - because this popular online game takes the Wordle format and quadruples the difficulty. So if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints , you'll probably need some for Quordle too. I'm a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who's been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve


'Wordle' today: Here's the answer, hints for April 11
Mashable / 2h
Happy Tuesday, Wordle rs! The puzzle gods have provided another 30 fresh blank tiles for you to fill with guesses. We're here as always to help guide the way with our expert Wordle advice and the solution. If you prefer to just be told the answer, you can scroll to the end of this article for April 11's Wordle solution to be revealed. But if you'd rather work through it yourself, keep reading for


AI: China tech giant Alibaba to roll out ChatGPT rival
80BBC News - Technology / 3h
In recent months, technology firms around the world have unveiled their own generative AI chatbots.


Apple to open first retail stores in India, signaling growth ambitions in emerging market
100+TechCrunch / 4h
Two decades after entering India, Apple is gearing up to launch its first set of retail stores in the populous South Asian nation, signaling the tech giant’s growing interest in the market. Apple said on Tuesday it plans to open Apple BKC in Mumbai on April 18 and Apple Saket in Delhi on April 20. The iPhone-maker’s first retail stores in India have been long-anticipated, but the limited market f


A lifetime subscription to this slick web hosting service is on sale for under £90
Mashable / 4h
TL;DR : A lifetime subscription to iBrave Cloud Web Hosting is on sale for £81.11, saving you 96% on list price. Whether you’re making a website, an online shop, a professional portfolio, or a blog about your cat, you have to find somewhere to host your web space. Web hosting can get expensive, but it may not have to be. iBrave Cloud Web Hosting lets you pay just once for lifetime use. Usually, i


Microsoft finally gets around to fixing half-decade-old Firefox CPU bug
98TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 4h
Better late than never, I guess, but Microsoft finally got around to fixing a five-year-old high-CPU usage bug in Mozilla Firefox. The bug, which is tied to Windows Defender's Antimalware Service Executable process, has been known to produce high-CPU usage when running Firefox compared to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Fortunately, the issue looks like it is resolved at long last. "According t


Jakarta-based cloud kitchen startup Legit Group gets Series A to take over the rest of Indonesia
89TechCrunch / 4h
Legit Group, a cloud kitchen brand operator based in Jakarta, has its eyes on the rest of Indonesia after raising a $13.7 million Series A. The round was led by MDI Ventures, the venture capital arm of PT Telcom Indonesia Tbk, the largest telecom conglomerate in Indonesia. It included participation from Sinar Mas Digital Ventures (SMDV), returning investor East Ventures and Winter Capital. This f


How to watch the Grand National 2023 livestream online for free
Mashable / 4h
SAVE 49%: ExpressVPN is the best service for streaming ITVX from outside the UK. A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £85.52 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. For lovers of horse racing, it doesn't get any bigger than the Grand National. Time seems to stand still for this annual event, with the eyes of a whole country (and beyond) focused on


Elon Musk Tweeted DMs With Twitter Files Writer Amid Substack Spat
SlashGear / 4h
There has been some drama surrounding Twitter and newsletter platform Substack, and that has snowballed into Musk tweeting and then deleting private DMs.


Netflix's 'Black Knight' trailer looks like 'Mad Max' in South Korea
Mashable / 5h
The first teaser trailer for Netflix's Black Knight has arrived, and it looks like the dystopian sci-fi series will scratch an itch for anyone who loved dying historic on the Fury Road . Based on a South Korean webtoon, Black Knight is set in a world ravaged by pollution so severe that barren desert replaces greenery and oxygen masks are a daily necessity. The series follows delivery driver 5-8 (


Eclipse eclipses previous fundraises with a whopping $1.23 billion across two new funds
TechCrunch / 5h
The market may be be tightening, but not for Eclipse Ventures , a Palo Alto-based venture firm that just raised $1.2 billion across two new funds. One fund, with $720 million in capital commitments, will be invested in early-stage outfits, as well as startups that Eclipse itself incubates. The remaining $510 million will be funneled into growth-stage companies, including outfits that have never b


Simple Ways To Repair A Tear In Your Car's Seat
SlashGear / 6h
Has your fabric, vinyl, or leather car seat formed a small tear or rip? If so, you can fix it yourself at home using a needle, some glue, and a bit of material.


'Quordle' today: Here are the answers and hints for April 11
Mashable / 6h
If Quordle is a little too challenging today, 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 is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you'll get what you need. What is Quordle ? Quordle is a five-letter word guessing gam


'Beau Is Afraid' review: Ari Aster delivers a brilliant, 3-hour-long panic attack
Mashable / 6h
Writer/director Ari Aster has forged his reputation with the double whammy of Hereditary and Midsommar , two films that are both harrowingly horrifying yet slyly funny. Fans who've relished the nightmare-scorching visuals and deeply twisted finales of Aster's work thus far might expect something similar in his latest. Good news for fans: Beau Is Afraid is peppered with jaw-dropping horrors and jo



FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad
Gizmodo / 6h
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No drug is safe: Drug developers decry Texas abortion pill ruling
30Ars Technica - All content / 8h
Enlarge / Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. (credit: Getty | Robyn Beck ) A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling Friday to revoke the Food and Drug Administration's nearly 23-year-old approval of the sa


World Startup Convention: The India start-up gala that exploded into a scandal
100+BBC News - Technology / 8h
The “world’s biggest funding festival” held in India has been accused of duping entrepreneurs.


Lightspeed fuels Indian workspace interiors platform OfficeBanao with 6M funding
TechCrunch / 8h
OfficeBanao, an Indian startup offering a workspace interiors platform to businesses in the country, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed. In India’s competitive workspace interior market, traditional providers have long dominated the landscape, often requiring substantial investment of time and resources for clients to achieve their desired results. Furthermore, many of these


Why Your Android Phone Won't Download New Apps, And How To Fix It
SlashGear / 9h
You may need to explore several possible explanations why this is happening to your device and try multiple troubleshooting steps.


This 20-Foot-Tall Donkey Kong Cabinet Is Actually Playable
SlashGear / 9h
The Strong Museum (a.k.a.) the Museum of Play worked with Nintendo to build a giant-sized, playable Donkey Kong arcade machine. We have all the details.


Is It Ok To Leave Your Nintendo Switch In The Dock?
SlashGear / 9h
Your Nintendo Switch is a handheld gaming console that also comes with a dock so you can charge it and connect it to your TV. But can you leave it there?


Porsche Carrera GT Recalled Due To Suspension Issues
SlashGear / 9h
The Porsche Carrera GT is possibly one of the most celebrated Porsches of all time. If you happen to own one, you should brace for a recall notification.


Mario Games On Nintendo Switch Get Rare Discount Amid Movie Hype
SlashGear / 9h
The hype surrounding the Super Mario Bros. Movie has led to a rare bonus for gamers. Most of the Mario games are at their lowest prices in years.


A Twitter Bug Is Exposing Users' Secret Circle Tweets To Everyone
SlashGear / 9h
If you have Twitter Circles set up, beware that they might not be as private as you think. The feature has a pretty big bug. We have all the details.


YouTube Premium Users Get Support For SharePlay, Improved 1080p Streaming On iOS
SlashGear / 9h
YouTube has announced two big reasons to consider signing up for Premium despite its $11.99 a month cost.


Lofi Girl is at the center of a very relaxing mystery
21Engadget / 9h
Since 2017, Jade – aka the face of the Lofi Girl YouTube channel – has been a near-constant companion for fans of quiet, contemplative music. Now, she is missing. At approximately 1PM ET, Jade and her ginger tabby simply disappeared, and not since a false copyright claim took down the YouTube channel for a few days last year has the Lofi Girl fandom been this abuzz. In her absence, the stream beg


PC sales are down due to cost of living crisis but this is good for gamers
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 9h
It seems that PC and Mac sales haven’t escaped the shadow of the cost of living crisis, going by recently released sales numbers for the first financial quarter of 2023. According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC global shipments totaled 56.9 million, which is a decline of 29% compared to the first finan


Director Peter Sohn on How Pixar's Elemental Creates Its Own Cultures
Gizmodo / 10h
Recently io9 visited Pixar for a preview of its upcoming release Elemental , where we got a behind-the-scenes look at how the studio that brought us films like Up , Wall-E , and Turning Red was gearing up to transport audiences to a new world. Read more...


Today’s best deals: Microsoft Spring Sale discounts Xbox games, Surface, and more
Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Pro 9. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft's Spring Sale is in bloom, bringing notable discounts to the Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, Xbox games and controllers, PC games, and some movies. All of these deals are live on Microsoft's website, but Amazon is concurrently matching or exceeding many of them. We also have Apple's AirPods Pro still on sale, matching its


Blu-ray discs won’t last forever, but this new beast of a 4K Blu-ray player might
100+TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
It’s true that the arrival of the best streaming services has rendered disc formats like Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray unnecessary for some. But studios continue to issue movies both new and old on disc on a regular basis, and there are plenty of independent labels that license obscure and cult titles from studios for release in deluxe packaging with loads of extras. Put simply, Blu-ray is here to


Daily Crunch: Don’t post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle
200+TechCrunch / 10h
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 . Happy Monday Crunch! There’s just one month left to submit nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 , so if you want to be on the TechCrunch stage and catapult yourself to fame, fortune, and the attention of every startup, investor, and journalist in the room, maybe


Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI (and it was very wholesome)
22TechCrunch / 10h
What would happen if you filled a virtual town with AIs and set them loose? As it turns out, they brush their teeth and are very nice to one another! But this unexciting outcome is good news for the researchers who did it, since they wanted to produce “believable simulacra of human behavior” and got just that. The paper describing the experiment , by Stanford and Google researchers, has not been


Max Q: This is not a drill!
TechCrunch / 10h
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Straight to the big news up front: It seems that we are finally getting close to the first orbital flight test (OFT) of SpaceX’s Starship — for real this time. It’s looking like a wet dress is likely next week, and if all goes to plan, we could see SpaceX attempt a flight as soon as the week after. In this issue: Virgin Orbit’s death knell A new startup building “


Twitter Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public
1KFuturism / 10h
Extremely Broken In case you haven't heard, Twitter Circles is broken. So broken that it allowed for some folks' secret nude photos to appear in others' feeds. "Aaaaand Twitter Circles is broken," tweeted author Abraham Josephine Riesman, who discovered that her Twitter Circle nudes had been leaked. "I posted a nude to Circles yesterday and some (perfectly nice!) rando who I don't follow just lik



A terrible business-class trend is spreading in Europe. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to the US
25The Points Guy / 10h
The proliferation of fees has been one of the most annoying changes over the past decade in the world of travel. We are getting nickel and dimed with new fees … from service fees, resort fees and baggage fees to seat assignment fees, housekeeping fees and environmental fees. You name it; they’ve created a charge for it. One of the most egregious new fees we see nowadays is for airline seat assign


Ex-Twitter CEO who was fired by Musk sues company over unpaid legal expenses
Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / Then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal walks to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2022, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (credit: Getty Images | Kevin Dietsch ) Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and two other ex-executives sued the company today, saying they haven't been reimbursed for over $1 million in expenses related to federal investigations and other legal


Leaked Nvidia RTX 4070 may show the mid-range GPU option we've been waiting for
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
The grapevine has been dropping plenty of rumors about a possible Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Founder’s Edition launch, and recently new images of the graphics card have been leaked. If these leaked images from VideoCardz turn out to be true, we now have a clear look at what the RTX 4070 FE will look like. In response to VideoCardz, Twitter user David Giannis also released more images of the card. Im


‘Super Bomberman R 2’ delivers level-building and 15 vs. 1 chaos this September
Engadget / 10h
Konami announced today that the latest installment in the long-running Bomberman franchise arrives this September. Super Bomberman R 2 , initially revealed last year, marks the series’ 40th anniversary by taking the foundations of its 2017 predecessor and adding level-building and a wacky 15 vs. 1 mode. For this installment, Konami added Castle mode, featuring “attack vs. defend” gameplay where y


uwmspeccoll: Marbled MondayThis Marbled Monday we bring you...
Music, Arts & Literature / 10h
uwmspeccoll : Marbled Monday This Marbled Monday we bring you another taste of Spring with this lovely orange and green marbling found on the covers of the book A Dream of Spring with poems by English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) and illustrations by British landscape artist Anthony Rossiter (1926-2000). Published by the Celandine Press in 1980, 150 copies were printed in hand-set Bell typ


Is Twitter Circles Broken?
Gizmodo / 10h
If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter Circle posts are accessible to the whole Twittersphere, letting their more private thoughts or pics loose on the wider… Read more...


New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
100+Gizmodo / 11h
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot . Read more...


Pentagon Leaks Show Russian Hacktivists Claim to Have Targeted a Canadian Pipeline
Gizmodo / 11h
A leaked intelligence briefing that emerged over the weekend seems to reveal a hacking episode carried out by a pro-Russian hacktivist group against a major Canadian gas pipeline. Read more...


Google is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices
68Gizmodo / 11h
Google does not plan to update third-party smart displays in the future. If you own any of the Lenovo, JBL, or LG-made smart displays that have come out over the past five years, it’s time to consider alternatives for your Google smart home. Another reason to be wary of being a Google early adopter . Read more...


Why Electric Cars Are Required to Make Noise
How-To Geek / 11h
Have you ever walked past an EV backing out of a parking spot and wondered, “What’s that humming noise?” Electric vehicles are much quieter than your typical gas-powered car, nearly silent at low speeds, but are required by law to make certain noises. Read This Article on Review Geek ›


Biden Wants to Create a Press Briefing Room for Influencers
41Gizmodo / 11h
How do you do fellow kids? In an effort to reach younger voters ahead of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is looking to use social media influencers to tout his accomplishments through an exclusive briefing room. Read more...


Study Finds Shockingly Fast Sea Level Rise Around U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast
49Gizmodo / 11h
Sea level rise is transforming the U.S. coastline across the country, but researchers have noticed that the rate of sea level rise has increased faster in the last decade around the Gulf and Southeastern coasts. Read more...


For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR
100+Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge / The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E—the ship at the center of most of the Next Generation Star Trek films. (credit: Paramount) For the first time, you can now buy or rent every single Star Trek movie in the latest 4K and HDR standards. That includes all six movies based on the original series cast, all four featuring The Next Generation 's cast, and the more recent J.J. Abrams films. On April


Boeing X-36: The Futuristic Fighter Jet With Incredible Agility
SlashGear / 11h
The X-36 was an experimental aircraft designed to find out if planes could be just as maneuverable at a wider range of speed. Here's what happened.


Classic JDM Cars That Are A Total Waste Of Money
SlashGear / 11h
Japanese cars are known to be reliable and long-lasting -- but these models built for the Japanese Domestic Market aren't worth the import cost.


The 8 best places to visit in June
100+The Points Guy / 11h
As June rolls around, the Northern Hemisphere basks in warmer weather, making it an ideal opportunity to explore new and exciting destinations. There are plenty of advantages of traveling during this month — smaller crowds, discounted rates and enjoyable outdoor activities before the summer travel season kicks into high gear. Beach lovers can hit the shores in June without the sweltering summer h


Who Does the Overhead Bin Space Belong To, Anyway?
View from the Wing / 11h
This is a war of all against all, and you have to take care of yourself, the best way to do that is to race the boarding gate and get on as soon as your boarding group is called. Continue reading ...


What's the Deal with The Mandalorian Season 3?
100+Gizmodo / 11h
The third season of The Mandalorian has felt a little odd, hasn’t it? Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s space western slice of the Star Wars franchise felt like a breath of fresh air back in 2019, and the second season the following year helped show that the series’ breakout success wasn’t a fluke. By comparison, season… Read more...


FTC fines supplement maker $600,000 for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings
74Engadget / 11h
For the first time, the US Federal Trade Commission has fined an organization for “review hijacking.” In February , the agency accused The Bountiful Company, maker of the Nature’s Bounty brand of vitamins, of deceiving consumers. Between 2020 and 2021, Bountiful abused a feature of Amazon to make it seem like some of its newer supplements had higher product reviews and ratings than they did in re


UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists
35Futurism / 11h
Bark Bark Bark One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness full-blown AI-assisted, or even AI-propagated, terrorism. "I believe it is entirely conceivable that AI chatbots will be programmed — or, even worse, decide — to propagate violent extremist ideology," Jonathan Hall, who has served as the UK parliament's current Independent Reviewer or Terror



Strep Throat Is Surging, Alongside an Antibiotic Shortage
35Gizmodo / 11h
Covid-related precautions helped minimize the spread plenty of other communicable diseases. But now, those bugs are back, along with some new challenges. The CDC reports that strep A infections (a.k.a strep throat), caused by a bacterium known as A Streptococcus , have surged from covid lows to above pre-pandemic… Read more...


How A British Airways 787 Ended Up In Anchorage
500+One Mile at a Time / 11h
You wouldn’t expect a British Airways Boeing 787 flying from Japan to the United Kingdom to divert to the United States, but that’s exactly what has happened today. First a bit of background… British Airways’ long route from Tokyo to London British Airways operates a flight between London Heathrow (LHR) and Tokyo Haneda (HND) using a Boeing 787-9. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this flight h


Ampere's new workstation could bring in a whole new dawn for developers
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Ampere has slipped a new Altra developer kit into its catalog, with software creators firmly in its sights. Revealed in a tweet from the company’s head of edge, Joe Speed, the Altra Dev Kit , described by the company as an IoT prototype kit, is based on the Altra and is available in 32-core, 64-core, and 80-core formats costing $2,003, $2,518, and $2,621 respectively. According to Ampere, the mod


Reveal your Alaska and United shopping portal mystery bonus
1KThe Points Guy / 12h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with the latest information. It’s no secret that shopping portals can be a great way to earn extra rewards on online purchases. Now, Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping and United MileagePlus Shopping are offering targeted “mystery” bonuses to their members. Here’s a closer look at Alaska Airlines’ and United Airlines’ mystery shopping portal bo


Apple releases last week’s security patches for older iPhones, iPads, and Macs
22Ars Technica - All content / 12h
Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs. Today it’s following those up with iOS and iPadOS 15.7.5 , macOS Monterey 12.6.5 , and macOS Big Sur 11.7.6 to patch those same vulnerabilities in older devices that are still receiving softwar


‘Drink to dust’: Startup says just smash its clay alternative to plastic cups
100+TechCrunch / 12h
Disposable plastic and paper cups are an environmental mess . GaeaStar , a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, thinks it can do better with just clay, water, salt and sand. After piloting disposable clay cups and bowls in Germany, GaeaStar says it is gearing up to introduce its products to the U.S. via a trial with Verve (the California coffee chain, not the band ). To make the disposable


As crypto startup valuations come back to Earth, big investors are bargain hunting
39TechCrunch / 12h
Crypto funding might have declined last quarter , but investors behind the largest funds in the space are sticking to their guns. “There’s always going to be a need for big funds and investors to help the startups get the funding they need,” Lydia Chiu, vice president of business development at Ava Labs, told TechCrunch+. With the current regulatory scrutiny on the space alongside the bearish mar


Apple's M3 Chip might get a huge upgrade, and it's just what Apple needs right now
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
There's no question that Apple is hard at work on its latest next-gen silicon, the Apple M3 chip, but if a new report is correct, then it'll be a lot more advanced than we realized. It has long been speculated that Apple would be going with TSMC's 3nm process for its M3-series chips, but it looks like Apple will skip this iteration entirely and go for TSMC's N3E, which is a more advanced 3nm proc


'Succession' Season 4, episode 3: The wedding detail that was a big clue
Mashable / 12h
In Logan Roy's (Brian Cox) famous last words, "Today's the day." In a shocking turn of events, Succession killed off its lead patriarch right at the beginning of its final season, throwing its characters into an emotional tornado with no time for processing. Logan's death was sudden, occurring while on his way to Sweden to secure the GoJo deal . While he was presumably experiencing cardiac arrest


10 Horror Movies About Horrifying Pregnancies
20Gizmodo / 12h
The pregnant protagonist in peril is a go-to horror character at this point. With Prime Video’s upcoming Dead Ringers series putting maternity under a particularly harrowing microscope, we’re looking back at 10 movies that explore the very worst things you can (hopefully not ) expect while you’re expecting . Read more...


Twitter bug makes some private Circle tweets public
300+Engadget / 12h
Don't count on your Twitter Circle tweets being limited to a close-knit group, at least for the time being. Users have discovered a bug that exposes at least some private Circle posts to outsiders. They frequently show up in followers' For You recommendations, but some say the content is reaching total strangers. As you might imagine, that could be problematic if you're discussing a sensitive top


Here's a Video of Every Time Starship Has Exploded So Far
300+Futurism / 12h
SpaceX's gigantic Starship spacecraft, a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle meant to return the first astronauts to the Moon's surface and eventually Mars, is sitting on the launch pad after having completed its final "flight readiness review." While we anxiously wait for the space company to