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Coinbase India UPI•
3KTechCrunch / 21h
Crypto giant Coinbase has suspended support for UPI payments instrument on its app in India, making its eponymous exchange non-functional again for any purchase orders less than four days after launching the trading service in the world’s second largest internet market. Users in India attempting to purchase any token listed on Coinbase app are being informed that the UPI payment method is “curren



5KFuturism / 11h
New Sheriff There’s a new sheriff in Twitter town and he’s look to make some big changes. After randomly buying nearly 10 percent of the company’s stock and joining the board of directors , Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk spent his evening last night furiously sharing ideas he thinks will make the platform better. “Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue should get an authentication checkmark,” Mu



1KWired / 18h
Physicists are devising clever ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But they’ve seen no signs of exotica yet.




Mashable / 1h
Elon Musk's stint on Twitter's board of directors has ended before it even began. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has scrapped plans to buff his resumé with a seat on Twitter's board, though his status as the company's biggest shareholder will still give him some influence over the platform. The change in plans was announced by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Sunday night. In an internal note he subsequent



Tesla's chief executive was due to join the social media platform's board after buying a 9.2% stake.



Mashable / 2h
Square Enix has announced Kingdom Hearts IV , the next installment in its popular collaboration with Disney that famously features Mickey Mouse and Sephiroth squaring off. Travel between worlds isn't uncommon in this video game series, but the new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer indicates Sora will soon be swinging his Keyblade somewhere completely new — and it looks a lot like our world. Kingdom Heart



Mashable / 2h
SAVE 82%: Surfshark can unlock extra content on streaming sites like Netflix and Prime Video. A two-year subscription to Surfshark is on sale for £45.49 with an extra two months for free — 82% off list price for a limited time. We're not going to claim that Surfshark is the best VPN for streaming, because ExpressVPN continues to have the edge when it comes to reliably unblocking extra content on



29Mashable / 2h
TL;DR: A Microsoft Office Lifetime License for Mac (plus Microsoft Office courses) is on sale for £61.17, saving you 91% on list price. While you probably shouldn’t put “proficient in Microsoft Office Suite” on your CV in 2022, it’s still pretty important that you are, in fact, proficient in the programs. Expertise in some tools — like Excel or OneNote — can be attractive to recruiters, but you s



100+TechCrunch / 2h
Elon Musk is not joining Twitter’s board, the social network’s chief executive Parag Agrawal said, in a surprising reversal following last week’s announcement that the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive had been appointed to the panel . “We announced on Tuesday that Elon would be appointed to the Board contingent on a background check and formal acceptance. Elon’s appointment to the board was to be



The announcement reverses a decision last week, when Twitter said Mr. Musk would become a board member after amassing a 9.2 percent stake in the company.



SlashGear / 3h
A new report claims Apple's next big iOS release will include references to the company's mixed reality headsets, indicating they're not far from launch.



SlashGear / 3h
Vivo is about to officially announce its next foldable phone, but it looks like a series of images showing the X Fold in all its glory have already hit Twitter.



Gizmodo / 4h
All good things must come to an end, and that includes The Walking Dead ’s recent streak of fun episodes , it seems. The show closed out its second batch of episodes with a finale that was full of sound and fury, signifying… well, very little. Read more...



Employees will be able quiz the entrepreneur as he joins the board of Twitter, after share purchase.



21Mashable / 4h
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new Wordle . You'll find today's Wordle answer at the bottom of this post, but if you want to try and work it out yourself first, you'll find a few clues as well as our best Wordle tips, strategies, and info as you scroll down. Created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, and later bought by the New York Times , Wordle has become a daily habit



You can now get a payment chip injected beneath your skin, turning you into a human bank card.



SlashGear / 7h
Spotify is rolling out a feature that helps users discover new music using looping GIFs, though the test will only be available in some countries.



With a new owner, the 99-year-old movie studio appears headed back to its traditional sweet spot as an entertainment company. But the business of Hollywood is no longer the same.



Space travel has taken a giant leap forward. Ask the three wealthy businessmen who arrived Saturday at the International Space Station for a stay of more than a week. Each paid $55 million to be onboard SpaceX and NASA’s first private charter mission to the orbiting lab. NASA has previously been reluctant to encourage visits to the space station. On its first private charter last year, Elon Musk’



SlashGear / 8h
Samsung dominates the foldables space, but the market is heating up. A new leak suggests OnePlus is next to launch a foldable, but it may look very familiar.



In the absence of federal regulations, crypto lobbyists and executives are going state by state to get favorable rules enacted. Many lawmakers have been willing partners.



Mashable / 8h
As we migrate more and more parts of our lives to the cloud , our need for digital privacy grows ever larger. To that end, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) offer an extra layer of protection between you and your favorite sites. VPNs work by encrypting your data as it leaves your device and sending it through a private server before it reaches your ISP. Doing so hides all your web traffic from pryi



100+Engadget / 8h
The next major release of Apple’s iOS operating system could include “significant enhancements,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says he anticipates iOS 16 to include an update to notifications and an assortment of new health-tracking features. However, for those hoping to see a redesign of iOS, that’s apparently not on the table. “I’m not expecting




42Futurism / 9h
Tatted Up A guy just got what may be the world’s first tattoo created by an AI. Staffers who worked on the neural network confirmed a Twitter user’s photo was, indeed, at least the first created by its program DALL-E2. DALL-E2 was created by OpenAI and turns natural human language into realistic photos and art . While it unfortunately isn’t able to whip up the fantasy porn of your dreams , it did



SlashGear / 9h
Android smartphones come in many flavors, which is why it can tricky to figure out how to change their voicemail passwords. Here are three methods to try.



American Airlines pilots, as a group, aren't happy. Their union advises people not to come work for the airline . Usually unions want.. more members, not fewer. In Los Angeles, though, their pilots have a special beef: they don't get to fly as many places as they used to. In particular, widebody pilots have almost nowhere to go. Continue reading ...



In the absence of federal regulations, crypto lobbyists and executives are going state by state to get favorable rules enacted. Many lawmakers have been willing partners.



To avoid accidentally buying in-app items on your Android, iPhone, or iPad, disable the in-app purchase option so that you have to verify each purchase before it’s confirmed. Here’s how you can do just that on your phone. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



100+How-To Geek / 9h
In celebration of National Robotics Week, iRobot is launching the Create 3 kit. It’s an educational robot based on the modern Roomba design, minus the ability to vacuum. But hey, it can detect walls and is insanely customizable. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last week to suspend official business travel to Florida and Texas. The reason cited for the ban were polices directed at LGBTQ+ youth and their families in the Republican-led states. In its decision to ban taxpayer-funded travel, the board cited the order signed in February by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that requires gender-affirming treatments p



Mashable / 9h
YouTube's Playlist tool is a simple way to save a collection of videos you can return to and watch at any time. Whether you want to make a list of songs you love, create an ambient noise soundtrack to relax to, or save all your favorite TED talks, playlists are the way to go. It's a quick and easy process to start creating your first playlist. We're here to help you learn how. Creating your first



If you need to find, move, copy, or delete files on your Mac, you’ll need to use Finder, which is similar to File Explorer on Windows. We’ll show you some basics about how to browse for files and manage them. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



1KEngadget / 10h
Since February, GM’s Cruise self-driving unit has offered public taxi rides in San Francisco. And for the most part, it seems the service hasn’t run into any notable problems. That is until a strange situation played out last weekend when one of the company’s vehicles left police seemingly confused by its response to a routine traffic stop. Welcome to the future. Cop pulls over driverless car (be



SlashGear / 10h
Mercedes has launched a new software center focused on bringing its MB.OS vehicle operating system to the market within the next couple of years.



Raffles Hotels & Resorts, a luxury hotel brand, is scheduled to open a new addition in Europe in late 2022. The Raffles London at the Old War Office (OWO) will be the first Raffles hotel in the United Kingdom. A historical revival The Raffles London will be housed in the 760,000-square-foot historic building and the hotel will have 120 rooms and suites, 11 restaurants and bars, some of which will



Mashable / 11h
If you think about it, just about any emoji can be horny. Context is everything, people are endlessly creative (especially in the pursuit of sex and sexy people), and let's face it, if it exists, it's sexy for someone, somewhere. And as someone who has dug through each new emoji set since 2019 to find the additions that may have spicy potential, I know all too well that a little imagination goes



Mashable / 11h
Imagine this Facebook post: an overly exposed image of Ryan Gosling during his Drive era with a person with bangs superimposed behind him. Neon text reads: "SHUT TF UP. I just wanna brood and listen to the 1983 New Wave Hit EYES WITHOUT A FACE By Billy Idol." It took Natalie Dober just a couple of minutes to slap this meme together and, like any good shitpost , if you think about it too long, it'



100+Gizmodo / 11h
After the success of the original Sonic the Hedgehog back in 2020 , it was a foregone conclusion that this weekend’s Sonic 2 would be a hit at the box office. People love Sonic, they love Jim Carrey, and they love themselves some Idris Elba doing surprisingly good in roles you wouldn’t have normally pegged him for. Add… Read more...



Lifehacker / 11h
Real estate listings sound like they should be pretty straightforward, but if you’re not familiar with the terminology and abbreviations, it can seem like they’re written in a different language. Some things are self-explanatory, like seeing “primary bedroom” and knowing it’s what has been traditionally known as a… Read more...



Want to take a look at your archived messages, and perhaps unarchive one or more of those conversations? If so, Facebook makes it easy to find and unarchive your chats on both your desktop and mobile phone. We’ll show you how to do that. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



There aren’t too many countries that have deployed tighter COVID-19 travel restrictions since the start of pandemic than Japan has. But now, after two years of marooning itself to international visitors, the Land of the Rising Sun is lifting its entry ban on 106 countries including the U.S., U.K., France and Canada. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily new



I understand that some people aren't familiar with Western customs, and should perhaps be forgiven for that, like the gentleman I once saw at the breakfast buffet at a Westin in his bathrobe (and nothing else). However there's a place where I think we have to draw a line and reject cultural relativism. Here it is. Continue reading ...




100+The Points Guy / 11h
With nearly all travel restrictions lifted for travelers who are fully vaccinated, Ecuador is welcoming visitors looking to explore everything from its fascinating historical sites to the legendary Galapagos Islands. Flights to Quito and Guayaquil from a number of U.S. departure cities such as Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Hartford, Los Angeles and New York are on sale for prices that range from soli



300+Gizmodo / 11h
Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai had been a name in the animation space for decades thanks to works like She and Her Cat and Voices of a Distant Star . But it was 2016's Your Name , and 2019's Weathering With You , that helped turn international viewers onto his filmography. His next movie Suzume no Tojimari … Read more...



Russian Chernobyl Ukraine•
500+Futurism / 12h
Step Back Russian soldiers have really made a mess of Chernobyl , site of the 1986 nuclear disaster that killed 30 and left a nuclear wasteland behind. Ukrainian soldiers described their experience upon re-entering the plant after Russian soldiers recently captured it, then vacated . In a report published by CNN yesterday , radiation detectors picked up radioactive material all over the facility.



Mashable / 12h
Sure, '80s horror movie icon Chucky would probably stab you in the leg at the watercooler AND drink the last of the communal coffee without making more, but he's not as bad as Janet. No one is as bad as Janet. Saturday Night Live imagines the homicidal chaos of Chucky as a coworker, but would Chucky ever microwave day-old tuna salad? I don't think so. We know you're sitting there thinking about w



Audio-Technica recently unveiled a new pair of wireless headphones to replace one of its most popular monitor-quality headphones. Of course, we’re talking about the new ATH-M20xBT, and they’re only $79. Read This Article on Review Geek ›



At the start of the global pandemic many card issuers were quiet. It was tough to know who would be a good credit risk with so much uncertainty. People weren’t thinking about immediate travel, either, so big card bonuses seemed like the wrong tool for the moment. Banks worked hard to retain customers, but there were still normal levels of cancellation (it happens every year, mostly around annual



100+The Points Guy / 12h
Crafty people have turned out-of-service 747 airplanes into homes, hotels, hostels, cafes and museum exhibits. Now Vancouver-based real estate developer Westbank Corp. is in the process of turning the fuselage and other salvaged parts of a decommissioned 747-400 (tail number N178UA) into the impossible-to-miss centerpiece of a mixed-used development in downtown Seattle. (Rendering by Hayes Davids



27Gizmodo / 12h
In the depths of covid-19 pandemic, a person in dire straits turned to the last people that would hear them out: the Federal Trade Commission. Read more...



Google Maps makes it extremely easy to find your current location on the map. It even shows the direction you’re facing so you know where you’re heading. Here’s how to see where you are right now in Maps on both desktop and mobile. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›



Sonic 2 Weekend Ambulance•
2KEngadget / 12h
Sonic has done it again. With a $71 million debut at the domestic box office, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has set a new record for the US film debut of a video game adaptation, beating out the previous high watermark set by its predecessor in 2020 . The first movie in what now Paramount plans to expand into a cinematic universe made $57 million during its opening weekend. Before the pandemic shut down t



35Gizmodo / 12h
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Square Enix and Disney’s Kingdom Hearts franchise , and the developer marked the occasion by announcing Kingdom Hearts 4 . The new game marks the start of the franchise’s new “Lost Master” arc, picking up where Kingdom H


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