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How 'She-Hulk' beat its toxic haters by making them the villains



400+Mashable / 2h
The villain of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law isn't some cosmic evil or criminal mastermind. Instead, it's something far more sinister and far more real: a group of toxic, entitled men who call themselves Intelligencia and have devoted themselves to harassing and harming Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), aka She-Hulk. Intelligencia's misogynistic arguments — Jen doesn't deserve her powers, why do we

Netflix is back from the brink – and it has Stranger Things to thank


95TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
Form is temporary, class is permanent, as they say in sport – but perhaps they should say it in the entertainment industry, too. After losing a combined 1.2 million subscribers during back-to-back quarters of decline in 2022, Netflix has seemingly bounced back with a Q3 earnings report that bodes well for its fortunes in 2023 and beyond. Between July and September this year, Netflix added a whopp

Pinterest partners with record labels to bring popular music to its TikTok rival, ‘Idea Pins’


TechCrunch / 1h
Pinterest’s TikTok competitor is gaining new music. The company announced today its video-focused “Idea Pins” feature will now include the ability to add popular tracks from top artists, thanks to new licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Merlin and BMG. This will expand upon the music already provided through Pinterest’s royalty-free music library from 7Digital, the com


Why You Should Stop Using GPS Navigation


How-To Geek / 7min
Turn-by-turn navigation on phones and dedicated GPS devices has made it much easier to travel. However, the reliance on GPS navigation comes at a cost—you never actually learn how to get anywhere. That’s a problem. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Selling Points With Bonus


99One Mile at a Time / 12min
Often buying points strategically can be a good value , especially for luxury travel experiences where you can get the most outsized value. Virgin Atlantic Flying Club doesn’t sell points often, but when the program does, it’s typically a good deal. The latest such promotion has just been launched, and could be worth considering. Promotion on purchased Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points Through F

The Gig Law Causing Chaos in California Strip Clubs


Wired / 15min
Dancers say a law to protect people working at ride-hailing and food delivery apps has been used to undercut their livelihoods.

TikTok's 'Board Parties' May Have Reached Their Apex


Wired / 15min
Now that brands are getting on board, the trend—wherein friends show up at someone’s home with a slab covered in similar foods—could be on its way out.

Lyft's app now lets you reserve and pay for a parking spot


Engadget / 23min
Lyft now lets driver's search, reserve and pay for a parking spot on its app, The San Francisco Chronicle has reported. It has partnered with parking company SpotHero to offer the service , promising "guaranteed parking, quick-find locations and transparent pricing." The company will offer the service in "select locations," including San Francisco, but Lyft didn't list any other regions — but Spo

Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti GPU might be inbound, but forget about that RTX Titan


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 46min
Nvidia will purportedly not be making a top-end Lovelace graphics card RTX Titan model, a GPU which has previously been rumored . This one originates from a regular Twitter-based hardware leaker, Kopite7kimi, who let us know in a very short tweet that the Titan is no longer planned by Nvidia (as seen by VideoCardz ). That is, if it ever was – of course, we must regard that possibility, and indeed

iPadOS 16.1, iOS 16.1 and macOS Ventura finally arrive next week


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 46min
While Apple recently announced a bunch of updates to the iPad and Apple TV , it was also confirmed that October 24 is the date for macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16.1 to debut for your devices. At the bottom of the press release and Ventura's page , there's now confirmation of this date, so if you've got a Mac or an iPad , you'll be able to finally take advantage of the new features. iPadOS 16.1 has ha

Motorola Razr 3’s matching cheap earbuds say ‘Hello Moto’ like it’s 2004


40TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 46min
Remember when hearing your tech talk to you was actually novel and desirable? I do, it was 2004 and it was a phone I'd seen Paris Hilton use (although I couldn't get my hands on the pink version) called the Motorola Razr. If you're too young to remember what it said when you powered up, listen to this . For the rest of us (and for any of the 130 million people who owned that phone following its r

Instagram is reportedly testing adding songs to profiles. Is MySpace back?


22Mashable / 56min
The '00s are back, folks. Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to add a song to their profiles. Developer and notable leaker Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted screenshots of the feature, which he states Instagram is currently trialling. Mashable reached out to Instagram for comment but did not hear back immediately. Per Paluzzi, the feature would appear in your Instagram profil

Is the new iPad basically the same as iPad Air? The answer is no.


Mashable / 56min
Apple 's new iPad launched on Tuesday. The tablet has a new design and a 10.9-inch display that makes it quite similar to the 10.9-inch iPad Air , which launched in March 2022. The new iPad comes with either 64GB or 256GB memory, just like the iPad Air. The two devices have roughly the same cameras, both front and back. At first glance, the iPad Air might appear superfluous — why pay $150 more fo

Netflix's subscriber growth can't mask all of its problems


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
It's official: Netflix is back. Well, sort of, anyway. To say the world's biggest streamer has had a difficult 12 months is something of an understatement. With the war in Ukraine, the cost of living crisis hitting companies and consumers hard, and Netflix's crackdown on account sharing taking hold among its subscriber base , things haven't been rosy for the streaming corporation throughout 2022.

Etihad Appoints Antonoaldo Neves As New CEO


One Mile at a Time / 1h
Here’s a development that’s much bigger than yesterday’s announcement about Etihad introducing Armani / Casa amenities onboard . Etihad hires former TAP Air Portugal CEO Etihad Airways has announced that Antonoaldo Neves will be the Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s new CEO, replacing current CEO Tony Douglas. For context: Douglas has been CEO of Etihad since 2018, and it’s stated that he has decided to

Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s future


MIT Technology Review / 1h
“I am quitting because I’m tired ,” Alex Hanna wrote on February 2, her last day on Google’s Ethical AI team. She felt that the company, and the tech industry as a whole, did little to promote diversity or mitigate the harms its products had caused to marginalized people. “In a word, tech has a whiteness problem,” she wrote in her post on Medium. “Google is not just a tech organization. Google is

AtlasVPN Review: Can It Hold Up the Sky?


How-To Geek / 1h
AtlasVPN is a relatively new provider that has some pretty aggressive marketing campaigns, across the web, especially on YouTube. In this review, I’m going to kick AtlasVPN’s tires and see if it has what it takes to be one of the best VPNs. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Google Pixel Buds Pro get a great free audio upgrade that shows up AirPods Pro 2


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
Google has released a new update for the Pixel Buds Pro, which is adds a significant new feature: five-band equalizer adjustment. After the update, you'll be able to tweak the balance of the sound easily, or you'll be able to choose from six presets provided by Google (via NotebookCheck ). To update, you'll need the Pixel Buds app (which is only on Android), and as long as the app is up to date,

The foldable iPhone could be incredibly expensive – and land after a foldable iPad


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
We’re already up to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 , but the first foldable iPhone might still be years away, with a new report suggesting that it won’t land before 2025 at the earliest, with a foldable iPad instead landing first, in 2024. That’s according to analyst firm CCS Insight (via CNBC ), which argues that right now, a foldable tablet makes more sense for Apple than a foldable phone. Ben Woo

DuckDuckGo makes its Mac browser beta open to all


Engadget / 1h
All Mac users can now take DuckDuckGo's browser and its built-in privacy protections for a spin. The company first gave us a glimpse of its desktop web browser in December last year before launching it as a closed beta in April. Now, the beta browser is finally open to the public and can be downloaded — clicking this link will automatically load its DMG file — from DuckDuckGo's website. The compa

Netflix's 'The School for Good and Evil' rules but needs way more Rachel Bloom


Mashable / 2h
Imagine never wanting to see your family again so much you'd welcome a demon kidnapping you off to a magical school. They'd have to be pretty damn awful people for a long time right? In Paul Feig's spectacularly whimsical adaptation of Soman Chainani's beloved YA fantasy series, The School for Good and Evil , those are the circumstances faced by Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso), the seemingly Cinderel


TikTok influencers won't stop sending me to their Amazon storefronts


Mashable / 2h
It's nearly impossible to scroll through my TikTok For You Page without being faced with an onslaught of influencers trying to get me to buy something from their Amazon storefronts. I understand why it might be so popular on my FYP. I love stuff . I love sweaters and books and gadgets and toys for my cat and tiny little guys I can put on my shelf . But I also don't have an Amazon Prime membership

In Yubaba, 'Spirited Away' gave us the underrated queen of movie witches


Mashable / 2h
One of the greatest ailments of childhood is being so utterly obsessed with a film, but being so utterly terrified of one of its main characters. Every rewatch is doused in abrasive anxiety building up to the character’s reveal, teeth-chattering fear when they finally appear, and long nights aimlessly reminding yourself that your favorite hero did in fact put a stop to their wicked ways. We all h

The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on


23MIT Technology Review / 2h
Last year, over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, Kiran Rabheru eagerly joined a call with officials from the World Health Organization (WHO). Word had spread of a change coming to the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a catalogue used to standardize disease diagnosis worldwide. In an upcoming revision, the plan was to replace the diagnosis of “senility,” a term considered outdat

MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform for food and grocery supplies, nabs $40M


TechCrunch / 2h
Last year, MaxAB , the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches ; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. The moves signaled MaxAB’s ambition to dominate Egypt’s and North Africa’s B2B retail and e-commerce market, which

Holidu pockets $102M to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe


TechCrunch / 2h
Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu , has topped up its coffers with an oversubscribed €104 million (~$102M) Series E funding round of equity and debt, led by existing investor 83North, after seeing its year-over-year revenue grew 100% in 2021. The round saw a mix of other existing and new investors chipping in, including in the latter camp Northzone, HV Capital, Vi

Amazon UK makes cautious move into insurance sales


35BBC News - Technology / 2h
The store will initially focus on home insurance and has just three insurers on board.

Normatec Go's compression therapy is a godsend after leg day


Mashable / 3h
Entering my 30s has been a wake-up call for my relationship with my body. Part of me assumed all of the jokes about knee pain and creaking joints were nothing more than exaggeration — surely those things wouldn’t start until I was older (because really, is 30 old?) — but as soon as I crossed the threshold into my 30s it’s like the universe gave my body a green light to start deteriorating. Gone a

Hackers Threaten to Release Medical Info of Australian Actors, Politicians, Activists, and More


Gizmodo / 3h
Hackers say they’ve obtained data from an Australian health insurance company and have threatened to release the private medical information of high-profile Australians if a ransom isn’t paid, according to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald . Read more...

'Quordle' today: Here are the answers and hints for October 19


Mashable / 4h
Today's Quordle is not the hardest of all time, but it's not the easiest either. Though your mileage may vary! If it's 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

New iPad Pro says 'iPad Pro' on the back so people can see you have an iPad Pro


29Mashable / 4h
Imagine dishing out the cash for an iPad Pro and whipping it out in a coffee shop, only to have everyone around you thinking you have a lowly, regular iPad because the sign on the back of the device just says "iPad." In fact, that's not very hard to imagine, because that's exactly how things were on earlier generations of iPad Pro models. But that's behind us now. The new iPad Pro (6th generation

Eswatini’s central bank mulls issuance of a digital currency


25TechCrunch / 4h
The kingdom of Eswatini is considering the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), joining the growing list of African countries exploring the viability of an e-currency. The Central Bank of Eswatini (CBE) said it has appointed German technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to research and explore the possibilities of a digital Lilangeni (the country’s currency) to complement ban

Google Lamda: A glimpse at the ultra-realistic chat tech


56BBC News - Technology / 4h
Earlier this year, the company fired an engineer who claimed the Lamda AI language system had feelings.
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Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains


22TechCrunch / 5h
In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. The way he saw it, they took too long, which minimized their influence on product design choices. “For example, anal

Google is finally making Chrome tablet-friendly


64TechCrunch / 5h
After ignoring the app experience on Android tablets for years, Google appears increasingly focused on turning things around. Earlier this year, the search giant introduced Android 12L, which brought an improved interface and multitasking experience to tablets and foldable. At the developer conference Google IO in May, it promised to finetune over 20 of its own apps for the tablet experience . No

Kakao outage: Co-chief executive quits South Korea internet giant


34BBC News - Technology / 5h
A fire shut down Kakao services for more than eight hours on Saturday.

Go LIVE – Broadcasting Event Hosted by ORMS


Popular Mechanics / 5h
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Adobe's updates to Photoshop on the iPad point to a promising future


51TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 6h
At Adobe's MAX event, it was announced that Photoshop on iPad is finally gaining the ability to remove the background from images in one tap, alongside being able to remove distracting objects from images. The process for removing the background will be similar to how it's achieved on a Mac or Windows PC: simply highlight the background, with the subject safe from being removed, and replace it wi

Ikea is trialing driverless truck deliveries in Texas


Engadget / 6h
Ikea has teamed up with Kodiak Robotics, a company that's working on self-driving technology for long-haul trucking, to test driverless deliveries from its warehouses. Since August this year, an autonomous heavy-duty Kodiak truck has been delivering furniture from an Ikea distribution center near Houston to a retail store near Dallas every single day. While the truck has a backup driver behind th

Egypt’s Nexta to launch “next-gen banking” app with fresh $3M


41TechCrunch / 6h
Nexta , an Egyptian startup that plans to launch its banking app in the coming months, has secured a $3 million investment from eFinance Group, a state-owned provider of digital payments solutions. This news follows the $2 million pre-seed round Nexta announced this March, which Egyptian early-stage VC Disruptech led. Last year, Nexta obtained a provisional license from the Central Bank of Egypt


Today's Wordle Answer #487 – October 19, 2022 Solution And Hints


SlashGear / 6h
Prepare for another Wordle puzzle that involves an unusual letter. To help you avoid losing your streak, we have some hints to help you along, plus the answer.

Uh Oh, Scientists Figured Out How to Grow Terrifying Parasitic Mushrooms in the Lab


Gizmodo / 7h
Just in time for Halloween, scientists in Korea say they’ve found a better way to grow an insect-destroying mushroom in the lab. Their work could make studying these fungi easier, which is important, since they and the chemicals they produce may actually have medicinal uses for humans, creepy as they are. Read more...

DuckDuckGo browser for Mac beta has one trick YouTube won't like - but you will


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 7h
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused web browser is now available for download via an open beta to all Mac users. It's still all about keeping your personal details private but does mix in some intriguing new features, as well. For the past several months, the company has been steadily working on a desktop version of the DuckDuckGo browser. Originally, the desktop browser launched as a closed beta back i

Kakao co-CEO resigns, company to invest over $300M to build data center after mass outage


TechCrunch / 8h
Whon Namkoong, the co-chief executive of Kakao, has resigned in a remarkable demonstration of corporate accountability after a fire incident at an SK C&C data center in the south of Seoul caused a mass outage over the weekend and disrupted Kakao’s several services, including messenger, ride-hailing, payment, banking and gaming. Namkoong, who joined Kakao in 2015, was elevated to the co-CEO role t

Here's Why The Toyota 4Runner Is One Of The Most Reliable SUVs Ever Made


SlashGear / 8h
The 4Runner has made a name for itself as one of the most reliable SUVs around, with some owners reporting that they're still going strong after 300,000 miles.

Wordle today: Here's the answer, hints for October 19


23Mashable / 8h
It is Wednesday, my dudes, and there's a fresh Wordle to get you through any midweek blues. But if you're struggling with today's puzzle , we've got some clues and the solution, as we do every day . If you just want today's word, you can jump straight to the end of this article for October 19's Wordle solution, for puzzle #486. If you'd rather work through it yourself, keep reading for some tips,

Activision Blizzard’s Johanna Faries highlights the company’s emerging ‘anti-tox’ strategy


24TechCrunch / 9h
At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Activision Blizzard General Manager Johanna Faries elaborated on the company’s plans to clean up some of the worst behavior in the franchise’s community, even as new lawsuits and allegations about its own culture continue to emerge . Last month, Activision Blizzard released a formal code of conduct for the Call of Duty community, which encompasses its broad consumer p

Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion


38TechCrunch / 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 . The newsletter is a little later than usual today and for the next three days. Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. Find ’em in our special Battlefield sec

Why members-only club Chief, with a waitlist of 60K, hates the term ‘girl boss’


33TechCrunch / 10h
Chief co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan started the company because they had experienced first-hand being women executives without a ton of support. They created a community of female leaders that is now 20,000 strong, with 60,000 sitting on waitlists, but just don’t call these women ‘girl bosses.’ The two women appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt today in San Francisco. Kaplan asked the

PS5's Customizable DualSense Edge Controller Gets A Release Date


SlashGear / 11h
Sony finally has an answer to the Xbox Elite Series 2, and unsurprisingly, it costs more than its Xbox rival. Now we have a release date for the PS5 controller.

Go Funko Yourself This Halloween


Gizmodo / 11h
So you’ve put off buying a Halloween costume and it’s now suddenly party season—don’t worry, Funko has you covered. Here’s the company’s line of Pop-inspired masks that can save the day if you’re looking to complete those Stranger Things or Hocus Pocus looks. There’s even more from Disney and DC to piece together some… Read more...

Microsoft is laying off 'under 1,000' workers


21Mashable / 11h
Microsoft , the third biggest company in the world , is laying off a lot of people, according to a report by Axios . Precisely how many people are being put out of work is unclear. Axios’s source said the newly unemployed will number "under 1,000," which is an odd phrasing, since it could mean just about anything, but it’s pretty clear that the total is significant. The Washington Post reports th

Watch Google’s ping pong robot pull off a 340-hit rally


35TechCrunch / 11h
As if it weren’t enough to have AI tanning humanity’s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at ping pong as well. For now they emphasize it is “cooperative,” but at the rate these things improve, it will be taking on pros in no time. The project, called i-Sim2Real , isn’t just about ping pong but rather about building a robot

Netflix: Big hits reverse subscriber losses


89BBC News - Technology / 11h
The company added over 2.4 million subscribers, reversing losses earlier in the year.

Redditors have created millions of crypto wallets to buy NFT avatars


100+TechCrunch / 11h
In July, Reddit jumped on the NFT train, launching an NFT-based marketplace that allows users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate. Given the general sentiment around NFTs today, you might assume — like me — that the experiment ended poorly. But the opposite’s the case apparently. Today during a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, Reddit chief product officer Pali Bhat revealed

Filthy floodwaters from Hurricane Ian drove wave of flesh-eating infections


36Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge / A resident of Gulf Air mobile home park walks through floodwaters from Hurricane Ian through her neighborhood near Fort Myers Beach on September 29. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post ) In the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Ian, some of Florida's hardest-hit areas are facing a new threat—a wave of flesh-eating bacterial infections that can crest in sewage-contaminated floodwaters.

Another casualty of the pandemic: our ability to worry about anything else


Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge / This looks worrisome, but I've got a pandemic to panic about. (credit: Gerhard Pettersson / EyeEm ) It's safe to say that the first two years of the pandemic left a lot of people exhausted and emotionally drained. A new study suggests that the exhaustion showed a reduced ability to care about other global problems. The work relied on surveying all English-language Twitter for tweets rel

USB-C can hit 120Gbps with newly published USB4 Version 2.0 spec


46Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge / The USB-IF published the USB4 Version 2.0 specification today. (credit: Getty ) We've said it before, and we'll say it again: USB-C is confusing. A USB-C port or cable can support a range of speeds, power capabilities, and other features, depending on the specification used. Today, USB-C can support various data transfer rates, from 0.48Gbps (USB 2.0) all the way to 40Gbps ( USB4 , Thun

Reform Section 230, punish users spreading online hate: New York AG


Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge (credit: YUKI IWAMURA / Contributor | AFP ) On a mission to stop young men from being increasingly radicalized online , New York Attorney General Letitia James suggested today a new strategy to stop online hate from spreading: Punish anyone who reposts content created by those who commit homicide. Her potentially First Amendment-infringing policy reform recommendation comes after the Bure

Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s


53Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files include images, text documents, music, games, shareware, videos, and much more. Discmaster o


Microsoft moves to patch this potentially serious security flaw


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Microsoft has fixed a bug plaguing multiple versions of Windows and Windows Server that's triggering SSL/TLS handshake failures. Those experiencing the flaw see a SEC_E_ILLEGAL_MESSAGE notification pop up in applications that try to connect to servers. "We address an issue that might affect some types of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security ( TLS ) connections. These connection

Meet E-liza Dolls, the startup that’s building dolls to help young girls learn to code


TechCrunch / 12h
E-liza Dolls , a Berkeley-based startup, is aiming to challenge the gender gap in STEM by helping young girls learn to code using dolls. The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. The startup was founded in 2021 by Eliza Kosoy, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, who is focused

Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets


TechCrunch / 12h
Shared micromobility company Bird is exiting several markets across the world as it struggles to build an economically viable business, according to a regulatory filing . Bird said it will “fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway, as well as wind down operations in “several dozen additional, primarily small to mid-sized markets” across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to the

Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors


29TechCrunch / 12h
For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. Nikki Varanasi, Staax’s founder and CEO, was managing an $800 million fund-of-funds at McKi

Trailer: The House From... | Famous TV & Movie Houses


21Gizmodo / 12h
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Why The Pontiac GTO Was Discontinued


SlashGear / 12h
Starting in 1964, the GTO was produced until driving off for good in 2006, just four years before Pontiac as a whole closed its doors.

The Easiest Tricks To Make Windows 11 Look Even More Like MacOS


28SlashGear / 12h
If you're used to a Mac OS and switch to Windows, there are several ways to make your set-up look similar.

Larry Ellison wants to build “an internet of clouds”


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
The future of the cloud computing market is set to get more closer and interconnected, resulting in a multi-cloud approach that is more beneficial for businesses everywhere, the founder of Oracle has claimed. Speaking at Oracle Cloud World 2022 in a keynote focusing on "next-generation cloud technology", Larry Ellison outlined his vision of the cloud market to come, calling for an end to “walled

Millions of MyDeal users have data sold online after breach


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
Australian retail marketplace MyDeal has confirmed it suffered a data breach that has affected more than two million of its customers. The company contacted all affected customers explaining the incident, saying that an unknown attacker compromised its systems and accessed customer identity data. According to BleepingComputer , the threat actor managed to obtain the login information for MyDeal’s

Cityblock Health CEO Toyin Ajayi on how to scale human-centered care models


28TechCrunch / 12h
Cityblock Health is focused on providing affordable, human-centered healthcare in lower-income and marginalized communities, while also building sustainable business models. Founder and CEO Toyin Ajayi talked at Disrupt today about the challenges of tackling the healthcare system’s inequalities, while serving patients with personalized medical care, behavioral health care and social services. “Do

Hormona wants women to track their ‘hormonal health’ with at-home testing


32TechCrunch / 12h
Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels? London-based femtech, Hormona , which is pitching its hormone tracker in the S

Netflix will begin charging 'extra user' fees early next year


Engadget / 12h
We all knew it was coming. The next phase of Netflix's months-long crackdown on password sharing — which itself follows the company's first quarterly subscriber loss in a decade — is soon upon us. The company announced during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that it will

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