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Netflix's official 'Harry and Meghan' trailer is here and it does not hold back


2KMashable / 18h
The official trailer for Netflix' s long-awaited Harry and Meghan documentary is finally here and, um, wow. The film was notably helmed by the couple themselves (who signed a major deal with the streaming company in 2020) and promises to tell their version of events that led them to step down from their official roles as senior royals. A move that's since been dubbed "Megxit." "The pain and suffe

The iPhone 15 series might not get the design change we were hoping for


500+TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 20h
Recently we heard about some exciting design changes that might be coming to the iPhone 15 line, chief among these being curved edges ; but now it sounds like that change is far from set in stone. That’s not to say the previous leak was wrong, but according to LeaksApplePro – a leaker with a respectable track record – talking to Forbes , the move to curved edges is under “strong consideration” bu

TikTok Influencer Is Fined After Hitting a Golf Ball Into the Grand Canyon


8KNYT > Technology / 20h
Katie Sigmond, who has nearly seven million followers on TikTok and posts workout and modeling videos, faced legal trouble after the stunt.



Cubzh wants to build the next-generation Minecraft


TechCrunch / 21min
Meet Cubzh , a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system. The company has designed a new platform from scratch and wants to empower creators with the ability to create new objects, build worlds and define games rules thanks to a scripting environment. This summer, the company raised a $3 million seed round led by New Wave with several angels also p


Google introduces “Continuous Scrolling” on desktop for Search


TechCrunch / 37min
Google is introducing a “Continuous Scrolling” feature on the desktop so users don’t have to navigate across pages to find the relevant search results for English-language queries in the U.S., expanding a feature the company has offered on mobile for some time . Notably, users shouldn’t mistake continuous scrolling for infinite scrolling. With continuous scrolling, users can see up to six pages o

Neuralink is reportedly under federal investigation over animal testing


Engadget / 55min
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Inspector General is reportedly investigating Neuralink over potential animal welfare violations related to research testing. According to Reuters , internal documents show that staff members have been raising concerns that the company has been rushing animal testing and causing needless suffering and death. The news organization said the company has kill

Do not fall for this dangerous Amazon shopping scam


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 1h
Like a dog spotting a squirrel, I can't help but notice when a fresh text pops up on my iPhone. The little gray notification catches my eye and I'm instantly pulled away from the task at hand. Plus, this one looked important. It was, but only because it helped me identify a very dangerous and pernicious, Amazon shopping scam. With the holiday shopping season in full swing, such scams are on the r

'Quordle' today: Here are the answers and hints for December 6


Mashable / 1h
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

Twitter Notifications Keep Breaking in Wake of Elon Musk's Mass Layoffs


Gizmodo / 2h
Have you gone to your notifications tab on Twitter, only to see nothing there? You’re not alone. Users have increasingly reported broken notifications in recent days. And while Twitter didn’t respond to questions about why, it’s hard not to see a possible correlation with the mass layoffs of software engineers… Read more...

Accidental Steam listing leaks Star Wars Jedi: Survivor release date


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Over three years since the release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to PC and consoles in 2019, Star Wars fans and gamers alike are eagerly anticipating the game’s sequel due in 2023. Initially confirmed as being in mid-production during the Star Wars Celebration in May, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now preparing to make an appearance at the 2022 Game Awards . In a tweet on Monday, publishers EA an

Nothing founder Carl Pei reveals company is working on new phone for the US


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 2h
Mid-range phone brand Nothing is looking to make its US debut, according to company founder Carl Pei, but is facing some logistical issues – not to mention competition from major rivals. In a conversation with CNBC , Pei states the company is currently in “early conversations with American carriers…” but didn’t name a specific one. Each carrier has a specific suite of software it wants to be adde

Amazon set to launch Prime Gaming in India


TechCrunch / 2h
Amazon is inching closer to launching Prime Gaming, its subscription service that offers free access to a number of titles and which ships bundled with Amazon Prime and Video plans, to its members in India, according to the company’s website. “With Prime Gaming (included with your Prime membership) unlock instant access to tons of exclusive content for your favorite games and a rotating collectio

Today's Wordle Answer #535 – December 6, 2022 Solution And Hints


SlashGear / 2h
Today's Wordle may be awfully familiar for you Jurassic Park fans out there, but if you're struggling, we have some hints (and the answer) if you need it.

Wordle today: Here's the answer, hints for December 6


Mashable / 3h
New day, new Wordle ! We're here to help you with some subtle clues. A friendly reminder, in case you missed the recent rule change: The New York Times has added a new word list and updated the rules , so now plurals ending in S or ES will never be the solution. If you'd rather have the answer to today's Wordle delivered straight, skip to the end of this article for December 6's solution revealed

Learn to code with this discounted certification bundle


Mashable / 3h
TL;DR: The 2023 Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle is on sale for £20.78, saving you 99% on list price. Learning to code is a lot more than building websites or apps, though the right language can equip you to do that too. If you master something like Python, you could end up working in machine learning, AI, academic research, cybersecurity, and beyond. And that’s just one language. If yo

Nvidia may be mulling an RTX 4080 price cut, but not because of AMD, it swears


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 3h
The next-gen graphics card fight between Nvidia and AMD looks to be heating up ahead of the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX in a week's time as Nvidia is reportedly set to cut the price of its RTX 4080 in mid-December to compete with Team Red's latest flagship. The rumor of the price cut comes courtesy of Twitter leaker Harukaze5719 , who says that the price of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 wi

Elon Musk's Neuralink Reportedly Hit With Federal Probe Over Animal Welfare Claims


SlashGear / 3h
Elon Musk is once again facing a controversy, but this one involves his neurotechnology company Neuralink instead of his newly-acquired social media platform.

Onomotion raises €21 million to expand e-cargo bike urban logistics business


TechCrunch / 3h
Berlin-based Onomotion has come up with a scalable way to do micromobility-powered urban logistics — cargo e-bikes with built-in cover from the elements and attachable containers. Today, Onomotion has a couple hundred vehicles on the road in Germany with logistics partners like UPS, DPD and Hermes. Over the next few years, the company wants to expand to several thousands of vehicles across Europe

Apple's Expansion Into India May Continue With iPad Production Change


SlashGear / 5h
Apple may be planning to expand its manufacturing presence in India by shuffling some iPad production to the country, but the change won't be simple.

Meta threatens to remove US news content if new law passes


100+BBC News - Technology / 5h
Facebook's parent company says it will pull news from the platform in the US if a new media law passes.

SBM Bank India, building BaaS platform, seeks funding at $200 million valuation


TechCrunch / 5h
The Indian arm of SBM Bank, one of the banks that has aggressively worked with fintech startups in the South Asian market, is engaging with investors to raise capital and pitching the vision of becoming one of the top banking-as-a-service providers in the country, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Indian arm is in advanced stages of deliberations to raise between $50 million to

Accacia tackles the real estate industry’s massive carbon emissions problem


TechCrunch / 5h
The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions , and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. Accacia gives large property owners a way to track their carbon impact in real-time by integrating with ERPs and property management systems like Yardi. It’s already been deployed to over 20 million square feet of real estate in A

Securing Kubernetes Cluster Traffic With Pod Network Policies


How-To Geek / 6h
Kubernetes Pods can freely communicate with each other by default. This poses a security risk when your cluster’s used for multiple applications or teams. Errant behavior or malicious access in one Pod could direct traffic to the other Pods in your cluster. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›


Meta Accused Of Giving Some Laid-Off Workers Different Severance Package


SlashGear / 6h
Some former Meta employees claim they have been given only half of the promised severance benefits after being laid off by the company last month.

TuSimple and Navistar end deal to co-develop autonomous trucks


TechCrunch / 6h
Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple and truck manufacturer Navistar have scrapped their deal to co-develop self-driving trucks, the companies said Monday. The move to end the partnership comes less than a month after Cheng Lu returned to his role as CEO of TuSimple after previously being ousted. The return of Lu came days after the company fired his predecessor and TuSimple’s co-found

Microsoft could get its first official union as ZeniMax QA testers organize


TechCrunch / 6h
A group of about 300 quality assurance (QA) testers at video game company ZeniMax Media are seeking to form the first ever union at Microsoft, the parent company to their studio. ZeniMax includes subsidiaries like Bethesda Softworks and id Software, producing franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout. Union organizing has been on the rise in the video game industry, particularly among Q

Neuralink Employees Admit Company Has Killed 1,500 Animals So Far


51Futurism / 6h
We already knew that there were problems at Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink. Internally, employees have warned of chaos as they say Musk pushes for overly ambitious goals. Externally, subject matter experts say that Musk's glib promises gloss over profound challenges standing in the way of a commercial brain implant for humans — and downplays deep ethical questions that wi

Jason Reitman Hands Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel Directing Reins to Gil Kenan


Gizmodo / 7h
There are big things on the way for the Ghostbusters franchise: an animated film as well as a live-action sequel for Ghostbusters: Afterlife . And there’s news on the latter. Deadline reports that Afterlife director Jason Reitman , son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, will be handing over directing duties… Read more...

Gulf Air Will Fly Non-Stop to the United States


View from the Wing / 7h
The CEO of Bahrain-based Gulf Air says the carrier will launch direct flights to the U.S. within 3 years. We can expect that new Gulf Air service to the U.S. to be on Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The airline’s CEO describes himself as being on a mission to deliver a quality product as a path towards profits because his smaller airline can’t compete on network scale and it cannot compete on price either

“李老师”口述：如何成为推特上中国抗议信息的聚集地


22MIT Technology Review / 7h
Editor’s note: This is a translation of a story about a Chinese painter based in Italy who became a critical source of information for many in China during recent protests against the country’s zero-covid policy. Find the English language version here . 过去一周，随着针对中国新冠防疫政策的抗议 席卷了社交媒体 ，一个推特账号 @李老师不是你老师 变成了各种相关信息来源的“集散地”。中国各地民众纷纷通过私信发来抗议视频和实时消息，而该账号帮投稿人隐去身份，匿名将这些消息发布出来。 这个账户背后只有一个人：李（大家称他为李老师），出于安全考虑

Here’s how marsh grass shrimp reduce drag while swimming


Ars Technica - All content / 7h
This is how a free-swimming marsh grass shrimp ( Palaemonetes vulgaris ) moves forward using metachronal locomotion to reduce drag. Marsh grass shrimp ( Palaemonetes vulgaris ) are impressively fast and nimble swimmers, as anyone who's seen them zipping about tide pools at the beach can attest. Nils Tack, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, studies the biomechanics and fluid dynamics o

Uber Eats to pay millions for listing Chicago restaurants without consent


21TechCrunch / 7h
Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats and Postmates food delivery apps without the restaurants’ consent, as well as for charging excess commission fees. Over $5 million will go toward paying damages back to Chicago restaurants that were affected, and $1.5 million will go to Chicago for the costs incurred during the city

Chattermill, which uses AI to extract insights from customer experience data, raises $26M


TechCrunch / 7h
Chattermill , a platform that helps companies unlock insights by analyzing customer feedback data from across myriad digital channels, has raised $26 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2015, companies such as Uber and Amazon use Chattermill to unify all their customer data, integrating with social networks, customer feedback and support tools, online review sites and

Daredevil Confirms New Cast, But Karen and Foggy's Fates Remain Unknown


Gizmodo / 8h
If you’ve been watching the casting announcements around Disney+’s Marvel series Daredevil : Born Again and wondering... what about Deborah Ann Woll ( Karen Page ) and Elden Henson ( Foggy Nelson ), who were part of the show’s original Netflix incarnation, you’re not alone. Star Charlie Cox, while attending German Comic… Read more...

Facebook Dating Will Scan Your Face Using AI To Confirm Your Age


SlashGear / 8h
Following a similar test on Instagram, Meta has announced that it'll use third-party AI technology to verify someone is old enough to use Facebook Dating.

Sam Bankman-Fried Says He's Willing To Testify About FTX Mess Before Congress


SlashGear / 8h
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is currently staring at criminal charges but says he is open to fielding questions at a Congressional hearing.

The Best Soundbars Of 2022


SlashGear / 8h
A great soundbar can seriously upgrade your sound experience with your home theater setup. We have put together a list of our favorites for you.

ChatGPT shrugged


TechCrunch / 8h
ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s designed to help people communicate with computers in a more natural and intuitive way — using natural language processing (NLP) technology. But what’s behind the development of ChatGPT and how can the tech be used to help humanity? These are some of the questions that we will explore in this article… That rather bland lede, which we’ve sl

Lensa AI, the app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists


100+TechCrunch / 8h
If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the horrible misfires) in stories and posts. Lensa’s fun, eminently shareable avatars mark the first time

Tier-owned Spin exits 10 US markets amid low demand, unfavorable city regulations


TechCrunch / 8h
Micromobility operator Spin is leaving 10 U.S. markets due to a combination of low demand, over-regulation, under-regulation and poor cost structures, according to a company-wide email sent Friday by Philip Reinckens, Spin’s CEO, that was shared with TechCrunch. Reinckens said the market exits would help Spin cut costs and focus on growing markets that provide “the best financial outlook for the

holly-days: Four Minutes at South Manitou Island Lighthouse...


Music, Arts & Literature / 8h
holly-days : Four Minutes at South Manitou Island Lighthouse by Michelle Leale

The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT


64NYT > Technology / 8h
A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.

AAdvantage Aviator Red Mastercard Bonus: 60K Miles & Waived Annual Fee


22One Mile at a Time / 8h
As far as US airlines go, American is in the unique position of having co-branded credit cards with two issuers. This came after the merger of American and US Airways, as American’s credit cards were issued by Citi, while US Airways’ credit cards were issued by Barclays. American made the decision to have a non-exclusive co-brand agreement, thinking that would maximize profits. American has diffe


No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you


64Ars Technica - All content / 9h
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT , can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep learning AI model, uses its stored knowledge to simulate Linux with surprising

Pfizer seeks FDA greenlight for bivalent COVID dose in kids under 5 years


Ars Technica - All content / 9h
Enlarge / Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: SOPA images ) With respiratory illnesses ravaging children around the US, vaccine partners Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday that they are seeking regulatory authorization to offer their bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 6 months to 4 years—but not as a booster; instead it would be part of an updated primary series. Currently, t

Syntax errors are the doom of us all, including botnet authors


Ars Technica - All content / 9h
Enlarge / If you're going to come at port 443, you best not miss (or forget to put a space between URL and port). (credit: Getty Images) KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be used for denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, broke into systems through weak secure shell credentials. It could remotely control a system, it was hard to reverse-engineer, didn't stay persistent, and could target m

Max Q: Building on the moon and Mars


TechCrunch / 9h
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Are you ready for TC’s Space event!? It’s happening tomorrow in Los Angeles. Give me a shout-out if you’ll be attending, I’d love to meet you. In this issue: ICON’s in-space construction tech ambitions Astra’s management switch-up News from ispace, Metaspectral and more Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech ICON , a cons

Daily Crunch: Another Salesforce C-suite exit — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield will step down in January


TechCrunch / 9h
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 . Obviously you love the Daily Crunch, but did you know that we’ve got a whole lineup of truly amazing newsletters from across the site? Sarah ’s This Week in Apps is consistently insightful and interesting about what happens on our handheld supercomputers. The Inter

Here Are 16 Airports That Might Scan Your Face This Holiday Season


Gizmodo / 9h
From dumping out water bottles to picking easy to slip off shoes, most air travelers have grown accustomed to the regulatory and bureaucratic dance that is navigating major airports. Increasingly, however, travelers may soon encounter a new accessory en route to their destination: a facial recognition scan. Read more...

Mickey 17, the Robert Pattinson Sci-Fi Film, Gets a Teaser and Release Date


100+Gizmodo / 9h
The director of Parasite is back and now he’s got a Batman. Warner Bros. just officially announced that Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho is in production on the sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17 , which stars Robert Pattinson , Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo . It’s on track for a release date of… Read more...

American Airlines Denies Plan To Bring Back Carry On Restrictions To Basic Economy


View from the Wing / 9h
American Airlines was showing that basic economy fares didn't include a carry on bag to some customers checking in, though they hadn't updated their website or made any announcement to this effect. Continue reading ...

SpaceX goes full defense contractor with national security-focused Starshield


21TechCrunch / 9h
SpaceX’s launch services have already become an invaluable resource for the U.S. government, but the company is now jumping into the deep end of the pool it had heretofore only splashed around in. Starshield , a new vertical within SpaceX, will provide “government entities” (think three-letter agencies) with secure communications and bespoke satellite designs. The new brand (possibly a subsidiary

Real ID enforcement delayed yet again — this time to 2025


Engadget / 9h
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday it’s again pushing back the enforcement of Real ID requirements for state driver’s licenses and ID cards. The latest delay moves states’ compliance deadline to May 7th, 2025. Passed by Congress in 2005 as a response to the Sept. 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Real ID Act requires stricter documentation for boarding flights and entering federal or

Anti-Discrimination Laws Are Called Into Question by SCOTUS


83Gizmodo / 9h
The Supreme Court seems poised to rule in favor of a Colorado web designer who appealed for the right to decline her services to same-sex couples . Lorie Smith is the owner of a web design company called 303 Creative, and says she will serve LGBTQ+ customers for general design requests, but says she should not be… Read more...

France Is Banning Some Short Flights in Emissions Crackdown


100+Gizmodo / 9h
Short flights won’t take off across France anymore, so long as there’s an efficient train line that can connect commuters from point A to point B. In an aggressive effort to lower the country’s emissions, France has banned flight routes for locations where connecting train service would only take 2.5 hours or less. Read more...

His Dark Materials Returns, as Consistently Inconsistent as Ever


Gizmodo / 9h
If you care enough about His Dark Materials to watch the season three premiere today, you know the score: It’s been just under two years since the second season finale of the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed fantasy trilogy aired. So it’s genuinely impressive how seamlessly season three begins, not only… Read more...

Google made good on its private browsing promise for Pixel users


Mashable / 9h
Good things come to Pixel users who wait. After teasing private browsing at its Pixel event this past October, Google's finally delivered. Today, the search giant dropped a bunch of new features for its line of smartphones, including that built-in VPN for its Google One cloud storage service. Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro users will now have access to this VPN through the Google One app at no extra cos

SpaceX Quietly Delays Starlink's Controversial Daytime Data Cap


SlashGear / 9h
A daytime Starlink data cap was quietly announced in November with only weeks before it went live, but now it seems customers will have a longer reprieve.

Microsoft Is Hiking The Price Of Its Xbox Games To $70


SlashGear / 9h
Speaking with Eurogamer, Microsoft confirmed it will be upping the cost of its newest full-priced titles in 2023 to $70.

Here Are All The New Features Rolling Out To Pixel Smartphones Today


SlashGear / 9h
Google introduced a new feature drop which adds Google VPN to the Pixel 7, clearer calling, and a better call recorder. We have all the details.

One Of Bentley's Most Famous Cars Was Also One Of Its Biggest Failures


SlashGear / 9h
You'd think a vintage Bentley that raced at Le Mans and held the lap record at Brooklands would possess a competition record steeped in success. Not so.

Winterize Your Gin Cocktail


Lifehacker / 9h
The martini knows no season, but your brain is very aware of them, and right now your brain is probably craving festive, holiday-themed treats and libations. Cocktail-wise, this usually means hot toddies, dark spirits lots of spice, egg nog , or the inclusion of candy canes. Read more...

Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App


500+NYT > Technology / 9h
A detective relied on flawed information provided by the Find My app for a warrant that led the police to raid the home of a 77-year-old Denver woman, a lawsuit says.


Quality assurance staff at Microsoft's ZeniMax Media are moving toward unionizing


Engadget / 9h
Microsoft’s pledge to stay neutral in unionization efforts is about to be tested in a big way. On Monday, quality assurance staff at ZeniMax Media went public with the news that they’re working to form a union. The approximately 300 workers involved in the effort want to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA). That’s the same union that recently helped QA staff at Raven Sof

Skkrt! NASA's Orion Heads Back to Earth, Leaves Moon in the Dust


64Futurism / 9h
Artemis-ty Eyed NASA's Orion lunar capsule is headed back to terra firma — and it captured a breathtaking image of the Moon with the Earth rising in the background on its way home. "For Orion, this is not a 'goodbye,' but a 'see you later' to the Moon," a NASA TV spokesperson said in the stunning footage captured by one of the Artemis I mission's many cameras, which captured an Earthrise in the d

SBF Not Happy to Be Asked About Ex-Girlfriend Caroline Ellison


100+Futurism / 9h
Drama Bomb Yes, there is still more FTX drama unfolding — and this time, it's personal. A quick catchup before we dig into the good stuff: among the many major fallouts from the FTX collapse last month, one of the more salacious revelations centered the exchange's disgraced ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison , the CEO of FTX's sister arm, Alameda Research. Along with her murky role in

3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes


TechCrunch / 9h
A good way to be wrong is to predict the future. A good way to be incredibly and embarrassingly wrong is to predict the future in a medium that is public and everlasting. With that in mind, welcome back to another episode of “TechCrunch Predicts.” As we did last year, TechCrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas , Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm are back with a passel of predictions, hoping to percolate new postu

10 Best Hypercars Of All Time


SlashGear / 10h
Anyone who is a car fanatic has dreamed of owning a hypercar -- and in all likelihood, those dreams include one or more of these vehicles.

Adobe Confirms Plan To Sell AI-Generated Stock Images


SlashGear / 10h
Adobe confirmed that it will start allowing images created by AI into its stock image library which is a huge step forward for AI-assisted imagery.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Leaked March 2023 Release Date Shown On Steam Page


SlashGear / 10h
If you're looking forward to the next "Star Wars Jedi" game, a brief leak on Steam revealed you won't have to wait much longer for the launch.

10 Expert Tips For Buying New Car Tires


SlashGear / 10h
Need to buy some new tires for your car or truck? We have got ten tips from our experts that'll help you make the best purchase for your vehicle.

Elon Musk Makes A Concerning Comment About His Safety


32SlashGear / 10h
In the wake of the controversial 'Twitter Files' released by the social media's CEO, Elon Musk also expressed what may be genuine concern for his wellbeing.

OnePlus Surprises Everyone By Announcing A Mechanical Keyboard


SlashGear / 10h
The next product launch from OnePlus isn't a smartphone, a smartwatch, or even a tablet. Instead, the company plans to launch a mechanical keyboard.

Metaverse Hilariously Loses Word Of The Year


SlashGear / 10h
In Oxford's annual study of the most used words, this year's competition included the term "metaverse" — but it was ironically outshined by relatable slang.

Amazon And Apple Reportedly Resuming Advertising On Twitter


SlashGear / 10h
Twitter has regained some of its biggest advertisement spenders — including Amazon and Apple — after a previous exodus under Elon Musk's new ownership.

Flying Blue finally fixes its award search, making it easier to book award tickets


26The Points Guy / 10h
If you’ve used Flying Blue , the award currency for Air France and KLM, chances are you’re well aware of its uber-obnoxious technical glitch when searching for award tickets. Finally, Flying Blue award searches are working properly after years without a solution, as One Mile at a Time first reported. What was the glitch? ERIC ROSEN/THE POINTS GUY You can search for Flying Blue award tickets on Ai

Meta facing lawsuit over reported tax sharing scandal


TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
Meta has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly infringing upon users' right to privacy by collecting data from users of popular third-party tax software . The filing relates to recent allegations that online tax software tools such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer used the company's "Meta Pixel", a piece of javascript code, to send information such as names, email addresses, income information

Respiratory illnesses slam US: “Perfect storm for a terrible holiday season”


25Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / An intensive care nurse cares for a patient suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), who is being ventilated in the children's intensive care unit of the Olga Hospital of the Stuttgart Clinic in Germany. (credit: Getty | picture alliance ) With SARS-CoV-2 still circulating and seasonal viruses, including influenza and RSV, making up for lost time during the pandemic, the US is

Grandmother sues cop who wrongly targeted her home using “Find My” app


100+Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) In January, Colorado police officers confined a 77-year-old grandmother named Ruby Johnson for hours in a squad car without even offering a glass of water during a time when she was due to take her daily medications—why? Nobody told Johnson what was going on when she opened her front door to a SWAT team assembled on her lawn. Much later, she found out about a stole

Microsoft games like Starfield will cost $70 starting next year


Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / Blasting off to new frontiers of pricing. Microsoft has become the latest big-name publisher to jump to a $70 asking price for the launch of big-budget games. The company said in a statement to IGN that the new pricing will start in 2023 for games built for the Xbox Series X/S and will include titles like Starfield , Redfall , and the next Forza Motorsport . A $70 MSRP "reflects the con

Callisto Protocol devs say “damn clerical error” caused PC frame rate issues


Ars Technica - All content / 10h
The Callisto Protocol Enlarge / Artist's conception of PC players getting hit with stuttering frame rates on the launch version of The Callisto Protocol . In Ars' review of The Callisto Protocol last week , our reviewer praised the 60 fps graphics of the game's Performance mode on the tested PlayStation 5 version. Since the game's release, though, online forums like Reddit and the game's Steam re

After more than 5 years, Nvidia’s GTX 1060 is no longer Steam’s most-used GPU


23Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / Nvidia's GTX 1060 is still one of the most-used GPUs on Steam, but its star continues to fade slowly. (credit: Mark Walton) Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 was exceptionally well-reviewed when it was released in 2016—offering performance a bit better than previous-generation flagships for a downright reasonable price of $250. PC gamers responded accordingly. Within a year of its release , the

When HBO Max and Discovery+ merge, they’ll have a new name


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Enlarge / Longtime AT&T executive John Stankey, who became CEO in July 2020, speaks onstage at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day on October 29, 2019, in Burbank, California. (credit: Getty Images | Presley Ann ) By now, you may have heard that the two major TV streaming services run by Warner Bros. Discovery (HBO Max and Discovery+) are set to merge soon. Thanks to a new report from CNBC , we


Cooler Master’s massive workstation pod is an extravagant alternative to desks


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Enlarge (credit: Cooler Master ) When is an office or gaming chair more than a seat? When it's an entire mechanical pod equipped with monitors, wireless charging, USB ports, and more RGB LEDs than our personal record (zero). As of today, Cooler Master is letting people register for the waitlist of its Orb X "multi-purpose station." Waitlist registration is still steps away from preorders or even

Construction Begins on World’s Biggest Radio Telescope, Set to Observe the 'Epoch of Reionization'


55Gizmodo / 10h
The world’s largest radio telescope is officially under construction in Australia, where work is underway on one component of what will be an intercontinental instrument. When operational in the late 2020s, the telescope will offer a sharper, wider view of the universe in radio wavelengths. Read more...

Make Sure You Buy the Right Kind of Snow Melt


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If you live in an area that regularly gets snowfall, you know the love-hate relationship with the white stuff. A snowy evening can be a peaceful, beautiful thing—everything gets quiet, and that untouched blanket of snow creates a gorgeous blank slate of a world. There’s sledding, and snow angels, and kids having… Read more...

Thousands of Dead Seals Mysteriously Wash Ashore in Russia


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Around 2,500 of endangered seals in the Caspian Sea have washed ashore along the coast of Dagestan, Russia, CNN reports , citing the state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Read more...

You Won't Need Nippers, Glue, or Paint to Customize These Gundam Wing Keyboards


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In August, Higround released a collection of Sonic the Hedgehog -themed compact keyboards , including one design featuring graphics from a classic Sonic level spread across all the keys. The company’s latest keyboard collection takes a similar approach, but trades Sonic for the classic anime, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing . Read more...

SpaceX's Starlink Has Competition—and SpaceX Is Launching It on Tuesday


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British company OneWeb and its largest internet satellite competitor SpaceX have gone from enemies to friends. Well, sort of. OneWeb, in the wake of a canceled deal with Russia, was forced to source new launch providers—leading them to SpaceX and a rather unlikely agreement. Read more...

ToeJam and Earl, the Cult Classic Video Game, Is Becoming a Movie


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Every video game console has its signature games and franchises . For Sega, obviously, Sonic the Hedgehog is the big one. But a few spots down that list is ToeJam and Earl, and the rapping alien duo are now going to join Sonic on the big screen . Or, at least, a streaming service. Read more...

Mysterious Object Emerges From Beach in Florida


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Unidentified Beach Object Beach erosion caused by Hurricane Nicole and Ian has caused a massive mysterious object to poke out of the sand at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Florida — a tantalizing enigma that's naturally fascinating folks online. The lengthy object appears to be mostly made out of wood and metal and measures roughly 80 feet from end to end, The New York Times reports . Of

Astronomers Spot Volcano Erupting on a Distant Comet


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Erupting Comet An unusual volcanic comet has unexpectedly erupted in a massive cloud of gas and ice, Live Science reports , an offworldly spectacle that stunned astronomers. Scientists believe the dirty snowball, dubbed 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann or 29P for short, is the most volcanically active comet in our solar system. It was first discovered in 1927 by German astronomers Arnold Schwassmann and

Follow These Steps to Keep Your Garbage Disposal Working


Lifehacker / 11h
Garbage disposals can be very convenient, plus help keep food waste out of landfills. But garbage disposals are often a mystery to homeowners. But while it might seem daunting, garbage disposal maintenance can actually be pretty simple. Read more...

Almost all new malware is targeting Windows


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Cybercriminals are releasing hundreds of thousands of new malware strains every day, with a huge proportion exclusively targeting Windows users, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Atlas VPN using statistics published by AV-TEST GmbH concluded that in the first three quarters of 2022, there had been a total of 62.29 million new malware sample detections, or roughly 228,164 new variants eve

Construction starts in Australia on the world's largest radio telescope


Engadget / 11h
Astronomers are now closer to a major technological upgrade. Australia has started construction of its portion of the Square Kilometer Array, a system that should become the world's largest radio telescope. The Australian portion, SKA-Low, will revolve around 131,072 antenna "trees" in the country's western Wajarri country. As the name implies, the array will focus on low-frequency signals. The G

Blizzard is making it easier to unlock new 'Overwatch 2' heroes


Engadget / 11h
One of the major (and controversial) changes Blizzard made in Overwatch 2 was gating new heroes behind a battle pass . However, it should be a little easier for players to unlock the latest character, Ramattra, in the game's second season . Players who opt for the free track of the battle pass won't need to grind through as many levels before they can use the new tank in all game modes. Making so

ebookfriendly: 😍😍😍 The library staff at Arthur A. Wishart...


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ebookfriendly : 😍😍😍 The library staff at Arthur A. Wishart Library, Algoma University, Canada #libraries #librarylove Dewey the Bunny! Read more

Investors sound the alarm about possible private equity tech deals


TechCrunch / 11h
Enterprise spend management software company Coupa’s investors are ringing the alarm about a possible sale to private equity, concerned that any such transaction in the current investment environment may unreasonably limit its value. This is something you don’t see every day. Last week, rumors surfaced that Vista Equity Partners was interested in buying Coupa. Today, Coupa’s largest shareholder,

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to Step Down in January


NYT > Technology / 11h
Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive of Slack, which is owned by Salesforce, is the latest to announce an exit from Salesforce in recent weeks.

Video Game Workers at Microsoft and Activision Take Steps to Unionize


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Microsoft has remained neutral during a labor organizing bid as the Xbox maker seeks regulatory approval for its Activision acquisition.

Save 50% at tons of retailers during DoorDash's holiday deals event


Mashable / 11h
SAVE UP TO 50% : Through Dec. 12, you can take 50% off orders from big retailers like Dick's, Bed Bath and Beyond, Lush, Petsmart, Big Lots, and more via DoorDash during its 12 Days of Deals event . No DashPass is required, but members do get extra perks. DoorDash wants to "Deck your Doorstep" this holiday season with 12 Days of Deals. Whether you need last-minute gifts, groceries, beauty product

Facebook Dating finally adds age verification


Engadget / 11h
Three years after bringing Facebook Dating to the US , Meta is finally adding a way for users to verify their age . As it did when it began testing age verification on Instagram this past summer, Meta is once again turning to a company called Yoti for help. If Facebook’s automated systems suspect a minor is trying to use Facebook Dating, the website will prompt that individual to provide more inf

How to Instantly Measure Someone's Height on Your iPhone


Lifehacker / 11h
Many of us have been using iPhones since the beginning, and its “hidden” or “secret” features are things we’ve know about for ages. But every once in a while, I learn something new about iOS. This time , it’s a feature that lets you instantly measure someone with just your iPhone’s camera. Read more...


Waldorf Astoria Lake Tahoe Opening 2027


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A Waldorf Astoria is coming to Lake Tahoe, which is exciting. What’s not exciting is how long we’ll have to wait for this to open. Basics of the Waldorf Astoria Lake Tahoe Hilton and EKN Development Group have announced that a brand and management agreement has been reached to open the Waldorf Astoria Lake Tahoe. This resort, which will be located in Nevada’s Crystal Bay and Incline Village commu

Apple finally stumps up cash for MacBook customers hit by butterfly keyboard problems


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Do you own a MacBook with a butterfly keyboard which required a repair? Well, you might be able to claim some money as part of a settlement to a lawsuit on behalf of affected parties, with a judge in California now having granted preliminary approval to that settlement. Apple has had a number of controversies around its hardware (often labeled as ‘this-gate’ or ‘that-gate’), and one of those was

Google says Rust is the key to cutting Android vulnerabilities


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The Rust programming language is the key to making the Android operating system safer, Google’s engineers have claimed. In a blog post published by Android security engineer Jeffrey Vander Stoep, the Googler says the number of severe memory vulnerabilities has significantly dropped in the last three years and suggests it’s all thanks to the OS moving away from memory-unsafe programming languages,

Hawaiian Airlines set to launch route to Cook Islands in May


95The Points Guy / 11h
Hawaiian Airlines will begin services between Honolulu and the Cook Islands on May 20, offering another option for travelers looking to visit the secluded beaches of the South Pacific nation. The airline previously flew to the Cook Islands from 1987 to 1993. Customers will be able to book tickets to Rarotonga on Hawaiian’s website starting Dec. 7. The airline will offer one weekly nonstop flight

Guns N' Roses Sues Online Gun Shop for Trademark Infringement


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Guns N’ Roses filed a lawsuit on Friday against an online artillery shop for infringement of the Guns N’ Roses trademark and claims the shop’s name, Texas Guns and Roses, associates the band with the store. Read more...

ChatGPT Is an Impressive AI Chatbot That Can’t Stop Lying


How-To Geek / 11h
Artificial intelligence projects like Stable Diffusion are getting better at approximating what humans might create, but still can’t actually think or check information all that well. Case in point: the new ChatGPT AI chatbot is cool, but don’t put your trust in it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Gift Guide: More than 20 STEM gift ideas to inspire kids to code


TechCrunch / 11h
All aboard the learn-to-code train! As another holiday season looms and kids everywhere start clamouring for shiny stuff, we’ve got you covered with a bumper edition of our annual STEM gift guide. This year’s guide is packed with more than 20 ideas to engage toddlers, excite tweens and inspire teens to get under the hood of the tech world through play. Products in the STEM learning category typic

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January


Engadget / 11h
Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving the company in January. Lidiane Jones, currently an executive VP at parent company Salesforce, will succeed Butterfield as CEO. The move comes just days after Salesforce announced that its CEO, Bret Taylor, will also leave in early 2023. However, Butterfield says the actions are unrelated. “FWIW: This has nothing to do with Bret’s departure.

A Delivery Drone Survives the End of the World (Sort of) in This Sci-Fi Short


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Meet Jeff, an Amazon employee with zero work-life balance . All he does is toil his days away for the mega-corp , making sure customers are united with their mounds of totally necessary impulse buys. He needs a vacation! But since he’s a drone , that sounds impossible... until the world finds a way. By ending. Read more...

China's Hackers Reportedly Stole Over $20 Million in Covid Relief Benefits


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Cybercriminals with ties to the Chinese government have stolen tens of millions of dollars in U.S. covid relief benefits, NBC reports . Read more...

Democrats Have a New Plan to Fight Plastic Pollution


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Meet the startups competing at TC Sessions: Space


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We’re over the moon to announce the three early-stage startups that will take the stage and go head-to-head in the pitch competition at TC Sessions: Space — next Tuesday, December 6, in Los Angeles. There’s still time to join this mission. Buy your pass right now to watch these early-stage space aces square off in front of a live audience. The contenders will have to be at their very best to impr

Never Vacuum Up These Common Household Messes


Lifehacker / 12h
There are so many smart ways to use a vacuum besides just running it over your carpet, but there are also some things you really shouldn’t be sucking up. You can avoid damaging your expensive machine by learning what can’t be vacuumed. Here are the things to always avoid vacuuming up: Read more...

lionofchaeronea : Portrait of Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866 Happy birthday, Christina Rossetti (Dec...


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lionofchaeronea : Portrait of Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866 Happy birthday, Christina Rossetti (Dec. 5, 1830 - Dec. 29, 1894).

Tennessee Lawmakers Push $300 Fee for Owning an Electric Vehicle


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Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee is considering a set of new road-related rules to fund a proposed transportation infrastructure bill. On the docket: raising the fee electric vehicle owners pay to register their cars. Currently, EV drivers pay $100 in the state every year; under newly announced budged scheme,… Read more...

Watch out - this Android malware has been installed millions of times already


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Half a dozen Android apps, pretending to be utility services, have been scamming users and earning the developers advertising revenue, cybersecurity researchers have claimed. The apps have managed to fool quite a number of people, having apparently been downloaded more than two million times. Google has since removed all of them from the Play Store, but users are still being warned to be on their

American Airlines Domestic First Class Meals Getting An Upgrade [Roundup]


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A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading ...

Gulf Air Plans To Launch Flights To United States


500+One Mile at a Time / 12h
For several years now, Gulf Air executives have been talk about plans for the airline to resume flights to the United States. This is now one step closer to becoming a reality. Gulf Air is undergoing a transformation Bahrain-based Gulf Air used to be the biggest and most global airline in the Gulf region. This was when politics in the region were different, and before we saw the development of ai

Facebook Will Use Age-Confirming AI to Check if You're Old Enough to Date


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Meta may ask you to send the company a video of your face before letting you hit up fellow people looking for love on Facebook Dating, if only to verify you are indeed old enough to date online. Read more...

Newark’s gorgeous new terminal just got delayed into 2023


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Travelers will need to wait a little bit longer to enjoy Newark’s stunning new Terminal A . The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) , announced on Monday that it was delaying the opening of the new $2.7 billion facility. The 1-million-square-foot terminal, which was originally slated to open on Thursday, Dec. 8, will now welcome fly


The best credit cards for paying your cellphone bill


The Points Guy / 12h
At TPG, we’re all about helping readers find ways to maximize every purchase possible, from your daily latte run to your monthly phone bill. You’re not going to get “points rich” simply by paying your monthly cellphone bill with a credit card. But it’s still important to use the right card to cover that monthly expense. Some issuers even offer smartphone-related perks, like built-in cellphone pro

The Cheap Way to Update Christmas Ornaments, According to TikTok


Lifehacker / 12h
Some households use Christmas tree ornaments as markers of major events—mementos of marriages, births, new homes, and vacations dangle from every branch. They’re nostalgic, eclectic, and rarely match—and that’s their charm. Others, though, see Christmas trees as an opportunity to flex their interior design skills—and… Read more...

Blue Beetle's Solo Movie Is Long Overdue


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Despite the various fluctuations in management , objectives, and the general passage of time, Warner Bros. did reaffirm over the weekend that its Blue Beetle movie would actually be coming out . With a debut poster focusing on the titular superhero’s alien Scarab, all that’s left now is to wait for the trailer (or two,… Read more...

Third-party Twitter app makers turn their attention to Mastodon


TechCrunch / 12h
Open source Twitter alternative Mastodon has gained a bit of attention in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. Now, it’s gaining interest from third-party Twitter app developers, as well. The makers of popular Twitter clients, including Aviary and Tweetbot, have recently set their sights on building similar clients for the growing Mastodon user base. While the Twitter exodus has only impa

NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps some mind-bending images from the moon


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The Orion spacecraft had an intimate brush with the lunar terrain on Monday, hugging the moon's curves just 80 miles above the surface. Shortly after it emerged around the bend, NASA 's moonship delivered some mind-warping photographs that flipped the script on our place in space : The crescent rising in the distance was not the object folks are accustomed to seeing as a clipped fingernail in the

Sorry, but Jenna Ortega isn't actually revealing anything


21Mashable / 12h
Wednesday star Jenna Ortega clarifies that all those tweets you've been seeing on your timeline are misinformation. No, she didn't, but Ortega also didn't say that "Overwatch" is her favorite video game or that Indigo by RM is her favorite album. Spreading misinformation about Ortega's favorite things is just the latest meme proliferating on Twitter . The meme is a spin on the way popular unverif

Xbox will start charging $70 for some Series X/S games


Engadget / 12h
Microsoft has confirmed it will increase the prices of some of its first-party Xbox games to $70 starting in 2023. Specifically, major games built for Xbox Series X/S will cost $10 more in the US, including Starfield , Redfall and Forza Motorsport . Regional price increases may vary. "This price reflects the content, scale, and technical complexity of these titles," a Microsoft spokesperson told

Elon Musk Thinks It’s Likely that “Something Bad” Will Happen to Him


2KFuturism / 12h
Over the weekend, newly-minted Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter Spaces to discuss — among other things — the "Twitter Files," a dubiously-received investigation into Twitter's suppression of the alleged content of Hunter Biden's laptop during the runup to the 2020 presidential election. The first installment of the series — of which Musk says there will be several, although episode

SpaceX Rocket Engine Explodes In a Green Blast


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Xxxplosive A SpaceX Raptor rocket engine exploded during a recent test, joining a long series of epic blasts at Elon Musk's space travel company. As NASASpaceFlight explains in video of the explosion, the green flash of light that occurred in this specific blaze generally happens when "the engine has