The New Apple TV and Siri Remote Are Here
The New Apple TV and Siri Remote Are Here
Apple has been long overdue for a revamp of its pricey set-top box. Now, it’s finally here.Read more...
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Apple’s New iMacs Are Here, and They Look Powerful and Pretty
Apple's New iMacs Are Here, and They Look Powerful and Pretty
Last month, Apple discontinued two iMac configurations with either 512GB and 1TB of SSD storage for the 21.5-inch iMac with 4K display, fueling speculation of an Apple Silicon-based iMac announcement. The rumors were true: Not only did Apple officially announce the iMacs are getting its impressive M1 processors, but…Read more...
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Dune’s Next Comic Dives Deep Into the Heart of the Imperium’s Greatest Warriors
Dune's Next Comic Dives Deep Into the Heart of the Imperium's Greatest Warriors
In Dune, the Sardaukar are some of the Imperium’s most elite soldiers: bodyguards to the Emperor of the Known Universe, and the deadly right hand of House Corrino. But a new comic book from Boom Studios is going to explore what lies beyond the martial skills of the Sardaukar, and we’ve got a first look.Read more...
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The iPhone 12 Now Comes in Purple!
The iPhone 12 Now Comes in Purple!
The iPhone 12 lineup is growing—not with a brand new device, but a fresh shade. Apple announced at its Spring Loaded event today that the iPhone 12 will now come in an extremely pretty purple hue.Read more...
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Facebook’s Long-Stalled Digital Currency Could be Tested This Year: Report
Facebook's Long-Stalled Digital Currency Could be Tested This Year: Report
Facebook hopes to launch a trial of its long-stalled digital currency project by the end of this year, according to a new report from CNBC. The currency, first announced in 2019 as Libra and then renamed Diem after some bad publicity, will now be pegged to the U.S. dollar, provided the tech giant can actually get it…Read more...
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Venmo Launches Ability to Buy, Sell, and Hold Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin
Venmo Launches Ability to Buy, Sell, and Hold Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin
Payment app Venmo will now let users buy, sell, and hold four cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash, according to a press release from the company Tuesday morning. But users won’t be able to send cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to their Venmo friends just yet.Read more...
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A Geico Data Breach Let Cyber Fraudsters Steal Customers’ Driver’s License Numbers
A Geico Data Breach Let Cyber Fraudsters Steal Customers' Driver's License Numbers
Car insurance giant Geico has quietly disclosed that a recent security breach allowed cyber thieves to steal customers’ driver’s license information right off the company’s website.Read more...
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James Charles’ YouTube Channel Has Been Demonetized Amid Allegations He Sexted With Minors
James Charles' YouTube Channel Has Been Demonetized Amid Allegations He Sexted With Minors
YouTube temporarily halted ads on frenetic drama magnet James Charles’ channel as of Monday night, disabling the content creator’s ability to earn money on the platform amid allegations that he sexted with minors.Read more...
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Sasquatch Director Joshua Rofé on Chasing After Murder Mysteries and Monsters
Sasquatch Director Joshua Rofé on Chasing After Murder Mysteries and Monsters
Filmmaker Joshua Rofé’s previous project, Lorena, offered an in-depth look at a true-crime story that grabbed headlines worldwide. His latest, Sasquatch, investigates a far more enigmatic case, though—as the title suggests—it does revolve around an American icon who’s both famous and famously elusive.Read more...
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The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel Has a Trio of New Directors
The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel Has a Trio of New Directors
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was so big, it needed three directors to bring it all together. Now we know the sequel will be the same, albeit this time with three new directors.Read more...
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Told Us What He Would Do If Someone Said There Were Knives in His Pillows
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Told Us What He Would Do If Someone Said There Were Knives in His Pillows
Many weird and wild things are coming out of Mike Lindell’s 48-hour bananathon livestream today—Ted Nugent, a crank call from a “reporter,” another crank call from “Donald Trump”—and somehow, I, too, was there. After a press request this morning to MyPillow, which has ignored my emails on two previous occasions, my…Read more...
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You Had One Job, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Cereal
You Had One Job, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Cereal
There’s something strange in the neighborhood grocery store’s cereal aisle. Something. And by “strange,” I mean bad.Read more...
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Blaze It: More Than 90% of Americans Support Legal Weed in New Poll
Blaze It: More Than 90% of Americans Support Legal Weed in New Poll
On the eve of the coolest holiday of the year, here’s some relevant news: A recent poll suggests that more than 90% of Americans support cannabis legalization in one shape or another. The results come in the wake of several more states having legalized the drug in 2021, as well as a renewed push by some politicians to…Read more...
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My Pillow Goblin Sues Dominion for $1.6 Billion, Swears His Pillows Aren’t Filled With Knives
My Pillow Goblin Sues Dominion for $1.6 Billion, Swears His Pillows Aren't Filled With Knives
Americans had prepared today (and also last week) for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to unleash his nebulous avant-garde invention, Frank: a social media platform billed as a cross between YouTube and Twitter with elements of newspapers and television, except with free speech. We’ll have to wait a little longer to see the…Read more...
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In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
A band of dust that follows Venus along its entire orbital path has finally been viewed in full, thanks to a series of fortuitous maneuvers involving NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.Read more...
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Great, We Gave Covid-19 to Otters
Great, We Gave Covid-19 to Otters
Otters have joined the ever-growing list of animals known to be susceptible to the coronavirus behind covid-19. Over the weekend, officials at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta reported that several of their otters became sick with respiratory symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thankfully, all are expected to…Read more...
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Xbox Games Will Be Playable On PC and iOS Starting Tomorrow—If You Score an Invite
Xbox Games Will Be Playable On PC and iOS Starting Tomorrow—If You Score an Invite
Xbox announced this morning its cloud gaming platform is nearly ready for Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers. Starting tomorrow, the company will send out a limited number of invites to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in 22 countries to take part in the beta.Read more...
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For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker
For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker
The Fitbit Luxe, the company’s newest and most expensive band, can best be described as: fitness tracker, but make it fashion.Read more...
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Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?
Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?
In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the…Read more...
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UK Launches Digital Currency Task Force to Explore the Future of Money
UK Launches Digital Currency Task Force to Explore the Future of Money
The Bank of England and the UK’s Treasury have launched a task force to explore the use of a national digital currency, the British government announced in several press releases early Monday as part of April 2021 Fintech Week. Read more...
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Shanghai Auto Show Disrupted by Protester Shouting ‘Tesla Brakes Fail’
Shanghai Auto Show Disrupted by Protester Shouting 'Tesla Brakes Fail'
The first day of China’s Shanghai Auto Show was disrupted Monday by a protester jumping on top of a Tesla and shouting “Tesla brakes fail” before being dragged out by security, according to photos and video posted to social media sites. Read more...
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Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over
Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order While It Drives It Over
Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers.Read more...
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2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree
2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree
Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the north of Houston on Saturday.Read more...
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Crypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype
Crypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype
After cryptocurrency prices soared this week amid hype leading up to Coinbase’s direct listing, the market took a nosedive over the weekend. Bitcoin prices tanked by roughly 14% in 24 hours, from $61,530 to $52,829, the token’s biggest one-day drop since February, before rebounding slightly, according to the…Read more...
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Adobe Co-Founder and Inventor of PDFs Charles Geschke Dies at Age 81
Adobe Co-Founder and Inventor of PDFs Charles Geschke Dies at Age 81
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of the leading software company Adobe who invented PDFs, died Friday at age 81, the company said in a statement.Read more...
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U.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months
U.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months
U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov, a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months. Read more...
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Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill ‘Immediately,’ and Peloton Is Pissed
Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill 'Immediately,' and Peloton Is Pissed
In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households with small children or pets. Read more...
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PlayStation 5 Is Now the Fastest-Selling Console in U.S. History
PlayStation 5 Is Now the Fastest-Selling Console in U.S. History
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling gaming console in U.S. history in both unit and dollar sales, according to retail analyst firm The NPD Group. So if you’ve been struggling to get your hands on one since its release last November, scalpers may not be entirely to blame.Read more...
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Third Date’s the Charm (Maybe): NASA Reschedules First Ingenuity Flight on Mars for Monday
Third Date’s the Charm (Maybe): NASA Reschedules First Ingenuity Flight on Mars for Monday
NASA has given an eager public a new date for the Ingenuity helicopter’s first controlled flight on Mars: Monday, April 19. This would be the third time Ingenuity’s flight has been rescheduled to date, and with some luck, it might be the real deal.Read more...
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Peloton Resists Federal Safety Recall for Treadmill Tied to Child’s Death
Peloton Resists Federal Safety Recall for Treadmill Tied to Child's Death
Peloton is pushing back against a request from federal regulators to recall its Tread+ treadmill after the product was involved in a child’s death last month, the Washington Post reported Friday.Read more...
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