Blue Origin's first paying customer is the youngest person to fly to space
Blue Origin's auction winner can't make the company's first commercial spaceflight, but there will be a historic substitute. Jeff Bezos' firm has revealed that the first paying passenger for a New...
View ArticleMessenger chats are about to get more annoying thanks to Soundmojis
Just ahead of World Emoji Day, Facebook has announced a new feature for Messenger: emoji with sound. With Soundmojis, you can annoy everyone else in your chats with short audio clips that are linked to...
View ArticleNintendo Switch OLED pre-orders open today at 3PM ET
If you want to secure the new OLED variant of the Nintendo Switch before its October 8th release date, now’s your chance. In the US, pre-orders will open at 3PM ET today and we're already seeing the...
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How Arturia made its music-making software more accessible
When visually impaired music producer Jason Dasent decided to buy a collection of instrument plugins from Arturia about four years ago, he did so despite his suspicion that the company’s tools wouldn’t...
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‘Loki’ shakes up the status quo of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
This post contains major spoilers for episode six of 'Loki.'In case you didn’t hear earlier, Lokiwill return for season two, and thank goodness: The finale didn’t resolve a whole lot, if it resolved...
View ArticleCan Richard Branson really call himself an astronaut after Sunday's Virgin...
On May 5, 1961, Commander Alan Shepard piloted his Mercury Freedom 7 spacecraft to a soaring height of 116 miles above the planet's surface to become the first American to reach Earth's orbit. This...
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Valve's Steam Deck handheld PC starts at $399 and lands in December
The rumors about Valve making a version of the Nintendo Switch for handheld Steam gaming are true. The company has revealed the Steam Deck, which will arrive in December in the US, Canada, the European...
View ArticleIranian hackers used Facebook to target US military personnel
On Thursday, Facebook disclosed that a network of hackers with ties to Iran tried to use its platform to target US military personnel. At the center of the campaign was a group known as Tortiseshell....
View ArticleInstagram’s latest test is… telling people about the Facebook app
Instagram is running a new test to tell users about another app they might want to check out: Facebook. The photo sharing app is experimenting with a notice at the top of users’ feeds that encourages...
View ArticleUS Surgeon General warns that health misinformation is an 'urgent threat'
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory warning of the dangers posed health misinformation, calling it an “urgent threat” that social media companies and technology platforms need to...
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Elgato's first webcam gets a lot of things right
Though it’s still best known for its capture cards, Elgato is working toward taking over your entire streaming setup. The past half decade has seen the introduction of the Stream Deckline for easily...
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Clippy will return as an emoji in some Microsoft apps
Twenty years after being unceremoniously dumped from Microsoft Office, Clippy is ready to make a triumphant return. As part of a broader update to 1,800 emoji, the one-time assistant will replace the...
View ArticleCandace Parker is NBA 2K's first female cover athlete
Twenty two years after the debut of NBA 2K, the basketball sim series will feature a woman on the cover of the game for the first time. Two-time WNBA MVP and 2016 WNBA Finals MVP Candace Parker...
View ArticleThe new Anthony Bourdain documentary 'Roadrunner' leans partly on deepfaked...
On July 16th, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain will open in US theatres. Like many documentaries, the film pieces together archival footage, including interviews and show outtakes, to attempt...
View ArticleFacebook is notifying some users whose posts were removed by automation
Facebook is testing a change that will let users know when their post was removed as a result of automation. The new experiment comes in response to the Oversight Board, which has said the social...
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Here are the emoji finalists for Unicode 14.0
With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes...
View ArticleElgato's Stream Deck MK.2 supports seven cute faceplates
Sure, Elgato's Stream Deck MK.2 can organize your desktop apps and make going live on Twitch as easy as pressing a button, but most importantly, it supports a range of adorable faceplates. The Stream...
View ArticleTwitter is finally rolling out auto-captions for voice tweets
Twitter rolled out voice tweets over a year ago now and has taken a lot of heat for the lack of accessibility features. Now, it's finally rolling out automatically generated captions that appear when...
View ArticlePayPal ups its weekly cryptocurrency buy limit to $100,000
One way fintechs have set themselves apart from traditional banks is by embracing crypto trading. For some of the biggest names in the sector, the expansion has been a success. Take PayPal. Following...
View ArticleUS energy department hopes instant permits will boost rooftop solar...
With the US back in the Paris climate accord, President Joe Biden has the lofty goal of decarbonizing the US power grid by 2035. As part of that plan, the Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that...
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